This story I would like to dedicate to wades wife. If it wasn't for her profile picture, I probably wouldn't have thought of this story so wades wife, this one's for you! Oh and remember Wade's British, so if you could remember his accent and the way he talks that would be awesome and also it you have advice for me to write more Brit like please say so thank you. I own no one in this story except for Adele
I had just finished my match against Orton and I was ready to hit the hay when security stopped me.
"Mr. Barrett, we have a little girl who says she urgently needs to speak to you" He said, and I looked at him
"Where's her mum or daddy?" I asked him and he just shrugged, so I sighed and just followed him. When I got there, she stood, staring at me.
"Little girl, where's your parent's?" I asked her, seeing she was all alone
"I ran away, you're my dad and I have nowhere else to go and my mother always talks about you-" I put my hand up and she quit talking
"Sweetheart, I have no children" I explained to her
"Look!" She said and pushed a folded crumpled up piece of paper up to me. I took it and opened it and it was her birth certificate. I was indeed her father, and then it was another paper behind it, a DNA result, claiming she was my daughter.
"What's your mother's name?" I asked her
"Adeline" That name brings back so many memories of hatred, I can't even explain.
"What's your name?" I asked her
"Adele, I'm six" She said, and I handed her the certificates back. Think Barrett, think.
"Come on kid" I reached for her hand, and she flinched, but then she took it
"You don't have to be 'fraid of me love" I told her and walked her to my locker room.
"Wait right here and I'll be back" She nodded and I grabbed my clothes and phone .Bloody hell, I have a kid. I changed very quickly and then I called up a friend of mines.
"Hey, mate. I have a favor to ask you, yeah meet me at the hotel eh?" I waited, thinking he was going to decline
"Yeah, sure" Kennedy was a best mate of mines, back in England, and we moved out the U.K. together.
"Adele, since I still have a couple of shows to do I can't take you home, and I also have to prove you are my daughter. So, we have to head to the hotel" I told her, she was laying on the bench writing in her book she brought in her monkey backpack.
"Okay" She said and began packing her things up. She was so advanced at age 6, it was unbelievable. I grabbed her hand and noticed that her tights were splatted with mud. She had on a skirt with a gaping hole in the side and a shirt that looked too big and a small jacket. I put her in the back seat of my grey hummer and buckled my seat belt. Randy was across from me with his yellow one. I didn't notice him 'till he spoke.
"Night Barrett" He called
"Hey, Orton can I have a word?" I asked and he nodded slowly, cautious of what in the bloody hell I was going to ask.
"How do you take care of a kid?" He asked
"Uh" His brows furred in confusion "What age?" He asked
"Six" I answered
"Well, a lot of things" He said, because I knew he had a daughter, Courtney who often played with Donna.
"Mr. Barrett?" She called out and Randy looked at me
"Who would believe I have a daughter" I mumbled
"Give me a call Barrett, I'll be here for ya man" He said
"Thanks" I nodded and went back and got into the driver's seat.
"You okay, love?" I asked her and she nodded, and I began driving to the hotel. I could just order room service when I got to the hotel. God Blimey! I forgot I was sharing a room with Heath. We reached the hotel and when I looked back, she was sleeping. I got out and went around and unstrapped her.
"No! No!" She must be having a bad dream
"Adele, wake up" I lightly shook her, she opened her eyes wide and then kicked me right in the gut, I doubled over in pain as she ran into the hotel. When I regained myself, I looked in the car and she forgot her monkey backpack. I grabbed that and my bag and headed into the hotel. She was there, talking to the receptionist, and she had a worried look.
"Mr. Barrett, I'm so sorry" I noticed she called me that because she wasn't quite sure on what to call me.
"It's okay love, you left something in the car" She looked like she was about to cry when she realized she didn't have her monkey and I handed it to her.
"Thanks dad" She wrapped her arms around my neck and sniffled, I at first didn't know what to bloody do but I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her back, the receptionist smiled, and went back to her desk. I talked to the receptionist and we checked in and I held her hand while we walked up to our room. Music was blaring and the guys were lazing around, and I felt her try to hide behind me.
"Mates" I said and Heath turned the music off
"Look who it is!" Gabriel commented, it was only Ezekiel who noticed her
"Who's the kid?" He asked me
"My daughter, anyway why the bloody hell are all of you in my room, besides Carrot top?" He always got aggravated when I called him that
"Mates, this is my daughter Adele" I said and nudged her forward a bit
"Hi" She mumbled, gripping tightly onto her monkey backpack.
"Jackson," Is what I often call him, when I say Ezekiel, I think Amish. I call Justin by his last name too "Gabriel, please get this crap cleaned up. Kennedy is coming by soon, and plus I don't like it all over the floor" I told them and I walked Adele over to my bed. I sat my bag down beside the bed, and then I kneeled to talk to Adele.
"How's about I give you a bath?" I asked her and she looked at me, like she had to think about it
"Okay, but will you come in with me" She said looking behind me at the goofs.
"Of course love. And just to let you know, they won't hurt you, they're just like huge teddy bears" I said and smirked as she smiled
"Hey!" Heath exclaimed. She hopped off the bed and went over to Gabriel.
"Since, my father says I can trust you, could you please watch my monkey?" She asked him, wow, when I was a fellow, I sure didn't have grammar like that.
"Sure Teletub" Gabriel smiled at her, and she began walking to the bathroom. I went in and ran her water; I wanted to know her a little more before the test.
"So Adele, what's your whole name?" I asked her
"Adele Elizabeth Barrett" She answered
"When's your birthday?" I asked her
"November 23" She answered, the tub was half filled bubbles added height. I turned my back as she undressed.
"That's a day before Thanksgiving" I answered, and it was awfully close to Thanksgiving.
"Yeah, I know" She mumbled, I heard her get in and wet her hair
"What do you like to do for fun?" I asked her as I turned around grabbing the shampoo and setting it on the edge of the tub.
"Wait just a minute love" I said and grabbed her clothes and took them in the room, and they got it cleaned fast.
"Nice to see the floor again. Get these dry-cleaned and I need underclothes for a 6 year old.
"I have clothes in Christian" She yelled and Gabriel oddly looked at the monkey "He's the monkey" Gabriel handed me the monkey and I opened it and got out the spare clothes, we can go shopping later. I took them into the bathroom and sat them on the lid of the toilet and went over to wash her hair. It was past her shoulders and brown just like mines, eyes brown too, just like mines.
"I like to watch wrestling sometimes" I'm not sure if she was aware that I was a wrestler or not
"Really? Who's your favorite?" I asked her and she tapped her chin
"I like Randy Orton, and John Cena. I can only watch a little at a time, and they are the only two I've seen" She answered
"I'm a wrestler" I protested, scrubbing her hair
"Really?" She opened her eager eyes
"Yeah, I'm in a group called The Corre, with the guys in there" I said, pointing with my head to the other room.
"Are they the bad guys or good guys?" She asked me
"We're the assholes who don't know that they want" I said to her, everything was scripted yes, but we were still assholes.
"What's your favorite color?" She asked me
"Red" I told her "What's yours?"
"The color of my eyes. They change you know, grey, dark brown, like now and green" She said, she sounds so smart
"Pet-peeves?" I asked, I half expected her to ask what it mean, but I got a slap in the face
"Self-centered people" She answered and I smiled washing the shampoo out of her hair
"Okay love, wash up and we'll order whatever you want" She smiled and I closed the door behind me and Kennedy was there.
"Kennedy!" I gave him a hug; after all I haven't seen him since a few years ago
"Wade, long time no see buddy" He said to me after he lugged a suitcase in
"Well, where's the kid" He looked around
"She's taking a bath" I said and he nodded
"Well, then let me get a swab of your spit" I rolled my eyes
"Aren't you supposed to say saliva?" I asked him, he just shrugged and I opened my mouth and he swabbed my cheek.
"Dad?" She changed, into some pajamas she brought with her with monkeys on them, I'm guessing her favorite.
"Love, this is Kennedy, Kennedy this is my daughter Adele" I told them and he bent down to her eye level and shook her hand.
"Adele is it sunshine?" He asked and she hesitated, and furred her little brows in confusion and bit her lip while thinking.
"Yes" She said slowly and cautiously, he laughed
"Well, I'm here to take some of your spit" He said, and her eyes got wide and she ran off in the other direction. She ran into the closet and shut the door. I heard her rocking and mumbling. I walked over to the closet, and opened the door and she was in a fetal position rocking herself.
"You're a good girl, you used to be bad and it was just punishment, you're a good girl, you used to be bad and it was just punishment" She repeated over and over to herself
"Love, what's wrong? What was punishment?" I asked and I went to grab her and she screamed, I quickly retracted my hand.
"Adele" I called and she kept rocking and mumbled louder
"He never meant to hurt me! I did something bad! It was my own fault!" She almost shouted
"Adele" I said louder and he said her chant louder
"He never really meant to hurt me! He had to punish me!" She shouted
"Adele!" I yelled and her eyes sprang open and they were filled with so much pain, and sadness and regret, and tear-filled. She jumped in my arms, and I sat down on the floor with her and held her until whenever she decided to calm down.
"Kennedy is just here to swab your cheek so we can really see if you're my daughter so I can really get custody of you" I whispered to her
"Really?" She said into my chest
"Yes, really" I told her
"Is it going to hurt?" She asked
"No, I'll get it done with you" I told her, and she pulled away and wiped her cheeks
"Okay" She opened her mouth as Kennedy swabbed her cheek.
"You okay love?" I asked her
"Uh huh" She said, pushing her hair back
"How bout we get you a hair tie, and pizza" She laid back down on my chest
"Okay" I got up and noticed that the past few minutes, I've been ignoring everyone except Kennedy and Adele.
"Your heard her" I said and Heath dialed room service and walked out of the room with the phone, suspiciously. I wanted to know bad about what happened, and I knew it was serious so maybe I'll get her into therapy. I was rubbing her back as I sat on the couch and Kennedy was doing his own little thing on his bloody thing.
"Give it a couple hours" Kennedy added before doing his science-y crap. Then there was a knock at the door and Gabriel had it, and also a thing I couldn't really see. He sat the pizza on the table and I nudged Adele.
"Wake up love, the pizza's here" She slowly crawled off my lap and over to the guys when I heard her gasp. I turned around and there sat a monkey hat. She smiled and picked it up and looked at me.
"Wasn't me love" She looked disappointed for a spilt second. Gabriel pointed to Jackson who pointed to Kennedy who just shrugged. She stood and thought for a minute, Heath. She turned and went over to Heath.
"Thank you" She said and he bent down to her level
"I thought you'd like it bug" He said and she hugged him, he smiled and hugged her back and when she let go of him, she spoke
"I'm not a bug, I'm a human" She said, and heath laughed
"Okay, how bout monkey?" He asked and she put on her thinking face.
"That's much better" She said, holding her monkey hat close. After that we all ate, and everyone just pretty much crashed. Heath on his bed, Gabriel and Jackson on the couch, and me in the recliner with Adele. I was the only one still awake besides Kennedy. I got up and tucked Adele in, in my bed, and I started cleaning up the little mess we made.
"Might as well crash here mate, it's been a long day" I have a signing to do, and after that I think I'll call a lawyer, I don't want to be charged with kidnapping. Then we probably would go shopping and head home for the two weeks. Vince gave me off thank God, but I do have a house show to do two states over and then I'm done. To go to my second hometown and we'll be good. Then I heard Adele whimper. I went over to her and she looked at me.
"Daddy?" She asked
"Yes love?" I asked her
"Could you hold me while I go back to sleep?" She asked me, I smiled
"Sure love" I climbed on the bed and cut the lamp off as she nestled her head against my chest.
"Night daddy" She said
"Goodnight baby doll" I told her and she was soon asleep. I smiled. She was definitely my daughter, from her eyes, to her hair to her personality there was no DNA test needed, but in court they always want bloody truth. I may have only been a father for a few hours, but if what I think is going on, I don't know what I'd do. In 5 hours she made me love her, in 5 hours she made me more adjusted, if you will. In 5 hours, she redefined Wade Barrett.