"So why are we having this party again?" Cody asked as Ted pulled him into Mark, Jeff and James's hotel room. He hadn't exactly been given much of a choice in whether he was going to go or get to stay back in his hotel room. Ted had just grabbed him and said they were going to go the party and that had been that.

Ted shrugged just a little too innocently for Cody's taste. "I have no idea. I just got told we were partying and I accepted it. See you have to just accept these kinds of things Coddles. It makes life so much easier."

"Coddles?" James said with a snort. Mark tried to elbow him to get him to shut up but that worked to absolutely no avail.

Cody's face turned red and he gave Cody a dirty look. "Did you have to use that nickname?"

"Oh come on, it's adorable!" Ted tried to pinch Cody's cheeks but Cody slapping him across the face put an end to that real quick. "Ow…you don't have to hit you know."

"Asshole," Cody muttered, almost glaring at James because he was still laughing him but then he decided it would be in his best interest if he refrained from doing so. Luckily for him though, Jeff wasn't afraid of James and he spoke up on Cody's behalf.

"James! Don't make fun of him." Jeff put his arm around Cody and gave him a little hug. "Ignore him. He's just trying to be obnoxious today."

"He's ALWAYS obnoxious," Glenn pointed out. He was sitting at the table drinking a beer, shaking his head at Jeff. "Haven't you caught on to that by now?"

Jeff pouted his lips and let go of Cody so he could hug James. "He is not obnoxious!"

"Yeah," James agreed. He hugged Jeff back and gave Glenn a smug look. "You should listen to this boy Crispy Critter. He knows what he's talking about."

Mark shook his head as Glenn scowled at James. "Don't fucking start," the Deadman ordered. "Okay? I don't want to hear it tonight."

"You never want to hear it," James said with a pout. "How can I properly annoy your deep fried brother if I can't start anything?"

"Fuck you, I'm not deep fried!" Glenn snapped. "How about I just fucking get up and shove my foot into your face? How would you like that?"

"I'd like to see you try," James dared. He glanced over at Ted and grinned. "What about you Teddy? Would you like to see that? Would that get your motor revving?"

"Wha-what?" Ted stammered out, his face turning bright red.

A knock on the door saved them from having James repeat what he just said. Mark quickly answered the door and Phil, Jay, Evan, Mor and a very cranky looking Randy entered the room. "Matt and Adam aren't coming?" Phil asked with a frown. John and Shawn were still with John's parents so Matt and Adam were the only ones unaccounted for.

Jeff just shrugged. "They said they might drop in if they feel up to it, which is just code for them being stupid and not liking us no more." He flopped down on the bed and pouted his lips. "They're mean like that." He grabbed Evan (who was the closest person to him) and pulled him down on to the bed with him so he could hug him. "They're all obsessed with that damn baby. It's weird."

Cooper smirked and shook his head. "Actually I think it's kind of cute."

"Yeah but you're not being ignored for a baby that's not even real," Jeff pointed out. "I mean it would be totally different if that was a real kid they were ditching me for. But it's not and I'm frustrated. Who am I supposed to bug if my big brother isn't around?"

"You can always bug Jay," Mor said, pointing to the token blonde Canadian in the room.

"Oh thanks," Jay sarcastically. "Thanks a lot. Way to throw me under the bus there asshole."

Cody just began to tune out the mindless banter and headed over to Randy, who did not seem happy at all. "Are you okay?" he asked quietly. He didn't like seeing Randy look so upset. It really did bother him in a major way.

Randy eyed the others and noticed they were too lost in messing around and talking to each other to even notice that anything was wrong. "Hunter was just being an asshole," he said quietly. "He fucking went to McMahon and got me in trouble for punching him."

Cody's jaw dropped. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah."

"Well did you tell Vince why you punched him?"

"Yeah but it didn't make a damn bit of difference. I got told that if I started falling back into my old habits, Vince was going to take action to protect his company."

Now that really pissed Cody off. Randy did have a history of behaving like an idiot but he wasn't like that anymore. He had mellowed out a lot and it wasn't fair for Vince to be cracking down on him again just because Hunter wanted to act like a douchnozzle. "You want me to kick Hunter's ass for you?"

Randy immediately shook his head. "No way. If McMahon is going to be watching me now then I'll just get Shawn to go after Hunter. If anyone is going to get to that big nosed mother fucker it's him."

"That could be asking for trouble though. Hunter's really getting antsy now because of the wedding-"

"Yeah well you know? Hunter can just fucking get over it. He should have just figured out by now that Shawn's not going to ever love him because he's too much of an arrogant prick."

Cody nodded along, not about to argue with Randy about that. Not only was it the truth but it was just not wise to disagree with Randy about what he said about Hunter. After everything Hunter had done to him, Randy had every right to feel the way he did. Cody would feel the exact same way if Hunter had put him through that same bullshit.

"Yo! You two bitches quit talking so much and come over here and drink with us," James said, holding up a bottle of tequila in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other. "If everyone in here except for Princess Straightedge isn't completely smashed by the end of the night I'm going to be really upset."

Phil gave James an incredulous look. "Did you just call me Princess Straightedge?"

"Yes I did," James confirmed. "That's your new official name."

Cody snickered at the look on Phil's face. "I think it's fitting actually."

"Nobody cares what you think Rhodes," Phil snapped.

"I do," Randy said.

James and Ted smirked at each other and James quickly poured Cody and Randy each a shot. "Here," James said. "Drink up bitches."

Cooper shook his head at his father. "What is it with you and the word bitches tonight Dad?"

Connor giggled loudly and hugged Cooper's leg. He was the only besides Phil who wasn't getting passed any alcohol and Cody figured that was probably for the best. "Daddy likes bitches!"

"Yes I do," James said as he ruffled Connor's hair. "Why do you think I love Mark so much?"

"Hey!" Mark objected while Glenn and Cooper laughed. "What the hell Lawson?"

James just grinned and kissed Mark's cheek. "You know you love me."

Mark rolled his eyes. "I should smack you."

"As long as it's on my ass, be my guest."

…

With the alcohol flowing and Phil being the sober parent they were all ignoring, it didn't take long for all of them to get completely smashed. And with that smashed state came a rather "brilliant" idea. "It's called Win the Shot, Call the Spot," Jeff slurred as he hung all over Evan and James.

"Oh God, this game again?" Phil moaned. "Do you have any idea how bad of an idea this is?"

"Shaddup and be the judge already," Mark said as he handed Evan and Jeff their shots. "On the count of three. One…two…three!"

Jeff and Evan both drank with Jeff being the one who finished first. "Alright," Jeff said, rubbing his hands together deviously. "Since I won I say that you have to get naked and skip down to the ice machine and then skip back here."

"Skip?" Evan whined. "Why do I have to skip?"

"Because I won the shot," Jeff replied. "Now strip and skip bitch!"

Cody snickered as Evan took his clothes off. "Strip and skip, strip and skip, strip and skip, strip and-"

"Shut up Cody!" Jay ordered. "You're ruining the show." He slapped Evan on the ass and laughed as he turned a deep shade of red. "Go get 'em tiger!"

Evan continued to blush as he opened the door and started skipping and everyone immediately ran out of the room to watch him go, hooting and hollering the entire time. Several innocent bystanders were in Evan's way and they got quite the eyeful as Evan passed them by. "You all suck!" Evan declared when he got back into the room. "You really really suck!"

"Ah you know you love us," Jay said as he handed Evan back his clothes.

Evan just muttered something totally incomprehensible under his breath and nobody bothered to find out what it was. Instead Jay faced off with Mor next and Jay ended up having to chug a bottle of vodka (he promptly got sick when he was done). Then Cooper and Mark faced off and Mark ended up having to bow down to Cooper and proclaim him as supreme ruler and master of the universe (which did not go over well with Mark at all). Then James faced off with Glenn and James won, which led to rather interesting consequences.

"You have to let Teddy Bear here give you a lap dance," James declared, laughing as Glenn's eyes widened.

"Wha?" Ted said in confusion. "Why am I pulled into this, I-"

"Oh come on, you know you want to do it," James said. He leaned over and whispered something else in Ted's ear. Cody didn't know what it was, but to his shock it prompted Ted to nod and point at the radio. "Give me some music!"

"Now wait-" Glenn's voice died when Mark turned the radio on and Ted started moving his hips to the music, smirking as he pushed Glenn down on to the chair and straddled his lap.

"Oh…my…God," Randy said as he watched Ted grind Glenn like he was a stripper or something.

"I think I need another drink," Cody said as he put his hand over his mouth.

"Your wish is my command!" James said happily. He handed Cody a drink and kept one for himself. "Me versus you. You ready?"

"Didn't you just go?" Randy asked.

"Yeah but there's an odd number of people playing so I'm going twice to compensate." James nodded at Cody and they drank and James won, just like he just did against Glenn. "Okay," James said, barely holding in a burp that was trying to escape him. "Cody, I want you to take Randy and go into the closet for ten minutes."

Cody's eyes widened. "What?" he squeaked.

James rolled his eyes but instead of bothering to repeat himself, he merely picked up both Randy and Cody and deposited them inside the closet. "Have fun!" he said cheerfully as he closed the door.

Randy blinked and shook his head slowly, his alcohol filled mind having trouble processing what it was that just happened. "Dude…it's dark in here."

"Yeah," Cody agreed. He started reaching around for the doorknob but ended up touching Randy instead. Something sparked as soon as their skin touched and his breath got caught in his throat and his heart started pounding inside of his chest. "Randy…"

"Oh fuck it," Randy said, grabbing Cody by the face and smashing their lips together.

Cody gasped but didn't try to pull away. He just deepened the kiss in a very sloppy manner, not caring about who was on the other side listening to them. "Randy," he groaned as he was pushed back up against the wall. "Randy…"

…

Phil shook his head as he stepped away from eavesdropping on the make-out session. James looked pretty proud of himself but Phil had quite a few reservations about this. "If they regret in the morning-"

"Aw fuck regret," James slurred out. He waved his arms around dramatically. "Those two are perfect together. They just need to wake up and smell the roses." He put his arm around Phil and gave him an evil look. "Now let's get you in a dress."

Phil blinked, unsure if he had heard that right. "I'm not wearing a dress," he stated when he realized James wasn't joking. "You can't make me."

James just smirked evilly. "You wanna bet?"