Chapter 12

Marie and Rachel boarded the plane ahead of their fathers and Marie said, "Dad, I'm taking Mr. Callaway's seat, so sorry, Mr. Callaway you get stuck with dad." Mark chuckled and said, "It could be worse, I could be stuck with Paul (Triple H)..." The girls laughed as they headed to the back of the plane, and a voice said, "I heard that Callaway!" Marie laughed harder because she recognized it as Paul Levesque's (Triple H) voice.

Steve and Mark happen to walk by John who was in one isle of seats, and across was Randy sitting next to Dave Bautista in the other row. Steve stopped and looked at John, as John looked up at him...Steve said, "You know you're stupider then I thought you were." Steve shook his head at the younger man and then looked over at Randy and Randy looked up and Steve said, "Boy, if you don't leave my daughter alone...You and me are gonna have a hell of a talk." All Randy could do was nod...He was smart enough to not say a word.

Rachel leaned over to Marie and said, "Well, you won the bet...How'd you know you're dad would say something?" Marie said, "Because my dad can't resist it...C'mon you're dad wouldn't keep his mouth shut either and you know it." Rachel said, "Damn you're right...Now I owe you two weeks of Starbucks...You're ass better be awake to get it too."

The girls laughed again as they settled in for the flight.

Later that night, Marie was sitting in the Diva's locker room just staring at her reflection...She had a main event match against Trish for the Women's title, which she was supposed to win...She was in her jeans, t-shirt and sneakers...Her hair was down as she felt something poke her in the hip...She pushed her hand in her pocket and pulled out the necklace John had given to her and torn off her neck.

Marie just stood there looking at the beautiful necklace in her hand...She closed her fist around it and decided to just take the damn thing back to John, it was his and she wasn't about to keep it around.

Marie walked over and pulled open the door and some guy was staring back at her and she said, "Who are you? What are you doing back here? If you don't have a pass you're not supposed to be back here." The guy just looked at her and said, "Marie Williams?" Marie quirked an eyebrow at him and said, "Who wants to know?"

The guy brought his arm up and was pointing a 9 Millimeter at her...

Marie started backing away and threw her right hand in front of her as she fell back onto the floor of the dressing room. Her feet and legs were moving to scoot her back and away from some lunatic who had a gun pointed at her. He fired a shot as it echoed through the dressing room and hallways of the arena, it got her through the middle of her right hand...she cried out in pain as the gun went off two more times. Once in the right shoulder and the other in the Right ribcage, instantly puncturing her right lung.

The guy dropped the gun and ran out of the arena as fast as his feet and legs would carry him.

Marie pushed herself back against the wall as she felt the pain zooming through the top half of her body. She started coughing and blood was coming up...Someone ran into the room and yelled, "MARIE!"

John had been down in his room, he knew Steve could've easily kicked his ass this morning on the plane...He wanted to talk to Marie so bad, but part of him was still so pissed off that he wouldn't allow himself to even look at her without scowling. John sat there in silence as he heard a few pops in the air and couldn't imagine what was going on as he heard someone scream Marie's name down the hall.

John jumped up and ran down the hall and was absolutely mortified by the site he saw as he ran into the Diva's locker room, the floor was painted with dark red blood as he looked over and saw blood pouring out of Marie...as the EMT's were working on getting the bleeding under control.

John's heart fell into his stomach...Everyone was crowded around and John ran down to get Steve and Rachel. The three some ran back and watched as the EMT's loaded Marie into the ambulance, as Steve got in with and they took off for the hospital.