Dave was startled out of bed and then was thrown into a wall. He sleep-muddled brain did not process these actions and he just suddenly found himself with his back to the wall and an irate Randy looking at him, fire in his eyes. Dave didn't know what to do for a moment, so stunned was he that Randy was doing this. When he had gained his bearings back, he shoved Randy off of him.

"What the hell is wrong with you man!" Dave said, pulling down his shirt.

"What do you know!" Randy yelled.

"Know about what?" Dave asked, confused. He just then noticed that Trish was standing near the doorway, a shocked and embarrassed look on her face. He trailed his eyes back to Randy and saw the anger still festering in his face.

"Hunter, tonight, what you know," Randy said in disjointed phrases, being so angry that coherent sentences were escaping him.

"What about Hunter? I told you, I haven't even seen him tonight," Dave said. He was starting to get angry because he had a feeling that Randy was trying to accuse him of something.

"Were you trying to distract me? Is that it, you were trying to distract me from going to see Trish, so Hunter could get to her!"

"Look Randy, I don't know what the hell you're talking about."

"You told me to watch out for him, you TOLD me that I had to watch out for Hunter, and then Trish gets attacked. Don't even fucking tell me that you didn't know about it. You WARNED me about it, you must've known and you did nothing to stop it!"

"Look!" Dave said, grabbing Randy by the shoulders and shaking him lightly. "I have no idea about what Hunter did tonight. I didn't even know that Trish was attacked all right? I had nothing to do with this. Nothing!"

"But you warned me!" Randy said desperately, trying to understand.

"Yeah, because Hunter's been acting weird since you made this date with Trish, but I didn't know that he was going to actually do something about it," Dave explained. "And shouldn't you always watch out for Hunter, it's Hunter we're talking about after all."

"So you had nothing to do with this."

"Man, I didn't have anything to do with this," Dave said firmly, affirming the fact that he did not have anything to do with Trish getting attacked. "If you're looking to point fingers, I'd point them in the direction of a certain brunette."

"Molly," Randy muttered, turning his head away in disgust. "She had to be behind this."

"Of course she was," Dave said.

"Bitch," Randy cursed harshly.

Dave looked to Trish and she was still standing near the door, and she was cowering a little. It might've been the nerves from being attacked, but he had a feeling that she was feeling very uncomfortable with where she was right now. Dave felt bad. Even though he was in Evolution and toted as the company "monster," he was essentially a nice guy, and tended to treat women with the utmost respect. He walked over to Trish and stuck out his hand.

"Hi, I'm Dave," he said.

Trish looked at him in confusion, not fully understanding why he would introduce himself when she already knew who he was. "I know."

"Well, I don't think that we've been properly introduced, and you seemed a little scared standing here, and I don't really want you to be scared of me. I figured it was me that you were afraid of since you went out on a date with Randy tonight."

Trish then shook his hand, "And I'm Trish."

"I'm sorry you got attacked tonight," Dave told her sincerely. "I hope you understand that I had nothing to do with it."

"Yeah, Randy only had nice things to say about you," Trish said, and she caught the tiniest smile come over Dave's face.

"He's a good guy," Dave answered, then looked towards Randy, "You ok man?"

"No, I'm not ok, look at Trish's face, I'm definitely not ok," Randy said, gesturing towards Trish. "How could I possibly be ok when my…Trish is looking like that?"

Trish caught the slip-up and almost smiled, if she hadn't known it would bring attention to herself that she wasn't ready to address. "Randy, I'm going to be fine. I just…I needed to know that you had nothing to do with this."

Randy rushed over to Trish and looked her straight in the eye. "I would never do something like this to you…I mean, maybe another girl, who I didn't really like, yeah, but I wouldn't do it to you."

"That's all I needed to know," Trish said. "I better get back to Lita and Christian's room though."

"Lita and Christian's room?" Randy asked.

"Christian and Chris, and even Lita and Stephanie didn't want me to"

"Stephanie?" Dave and Randy asked in unison.

Trish slapped her head. She had just revealed that Stephanie was here, and there was no plausible way to get around telling them it was Stephanie McMahon she was talking about; there were no other Stephanie's in the company, or any Stephanie's that would hang around the company. She had just single-handedly let out her friend's relationship, but if she worked this just right, maybe she could get out of this, though the head-slapping probably didn't help matters.

"McMahon."

"Stephanie McMahon is here?" Randy asked. "What for? She got fired, I wouldn't expect her to hide around here. Is she looking to get her job back?"

"No, she's here…with her boyfriend," Trish said, purposely being vague. She then realized this had gotten Randy off of the fact that she had gotten beaten up and for that she was thankful.

"Whoa, ok, we have to know who?" Randy said, and Trish giggled because Randy had not figured out that she had said Chris and Stephanie in the same sentence.

"Not until she tells her parents."

"Fine, now why are you in Lita and Christian's room again?"

"Well, before I was so rudely interrupted," she said, giving Randy a coy glance, "I was saying that they didn't want me to be alone tonight, because Hunter had already gotten into my room once and they didn't want it to happen again, so they're letting me stay with them."

"Ok, that makes me feel a lot better," Randy said. "Do you want me to walk you back to their room?"

"I'd really like that," Trish smiled shyly, becoming increasingly aware that Dave was still standing there.

"Dave, I'll be back in a few, leave the door open," Randy told the other man. Dave just nodded and Randy took Trish's hand tentatively in his own as they walked out into the hallway, Randy glancing in both directions.

The walk was quiet and tense, at least for Randy. Trish had come to blows with what had happened tonight, but Randy still had yet to process it. He was angry that Hunter, a man that he considered his friend, could so callously set-up the girl that he really cared about. He knew that Hunter was calculating and manipulative, but to do it to someone who you interacted with on a regular basis, it made his temperature rise.

"What are you thinking?" Trish asked as she felt Randy's grip tighten on her hand.

"That I shouldn't have left you alone," he said, turning towards her.

"It was the end of the night, I didn't invite you in, how would you have been with me?" Trish asked jokingly, but Randy was in no mood to joke around.

"I should've known, or something, I just should've known that this was going to happen, but I didn't, and for that, I'm so sorry."

"Randy, please don't do this to yourself. Shit like this happens."

"But he's supposed to be my friend."

"I like to think it was Molly that coerced him into it," Trish replied. "Maybe it was all her doing and she persuaded Hunter and Ric to join in. Maybe she knew that she couldn't get Dave to because he's like your best friend. This whole thing reeks of Molly."

"But Hunter was still there, and he was still the one who was actually there," Randy said, shaking her head. "I just don't want to think that they could be such horrible people. Dave and I…we're not like them. Dave's a good guy, I shouldn't have doubted him."

"You didn't know," she said, rubbing his arm as they came to stand in front of Lita and Christian's door.

"I'm just really sorry this happened," he told her.

"It's not your fault."

"Not directly, but it I had never asked you out then this"

"Then I wouldn't have had a really great time tonight. I was wrong about you Randy. I saw Hunter and thought that you would be just like him, because he's Hunter, and he's an asshole. I shouldn't have looked at you that way, I should've just…seen you for who you are, and that's actually a really great guy."

Randy couldn't have asked for sweeter words to come out from her mouth. "Thank you."

"And I hope that we can do another date, barring any beatings next time though."

"I'll make sure of that," Randy said.

Trish leaned up on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek, her touch feathery soft and light. She pulled away, but then went back in for a hug, which Randy eagerly returned. She pulled away a second time and then opened the door to Lita and Christian's room, giving a light wave before closing the door with a goodnight.

Randy leaned against the wall for a second, sighing to himself, not out of happiness, but out of sheer anger. Hunter had betrayed him, and that hurt. He knew that he had to make a decision. He had to choose between Evolution and Trish, because there was no way that he could co-exist with both of them in his life. Hunter had already proven to be a jackass about the whole thing.

He pushed himself off the wall and traversed his way back to his hotel room. He found the Dave was in bed, but not asleep yet. Randy turned off the lights and got back into his bed, looking at the darkness that seeped in through every corner. It may have been time for sleep, but Randy's mind was nowhere near going to sleep.

"I have to leave Evolution," Randy said into the darkness of the room.

"You leave, I leave," Dave answered a minute later.

"You would leave?"

"Look, I wasn't included in tonight's fiasco, which obviously means they don't trust me. If you leave, then I'll be the easy target for them. So you leave, I leave."

"We need some sort of plan."

"I know," Dave said. "I'm a little tired of being controlled and being lied to."

"So am I," Randy said. "I thought it would be different, but it's not what I thought it would be."

"You can say that again. I didn't join Evolution to be Hunter's lackey, but that's exactly what I've turned into."

"It sucks," Randy scoffed.

"Yeah, it does. So you leaving for yourself, or you leaving for Trish?"

"A little bit of both I think."

"You know it's not going to be easy right?"

"What?"

"Leaving Evolution…and getting other people to trust us," Dave explained.

"I know, but you know, that's why we're both leaving. Even if nobody else trusts us, we trust each other right. I wouldn't try to screw you over."

"Likewise," Dave said simply. "So how do we do this?"

"I don't know," Randy said with a bitter laugh. He really had no clue on how to proceed with getting himself out of Evolution. Hunter was charming when he wanted to be, and that he was going to have to fight to break away from the group. He was glad he had backing from Dave, because the two of them could probably take Ric, Hunter and Molly. They had to.

"We're going to have to work for it," Dave said, mirroring Randy's own thoughts.

"Lord, I know. But Hunter is going to get his ass kicked for this. It may not be tomorrow, or next week, but it'll be soon."

"Soon."