A/N Everyone is feeling guilty for acts committed last week. Randy wants her forgiveness and Daniel..well he's not sure if he wants her.
"So hows your face?" Kaylee asked as she sat in her uncles office with a slushy that's contents were pretty well drained but she still sucked to make that annoying sound. She hated to admit it but she was hiding out in the office to avoid Daniel and Randy.
"It's just fine. Why, exactly, are you in here? Don't you usually run around creating mass havoc with everyone? Because to my knowledge that's what you do." He said clenching his still sore jaw. He'd been punched the previous week by big show who knocked him out and Stephanie was currently out in the ring slapping him right back for what he did to Paul.
"It is not. There was only one altercation." She said and Paul clenched his jaw in irritation as she continued to make the dry sucking sound.
"Cut it out!" He snapped looking up form his paper work and glaring over at her. "Get out of my office and find something productive to do instead of annoying me." He said and she reluctantly stood from the office couch and headed out into the shark tank.
"Daniel you seem distant." Brie said as she watched her boyfriend getting ready for his upcoming match. He'd been quiet the entire week and barely touched her, almost like he was worlds away.
"Hmm, sorry just a lot on my mind." He said. Boy was that an understatement. Was it possible to fall for someone else when you were already in love with the girl of your dreams? Daniel still couldn't figure it out. He had a love for Kaylee but couldn't decide whether it was as a child or as a woman.
"Well tell me. You tell me everything but ever since you've been hanging around with that bitch you haven't been opening up to me as much." She said taking on a defensive tone.
"Why does every conversation we have lately always end up in a fight? Kaylee has nothing to do with anything between me and you yet you always seem to be shoving her between us. You're doing this yourself Brie." He said already feeling drained. And he was feeling guilty, guilty to the point of breaking down because he hadn't told his fiance. That was another sign to him.
"I'm sorry, she just...I don't know." She said sighing as she pushed her hair back out of her face. Daniel went over and took her in his arms.
"I love you, and only you." He said to her. "Good luck." He finished as he kissed her head.
Randy was on a mission. He could faintly remember what he did to the teen and he was another one to feel the guilt. He had to find her and he had to apologize. While his objective was to hurt her he never, ever meant to do what he'd done.
"Phil have you seen Kaylee?" Randy asked his friend who was talking to AJ. He had his suspicions about the two of them being together secretly but he wasn't going to say anything.
"No, why?" Phil asked as he looked at him suspiciously.
"It's actually really important." He said and Phil could see the guilt on his friends face.
Kaylee turned a corner and soon turned on her heel as the apex predators eyes met hers and she was walking quickly to try and find somewhere to hide.
"Kaylee wait!" She heard Randy call and the blood in her veins froze. Her plan had backfired and Randy was quick to catch up. He reached out and touched her shoulder only to feel her tense up and then turn to slap his hand away.
"Don't touch me." She said and her voice wasn't angry, it was scared. She coward away from him.
"Get the hell away from her!" Stephanie screeched. She was walking back from her promo out in the ring and seen Kaylee cornered by the viper and the terrified look on her face.
"Stephanie it's not what you think." Randy said as the older woman came to place herself between the two and she glared up at him.
"I warned you to stay away from her. After what you said about making me and Paul beg you to stop hurting her I will always be a boulder in your path when it comes to her." She said. Randy clenched his jaw, his eyes turning to slits as he slowly turned and walked away. "Honey are you okay?" Stephanie asked as she turned to the shaken teen who seemed to be on the verge of tears.
"Aunt Steph I need to talk to you." She said as a few tears slip out and not once, in her entire life and she seen the tough exterior of this tough young woman crack, and by the looks of it, her walls were starting to crumble as Kaylee told her aunt about the night Randy had almost taken her by force.
Well that just went fantastic, Randy thought to himself as he headed into the mens locker room.
"So how did things go? Did you end up RKOing her?" Phil asked as he laced up his boots and a look of anger came over his face as he grabbed his friend by the shirt and pulled him into a standing position only to push him up against the locker.
"Phil you don't know a goddamn thing between her and I apart from what I've told you. The only thing you need to do right now is shut your mouth and stop while you're ahead." He said through clenched teeth as he leaned in close to his face. When he let go Phil held his hands up in a truce, the unexpected outburst not much of a surprise but still terrifying.
"Can you guys just please kiss and make up? Everything is getting way out of hand and you are really starting to piss a lot of people off with the way you've been acting. It's time to either put up or shut up. Now you have two options, do everything you possibly can to win her back or shut the fuck up, let it go and move on." Phil said. He was getting so tired of giving Randy advice when he never actually listened to a damn word he said.
"Trust me I think it's way to late for forgiveness, things just went to far." He said.
"So you gave her a few RKOs and said a few things because you were mad, big deal, everyone does that." Phil said as if it was all so simple.
"Remember the part where I told you that you only know what I confide in you? Well I haven't been telling you everything for a reason. What I did was unforgivable and the way she cried...Phil it was a mistake and a sick part of me enjoyed it. I get a sick sense of happiness from hurting her and I can't stop, I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. I need her to love me." He said and Phil just looked at him like he was crazy.
"Dude go out and get laid. That will cure everything." He said and Randy cracked a smile and chuckled.
"Probably not but I'm gonna do it anyway. Well after I go and stir up some trouble with Daniel. He's been flying way to close to my flame for the past 2 years." Randy said as he got up. From what he knew Brie was currently in the medical office being treated for an injury she sustained earlier in her match.
"Are you really sinking low enough to lie about Randy now? Jesus Christ when does it end with you?" Paul asked in disbelief as he looked at the crying teenager.
"I'm not lying to you!" She screamed at him.
"Then why didn't you tell us sooner?" He questioned her giving her a hard look and Stephanie wanted to punch him right in the mouth.
"Kaylee forget it, talking to him is useless anymore." Stephanie said and Kaylee shoved herself up from her seat and left the office. She had been called every name in the book but never once had she been called a liar and that pissed her off.
"Hey Kaylee! Kaylee wait up!" Daniel called as he seen her storming towards the parking lot exit. She stopped and turned to look at him, her makeup running down her face but her face broke into a small smile when she saw him. "Why is it I always seem to run into you when something bad happens?" He asked as he placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Maybe it's so you can make it better." She told him making him smile.
"So what happened this time?" He asked her.
"I got called a liar for telling my uncle what Randy did to me last week before you came over." She said and Daniels mouth dropped open and his eyes went wide.
"You can't be serious. What a dickhead. If you want me to I'll go and vouch for you because I seen the after math of what happened. Nobody ever gets that upset over nothing." Daniel said defending her.
"It's not even worth it anymore. I've been fighting for my whole life and I just want it all to stop. Have you ever just wanted to run away to a place where no one knows you and anyone that did couldn't find you?" She asked him and he gave her a sympathetic look.
"I promise you everything will get better in time. Now is the time for you to start proving everyone wrong about what they think you're all about. Show them the softer side." He said with a smile but she shook her head.
"No, I'm not leaving myself vulnerable to anyone. That's how people get really hurt." She said. Even though it took one cup of chamomile tea from Randy and suddenly her heart was in his hands.
Randy stopped dead and stared down the long hallway where he could faintly see Kaylee concealed behind Daniel and they looked like they were in deep conversation. And she looked like she'd been crying. Her eyes looked past Daniel after a few minutes and spotted him, then to his utter horror, she leaned in and gave him a kiss. He expected Daniel to push her away but his blood boiled as his fingers went into her hair and pulled her body closer to his and he kissed her back. Randy stalked off to find his fiance in the medical room and perhaps tell her or let her find out of her own accord. The only thing Randy knew was that Daniels neck was going to be crushed underneath his foot in due time and hell in a cell couldn't come fast enough.
"Oh god what am I doing?" Daniel asked as he broke free of the kiss and backed away from her.
"I'm sorry, I seen Randy and it just happened." She said and Daniel stopped dead.
"Wait, you're using me to get back at randy now?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"No, yes, I don't know!" She said conflicted. "I really like you Daniel, but you're with Brie and I also like Randy still even though I hate him at the same time and I'm just really confused." She said in distress.
"How do you think I feel? I'm engaged to be married and yet I find myself thinking about you ever since you kissed me last week and that's all I want to do!" Daniel said cursing himself. "I shouldn't be having these thoughts and feelings but I am, and I'm not going to be used as your way of getting back at Randy when he already wants my head on a silver platter because of Brie." He said running his hands through his hair as she looked at him and sighed.
"You should go, your match is up next." She said and Daniel nodded. "I promise it won't happen again."
"I can't." Daniel said with a frown as he turned and walked away.
The camera crew followed Randy as he taunted Daniel out in the ring by going to the medical office and using Brie as bait to lure her boyfriend backstage and it worked.
"Where is he?" Daniel asked once he'd managed to get the door opened.
"Daniel look out!" Brie yelled as Randy attacked him from behind. "Stop!" She yelled as staff ran into the room and tired to hold him back. He threw him into a metal cabinet before leaning down to whisper in his ear.
"Kaylee is one girl you're not taking from me. I'm going to tear you limb from limb." He said before standing up and giving a maniacal laugh before looking and Brie and Nikki with a menacing smile and leaving.
