CHAPTER 2 - THE FIRST ENCOUNTER

Mim waltzed around the backstage area of RAW like she'd been here for years. Dave watched his sister's curious look as her blue eyes darted everywhere, while she took in everything around her. Batista had been wrestling for only a couple of years in the WWE and every time he mentioned it to Mim, she'd always say something along the lines of "I'd love to work with the WWE" or "Hey Dave, do you think you could get me in?" Mim had always dreamed of a light in the spotlight. She'd tried her hand at acting, but realised she didn't like that, and turned to modelling instead. She'd been doing professional modelling for a couple of years now, while working on her other passion Art Design, and now she'd ended up in the WWE. Mim knew she would be working in the Art and Design department while on RAW, designing superstar merchandise and working with computers to create logos for RAW and it's Pay Per Views, however, her story line with Evolution was just what she wanted. She'd do anything to become a Diva and Dave knew it. The siblings headed towards the Evolution locker room. At the same moment another member of Evolution would be moments away from meeting their new travel mate.

Randy Orton confidently walked around the backstage, looking like he was on a mission. Like he had something important to be at and he was late, but that wasn't the case. Randy had just finished his match with the Hurricane (he'd hit the R-K-O 5 minutes into the match, which was followed by a 1-2-3) and was headed for catery to grab himself a bottle of water. He used the towel in his hand to wipe the little sweat off his head and his brown hair.

"Orton!" Dave yelled as Mim suddenly snapped back into reality after daydreaming about what it would be like to meet a WWE superstar.

She was nervous, yet excited and she couldn't wait for the opportunity to arise.

Then Mim realised that she and her brother were approaching one of the WWE superstars. As she walked closer and close towards them she realised it was a man. She wasn't all that much taller than her, but all the same he was probably over 6 foot tall. He was wiping his forehead with a towel and by the look of him just wearing his wrestling trunks, Mim could gather he'd just been in a match. His brown hair was damp and his blue eyes moved from Mim's brother, until they settled on herself.

She was a tall brunette, about 5'10" he guessed, with the most beautiful electric blue eyes that sparkled even in the dull backstage lighting. Her long curly brown hair was loosely down around her shoulders. Randy could just make out lighter streaks which were just starting to grow out. Randy's eyes travelled down. She was wearing a cute, fitted red and yellow 'Superman' tee and a very short frilly denim skirt which drastically drew Randy's attention towards her legs. Randy didn't think that any other woman in the world could have had better legs than Stacey Keibler, but obviously the curious 24 year old was wrong. She had legs that went for miles. They were flawless, perfectly shaped and nicely tanned.

"Hey Dave!" Randy exclaimed as he finally snapped out of his fantasy and his eyes shot back over to Batista.

"Randy," Dave replied as he smiled at his friend before looking at Mim by his side "This is my sister Mi..."

"Mim Batista," Mim said as she cut her brother off mid-sentence and extended her hand towards Randy Orton "Nice to meet you Randy."

Randy smiled before taking Mim's small hand and shaking it gently.

"The pleasure's all mine," Randy said as he looked Mim in the eye causing her to blush ever so slightly.

"I have to say Dave," Randy said as he released Mim's hand and looked up at his fellow Evolution team mate "I'm certainly not disappointed."

Randy motioned to what he was talking about: Mim. This caused her to slightly blush again, but she hid it well with what she said next.

"No one ever is," Mim said as she smiled at Randy.

Randy cocked one eyebrow at her and smiled. He applauded her spunk and her confidence in his presence. Something that every other girl he'd met had lacked. Dave looked on in absolute amazement. His best friend and his sister were getting on just like that. He could see the connection between them and he knew that Mim was going to be just fine travelling with Evolution for 2 years. Suddenly, the conversation was interrupted by one of the backstage crew members. He ran up to the three of them before turning to face Dave.

"Mr Batitsa, Mr Bischoff has told me to inform you that you have a match later tonight," The crew member said before quickly hurrying away as if he had some place other to be.

"What?" Dave exclaimed "Who the hell am I fighting?"

"Oh yeah," Randy said as he suddenly remembered "Shawn asked for a match with you tonight. I heard him talking to Eric 'bout it before my match."

Dave was about to reply when Mim interrupted him for the second time tonight.

"Shawn?" Mim said in disbelief. Her eyes lit up when she said the name. She looked at up her brother and repeated it again "Shawn? As in Shawn Michaels?"

Dave half-laughed at his sister. He knew that she was HBK's biggest fan and would do practically anything to meet him.

"Yeah," Randy said before Dave could get a word in. Mim quickly turned to face Randy with the same glow in her eyes "I heard he works somewhere around here."

Suddenly Mim's smile dropped as he cocked an eyebrow at Randy Orton, who now wore a smug grin on his face. Dave was trying to stop himself from laughing. He knew Randy loved toying with women and his sister was now the next victim.

"Very cute, Orton," Mim finally responded as she sighed at his immaturity.

"Oh, I know," Randy quickly responded as he looked down at his six pack.

Mim was stunted at Randy's response, so Dave decided to save her before this confrontation got ugly very fast.

"OK, OK you two," Dave said as he took a stand between Randy and Mim.

He then turned to Mim.

"My stuff's in the EMT's room so I'm going to get ready there, I'll go out for my match and then I'll come back and get you settled in. So, until then..." Dave started before turning around so he was now facing Randy and Mim.

"Randy, could you take Mim back to the Evolution locker room and get her settled," Dave said. He saw Mim cock an eyebrow at him as Randy cockily smiled at her "You two can get to know each other better."

Mim didn't look impressed with her brother's decision, but she calmly nodded before Dave gave her a kiss on the cheek and took off. Mim waited a moment before looking up and coming face to face with Randy Orton and his cocky grin.

"Grow up, Randy!" Mim said jokingly as she picked up her bag from the floor and chucked it at Randy Orton. She then headed off in the direction of the Evolution locker room with Randy Orton tagging along behind her carrying her very heavy bags. Mim smiled to herself as Randy slowly followed her. She knew that she was going to be just fine.