A/N: Thanks for the reviews. Strong Language, Adult scenes. Doesn't Miller need family, friends and his Mayhem Monkeys? I think he needs them now more than ever. In the most recent Ariel interview he gave Ariel's "Volksmann for President" T-shirt back, but he'd vandalised it. He'd either broken out of his character when he was calling himself Lucky Patrick. Or being Mayhem, he was so mad at Ariel he "Mayhemed" The T-shirt.
Couldn't he have surprised Ariel with getting a similar new T-shirt made? He said in Ariel's second interview that he was "jobless" but That won't last long. Miller seems very media friendly. Maybe he'll get offered another TV show? I've stolen one line from the TV show "Hunted" I've borrowed character Jacqui McQueen from the TV show Hollyoaks, and the characters John Iley, DannyV and Sash Gavrik are from the story: "It's Kin The Blood"
They were friends. On page nine, paragraph two, sub-section one, zero, six, point five of the guy code, he had to give him a place to stay. The MMA tour could only give him so much money before they told him to piss off. Carrying his luggage he nervously knocked on the door. "Yeah..." Nate said getting up from the sofa. He opened the door to see Tommy. "Shit...Tom, how are you doing?" Nate asked shaking his hand. "Cool Nate, but...I kinda need a place to stay" Tommy said, pointing to his luggage. "Can I crash?" He asked. "Sure" Nate said nodding and let him in.
"That's it Jase, I'm calling the cops" Mark said getting out his mobile. "Do that Mark and I'm saying nothing, it's over" Miller said blowing his nose. "Are you gonna tell me who did this?...Addison by any chance?" Mark asked. "It's doesn't matter" Miller said. "I'm supposed to be proving to Carlos that I'm mature enough to meet his family, so could this be our little secret?" He asked his friend. "Come on, you need to get dressed and changed" Mark said helping him get up. There were still blood marks on the floor from the beating and Mark could hear his trainers sliding on it. Miller made Mark promise that he'd lie to Carlos for a while until Miller didn't look so bad. After the Scott Smith victory Miller could take a couple of days off from training and no-one would question it.
Nick knocked on his little brother's door, his training bag chaffing his shoulder. "Hey" Nate said. "We got someone with us" Nate said opening the door, Nick got a look at Tommy and nodded. "He's staying for a while, you know, while he gets his shit together" Nate told him. "For free?" Nick asked. He didn't want his little brother supporting a bum that would never pay him back. "We ain't talked about it, he's a friend" Nate said. Nick bit his lip to keep his mouth shut. He'd have to talk to Tommy later. They got to the gym and Tommy was on punching bags before he challenged Nate to a boxing match. Nate was quick on his feet, but Tommy's punching power kept jolting him backwards.
"Nate, don't be afraid to use that right" Nick said while he was on the mat with Anthony Torres. Nate stepped toward Tommy with jabs that didn't meet Tommy face. Tommy rocked his friend with an uppercut and told Nate to throw in the towel before he got hurt. Nick gritted his teeth as his brother shook Tommy's hand. After the mats Nick started running on the treadmill. Tommy joined him looking over to try and match his speed. "Nate's good" Tommy said. Nick nodded and slowed down to a jog. "You staying at my brothers?" Nick asked. "Sure Am" Tommy said. "What are you paying him with? Punches?" Nick asked sarcastically.
"We're friends, it's private" Tommy said now running on the treadmill. Nick pulled the stop string and got off. Tommy cut training early. He knew he had a lot of nerve, but his conscience had been bugging him all day. He knocked on Miller's door and Miller opened it staring at him in shock. "Fuck you" Miller said about to close the door. "Wait...I know I'm a piece shit, but I needed Addison's money" Tommy said. "You know, he's loaded" "Well...that makes it alright then" Miller said, letting him in. Tommy helped himself to a chair, his stomach churning when he saw the blood that had leaked from Miller's injured body.
"I'm here to say I'm sorry. It's just fighting doesn't pay my bills. I'm broke and Addison and his friend approached me. But I do like you Mayhem, I think you're a cool guy and I wanna start afresh with you" Tommy said. "You have no idea how much I needed that money" "Yeah, you keep saying that" Miller said. "I don't wanna make you sick but, Addison's and his friends money is coming through in a few days. If you can't go out, I can get you stuff" Tommy offered. "Well aren't you sweet?" Miller teased. "I don't want anything...I'm vegan, that shit is expensive" "I don't care" Tommy said. "I'm gonna make this up to you...I promise" Tommy said asking Miller if he needed anything, then he left.
John put the new name up on the wall. It was always exciting to think about new recruits, hiring new blood, it gave him a buzz of uncertainty that he liked. His team nodded hellos and sat down in unison. "Morning guys, this is the man of the moment right now" John said putting the fighter's picture on the white board. "Do you know this face?" John asked. "Nah" Jacqui McQueen said putting gum into her mouth. "Jason Mayhem Miller?" DannyV asked. John nodded. Lady and Gentlemen, this is Jason "Mayhem" Miller. Jack of all trades, master of some. We've been approached to get him onside. DannyV and Sash, you'll be going to the gyms that he trains at. First you'll introduce yourselves as exercise fanatics, then within a week he'll be here and we'll tell him why we really want him" John said.
"What if he says no?" Jacqui asked. "He won't...I'll make sure of that" John said as he put on his laptop. "Jase, I'm not going anywhere until you let me in!" Carlos yelled. "I'll wait all day long" Knowing how stubborn Carlos could be, Miller opened the door. "Jase not again" Carlos said looking at Miller's puffy bruised face. "Nate Diaz...again?" Carlos asked. "Nah..no...it was Tommy" Miller said. "Nick's friend...after Scott's fight, we drank some more beer and I was like pushing him to fight me and calling him all these names and I was practically begging him for a hit and he did" Miller said. "What? He's a friend of Nick's so, I can't be surprised" Carlos said.
"Enough with the drinking Jase. You know how bad you get" Carlos said rubbing his knees. "If you wanna nurse me back to health...you can" Miller offered. "I talked to Mark, he's got that covered" "He told you?" Miller asked. "No he said you just needed rest after the Scott Smith fight" Carlos said. On Carlos's way back home from his apartment, he stopped over at Nick's training camp. He said hi to Nate and glanced at the well built man beside him. "You Tommy?" Carlos asked. "Tommy nodded. "Strikeforce property...yeah" Tommy said.
"Good for you...look, I saw what you did to Jase, and he's got enough on his plate with fighting. He doesn't need drunk idiots beating him up at night" Carlos said. "Tommy nodded latching on to Miller's lie. "We were just messing around" Tommy said. "Well that stops now okay?" Carlos asked. Tommy nodded and shook his hand. Nick came out of the break-room to see Carlos walking away. He walked up to Tommy and his brother. "That was nothing" Nate said quickly as Tommy and Nate went over to train at the punching bags, before Nick started asking unwanted questions.
Two days later Miller started gentle training at the gym. He was running slowly in time with his music until some guy next to him slipped on the treadmill belt and banged his knee. "Sranje" Sasha said as he pulled himself up. "I dunno what you just said, but I hope you weren't saying I'm fat" Miller said as helped him up. "Thank you" Sash said looking at Miller's face. "Have you had a fall yourself?" He asked. "Yeah, one hell of a fall" Miller said as they both started talking at a slower speed on the treadmills.
"Yeah...Mark, I totally get it" DannyV said as Miller walked in. "Here's the guy I was telling you about" Mark said introducing them. "Jase, this is Paul, Paul I'm sure you've seen Jase on TV" Mark said. "Mark you flatter me" Miller said, getting boxing gloves on. Paul's thinking about joining" Mark said. "Cool" Miller said going to a punching bag. "Mayhem, maybe you could show me some moves" DannyV/Paul asked. "Miller nodded and they did gentle sparring. Paul asked him questions about his life and where he thought his career was going and Miller didn't give anything away. He said that Scott Smith had been a challenge and he was glad to have such a supportive training camp.
Looking on the internet, Tommy found a vegan delivery service that was cheap enough for his taste. Money from his last fight had come through and one of the fair things for Tommy to do was order some food for Miller. He was on the computer when Nate saw him ordering vegan take away food on the net. "When did you become vegan?" Nate asked. "It's not for me...I owe someone" Tommy said. He pressed the order button and the delivery went straight to Jacqui McQueen's inbox. Within six days she pulled up alongside Miller's house watching Tommy on Miller's doorstep.
"Hiya" Jacqui said opening the boot and taking the bags out. "Thanks" Tommy said taking the bags from her. "You want me to knock?" Jacqui asked. "Nah it's okay..." Tommy said as Jacqui strode up to the door and tapped on it. "Delivery!" She yelled. Miller opened the door pleasantly surprised. "Let me guess, are you a freebie?" Miller asked. "Dream on, this is yours right? Sign here please Sir" Jacqui said as Miller signed on the dotted line. She drove off while Tommy brought Miller's bags indoors. "I told you I'd come through for you" Tommy said. "I've been punched stupid, so I can't exactly jump for joy" Miller said snarkily.
"You're staying with Nick?" Miller asked. "Nah I'm with Nate. Nick's not really a fan of mine since we came back from Canada" Tommy told him. "Really?" Miller said. "He wants me to pay his brother to stay and I can't even afford clean toilet paper. Nick needs to get off my case" Tommy told him. "Or what? Miller asked. "Face it Tommy, the Diaz brothers own your ass" Miller said. "Unless I let Nick know that I'm not to be messed with" Tommy said. "Have any ideas?" Miller asked. Tommy's "idea" involved Miller tagging along to Nate and Nick's training camp at night. They both knew Nick would be there training.
Tommy turned on the lights to reveal Nick performing crunches in the dark.
"Why are you here?" Nick asked.
"It's a free country" Tommy said while Miller walked over to a punching bag.
"Carlos ran in here the other day" Nick said. "Heard you got your ass whooped" He said to Miller.
"Nick, the Carlos running jokes are getting old" Miller said as Tommy started running around on the mats. Miller followed him. Tommy was a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-jistu but wanted to test Miller, and Miller didn't mind as they sprawled on the floor fighting for the best position, Nick asked "Did you?" Miller got up and stood still. "You talking to me?" He asked. Nick stayed silent and Miller took that as a yes. "Did I What?" He asked. "What Carlos said" Nick said. Miller gave Nick the same excuse as he gave Carlos. "Me and good old Tommy here" Miller said patting Tommy's shoulders.
"We went out, we got slaughtered, I pushed him too far. I talked a whole lot of shit and we had a little wrestle. No harm done" Miller said with a cheesy grin.
"You're retarded if you think I believe that shit" Nick said. "I ain't Carlos"
"We don't care what you fucking believe" Tommy said getting back on the mat.
"Did you just fucking swear at me?" Nick asked.
"Okay...times up Tommy, we've gotta go" Miller said, they left to go to the bus stop. Tommy's bus came quickly while Miller sat by himself waiting for his bus. "Hi Jase" DannyV/Paul said reaching over to shake his hand. "Hey...Paul is it?" Miller asked. "Well Detective Paul" DannyV said showing his I.D. The man that Miller had seen at the treadmill days ago, did the same thing and pulled out his own I.D. "What? I haven't done anything, well, maybe crimes against fashion every now and again, but nothing major. Get the murderers guys...I'm just a broke fighter on my way home...I'm hungry" Miller said, hoping they'd leave him alone.
"We're hungry too Mr Miller, for information that you've got. You can have dinner on us, free of charge, but you're coming with us" DannyV said. As Nick locked his training camp doors, he saw three figures that looked like men getting into a car, he didn't think any thing of it until he heard what sounded like Miller's voice. "You're not gonna like dunk my head to get me in the car" Miller said. Instead of getting in his car, Nick ran up to the traffic lights to see if he was right, or if he was going slowly insane by thinking about Miller too much. The police car went past and the glare of the street lights showed Miller at the back of the car talking to the men. It wasn't any of Nick's business but he ran up to the car and tapped once on Miller's window. Miller looked at Nick and shrugged before the light turned green.
Nick ran to his own car to see if he could follow Miller, if he got caught by the police he could always say that he was lost. He started the engine and drove out into the road. He knew that Miller had been up Carlos's ass after the MMA tour and had laid low after Tommy's drunk ass-kicking. Could Addison have called the cops? Nick thought to himself. If Addison was part of this, Nick knew he was partly to blame himself. By the time Nick was done with him, Addison would be giving Stephen hawking a run for his money. Nick had to be a hundred percent sure that Miller had screwed up and done something stupid before Nick decided to drive away and turn his back on Miller for good.