Title: Angels
Chapter 7: Sweet Revenge
Plot: This chapter is in Orton's POV. Randy reflects on the Nolee Lacroix/ Cody Rhodes relationship.
Disclaimer: I don't own anybody except Nolee.
"It's
not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I
still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with them
must have damn near killed you"- How you remind me by Nickelback
There is only one thing I hate more than not having the title around my waist and that's when people close to me betray me. It's happened twice in my life. The first time was when Triple H and the rest of Evolution betrayed me the day after I won my first title and the second is what Cody Rhodes has had the audacity to do now. He betrayed Legacy for a girl. And not just any girl either. He had the audacity to go after MY girl. MY Nolee Lacroix. How could he do something like that? To me of all people.
Wasn't it I who tried to get him to listen about how his career would go if he stayed listening to his old man? Without me, Cody would still be at the side of Dusty Rhodes. He never would have joined up with Hardcore Holly and won the World Tag Team Championship or joined with Ted Dibiase jr to win them again. Instead Cody would have remained a snivilling brat who didn't want his daddy to be disrespected. Due to my genius, he became so much more. He became my protégée, one of two. I trusted him and he betrayed me. But what he did isn't nearly as bad as what Nolee did.
If there was ever someone that I loved with all my heart and all my soul, it was Nolee. She understood what I thought and how I felt. She didn't give me orders and she didn't make me feel like a piece of trash. She made me feel alive, warming my cold soul. I never wanted to ruin what we had. But I couldn't live a lie anymore. I was hurting her and I knew that I was. I.E.D my ass. I got the term I.E.D. off of the internet. I had to find something that I could use as I extracted my revenge on Hunter. I do have a problem, however. I have a very vile temper. That's why I hit Nolee, I couldn't control my temper. I have always and I will always love Nolee. Not even the relationship between Cody and Nolee will stop the way I feel about her. But, in the fairness of everything, I guess I did send Cody into this.
I mean I was the one who sent Cody to talk to Nolee. I wanted Cody to talk Nolee into falling back in love with me. When he came back without Nolee with him, I didn't think anything of it. I thought that maybe he wasn't able to get her to listen. I mean, when Nolee makes her mind up about something not even a first class hurricane could change her mind. But then I started to suspect something more. Cody would disappear for long periods of time without telling Ted and I he was going somewhere. He wouldn't even room in a room next to the one that I had paid for and he would insist that he wanted to room alone, sticking me with Ted. I saw a change in how he looked at my leadership, how he treated Ted and I, and how he felt about going to clubs with Ted and I amongst other things. Then came the day I figured out why Cody had changed.
Legacy was relaxing in our locker room. I was sitting in my black leather recliner with Ted laid out on the couch and Cody sitting on the floor. Cody and I were watching a diva's match on Monday Night Raw while Ted was reading a book. That's one thing that I have never been able to understand, why with a diva's match going on Ted would read a damn book. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. The match was between Nolee Lacroix and Natayla Neidhart. With every hit that Nolee would take, Cody would tense up as if he was watching someone die. His eyes never left the television and suddenly it all became clear. Long periods of missing time could be attributed to Cody and Nolee meeting together, that would be why he didn't tell Ted or I where he was. Renting a room far away from the room I had and wanting Ted to room with me, well, we all know what happened there. And we all know what I did to get back at them. Like I said, the one thing I hate more than not having the title is when people I trust betray me.
I've gotten some revenge but I have to have more because what I've done is not enough. It wasn't enough to give Cody and Nolee a warning by breaking into their hotel room while they were intimate. It wasn't enough to beat the hell out of Cody when he broke free from Legacy. It wasn't even enough when I ruined what was the happiest moment of Cody and Nolee's life by interrupting their engagement. I won't have had enough retribution for the wrongs done against me until one of two things happens. Either Cody will realize that Nolee isn't worth the pain and suffering that he has had to go through or Nolee will realize that Cody isn't as much of a man as she thought he was and she leaves him for somebody more deserving. I'm the only man who deserves her because I'm the only man who understands how her mind works.
Nolee likes to hide beneath a mask of sweetness and good intentions. That's not who she is. In truth, Nolee is as cold minded and cold hearted as I am. She's desperate to get the Women's Championship and much like me she will stop at nothing to get it. She uses her men as a weapon in most matches. Look at her matches from back when she was dating the Spirit Squad and especially when she was with me. She would either use us to distract the ref of she would use us to attack the opponent while she distracted the referee. Now take a look at her matches since she has started dating Cody. She's losing because she refuses to revert back to what she use to do. It's pathetic.
But I can't change the past. What I can do is make life hell for them until they decide to end things. And that's exactly what I plan on doing.
