Melina had decided she needed to wash up before she went she went back out there for the final presentation. She wasn't to bitter about getting thrown out by Victoria, she had lasted until the final four and she had her title shot at no way out in a month anyway. Stripping off her clothes and grabbing her towel she reached into the shower and turned on the faucet. Not bothering with checking the temperature she dashed in knowing she had ten minutes tops before she would have to make her way back. Letting the water cascade down her face she washed away the sweat from the match. Turning and letting the hot water sooth her aching muscles on her neck, she whipped her eyes and opened them. For a second she didn't realise what she was looking at. Blinking slowly her hand came to her mouth, and she slid to the floor. She wanted to scream but no sound was coming out. Looking back at her were the staring eyes of her best friend Kelly Kelly. She was slumped over in a sitting position, she was naked and she had a knife jutting out from her chest. Crimson water ran from her into the drain. Melina couldn't move she couldn't even comprehend the image in front of her. She looked at the knife and saw a white piece of paper attached to it. That's when the scream finally came. She screamed until her lungs hurt. Scrambling up she hit the button for the shower, not bothering to dry herself she threw on a pair of sweats and a tank top. Realising no one was in ear shot and the crowd where going wild while Obsession played over the sound system. Melina didn't take any of this in as she reached the gorilla position where everyone had been watching the match. John Cena saw her first. "Oh my God Melina what's happened." He said as the sobbing Diva struggled to catch her breath. "Kelly, she in the showers." She managed to get out as John helped her stand upright. "What's happened?" Hunter said as he walked in with Stephanie "Kelly's dead!" Melina suddenly blurted out. The entire company fell into stunned silence. Randy and Mickie were just making their way up the ramp just in time to see Hunter and John disappear round the corner. "Hey what's up with them they got the runs or something?" Mickie smiled but her face soon fell as she saw Melina in Cody's arms and Jillian Hall in tears in Candice's embrace. "Oh my God what has happened?" She said looking at everyone and no one at the same time. Randy had taken hold of her hand and she was grateful for his presence not for the first time in her life. "Kelly is dead." Stephanie said placing her hand on Mickie's shoulder. "No not again how? Why?" Mickie suddenly felt like her legs were going to give way. "I have to see her." She blurted and made to dash after the boys. "No Mickie you really don't want to do that." Melina said standing up and wrapping her arms around Mickie. Mickie knew she had to be string for Melina, sure Mickie like Kelly but she was Melina's best friend. "Sussh it's not your fault it will be ok." Mickie said stroking Melina's wet hair. Melina finally released Mickie as the boys came back from the women's locker room. "The police are on their way." Hunter said going over to his wife. "That must have been horrible for you Melina seeing her that way." John said wrapping his arms around the Latino and stroking her back. "I don't think I am ever going to get that image out of my head." She said leaning away from him. "But there was something else." She said looking around at the entire Raw roster. "there was a note, it was getting washed away by the shower, but I read it, it's what made me finally get off that floor and do something. She said looking first to John then Mickie, the only other person in the room who could have even the slightest idea what she was going though. "What did it say honey?" Mickie said reaching out for Melina's hand. "Who's next?" She said with a breath and looked deep into Mickie's eyes.
Mickie had not slept properly all night. She was alone in her room, sunshine poring though her window and she shivered even under the warm comforter. As the details of Kelly's death came to light, and the police had questioned everyone for what seemed like hours, they had all gone to the hotel early completely exhausted. She was sharing a corridor with the Legacy boys, all had their own rooms, but they had sat talking in Ted's room for hours before going to bed. "Cody come on man there was nothing you could have done." Ted said patting the young man on the shoulder and offering him a smile. Cody had been the superstar to escort the eliminated Kelly Kelly off the stage. "I should have looked after her gone to check on her when she didn't come back." He said head in his hands. Mickie knew this feeling of guilt well, she was still recovering from the shock of loosing Beth, but she knew Cody needed her right now. Getting down on her knees and placing her hands on his she waited for him to look at her. "Cody you can't do this to yourself, there was nothing you could have done, we were not thinking that there would be another murder, no one else thought to check on her, no one was even worried, you can't hold on to this guilt or it will eventually consume you and it will be all you ever think about. The only person to blame all this on is the person who murdered our friends." Mickie said and Cody smiled at her, it didn't quite reach his eyes but it was a start. "Then can I suggest we start thinking about who did this." Cody said, and that started off the longest night of Mickie's life. They spent hours eliminating suspects, then realising it could have been them. They only managed to come up with a few names of people who couldn't have done it. "So the only people who could not have done it were those on stage when Melina found the body. Which was Mickie, Ted, Michelle and Vince." Randy said looking around the room for the nods. "For what its worth Cody I don't think you did it" Ted said offering Cody a smile. "Yeah but I am going to be prime suspect I walked her off stage for god sake." He said turning to the window and pulling it closed. The night had grown chilly and the hour extremely late. "No your not, we have to take into account Beth's death now too they are connected, and your in the clear for that one." Mickie said standing up and stretching her stiff muscles. "Lets sleep on it, its getting late and I am beet." Randy said heading for the door. They all followed suite saying their good nights and retiring to their own beds. Mickie had not slept on it, the thoughts of a killer in their mist had kept her awake all night. She couldn't tell who was who anymore. Everyone was up for suspicion, was she never going to be able to trust her colleagues, her friends ever again. Giving up and getting out of bed she headed for the shower. Mickie was dressed and ready to go down for breakfast by eight o'clock, she rang Randy's room and found he was also awake. "Couldn't sleep either?" He said simply and Mickie said yes. "Yeah do you fancy some breakfast?" she said twirling the telephone cord round her finger. "Sure should I get the boys?" Randy said putting on his shoes while clutching the phone to his ear via his shoulder. "No let them sleep." Mickie said and she added that she would see him in two minutes and put the phone down. Getting her own shoes on she grabbed her purse and her room keys. Randy was already waiting for her in the corridor outside her room. "Fancy seeing you here." He said smiling at her and Mickie was glad that he was around, He always knew how to make her smile. "Come on you I am starving." Mickie said grabbing his arm and leading him down the stairs. Entering the lobby Mickie spotted Melina, she had her suitcase with her. Mickie asked Randy to get the food she had to talk to Melina. Melina looked up at the sound of her name. "Mickie Hi." She greeted. Mickie could see the Diva had red circles round her eyes and her normally olive skin was pale and drawn. "I am going home for two weeks." Melina said as Mickie eyed her luggage. "Oh well that is probably for the best you have had a horrible shock, and a terrible loss." Mickie said reaching out for the Diva's hand. "So have you, but your still here, but I swear every time I close my eyes I see her there, dead her eyes staring back at me hollow empty." Melina said fresh teas falling down her cheeks. "Here." Mickie said handing Melina a card. "She is very good, go see her she helped me you know after Beth." Melina looked down at the card and smiled at Mickie. "I will thank you." With that the Diva picked up her bags and headed off into the sunshine. Mickie watched her get into the taxi then headed off to find Randy and her breakfast.
The entire Raw roster had been brought together to be told that no one was to be left alone, that they had to stick together and take this threat very seriously. Press conferences and statements had been made about the incident. Things had to be kept secret about the circumstances of Kelly's death but the entire WWE universe was in shock. In fact the rest of the world were now beginning to here about the events at the WWE. Mickie found herself in the hotel gym in Chicago under the watchful eye of Randy Orton, she hated all this buddy stuff. Yes she loved Randy's company and he was a great friend but she needed her alone time. "Hey." He said as she got off the tread mill. "hey." She replied wiping the sweat off her face. "I thought before the house show tonight we could take in a movie or something." Randy said trying to offer Mickie some normalcy in their lives. "That's a really nice thought Randy but I was thinking of just spending the afternoon reading up in my room." Randy was a bit disappointed but he knew Mickie was starting to feel like a gold fish. "I know it's not always good to have someone there." He smiled at her as they made their way to the elevators. "Yeah I wish they could just find this guy, I mean it's been a week we have moved city's, and still no clue." Mickie said as the doors opened. "I know it's hard I keep looking at the others thinking was it you." Randy admitted as they walked through the door leading to their corridor. "I mean is this guy or girl just after Diva's we don't really know, was Kelly just a random killing or was she targeted , we know Beth must have been the target, the poison was in her water bottle, but was it Kelly because she was alone? And one more thing this killer is getting worse, killing some one by poison is so impersonal, calculated yes but not direct, stabbing someone face to face is completely different. "Mickie said looking up into Randy's eyes and saw him nod. "I had thought about that, and Kelly was naked in that shower there are two possibilities I can think of , either she was threatened in to that shower and made to take her clothes off then killed, or and this scares me the most, she knew her killer well enough, trusted them enough to look at them and not fight back." Randy said looking at the floor then back at Mickie. "I know." Was all she said as she opened her door and let herself in. "You know I don't feel like reading, fancy a game of cards?" She said smiling at her companion. "Sure." Randy said following her into her room.
The house show went as planned, Kelly had a good send off and Randy won his much against triple H, but backstage things were tense, there was not the normal joking nature, you could tell people were sticking to their usual group of friends and were avoiding the people they didn't normally speak to. Everyone was a suspect, all the stage hands, crew and technicians were treated with distrust and people were keeping their locker rooms locked. Mickie walked the halls with Ted, Randy was still on stage and Cody was waiting for him. Ted was getting ready for his match with Shelton Benjamin and Mickie had gone with him. "You know this is pretty weird." Ted said as he got into his ring attire in the bathroom. "I know its so different here. Mark said hello to me earlier and I could do was nod at him and get away. I mean I know as the undertaker he is a mean SOB but as Mark he is the sweetest guy." Ted came out ready for his match and they made their way back to the prep area. "I know what you mean, besides you and the rest of Legacy I have not spoke to anyone in great depth for a week now." Ted said as Randy and Cody came round the corner. "Hey well done." Mickie said offering Randy a smile and her hand. "Thanks but man I need a shower my shoulder I killing me. Hunter really got me good with that side slam." Randy said rotating his shoulder. "Maybe you should consider the Dr?" Cody said eyeing his friend. "Na he will just give me some anti in flans and tell me to rest I know the routine." Randi said looking at Cody and giving him a smirk. "I will come with you Cody you can watch Ted's match make sure he is ok." Mickie said looking at Ted and smiling. "Go kick some arse." She said and kissed him on the cheek. "Will do." Ted said beaming from ear to ear. Mickie walked off with Randy intending to watch Ted's match from the locker room, but she really needed to talk to him about one of their earlier conversations. "So what's up?" Randy said coming out of the shower and saw Ted was winning his match. "How did you know I wanted to talk to you?" She said not taking her eyes off the TV. "Just could tell by the way you looked at me." He said rubbing the towel though his damp hair. "Hold on Ted's going for the pin. 1..2..3 yes chalk another one up for the Legacy gang." Mickie said turning to see Randy in just a towel and having to remember to breath. "Umm yeah its about your thought on who Kelly may not run away from in that situation, you know naked in the shower." Mickie said averting her gaze back to the TV. Randy tried to hold back a small smile at the Diva's reaction to him in a towel. "Oh yeah." He said knowing that this might be important. "Yeah rumour is she was having an affair with someone, no one knows who, I have not noticed anyone unusually upset, but it is hard as I have not really been talking to many people, I wondered if you knew if any of the guys were having a harder time with her death?" Randy racked his brains. "now you come to mention it Jeff was acting a bit strange lately. Me and him go way back, but he has been off , more distant, its no proof, but it's a start." Randy said going back into the bathroom to change. "Maybe I should talk to him." Mickie said getting up from the sofa. "not on your own wait for me." Randy said popping hi head out of the door and giving her a glare. "for crying out loud." Mickie said throwing her hands in the air and letting out a huff of breath. She did flash him a smile though to let him know she was joking.
Notes.
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