A/N: Thanks again for the reviews. This chapter goes further on with the Trish/John vs. Lita/Edge storyline.
Chapter 8
"Catch Me When I Fall"
The following week is a WWE Raw taping as cameras viewed Trish Stratus in her locker room getting ready for her title match against Lita. The crowd went wild and you could hear the guys in the audience whistling and cheering for her when suddenly a loud knock on the door caught Trish's attention. She rises up from the ground and is greeted by none other than John Cena. The crowd got even louder, especially the girls that screamed at the sight of him. "Hey, John." The blonde Canadian faced the champ with a wide grin. What's up?"
He hoisted his title belt over his shoulder and smirk at the diva standing before him. "I just want to wish you good luck on your match against Lita. And just so you know, I'll be at ringside making sure the match flows smoothly and knowing Edge, I gotta make sure he plays the game right."
Trish nods her head, "Alright. Thanks I really appreciate you looking after me."
"No problem," he winked at her and softly kissed her on the cheek. "I'll see you out there." Trish bit her lip and slightly blushed as John Cena walks out of the locker room.
As soon as the cameras went off, John Cena heads over to his own locker room where Randy Orton was chilling and watching the action happening backstage. He enters the room and joins him on the couch. "So I was thinking," John breaks the long silence while turning over to Randy, "maybe after the show we could go clubbin and hook up with some hot chicks."
Randy chuckled at the thought. "As tempting as that sound I'll pass."
"Did you turn gay or something?"
"No!" He shot John an appalling look. "Why you say that?"
"Gee, I don't know. When is the last time you got laid?"
Randy ignored the comment. "Things changed, John. I'm no longer the man whore I used to be." This made John laugh. "It's getting pretty old. I mean I want to settle down and actually be with someone I can spend the rest of my life with."
John stared at him oddly with his eyebrows raised. He definitely could see the changes in his friend. They use to always go out and flirt with different girls every night that came across them. "Whoever you dated last must be completely whacked!" He comments. "I mean this chick totally changed you." Randy uneasily chuckles. "Who was it anyway? This mysterious chick that you're so secretive about?"
"If I tell you it wouldn't be a mystery."
John rolled his eyes as Randy plasters his signature smile, "whatever."
"And she's not whack." The young wrestler muttered as he sends Cena a serious look.
"So why are you two not together then?"
Randy shrugged. "She dumped me."
"Why? Did she find out you were screwing with other girls?"
"Dude, it's not like that."
"Then what happened?"
Randy pursed his lips, followed by a deep sigh. "Long story, but it doesn't matter anymore." It was obvious to John that Randy didn't want to talk about it knowing how much he was crazy about her. It was the first time John ever thought of Randy falling head over heels for this girl he didn't know about at all. 'She must be really something.' John thought, aware of how Randy is well known for being a ladies' man and quite a player. He could never imagine Randy spending his entire life with one person. Although John didn't know who she was, he is aware that this girl changed Randy for the better. However, John admits that he missed hanging out with the old Randy. Nonetheless, there are still some characteristics of the old Randy he still possessed.
"I should get going." John noticed Trish's entrance music hit as he looks up on the television screen. She received a huge ovation from the crowd, flashing her hundred-watt smile as she walks down the ramp, acknowledging her fans.
"Good luck out there." Randy exclaims as he watches his friend walk out the door. He turns his gaze back on the screen and smiled, watching Trish get inside the ring and do what she does best—kicking ass and looking hot.
In the ring, Trish and Lita exchange dirty looks as they start talking trash at each other. Edge as guest referee pulled Lita aside, whispering something in her ear with some sort of game plan. Trish looks on and without wasting anymore time, tackles Lita to the ground allowing the crowd to cheer on as the match officially began. The 6-time women's champion got the upper hand as she threw a few aggressive punches at the redhead. She then pulls Lita by the hair and kicked her in the mid section. Trish grabs Lita by the arm and pushes her against a turnbuckle as Lita could feel the throbbing pain on her back. The Canadian blonde goes for the stratusphere but then collides with Lita's elbow on the face. Trish stumbles backwards with her hand on her mouth as Lita gives her the clothesline.
"Come on, Trish!" Randy shouted out in John's locker room watching closely. Although he already knew Lita was going to win the match, he was all of a sudden into it. In fact, he was into watching the diva matches, especially when Trish is involved. He admired the Canadian bombshell for putting a hell of a show every night.
After giving Trish a vicious suplex, Lita makes the cover. "1, 2--" Before Edge reached for the three count, Trish desperately kicks out. Grunting out of frustration, Lita grabbed her blonde hair and slammed her face against the turnbuckle. While throwing a few punches at the Canadian diva, the crowd begins chanting Trish's name as it builds motivation in her system. Just then, Trish blocks the upcoming shot as she begins to retaliate and throw punches in return at Lita. The fans began cheering as Trish gives Lita a DDT. She goes for the cover, but only gets a two count. Trish then begins throwing Lita across the ring several times now with the upper hand as she dominates the match. On the turnbuckle, Trish continuously pounds Lita on the head as she slowly climbs up the ropes. Once she was on the very top, Trish jumps up with her legs between Lita's neck and does the hurracanrana from the ropes. The crowd was now on their feet as Trish gets Lita in a headlock and prepares for the stratusfaction. She points to the crowd as they cheered on excitedly, knowing exactly what comes next. But before Trish could attempt her finisher, Edge pulls her arm releasing Lita from her grasp.
Edge receives a huge pop from the fans as the entire arena begins booing at him. Trish continues to argue with the special guest referee when suddenly Lita uses the opportunity to distract Trish as she comes from underneath and rolls her over for the barrel roll. Edge drops down and makes the count but before he could even reach three Trish jumps out.
Moments later, John Cena runs down the ramp, the crowd growing louder as he tackles the referee down on the ground. John aggressively throws punches at Edge as the two rolls over and out of the ring. Horrified, Lita watches on from the ropes when suddenly Trish uses the distraction to her advantage and gives her the low blow. The fans cheered on as Trish knocked her out with a clothesline. Lita immediately gets up to add a clothesline to the Canadian diva herself as Trish does the MaTrish. The blonde gets up with Lita turning around as she kicked the redhead on the stomach and preps for her signature move. The arena got even louder as Trish goes for the Stratusfaction, but somehow Lita was able to throw Trish from the top ropes as the blonde fell hard on the floor below them.
While John Cena and Edge continues to go at it outside the ring, Trish struggles to rise up from the fall as Lita jumps down from the ring to do more damage on the woman's champion. She took Trish by the hair yet again and slammed her face against the steel steps allowing the crowd to react with boos as it fills the arena. Lita rolls Trish back in the ring. Meanwhile, Edge gets the upper hand as he grabs the women's championship title belt and smashed it against John Cena's head. John stumbled backwards as he fell to the floor, his forehead bleeding from the shot he took from the title belt. Edge grins arrogantly taunting and mocking John Cena as he jumps back inside the ring while sneaking a steel chair towards Lita. The redhead gets ready with a steel chair in hand as Trish struggles to get up. Using the ropes, the current woman's champion slowly rises to her feet and as she turns around Trish immediately ducks, allowing Lita to miss the swing as Trish retaliates and does a chick kick from behind with the steel chair on Lita's face. Both divas collapsed on the floor as they can hear "Ohhh's" coming from the shocked crowd. Edge, who is also in total shock, comes to Lita's aid as he tries to talk to her through it. Trish then slowly crawls towards their direction as she places her arm on top of Lita waiting for the three count. Edge stalled a bit, not sure what to do as he stood back with more boos coming from the crowd. Just then, the females in the crowd, especially, begin screaming as Cena grabs Edge by both legs and pulls him out of the ring.
Backstage, Randy finds himself on the edge of his seat as he continues watching on in horror. It was so far a good match, both divas working hard out there and taking shots that men also do in the middle of the ring. He is concern with both women; however can't help but slightly feel worried more so with Lita than Trish for what seems to be the first time after the chick kick she took with the steel chair. Trish slowly begins rising and as soon as she was on two feet the crowd got even louder as she prepares for the chick kick. "Come on, Lita!" She yells out, determination plastered all over her face despite the pain on her lower back. The redhead begins to slowly move, her head throbbing in pain as she rolls to her side and struggles to get up.
Just then, Trish attempts the chick kick allowing Lita to duck and move out of the way when unexpectedly Edge spears the Canadian bombshell on the ground saving Lita from her devastating finisher. The boos got even louder as the "You Suck" chants started picking up in the arena. Both Trish and John are down as Edge pulls Lita on top of Trish and gives the 1-2-3 count!
Edge lifted Lita from off the ground as the two begin to celebrate in the middle of the ring.
"And here's your new WWE Women's Champion, Lita!" Lillian Garcia announced as the fans, all in shock, filled the arena with more boos. Edge and Lita begin to make out and afterwards, hoisted her new championship belt on her shoulder while standing on the ropes to show them off to the fans. Lita then walks over to the fallen Trish, talking smack as Edge slides an arm around Lita's waist, both laughing at the fallen Canadian diva. Just then John Cena slides back inside the ring and throws Edge from off the ropes. The fans screamed in excitement as Lita quickly gets away and helps Edge rise to his feet. They exchange cold stares, Edge and Lita slowly walking up the ramp mocking John Cena and talking a lot of trash from both sides.
John Cena breaks his gaze from off them as soon as they disappeared backstage. He then turns to the fallen Trish Stratus who was flat on her back with her eyes securely and still in the same position after taking the spear shot from Edge. Worry filled his eyes as he goes down and tries to talk to her. "Trish, can you hear me?"
Once backstage, a few Raw superstars and crew members congratulated Amy for the win. She thanked them of course but then her attention was brought to paramedics who suddenly entered the building.
"Trish Stratus is not moving." She heard someone say as Amy's lips slightly parted in concern. 'Oh no," the redhead breathed worriedly, 'what did I do?'
"Miss Stratus is not moving." One of the backstage crew repeats in his walkie talkie. "The paramedics are on their way."
Adam and Amy exchange worried looks as they turn their gazes back over to the monitor where they watch paramedics rush to the ring and John trying to reach Trish as she remained completely still. Randy Orton suddenly appeared from the locker rooms and stood next to Adam and Amy. "Dude, what happened out there?"
"I think she somehow landed incorrectly." Adam thought, hoping her injury is nothing too serious. They continue to watch on as the paramedics hoisted Trish onto the stretcher with a neck brace. The audience clapped their hands to pay their respect to Trish who gave it her all in the ring that night. John Cena begins walking beside Trish as the paramedics push her along up the ramp and towards backstage.
"Trish!" Adam, Amy, Torrie, Victoria, Ashley, and Randy all crowded around Trish as paramedics try to shove them away.
"Please. Get back, everyone. She needs some air." They heard one of them say as they continue to follow them towards the ambulance.
"Will she be okay?" Amy asks worriedly to one of the paramedic as tears begin brimming around her eyes.
"She will be fine. We're not sure of yet as to what happened, but we're going to take her to the hospital and run some tests."
"Can I come along?" Amy asks hopefully as the paramedic could see the desperation in her eyes.
"Yes, can we go too?"
He stares at the young male standing behind her and sighs, "I'm afraid we can only take two people."
"You and Amy should go." John Cena suggested. Although he wanted to be the one next to Trish, he is aware that Randy and Amy are her best friends. Adam nodded his head in agreement as Randy and Amy make room for themselves inside the back of the ambulance.
"We'll meet you in the hospital." Adam reassures his girlfriend as he plants a small kiss on her lips and takes her WWE Women's Championship belt to hold on to. A few of the crew members and Raw superstars watches on as they watch the ambulance drove off and disappear out in the distance.
A/N: Next chapter will be sort of the start of the John/Trish/Randy triangle (well, you'll see hints of it) so stay tune for that! It gets better trust me. Later, and please don't forget to review.