A/N: Okay I know I haven't been updating a lot lately but that's because I've been working. I've done lyk 32 hours in 3 days. Im tired, so this will be real short.

Chapter 20

"Randall Keith Orton get the hell outta here!" Rylee yelled, John and Randy immediately left. Leaving Laura and Rylee to talk alone, once the men had left, her voice dropped and a smile appeared on her face. "You're engaged?"

"Yeah." Laura smiled.

"To Randy Orton."

"Yeah." Laura laughed at the look on her best friend's face.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They screamed together, Rylee hugging Laura gently.

"Okay we're done." Laura laughed.

"So when? Where? What dress? What flowers?"

"Ry, you're going into overdrive honey. I've only said yes like two minutes ago. Breathe." Laura laughed. "But the dress. Can't you remember the ones we picked out when we were like sixteen?"

"Sorry. I'm just excited. Yeah the Victoria McMillan ones." Rylee smiled as John and Randy burst into the room, Fallon and Stephanie behind them.

"Benji's been stabbed." Fallon and Stephanie smiling softly, John starring straight at Rylee.

"Aww, didums." Laura rolled her eyes.

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Laura lay in her hospital room. She couldn't sleep. She never could. She didn't like hospitals. The constant beeping. The reminder that as soon as the beeping stops, so does someone's life.

FLASHBACK

"Mel we need you. Fallon's only a baby." A young Laura choked.

"She's right." Rylee swallowed back her tears, looking into the crib beside the hospital bed, a small baby, not even three weeks old, giggled back at her. Vince and Linda stood by the door, watching their daughter and her best friend pour their hearts out over the woman they had always known. "Fallon needs you, and so do we."

"Girls, promise me something." Mel took each girl's hand in her own. "You will always be there for my baby. You are her closest thing to family. Do not let her father hurt her." Mel lay back in the bed, as the beeps from a near by monitor faded out into one.

END OF FLASHBACK

A knock on the door awoke Laura from her thoughts; she quickly removed the tears from her face with the back of her sleeve. The last person she expected stuck her head around the door frame.

"Stephanie?" Laura asked in confusion, wondering if the medication she was on were doing something to her brain.

"Yeah it's me. Do you mind?" Stephanie asked, Laura shook her head, watching Steph sit down at on of the seats closest to her bed.

"What, no grapes?" Laura asked. These two hated each other, they had done for years, Laura had been in hospital before, hundreds of time, and this was the first time Stephanie had ever bothered to visit.

"Look, I know we've never really seen eye to eye."

You can say that again." Laura scoffed.

"But you're my little sister's best friend. You aren't going any where. And you seem to be worth all this trouble, to her. But this isn't about Rylee. This is about Benji," she paused, "and Ethan."

"What about him?" Laura asked quietly.

"Benji is still alive, but only just, if Ry- I mean, if the person who stabbed him, had aimed just a little higher, than they would have killed him. But she missed. Apparently Ethan has visited Benji, without being caught by the police. So, he's still running about. As soon as you get out of here. We head straight home."

"Home?" Laura asked, that was the worst plan ever, going back to her's and Rylee's. That would be the first place Benji and Ethan would look.

"Connecticut." Stephanie smiled as she got back up. This was way too much stress for a heavily pregnant woman. She was due in less than a week.

"Really?"

"Yeah." Stephanie smiled as she opened the door. "Try and get some sleep, we're leaving in two days."

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"You did it didn't you." John yelled at her as they walked out to the car, Fallon waiting for them. "You went in there when I was taking to Shawn, didn't you. You went in there and stabbed him!"

"Would you keep your voice down, you're giving me a headache. So what if I did?" Rylee stayed calm, climbing in the driver's seat, John stood at her rolled down window. "He tried to kill me, he tried to kill Laura. I will not have him coming after Fallon as well. If that means I have to kill him." She paused. "Than I will." John looked in her eyes; she was a mix of emotions. She feared for the safety of her daughter, she feared the safety of her best friend and herself. She was confused. She didn't need him yelling at her, he would have done the same. But he didn't have what she had with Fallon.

"Mom, I wanna go home." Fallon whispered from beside her.

"Sure thing hunny." She smiled at her daughter, before turning back to John. "I'll see you later." Not waiting for an answer, Rylee sped off leaving John in the parking lot alone.

John POV

I walked up to a near by bench, and sat down. How had I getting involved with this woman? Yeah she was beautiful, amazing, funny, and smart. She was perfect, even her faults, I found every one of them just another perfect thing about her.

But why was she pushing me away? I wanna help her.

"She's not pushing you away." I turned around really fast, to find Jeff standing against the wall.

"Excuse me?"

"She's trying to defend her daughter. That's something you won't understand until you have kids of your own Cena." He scoffed.

"Oh and you have loads." I rolled my eyes.

"I have a daughter." He smiled at me, knowing that I knew nothing about him.

"Oh and how come no one sees you with her." I was tired, confused about Rylee and not thinking straight. It should have clicked immediately.

"You do Cena." He paused to look around the parking lot. "You see me with her everyday. Check her birth certificate. Right under Fallon Louise McMahon, it says, in black and white; Father, Jeffery Nero Hardy." He began to walk away. I grabbed his shoulder and spun him around.

"Why is your name on her birth certificate? Rylee told me she got her when Fallon was nine."

"When Ry adopted her, she had it changed, on Fallon's mother's command. She told her to change the Father section," he paused, "To unknown."

"That doesn't explain why your name is there." I shouted.

"Yeah well, me and Ry were happy. We were together, why wouldn't I be there?" Jeff looked away from me.

"You were with Rylee?" I asked.

"For a while." He sighed. "We were engaged, we were …"

A/N: Believe it or not, I didn't actually want to finish the chapter here, but muh bro wants on th comp. So yeah, reviews would be nice. Lots of them. Outs, Abbey x