Ride For You
Chapter 7
The Hospital
Randy sat in the hospital waiting room with the twins, who were both asleep in his arms. How he managed to hold both of them was out of the question. He didn't even know how he managed to do that. John had told him that he would meet him at the hospital after he took his bags to the hotel. While he sat there alone for the couple of minutes, he thought about who could have hurt Rachelle. Who would want to even hurt her? She had never done anything wrong. She always treated everyone with respect and always had a smile on her face. She always gave people the push that they needed and she cared for everyone. All the things that he was naming were all the reasons why Randy had fallen in love with Rae.
Their love-story was amazing. It wasn't fairy-tale like at all but everyone always thought that they were perfect for each other. That God had somehow believed that they were meant to be. He couldn't help but remember how they met or how things came to be for them.
Flashback
22 year-old Randy Orton wandered around the arena in search of Mr. McMahon's office. He had probably been roaming around the arena for about 20 minutes before he finally asked for help. Someone pointed him towards the direction of the office and told him where to turn. He followed the directions and was now standing in front of Vince McMahon's office. He knocked on the door and heard Vince telling him to come in.
Randy opened the door and stepped into the room.
"Yeah excuse me uh, Vince…" Randy started to say.
"Who the hell are you interrupting me?" Vince asked as he looked at Stacy then back to Randy, "Ah that's right you're uh Randy Orton."
"Yes sir." Randy said.
"He has a tryout match tonight. His old man was a hell of a wrestler. Cowboy Bob Orton had that cowboy hat, got a strong punch. He had a cast on his I believe it was his left arm for years. His grandfather was a hell of a wrestler and uh tonight you got your opportunity. Good luck kid. I got something I gotta do." Vince said as he turned to look at Stacy.
He explained something to her before walking out of the room. Stacy looked at Randy and did her seductive walk over to him. Randy looked at her.
"Hi. I'm Randy Orton." Randy said as he shook Stacy's hand.
Stacy babbled off on something about him. Stacy told Randy to take his sweatshirt off so that she could study him. Meanwhile 19 year old Rachelle McMahon was making her way down to her father's office to tell Stacy that she was needed for her photo shoot. She wandered down the hall and finally arrived at the door. She opened the door and blushed immediately at what she saw. There before her was a guy standing in nothing but a pair of basketball shorts and Stacy studying him.
"Umm excuse me. Stacy, you're needed for your photo shoot." Rachelle stated as she watched the guy turn to look at her.
Stacy mumbled in disappointment before walking out of the room. Rachelle looked at the guy.
"I don't think I've ever seen you around here before." Rachelle stated.
Randy eyed her curiously. She was dressed in a mini-skirt that stopped mid-thigh with a navy blue tank-top. Her hair had been pulled into a ponytail and she had sunglasses resting on top of her head. She was absolutely beautiful. Stunning he had to add. He smiled at her.
"Randy Orton." Randy stated as he stuck his hand out.
"Rachelle McMahon." Rachelle said taking his hand and shaking it.
"You don't look like a McMahon." Randy said.
Rachelle chuckled.
"Yeah I get that a lot. Vince and Linda took me in when my parents died during a car crash. My parents only trusted Vince and Linda since their family never really cared for either of them." Rachelle said.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Randy said.
"It's all right. I mean that's just life, right?" Rachelle asked as Randy nodded his head.
End Flashback
Randy smiled as he remembered that day. She was beautiful. She had been comfortable with him ever since she first met him. They had started off as friends and turned into best friends who were inseparable. Then they started dating and Randy had to deal with hearing it from Vince, Shane, and Paul. He wondered if Paul had gone through those same troubles when he first started dating Stephanie. Rachelle reassured him that the guys always did that to guys that asked her out and that that was their way of getting a feel of the guy. As Randy continued to think about his relationship with Rachelle, Vince and Linda rushed into the hospital. Vince felt his jaw clench when he saw Randy but Linda placed a hand on her husband's shoulder.
"It's not the place, dear." Linda said.
Linda walked over to where Randy was.
"Here Randy, let me take Ryan from you." Linda said as she picked up a sleeping Ryan and rocked him in her arms.
"Thanks." Randy said as he shifted Rosella's tiny body into his arms.
"Has the doctor said anything about her condition, dear?" Linda asked.
Randy looked at Linda. He wondered why she was talking to him after everything that that he had done to her daughter. It was Linda McMahon though. The woman had no mean bone in her body and that was why Rachelle always went to her for advice and told her about her problems. The woman knew what advice to give and she raised her children well.
"The doctor hasn't come out yet." Randy whispered as he ran his hand through his daughter's hair.
Linda looked at Randy. She was disappointed in him after what he had done to Rachelle. She believed that Randy was the one for her daughter. They had always been cute together and Vince always said that Randy was the one for Rachelle. He had seen it the first time that Randy and Rachelle had encountered each other. They had always had great chemistry. Linda believed in her dear heart that Randy only struggled because he was questioning his marriage. She understood him as Vince had gone through the same thing. Vince stood away from his wife and Randy as he did not want to be near the man who had broken his daughter's heart.
"Linda, can I ask you a question?" Randy whispered.
"Of course, son." Linda said.
"Why are you still talking to me even after all of the things that I had done to Rae?" Randy asked.
"Because I know that Rachelle would not want me to be angry with you or hate you. She would want everyone to go about things as if you two had never gotten a divorce. That was what she had prayed would happen though after your divorce people started to take sides. And you know me, I could never be mad at you for what you did. I actually understand why you did it." Linda said as she laughed at Randy's expression.
"I don't get you." Randy said as he looked down at his daughter, who looked more like Rachelle than Randy.
"Even though Vince isn't going to admit this, he went through what you're going through right now. He questioned our marriage too and you know that he's only giving you a hard time about this is because we all believed…I still do believe that you are the one that's for Rae. That's how it's always been. I just think you need to take some time off and spend it with your family." Linda said as she reached for Randy's hand.
Randy looked back up at Linda.
"You think that's best for me right now?" Randy asked.
"I think it is but I mean if you want to stay and finish this storyline, Randy, that's fine too. But you have to follow your heart now on what you want to do." Linda said.
Before Randy could say what he wanted to say, the doctor came out of Rachelle's room. Randy and Linda stood up.
"Is there a Mr. Orton, here?" The doctor asked.
Randy stepped forward.
"That would be me." Randy said.
"I'd like to speak to you inside the room, if that's okay?" The doctor questioned.
Linda looked at the doctor.
"Of course that's okay. Vince, go on and take your granddaughter." Linda said as Vince took a sleeping Rosella from Randy's arms.
Randy followed the doctor into Rachelle's room. When Randy got into the room, he looked at Rachelle. She looked so fragile and lifeless. He still could not believe that someone would want to hurt her. He stared at her leg. It had been bandaged up. The doctor looked at Randy.
"I'm Dr. Iven." Dr. Iven said as he stuck his hand out.
"Randy Orton." Randy said as he shook hands with the doctor.
"Well I was the one that took care of your wife when she was brought into the hospital and unfortunately I have good news and bad news, Mr. Orton. Which would you like to hear first?" Dr. Iven said.
"Please call me Randy instead and I would like to hear the good news first." Randy said.
"Okay Randy, well your wife is lucky that her leg wasn't completely shattered to the point where would have needed to do some surgery. It'll be a little sore when she wakes up. She does have some cracked ribs so that will add on to the soreness that she will have once she gets up." Dr. Iven said.
Randy gave out a sigh of relief at the good news. At least he did not completely lose her and her leg was not shattered. He knew that if she had shattered her leg, she would have gone completely mad. Now it was dealing with the bad news. Randy looked at Rachelle then back at Dr. Iven.
"What's the bad news?" Randy asked.
Dr. Iven looked at Rachelle then back to Randy.
"Unfortunately Randy, we couldn't save your baby. I guess the impact that hurt Rachelle had hurt the baby so much that it caused Rachelle to start bleeding which would lead to the miscarry of the baby. I'm deeply sorry for your loss, Randy. I'll leave you to speak to your wife." Dr. Iven said.