This has come to me as a random idea, and I have thought of enough to actually write it out. This is going to be a mix of "there is no kayfabe" and real life. I'm going to make sure it flows as nicely as possible. So bear with me. It begins with the events on Monday Night RAW on April 28th.

Disclaimer: I do not own the WWE, nor it's employees. I do, however, own the plot of this story, as well as my OC, Mary Williams, her son Marcus, and the rest of her family. Alexis Hardy belongs to shiki94, and is being used with permission.


It started with Kane. He was taken out in a "Ring of Fire" match, and wasn't seen again for months. Kofi was a short lived target. Soon after, Bray Wyatt and his followers began to target Daniel Bryan. This went on for months. Bray said that he saw the monster within Daniel, and wanted the uprising superstar to join his family, because the powers that be would never let Daniel be on top. After a long struggle, Daniel infiltrated the family, and broke free soon after. It wasn't much after that when Bray moved on to John Cena. John continually claimed that any new talent wanting to make their way to the top needed to go through him. At first, he assumed that was why the Wyatt family targeted him. Soon it became more and more clear. Bray Wyatt wanted to take John Cena down a few notches. Bray believed that John believed he was a God among men. Which, was ironic, considering that Bray came across as a cult leader.

Mary Williams had been with the WWE for a few years. Being a fan of horror, she found Bray Wyatt intriguing. She actually met Bray many years before, though he wasn't quite the same at the time. So when he wanted to have an entire children's choir sing the Sunday School song that he had been singing for weeks, Mary was more than happy to let her young son participate in the segment. She made sure not to let John know ahead of time that Marcus would be amongst the children to make things more real. She watched on with a grin as she saw the look on John's face as the familiar looking child walking just behind Luke Harper, then sitting upon Bray Wyatt's lap, in a sheep's mask. After the segment was over, John met with Mary, just as Bray was returning Marcus.

"You could have warned me," John chuckled, shaking his head.

"Oh c'mon, Johnny Boy," Mary smirked. "It was so much more fun this way."

John sighed as Bray walked away, "did you at least have fun with it, little guy?"

Marcus nodded with a grin, "I like Bray and his friends."

"He's definitely your kid," John shook his head once more as he walked off.

Mary smiled as she dropped her son off in catering so that she could get ready for her match. Later in the night she walked up to Cody after he lost his match to Alberto del Rio with a frown.

"Can we please just not right now?" Cody sighed.

"You know that of all people, you really can't say that to me," Mary brought an arm around her long time friend.

"You're right," Cody nodded, resting his forehead on Mary's shoulder. "I'm better than this. I know that I am."

"Yes, you are," Mary nodded, hugging her friend tightly. "We all have rough patches, though. We can't always be on top."

"Yeah, well I feel like I am on bottom right now," Cody mumbled against Mary's shoulder.

"Don't even say it," Alexis Hardy smirked as she walked up to the friends, giving Mary the evil eye.

"Hey now, in case you forgot, Cody is like a brother to me. I don't make sexual jokes about him, because I don't care to think of him in a sexual manner," Mary stated matter-of-factually as Cody pulled away from her.

"That is actually a huge relief," Cody laughed softly as he walked over to his girlfriend. "I feel the same about you."

"We've got to find a way to make you feel better," Alex pouted as she took Cody's hand.

"Don't worry, my friend," a smile came across Mary's face, "we will."

Within weeks, Bray moved on from John, to his next victim. Strangely enough, his next victims were the Rhodes brothers. It started out the same as the rest. An attack here, a creepy promo about how there is a monster inside Cody, waiting to come out, there. Mary found it funny. It was really lighting a fire under her friend, which was exactly what he needed. At first, Cody would get distracted and lose in horrible fashion. This moved on to Cody becoming extra aggressive and getting himself disqualified. Mary, Alex, and Goldust knew that they had their work cut out for them, but they were okay with this. They felt that this was a step in the right direction. They just didn't understand why Bray was targeting Cody.

By summer Cody's head was slightly more into the game. He was getting pay-per-view matches against Bray, and Cody was finally out of his slump. Feeling that he had done his job, Bray had begun to back off, and was seemingly targeting someone new. This was a relief for the group of friends. It had become a normal occurance during the summer for Marcus spend the whole time on the road with his mother and her friends. There were nights where Mary didn't see her five year-old the entire night, but she thought nothing of it. By the time the show was over, the child was hand delivered to his mother by the person who had been playing with him last.

During a Monday Night RAW in July, something felt off to Mary. Marcus had run off soon after they had arrived at the arena like he always had. Mary knew that her son knew to stay out of the Divas locker room, stay out of everyone's way, and not to go where the fans would be. After getting ready for her match, she walked into catering, looking around. She walked over to Zack Ryder, who was a common playmate for Marcus with a look on her face. Her son wasn't in the area at all.

She bit her lip as she tapped her friend on the shoulder, "Zack, have you seen my son?"

Zack blinked, looking up. "Not in a while. Why?"

"I'm not sure. I can usually at least check up on him, but right now I'm finding nothing," Mary sighed.

"Isn't it normal for you to not see him all night, though?" Zack attempted to reason with the worried mother.

Mary took a deep breath as Goldust walked up behind her, wrapping his arms around. "I'm sure he's fine, sweetheart. We've got to get to our match," he started pulling her away, then looked up to Zack. "Could you just keep a look out?"

Zack nodded, "of course. It's not like I've got anything better to do."

Goldust walked Mary to the Gorilla position, just as "Wrecking Crew" began to play and Rybaxel made their entrance. Cody was about to say something, but his older brother shook his head to cut him off just before asking if Mary had located Marcus. They continued to wait as "Patriot" played and Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter made their way out. Last for the heel side of the main event was Alberto Del Rio. "Realeza" began to play as Mary rolled her eyes with a sigh. Goldust rubbed her arms as Justin Roberts finished announcing the heel side of the match. There was a beat before "Gold and Smoke" began to play. The girls decided to walk down to the ring with the Rhodes brothers, just like they had many times before as their valets, rather than coming out to their own music.

The match went on just like many of Mary and Alex's matches. The men on the other side called them Divas, and went on to make other sexist remarks, asking how they were even allowed in the match. Mary stared down Ryback as refused to fight her. He kept running his mouth about how she was just a girl, and she could get hurt wrestling men.

After Mary had had enough, she hit a deep hiptoss on Ryback and as he was on the mat in shock, she grabbed a microphone. She bent over the much larger man as she ran her fingers through her hair. "I have a little newsflash for you, Rybitch. The only way us women would get hurt in a match against a man is if the man screws up. Which... is something you actually do often." She tossed the microphone back to the timekeepers area just as Ryback got up and quickly rolled out of the way, getting to the ropes and pulling herself up just in time to duck a clothesline and pull the ropes down to dump Ryback out of the ring.

The match went on for a good twenty minutes, proving worthy of a main event. Just after 11 PM EST, as Michael Cole was about to announce that they were going to go into overtime, the familiar glitching sound to indicate that the Wyatt family was near sounded through the arena. Mary's blood ran cold as the paced slowed in the ring between Goldust and Curtis Axel. As everyone waited in silence, looking up at the Titan Tron. The dark screen showed vague shapes as the sound of someone struggling could just barely be heard. Mary slowly turned to face the screen with a look of sheer horror on her face. Cody took her hand just as everyone heard a small child yelling "mommy, help!" and the screen came into focus. The last frame of the show was a split frame of Mary crying and a struggling Marcus trying to escape Luke Harper's hold.

After the show went off of the air Mary slowly jumped off of the apron as Axel shook his head, looking back to his team. Jack nodded in agreement as Alberto shrugged. Jack Swagger and Curtis Axel both had young boys of their own. They hadn't heard about something like this happening in storyline, and the look on Mary's face told them that what they had just saw was real. Axel looked over to the ref, taking a deep breath. He told him that the match was a no contest as he motioned for his opponents to leave. He scrubbed his hand over his face after watching Cody, Goldust, and Alex run off after Mary and rolled out of the ring himself.

As they were making their way up the ramp, Jack stepped up beside Axel. "You made the right choice, man."

Axel nodded, "I saw the look on Mary's face. I couldn't let the match go on."

"I just can't believe Bray Wyatt would go so far as to kidnap one of our kids," Jack shook his head.

To be continued...