It was now the day of Wrestlemania and arguably the biggest day in the young career of fourth generation superstar Daniel Orton's life. Also, 25 years ago today, was the birth of Randy and Roxanna's first child, Lainey. The family were to be meeting for an early lunch before Daniel headed off to the arena for his big title match, a family lunch which they hadn't participated in for years.

"So, what did Cameron get you for your birthday?" Kaydence asked her elder sister.

"This pretty necklace," Lainey replied, pointing to the white gold heart shaped pendant "And red roses."

"How sweet!" Kay smiled.

"So, any thoughts on your wedding dress yet?" Roxy asked her daughter as she read the menu.

"No, I'm gonna leave it as late as possible until I know how big the baby will roughly be." Lainey stated, rubbing her currently flat stomach.

"Is Cameron excited?" Randy questioned.

"Oh yeah! He wants it to be twins; a girl and a boy."

"He'll be lucky!" Kaydence scoffed, taking a sip of her lemonade.

"I don't think Cammy honestly cares that much as long as we are all ok."

"Your birth was the most hectic out of all of them." Roxy remembered.

"How come?"

"You were two weeks premature and would not come out."

"Ewww too much information!" Daniel sneered.

"You two came fairly quickly in comparison." Randy reminisced.

"And Lainey, you nearly gave your Father a heart attack when I had to have a C-Section."

"I was just tired..." Randy defended himself.

"Yeah, right." Roxy winked, knowing deep down his true feelings, squeezing his hand gently.

"Apart from your births, Kay and Daniel, you are totally different." Randy continued.

"You've never had compatible personalities right from when you were toddlers right into the teenage years." Lainey agreed.

Flashback

Lainey had just come back from a hard day at school. Really, the last think she felt like doing was the mountain of homework set that day for tomorrow but knew deep down it needed doing. Kissing her Mom on the cheek, she sauntered up stairs until she entered her room; a place of tranquillity to escape the trials and tribulations of teenage-hood.

Suddenly, there was a loud clatter coming from Kaydence's room. Sighing, she rose from her seat before entering her baby sisters room to see just what was the matter.

"No bitch give me that back!" Daniel grunted, taking the corner of the item they were fighting over.

"No Dad said I could borrow his CD!" Kay snarled, keeping firm grip of the Metallica CD case currently in her hands.

They didn't even notice her presence. Tried and quite frankly unmotivated to do anything about their petty argument, Lainey returned to her room, put her soundless earphone in her ears and continued with her valuable work.

End of Flashback.

"I seriously hope that if I do have more than one child, they shall get along better than you two did." Lainey sniggered.

"Come on, we never got along that badly...did we?" Kay questioned.

"Yes." Daniel, Lainey, Roxy and Randy muttered simultaneously.

"Don't tell me that perfect Lainey has wasted Mom and Dad's medical school money for you to go and get shacked up the first few years afterwards!" Daniel bitterly spoke.

"No I have not! Besides, as soon as I can, I'm going back to work." Lainey decided.

After eating, just as the entire Orton family got up to go, a group of girl fans scattered over to Daniel, clinging to him as he signed autographs and took photos.

It was true, Daniel was a very handsome young man. A near image of his Father, he had his slender yet muscular build as well as his oceanic blue eyes. Daniel dyed his hair blond, keeping it mid length and had some of it placed over his eyes which was very inconvenient during some matches.

"Ladies, please, there is enough Daniel to go around!" he promised, enjoying the attention he got from his female fans immensely.

"I wonder who that reminds me of?" Roxy murmured, turning to face her husband.

After dragging him away from all of his fans, Daniel headed off to the arena as Lainey went to meet up with her fiancé. Roxy, Randy and Kaydence however went to the airport to pick up two lady's they were all very fond of.

"According to the chart, both of their planes have flown in." Kaydence announced, squinting at the board.

Just as she finished her sentence, the first of their guests arrived.

"Lita!" Roxy smiled, turning to hug her friend. "How are you?"

"I'm good! Sorry I couldn't make it to the Hall of Fame last night but I watched it on TV. You both did well."

Lita hadn't changed much. Her hair was still the vibrant, fiery red colour it had been the day herself and Roxanna met for the first time. Her eyes still that shade of hazel and her body still in good conditions despite her injuries sustained from her wrestling career. Now, she helped to run an animal shelter for animals abandoned or mistreated by their owners.

"Am I the first one here?" Lita asked, noticing the other guest wasn't here. Yet.

Kaydence noticed the flamboyant figure heading towards them in the distance; her God-Mother, Lily, who surprisingly enough hadn't changed a lot either. She still wore her alternative, British made clothing with her hair decorated in extravagant colours and designs. Not bad for someone well in her forties!

"Rox!" she yelled, embracing her long time best friend whole heartedly before greeting everyone else. Helping Lita and Lily with their hand luggage, they made their way back to Randy and Roxy'scar before driving off to the arena.

"So, is there anything we should know about?" Lita asked, strapping herself in next to Kaydence who was in-between her and Lily.

"No, well, yes, but I'll leave Lainey to tell you about that!" Roxy decided.

"Let me guess, her and Cameron are engaged and she is pregnant?" Lily guessed.

"Ummm...no?" Roxy lied...badly.

"Don't worry, we'll act all surprised when she tells us, won't we?" Lita quizzed.

"Of course. Why's she getting married?"

"Coz she's in love of course!" Kaydence piped up.

"Love's for losers!" Lily cynically stated.

"No it's not. If you find the right person it's not." Lita made her feelings known.

"I thought I've found the one a million times." Lily sneered. "Believe me kid, if you have any sense, you'd stick with music; that's better than any sex I've ever had!" she advised Kaydence.

"You must be having sex with the wrong people!" Randy laughed, placing a hand on his wife's inner thigh as she nibbled his earlobe.

"Can you two stop making out in the front? I don't wanna be a big sister and an aunt in the same year you know!" Kay laughed.

"Ok." Randy frowned.

"So, how is the music going?" Lita questioned her God-daughter.

"Well, the labels fully behind us which is never a bad thing. We are still playing relatively small gigs at the minute but we are gonna start recording our album in the fall so it's going well."

"Trust me, over in the UK, the indie scene's really starting to notice you. Scuzz are always playing that live video you made a few months ago." Lily reported.

"Really?"
"Trust me; you'll be a big deal across the pond in a few years."

Lily had always been an inspiration for Kaydence. Ever since she was first born, she had a great sense of rhythm and melody, something that made Lily extremely excited. As soon as she was old enough, she started showing her how to play the guitar, much to the annoyance of her parents at times on a Sunday morning when she got up before seven o'clock to practise! Lily's band Porn, although a great underground success, never made it to the mainstream or commercial culture of music. Now, Lily helped to produce music and write songs with other writers to keep earning herself money.

"Never give up on the dream Kay," Lily advised "Or you won't have anything left."

Meanwhile, back at the arena, Lainey and Cameron had just arrived equipped with their backstage passes, ready to watch Wrestlemania. Making their way to Daniel's locker room, Lainey couldn't hide her disappointment of Daniel's less than encouraging remarks on her pregnancy and engagement. Never the less, he was her younger brother and she was still to support him in his quest later that night to become the World Heavyweight Champion.

Knocking on his door, they heard a grunt and supposed it was an agreement for them to enter the room.

"Hey Dan, all set for your big match tonight?" Cameron optimistically asked, clutching Lainey's soft hand in his.

"I guess." he mumbled.

"Are you sure there isn't anything bothering you?" Lainey inquired, desperate to get to the bottom of her brother's moodiness.

"I've told you no."
"Are you sure, coz I can..."
"Lainey, please, just leave me alone. I can do without this now." Daniel sternly warned, Lainey and Cameron leaving the locker room, annoyed at his reaction.

Half an hour later, Randy, Roxy, Kaydence, Lily and Lita had arrived backstage. They were surprised to see Lainey and Cameron loitering about in the corridors and were expecting them to be in Daniel's locker room with him.

"Let me go talk to him." Kay decided, placing a hand on the door knob.

"Leave it, Kay." Cameron warned.

"Yeah, he's just in one of them moods." Lainey agreed.

"Perhaps I can drag it out of him, huh?" she confidently responded, tapping on his door before entering.

Much to her surprise, Daniel was sat in the dark, his body resting against the cold, white walls of his locker room. Sitting next to him, she was surprised he didn't object.

"Lainey said what happened..."

"Not you too!" Daniel groaned "Why can't people leave me alone to think for a while?"

"But you're not thinking; you're just making yourself more and more pissed off every time you see one of us."

"Maybe, just maybe, I'm fed up with being hassled!"

"No way am I leaving before you tell me what's wrong, so spit it out!" Kay demanded, folding her arms across her chest.

"You wouldn't understand."

"Try me?"

"What if..."

"What if what?" she sat up, hoping that maybe her big brother would confide in her for once in their lives.

"What if I lose tonight. What would become of me then?"

"You'd just have to start from the bottom of the wrestling ladder before working your way up again." Kay shrugged.

"No, I meant in Mom and Dad's eyes."

"What do you mean?"

"You know exactly what I mean."

"No, I don't."

"Think about it, always, through out our lives, we have been compared."

"Not by Mom and Dad."

"Maybe not directly by them but they have listened." Daniel continued "We've all been marked in a way. You...you were always the confident and well liked performer. The guys had a thing for you coz you liked heavy music and sexy clothing, the women wanted to be you coz of that. You could get along with any group in school and still have people falling at your feet. And then there's Lainey. The straight 'A' student who everybody loved. The girl that could- and still can't - do anything wrong. The girl who all of my college mates wanted to get off with and would constantly ask me about her."

"And, your point is?"

"I'm sick of not being noticed for anything!" Daniel yelled in exasperated, marching over to the basin in the corner of the room, leaning his hands against it, refusing to look at himself in the mirror.

"You're known for a lot of things."

"Oh yeah, what like? The guy who's had a short fuse lately, the guy who likes to play practical jokes and make sarcastic remarks? The guy who is forever walking in the shadows of his family?"

"You are known world wide as a fantastic wrestler. You have won so many amateur wrestling trophies in the past, Mom and Dad don't know what to do with them! You're Daniel Keith Orton; the guy who entered number one in this years Royal Rumble, defeated twenty-nine other wrestlers in a match lasting over eighty minutes, the longest Royal Rumble in history, who will go on to be crowned the new World Heavyweight Champion by the end of the night. You're a loving brother and son who will one day, despite what he thinks, be a loving husband and father. You are Daniel Keith Orton; the intelligent, talented yet insecure and indecisive man that I and Lainey are proud to call our brother."

"You really think so?" Daniel asked, spying Kay behind him in the mirror.

"I know so."

"When did you become so good at this?"

"I studied psychology for two years!" she giggled, opening her arms for her brother.

"Thanks."

"For what?"

"Making me feel a hell of a lot better!" he gasped. "Love you, Kay."

"Love you, Dan."

A few hours later, it was time for the match that everyone had been waiting for; Daniel Orton vs Troy Hunter for the World Heavyweight Championship. As Daniel stood finishing his warm up routine in the back with his family, his Father had a few last words of advice for him.

"Don't be afraid. Remember, you were born to do this, it's in your blood more than it is his. I wanna see every ounce of your body left it that ring tonight, ok? Now, go and do us all proud!" Randy spoke, confidence plastered all over his voice.

Suddenly, Roxy took a firm grasp of Randy's hand; Triple H was walking straight towards them.

"Foxy Roxy, we have aged well! Orton."

"Triple H."

"May the best man's son win tonight."
"Oh don't worry, Daniel will." Randy cockily replied.

Triple H snarled. "We'll see."

The match had been going on for twenty minutes with neither man managing to pick up a quick pin-fall or submission. Both Troy and Daniel displayed many of their Father's wrestling moves making both men proud of their sons. Suddenly, the referee got knocked down, leaving Troy and Daniel centre of the ring, both exhausted. Out of no where, Triple H crept under the ring to find his beloved weapon; the sledgehammer.

"Oh my God." Roxy closed her eyes, not wanting to see the next few moments.

Randy gulped; he knew exactly what it felt like to be on the receiving end of a Triple H sledgehammer shot.

Flashback: The day after Wrestlemania 21 when Roxy left Randy laid crying in the middle of the ring.

Suddenly, thundering blows bolted into his spinal cord. The crowd booed as Evolution attacked Randy from behind. The audience watched in desperation, hoping that someone would come out and save the day. No one could until the damage was done. Left bleeding in the middle of the ring, both Randy's love life and career were in tatters.

End of Flashback.

Randy couldn't let the same thing happen to his beloved son.

Dashing to the ring, the fans jumped to their feet as they recognised Randy, relieved that someone was to stop Triple H before it was too late.

Tapping his former enemy on the back, Randy hit a perfect RKO on Triple H before he could hit Daniel with the sledgehammer. Daniel was now fully functional on his feet, urging Troy to get to his. As the referee began to stir, Daniel hit the most devastating DKO of his career, planting Troy face first into the canvas, picking up the one, two, three.

As soon as the bell rung, the fans cheered for the new World Heavyweight Champion. Randy made his way backstage to be greeted with a passionate kiss from his faithful wife as tears streamed down their faces. Daniel stood proud centre of the ring, kissing the World Heavyweight Title for the first of many times during his career.

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