"Do none of them realize how bloody petty they look right now?" the raven haired female sitting alone in the locker room wondered aloud as she watched the rest of the girls basically ganging up on one another down in the ring.
She hadn't went down, of course, for the simple fact that even though she was very much an outsider, she just wasn't sure she trusted or even liked any of the other girls she had the misfortune of sharing a roster with.
Besides, she'd never really been a team player, that much was obvious.
When it all was said and done, both sides had done their fair share to make sure just how little the raven haired female sitting in front of the monitor -wearing the heavy black eye makeup, the piercing above her lip, the torn black jeans and the one shouldered Ozzy Osbourne t shirt and heavily chained biker boots - mattered.
So she'd have to be an idiot to pick a side in their little popularity contest, really.
"Aksana, you're going to bloody regret joining that skipping twit." she mumbled aloud as she finished applying the usual face paint, slid slowly off the counter she'd been sitting on top of and stood for a moment, paused in front of the television as she went back over all of the shit she'd gotten over the course of the last few months, when she'd been called up from NXT with Eva Marie and Jojo.
Hardly seemed worth martyring herself if she really thought about it. Besides, AJ hadn't asked her. Not that she cared, she'd just learnt from early childhood on, that if you were really wanted or necessary, you'd be invited to stick around.
"I'm half tempted to just go down, give the lot of them a pipe bomb of my own. But I'm not, because then it'd mean that they actually crossed my mind, and they don't." she muttered to herself.
The door opened to the locker room, the girls began to walk back in.
As usual, she heard Brie and Nikki start their whispering about her, one of them made the oh so smart casual remark, "Shouldn't you like be out, sacrificing something or playing in a graveyard?"
She gritted her teeth, determined NOT to show how much the constant shit that she got from pretty much all of the girls, the ones who didn't seem to be afraid to even be alone around her at least, was getting to her.
But deep down, it was.
Nobody knew that, of course, because as usual, the person giving her shit tonight only got a stony silence for their efforts.
But even now, the raven haired female could tell.. If she didn't let out the rage soon, she'd snap and there just might be a few casualties when she did.
"Hey, sideshow freak.. She asked you a question." one of the girls said as she turned, smirked evilly at the person speaking a moment and then said "I realize this."
"Then you should answer her, maybe?"
"Why answer a stupid question? Not worth my time, clearly." Raven Nox said as she slipped on her highly illegal brass knuckles and taped up her wrists. She had a dark match tonight against someone, she wasn't too terribly concerned with the lot of them, their stupid little popularity race.
Once she'd walked out of the room, Nikki and Brie gloated, "She's clearly scared to death of us."
"Right, because she just looked so scared just now." AJ said sarcastically as she stared at the doorway the raven haired all black wearing female just walked out of.
"Why doesn't she say anything when those bitches start in on her?" she wondered aloud as the girls only real friend, Aksana spoke up and said with a smirk, "Because, she's saving it for when she snaps."
"Ooh.. As scary as she is now, that won't be pretty." Kaitlyn muttered as AJ nodded and muttered, "Should we have asked her if she wanted in, maybe?"
"She'd have most likely said no, she's not a big joiner." Aksana answered as she sighed and said "But if you want, I can mention it to her when we're back at the hotel tonight since I nearly always room with her."
"Do that.. I'm getting sick of the way those bitches treat all of us, including her." AJ muttered as she stared hatefully at the "Total Divas" side in all of this, her own arms crossed, biting her lower lip in thoughtful silence.
Gets Me Through, by Ozzy Osbourne began to play, and Raven Nox emerged from the thick fog, the black curtains, made her way slowly down to the ring, eyeing Eva Marie with disdain. She had a feeling going into this that there was something awry, but she kept the thought to herself.
She was usually pretty damn good at sensing when she was about to get fucked over, so she figured if anything, she'd simply one up Eva Marie and that would be that.
Eva Marie gulped as she watched the pale raven haired girl approaching the ring, malicious smirk and cold eyes that bore right through her almost. She'd been scared of her, even on NXT. There just seemed to be something totally dark and evil about the girl.
She wasn't physically imposing or anything, they were about the same height and weight.. She was just, for lack of a better word, scary.
"Welcome to Hell, Eva Marie." Raven Nox muttered as she began to black out, the bell to begin the match started.
She loved her rage blackouts sometimes. They always seemed to hit about the right moment.
They always helped her get her point across.
About halfway into the match, Nikki and Brie ran down, gave Raven Nox, who'd been ahead, a cheap shot to the back of the head with a so called steel chair. Raven, to their surprise, didn't go down immediately.
Instead, she turned and looked at the twins as she said quietly, "You really shouldn't have bloody done that." before smirking, sliding out of the ring, completely forgetting the match she was currently in, to run up the ramp and tackle Brie down, doing a Russian Leg Sweep, throwing her onto the ramp.
When Nikki grabbed her, she bit Nikki, laughed about it as she grabbed her around the throat, the two women fighting for dominance on the ramp. She got Nikki down, kept her hands around her throat as Nikki gasped and tried to say, "You're.. You crazy bitch, you're choking me."
"Should have kept your pathetic little ass in back." Raven Nox muttered quietly as she finally got pried off of Nikki by Eva Marie who nailed her with a chair again.
In the back, Aksana grabbed a chair of her own, with AJ in tow, the two of them running down the ramp, the little one on one match turning into a very dangerous 3 on 3.
The bell sounded and the ref declared Raven Nox the winner by disqualification, but Raven, who was still under the influence of her little rage blackout grabbed the mic and growled, "Hey girls?"
The opposing 3 turned to look at her and all she did was smirk maliciously as she said simply, "You've just gotten yourself a one way ticket to hell." before throwing the mic down and storming up the ramp past her friend and AJ, muttering.
Backstage, AJ and Aksana found her and AJ said quietly, "We didn't ask before.. We should have, but we didn't.."
"It's fine."
"No, it's not. Because that made us like them."
"It is, really.. Sort of accustomed to being the last girl standing." Raven muttered with a shrug as she limped closer to the medic's office. That last maneuver had taken a lot out of her and the way her nose was bleeding from the impact when she'd taken that chair.
If anyone ever told the fans that the pain when you got hit wasn't real, they were clearly an idiot. She pushed open the medic's office door and flopped into a seat, AJ and Aksana sitting down too, being joined later by Kaitlyn, Alicia and Layla.
"Well, we were wondering.. Do you want to be in on this?"
Raven studied the girls a moment and said quietly, "I'll think about it."
Once they'd left, she lie back on the small worn couch, her hand over her eyes, gritting her teeth. Normally, she snapped right back out of her little blackouts.. But out there, she really hadn't.
It sort of scared her now that she was calm and lucid again.
She'd just walked back into the locker room and opened her locker door, was changing into street clothes when she felt tapping on her shoulder.
"You shouldn't have done that."
"You really shouldn't have done that, Nox. Do you not realize we can end you, you pathetic little.." Eva spat angrily as Brie stepped in front and said with a smirk, "We'll see who winds up in hell, won't we? Because if you thought you were miserable before, just wait. It gets so much worse."
"You weren't a threat when you didn't have those two as backup."
She stared at them a moment, burst into laughter as she leaned in and said in an icy tone, "Good luck with that." before spitting the fake theatrical blood into the faces of the Bella Twins, then laughing about it while they stood there looking disgusted.
As she walked out the door, she called out casually to AJ and Aksana, the others who'd come to the medics with her moments before, "Your answer, girls, is yes. But if you screw me over? It won't end well for you either."