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Summary: Randy Orton watches as a new recruit to the RAW locker room has an unfortunate accident and steps in to help her. Will love bloom or are these two superstars only bound together through guilt?
Additional Characters: Shawn, Trish, Paul, Matt, Jeff and Stacy (as Angels on the Other Side) and some others. The main female lead is also a WWE superstar.
Additional Information: Fourth novel in the Love United Series.
A/N: You know I forgot that I didn't update this yesterday? LOL Sorry guys, my head isn't where it used to be in terms of memory. So I am updating this now, as well as everything else I have going and then I will keep on updating, but if I forget for more then two days, someone let me know! Anyway here is the long awaited update and Paul's entrance back into the story for this chapter. So thank you for the reviews, they mean a lot as usual and well see you at the next update.
Paul walked into the hospital, careful to put one foot in front of the other as not to trip over his own feet. It was almost four in the morning when he had gotten the call, wakening him from sleep and he was not doing any better now that it was over an hour later.
He made his way to where Shawn stood with a visibly shaken Jackie and his heart immediately stopped in his chest. Had Randy passed away and they were calling him here to say goodbye or something? The looks he noticed on their faces were as grim as he felt after being woken up that early.
"Okay what the hell is going on that you called me out of a dead sleep for it? Is everything with the little man alright?"
Shawn slapped his half asleep buddy on the arm, thanking him without words for making the trek out there to see them on such short notice. He knew from the dark lines under his friend's eyes that he had indeed been in some dream land far far away.
Before Shawn could say anything Jackie immediately pounced on the man, taking both men off guard and showing her intense fear of something really wrong happening in that hospital.
"You have to talk to Randy for me Paul. He said he saw some sort of light and then a person and well I think it has something to do with this angel thing going around. I also know that you had something to do with it. You are my last hope."
Paul smiled brightly now, happy that he hadn't been the only one to see angels and glad that the angels were obviously trying to get these two together and running out of options. "Okay how the hell do you know about the Angels?"
"I know because Matt came to me as one and warned me about Randy and what happened. Okay hang on a second, so this is like the real deal right? It wasn't all in my head?"
Paul threw a glance at his best friend that only stood before them holding his hands up in surrender. "Listen, I went into a coma to bring Trish out, all of this Angel business is just beyond me man."
Paul took Jackie by the hand and led her to the window the let them see Randy. "He mentioned hearing Stacy talking to him and making him see the light awhile back and now you are telling me not only have you seen Matt, but Randy had also seen her again?"
She nodded, not trusting her voice anymore. She knew this stuff had a reason for happening but for the life of her couldn't figure out why. "Listen Paul, you seem like a normal enough dude, but you have contact with these angels and so has Randy in a major way. He kicked me out of the room because he thought I was playing with his mind, and you are the only one that can talk to him now and make him see it wasn't me."
"Is that all?" he asked, pushing the door to the room open and letting it close again before Jackie could follow him in. If he was going to make Randy who had lost his memory understand what was going on, he had to do it alone.
"Did it work Stacy? Were you able to give him his memory back?" Matt asked, watching below as Paul entered the now darkened hospital room. He had allowed her to do it, covering for her by taking the blame for what might happen, and now they had to wait and see if it was all going to work.
"I don't know Matt, I mean I think I did it, but then again he kicked out Jackie after everything went down and well if he knew about me then he wouldn't have done that. If this didn't take then I don't know what else to do to get these two together, I am at the end of my rope where this love shit is concerned."
Matt laughed and gently touched her hand in warning. "Don't swear otherwise we are all going to hell."
"We're going to hell now? Oh why don't I get in on the good things when they happen?" Jeff asked, putting down the magazine he ripped when he had gone to earth and making his way over to where Stacy and his brother stood talking.
They both turned to face the younger Hardy and when they did, they both noticed the big grin he wore showing them he didn't really want to go to hell.
"Stacy went down there to try and give Randy is memory back but as it turns out we don't know if it worked because instead of bringing the two closer, Randy pushed her way. We are waiting to see what Paul can pull out of him before we come up with a new plan." Matt explained, turning back to the cloud and looking again over the edge.
Stacy's eyes were already trained there, as if her life depended on what happened below them now. She had every hope that if anyone could make Randy see the light it might be Paul. She crossed her fingers in a human instinct and watched as the drama unfolded below them.
"Hey Randy, are you awake man? It's me dude." Paul said as he crept closer to the bed in the dark. He was half tempted as he saw the empty chair to just take a nap and wait for Randy to open his eyes. Before he had a chance to even sit though, Randy reached out and grabbed him tightly by the arm.
"Paul man, there is something really screwed up going on here and I need to know what it is."
Paul looked at the fear in his young friends eyes and immediately tried to pull his hand away. Jackie had been right; he had been so scared he had blamed the nearest person. He wasn't used to being contacted by the crossed over. Hell no one ever was.
"Was it a man or a woman that you saw Randy?"
"Female, blond hair, Stacy if I remember correctly. Everything is so damn fuzzy now I can't even believe it."
"What did she say to you? Remember as much as you can Randy so I can explain it to you and help you make it all out."
Randy sat and thought about what she had said to him and instantly realized it hadn't had anything to do with Jackie at all and he had blamed it all on her. Insight shone through his eyes and he immediately tried to jump from the bed. There had to be a way he could explain all of this to her and make her see he hadn't been himself.
"Hey man, you aren't going anywhere, so you might as well tell me what she said to you so I can straight it all out with your girlfriend."
Randy looked up awkwardly, at the sound of the word girlfriend and he immediately felt sick to his stomach. He had really made an ass of himself and he didn't know what the hell to do to fix it. "She told me who she was, and then she told me that if I didn't remember then not only would I lose everything, but so would she. What the hell does she mean by that Paul? I mean what else can she lose, she is dead and buried."
Paul took a step forward and bent down closer to where Randy could hear him, he was almost too shocked to speak, let alone loudly like usual. "She meant that if you didn't remember anything then she would lose me."
