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When John arrived at the hospital, Randy was pacing in the waiting room. He walked up over to him, "Hey, have you heard anything?"

Randy shook his head, "No. She's in getting a CT scan of her head to check for a concussion. They won't tell me anything else." Randy ran his hand threw his hair in frustration, "God, I can't believe I was so stupid. I never, ever should have left her alone. We knew he was somewhere around."

John looked at him, "Randy, you can't beat yourself up over this. This isn't your fault. You forgot, you're human. How did you know that he was going to be at the cemetery? Instead of beating yourself up, why not concentrate on how she's doing. This may be the wake up call that she needed to actually accept help."

Randy nodded, "I know. I know. It just kills me, they won't tell me anything."

John finally convinced Randy to sit down and flip thru the paper. Finally a dr came walking out. "Mr. Orton?"

Randy set the paper down and jumped out of his chair. "Yes doc?"

The doctor smiled, "Hi, I'm Dr Brown. Juliana is out of the CT scan and is in recovery. While we walk down there, I'll explain her condition to you."

Randy motioned to John to follow, and he looked at the dr, "Is she going to be ok?"

The doctor nodded, "She will be ok. She's pretty sore, she's pretty banged up. The police are here to take a statement, but she's asking for you before she'll talk to them. Currently Juliana has had some confusion, weakness, nausea, ringing in her ears and in the ambulance they reported that she talked about double vision."

Randy nodded, "Yes, I'm very versed in the symptoms of a concussion, and I know that that was the first thing the paramedics noticed. Does she have any long-term effects from being underwater?"

"Well, we do have her in observation, and will need to keep her for at least a few more hours. Her body temp was low, so we do have her under warming blankets, and she does have a slight form of hypoxia, but her levels are increasing, so we need to keep an eye on her. For going through what she has, she has a great outcome. She has bruised ribs, multiple cuts and bruises, but other than that, I think she'll be ok." Dr. Brown relayed.

Randy exhaled, "Thank god. I was so worried about her."

The doctor patted him on the back and pointed to a door where 2 officers were posted. "The police will be here as long as she's here in case her attacker decides to try and attack her here. But, they are waiting on a statement as well. And more importantly, she's waiting to see you."

Randy smiled and shook his hand, "Thanks again Doc, I appreciate it." He looked at John, "I'll be back."

John nodded and smiled, "Go check on her."

Randy nodded and walked into her room. She had the warming blankets and lights on her, she was on oxygen, she looked so pale. The sight of her hooked up on the machines sent a chill down Randy's spine. She had sensors on her head to monitor brain activity. "Oh my god, she's in a coma" was Randy's first thought. He couldn't believe the doctor hadn't told him. He picked up Juliana's limp hand and he could feel the tears building inside of him. "God Jules, I'm so sorry I left you alone. I swear to you on everything holy, that I will not lose you again. Never again will I be so stupid as to treat you the way I did, and never again would I ever cheat on you. You are the only woman that I have ever truly loved, and I don't want to lose that. God, if you let her pull through this, I promise that I will live for her. I want to spend the rest of my life with her, I want to marry her. I want to have the chance to show her just how much I truly love her. Just please God let her live. The night she left, I let my pride get the best of me, and I vow to never do that again. God I'm sorry. "

Juliana laid there motionless not wanting to move. To hear Randy pledge his love for her was enough to make her cry. She couldn't help but have tears sliding down her cheek. Randy noticed the tear and squeezed her hand, "Jules, if you can hear me, squeeze my hand."

Juliana squeezed his hand as tight as she could and opened her eyes, "Randy."

Randy leaned down and kissed her lips ever so gently, "Oh my god, I can't believe you're awake."

Juliana smiled a little, "Randy, honey, I wasn't in a coma. I was just asleep." She wasn't sure if she should bring up that she heard everything he had said.

Randy's face had a total look of shock come over it. "You weren't in a coma?"

Juliana gently shook her head. "No, the doctor was going to tell you everything."

Randy shook his head, "He did, but I came in and seen all of the monitors and panicked and thought he didn't tell me the truth. How are you feeling?"

"I'm really sore." She said weakly. "Every muscle in my body aches and I have a horrible headache. But, the doctor said that I'm lucky because I didn't have any serious damage."

Randy nodded, "God Jules, I'm so sorry I ever left you alone."

"It's not your fault. Maybe I should have taken this seriously. It's not worth concentrating on the coulda woulda shoulda. But I have to give the police my statement, as much as I can remember, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind being here and holding my hand while I do it." She said blushing. "I know it's nothing, but I don't do well at that." She started to ramble but Randy put his finger to her lips.

"Sweetie, I'll be by your side for anything you want." He said with a smile. "Do you want me to call them in here?"

She nodded, "Yeah, then they can go do their thing."

Randy nodded and walked outside of the room and approached the officers. He let them know that she was ready to give a statement, and explained that as a child dealing with child abuse, she had officers be pretty mean to her, so to please try to give her a break. The officers acknowledged his concerns and said that they would be nice to her.

They all walked back into her room. Randy went and sat down by Juliana and held her hand. She told the officers as much as she could remember. Everything after he threw her down and she hit her head on a rock was a complete blur to her. She didn't remember being resuscitated, she didn't remember Randy being there, she didn't remember the ambulance ride, but she remembered panicking when she realized she was in a hospital. She told the officers about the letter that they had found in the scrapbook at her grandma's funeral, and that it was in her purse. She also said that she had had a restraining order on him, but when he got served, he beat her up and put her in ICU. He had threatened to kill her and her grandma if she told the police, so just a mugging was filed and because of what happened after he was served the last time, she didn't even bother to renew it.

The police thanked her for her time and gave her a case number and they left. She looked at Randy, "Thanks for being here, I really appreciate it."

"Jules, I really want you to think about coming with me to Wrestlemania. I know that you have other things going on, but until he's behind bars, I don't think it's safe." Randy said holding her hand.

Juliana nodded, "I knew you were going to bring it up. And I thought about it, but I can't go with you. I can't fly. The doctor wants me to wait until my follow-up before I fly because of the concussion and the near-drowning. He won't prohibit it, but he would like me to wait."

Randy thought about it for a minute. "Jules, what if we drive?" The show is in Rosemount, IL it's not that far away."

"Randy, you and John already have plane tickets, they're non-refundable. I'm not having you waste your money like that." She argued.

"Jules, it's just money. You and your safety is much more important. Look, I know that you were sleeping, but I also know how lightly you sleep. How much of my ranting did you hear?" He asked her.

Juliana smiled and blushed a little. "Well…how honest do you want me to be?"

Randy sighed and nodded, "I figured as much." He sat down beside her on the bed gently, picked up her hand again, and looked her in the eyes, "I meant every word. I know that we talked, and that you wanted to just be friends and move slow, but I have to tell you that I love you so much. I don't want to scare you, but I want to be honest. When we were apart, I wasn't the same. Yes, I played the field, yes I was rowdy, but nothing ever felt the way it felt with you. I am willing to do whatever it takes, but I want us to give it another chance."

Juliana had tears in her eyes, the only thing she had ever seen him so passionate about was wrestling, and this was unreal to her. She wiped her eyes and sniffled, "And just what are you suggesting?"

"I can't tell you yet." He said with a smile. "But I'll tell you soon."

"Look, let me go talk to John, I have an idea, but I have to see if it'll work." Randy said. "I'll be right back."

Juliana nodded lightly and pulled the covers up. She just couldn't get herself to warm up. Her head was swimming with everything Randy had talked about. She couldn't believe it, and as much as she wanted to tell him to back off part of her wanted to believe everything he said.

Randy came back in a couple minutes later with a smile. "We've got it all covered. John is going to keep his flight and you and I are going to drive."

"Oh Randy, I don't want to separate the two of you. Look, I can drive separate and…" Juliana started to protest but Randy wouldn't hear it.

"You have a serious concussion. That psycho is still out there, you will not drive alone. It'll be fine. The only thing is that Sunday night we'll be sharing a room with John." Randy replied.

"Are you sure this isn't going to be a problem? What if you get in trouble?" Juliana asked concerned. She didn't want to interfere with any of his stuff.

"It'll be fine, I won't get in trouble. I'm going to run home and grab my stuff and your stuff. John's going to stay here and make sure everything is ok. Then when you discharge, I'll bring you to your place and you can grab the clothes that you'll want." Randy replied with a smile. "Don't worry, I've got everything worked out."

Juliana smiled, "Randy, I really appreciate how you're doing all of this for me. I don't know if you know just how much it means to me. Thank you so much."

Randy kissed her cheek, "No problem. I'm going to have John come in here and keep you company, and I'm going to run to the house and grab our stuff. I'll be back as soon as I can."

Juliana nodded, "If he doesn't want to sit in here, he doesn't have to, I'll be ok."

"John doesn't mind. Besides, that way we know that the psycho doesn't try anything while you're here." Randy said as he was walking out the door.

"Just be careful. I don't like that you're involved, I don't want him to hurt you too." Juliana replied.

"Baby, I'll be fine. Don't you worry." Randy said with a smile. "Be back soon."

John walked into Juliana's room, "Hey, how are you feeling?"

"Probably like I look." Juliana replied with a smile. "I'm really sorry that all of this is happening, you guys are supposed to be having fun, not dealing with my problems."

"Don't even worry about it." John replied patting her hand. "I'm just glad that you're ok. Do you like to play cards?"

Juliana nodded, "I know a few games."

And the two of them began playing poker.

Randy was whistling as he walked out to his car. He had Juliana's keys from John, and he pushed the unlock button to find her car.

Little did Randy realize that he was being watched. Steve was watching every move Randy made. "You think that this is over, it's far from over." He said coming out of the shadows, crow bar in his hand. He pulled the ski mask over his face.

As Randy went to open the car door, Steve crept up behind him and struck him with the crowbar right between the shoulder blades. Randy went down. When he turned to look to see what was going on, the crowbar came down towards his head, but Randy grabbed it and began to fight with the masked man. Randy kicked him in the stomach and gave him an uppercut. The masked man shook his head and began to swing the crowbar. He connected with Randy's ribs, his chest and his bad shoulder. Randy crouched on his knee trying to catch a breath when the masked man swung again and everything went black.

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