Author's note: Hey everybody 'hugs all' Here comes the new chapter... I really hope you enjoy it... it's a little longer than the last ones but I didn't find the right place to make a clean cut... and I don't like the chapter title very much but couldn't think of a better one so I hope you don't mind that...

And you know what: Yay me... I finished the story... it's all typed down and only waiting to be posted... I'm so proud that I made it... it's the first time I finished a really long story 'grin' after this one there'll only be two more chapters to go... so I hope you enjoyed the ride so far and will enjoy it the last two chapters too... and I hope you still want a sequel to the story because I already started writing it... I'm bursting with creativity now... and I don't really know why... so please tell me again if you still want a sequel 'hugs all'
And now I've bored you all enough and will you just let enjoy the chappy

Disclaimer: None of the characters besides Alexi, Marissa and Martha belong to me...

Chapter 28: Seeing the Light

Marissa was nearly out the hospital when she realised she had left her keys for the car in Martha's office on the desk.

With a sigh she turned around and walked back into the direction of the office.

When she passed Alexandria's room, she heard Shawn's voice. Marissa stopped in her tracks.

Nah… I must've imagined that… She thought but walked closer to the door and pressed her ear against it just to make sure.

But to her surprise Shawn was really in the room and talked to Alexandria.

Marissa slowly and silently opened the door a little to listen to what Shawn had to say without him knowing she was there.

Marissa couldn't help but be moved by Shawn's speech and towards the end she felt the tears in her eyes.

When she saw Shawn come towards the door she quickly took a few steps back so that it didn't look like she had listened to HBK's monologue.

Suddenly she saw Shawn stop and for a moment she wondered why but when she saw her fiancé turn back towards the bed, she also took another step closer again.

And when she heard Alexi's voice call Shawn 'dad' she felt so relieved and the hope that everything would be okay was stronger than ever before.

She pushed the door open and watched the scene in the room and when she saw Alexandria and Shawn hug she thought it was time to make her presence known.

"Finally…" Marissa exclaimed happily.

When Alexandria and Shawn heard that voice the two quickly separated.

Shawn turned his head to see Marissa standing in the doorway, her hands on her mouth and tears in her eyes. And if Shawn had to guess it weren't tears of sadness.

"Hi Marissa…" He said, having no idea what else to say.

"Hi mom…" Alexandria added just to say something too. She had no real idea what to say or what to do right now.

The girl hadn't thought that she would forgive Shawn so easily but now she had after his emotional speech and she finally believed him that he hadn't meant to hurt her or her mother.

For a moment Marissa pondered to tell Alexandria about her and Shawn's engagement but she decided against it because it was hard enough for Alexi right now to finally forgive HBK.

Telling her that Marissa and Shawn would get married, would definitely be too much right now.

Marissa knew that Shawn thought the same. She could tell it from the look on his face.

"I'm so happy…" Alexi's mother told her daughter and her soon to be husband and broke the awkward silence in the room.

Alexandria smiled and brushed away a tear on her cheek.

Shawn put an arm around Marissa to pull her close and took Alexi's hand.

Right at that moment Shawn realised that life was worth it and that he never wanted to miss this feeling of complete happiness he felt at that moment.

"I promise you two that I'll never hurt you again. I will always be there for you two."

Marissa smiled and placed a kiss on Shawn's cheek.

"We know that Shawn." She told the Heartbreak Kid.

Alexandria just nodded forcefully.

Shawn turned to her and said: "I'm sorry that I sneaked in here but I knew you would never have listened to me while you were awake but I needed to say what I said or I would've gone mad."

Alexi smiled. "It's okay… I'm somehow glad you did it because as you said I would never have talked to you willingly right now… I can be pretty stubborn every once in a while."
Marissa laughed.

"Just like your father." She said with a broad grin on her face.

The three laughed and they started to really feel like a family.

"Did I miss something here?" Another voice called from the door.

This time Marissa and Shawn turned to the door with a bright smile on their faces to see Jericho and Dr. Cormela standing there.

"Yes you did indeed, Chris." Alexandria greeted the newcomers.

For a while Chris wandered aimlessly through the hospital until he decided to ask a nurse if Martha was still in surgery.

The young nurse looked at him in awe for a moment before she really acknowledged what Chris wanted.

After a quick look on the chart on her hands she told Chris: "Well the surgery ended about ten minutes ago so I guess she'll be in Dr. Verne's office to go over the surgery again."
Chris nodded thankfully. "And where can I find that office?"
"Um just down the hall then the third door to the left." The nurse answered willingly.

She then looked at Chris for a moment and then she questioned: "Mr. Jericho, would you perhaps give me an autograph. I'm a huge fan."
Y2J grinned. He was used to that by now and quickly gave the young woman his autograph and then walked down the hall to the office.

He waited for a while because he didn't want to disturb the two doctors in their talk.

About ten minutes later the door opened and Martha stepped out.

She immediately saw Chris leaning against the wall opposite to the office door.

"Hey there Chris." She greeted with a smile on her face. She had already gotten used to calling Jericho by his first name.

"Hey Martha." Y2J replied a small smile on his lips too.

"What are you doing here?" Martha wanted to know.

"I was waiting for you to tell you that Alexi's parents and I are leaving now. And I wanted to thank you for letting us use your office."
"It was my pleasure as well as my job." Dr. Cormela told him honestly.

"Well and there's another reason why I'm here…" Chris admitted, sounding almost a little shy, Martha noticed.

She raised an eyebrow in question. "And what reason?" She wanted to know.

"I wanted to ask you if you'd like to have coffee with me again tomorrow after we were interrupted today." Y2J suggested to the surprised young woman.

"I'd love to." She said without hesitation and it was true, there was nothing she wanted more than to spend time with Jericho, not that she'd tell him that right now.

Her words were rewarded with a bright smile on Jericho's face.

"That's great… I mean… well… when do you have time?" Y2J questioned and could've slapped himself for his stuttering.

Martha decided to ignore it and told him: "Well tomorrow my shift ends at 12 o'clock. So we can have a coffee together then and perhaps go somewhere to eat."

Chris nodded. He really liked her suggestion.
"That sounds really good." He agreed.

"Great. So can you perhaps pick me up here? Then I can show you a nice little restaurant." Dr. Cormela suggested and wondered for a moment where she'd gotten the courage to suggest that to Chris.

She was glad that the wrestler seemed to like it though because the look on his face was a happy one.

"Sure thing Martha, but now I better go or Marissa and Shawn will send a search party for me." He joked. The young doctor grinned.

"I'll walk you out. I need some fresh air anyways." Martha said, hoping to spend some more minutes with Chris.

"Great." Y2J acknowledged and the two slowly walked down the hall.

It was inevitable for the two to pass Alexi's room. If the door hadn't been open both probably wouldn't have noticed the little family reunion but since Marissa had left the door wide open, Chris could see the group hug.

What the hell? He wondered and with a glance at Martha, who was as confused as he was, the two walked over to the room.

"Did I miss something here?" He questioned, stopping in the doorframe.

Marissa and Shawn turned their heads to look at him and Martha.

"Yes you did indeed, Chris." Alexandria said with a grin on her face, Chris hadn't thought she'd have when Shawn was near her.

But obviously something had happened that had changed things.

"Since I know this will be a long story and I'm really tired could you perhaps give me the important details so that I can go home then?" Chris joked and rubbed his face warily. He had no real idea what to make of the situation.

Marissa and Shawn looked at each other and then at Alexi.

Finally Shawn was the one to start: "Well actually there's not much to tell. I sneaked in here when I thought she was asleep, because I had to tell Alexandria what I felt. And well she wasn't asleep and heard every word I said…"
He stopped and waited for Alexandria to continue: "And when I heard what Shawn… Dad… had to say it finally occurred to me that he never wanted to give me and my mother up… and well yeah…" Alexi explained to Chris, hoping that he would understand.

Jericho just smiled and shook his head in slight amusement.

"Here I am, trying fruitlessly to get you two together so that you'd talk to each other and then you two fix your relationship in a few minutes." He told them.

The whole room erupted in laughter and finally Martha clapped her hands together.

"So… since I'm the doctor here I'm ordering you to leave now. Alexandria needs her rest and you all do too. You can come back tomorrow." She told Alexi, her parents and Chris.

"Actually I think that's a good idea… we have time to talk about everything when things have settled down a little, tomorrow, when Randy is present too." Chris agreed with the young doctor.

"Don't look like that Shawn. Even if you can't get around the fact that your daughter has a boyfriend, Randy is as much a part of this as you are."

Alexandria blushed a little. Marissa noticed that and smiled a little.

She bent down and gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead.

"Well sweetie, we're going home for today, but we'll be back tomorrow, so that we can have breakfast together… if that's okay with Dr. Cormela." When she said the last words, she looked at Martha.

The doctor nodded. "Of course that's okay." She told Alexi's mother.

"Okay Mom, Dad, Chris… I'll see you tomorrow then… and can you bring Randy with you if he doesn't have to work?" Alexi requested.

"Of course sweetie…" Marissa agreed.

Chris walked over to the bed and gave Alexandria a hug. "Good night and nice dreams Alexi…" "Night Chris."
Shawn hesitated for a moment, but then he bent down and hugged the girl too.

"Goodnight Alexandria."
"Goodnight Dad…" Alexi replied with a smile and returned the hug.

Then finally the four adults left the room and it didn't take long for Alexandria to fall asleep.

Marissa and Shawn walked hand in hand to Shawn's car, since Marissa's keys were still in Martha's office and the two had decided to get them back tomorrow and to just drive to the hotel in Shawn's car and leave Marissa's at the hospital.

Chris followed in his own car and the three met up at the hotel room lobby.

But there was an unpleasant surprise when Marissa asked for the keys to her room.

Even though the hotel had told her that there was a room ready for her, something had gone wrong.

"Well that's not a problem." Chris assured her. "You can take Alexi's bed for tonight and as soon as Alexi is out of the hospital I can take a sleeping bag and room with Randy and John for the few days we'll stay here." He suggested. Marissa and Shawn were okay with that since they felt just a little awkward to room together and to throw Batista out a second time.

With that settled the three all went to their respective rooms because they all were really tired.

Marissa and Chris didn't talk much. Alexi's mother didn't even unpack. They just changed into their pyjamas and went to bed to fall asleep just minutes later.

When Shawn entered his room, Batista was already sitting on his bed, reading.

"Hey there HBK. You okay? You look like you're on cloud nine."

Shawn grinned. "That's because I am." He replied.

When Batista raised an eyebrow in question, Shawn told him the whole story, sparing the part that he and Marissa were getting married.

The Animal shook his head in disbelief.

"Okay… next time I'll stay till the end…" He said jokingly.

Shawn grinned and then the two also went to bed to get the much needed sleep.

Randy entered the hospital, hoping that he wouldn't see Sid or Hunter because he had no idea if he could control himself when nobody was near him to stop him.

He made it to his room without meeting any of the wrestlers.

The young Orton guessed that most wrestlers were out having a good time and enjoying themselves.

With a sigh he opened the door to his room just to be greeted with a cheerful "Hey RKO."

"Hey JC." He answered automatically and a small smile appeared on his lips.

"So everything okay at the hospital?" John questioned from where he was on the ground, doing some push-ups.

"I guess so. Alexi wants to think about everything so I decided to leave her alone for a while." Randy answered, taking off his jacket, throwing it on his bed.

"I see… Don't worry too much Randy. Everything will be okay. At least Vince knows about everything… but he promised not to tell anybody until Shawn, Marissa and Alexi are ready to tell."
"You talked to Vince?" Randy questioned.

"Yepp… Marissa and Shawn gave me and Dave the permission to do it."
"Ah okay… and it's good to know that Vince understands."

Randy was glad to hear that and fell on his bed tiredly.

"You okay?" John asked concerned and finished his push-ups.

The Legend Killer put an arm over his forehead and closed his eyes for a moment.

"I guess…" He said.

Cena was everything but convinced but he decided not to push the issue, at least not tonight since the day had been exhausting enough for the young Orton. He would try to get him to talk about everything when things had calmed down a little and life was back to normal, well as normal as life as a wrestler could be.

With a slight grin he noticed that Randy had already fallen asleep during his thoughts and hadn't even bothered to change for the night.

The current WWE-Champion decided it was best to just let him sleep now and he changed for bed himself and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep too, with a lot of thoughts and plans on his mind.

The next morning Randy was awake even before his alarm clock rang. He looked at his clock and the young man saw that it was only 6 o'clock.

Even though Randy was always one to stand up early, this was unusual for him to stand up so early on a free day and especially on a morning after such a stressing day.

For a while he contemplated trying to get back to sleep but he knew it wouldn't work.

So he stood up quietly, careful not to wake John up because the man needed his rest.

Randy quickly changed into his jogging attire and left the hotel room.

He needed the time for himself and the fresh air helped him clear his mind and he hoped he would also get rid of the headache he had been having when waking up this morning.

Randy was glad that the park he had decided to go jogging in was empty this morning because the last thing he needed right now were noisy fans who wanted an autograph or who would insult him because of his heel status.

When he returned to the hotel about one and a half hour later, John was awake too, doing some knee bends.

Randy knew that John had his fitness routine in the morning and from the number of knee bends John was counting he guessed the man was awake about half an hour.

"Hey John." He greeted when he entered the room.

"Hey Randy. So you're feeling better now? Cleared your head? And most important have you gotten rid of the headache?" John questioned and changed from knee bends to sit ups.

"You sure you're not psychic?" The Legend Killer questioned, once again amazed that John just needed one look at him to know what was wrong.

"Nope I'm not psychic. It's just that you always go jogging before seven in the morning when you need to clear your head. And you're always getting headaches in the morning lately… you told me about that yourself, forgotten?" John told his best friend after his last push-up. Randy looked a little bit sheepishly. He indeed had told John about his constant headaches he got almost every morning but he had refused to go see a doctor since he had enough of doctors for a while.

"So… who's going to shower first?" John questioned, still sitting on the ground, looking up at his best friend.

"You can go first if you want to John." Randy offered.

"Thanks bro… I'm gonna hurry." The Dr. of Thuganomics hurried into the bathroom and Randy searched for clothes to wear this day.

About twenty minutes later John returned from the bathroom and Randy himself vanished into it and took a quick shower himself.

When the two were finished they wanted to go down and have breakfast.

"So what are you going to do today?" Randy wanted to know when the two stepped into the elevator.

"I promised Vince to do some photo shoots for the next RAW magazine." John explained.

"Oh I see… I'm going down to the hospital to see Lexi. You wanna come later too?" Randy questioned.

"How did I know that you were going to say that?" John grinned.

Randy laughed a little and the two searched a table in a quiet corner and started their breakfast.

It didn't take long until Batista joined them.

"Morning Dave." John greeted.

"Morning you two." The Animal greeted and took a seat beside Randy, giving him a quick check-up.

The Legend Killer was a little paler than usual but otherwise he looked okay.

"And what are you going to do today?" John asked Dave.

"I dunno… Triple H and I have to do some promos for the new storyline with the belt. So I guess I'll hang around here until Eric calls."

Randy nodded thoughtfully. "Sounds like a fun day…" He said without enthusiasm.

"Where is Shawn? Doesn't he want to have breakfast too?" John questioned.

"He will go down to the hospital with Marissa and Chris to have breakfast with Alexandria."
Randy had a spoon full of cereals halfway to his mouth but stopped dead in his tracks when Batista told him that.

"Whoa, wait a second there… you mean that Lexi and Shawn are going to have breakfast together? In the same room? Without Lexi tearing Shawn's head off?" He wanted to know, stunned.

John was equally surprised and just now Batista realised that Randy obviously didn't know about it.

"Yes… in the same room, together as father and daughter… obviously Shawn managed to convince Alexandria that he isn't the bag guy she thought he is." Batista explained and then quickly told the two what had happened in the hospital after they had left.

Randy shook his head in surprise. "I have to admit that I wasn't expecting that."
"I guess no one had but I'm glad that things can return to normal now."

John smiled brightly.

"So Shawn, Chris and Marissa already left for the hospital?" Randy wanted to know.

"No. Shawn went to get Chris and Marissa… and then they wanted to wake you up to go to the hospital together. So I guess they'll turn up here sooner or later when they find out that you've already left the room."

The young Orton nodded.

"Okay…" He couldn't say more, because indeed at this moment Chris, Marissa and Shawn entered the room.

HBK and his fiancé walked hand in hand, causing the few already awake wrestlers to look at the Heartbreak Kid in surprise but nobody said something because they didn't want to jump to conclusions.

"Hey Randy." Shawn greeted. "Morning Shawn." The young Orton said without looking up. He still felt a little awkward around the Heartbreak Kid.

"Randy, do you need to work today or can you go to the hospital with us?" Marissa wanted to know.

"Since I'm still on the injured list due to my shoulder I'm coming with you." Randy explained with a grin and stood up from the table.

"Well then John, Dave. See you later and you're always welcome to come down to the hospital too if you have the time."
"Okay RKO, and tell Alexi hi from us." John told his best friends.

"Sure thing JC. Bye…" Randy waved and then he, Shawn, Marissa and Chris left the restaurant to go down to the hospital.

Dave and John watched them go.

"And how is he?" Batista questioned, the memory of Randy's breakdown still bothering him.

"I guess he's okay even though he was jogging this morning. And he had a headache again." John explained, concerned about his best friend too.

"Why is it bad that he was jogging?" Dave questioned.

"He always does that when he's upset and worked up. The fresh air clears his mind… and helps with his headaches." John told Batista.

Dave sighed. "I just hope that Alexi can get his mind off of whatever is bothering him."

John nodded in agreement.

"Somehow I'm sure she will." He said with a slight smile.

Suddenly Batista's cell phone rang.

He answered it and sighed. "Sure Eric, I'm on my way."

With that he hung it up again.

"That was Bischoff. I need to meet up with him and Hunter at the arena for a few promos."
"I'm coming with you. First of all I need to go down there later too and second perhaps I can stop you from strangling Hunter."

Batista laughed and the two wrestlers made their way down to the arena.

Shawn opened the door to Alexi's hospital room.

Randy entered first, followed by the rest of the gang.

To their surprise Alexandria was still asleep.

The Legend Killer tiptoed over to the bed and gave his girlfriend a soft kiss on the cheek.

"Morning sweetheart." He smiled.

Alexi stirred and opened her eyes.

"Just some more minutes. And please turn the light off… it's too bright…" She mumbled in her state of half sleep.

As soon as she had said those words, she sat straight up in her bed and the rest of the room froze.

Marissa nearly ran over to the bed of her daughter.

"Alexi… do you see me?" She questioned.

"I'll go get Martha." Chris said naturally and left the room.

For a moment Shawn wondered why Chris was using every excuse he got to spend time with Dr. Cormela, but then he turned his attention to his daughter.

"Well yes… I can kind of see you… it's weird…" Alexi explained, not knowing if she should be happy or if she should worry about the way she was able to see.

She felt somehow like watching an old black-and-white movie. She could see light and dark and the outlines of things but everything was blurry and surreal.

Marissa, Shawn and Randy looked at each other a little worried and trying to conceal their happiness since they had no idea if it was a good or a bad sign.

It didn't take long for Chris and Martha to arrive.

The young woman was all business and doctor-like but Randy could see that she was happy to see Chris again so soon.

She walked over to the bed and quickly examined the girl.

Randy, Shawn and Marissa stepped back to stand beside Chris to give the young doctor the room for her work.

She let Alexandria describe the way she could see.

"First of all, that's perfectly normal the way you see now but I have to admit that I wasn't expecting you to make so much progress in such a short time. I was expecting you to be in this state of recovery in one or two days."
"So that's good?" Randy questioned, coming to stand beside his girlfriend, squeezing her hand.

"Yes that's very good. In fact that's fantastic." Martha said with a smile.

The young Orton bent down to kiss the girl's forehead and Marissa and Shawn hugged each other happily. Chris just stood beside them and smiled happily.

Finally… perhaps I'll be able to forgive myself for what happened back then. He thought and felt a huge weight lifted from his shoulders.

"I'm going to leave you all alone now, because I still have other patients to take care of. As always just call when you need something." With that Martha left the room again, closing the door behind her.
"But only until 12 o'clock then she's off duty." Chris threw in when the door was shut.

"And you know that why?" Alexandria questioned with a mischievous grin on her face.

Jericho ran a hand through his hair again and felt a little awkward.

"Actually she told me that because we're going out to have lunch." He admitted hesitantly.

Alexi smiled brightly but she couldn't help but feel a little wave of jealousy running through her.

Woah… wait a second… Chris has been there for me all my life even through my blindness when most shied away from me, having no idea how to treat me… and now I have Randy… why shouldn't Chris finally move on and think about himself for once. I should be happy for him that he seems to really like Martha and she seems to like him too. She thought a little guiltily and quickly tried to push the thoughts of jealousy out of her mind but she couldn't stop them totally even though she really wanted to.

So the girl tried to not let it show. It wouldn't be fair to Chris and it definitely wouldn't be fair to Randy because she loved the young third generation wrestler.

"Admit it… you only come to see me because you hope to see Martha." She said jokingly.

Chris knew that she wasn't serious but he tried to look upset and walked over to the bed.

"Oh come on sweetie, you know that you'll always have a special place in my heart." He told her and gave her a peck on the cheek.

"Okay one thing is for sure. I never need to worry about my daughter needing a bodyguard." Shawn joked. And it was true. By what he had seen, he was sure that Randy and Chris would do everything to protect Alexi if necessary and even John and Dave seemed to really like the girl.

And he himself had joined the ranks too. He had already sworn to himself that nobody would hurt his baby-girl if he had a say in it.

Randy and the others laughed at his words and then Alexi vanished into the little bathroom of her hospital room. And after her mother had given her some clothes she got ready and then the five went to have breakfast.

The time passed quickly and before Chris knew it, he had to get ready for his meeting with Martha.

"I'll be back to see you tomorrow…" Chris told Alexi and gave her a quick peck on the cheek.

"Have fun you two and say hi to Martha from me." Alexandria called after Chris before he was out the door.

Randy watched him go and then he turned to Alexi again who had her eyes closed and had avoided to look at him what she had done ever since she had woken up. Randy had no idea if he should be upset about that or if he was overreacting again and it was just coincidence.

"Before I forget it, John and Dave told me to say hi to you too."

The girl smiled at that. "Thanks and say hi to them from me too when you go home."

"I will…" Randy told her and squeezed her hand.

Marissa and Shawn looked at each other with a small smile on their faces.

"I guess we'll leave you alone now. Shawn needs to go back to do some work." Marissa suddenly said to Randy and her daughter and Alexi had the distinct feeling that her parents wouldn't go back to the hotel immediately.

Randy had other problems. "So I have to walk back to the hotel?"
Shawn laughed a little.

"Actually we're going to drive back with Marissa's car. I was hoping you would drive my car back to the hotel." HBK explained and tossed Randy the keys.

The young Orton caught them with surprise and looked at them disbelievingly.

"You're really letting me drive?" He asked. Until now he had often asked if he could drive Shawn's car but the Heartbreak Kid had refused.

HBK grinned. "Yes I'm letting you drive. And I swear if there's just a single scratch on it you'll pay for it, literally speaking."

Randy laughed. "I'll be careful." He assured the older man. He knew that this was once again a way for Shawn to say sorry for his words from the day before.

"Okay you two, stay decent." Alexandria joked.

Marissa and Shawn laughed and left the two alone.

Even when her parents were out of the room, Alexi avoided looking at Randy and now the Legend Killer was sure that she didn't want to look at him. Sure he knew that she couldn't see everything but she had told her mother that she could see her. So she could at least look at him.

He wasn't sure why she avoided doing that but he was determined to find out.

"Lexi, why aren't you looking at me?" He asked directly.

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" The girl questioned, obviously confused.

Randy ran a hand through his hair.

"Well ever since you told us that you could see at least partly you have avoided looking me in the eyes." He explained and couldn't help but feel sad when he imagined the reasons why Alexandria wouldn't want to look at him.

Alexi seemed to realise that she was upsetting him. So she reached out and touched his cheek with her hand.

"Randy… sorry… I really avoided looking at you… but not because of the reasons you might think. It's true I can partly see but when I see you for the first time I want it to be for real and not with a blurry vision."
Randy felt relieved. He had hoped for such an answer and now that he had gotten it, he was glad about that.

He bent down to kiss the girl softly and Alexandria closed her eyes, partly because of what she had said earlier and partly because she wanted to just enjoy the kiss.

When they separated Randy had no doubt that Alexi's words were true.

The day passed quickly and Randy and Alexi talked about everything and basically got to know each other even better than before.

And before they knew, Randy said goodbye again and returned to the hotel where John was already waiting for him. He apologized for not finding the time to go down to the hospital to go and see Alexandria.

The young Orton assured him that it was okay because he had been glad to finally have Alexi to himself for a while.

The sun was shining brightly when Martha and Chris left the hospital.

Jericho had a bright smile on his face, which was partly because of the fact that Alexandria could already see a little and partly because he was really looking forward to have dinner with the young doctor.

"Isn't that great that Alexi is making such good progress?" Martha asked right at that moment.

Chris nodded.

"Yes it is… and I think that's a reason to celebrate." Y2J agreed with her and held the door of his car open for the young woman.

Martha climbed into the car and smiled at him.

It was a quick drive to the restaurant and there was silence most of the way because both needed to think about how to interact around the other but when they reached restaurant it was different.

They both knew that they liked spending time with the other and that they were here to just enjoy themselves.

When they were seated on a little table and had ordered the food, Martha asked: "So how long are you going to stay here in New York?"

Jericho sighed a little. "Well the WWE stays here until the end of the week… most wrestlers will depart on Friday after the show or on Saturday morning. Randy, John, Dave, Shawn and I will definitely stay until Sunday perhaps longer. It depends a lot on Alexi's recovery." He explained.

"I see… but with the progress she's making I guess she'll be out of hospital in two or three days…" Martha told Jericho.

Damn I hate that I can't spend more time with Martha to get to know her better. I really would like that but with my busy schedule in the next weeks and months it won't be possible for me to come down here to see her… He thought but suddenly another idea occurred to him.

Perhaps I can do something about it… if Vince is okay with that…

A smile appeared on his face and Dr. Cormela looked at him curiously.

"Chris? Is everything okay?" She wanted to know.

Y2J quickly nodded. "Yes it is. I was just thinking about what a great day it is today. Alexi's recovering and I'm sitting here, having lunch with the most beautiful girl I've ever seen…" He quickly told her.

Whoa… did I just say that?

Martha blushed.

Did he really just say that? she wondered and couldn't believe that Jericho would say something like that to her.

"Um thanks…" She stuttered and was grateful that at this moment their meals arrived.

They ate in silence and both tried to process where Chris's statement left them both.

At first Chris thought about apologizing for it but then he decided against it because why should he apologise for something he had really meant.

After they had finished lunch Chris asked: "So what do you think about a walk?"
"I'd really like that." Martha agreed without hesitation.

So the two had a nice evening, and it was just relaxing and walking around the park.

More than once Chris contemplated taking Martha's hand but he decided against it because he didn't want to scare her by being too obtrusive.

When they finally separated for the day it was with the agreement to meet for dinner the next day.

"It was a nice evening Chris. I really enjoyed it." Martha told him when Chris had parked before her apartment.

"I really enjoyed it too, Martha…" Jericho replied happily.

"Well then good night and see you tomorrow." Martha leaned over and gave him a quick peck on the cheek before she nearly fled from the car, leaving Chris staring after her in wonder.

He softly touched his cheek where she had kissed him.

"Good night to you too, Martha." He said with a dreamy smile that he never lost all the way back to the hotel.

And all his fellow wrestlers looked at him curiously when walked through the lobby almost in trance with that dreamy smile on his face.

As soon as he was in his room he walked over to his bed and sat down on it.

He stared at the phone for a moment.

I need to ask Vince about it or I'll regret it…
With that thought in mind he picked up the phone and quickly dialled the number of his boss.

After a few rings McMahon picked up.

"McMahon?" He questioned.

"Hey Vince… it's me Chris. Sorry to call you and bother you again but I'd like to make you a suggestion." And with that he quickly told the WWE owner about his plan.

to be continued... so don't forget to tell me if you want a sequel or not...