Could not choose which story to do first today so I ended up going with what was nagging at me the most and it was this one, enjoy.

RANDY

When he walked into his room he saw Beth sitting on her bed, he could here the small sniffs as she tried to prevent herself from crying even in her isolation and Randy went up and placed a hand on her back.

To his surprise she shot of the bed like a scared animal, but when she turned around and saw him she almost collapsed into his arms.

Randy was content to just hold her and let her cry for the moment, she had been bottling up her feelings for too long now and she was finally letting it all go.

Randy placed his hands around Beth's body as she let the tears subside and pushed away from him.

Randy let her go as she walked over to the window and looked out at the Boston skyline.

"It was John, it was him who went to Vince and asked for Mickie's extended break I am sure of it." She said in a quite voice and Randy almost didn't here what she said. Walking closer to her he placed a hand on her shoulder and span her around to face him.

"How do you know?" He asked not accusing her of anything but feeling like this came about very suddenly.

"Ted said something, he asked me who would want Mickie to disappear for a while, who would have gained at that time." Beth replied and Randy suddenly got it. Mickie had been acting strangely because of what she and John had done the night of the party, but how had Ted known, and would they be able to prove it, did it even matter any more.

"We can't be sure I guess but it seems pretty likely, especially it was the day John stormed out that Vince announced that Mickie was coming back to John. What are we going to do?" Randy said not breaking the eye contact with Beth until she turned away from him and sat back down on her bed.

"We could try and ask him if it's true, I don't see him confessing though and in the end does it really matter now, Mickie has changed I'm not sure I want to know the person she has become." Beth said and Randy walked over and perched on the bed next to her he had to agree. Mickie had acted badly in the extreme over the last few days and he was having a hard time not being very angry at her right now.

"I know what you mean I have just come back from talking with her, it cold have gone better." Randy said which got Beth's attention as she looked at him and her eyes softened obviously by the sadness on his own face.

"She seemed at first like she wanted to believe me, then she turned again, like some switch went off in her head and she couldn't stop herself from becoming like the psycho she used to play. To be honest I think we have been forgiving enough, the door, the threats, the attempt to get me suspended, now the car, they are not the actions of a sane person." Randy said as he watched Beth's eyes close and she took a deep breath in.

"I know, but I can't give up hope on her, she is, was my best friend and I know her better than anybody, maybe it is too late to bring her back to the way she used to be, but I am not ready to give up trying yet." She said taking his hand and Randy levelled his eyes with hers. He could see the determination on her face and he admired her loyalty to Mickie, he was not sure that he had the same resolve that Beth did, he was not sure if he even wanted to try.

Mickie had said things to him that were a lot closer to the truth than he was prepared to admit even to himself right now and he chose to stay quite.

"Randy did Mickie say something to upset you?" Beth asked him as Randy realised that he must have shown his emotions on his face and now Beth was trying to catch his eye and he had a hard time avoiding her.

"Yeah but it's nothing I haven't heard before, maybe we should think about getting some dinner a, I don't know about you but I am starving." Randy said getting up quickly and he could tell by the look on Beth's face that she knew he was just avoiding the subject.

To his eternal gratitude she went along with his plan to get dinner and she stood up and grabbed her room keys from the bedside table.

"We do have to talk about what we are going to have to do about John though, I mean as far as he is concerned we don't know anything." Beth said as Randy held open the door for her and she locked it behind them.

"I'm not sure yet, I guess we give him a chance to come clean, then we deal with it from there." He replied as they stepped into the elevator and the doors closed behind them.

"I'm not sure I can forgive him for this, he has stood by and watched wile we all fell out and Mickie nearly destroyed herself with this time off thing." Beth said with an exasperated sigh and Randy could here the anger in her voice and he was very glad he was not on the receiving end of her wrath.

"I know it does seem like he has tried to patch it up since though, we don't know the full story yet, lets not get too worked up about it until we speak to him, and then if he lies to us we can punch his lights out and leave him tied naked to a lamp post outside a police station." Randy said as Beth smiled for the first time in what seemed like days at the image.

Randy was happy that he had been able to make her smile he had missed it and as they walked out of the elevator he hoped she would grace him with that smile far more often.

JOHN

He knew it was late, but his conscience was not allowing him to settle in for the night. He had not seen Beth or Randy for the rest of the evening and when ted came and found him sat reading a magazine and told him that he may have let something slip to Beth John knew it was for the best.

Walking down the hallway John paused outside the door, shuffling his feet and almost on the verge of turning around and going back to his own room he finally knocked on the door.

At first there was no answer and he checked his watch, it was half past ten, late but not so late that it could be considered the middle of the night. Just as he was about to knock once more the door opened.

John looked down at the petite brunette and watched her face turn into a scowl and he quickly placed his hand on the door to stop her from slamming it in his face.

"Mickie we need to talk, even if it is the last conversation we ever have I have to tell you this." He said as the diva finally relented and stepped back inside her room and John walked passed her and sat on the bed, he knew he would have to sit down for this one.

"Go on then, what is so important that you have to tell me in the middle of the night?" Mickie said folding her arms and remained standing in the middle of the room.

"Look, sit down Mickie, this is hard enough without you staring down at me." John said as he pleaded with Mickie to get back in touch with the kind woman she used to be.

"Ok fine, but maybe you know I how feel all of the time." Mickie replied as she sat next to him and John turned so he could see her better.

"Mickie it was me ok, I went to Vince, I got scared that you were going to tell Randy and Beth about our night, that they would hate both of us and that nether of us would get a chance to be with them. I'm sorry I was a coward and in the end they didn't care anyway." John said all in one breath as Mickie stared at him wide eyed and colour rising on her cheeks.

John heard the slap before he felt it. "Should have seen that one coming." He said holding his throbbing cheek in the palm of his hand as he looked at Mickie's face which was a picture of anger.

"How could you John you could have ruined my carrier, you did ruin my friendship with Beth and any chance I had with Randy." Mickie almost shouted at him but John knew he deserved it, perhaps not all the blame Mickie had done her fair shared of bad things, but he did deserve her anger not Beth or Randy.

"Yeah I did start it Mickie, but you made it worse, you have to stop, you have to talk to them, make it up" John said taking hold of Mickie's hand and making her look at him to emphasise his point.

"Oh great now you tell me, Randy already tried that one, and do you know what I did believe him, I always knew Beth wouldn't do that to me, but I guess it was easier than believing it's what Vince actually wanted, don't you get it John, you might have suggested it, but if Vince hadn't wanted rid of me he wouldn't have gone along with it." Mickie said collapsing on the bed as tears began to streak down her face and John had to hold her. There was no way he was just going to sit there and watch her cry.

"Mickie your back now, this thing you have going with Laycool could be good for you, just know when to leave the bitch at the door a, maybe you should go and patch things up with Beth." John said as he stroked her back and felt as the tears subsided and she sat back up and looked him in the eyes.

"I forgive you John, even though you are a lying bastard, at least you didn't scratch Bitch all the way down my car." Mickie said a rye smile coming to her face as John couldn't stop a smile of his own coming to his lips as he released Mickie from the embrace they had been in while she was crying, and he had to admit he felt the loss of her warm body against his and he stood up quickly to cover up his wayward thoughts.

"I should go, look speak to them in the morning tell them you know everything and that you are sorry, that I am too." John said as he was about to leave though he heard Mickie whisper something under her breath.

"I think it's too late for that."

He didn't ask her to repeat herself, he didn't want her to, there was truth in what she was saying and at the moment John did not want to acknowledge it out loud, maybe the crisp light of day would make this all a hole lot easier.

BETH

Waking up and stretching in her bed in the warm sunshine Beth rolled over on to her side to see the empty bed next to her and she frowned. Just before she could wonder where Randy had gone this early in the morning though the toilet flushed and the bathroom door opened.

"Sorry did I wake you?" Randy said scratching his head in a very endearing manor and Beth smiled at him.

"No I was already awake, what time is it?" she asked rolling back on to her back and staring at the ceiling.

"Eight o'clock and we have a signing at twelve so you'd better get up." Randy said as he flopped back down on his bed and closed his eyes.

"Why only me you have to be there as well." Beth said propping herself up on her elbow and looking over at Randy who looked like he was going to fall back to sleep.

"Yeah but I don't take three hours getting ready, unlike someone I could mention." He said opening one eye and Beth could see him pretending not to look at her and failing miserably.

Beth launched a pillow at him as he scuttled out of the way and only managed to catch him on the side as he jumped off the bed scooping up his own pillow as he went and waving it at her.

"Don't start something you're not prepared to finish Miss Phoenix." Randy said crouching slightly keeping the bed between them as Beth knelt on her own bed and eyed him suspiciously.

"Oh right your basing this on what, that I am going to loose because what I am a girl." Beth smiled back at him, a wicked smile she used to use when she was a heel and about to kick her opponents arse.

"No on the fact that I am better at this than you, sisters" He replied with a evil smirk of his own as Beth's face dropped as Randy launched himself at her and swung the pillow so it connected with her face and she scuttled backwards.

Swinging the pillow wildly she managed to connect with his side and back but now Randy was almost on top of her beating her about the head with the soft pillow.

Beth was lying on her bed now and had given up fighting back and was now using her own pillow as cover as she couldn't help but start laughing.

"Ok ok I give you win." She said once the pillow had toughly messed up her hair and she was out of breath.

"Ha told you years of practice." Randy said but Beth noted that he had not moved and he was virtually straddling her on her bed.

"Oh and this is productive Mr Orton, if as you say I do take forever to get ready having a early morning pillow fight is not exactly motivation, especially one I did not win." Beth said in a mock posh accent and Randy smiled down at her.

"Indeed Miss Phoenix please allow me." Randy said copying her accent and offered her a hand to pull her off the bed. Beth stood up straight and smile awkwardly at randy. There was a tension in the air that she had not felt before and she had the overwhelming urge to run.

Grabbing her towel from her bag she settled instead for going into the bathroom and getting on with her shower.

Once both of them were dressed and ready they made their way down to the car park, they had decided to grab some breakfast away from the hotel, to ready to speak to either Mickie or John they wanted to avoid that particular conversation until they were ready.

Beth realised that they would have to deal with Mickie soon though as she and Laycool were due to be at the same signing she and Randy were at, to promote the feud and the up and coming PPV where Beth would be going for the women's championship at an extreme makeover rules contest.

"Vince really knows a winner when he see's one." Randy said Beth had to snap her attention back to her breakfast as Randy's comment had seemed quite random until she realised hew had been speaking for the past five minutes and she had not heard a word.

"Sorry I drifted off there for a second, what winner has Vince found this time?" She asked scooping the last of her eggs up and chewing on them slowly.

"Us vs Laycool, it's going to be a huge crowd pleaser." Randy said reiterating for her and Beth nodded swallowing her eggs and pushing her plate away.

"It's also going to make it difficult to make things up with Mickie as well, especially with the gruesome twosome lurking around her." Beth said as Randy's face beamed at her joke.

"Yeah, well I think at the moment the ball is in her court, if she wants to make things up she has to stop all this cloak and dagger stuff first." Randy said finishing his own breakfast and Beth had to agree, until Mickie believed what Randy had to say there was no point in her trying to talk to her.

"Ok well I guess we had better go and greet our fans." Beth said standing up and getting out her purse but Randy had already placed the money on the table.

"No way my treat." He said and Beth had to hold off the urge to say that men only paid when it was a date, they were just friends, they should go Dutch. She decided not to say anything along those lines and decided just to thank him instead.

"My pleasure." He replied as they stepped back out into the sunshine and headed for the signing.

MICKIE

With everything that had happened it the last few days Mickie was feeling emotionally drained. She was confused beyond the point of repair and she didn't know which way was up any more.

Now she was sitting at a table only separated a few feet from Beth and Randy who were all smiles and happiness and all she could think about was how horrible it had all been and how they no longer seemed to care.

A lot of the fans were asking her why she had turned heel and sided with Laycool, having to sell the story line she told them it was because Beth had stolen Randy from her and gotten her sidelined on purpose so she could become the number one contender.

These were all things she had once believed to have been true, but her ex-best friend was not guilty of any of them, except one and Mickie didn't even think Beth realised what was happening. Every time she looked over at the pair Randy was looking at Beth and smiling, he almost permanently hand his hand on the back of her chair and Beth seemed completely unaware of the look in his eyes.

Mickie was all to aware of it and she finally had to stand up and walk off, telling Michelle and Layla that she needed a bathroom break Mickie pushed though the doors of the ladies and ran into a stool and closed and locked the door behind her.

She would not cry, it was not worth it, perhaps she should be happy for her friend, not that Beth even seemed interested in what Randy was doing let alone reciprocating it.

"Maybe it's all in my head." Mickie said out loud until she realised this was a public bathroom and anyone could have over heard her.

Wiping her eyes carefully so she did not smudge her make up Mickie opened the bathroom door and stepped though not expecting to see someone staring right back at her.

Ok I am bad but you should be used to it by now, what am I doing? Who knows I am just a slave to my keyboard.

John has finally done the right thing will he be forgiven? What is Randy thinking now, he knows Mickie still likes him she even told him so, but has Beth sneaked in to his heart while he wasn't looking. Does Beth even see Randy as anything but a friend?

Less a love triangle more a love quadrangle well I did say I like a challenge. As ever please review and I will endeavour to update quickly.