Chapter 6

A/N: the song, Catch me when I Fall is actually a song by Ashlee Simpson and is featured on her new album – I Am Me. Just making record of this as sadly I am not a gifted song writer and this song followed the way in which Riley is feeling at the current time.

Randy was woken by a sudden hurried knocking on his hotel room door. The little sleep he had managed to get disturbed. He climbed out of bed and staggered across the room, and opened the door to reveal a very distressed John Cena.

"She wants to see you," was all he said before Randy exited the room, John close behind/

Randy entered the hospital room, his eyes immediately falling on the venerable figure of Riley Cena lying in the hospital bed, her eyes closed. The top of her head was bandaged, a bruises scattered her face, Her neck was binded in a brace and her arms were scattered in bruises.

"What is he doing here?" Chris asked standing up from his seat beside the bed, he walked over coming nose to nose with Randy, "leave now Orton, before I make you leave."

"Oh what are you going to do Jericho?" Randy laughed.

"Stop," Riley murmured from the bed.

Both men ran over, Chris asking if she had improved and Randy asking if she was ok.

"Please, Chris I need to talk to Randy, can you Christian and John give us some privacy?" she asked.

Chris nodded, "anything for you Riles, come on guys lets go."

As soon as they had left Randy took Chris's old seat, "Riley, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Randy…"

He leaned over about to connect his lips with hers when she turned her head slightly, and instead he kissed her cheek, "Randy… we can't have these… encounters… anymore…"

"What?" he asked confused.

"I-I love Chris… I have a res-pon…sibility to him to…be loyal… I'm sorry," she murmured, her eyes still closed.

"Riley…"

There was a knock on the door and John re entered the room, "Chris is wondering if you guys are done?"

"Yes… Randy was just leaving," Riley murmured.

"If that's how your going to be then suffer, you're the one getting yourself into a commitment that you don't want to be in," Randy growled, before he stormed out of the hospital room.

Chris and Christian re-entered the room once Randy had left.

"Thank god he's gone," Chris sighed.

A week past by in which Randy spent his days working out, watching TV, sleeping, and every so often spending a night at a club with the other members of Evolution, minus Riley, who's participation in the team wasn't even known by the other WWE superstars and Diva's or the public. Besides this Randy spent his time alone, his mind always haunted my Riley's words.

She had become an obsession, he couldn't stop thinking about her, he wanted more than anything to pummel Chris, but knew it would only anger her.

On RAW that week during the highlight reel Chris called out Randy. He said that Randy was making moves on Riley and he wanted to sort out the issues that the two men shared together.

As they came face to face few words were exchanged before a brutal fight began between the two.

Hunter, Ric, Dave and John all soon ran out to grab Randy as Christian, Edge and Chris Benoit ran out to pull Chris away from Randy.

The following week of RAW came as quickly as the week before.

The highlight Reel was scheduled to begin the show and Chris planned to call out Randy once again.

"Orton, get your ass to this ring right now," he yelled into the microphone.

The music that hit next wasn't the music he expected. As Riley hobbled out into the arena on crutches. As she entered the ring she hobbled over to the corner nearest to the announcers and was handed a microphone as she took a seat on one of the two stools, "Chris, please if it wasn't so much trouble could you cut out this fighting with Randy, he's my best friend."

Chris gasped, "your best friend? After what he did to you. Look at yourself, you can hardly walk!"

"SHUTUP!"

Chris was shocked when she yelled, steadily he had began to realise recently their relationship had become fractured. It had always been a difficult relationship. Where he was going to clubs and drinking ever since they had met, she could hardly do such a thing for 5 years till she was twenty-one. The only now twenty-two year old, soon to be twenty-three of May 5th had closed up and no longer did they share the meaningful discussions he use to love.

"Could you just cut it Chris, I don't want to here it. I know what he did, I'm not stupid and I can work things out for myself… But that's not why I'm here tonight, believe me I'd rather not be involved in this stupid fight. Vince McMahon has very kindly decided to show my debut song and video clip this evening, and I thought what better time to do it then the Highlight Reel."

Riley Cena was standing in the middle of the ring staring at the now empty arena.

Is anybody out there,

Does anybody see,

The lights turned off as a spotlight shone on her,

That when the lights are off something's killing me.

I know it seems like people care,

Cause they're always around me,

Riley was shown sitting in a booth at a club, her eyes staring as John, Chris, Lita, Matt, Trish, Randy and Christian all laughed, joked and talked around her.

But when the day is done and everybody runs,

Who will be the one to save me from myself,

Chris was banging on the door to a bathroom. The camera switched to video surveillance and Riley was shown her back to the door, her head resting on her knees as she sobbed.

Who will be the who's there,

And not ashamed to see my crawl,

Who's going to catch me when I fall,

When the show is over,

Riley was shown back in the arena, now sitting in a chair where the fans would sit, she was staring straight ahead, before she put her head in her hands.

And its empty everywhere,

It's hard to face going back alone,

So I walk around the city,

Riley was shown walking down the a quiet city street of what seemed to be her hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

Anything, anything to clear my head,

I've got nowhere to go nowhere but home,

Who will be the the one to save me from myself,

Who will be the one's who's there,

Footage was shown of Riley talking to Randy, tears were in her eyes, before he took her in his arms as she sobbed.

Who will be the one who's there,

And not ashamed to see me crawl,

Who's going to catch me when I fall,

It may seem like I have everything,

Flashes of Riley managing for Chris, Randy or John, facing off against Trish in her try out match, her coming out into the arena and raising her arms to the crowd.

But everything means nothing,

When the ride that you been on,

That you're coming off,

Leaves you feeling lost,

The footage returned to Riley sitting in the stands.

Is anybody out there,

Does anybody see,

That sometimes loneliness is just a part of me.

As the video ended Riley stood and walked out of the camera view as the title of the show was shown, 'Catch me when I fall'.

Chris's mouth was slightly opened as the camera returned to the ring.

"I thought you were making a video clip for that song, 'Burnin' Up'?" he asked confused.

She shrugged, "I guess I changed my mind. I prefer to focus on how I'm feeling rather than the way that I'm pretending to feel," she said before she left the ring as the camera went off air.

Halfway down the ramp he caught up to her, "what are you talking about, if there's something wrong we can get through it together."

She shook her head, "I'm not ready for all this Chris, I'm not ready to be married, I know you want kids and I'm not ready for that either. I'm twenty-two years old, I want to live."

"You want to break off the engagement?" he asked horrified.

Riley shook her head, "no, Chris, I just don't want to be married anytime soon, you know I really really like you."

He smiled as she walked to backstage, until he realised what she had said, she had said that she liked him, not loved.

When he reached backstage, she was no where in sight, he found Trish and soon asked the Diva if she had seen the brunette, Trish shook her head, and told Chris to tell Riley that she would ring her later that night.

Riley was hobbling down the hallway in search of the Hardy Boys locker room, she desperately needed to speak with Lita. She needed to tell someone how she felt, she couldn't keep it within her anymore.

A door beside her opened and Randy suddenly stepped in front of her, "Riley… I… um I need to talk to you, can we go somewhere I bit more private."

Riley nodded, "sure… ah, where?"

Randy looked down the hallways spotting a spare locker room in which was suppose to be resident to Steven Richards, who had decided to move closer to the women's locker room as to be closer to Victoria. He led her and as they entered the empty locker room he turned the light on and took a seat on one of the benches, he motioned for her to take a seat beside him.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, "I saw the video, I'm your best friend, you can tell me."

Riley rested her head against the wall beside them, "I'd rather not talk about it Randy."

"Come on you can tell me," he urged, "who am I going to tell? Definitely not Jericho and the only person that I would tell would be John, because he's my best mate and he's your brother, and that would only be if your life was in danger. Riley you know you can trust me."

The side of her mouth curved an unsure look printed on her face.

"I never told Chris about Seth O'Locklyn in high school," he shrugged.

She cringed, Seth had been her boyfriend in year 10 to early year 11. He was your typical rebel, skater boy, always getting suspended, always up to no good. He had been the type of guy that every girl was in love with. He had been extremely good looking, and their relationship had been quiet serious, especially when the over protective John wasn't stalking him. However their relationship had come to a rather horrible end when Randy arrived at the school. Seth became suspicious of the friendship immediately and before long when he realised that Riley wasn't as sweet and innocent as he had believed (his complete opposite), but rather more like himself, he dumped her within a heart beat, claiming that she was cheating on him with Randy. The incident taking place a month or so before the first time she had met Chris at 1996 Survivor Series.

She sighed, "I feel like be pushed around, doing things for the better of others, when I'm crumbing inside. I've been thinking ever since the-" she paused glancing at her engagement ring, "proposal, that I'm going to be trapped forever. I shouldn't have said yes, I don't love him, not anymore… I love someone else…"

Randy hid the smile that was attempting to be played on his lips, "who might this be." He lifted her chin, staring into her blue eyes with his own blue eyes, he leant in his stare intent.

She sighed her eyes darting away, "you."

Randy's lips caught her's in a passionate kiss as she clawed at his shirt, wanting to be closer to him, to be with him, she knew what she was doing was wrong, but no matter how wrong it may have been, it felt so right.

Randy's lips trailed down her neck, leaving kisses as he went.

"Randy, please don't stop," she groaned.

He smirked coming up to capture her lips again as he played with the buttons of her shirt, undoing them, as she did much of the same to him…

Lita stepped out of her locker room, telling Matt and Jeff that she was going in search of Chris who she knew was very confused about the video clip, much alike herself.

As she was just exiting the locker room she caught sight of a little ways down the hall, Randy Orton and Riley walking out of the Locker room that was suppose to be Steven Richards. The were holding hands. Randy caught Riley's lips in a kiss as they pulled away both were smiling as they let go of each others hands and entered the locker room for Evolution. Riley obviously going to visit John.

Lita was in shock as she made her way around the arena in search of Chris.

She found him speaking with Chris at a beverage table, "Chris, a word?" she asked.

He nodded and led her into his locker room, "what did you want to talk about."

"I think you should know something…"