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Shoot to Kill: Chapter Four
Ted panted heavily as he ran around a sharp corner backstage. As soon as he had heard about the shooting in the ring, he had ran straight out onto the stage in a desperate attempt to get to his best friend. Apparently, he'd already been taken somewhere else, which is why Ted ended up in the position that he was currently in; running around aimlessly trying to find Stephen. He hadn't even thought to ask someone else for directions, he acted on pure instinct and made a run for it; ignoring the cries for him to stop. He supposed that he might have some adrenaline left from the argument he'd gotten into earlier; but he immediately scratched that idea when he felt an overwhelming sense of anger at the other three men involved. Snarling he rounded yet another corner and went smack into another body; colliding with the floor roughly and smacking his head on the concrete.
"I'm so sorry, oh my God, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
Ted held his head when the other man rambled on, not having the heart to politely tell him to 'shut up'. He looked up and the first thing he noticed was locks of long, light brown hair; then the gash on the side of his forehead that had blood dripping from it. He allowed himself to be lifted from the floor, hands steadying him as he stumbled slightly. He held up his hands and nodded, telling the other man that he was alright, before finally moving so that he could see the other man's face.
"Shawn! Bloody Hell, what happened to you?"
Shawn seemed to register that it was Ted who he had bumped into, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he realize that the other man was alright. He gulped, before answering with a shrug.
"I'm not entirely sure, the locker room went ballistic when Stephen was shot; it was all live so nobody quite knew how to react. We all ran for the ring but some of us stayed behind, in case anyone had any bright ideas to have a repeat performance on someone else," he said quickly, brushing himself down before stopping for a second, then sitting down on the floor cross legged. Ted stared at him and cocked his head to the side, before following suit.
"I offered to stay behind," Shawn started again. "Me, Hunter, Wade, Justin, Mark, Adam, Daniel and Christian offered to stay and we ran into trouble when we were looking for Stephen's shooter, needless to say it didn't go to plan; I'm on my own and losing blood, but what can you do?"
As if on cue Ted immediately ripped a large section out of his shirt and made it into a long strip, before shuffling over to Shawn and getting on his knees, biting his lip in concentration before wrapping the make-shift bandage around his head; batting Michaels away when he tried to move him away. He gently tied a knot in the corner and patted it softly, making sure it was secure. Shawn offered him a small smile, and Ted stood up himself before holding his hand out towards the older man; Shawn accepting gratefully and letting DiBiase pull him up. For a moment they just stood there, letting their minds drift to their colleagues.
"Will you stay with me?"
The small question from Shawn had Ted's mouth dropping and his thoughts coming to an abrupt halt. Michaels never asked someone for anything related to help, and more often that not if he had been given a 'mission' of sorts then he would much rather go it alone; he hated depending on someone else for anything. Ted frowned slightly, closing his mouth after he made a mental note about how unattractive that gesture must have been. He nodded slightly, almost hesitantly and Shawn seemed to pick up on it as he backtracked quickly.
"That's if you want to, I mean you probably have other things to do and you're obviously looking for someone so just forget I said anyth-" Ted cut him off.
"Don't be silly, Shawn; it's better to stay together anyway, strength in numbers kinda thing, you know?"
Shawn seemed hesitant but he nodded eventually, a small smile gracing the face of the older man. Ted didn't want to ask where the others were, but he felt that at some point he would have no other option but to do exactly that, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer, either. Instead they opted for a comfortable silence, slowly walking down the corridor. They listened for any sounds that would give them the impression they weren't alone, but to their dismay - or relief, depending on which way you looked at it - they didn't hear anything suspicious.
After around 10 minutes of walking in silence, Ted's curiosity got the better of him and he asked the question that had been plaguing his thoughts since the moment they started walking together.
"Shawn, where are the others?"
Shawn visibly froze and for a second Ted regretted saying anything at all. He tugged his bottom lip between his teeth, biting down on it in order to stop himself from asking any other questions. Shawn continued walking after a while, shaking his head as if he was having an argument with someone Ted couldn't see. He didn't press the matter. Although, it seemed, he didn't need to because eventually Shawn told him.
"We were attacked; there were so many of them and we couldn't hold them off. Adam panicked because Christian with us, and they ended up having an argument half way between the fight because Adam was being 'Over Protective' or something like that. In the end, they went at each other and not only were we trying to hold the gang off us, but we were separating Adam and Christian too," he started, and Ted paid close attention to what he was saying; he couldn't afford to ask Shawn to repeat what he said. He understood completely why Adam was so protective though, Christian was smaller than his respective partner and Adam tried to keep him from harm as much as possible, even if Christian didn't always want the help.
"In the end we managed to remove the problem of the gang," he smiled drying, his lips curling into a smirk. "But not without a price - we were split up during the fight and ended up on our own, I was with Hunter for a little while but then more and more figure appeared and he was distracted and-" he stopped himself off and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath and tugging on his bottom lip. "He got hurt and they took him away."
Ted could have sword his heart stopped beating. He could almost feel the pain radiating from Shawn along with his own, he'd known The Game for a very long time and considered him a close friend - the news of his fall shocked him.
"Where did they take him, Shawn?"
"I don't know, they didn't stop to chat"
Ted could hear the venom leaking from the statement so he shut up, instead focusing on the path in front of him. His mind wandered back to Cody but he immediately ended that train of thought and instead focused on the situation at hand. Worse case scenario? Sheamus could bleed out or the gang reaches him before anyone else does. He remembered seeing Randy in the ring with him but apart from that nobody had been by his side, except all the boys who were surrounding the ring. Truth be told there wasn't much point in accessing the situation and deciding on what he's going to do because he didn't know the situation in the first place.
He took a corner and turned to his left to make sure Shawn was still following him before nodding. He could see the door of the main locker room in front of him so he quickened his pace; before coming to a halt in front of the door which caused Michaels to crash into him, thus slamming him into the door. The noise he had heard behind the door ended like a rope being cut and Ted let out a quiet breath, turning to his partner.
"There's someone in there," he whispered quietly, bringing his finger to his lips. "On the count of 3, ready?" he waited for Shawn to nod before readying himself to open the door.
"1...2...3!"
A high pitched scream that seemed to last for minutes sounded around the room and Ted was immediately distracted, bringing his hands to his ears in an attempt to muffle the sound. He saw Shawn doing the same thing and he looked around the room to see Eve Torres standing beside something that appeared to be a stretcher. Eve noticed him and ended her scream, looking like she was about to burst into tears the next second. Ted and Shawn breathed a sigh of relief before closing the door behind them.
The scene in front of them wasn't that of a nice one.
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