Hey there I am back. I would quickly like to thank Sophia for her lovely recommendation of this story, it was a lovely gesture and if you have not yet read Crazy for you I highly recommend it also. No pressure on this chapter at all, but on we go.

Present

Mickie couldn't believe how such a beautiful day had turn so gray and foreboding, she hoped that it wasn't a sign of things to come. Keeping her eyes firmly fixed on the road as the rain was making the driving conditions difficult she happened to glance in her rear view mirror.

Seeing themans car behind her came as a slight shock, Katie must have seen the look on her face for she had placed her hand on her arm and said.

"What's wrong mom?" Mickie turned to her daughter and gave her a none to convincing smile.

"Nothing honey just didn't expect to see our friendly tire fixer in my rear view mirror that's all." Mickie said knowing that lying to Katie was not a good option right now. Turning in her seat Katie looked though the back window and saw the glare of the head lights large in her vision.

"He is pretty close mom." Now it was Katie's turn to look nervous. Mickie had to think logically now. She knew that panicking over nothing was no good for anyone she remembered the last time she did that it did not turn out well.

"Look he is probably just going in the same direction that we are, this road is just one straight line all the way to St. Louis probably." Mickie said knowing that although what she said was true, she didn't quite believe it. The car was just a little too close for her liking but she was not about to tell her daughter that.

"Look if he had wanted to do anything he would have done it back when we couldn't have gotten away." She settled on saying as Katie turned in her chair once more and looked back at the dark car following them though the rain storm.

"Hey why don't you tell me more about what happened after you tried to scare Aunt Maryse and Uncle Ted?" Katie said finally sitting back and looking though the windscreen. Mickie was always surprised by her daughter and her ability to cope with anything life threw at her. Trying to forget that they may or may not be being followed Mickie tried to remember where she had left off.

Past

Mickie woke to find Randy already sitting up and pulling on a sock.

"Morning beautiful." He said leaning down and slanting his lips across Mickie's and she happily accepted him.

"Good morning to you to mister." She said waiting with slight amusement as Randy rummaged though all of the clothes scattered around the tent trying to find his other sock.

"I think its under there." Mickie said pointing to the blouse she was wearing last night as she climbed out of her sleeping bag and stretched unkinking her muscles and letting out a large yawn.

"Are ha." Randy said triumphantly as he snatched his sock up and threw Mickie her shirt which landed neatly in her out stretched hand.

"How do you think Ted and Maryse are felling this morning?" I asked as Randy stated packing up our things and trying to get everything to fit back in his backpack.

"Same as us I suppose, just a little bit disturbed, nothing a good sweaty walk won't help." He said pausing to grin at me while he forced the last of his clothes into his back pack and snapped closed the fastening.

"Why is it that when you take it out it won't all fit back in." He said lifting the pack and tossing it over his shoulder, as he folded back the tent flap and stepped out into the bright sunshine.

"Because you like many men never learnt to fold anything." Mickie replied to his vanishing back as he allowed the tent flap to fall back into place, leaving her alone to sort out her own things.

It took Mickie only a few minutes to pack her own bag, grateful that they would not be carrying their own tents back this time she stood and walked outside to join Randy by the fire which was not burning.

"Ted and Maryse not up yet?" Mickie said looking slightly confused but she wasn't that worried. After what she saw last night she was sure they had not gotten to bed too early.

"Maybe we should wake them, I mean we do need to be on the trail soon or we wont make base camp by night fall." Randy said looking at Mickie as if to say you wake them I can't take another show.

"Oh its up to me is it?" She smirked at him as she turned on her heel and walked over to her friends tent.

"Guys time to get up, rise and shine sleepy heads." Mickie called and stood back slightly expecting a head to appear. After a few seconds Mickie arched an eyebrow at Randy and tried again.

"Hey guys, get up or we are coming in again!" looking back to Randy and then back at the tent Mickie held her breath slightly as nothing happened. She could not here any movement coming from inside the tent either.

"get up you two what have you done shagged your selves out!" Randy said finally getting up and coming to the tent and ripping open the flap and peering inside.

Randy couldn't move for a moment, he looked around the tent not quite able to comprehend what he was seeing.

Mickie watched as Randy's head disappeared inside the tent and then did not re-emerge.

"Randy what's going on?" Mickie said her voice had taken on a slightly softer tone worry around it edges. At first Randy didn't know what to say, standing up he turned to his girlfriend and shook his head.

"I don't know what is going on, all I know is all their stuff it's gone." Opening up the tent as if to prove his point Mickie looked inside at the bear tent and had to cup her mouth with her hand to stop her from gasping audibly.

"Why, I mean it really wasn't that bad, was it?" Mickie said unsure as to what she was asking exactly.

"I don't know, I didn't think so, maybe to them it was a big deal, but this seems pretty extreme." Randy replied walking back to the fireplace and picking up his stuff.

"We don't have a choice though, maybe we can catch them up and see if we can sort this whole mess out." Randy said donning his back pack and Mickie followed suite. Once geared up they followed the trail leading slightly down the mountain.

Cutting a faster pace than normal neither Mickie nor Randy took in any of the beautiful scenery this morning. In fact they almost walked right passed the hot springs without even noticing them if it hadn't been for the noise that caught Mickie's attention.

Snapping her head round at the rustling that came from behind and slightly off to her left Mickie came face to face with the hot spring they had so enjoyed last night.

"Come on honey, I am sure if we don't find them on the trail, they will be at base camp, I mean I have the car keys so they are hardly going anywhere." Randy said pulling slightly on Mickie's arm to encourage her to come with him.

"Sorry I thought I heard something." Mickie said glancing briefly back and then following Randy into a more densely thick area of trees.

Present

"God they just left you in the middle of the night that's pretty rotten." Katie said as Mickie paused to take a drink and Katie took the open bottle from her mother and put the cap back on.

"Tell me about it, me and Randy were worried sick, I mean those mountains are dangerous places, it might all be mapped out and rangers are around all the time, but anything could have happened to them off alone." Mickie said glancing up to her rear view mirror and noticing the car was still behind them and still pretty close. Fighting the urge to speed up even though she was driving the limit Mickie looked at Katie and smiled.

"Of course we both know nothing bad did happen." Mickie said, knowing that distracting herself with the story was probably the best option.

"Well obviously seeing as they are still around and kicking, as well as the twins, pain in the butt those two are." Katie said a slight frown on her face as she sat back ion her seat and folded her arms.

"Come on now don't pretend you don't love them." Mickie said poking her daughter in the side and causing her to giggle slightly.

"Ok ok in small doses Cody and Ted Jr are fine I suppose." the young girl said but Mickie got the distinct impression that she wasn't to happy about having to admit to liking her younger cousins. Not that they were really her cousins that's just how she Ted and Maryse had wanted them to be when they were younger. Although Katie was three years older they had gotten on great, until the boys had gotten bigger than her and then the rules had changed.

Mickie would always look back on the early years with fondness, trying not to lapse into those particular memory Mickie shook her head and coughed slightly to clear her throat.

"So what did happened, did you meet them back at base camp?" Katie said eager to here what had happen all those years ago and her mom wasn't about to disappoint her.

"Not exactly."

Past

It had been about half an hour since Mickie and Randy had discovered that Ted and Maryse had left them at the camp site. To say they were both feeling jumpy and not to mention guilty would have been an understatement. Mickie kept hearing things off into the trees and Randy had stopped a few times thinking he had seen something off into the trees.

They had not however seen any sign of Ted or Maryse, there was no litter to suggest they had been that way, no signs at all that the trail had been walked in a while actually. The forest seemed to be growing thicker as they walked and darker, as the canopy of the trees blocked out some of the sunlight from their field of vision.

"I think we need a break." Randy said finally, walking though the forest was hard going, it took more energy to climb over the branches and push though the foliage especially after two days hard hiking and sleeping on the hard ground.

Mickie nodded at Randy in agreement of his suggestion as they found a large tree to rest against as Randy peeled off his back pack shortly followed by his shirt.

"Damm but its hot, even in here in the shade." He said whipping the sweat off his brow.

"I know feels like a storm is coming." Mickie said remembering the hot days in Virginia when the day got especially hot and sticky it always meant a storm was coming. It would hit late in the afternoon, the thunder would shake the ground and the lighting would make the air crackle, and it would always excite Mickie in a way only a really good storm could.

"I know, but right now i9 wouldn't mind too much, the rain would be refreshing." Randy said taking a swig from his water bottle and reaching down to put it back in his back pack.

Before he could stand upright again he was hit by a barrage of water. Mickie was up and screaming as the icy cold water hit her exposed skin and she fought against the stream of water coming from above her.

"Ha not so smart now are you." Ted shouted down from the tree next to the one Randy and Mickie had sat under.

"You bastards!" Mickie swore at them as both wrestlers almost fell out of the tree with laughing at the pair of drowned rats below them.

"Come on you had that one coming." Maryse said coming down from the tree holding up her empty water bottle and having to hold Ted upright.

"You scared the hell out of us when we found you gone this morning." Randy said angrily, but secretly he was very happy to see his friends again.

"We know we have been watching you since this morning, just waiting for the right time to strike." Ted said giving first Randy then Mickie a wink as Mickie squeezed the excess water from her shirt.

"That was you making all those noises" Mickie said pointing her finger in Ted's direction and wagging it at him in a disapproving manor

"Yeah well one good scared deserves another." Maryse said winking and going over to the tree and picking up their back packs which they had left to climb the tree and execute their plan on Mickie and Randy.

"Now what's you say about having a good old group lunch?" Ted said setting out a blanket away from the dripping water and puddles they had created.

"It sounds great, I have a great story to tell." Mickie said not letting Ted get a look at her face and deciding to go straight into her story without waiting for the others reply.

"Yeah it's a good story takes place a few years ago, I came home one day, well I say home I mean back to my hotel room, I was sharing it with a Ted Debaise who had gotten back quite a bit before myself."

Ted's jaw dropped knowing exactly where this was going he got up only to be held back by a pair of powerful tattooed arms.

"Not this time Ted, now were was I. Oh yes upon opening the door I found Mr Debaise in a pair of white Y fronts, with the Y and everything holding my hair brush in his hand singing along to Girls just want to have fun. Oh and did I mention he was still wearing his socks." Mickie gave Ted a grin as Ted went a deep shade of red as both Maryse and Randy gave him odd looks and just shook their heads in utter shock.

"What I was young, thought I would see what it was like, come on Randy wore a dress for goodness sake." Ted pleaded going to Maryse first and giving her the puppy dog eyes.

"I think if I hadn't walked in that would have been the next stage." Mickie said pulling a banana out of her back pack and peeling the skin off slowly and taking a bite out of it looking right into Ted's eyes as she did so. Ted didn't need any more convincing he knew Mickie had won check and mate.

Present

Mickie noticed the rain was finally slowing down as Katie recovered from her image of Uncle Ted dancing and singing in his underwear.

"Ok it wasn't that funny." Mickie said even though she was unable to keep the smile off her face as well.

"Yeah it was I shall have to ask for a reprisal next Christmas when he has had too much eggnog." Katie said turning her smile on Mickie and she couldn't help but copy her daughters enthusiasm.

"Not sure aunt Maryse would appreciate that, but I wont stop you." Mickie said turning her attention back to the road as she once more looked in her rear view mirror. The presence of the car behind her had not gone unnoticed but she had put it out of her mind, now as she looked she saw that she could almost make out the bumper sticker on the mans grill plate, something she had not been able to do before, unsure at to whether it was because the rain had slowed down and improved the vision or he had actually gotten closer, this time Mickie couldn't stop herself as she pressed the gas peddle and sped up along the disserted highway.

Thank you for reading, I hope you are enjoying the story as always I could help but add a little drama after all it is what I do best.

I got some mixed reviews about doing more on Christmas so I am going to make a compromise, there will be a time later on in the story when I have to go back to it, but for the most part I will be doing the main story.

As ever please review I would love to make thirty it just makes me feel special and in a writing mood.

Ps sorry about the delay in updates but had a birthday on Thursday and have not been in the best state to write if you get my meaning (wink wink)

Sorry long note today if you have not checked out my story watch, or if you have I suggest you also check out Watch2 by xxxfuturewwedivaxx also I would like you to appeal to Sophia to write the last part so the trilogy is complete thank you.