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Chapter 20 – Thinking About the Past
After Danielle left the restaurant she went back to the hotel. She immediately went to see her dad. She told her dad everything that had happened and that she wanted to leave right away. Ric was surprised at what Danielle told him. He liked Randy though so he hoped that Randy and Danielle would be able to work things out. Ric himself knew what it was like to be sorry for your actions. He agreed with Danielle that it would be best if she left to think about everything away from Randy.
Danielle decided she would go back to New York for a couple of weeks. She had never sold her apartment there so she had a perfect place to stay for a while. Danielle just wanted to be away from Randy for a couple of weeks to think about everything that had happened to her in the past few months. It had been a long, strange journey so there was definitely a lot to think about. With the thought of going to New York in mind, Danielle quickly packed her bags and Ric took her to the airport. She hugged Ric good-bye and said she would be back soon. Then she got on the airplane and flew to New York.
When Ric returned to the hotel he found Randy standing outside his hotel room door looking for Danielle. He looked to be very upset. Ric hesitantly approached him because Danielle had made him promise not to tell Randy where she went and Ric wasn't sure if he would be able to resist telling Randy the truth.
"Ric, where is Danielle? Please, I really just need to see her."
"Randy, calm down. Danielle is fine. She has just gone away for a couple of weeks. She needs some time to think about everything that has happened."
"Did she tell you what happened? I really screwed up this time and I just wanted to be honest with her."
"She told me. Let me give you some advice. I've been in a situation like this before with my wife. Let me tell you, honesty was definitely your best bet. Danielle is just in shock right now. It isn't even all about you. She has gone through a lot in the past few months with losing her mom, meeting me, and falling in love with you. She just needs time to think."
"I know, I just really want to talk to her."
"She made me promise not to tell you where she was. Just give her some time Randy. I think she will come around. She really loves you."
"I know, I just really screwed up."
"Yeah, but I think she loves you enough to forgive you. Just give her time."
"Alright, night." Randy walked away feeling a little better but he still regretted what he did. He regretted sleeping with those girls in the first place. He didn't regret telling Danielle the truth. He knew that was something he had to do.
Danielle had been in New York now for two weeks. She still wasn't really any closer to figuring things out. She was just completely torn and confused about what she should do. So much had happened in the past few months and it was finally all catching up to her. She had decided to take a walk in Central Park to think about things. She always found that when she walked in Central Park she did her best thinking. One of the first things she thought about was her mother's death.
Flashback"Mom, you can't die, I'll miss you to much." Danielle was in a hospital sitting by her mother's bed.
"Awe baby, I'll miss you too." She gave her daughter a slight smile. The truth was she was just too weak to muster anything else.
"Mom, this can't be happening. You're all I have." Danielle was starting to cry more than she already had been. Her mother was dying of cancer and there was nothing she could do about it. The doctors had told her that her mother probably wouldn't be able to hold on much longer.
Her mother got a far away look in her eyes and then turned to Danielle. "Danielle I need you to promise me you will do something for me."
Danielle wiped some of the tears out of her eyes. "Okay."
"There is a package at home in my room all wrapped and ready to go. I need…" Michelle had very little strength left but she had to do this. "I need you to take it to Ric Flair for me."
"Ric Flair, the wrestler? Why?" Danielle was confused.
"I just need you to do this for me. Please?" Michelle was pleading with Danielle so all that Danielle could do was nod her head in agreement as the tears started flowing even more from her eyes. "Dani-girl, I'll love you forever and ever."
"I know mom. I love you too."
"I'll be watching over you." With that said Michelle passed away. Her hand which had been holding on to Danielle's lost grip and Danielle immediately knew that her mother had left. Danielle started crying hysterically.
"No, No! You can't leave me! I'm all alone now!" The nurses left Danielle to cry in peace but after a while of this they finally had to pull Danielle away. Danielle would never be able to forget those last few moments with her mother.
End Flashback
That was the day she lost her mother. It still saddened her to think about it today. She wasn't sure if she would ever be able to get over it. Hopefully with the help of her father she would be able to. Her father, now that was something she never expected to have. She had grown up her entire life without one and now she had one.
Flashback"What are you saying?"
"Danielle your mother gave me a scrapbook of your life and a letter from her in that package. She wanted me to know that I was your father."
"Excuse me! Your just now telling me this. After 23 years of not having a father your telling me this now?" Danielle was obviously very upset by this and was starting to cry hysterically.
"Danielle, I didn't know until now. Your mother never told me until the letter that came with the scrapbook. She wanted me to give this to you so that you would understand." Ric said handing Danielle a letter from her mother.
"I can't believe this. I've got to get out of here." Danielle grabbed the envelope and headed towards the door.
"Danielle wait, we should talk about this." Ric said reaching for Dani's arm.
"Ric, just leave me alone." She said with anger in her voice as she left with the tears still in running down her face. She ran down the hall trying to outrun all the emotions that were running in her veins over what she had just heard.
End Flashback
Finding out that Ric was her father had been a big shock but someone had helped her through it. That someone was Randy. He had really helped her to sort out her feelings and emotions.
Flashback"Are you upset that Ric is your father?"
"No, I just was upset that all this time my mother had kept this huge secret from me about my father and didn't tell me herself because she wanted Ric to know first."
"Well you understand why she did what she did right?"
"Ya, I mean I understand, but I still wish she had told me about him. I mean she did send Ric a letter to give to me but I think I'm probably too upset right now to open it."
"Well she probably sent you the letter so that she could make you understand. It might help."
"Your probably right, I just can't." Danielle said this with tears welling up in her eyes.
Randy reached across the table and held onto her hand. "Would it be easier if I read it to you."
The touch of his hand to hers surprised her but she liked it. "It might be personal…but yeah that would be great if you didn't mind."
"Sure, I wouldn't offer if it wasn't okay."
"Okay here it is." She said handing Randy the letter from her mother.
"Alright, here it goes…" Randy then read the letter to Danielle from her mother.
Danielle's crying then turned into giant sobs as she burst into even more tears. "My mom (sniffle, sniffle)…died(sob)…believing(sniffle, sniffle)…that I would(sniffle, sniffle)…hate her (big sob)."
"Danielle, its okay." Randy said moving to the other side of the booth to wrap his arm around the crying form of Danielle.
Danielle moved into his warm embrace. "No, its not, (sniffle, sniffle)… she thought I would hate her."
"Danielle, no, I'm sure she thought you would be upset but she knew that you could never hate her."
"But Randy… (sob) at first I did hate her." Forcing Danielle to burst into another round of uncontrollable tears. Randy still had his arm around Danielle and at that moment Danielle turned to him and said "Please, will you just hold me."
End Flashback
Randy had been such a sweetheart. It was the first time they had met and yet still he had offered to listen to her problems. She had avoided him after that but then they shared a kiss on the dance floor of a club and talked all night. Then with the accident they had just gotten even closer. Danielle was just afraid that everything with Randy had just happened too fast.
All of this thinking was just making things worse. Everything was just so confusing. Danielle was absolutely positive that she loved Randy Orton but she didn't know what to do. They hadn't been dating when he slept with those other girls but it still hurt. If he couldn't control himself then, when he had known he loved her, then what made her think that he could control himself when they really were dating? Danielle collapsed onto a bench and just put her face in her hands.
"Are you alright?" A man asked Danielle.
Danielle looked up and was shocked by what she saw. "Randy? What are you doing here? I told Ric not to tell you."
"I was worried about you. He wouldn't tell me at first but I eventually worked it out of him." He gave her a small smile.
"He is such a sucker, but I can't be mad at him. Actually its good that you are here. I've been thinking alone long enough. I need to talk to you."
"Alright, that's fine." Randy sat on the bench. As soon as he did Danielle slapped him across the face. "Yeah, I deserved that." He held his stinging flesh on his face. "Remind me never to piss you off again. That hurt." He gave her a little smile.
She smiled back at him. "You can be such a wuss sometimes."
"So does this mean you're still mad at me?" Randy got serious again. He had come to New York to find out where he stood with Danielle. He knew for sure he was in love with her like he had never been in love before. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. The only problem was that he wasn't sure if she could forgive him.
Danielle got serious too. "Randy, right before you got here I still had no idea what to do about the situation between us. I love you but I just don't know if I can forgive you. I know we weren't dating or anything but it still hurts."
"Danielle, I know and I understand." Randy stood up. "If you can't forgive me and be romantically involved with me, I would still like to be your friend. If you can't even do that, I'll understand." As much as it hurt him to say it, Randy knew the ball was completely in Danielle's court. Their future depended on her and he needed to just leave her alone so she could think some more. He began to walk away but he felt a hand grab his own.
Danielle pulled Randy around to face her. "You are such a big dummy sometimes. You never let me finish what I'm trying to say. I told you I wanted to talk to you and I do."
"I'm sorry." Randy tried to apologize but Danielle put her finger to his lips.
"Ssh, stop apologizing and just listen. The two weeks I've spent in New York I've been able to do a lot of thinking. I've thought about my mom, I've thought about Ric, and I've thought about you. I've decided that all my past experience have led me to this point. My mother dying led me to Ric and Ric led me to you. I love you and I've decided that is all that matters. Past indiscretions aside I want you forever and ever. I finally have seen that I am meant to be with you." She started to lean in to kiss him but then she pulled back. "If you ever cheat on me though, I will kill you."
Danielle never ceased to amaze Randy. She could slap him one second, confess her undying love for him in the next, and then threaten to kill him. "If I have you forever and ever then I will never have a reason to cheat."
Danielle smiled at him. "Good. Then there is only one thing left to do." Then she kissed him. This wasn't a passionate kiss or a slow kiss, it was a whole new bread of kiss. It was full of so much longing, passion, romance, and pure love. It was perfect. When Danielle pulled away from Randy and they looked in each other's eyes, she knew they would be okay.
Then what Danielle had said to him finally really sunk in. "I can't believe you called me a dummy."
Danielle just smiled. Of all the things he could have said, he said that. "Well you can be sometimes."
"I know." Randy said as he wrapped his arm around Danielle's shoulder. "I'll work on it."
"No, you're fine just the way you are." Danielle looked up at him with a little smirk.
"Alright." Randy said as he leaned down and kissed Danielle on the head. "I'll hold you to that."
The two of them walked around Central Park like that with Randy's arm wrapped around Danielle. Danielle couldn't help thinking just a little bit more. After all Central Park was her thinking spot. She couldn't believe everything that had happened in her life. After the loss of her mother, she thought she would be alone. Then her mother had guided her to find the father whom she never knew. She only expected things to get better between her and Ric. He was a very loving father who just wanted to be there for her since he hadn't been there in the past. He had found her or rather she had found him. Ric wasn't the only one she had found though, she had found her somebody. That somebody who you love coming home to each night. That somebody who brightens up your days. That somebody who if you lost them you wouldn't know what to do with yourself. That somebody who knows you completely and still loves you. That somebody you…love. She knew that life wouldn't always be perfect. Sure they would fight, but that just meant they could make-up. Sure they would go through rough times but she truly believed that they would always be able to work through them. Danielle had found her somebody and that person was Randy Orton, forever and ever.
THE END
A/N – Thank you to all of my reviewers:
MrsLegendKiller00 – I know I'm cruel but I really thought this would be the best place to end it. I hope you liked.
tador – Don't die! That would be terrible. This chapter was my longest chapter.
Demon Spawn – Thank you so much. You always have great things to say and it makes me happy.
RKOxLegendKiller – I fixed it. Its happy now. Don't worry, be happy!
Insane Zula – She did slap him, but she had to forgive him. He is just too cute to not forgive.
RKOBlueEyes – He did mess up but he admitted it so Danielle was able to forgive him.
nala23 – You started reading right at the end but I hoped you liked it anyways.
Everyone else who has reviewed this story at some point: Thank you! If you liked this and you haven't yet, check out my other stories, The Contest or Don't Think of Me. It would be appreciated.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe I finished. I'm excited but at the same time very sad. This was my first story and I just love it. It definitely shows how much I feel I have grown as an author if you read it from start to finish. So many people have supported me with this one and I could never thank you all enough. I'm sure you are all sad or upset that its over but I really felt like this was a good place to end. This chapter was a chance for reflection, forgiveness, and looking to the future. Please let me know what you think.
Kim