Chapter Fifteen

It's Monday. Normally I would love this. I would love to be here, sitting in the car while Chris drives us to the arena. Louis is going to be spending time with Robyn, John, and Nikki tonight. Chris has a lot to do, he's in a lot of backstage segments plus he has to fight tonight in a qualifying match to be on the Raw Bragging Rights team. I hope he wins. The creative team is talking about making him job to a few guys I know he can beat and Chris will be crushed if that happens.

Anyways the reason I feel like Raw is going to be worse than the others is that sometime tonight, Wade is going to let me know when, he and the others who were on NXT are coming to the ring to show the boys that they are a force to be reckoned with. I get out of the car as Chris parks and grab Louis out of the backseat along with the diaper bag. Our stuff is at the hotel, all except for Chris' ring gear which is in the trunk. "You gonna watch over Louis while I go train?" Chris asks.

I nod, "Yeah, it'll give me time to spend with him." I sigh. Being an announcer seems to be even more time consuming than being a superstar. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if I should have ever given up my in ring career. It would have been much more physical yest but I would have only been in the ring once a night and not out by the ring all the time. Maybe if I get the chance again, I'll take it. All I know is for the moment I don't have that luxury.

Chris nods back at me and heads off to the gym while I cradle Louis in one arm and open the door of the locker room. Louis is cooing and looking at me sweetly. I love my little boy. "So, daddy is going to work out. That means you and I get to spend some time together." I set him down on the floor and he lays there, cooing. I get into the bag and grab his teddy bear which he reaches up for, almost like he's desperate to get the bear. I sit on the floor and hand him the bear which he cuddles close to and falls asleep on. Cute.

I sit there, listening to music on my ipod and deciding what I should wear tonight until my phone goes off. I look at it to see a text from Wade. ~When Cena comes out to fight against Sheamus, leave.~

That runs my soul cold. John may not be one of my best friends but he's a friend none the less. And he's got a daughter and a girlfriend who are on the road with him at the moment. Him getting hurt...it could hurt not only him but those two as well. I bite my lip, wanting to send a text of protest but instead I only send ~Fine.~

Fine. As much as I've been one for justice and fairness my entire life, all I can say is fine. I erase the texts as there's a knock on the door. I open it to see Robyn holding Nikki and smiling, "Hey. I figured it was almost show time, you'd want me to come on over."

I smile, "Thanks, c'mon in. Louis' sleeping right now. I don't think I need to tell you how to take care of a baby. You look like you've been doing just fine."

She smiles, "Yeah, I take care of Nikki most of the time. Sometimes though it's John. Mostly when he's not on the road and I'm not on the road for a concert. I dunno how you can sit by and watch Chris get beat up all the time. I barely can watch the matches where John wins let alone the barbaric ones where he loses."

I gulp back a comment about what's going to happen tonight and manage to plaster a smile on my face. "It's what he loves to do, I can't deny him that."

"Yeah but it's painful to watch."

I shrug, "I don't think so. But, hey, I'm going out to the ring to announce. I'll talk to you later when I get done. Alright?"

Robyn hugs me and I hug her back before heading out and going to the ring. I have a little while til I have to create a lie about where I'm heading because I know whats really going down. And hopefully...hopefully...it's nothing to nasty what they do.

X X X

I go most of the night saying very little except for when Micheal Cole or Jerry Lawler ask what I think about something. When it gets to the commercial break before Cena's match is supposed to go on, I take off the headset and look at Micheal, "I'm going to go to the bathroom. If Cena comes out before I go to the bathroom, tell the audience some cock and bull story about me having to attend to Chris after his loss." That's right, Chris lost his Bragging Rights qualifying match, to Edge of all people.

Micheal nods and I walk briskly up the ramp before running down the hall to my locker room. Chris is leaning back on the bench, back resting against the locker and an ice pack to his knee while Robyn is sitting in the floor where Nikki and Louis are playing. "What are you doing back here?" Chris asks.

"I just don't feel good. I think I started my period," I lie. "You know how I get when I cramp up."

Chris nods and rolls his shoulders, "Thanks for half the stuff you said tonight. It pretty much propelled me through that match."

I smile and nod, going to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I can't believe I'm doing this. I should tell Chris and Robyn, warn them about what's going to happen. But I can't for the sake of my career and Chris' career I can't tell him. I know it's very likely that Cena is going to get hurt but...well...that's a risk he takes as a superstar.

I hear Chris and Robyn cheering for Cena and walk back out to the locker room area. He's doing pretty good against Sheamus but when he goes to land the Five Knuckle Shuffle, something stops him. He pauses, one arm in the air about to do the 'you can't see me' move when he looks at the ramp. Wade is standing there, looking down at Cena. John takes a short pause but goes back to doing the Five Knuckle Shuffle and lands it, never once taking his eyes off of Wade. Wade creeps closer to the ring as Cena gets Sheamus in the position to do the Attitude Adjustment. However, he just lets Punk go and instead his eyes are locked on Wade. He goes towards him, mouthing something that I can't make out.

Wade walks towards the ring, stopping a few feet from it and looking at Cena intently. Cena looks at the ref and back to Wade, gesturing for him to come into the doesn't. The camera swings to show a man wearing a black bandana over his mouth. Micheal Tarver is standing in the audience and jumps over the barricade to get closer to the ring. Before anyone knows it, the Nexus is storming the ring. They attack Sheamus, demolishing him before surrounding the ring. John looks around and I can see Robyn gripping the toy in her hands that she was using to entertain Nikki with so tightly that her knuckles are turning white. At the nodding of Wade's head they all climb onto the ring apron simultaneously. They stand there, Cena looking at all of them, before climbing in casually. They edge closer and David Otunga throws the first punch at the referee, tossing him out of the ring before they go back to surround Cena like a pack of wild dogs. John whipes his face and looks down before going after Wade.

Then it's a flurry of fists and feet. Each punch and kick is delivered with precision. It's an eight on one attack. John has no hope of fighting each of them off, he's curling into the fetal position. Robyn turns from the screen, picking up Nikki and holding her closer. She said it herself, seeing John in the brutal situations upsets her. I want to turn the television off but I can't. I don't want to see what I could have prevented but at the same time...I want to see what happens. Why did I have to go away if their only attacking John? Then it happens. After making sure John was nice and demolished, they head towards the announcers table. They've ripped the apron off the ring and the attack the table, breaking it and assaulting everyone from the time keepers to the announcers. This is why I couldn't be out there. Wade didn't want me to suffer the same brutality as everyone else.

I feel sick to my stomach as the camera stops rolling and Chris turns the television off. He's taken aback and I'm sick to my stomach. Tears are rolling down all three of our faces. Whatever that was...I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future. And I helped cause it.