Vanessa was walking along the hallway that following Raw after her date with Randy lost in thought. She had a lot of on her mind, especially with the whole situation with Randy and what she was going to do. She knew that Randy wanted to restart their relationship, but she was not sure if she was willing to give him her heart again. Although she knew that Megan would be happy that her family would be whole again, Vanessa was not sure if she could be willing to risk it all again. She sighed lightly as she sat down on a chair in the café and continued to think. She did not know how long she had sat there, but suddenly she heard a voice saying, "Earth calling Vanessa, please respond. Vanessa!"
"Huh?" she said as she looked up and saw Trish Stratus staring down at her, "Oh hey Trish."
"You OK?" said Trish as she sat down next to Vanessa, "You seemed out of there for a moment."
Vanessa smiled lightly as she said, "Yeah, I have been doing a lot of thinking."
"About Randy?"
"Of course," said Vanessa as she sighed and looked at her best friend, "he wants to restart our relationship and possibly get married again."
"And you are unsure if that is what you want too."
"Bingo," said Vanessa, "Don't get me wrong, I do love Randy… it's just I am afraid that if I give him my heart again, he could suddenly up and leave me again. I am not willing to go through all that heartache again. Plus I don't want to see how Megan would react to seeing her daddy run off. It was one thing when he did it before Megan was born, it would be another thing if he does it now that Megan is seven years old."
Trish smiled as she took her friend's hand, "I know sweetie, but he loves you and Megan. He is not planning to go anywhere."
"He says that… but he made a promise to God to stay true in good times and in bad, and when poor Catherine died… he left. I just don't think my heart could take him leaving again. It was bad enough when Randy first left, and then when Dave left…" Vanessa paused for a moment when she mentioned Dave since it had been a while since she thought about Dave, "I just don't think I could handle someone leaving me again."
Trish gave Vanessa a understanding smile as she said, "I know, but Randy loves you more than anything sweetie. He wants to be with you more than anything, not to mention the fact that he loves his daughter and he would not abandon her now. Yes Randy left you before, and Dave left as well, but sweetie Randy is back and he wants to prove that he is not going to leave again and nothing is going to prevent you to from not being together. You just need to give him a chance to prove it. Do you love him?"
Vanessa smiled as she said, "Of course I do."
"Do you want to be with him?"
Vanessa looked at away for a moment to think about that answer but then she looked back at Trish and said, "Yes, I do want to be with him."
Trish smiled as she said, "Then go and be with him. You are my best friend Vee, and like a sister to me, I want you to be happy."
Vanessa smiled back and hugged Trish, "Thank you Trish, and I want you to be happy too. I love you."
"I love you too girlie," said Trish as she hugged back, "now there was another reason I came looking for you."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, Bischoff decided to put you and me in a tag match against Stacy and Molly tonight. Actually I should say that Stacy persuaded him to do it."
Vanessa sighed as said, "Why am I not surprised? Stacy has had it in for me since the day she met me. She hates the fact that Randy fell in love with me and married me. She figured when he got back and I got engaged to Dave that he would move on with her. She did not count on him trying to get me back, of course what she failed to realize is that Randy was never really interested in her and the fact that he and I have a child together."
"I know," said Trish, "she was in love with Randy before you two got involved. She had her hopes up with getting him to be with her, but I have to say, Randy would not be as happy with her as he is with you."
Vanessa looked surprised with what Trish had said, "What do you mean by that?"
Trish looked around to make sure no one was around and then said, "Truthfully, Stacy has been known to take on other men while she is "involved" with one person. In the end Randy and her would have ended up breaking up or getting a divorce."
Vanessa was shocked that Trish had said this, "My god, and people called you a slut. I can not believe that she would do that to him." She then noticed the time, "Well it looks like it is time for Raw, what time is our match?"
"9:30, does Randy have a match?"
"I think so, and I think it is will Benoit… but I am not sure if they are going one on one or if there is a tag match."
"OK," said Trish as she hugged her friend again, "I will see you in the ring?"
"You got it chica," said Vanessa and she hugged Trish back, with that they made their separate ways. As Vanessa made her way to her locker room, she noticed that Stacy Keibler was waiting for her with a cameraman. Vanessa sighed as she knew that there was a confrontation coming. "Great… what I don't need tonight."
Stacy sneered when she saw Vanessa and said, "Hello Vanessa."
"Stacy," said Vanessa as placed her hands on her hips not really in the mood to confront this woman, "what do you want now?"
Before Stacy said anything Molly Holly attacked Vanessa from behind and the two of them started to beat Vanessa up. The crowd started to boo as Stacy was taunting Vanessa, "How do you like that Vanessa? You think you can take the title from me? You think you can take Randy from me? Think again bitch!" They continued to beat Vanessa and everyone wondered who would help Vanessa.
Just then the crowd cheered when Trish came to Vanessa's rescue with a chair causing Stacy and Molly to retreat. "You want to beat someone up? How about you two take us on tonight?"
Stacy sneered as she said, "Oh it's on tonight! Come on Molly, let's go." With that Stacy and Molly left as Trish checked on Vanessa as the show went to commercial.
Trish kneeled in next to Vanessa, "you OK?"
"Just peachy," said Vanessa as Trish helped her up, "I just love getting attacked first thing on Raw. I will see you in the ring."
"You got it," said Trish and with that they went their separate ways to get ready for their match.
Vanessa entered her dressing room and sighed lightly as she went straight to her duffel bag and quickly changed into her wrestling gear. Just as she put on her leather jacket Randy entered the room and was surprised to see her in her wrestling gear. "You're wrestling tonight?"
Vanessa looked up with surprise since she did not know that Randy had entered the room, "Yeah, it's me and Trish vs. Stay and Molly after those two jumped me earlier." She smiled as she looked at him, "What about you?"
"I've got a match tonight against Snitsky," said Randy, "are you going to be in my corner?"
"Of course, but what happened with Benoit?"
"He got injured yesterday so he is at home in Atlanta healing," said Randy, "he was so disappointed that he had to stay home."
"Poor guy," said Vanessa and noticed the time, "shit I need to get to the ring. I will be back in about twenty minutes. Hey, do you think we can talk later, it's kinda important."
Randy looked surprised but smiled and said, "Of course, good luck with your match."
Vanessa smiled as she said, "I don't need luck. See you later." With that Vanessa went out to the ring to go and kick some leggy ass and Randy was looking forward to finding out with what she had to say.
About twenty minutes later Vanessa and Trish had just defeated Stacy and Molly when suddenly Gene Snitsky came out and attacked Vanessa. Trish tried to get involved but Snitsky shoved her away like a rag doll and turned his attention to Vanessa, who was still down. When she looked up, she screamed and tried to get away from Snitsky, but to no avail. Snitsky grabbed her hair and pulled her onto her feet, as she tried to fight her way out of his grip, but he was too strong for her. Suddenly he set her up for a devastating power bomb, but before he could major damage, Vanessa was tossed down to the ground as Snitsky suddenly was clotheslined to the ground. Vanessa did not know what was going on until she heard someone flying out of the ring and felt someone's hands on her arms. She thought it was Randy, since she was his manager but when she looked up at the man who helped her, her eyes went wide and she said, "Oh my God…. I don't believe it."
The whole world was in shock for the man who had helped her was none other than…. her ex-fiancé Dave Batista.
