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Alex's Point of View-

A receptionist that I had checked in with came out telling me that they were ready for me, I stood up following the lady walking on high heels to a conference room, I felt bad for the poor girl and knew how hard of a time that Addie has in heels smaller than that and I can only imagine how much harder it'll be for those to be worn. I nervously walked further into the room she had opened the door for and she shut it behind me seeing the medium length brown table in the room filled with men in suits, I had recognized the McMahan's and Hunter sitting along the tables along with a few other people like Michael Hayes but there were few people I had never had the pleasure to meet.

"Alex Riley…one of our recent star pupils in our feud against Mike….what are you here for?" Vince asked as he opened the brown file in front of him, they all had one in front of them.

"I drove drunk sir, and in which case I had injured one of your employees due to it sir." I answered for him, he looked up at me from under his reading glasses.

"You seem very confident and accepting to saying that." Vince said.

"I have had come to terms with my actions, I regret the decision every day sir…you see such employee is the love of my life and I see her every day with the injury she had sustained which has led on the guilt and I have accepted that I had made a mistake and that the whole situation was stupid and a mistake that I shouldn't ever make in the future sir." I said.

"Why are we having this conference if he has learned and dealing with this then?" Vince asked.

"Sir, if I would speak for the other members of the board that are in here, I think that even though I am in one of the feuds on Raw right now I still think that favoritism shall not be took place here and even if Hunter amongst other members of your family look to Adora as a member of their family, I think that I had broke a rule in the company and I deserve any consequences that come along with it sir." I said honestly as it kind of shocked everyone that I was asking for a punishment.

"Are you asking us to punish you for what you did?" Shane asked.

"Whatever that is decided sir. I think that I had made a mistake and broke a rule, I have stressed and worried myself over this and think that at least do a fair judging." I said.

"Well then, let's proceed." Shane said as they all opened their brown files where they read out what I had stated to Hunter at SummerSlam and I approved the details before I begun reciting the details of everything that had happened that night in my personal details for them and explained how it was my fault not anyone elses that was involved with the situation. I then read the letter that I had written addressing the whole situation and what I feel my punishment shall be.

"Okay Alex…now we would like to hear from your witness." Vince said.

"My witness?" I asked.

"Yeah, your witness…you know the one that I mentioned in the letter I had given you." Hunter said.

"Oh…about that…" I begun to explain when the phone near Vince rung.

"Hold that." Vince said taking the page from his receptionist.

"Sorry to interrupt sir, but Mike Mizanin is here and he says he is here for the Alex Riley conference that is taking place." She said as my mouth dropped.

"No, he isn't supposed to be here…" I said as I begun to defend myself.

"Send him in." Vince said looking up to me from the phone, "Why did you leave without your witness?" Vince asked.

"He isn't supposed to be my witness sir." I said as the door opened a few moments later letting Mike walk in wearing a suit similar to mine and he carried a folder with him.

"How nice of you to join us Mike…" Vince said as I looked at him with big eyes scared of what is to take place.

"Sorry for being late sir…I had other issues to attend to." Mike said.

"No problem…" Vince said as Mike stood beside me.

"What are you doing here?" I whispered.

"Saving your ass…" He whispered back, "Sir, I will like to testify as Alex's witness." Mike said which was the biggest shocker.

"Absolutely, Alex you may take a seat to let the man speak." Vince said as I obliged taking the empty seat in the corner covering my face knowing that after this is when they will decide that I should be fired. "Mike, please state to us what you feel or think of Alex." Vince said.

"Sir, my feelings towards Alex are quite mutual right now but I am here just to speak the good of him. I have known Alex for a little over a year now, since the first day we have met we were like brothers…he honestly is like a different version of me and we got along so much that it was crazy, no wonder why the writers put him with me because it was insane how much we had in common since that moment we met…" Mike said scratching at the back of his head, "Anyways, as the year progressed I had the pleasure to see him grow in the ring as well as outside the ring. His talent capability to hold a match, to sell the moves, the promos, the ability to hold his character during a promo and match and to quickly change a move at any given time if it came to be has gotten better over the year I had been with him. Not only has he as a performer here in the WWE grown, but he himself has grown. Alex was the type of person that wanted the success that moment, he always wanted whatever he wanted that moment, he loved the ladies and was always hyperactive wanting to do the next big thing, constantly wanting to go do something, but now he has mellowed out and became responsible of the things he has done. The Alex I knew a year ago that when he made a mistake, obviously he didn't make one this big back then, but when he did make a mistake he came to me for help but yet here I stand proud telling you that he didn't ask me for help one bit and he wanted to take care of this like the man he is. He has accepted the consequences that come with being in this company and being a man, he has learned to love not only this company but to fall in love with a woman. At first I hated the fact that a guy that I looked to as a brother was dating the girl that I look to as my sister, and will be classified as my sister in law here sooner than later, not that I didn't like neither of them but because of the fears I had of Addie and him not working out and not wanting Addie to get hurt from the man he used to be but he has yet hurt her until now. He has treated her with respect much like anyone else here has, he has shown her love, been honest with her since the beginning, he has integrity and has been very trustworthy…during the car accident that had took place he had actually saved the girls live. I got to talking to Addie about said accident, during such wreck her seatbelt had come undone and he had dived across the car grabbing her and holding her into the vehicle so she won't go flying from the flipping vehicle which eventually probably saved her life, and that shows how truly a good person he is to put his life at a bigger risk to safe that of someone he cares about shows true character if you ask me. Other than that, Alex is a great man but yet he does get me angry with the stupid things he does but we all get angry at each other, it comes with being human and we get angry and annoyed by others because they do something stupid…I think that my feelings aside of what took place, Alex should keep his job and if anything he should get a week or two suspension because it was a mistake and accident that anyone on the roster could make. Alex is one of the hardest workers you have, he is always on time ready to work, dedicated, loves what he does and loves everything and everyone in this company even if he doesn't want to admit it, and proud of the product he gives. I know that if he has to be fired from this company over this one time mistake that he hasn't made prior to this, opposed to others in this company that has been busted multiple times by drugs or caught drinking, yeah they didn't drive that I know of or got into a wreck…anyways, there are fellow workers that are repeat offenders where Alex has never caused any trouble until now." Mike said as I was in pure shock that he had said that much and had said that about me.

"Thanks Mike…Alex, you have anything to say?" Vince said as they all turned to me, I honestly couldn't put to words what to say about what Mike had to say nor think of anything to top that. I stood up walking over to stand beside Mike looking to him then across the table at Vince.

"No sir…" I said.

"I got a question, why didn't you ask Mike to be your witness or why didn't you have anyone else here to be your witness?" Shane asked.

"Honestly, I didn't ask Mike because him and I have been butting heads over this whole situation and didn't think that Mike would want to come in and do this favor for me because I thought he hated my guts but I'm assuming things have resolved themselves. As for everyone else, I felt the same about Maryse but someone needed to take Addie to her doctor's appointment that is taking place right now and wish I could be there with her, and all the others I asked had other plans nor wanted to deal with the trouble of a conference." I answered.

"With that, if they ask you, you come up with a reason not to do it to see how they like it." Hunter said as Stephanie lightly smacked Hunter as we both let out chuckles.

"I think we have heard all we want to hear to make a decision…if you two will please wait outside and we will come get you when a decision has been made." Vince said.

"Thank you sir." I said nodding as I followed Mike out to the hallway closing the door behind me. "Thank you Mike…you didn't have to." I said not knowing what to say.

"Look Alex…I have done a lot of thinking over the past weekend and week with some talking with Maryse, I may hate what had happened and still upset and angry at you for letting it happen but know that mistakes and accidents happen and hearing that you did what you did during the wreck made me proud of you, made me full of different emotions. There were times where I wanted to punch the crap out of you for being so stupid to drive drunk and to cause this whole thing to happen, because let's be honest I know I don't want to be here this early and I'm sure that you don't want to be here this early because it's probably worse for you because it's your career. Then there were moments that I see you with Addie and how good you two are together, how you will never hurt her even with you getting the angriest of the angry, that you did what you did to save here makes me want to hug you and thank you for being a gentleman, for being the bigger man and doing what you think is right even when it eventually makes me turn into the biggest idiot and jerk alive. I'm sorry for the way I have been treating you and I realize how rude I was but you got to understand my point of view…can you forgive me if I forgive you a little bit? I'm still not forgiving you completely because let's be honest what you did is pretty big compared to what I did and you have a lot of trust that needs to be gained back." Mike said sticking his hand out for a handshake.

"I forgive you Mike…I kind of miss the old way we used to be…you kind of surprised me Mike and kind of glad you came…sorry I didn't come to you sooner just I wanted to be the bigger man about this and take care of it myself, but I guess we all need a little help." I said smiling as he wrapped his arm around me patting on the back.

"That we do…no matter how big of a man you want to be but you got to ask for help." Mike said as we headed across the hall sitting down. I pulled out my phone seeing that it was now 11 AM, that was a long meeting, longer than I had intended or thought it would be. "Worried about Addie?" Mike asked.

"Yeah…" I said.

"Let me text Maryse to see how everything is going." Mike said as I nodded as he pulled out his phone texting Maryse waiting for a response and she wrote back saying that Addie's leg looks like it is healing properly and quickly, they are thinking 2 more weeks on the cast and they will start physical therapy but the physical therapy won't be that hard they are hoping, they gave her a referral to a doctor out to LA for them. "Do you love her?" Mike asked.

"Yes, I love her more than I love anything else in the world…" I said.

"Was the accident a true accident?" Mike asked.

"Yes…it was a mistake and I honestly at that time didn't think that I would get us into a car accident…I thought that I was sober enough to drive because to be honest I have been drunker than that before but the other times I didn't drive…I believed that I could drive without crashing nor was crashing the car on my mind…I didn't mean to do it and it was a true accident and it won't happen again if I can prevent it." I said honestly.

"Good…would you be my best man?" Mike asked.

"Seriously?" I asked as I leant back in the seat.

"Yes, seriously…you are the closest thing I have to a brother and the closest friend I have." Mike said.

"Absolutely." I said smiling.

"I'm sorry for all the beatings…"

"I'm sorry for the car accident…I guess that is what friends do, we do stupid shit together and here we sit laughing over it….well not laughing per say but you know what I mean." I said.

"Yeah…let's not do this again please…" Mike said as we sat there doing small talk, I was kind of glad that Mike has came around even though I feared it was a front that he was putting up but if it was he wouldn't have came all the way down here to do this for me if he actually hated me like he claimed he did. We sat there for what seemed like forever, it got to the point where Mike got up heading down the hall buying him and me food from the vending machine, of course the moment we had opened the bags to eat the contents inside is when the door opened and we were called back in. Mike got up coming with me into the room with me to hear what the decision was that they had made about my future and I feared for the worse when I stood beside Mike, he had rested his hand on my shoulder giving it re-assuring squeezes as I looked to the table waiting to hear this.

"Alex, it has been decided that no course of action will be taken against you which means you are not suspended nor fired…you are to report to duty like any other day and we do not want to see you back in here nor hear that this happens again but I hope that you have learn your lesson." Vince said, a smile crept upon my face as I looked up at Vince excited and I looked to Mike giving him a big hug trying to not let tears come to my eye because I was so excited, happy and with the stress of waiting for this moment to come was getting to me.

"Thank you sir, thank you all…I promise it won't happen again and you have no idea what this means…" I said.

"I'm sure more than we know…now go to the arena, it's almost time for you to check in." Vince said as we nodded and headed out quickly.

"Did you take a cab?" Mike asked as we headed down the hall towards where the parking lot is.

"Yeah, why?"

"I'll give you a ride to the arena, do you need to go get your things?"

"No, I think that wardrobe has a spare of my attire…" I said.

"Oh, yeah duh…" Mike said as I smiled a tad out of happiness of what just happened.

"Let me text Addie the good news."

"Hold that thought…let's surprise her, just trust me…knowing her as well as we both do, she is probably a nervous wreck and scared, let's play with her a little bit more…" Mike asked.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked.

"Just go with it..." Mike said smiling evilly.

"I usually don't like these plans that are accompanied by those smiles but I think I'll go along with this one…" I said as he led me the small store that the headquarter had for its employees buying a bouquet of flowers and went out to the car. We sat in the car, I was waiting for him to start it and he didn't.

"Alex…" Mike said.

"Yes?" I asked kind of worried about what is to happen.

"I love you man!" Mike said jumping over the divider giving me a big hug and trying to give me a kiss on the cheek.

"Get off me man!" I said trying to push him off and he climbed off laughing, "Your stupid…" I said joining in on the laughing as we rode over to the arena parking the car and going along with his plan as he filled me in.