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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: Thank you for the reviews, and for those of you that are still stumped on as to how I am going to make Stacy come back to Paul who is on earth then don't stress so much over it, the next story will explain pretty much of all of it, and then in the sixth book you will see it. I wasn't hiding it for use in another story, but I figure I might as well since this one is almost near its end.
Randy sat more upright in the bed, scanning his mind for some bit of information that would make what Paul said seem like it made some sense. When he had tried as hard as he could and come up with nothing, he looked at his friend and voiced his frustration.
"Okay you are going to have to explain to me how my not remembering my life before has anything to do with you. I mean come on Paul; it isn't like she needs me to get to you or something right?"
A light bulb went off in Paul's head then, as if someone had put it there to make sure he hadn't missed that comment. If there was a reason as to why Stacy was using Randy that had to be the winner. If she wanted to end up back on earth with the one man she had allowed her heart to finally fall in love with, she needed Randy to get together with Jackie to do it.
"No Randy don't you get it? She was trying to use you because you were in love with Jackie to get back to me." Watching the lines on Randy's forehead getting deeper in confusion he continued. "She didn't want to die and she told me after her death that she had made a deal with the people in heaven that would bring her back to me. She said something about not being the same being on the outside, but it would be her and I would know it when I saw it."
"So if I tell Jackie, the woman I just accused of trying to do some voodoo shit on me to love me the way I love her then Stacy comes back? Is that what you are trying to tell me here man, because if that is then we are dealing with some screwed up shit here?"
Paul admittedly laughed, knowing full well and knowing for the longest time; since Shawn and Trish's get together in fact that everything that had been normal was now completely insane. He never thought in a million years he would be sitting in a hospital room with Randy trying to make him understand it all when he really didn't get it himself.
"What is so damn funny?" Randy snapped, still reeling from the fact that he had chased the one woman he wanted with him away. Even when he didn't remember who he was, he knew he wanted her by his side. So why the hell had he gotten rid of her again? And just what was Paul standing there in stitches about?
Simmering down a little but not letting the smile fade from his face he faced Randy again and offered up his hands in surrender. "Were you in your right mind when you kicked her out of here man? Like did you know who you were at that point?"
"Yeah I knew who I was, and what does this have to do with anything?"
"Because if you had not known you were Randy Orton, the proverbial king of women, then it would have gone a whole lot smoother for you to sort all of this with Jackie out. Now man, I think you can kiss her goodbye."
"Oh no you don't you son of a bitch, it is not going to do down like that!" Stacy screamed, almost angrier with Paul then she was with herself at that moment in time. She stamped her foot hard on the cloud, causing it to split and leave a whole where her foot had been, which caused Jeff to break in on her thoughts.
"You can't swear Stacy, how many times do you have to be told that? For that matter you sound like Matt but with the female parts and voice."
Stacy looked up then, taking Jeff in and breathing out the rest of the anger she had built up. If Paul, who was not known for his extensive brain skills in the ring could figure out what she was trying to get the two lovebirds together, then why the hell didn't he get that he needed to talk to Jackie and make her understand what had happened?
"I'm sorry Jeff, but damn can you actually sit there and say he isn't the horse's ass that Matt keeps calling him? I mean I love the big idiot but even I know better then to drop a bombshell like that and then not help and I'm more blonde then he is."
Jeff laughed, causing his brother to go along and do the same. Ever since they had been all brought to the other side and told what to do, the only one that had ever lost a little cool over things had been Matt, but with good reason. Now it seemed that he wasn't the only one, that Stacy was getting cramped being there too.
"So Stacy tell me how pissed off you really are?" Matt asked, causing his brother, still in stitches at seeing the young woman before him pitching a fit, to snort so good that Steve Urkle would have been proud of him.
Stacy allowed herself to smile weakly and then went back to looking over the cloud. If there was anything to be done to really save the damage that her visit had caused, there was only one person that could do it. This meant that she had a lot of work to do if she wanted to get things back on track, this time for keeps.
Shawn had long since taken off to go back to his hotel room, hoping to hear from Mark about what he had been able to do to the weasel Charlie Haas, which left Jackie on her own in the corridor wondering just what the hell had gone wrong and why it was happening to her.
Hadn't her life been normal at one point? She was able to see, she had a wonderful family, and home and the best boyfriend she had been able to have in years. Now she stood in a hospital wing, waiting for another man to remember who she was and that she wasn't out to hurt him, and thoughts of real sleep filled her mind. Just where had she gone wrong?
The lights of the hospital corridor went dark then, allowing for the bright light of the other side to shine through with no interruptions. Jackie had been here once before, but this time she was ready, her eyesight wouldn't let her miss the renegade angel this time. The difference this time though was that it wasn't Matt visiting her alone in her house, it was Stacy and she had a look on her face like she meant business.
"Do you know why I am here Jackie?"
Jackie blinked her eyes more then once, just to make sure this wasn't happening in her head again like at the Doctor's Office less then a month before.
"No but should I?"
"I am the reason you got kicked out of Randy's room earlier and I have come to explain a few things to you so that you better understand what is going on."
"Are you going to hurt me like you did to him?"
"That wasn't me and you know it. Charlie did all of the horrible things that made you get your sight back and Randy lose his vision. He was also the one that told Ric Flair to use what he did to blind you. He wanted to get you sad, alone and vulnerable. That is not why I am here though, but I need you to open you mind and really listen to me."
"I'm listening; although you have already told me more then I wanted to know."
"Randy was alone and vulnerable, and you were there admitting your love for him, he didn't hear you but I wanted him to get the chance to really hear you say it. So I used as much of the power I have on the other side to give him his memory back. It came back and he blamed you, which I did not take into account."
"So what you are telling me right now is that he knew who I was when he kicked me out? But he went ahead and blamed me anyway?"
Stacy watched her closely, sensing the same angry feelings she had just gone through on the other side. If there was one way they could be close right now it was because of the men in their lives at the moment. Men just made everyone crazy.
"Randy has a habit of making quick decisions without thinking. He knows what the error was now though, Paul made him see that much but I need you to hear just a little more before going in there and ripping him a new asshole alright? Will you listen to what I have to say?"
Jackie nodded her agreement and Stacy continued. "When I died, I made a deal to come back to Paul in another form, but the only way I could do that was to make the two of you fall in love. I thought I had done that but then Charlie got in my way and ruined my chances and your chances too. Randy knows he was wrong and I beg you that when you do get to go back in that room again that you just realize your love for him and let the past go."
She vanished then, leaving Jackie to wonder what kind of mess she had just walked into. Not only was Charlie to blame for everything, wanting her injured and then Randy, but both of them were part of a plan to bring two other lovers back together. The more she thought about it, the more ludicrous it sounded.
She wanted to be with Randy now, she knew that much but at the end of the day when they finally did get together if they were really meant too, she wanted it to be about them and not about some Angelic plan. Making her way towards his hospital room door, she pushed her way in. If she was going to get a head start on making everything right, she was going to do it right now.
