Chapter 25
"Trish, here's your water…." Chris Jericho said as he approached the two divas. Trish was still comforting Stacy.
"Thanks." Trish replied.
"Stace, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Chris Jericho asked worriedly.
"Um. Chris, will you get me another bottle please." Trish said sweetly.
"Trish!" Chris pouted when suddenly, EMTs started running towards the ring. Since they were near the curtain, they immediately noticed something wrong was going on.
"What's going on?" Stacy asked, her heart beating faster than ever.
"I don't know, maybe something's gone wrong with the match." Chris answered and walked slowly to the curtain. But he was knocked down when Randy Orton bumped into him while running towards the ring.
"Hey watch it!" Chris exclaimed as he regained his balance.
"Randy?" Stacy whispered. She turned her head towards the nearest television, there she saw John's collapsed body in the middle of the ring.
"Oh my God!" she exclaimed and ran towards the ring too.
"Stacy!" Trish called.
"What happened to Cena?" King asked from the commentator's table.
"Looks like he just collapsed." JR answered and was now looking at the ring with rapt attention.
"Everyone could see that JR. But why did he collapse?" King asked again.
"Who knows? The EMTs are checking on Cena. Stacy and Randy are in the ring. Anxious about what was going on." JR said.
"Let's bring him to the hospital!" Randy pleaded.
"We need to see if he's still breathing, sir." One of them answered.
"Of course, he is alive!" Randy exclaimed, the reply seemed to drive Randy nuts as he pushed the EMTs away.
"What's going on?" Stacy spoke for the first time.
"I don't know Stace. He just collapsed." Shelton answered, he was also checking on John.
"What's Orton doing? Cena needs those guys!" King said.
"If you are not bringing him to the hospital then I will!" Randy said and carried John's heavy body.
"Randy! Tell me what's going on!" she demanded.
"Just get my car keys!" Randy ordered. Though confused, Stacy quickly followed. She doesn't want to argue with Randy. John's unconscious and somehow she knows something serious is going on.
"Randy here's the keys!" Stacy handed the keys the moment she arrived at the parking lot.
"Thanks!" he started the engine and was about to drive off.
"Randy, I'll come with." Stacy said.
"No! You stay here." He answered.
"No, I'm going! I'm his girlfriend and he needs me now." She said and.
"Mr. Orton please stop!" EMTs are running towards their direction.
"What the hell! Just get in. Hurry!" Randy said and sped off.
"Hold on John!" Randy said as he looked at John lying unconscious in the backseat.
"John, what's wrong with you? Come on wake up!" Stacy said.
They finally arrived in a hospital. Doctors and nurses where rushing around but no one attended to them.
"Shit!" Randy exclaimed and pulled a passing doctor. "I need you to attend to my friend!" he said.
"I'm sorry sir but we've got more serious things to handle in the ICU." The doctor answered and started to walk away.
"Are you insane? My friend needs medical attention right now!" he said as he grabbed the doctor's coat rudely.
"Please sir, just wait for a few moments." The doctor said not realizing the seriousness of the situation.
"Now I don't care if you are a doctor or a nurse or whatever you are! Attend to my friend because he needs medical attention badly. It's the matter between life and death!" he exclaimed. The doctor got nervous when he saw Randy's expression. He was suicidal!
"Right away sir!" the doctor said and called for nurses and other doctors.
"Oh God! Please let John be okay." Stacy silently prayed.
"Why now? Why now?" Randy kept asking himself.
"Randy, what's wrong with John? Why did you say it's the matter between… between life and… death?" she asked in a shaky voice. Randy sighed and ran his hand through his hair, thinking on how to phase what he was about to say.
"Stace… John has… John has leukemia." He said slowly.
"He's got what?" Stacy demanded.
"He's got leukemia." Randy aid quietly, not looking at her.
"No way! John? It couldn't be!" Stacy said shaking her head.
"I wish it's not true Stace. I didn't believe at first, but it's true." Randy told her.
"Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't you told me sooner?" Stacy cried and pounded Randy's chest.
"I wanted to. But it was his decision not to let you know. He can't afford to see you hurt. I can't afford to see you hurt." Randy reasoned.
"Then what am I felling right now huh? Happy?" she asked sarcastically and cried harder and Randy pulled her into a comforting hug.
"Hush, Stace." he just said.
In the emergency room…
"His pulse is very faint!" one of the doctors said.
"Do the CPR!" ordered one.
"His heartbeat is slowing down." A nurse said.
"Get the defibrillators!" another doctor ordered. "On three… 1…2…3!"
"We're losing him!" a nurse said.
"Apply the defibrillators again!" the doctor ordered. But John's heart wasn't able to get back to its right tempo. The doctors shook their head and covered his lifeless body with a blanket…
When Stacy and Randy saw the doctor come out, they ran to him, but his solemn expression told them what happened.
"I'm sorry…" was all the doctor could say.
"No!" Stacy screamed and fainted into Randy's arms.
The doctors quickly attended to Stacy… after a few minutes.
"She's okay sir and congratulations, you are going to be a father. You two are lucky, she didn't lose the baby. She was just shock on what happened. What is her relation to the… to the guy who just died? Ah… it's none of my business. Take care, you can go inside the room now." The doctor simply said and Randy was left to gape blankly at the door.
a/n: whew! that's another chap for this one. i managed to squeeze it in. hope y'all like it! r&r!