Randy jerked awake from his bed. He had the dream again. The same dream that's been causing him sleepless nights lately. He saw John's bloody face again in his dream. It was dream, he's sure but it seemed so real to him.
"If it isn't my fault that he's now gone, why do I keep seeing him in my dreams?" he asked himself and felt guilty once again. He looked at the window and guessed it's about 4 am.
"It's not your fault Randy." Stacy's voice echoed on his mind. He tried to get some more sleep but failed miserably so he decided to get in the shower. After taking a shower Randy slowly got out. He took one of the towels from the towel rack and dried himself. He looked out of the window while drying his hair with the towel. He sighed deeply and wrapped himself with the towel. It was the crack of dawn and he's wide-awake. He turned to his left and faced the mirror and studied himself.
"Orton, your eye bags are getting bigger and darker." He said to himself. He was staring at himself when suddenly another reflection was formed in the mirror. He let out a silent cry of terror when he recognized the reflection. It was John! Randy quickly turned around and saw nobody. Then he turned to look at the mirror and no one was there.
"You're going crazy man." Randy closed his eyes tightly and took a deep breath.
"Yeah and you should get some sleep too man. Those eye bags are nasty!" Randy heard a familiar voice. Randy stood shaking and slowly opened his eyes. Then he saw him. He saw John Cena. In the flesh! Or whatever! It wasn't a dream that's for sure.
"Hi Randy!" John greeted him casually and extended an arm.
"Ooops, my bad. I forgot I can't do that anymore." John said as he grinned sheepishly and Randy who was looking at him was shaking so badly now that he fainted!
"I did handle the situation better than him." John said to Ashley who was looking at Randy who was lying on the bathroom floor.
"Thank God I was able to catch him in time!" Ashley said as she let out a deep breath. "Where's his guardian angel to guard him in times like this? I'm gonna report this to the big Boss!" Ashley said and looked around expecting to see another angel.
"You mean a guy like Randy Orton has a guardian angel too?" John asked incredulously.
"Of course, everybody has." Ashley answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But where is his guardian angel?" John asked craning his head around looking for another white and glittering form.
"I don't know. But I still think it was wrong." Ashley told him.
"What's wrong?" John asked innocently.
"The way you greeted him. You scared him to death! I'm surprise I can't see his soul floating with us now." Ashley said and tried to fan Randy with her hands.
"You know that will not work." John told her and Ashley just looked at him with her I-can't-believe-you-just-said-that-to-me look.
"You're right. I think it's best if we wait for him to wake up on his own." Ashley said. The two of them waited for moments and moments for Randy to wake up. Ashley was waiting patiently by the window as she studied the beautiful sunrise. John was doing a poor job on the waiting patiently department.
"Come on you goof ball, wake up! I haven't got all day!" John said and tried to kick Randy but his foot as usual just went through him. "Aah! I'm getting tired of this going through thing!" John said exasperatedly.
"Now John, you do have all day. What else are you suppose to do? Check in to the Souls' Hotel and play Soul ball? And you better get used to the going through thing, you have eternity to deal with that. Well in the mortal world that is." Ashley told him.
"Ashley you know I only have forty days and Mr. Puffy Eye bags here is wasting my time." John said like a kid.
"Don't worry, he's waking up any second." Ashley said and started reading the famous Angel 101 magazine she got from back home.
"Hey, what's that you're reading?" John asked curiously as he floated to her.
"What? No, um nothing. I was reading nothing!" Ashley quickly tried to hide the magazine. She doesn't want John to know what she was reading.
"Oh come on Ash, you can show that to me. You can trust me, I won't tell the big Boss." John said and winked.
"It's not what you're thinking." Ashley exclaimed.
"How do you know what I was thinking?" John asked her daringly.
"Then whatever it is you are thinking it's not what it is. " Ashley answered.
"Oh my! Ashley is blushing!" John laughed.
"No, I am not!" Ashley denied but she was sure John was right.
"Yeah, like I couldn't see it clearly when you're all so bright! Just let me see it!" John insisted.
"No, John. It's a girl thing." Ashley insisted back and hid the magazine behind her back.
"Really, maybe you want to meet an old friend." John said and smiled toothily at Ashley while wriggling his fingers. "Tickle, tickle!" John said.
"No, John! Please no!" Ashley said. "Oh look! Randy's waking up!" Ashley said and John quickly turned his head to Randy's direction just as Ashley made the magazine disappeared with a snap of her fingers. And indeed Randy was beginning to stir to consciousness.
"Slowly now John." Ashley warned him.
"Hmmm…" Randy moaned. "I just had the most unusual dream. John was talking to me!" he thought to himself. He slowly opened his eyes and…
"Hi!" John greeted him again.
"Aaah!" Randy screamed and acted as if he was going to faint again.
"No way you are not fainting on me again Mister!" John said sternly.
"Jo--- John?" Randy stammered. "But… but… you're dead!" Randy said stupidly.
"Well, I came to see you so… Where's the party? There should be a party now that John has decided to pay his friend a visit!" John said sarcastically.
"Wow! It really is you! John?" Randy said still having a hard time to believe this was happening.
"Yeah, John Cena. In the flesh!" John said just as Randy's hand went through his stomach. "Well, not really in the flesh. Hey! Hey! Watch it! You're like going through my liver!" John yelled at him.
"Ooops! Sorry." Randy answered meekly.
"Stop fooling around John." Ashley said exasperatedly. "Get down to business."
"Whatever you say Madam Ashley!" John answered and sighed deeply.
"She could be such a pain!" John whispered to Randy.
"Hey! Don't think I didn't hear that!" Ashley called over.
"Shoot! Yeah, what I meant was you are such a sweet lady." John covered up.
"Want your sins to stack up John? An offense to angel is really heavy." Ashley told him.
"You may get the last laugh now, but I'll be back!" John said jokingly.
"I love your sense of humor!" Ashley said and slapped John's back.
"Um, John. I think I'm completely lost." Randy said to him.
"Huh? Whaddya mean?" John asked him.
"You are like acting like a total nutcase!" Randy said to him while twirling his finger around his temple.
"Huh?" John said confusedly.
"Who are you talking to? You're like rambling to yourself!" Randy said looking around for signs that somebody else was there with them.
"He can't see you?" John turned to Ashley.
"Oh alright!" Ashley said and snapped her fingers and suddenly a whirlwind of glittery stuff appeared behind John and Ashley appeared.
"Whoa! And who are you?" Randy asked.
"I'm Ashley, John's guardian angel. Nice to meet you." Ashley bubbly said and offered a hand. Randy extended an arm but his hand just went through hers.
"Oops, sorry I forgot. But nice meeting you anyway." Ashley said and smiled.
"Same here I guess." Randy said confusedly.
"Okay now, down to business." John said seriously and Randy turned to him after being mesmerized by Ashley's appearance.
"Hey, get your eyes off her! She's my angel." John whispered to him.
"Alright!" Randy said and gave his full attention to John. "So why are you here? You're not here to take revenge on me are you?" Randy asked nervously.
"Don't be stupid! If I were to seek revenge an angel wouldn't be with me!" John said.
"I'm here to tell you that don't be too hard on yourself, it isn't your fault I died and I came to settle my unfinished business." John said seriously.
"What unfinished business?" Randy asked him.
"My unfinished business." John said in a duh tone but Randy just stared at him so he continued. "Every soul well almost every including me, has one and before they can cross the realm of the dead they have to settle this or my soul will never be at peace. And it involves you!" John said in a spooky voice.
"Now suddenly the weight of the world is on my shoulders! Gee thanks John! I find out that it's not my fault you died but now it's up to me that your soul has eternal peace! Thanks!" he said sarcastically.
"Snap out man! I haven't even finished what I was about to tell you!" John said and laughed secretly at Randy's expression.
"Go on…" Randy said.
"I need you to take care of Stacy…" John said seriously.
"You're the only one we know that truly cares for her." Ashley chimed in.
"You're the only one I know who loves her maybe more than I did." John said.
"Wha—Whaaat?" Randy asked in surprise and John nodded.
a/n: so did you guys like it? i hope so coz i really enjoyed writing this chapter. thanks for the reviews guys. i'll be quick: GA.grl, Super Birtty, JohnCenasGirl4Eva, xx-chaingang-killer-legs-xx, xx-shattered-reality-xx. and thanks to all whose been reading this fic. it's because of you guys i keep on updating. till next chap. c ya!
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