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Chapter 6
A Deal with the Devil

I've watched all the dropouts
who make their own rules

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They say that the world ends with a bang…

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Ted DiBiase stands by the window, it's shattered and broken and the pieces are stained with his blood and he knows how Cody feels because he feels his arteries threaten to burst with hot blood and he feels the veins popping out of his skin and he can't feel the pain and as he looks down at the floor to face the shattered pieces of glass that are down there.

He thinks that his wrists have had enough but he knows that the blood's dry and clustered and he picks up the pieces off the floor, bringing the shattered piece of glass close to his supposed to be all perfect skin as he closes his eyes and scrapes the glass on the blood and he lets a grunt escape his mouth and he doesn't know how to feel pain and it breaks him on the inside knowing that he's not human. And tears are threatening to fall off Ted's face as he drops the glass down and looks at the stained blood pieces of the glass on the floor and then at the blood that's furiously dripping from his hands.

It's all so surreal.

Ted doesn't know if he's alive or if he's dead, if he's human or if he's not and he thinks that he isn't as he looks back at the blood burning and falling from his hands and he knows that all he cares about now is being human and being real and being in his world but he's not.

He's so out of his world that he's off into a place where blurred lines can only mean love and where gray is the color of darkness.

He's falling into shades of gray.

And nothing's left inside of Ted's red (love; blood; rage) heart and he's been eaten and turned into black and gray and he doesn't know if he'll ever see a rainbow again in his life.

Fallen into shades of black.

Shades of his black depression.

In his fragile glassy heart.

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Ted's world ended with a whimper rising up from his throat.

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Randy wants to fall asleep but he can't close his eyes.

His eyes are wide awake and he's in his hotel room, the one that's shared with Cody and Ted, the one that he's breathed Ted and Cody in and he misses them and he wants them back but the problem is that he doesn't know how to get them back and why would they want to be back with him? Cody's a big shot now that he's with John Cena and Ted had done moves in the ring that had left John totaled onto the ring floor without a breath of air you don't think he can breathe anyways with the way he looks like.

Randy thinks of all those times that Ted and Cody wake him up because of a silly little thing (he remembers once that they were hungry and they wanted the passkey of the room) and he chuckles to himself as he looks around, then his smile fades and dims. "Hey, Ted, I told you that the damn passkey's in the drawer."

There's no sound around him and Randy's smile reforms slowly, "that's what I thought. You wake me up again I'll tear your face off," and he lays his head back onto the pillow, with that weak smile still plastered on his face. "I miss you, guys. I know it's sappy but I seriously miss you guys."

Silence and silence and silence…

"I know. You're better off without me."

Silence and silence and silence…

"I'm sorry, Cods. I'm sorry, Teddy."

And he falls asleep from exhaustion with thoughts of his tag team partners and his eyes aren't really closed and he's not dreaming and he just wants to fall asleep like he normally does, being woken up every hour of the hour to repeat this stupid routine but they're gone now.

And they're not coming back.

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You want to sleep.
But you can't close your eyes.
You don't think that the dead falls asleep.
Because the dead has always been asleep.
Randy wants to fall asleep.
But he doesn't know that he's already asleep all the time.
And he needs a wake up call.
No one screams. No one shouts. No voice heard.
Silence and silence and silence…
And he falls back into his sleep of the dead.

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Cody lies on the couch and even with John's constant offering, Cody declines sleeping in a bed and John takes the message after the fifteenth time repeating his offer and as John throws a blanket towards him, Cody looks down at it and looks around the room and the memories are still there and he can't escape anything as he slowly slips into sleep.

"You think you're going to be okay?"

"Hmm?"

"You know—you're not going to end up cutting yourself are you?"

Cody shakes his head and looks down at the floor and he licks his lower lip. "I don't think so, I'm exhausted," but he spends the night staring at the ceiling and waiting to fall asleep but he doesn't and in the darkness, he doesn't know if he's awake or if he's asleep and he guesses that he's both, awake and asleep.

And when the dawn breaks, Cody rescinds the light because he just wants to fall asleep and die but he can't.

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You're so used to the darkness.
That light's become an enemy.

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And as Edge stands, waiting and waiting and waiting, he sees as Randy Orton comes forth towards him and their eyes lock with hatred and they look away with disgust burning and rolling up inside of him.

"You want DiBiase back?" Edge snaps and Randy nods his head and he's determined and it shows in his eyes but Edge lets out a bubbly laugh and Randy knows that he's dealing with the devil and not Edge.

"Unless you're willing to be so kind as to expect my conditions…"

I don't like Adam anymore.

;D Sam