Chapter XI – Fly with your wings

"That would be lovely." She answered.

The hotel gardens were very beautiful. They were much bigger in the back of the hotel, where there was a big fontain in the middle with several paths that all led to it. In those paths could be found steel dark green benches. You could see couples walking aroung holding hands almost everywhere, because the atmosphere was just too romantic.

Cleo and Dave talked about their lives and what they liked untill he brought up the thing she wanted to talk about.

"Anyway, I wanted to ask you... why did you join Evolution?" he asked.

"I said it the night I joined: I thought you needed-" he interrupted her.

"No, I want to know why you really joined." She looked at him confused. "I didn't believe nothing you said that night after us being H's servents."

She got a little scared but she calmed down when she saw his smile and the look in his eyes.

"I have my reasons..." she answered simply. He thought she didn't want to talk about it, so he didn't ask anything else. But now it was her turn to ask.

"What about you?" she said. "Why did I join Evolution?" She nodded. He thought a little before answering. "Hunter helped me when I first got to the WWE. He's been a great friend, although sometimes he does tend to be very bossy." Bye bye ally. He's got the virus too. She thought, sadly. "But, honestly, I'm getting a little tired of that. Not to mention I can't stand Randy by now, but that, nobody can." There is hope! This is wonderful. She was about to smile openly but she stoped on time. She thought it would be very apropriated. They kept walking in silence.

After a little while they got to the fountain, where they couldn't help to be amazed. It was hexagonal in the base, and in the middle, there were two beautiful and graceful marble dragons. They seamed to be flying with their wings opened, and the end of their snouts touched. From three ends of their bat like wings came out water that fell in the base gracefully, like small waterfalls. This fountain, the forrest and flowers around them and the fact that they were still in gala outfits, made the whole scene look like it had been taken out of a fairy tale.

"Wow..." she simply said, and aproached the fountain. She touched one of the dragon's claws. Dave stood watching her from behind. How can she be so charming?

Finally she turned to him smiling. "I love dragons." she looked up at the statue once more. "We should follow their example: fly together, but fly with our own wings... Aren't these beautiful?"

He got closer to her, so his shoulder was just inches from touching hers ."They are beautiful." He kept looking up at the statue. "But not half as beautiful as you..."

She looked at him, blushing furiously. He kept looking up, she wasn't sure if he was still admiring the dragons or avoiding her look. How can he be so charming? She looked at her own reflexion at the water, when he spoke. "We should get going, it's getting late." She looked once more to the dragon's snouts. "Yeah, let's go."

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Cleo said goodbye to Dave, who had insisted that he would take her to her room, and closed the door. The first thing she did was take off her hair everything that was tying it, and shake her head a little so it would get completly loose. She looked at a watch on the wall and saw it was 12:45. 12:45? We were talking for nearly three hours! God, I wasn't aware it had passed that much time!

She found Christy asleep in the couch, with the TV on and the remote still on her hand. "Christy..." she whispered very close to her ear. "Christy... WAKE UP!" She was scared so bad that she fell on the floor grabing her heart and panting, while Cleo laughed her heart off. "Oh, yeah, let's all scare the poor redhead to death, IT'S FUN!" she yelled. "Shhhh! Christy, do you wanna wake up the whole hotel?"

"What time is it?" she asked, still a little mad.

"Almost one o'clock." Cleo answered.

"ONE O' CLOCK?" "Shhh!" "Sorry." She whispered. "One o' clock? That was one hell of a dinner!" Cleo sat on the couch and took off her shoes. "Well, I met Dave's daughters-" "Daughters?" Christy interrupted. "I didn't know he had any children. Is he married?" The other one shook her head. "No. He's divorced. After Rory-" "Who's Rory?" "Rory's his youngest daughter. As I was saying, after Rory was born, his marriage started getting falling apart, because both he and his ex wife didn't feel the same anymore..." Christy held her hands up to stop her. "Wait, wait, wait a minute!" she raised her eyebrows. "You know all of this because..." Cleo sighed. "Me and Dave went for a walk in the gardens. We talked a lot, it was really nice." "Hum hum." "Hum hum, what?" "Nothing. Did you talk about Evolution?" "Yes! He said he's getting a little tired of Hunter being all that bossy. I think there's hope for him!" She said with a huge grin. "Hum hum." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Nothing. Well, it's late, we should go to bed." "Yeah, we really should."

So, they stood there for the next hours, with Cleo telling her friend all about the evening. When she told her about Randy and Stacy's discussion, she shook her head and bit her lip. "We have to do something about them. Stacy doesn't even act the same anymore!" Cleo agreed. "Yeah, defintly. Randy's gonna be the first to go." Then she told her about their arrival to the hotel ("Oh, they're so cute!" Christy had said) and then about their walk. When she got to Dave's coment concerning the dragons and her, Christy just went crazy. "Oh, no! He didn't say that! Oh, just too cute! Ok, definitly HUM HUM." "What is that-" Christy yawned interrupting her. "I am soooo tired! See ya in the morning!" And she left, leaving Cleo there with her mouth opened.

That girl's just weird. She went to bed and started thinking about her hum hums. Of course she had a little idea of what they ment... in fact, she was starting to think of him not only as the ally she first wanted, but more as a friend... A friend? She had told him some things she had never told anyone, at least no strangers.

I don't know what's happening to me, but I feel like I can trust him...

She fell asleep and dreamed she was flying with silver bat like wings.

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Meanwhile, after Cleo said goodbye to Dave and closed the door, he went back to his room. He undressed and went to bed, but he didn't fall asleep right ahead. He kept thinking about his walk with Cleo. They had talked so much about their lives, he had never felt so confortable talking to someone he barely knew. Most of all, he felt she had trust him, to tell him all that.

Also, he couldn't denie he was starting to feel both great affection and attraction for her. She was so beautiful! And she seamed to be a wonderful person.

I'll have to wait and see where everything goes...

He fell asleep and dreamed with dragons and waterfalls.

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A/N:

I cannot believe all this is happening to me! This might sound a little weird, but I'll explain: I had to write this chapter all again because of an error in Word! Well, that wasn't all bad, I like it better this way. I'm so sad today it came out more romantic.

Like all that I've been through with Eddie wasn't enough, I had a B for French (Bextra pressure on the all A girl) and my cell phone was stolen! Pictures? Gone. Contacts? Gone. Music? Gone. The only thing good about this week is that there's gonna be a teachers' strike on Friday, so no school.

Anyways, thanks so much for your reviews and opinions, and I have made my decision: I'm gonna continue with the original timeline, for the simple reason that Cleo would be too crushed to even think of getting into a relationship!

On with the review responses:

tina7610831: He will never be forgotten! Thanks for the review.

Rose Hardy 101: This story is like the medicin for my sadness... I have to keep writing to forget everything. Thanks for the review.

Broken.Baby.Gyrl: I was afraid people weren't gonna like her! Thanks for reviewing.

ShadowVixen: Ok, ok, I declare official Newbie Truce! Lol. Thanks for the opinion and suggestion, and VIVA LA RAZA 4ever!

Mohawkbaby: Even though I didn't go with your opinion, thanks for sharing it and for reviewing! And shhh, don't tell anyone, but it is possible that what you said would happen after the destruction does happen... MWAHAHAHAHA!

Finally, I leave you with a suggestion: go check out the Eddie Guerrero tribute video on wwe dot com. Now I can't listen to 'Here without you' without releasing a few tears...

Yours,

Ari