Author's Note: I know it's a bit of a strain to have Kane wrestling when he would technically be 56 years old, but its fiction! Oh, and I'm sorry about the original third chapter posted; I put the chapter for "All for One Thing" under there on accident. Anyway, please review!

Inside of Me
Chapter 3

"Thanks for letting me stay here, Randy," Mina told him gratefully, sitting on the couch, one foot curled under her. There was only the slightest tint of red to her eyes that indicated that she had been crying a few hours ago.

"It's not a problem," Randy replied as he sat down on one of the two beds, wearing a simple pair of gym shorts and a tank top. There was a silence as they both studied one another and debated what to say.

"I don't mean to bother you with this, but could you..." Mina trailed off.

"Tell you about Kane?" Randy prompted, and she nodded. He paused, gathering his thoughts about the events that had occurred nearly twenty years ago. "I was in a group called Evolution at the time," he explained to her. "I won the WWE Championship for the first time during what happened between Kane and your mother, and the next day the group turned on me. That's basically what I remember about that time, but I remember the general things about it."

"You said 'Kane and your mother'," she pointed out, tilting her head, her eyes questioning. "Why?"

Randy hesitated. "Because I believe they wanted the best for you in not telling you about Kane, and because I think that Kane wouldn't be any kind of father to you." He thoroughly expected Mina to erupt at that statement, but she just pursed her lips and nodded.

"Lita and Matt got back together several months after Matt nearly got her fired," Randy explained, and Mina frowned. She hadn't heard about that... Randy gave an apologetic smile. "Another story for another day. Anyway... Kane kept going after them. He and Lita reached a deal of sorts—Lita was pushed into it, mind you, Kane was nearly killing Matt when she made her decision—he agreed to leave Matt alone if she slept with him. Well, he kept to the deal until Matt proposed to Lita, which he did after they found out she was pregnant. Kane came up on the big screen, and forced Lita to tell Matt about what happened. Lita had a DNA test done, and it showed that it was Kane's baby. Matt and Kane had a match, and the winner married Lita."

"So Matt won it, right?" Mina asked, her brow furrowing at the news, her stomach churning.

"No. Kane did," Randy hesitated, and then continued onward. "They got married the next night on RAW. Once they did, Lita showed him the divorce papers that she'd gotten him to unknowingly sign. Kane was taken out of the arena and she married Matt." Randy watched her look down at her intertwined hands, her hair falling off of her shoulders and framing her face. When she looked up, Randy was struck by how vulnerable she looked.

"What kind of person is Kane?" she whispered, biting her lip as she did so.

Randy sighed as he internally debated whether or not to say what he thought of Kane. It was for the best to tell her the truth, he decided. She had already been lied to enough in her life. "I don't mean to upset you, but he's a monster. His face was all burnt-up by some fire his brother caused; I don't know much about that though. He always had this mask on..." he trailed off and frowned. "Triple H, part of Evolution, had a match against him: if he won, Kane had to take the mask off," he paused. "H ended up winning, and we tried to rip the mask off, but Rob Van Dam—his tag team partner at the time—came to the ring and attacked us, and we went backstage. Kane took off his mask, freaked out, attacked Van Dam, and suffice it to say...he turned into what he is now."

Mina was lost in thought as she sunk backward into the couch. "He was a good guy before his mask was taken off, wasn't he?" she whispered.

Randy took a minute to think about it, and then guilt started to eat at him. Was it Evolution's fault that Kane had turned into a monster? If Triple H had lost, and somehow, the situation just went away, Kane wouldn't have forced Lita to sleep with him. Matt and Lita would've married without any problems, and—

And Mina wouldn't be here, he told himself, and frowned. The mother of all grandfather-time paradoxes... Go back in time and kill your grandfather, you wouldn't be alive... He was silent for a moment, and then he responded to Mina's question. "Yes, he was."

"Imagine if you based your life off of one thing... If you felt you were only accepted because you had that one thing, and if it got taken away from you. What would you do?" she looked him in the eye. "Would you bite the bullet and turn on everyone before they could turn on you? Would you wait it out and hope that everything was going to be okay?"

"I don't know what I would do," Randy replied truthfully.

"Kane bit the bullet."

"Maybe, maybe not," he answered evasively. "Look, how about you sleep on this? You've got a lot on your plate," he added.

"I guess sleep would help," she said reluctantly a minute later. "If Matt and Lita come in the morning...Just say I'm sleeping or something."

A half an hour later, they were both lying on the separate beds, both of their thoughts caught up with Kane, neither able to fall asleep. Randy opened his eyes and looked at Mina's dark form as he thought.

When Lita had turned against Kane, Kane had lost his "plan". Mina had been his seed, and Lita had taken it away from him. Kane had claimed that in the end, he would even get the girl, and the championship. Lita refused to have anything to do with him, especially now that she was with Matt, and Randy had, on several occasions—both legally and illegally—retained the title from him.

Suddenly, when all had seemed lost, an opportunity had dumped into Kane's lap to regain his 'seed'.

Randy knew Kane would stop at nothing to take Mina as his own.