Thought I would start with this one today as the next chapter for Legacy is giving me some problems oh well hope you enjoy.
BETH
Beth didn't know weather to cry or to run, the four of them were standing over her with very satisfied smiles on their faces.
Pulling herself over to the ring post Beth pulled herself up to her feet, she was not going to run, the Glamazon did not run from any one even if there were three of them.
Mickie was eyeing her and Beth could feel the contempt coming off her in waves.
Breaking the gaze with her former best friend she looked from Michelle to Layla, both of whom were looking pretty pleased with themselves, but they did not hold the raw anger that Mickie did.
Straightening herself up and feeling the fire in the back of her legs Beth briefly wondered what Mickie had hit her with exactly.
She didn't have to wait long to find out. Vicki reached over and picked up the kendo stick and started advancing on Beth. The arena erupted with the sounds of boos and Beth flashed her eyes around the ring only to see Laycool and Mickie closing her in.
Reaching out with one hand Beth backed up in to the corner, lashing out at the nearest person Beth managed to catch Michelle on the face and sent her reeling, it gave Mickie and Layla an opportunity to grab her.
Pulling out of their grasp momentarily Beth ran straight at Vicki who used the stick on her, as it collided with her side Beth dropped to the matt clutching the now stinging wound. Before she got chance to recover Laycool had hold of her arms and Mickie was holding her head in place looking directly into her eyes.
"You want to know what kind of pain I am feeling Beth, well your going to find out." Mickie hissed in her ear as she stepped out of the way so Vicki could get a clear shot at her.
Beth almost didn't hear the music cue, she was so focused on what Mickie had said she did not realised they had not hit her until she saw Randy come in to her field of vision , and the two diva's holding her down loosened their grip.
"Enough!" Randy shouted much to the audience's appreciation and Laycool let go of her as she sagged to the floor.
"Nothing but a bunch of bullies, and Mickie I am surprised at you, you used to be such a wonderful person what happened to you?"
Beth cringed at where this was going, this conversation did not have to happen her in public, but she was in no condition to argue.
"You happened Randy, you and your little whore!" Mickie shouted back at the Viper and there was a collective gasp followed by silence from the crowd.
Beth decided it was time to stand up and say something, using the ropes to help right herself she found herself being assisted by Randy who had taken hold of her arm and was supporting her somewhat against him.
"At least I don't turn my back on my friends, just because someone has decided to start spreading vicious rumours about them." Randy said and Beth could here the anger and disappointment in his voice, reaching out for the microphone Beth gave Randy a sad glance before he handed it over.
"Mickie you are making a huge mistake, and I think in time you will regret it, but for now if it is a fight you want, then a fight I can give you." Beth said knowing she had to bring this back to wrestling before their dirty laundry was aired completely on national television.
"It will be a pleasure seeing you on your knees again." Mickie snarled at Beth and she felt the need to take a step back but was stopped by the ropes.
Laycool's music started blaring out and the four diva's stepped out of the ring leaving Randy and Beth looking at them leave then turning and looking at each other.
The crowd were eerily quite and Beth saw no option but to leave although she had so many questions and so did he.
Allowing him to help her out of the ring Beth jumped down and knew there was something not right with her ham string, the whack Mickie had given the back of her thigh seemed to have knotted something up back there and Randy had noticed and was now helping her walk out of the arena by placing his hand around her waist.
JOHN
He couldn't believe what he was seeing, he had go on line using his phone just to check on any latest blogs from the fans, also seeing which superstar they were thinking would win tonight's triple threat match when he started to notice some strange references to Randy and his knight in shining armour routine.
Clicking on the link to YouTube John sat and watched the whole video mouth slightly open and a mixture of anger and fear flowing through his body.
Almost throwing the phone across the room John knew that this had been done on purpose, the timing of it was too coincidental, they had been to that bar over a month ago now, yet the video had only been posted earlier that morning. John stood up quickly and went and fished around for a car in the bottom of his bag.
Finding it slightly covered it what appeared to be a sticky soft drink John could just make out the number of the bar.
Not wasting a second knowing her had very little time before his match was due to start he taped in the number and held the phone to his ear while it rang.
"Hello Gregory's Bar Matt speaking how can I help you?"
"Are Matt it John here John Cena, I was wondering if you could help me."
"God you guys I like busses you wait ages for one, then two come along at once."
John paused two, what was he talking about.
"What do you mean, did another wrestler come and see you?"
"Yeah Mickie James was in here just the other day, I thought you guys had moved on, but I guess wither being off she had time to stop by." Matt replied sounding very happy with himself as John started to put the pieces together.
"Did she want anything while she was there, perhaps some footage of our activities that night we were there?" John asked trying to keep his voice light so that Matt didn't get scared by the sudden upsurge of anger that was threatening to spill over.
"Yeah she did as a matter of fact, she seemed very keen to talk to Mr Floyd as well, don't know if she found him though."
"Is Mr Floyd the other man in the video?" John asked hoping that this was not going where he thought it was going.
"Yeah, he wasn't best pleased with what happened I can tell you."
"Ok well thanks Matt, that's all I needed to know, speak to you again sometime." John said hanging up quickly, he needed to let Randy know about this before Vince got a hold of it, and to find Mickie and ring her neck.
Throwing open his locker room door, he realised that the place was deserted and that the sound from the crowd, which was normally a constant din was not present.
Picking up to a run he found most people in a huddle around the TV monitors.
"What's going on?" John asked spotting Ted and Cody as the two boys pointed to the screen.
"Randy has gone out to save Beth, Mickie joined Laycool and Vicki was about to beet Beth with a kendo stick." Ted said his gaze not moving from the monitor and John watched as Randy helped Beth up as Laycool and Mickie left the arena.
Whipping his head around John spotted Mickie coming back through the curtain and storming off with Vicki and Laycool in hot pursuit without speaking to anyone. John had half a mind to run after them to take hold of Mickie and shake her by the shoulders and knock some sense into her, but he was stopped mid stride by the appearance of Randy and a slightly shaken Beth.
"Are you guys ok?" Cody had asked from next to John as he remained frozen looking at the pair as Randy virtually had to sit Beth down and kept his hand on the blondes shoulder as Ted went for a medic.
"I'm ok, think that stick did some damage to my knee, my pride is hurt more than anything." Beth replied and finally John moved coming over to them and standing close to Randy.
"We have to talk, I know now is not a good time, but its very important." He said not wanting Beth to here but knowing she would have to be in the loop sooner or later.
"Ok, lets wait until the medic has taken a look at Beth first, I need to talk to you anyway." Randy replied as Ted came back with the medic who helped Beth up and with Ted's help manoeuvred her down the corridor so they could have a better look at her injuries.
John watched her go as he placed a hand on Randy's shoulder and his best friend turned to look at him.
"I have something to show you and your not going to like it." John said before a stage hand came up and said they had five minutes before their match.
"Shit I forgot!" John said knowing he did not have time to show Randy the video and Randy looked lost in thought.
"After the match ok, we will find Beth and get the hell out of here." Randy said anger dripping from his voice as he stalked back towards the gorilla position and John could do nothing but let him go.
MICKIE
There was nothing more she could do, did she need any more proof that Randy was in love with Beth. He had ran out and saved her from them, he had shouted at her in public and held on to that blonde freak show like she was a precious metal.
Slamming the door Mickie sat down heavily on the sofa, Michelle and Layla said they had something to do that would cheer her up and they would be back shortly.
Mickie was pretty unconvinced about their cheering up ideas but at least they did seem to genuinely care for her.
Ever since she had had a proper talk with them, set up by Vince they had pretty much been her constant companions. They defended her when someone said something rude about her and made her smile when she told them she was feeling down.
Some how though it wasn't the same, like it was with Beth, they had a easy friendship which demanded nothing on the other, it asked for nothing but gave everything in return and Mickie missed that. Sighing loudly and placing her head in her hands she lent back on the sofa and pushed off her boots.
Tossing them onto the floor she wiggled her toes and allowed a small smile to form on her lips. Randy might have been there to save her this time but when Vince get's hold of that video and when Dale calls him, Randy Orton will be on notice, and stunts like tonight will not be tolerated, she will have Beth at her mercy until the truth comes out and she can finally get her revenge publically.
Mickie had gone to bed that night with her alarm set for 2am. There were certain perks to be said for having your own room. She had left the arena pretty soon after Michelle and Layla came back, not needing or wanting to stay the girls had gone to get massages and a relaxing facial before they headed out for the end of PPV celebration.
Luckily for her they did not end up going on for long as everyone was very tired and a few drinks in the bar and everyone had pretty much called it a night.
Mickie had not seen Randy, Beth or John there and she wondered just what had happened to them. John was the new WWE champion and he surely would have wanted to come out and celebrate that but he had only been remarkable in his absence.
Creeping out of bed Mickie put on the blonde wig once more and zipped up her long coat almost to her nose as she opened the door and ran for the stairwell.
Getting to the parking garage Mickie found the car she was looking for, taking out her keys she started to scratch her message down the side. Stepping back pleased with her handy work Mickie put her keys back in her pocket and went back into the hotel.
It was late and it was cold and Mickie was visibly shaking when she pushed open her hotel room door and flicked on the light.
She looked around the empty room and took a deep breath, there were also downsides to being on your own and this was one of them, having no one to share your happiness, your sadness with was keeping her in a perpetual state of anger and frustration.
Maybe she should talk to Beth and Randy, but she knew they would lie, that she would feel sorry for them, believe them and then they would betray her all over again.
Mickie threw her coat on to the back of the chair and ripped the blonde wig from her head.
Climbing back into bed she flicked off the light and pulled the covers up to her chin and closed her eyes. A small tear ran down her cheek before she could shut them out behind her eyelids.
RANDY
Randy didn't know what to do, first he had been called in to Vince's office to be asked about the video currently on YouTube, he had confirmed the events which took place and told Vice all about why he had done it and what had happened since.
Beth had not told Vince the complete truth when she had told him about the vandalism to her door. She had not mentioned the note, she did not want him to blow anything out of proportion, and much to his and John's protests they had allowed her to do what she wanted.
Now Vince was very keen to start a feud between Himself Beth and Mickie and Laycool. Spilling real life into fiction. He had called it and now that Vince had him by the short and curly's over this video thing he had no choice but to go along with it, even though he knew it would cause more problems.
He had to admit it felt good going out to save Beth though, he thought Vicki was actually going to cause some serious damage to Beth with that stick and it looked like Mickie already had.
Now he was sitting at a table with John and Beth looking into his cup of coffee and not knowing how to begin this particular conversation.
"It doesn't seem like we have much choice." Beth stated after Randy had told her what Vince had said and John had nodded his agreement and was looking even more uncomfortable than he had recently.
"I know who did it!" John suddenly blurted and Randy snapped his head round to look at his best friend and hope the next words out of his mouth was that he had done it.
"It was Mickie" He stated and Beth placed her hand over her mouth.
"How do you know?" Beth whispered though her hand as Randy tried to catch her eyes but they were fixed on John and he had no choice but to give up.
"I rang Matt at the bar when I saw the video, see if he knew who had put it on there, I did not expect him to tell me that it was Mickie who had been the one." John said genuine sadness in his voice as Randy picked up his coffee and took a sip. He felt strangely calm about this as though he had been expecting it. in some way he had, the moment he had seen the words lying whore written over Beth's door he had known deep down who it had been. He had not said anything for fear that speaking it out loud would make it come true, now it was a reality and he had no choice but to confront it.
"She did it all, and she is going to keep on doing it until we can straighten things out with her." Randy said finally as silence fell over their table and no one was looking at each other.
"How none of us can talk to her, she always runs away or screams abuse then runs away." Beth stated and Randy finally looked up and met her eyes.
"Then we need to come up with some kind of plan to get her alone and prove to her that nothing has been going on, that she is making this all up in her head." Randy said looking first to Beth then to John.
John looked apprehensive, he had said nothing since he told them he knew it was Mickie behind all of this and now Randy wondered what else John was holding back on.
"John what do you think?" Randy said tapping John on the shoulder so the wrestler would join in on their conversation and stop staring at the table.
"I think there is something I have to tell you and your not going to like it, in fact I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to me again." John said and randy looked to Beth then back at John, he was sure there was nothing worse that finding out your best friend was sending you threatening letters, not to mention trying to get him suspended.
"That night we went out, me and Mickie ended up in bed together, we were drunk we both said it was a mistake, and we agreed to keep it quite." John said not looking at Randy or Beth as he spoke. Randy was shocked but he had to admit it explained a lot.
He didn't know why they hadn't just said something at the time. Both of them were single, he and Beth had spent the night together and Randy was not sure if he hadn't been so wasted that things wouldn't have gone down differently between them.
Mickie had obviously felt guilty for it and had pushed everyone away, but why did she take the sudden huge offence to his an Beth friendship?
"Why did Mickie go so nuclear about the rumours about me and Beth if she slept with you?" Randy asked John needing to know if there was something else going on here as well.
"I guess because of the way the other diva's were laughing at her, then the whole business about her getting sidelined, I guess it wound her up even more, she lost perspective. I know I should have said something sooner, but I was scared you guys would hate me." John said and Randy could here the guilt evident in his best friends' voice as Beth reached over and took hold of John's hand briefly.
"What's done is done, at least now we can let Mickie know we know everything and we aren't angry, maybe we can move forward from here." Beth said allowing her thumb to caress the back of John's hand and Randy could feel the sudden pang of jealously flash though him before he pushed that thought away as Beth dropped John's hand.
"Ok so how do we get her alone?" John said now looking much more relaxed than he had before. Randy couldn't help but wonder of there were more to this story than John was letting on, but for now he would leave it and wait. Until they had talked to Mickie there was not anything else John could tell them that would help her realise that Beth was not going behind her back to Vince, and he and Beth were not in any kind of relationship, now all they had to do was prove it. something much easier said than done.
Oh it all out in the open, what are they going to say to Mickie if they finally manage to get to speak to her alone?
Will Mickie ever believe anything they say or has it gone to far now, is it even true anymore, are Randy and Beth's feeling purely platonic or is something going on there beneath the surface, or does Randy still want Mickie even though she is trying to bring him down?
Please read and review, I will try and update tomorrow as well as do a chapter of Legacy thank you for reading.
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