Title: Angels
Chapter 4: Leaving Legacy
Plot: This chapter is in Cody's POV. He's had it with his team and has decided that leaving is the best thing he can do.
Warning: Violence toward the end of the chapter.
Disclaimer: Legacy is not mine to own. The WWE owns Legacy.
"God send me
an angel
From the heavens above
Send me an angel to heal my
broken heart
From being in love"- Angel byAmanda
Perez
*Four Months Ago*
"Teddy this is so awesome! We're getting a name for ourselves!" I smiled as I sat with my best friend and tag team partner Ted Dibiase jr in the locker room that we shared as the tag team Priceless.
"Your telling me! And it's all because of Randy! He really is as awesome as we thought. I mean, he did slap you before and I did get punted in the head but he seems to have knocked some sense into us!" Ted replied.
The door opened and Randy entered followed by the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was fair skinned with hair that looked as if it were spun from gold and two eyes that would make the most beautiful of sapphires look like pieces of coal. Her beauty would make angels jealous. "Ted, Cody I just wanted to introduce you to Nolee Lacroix. She's going to be hanging with Legacy from now on because she's my girlfriend."
Ted smiled, "Wow Randy, she's priceless."
I laughed, "Nice to meet you Miss Lacroix."
Nolee opened her mouth to speak and the sound was even more beautiful than her flawless features, "Please call me Nolee."
I nodded and replied, "That's manageable."
*end of flashback*
How did I know that meeting Nolee would change my entire life? With he in the picture my losses aren't just, 'Cody you idiot! You lost!' They become, 'Cody yeh did yeh best and that's all we can ask for.' My wins aren't just, 'Cody you won. Nice.' They become, 'Cody I knew yeh could do it and I'm so proud of yeh.' She's become not only my first long term girlfriend but my own personal angel.
Maybe that's why I'm quitting Legacy. I just can't stay with them anymore. Ted and Randy have become so obsessed with destroying the McMahon's and Triple H. It disgusts me. I would have quit when Randy first attacked Vince if it wouldn't have been for the fact that I was so worried about Nolee. I couldn't just leave Nolee with Ted and Randy because I wasn't blind. Sometimes Nolee would show up to work with mysterious bruises. When I would ask her about it Nolee would just say, "Oh Randy and I were just a little wild." I knew there was more to it then that. I knew Randy was beating her. As for Ted, he's even more sick minded than Randy when it comes to showing his affection. The million dollar man had raised his son to use money for everything and Ted had learned rather well. I was the only one she could trust. I'm still the only one she can trust.
But I won't be a member for long. After I beat Shane McMahon tonight I plan on quitting. I won't make it to Backlash. I can't. I value Nolee to much and I value my sanity. The longer I stay the more I realize that my father was right about Randy. He's a disrespectful, vile man who cares only for himself.
Xxx
Even though I won, I still feel horrible. Maybe it's the pain from the kick that Shane gave me
while a trashcan was against my head and neck or maybe it's because during the match I started thinking about Ted and what me leaving Legacy is going to do to Ted. Randy tends to focus his wrath on me but when I leave it will go to Ted. Ted's pretty weak when it comes to psychological pain. I guess it's because he wasn't use to criticism as a kid.
But I have to do this. If I don't quit Legacy now I'll never be able to quit. As I enter our locker room, I see Ted look up from his book and Randy staring at me from his favorite lazyboy chair. "Good job out there." Ted snickers, "I mean, all except for the parts where you got hit with two chair shots and then when you were hit with the Coast to Coast."
Randy is silently still and a shiver runs up my spine. "Guys," I start, "I have to tell you something."
"And that is?" Randy asks, his voice as cold as his stare.
I gulp down any fear I may have had and say, "I'm quitting Legacy."
Ted looks confused and asks, "Quitting Legacy? Why?"
"I have things that I want to do but I can't do them unless I leave Legacy. So sorry Ted."
"It's because of Nolee, isn't it?" Randy asks darkly, standing up.
I can't lie to him. He's stronger than I am and definitely meaner. "Yes, yes it is. I love her and as long as I'm a member of this team she will never be safe. I've decided that, in her best interest, I can no longer be a member of Legacy. I'm so sorry."
Randy nods and for a second looks like he's going to sit back down. But quickly, almost cat-like, he turns and brings a crushing blow to my face. My nose is almost instantly crushed and blood starts gushing from it. I press a hand to my face as Randy says, "Your pathetic Rhodes! Now shut your mouth!"
Ted gets up and sends a foot crashing into my ribs, "You were never strong! She's just a girl and you're willing to break the best thing that ever happened to you for her."
I fall to my hands and knees as they begin to launch a vicious array of kicks to my stomach, back, and ribs. And out of the corner of my eye, I see the punt that's headed for the side of my face and then I see nothing.
