Ok I am now really starting to go cross eyed but I need to get this done or I am going to drive myself crazy let alone you guys.
On with it
Atlanta was a beautiful city. Mickie had been here once before it was a flying visit and she had not seen much f it. This time however she felt like locking herself away in her room. "Come on Mickie let's go to dinner, I am sure Ted's bad jokes will cheer you up." Randy said trying to get the Diva in the party mood. "I know and I will come I am just tired." Mickie said, the early flight combined with the lack of sleeping she had had over the past few weeks were finally catching up with her. "Well get in the shower then or it will be breakfast not dinner." Randy said shoeing her into the bathroom. "Ok I am going." Mickie helping the smile that appeared on her face, she could always smile when she was with him. He seemed to be the only one who could make her feel anything at the moment, she knew she had to at least smile when she could. They were dressed and ready in forty minutes and they met the rest of Legacy in the lobby. "Hey who is this fine looking young woman you have found Randy?" Ted said smiling at Mickie who had put on a pair of jeans and a pretty shear top with matching bra. "Ha ha Ted get some new lines honey." She said and she gave him a playful smile. She loved Ted he could always make her laugh, and even though she knew he secretly fancied her he would never step over the line he valued their friendship too much. "Hey you know this place is famous for its sea food, I am so hungry I could eat a whole shark." Cody said getting in the taxi and sliding over to let the others in. "I think I have seen you eat a whole shark fat boy." Ted said giving Cody a poke in the stomach. Cody just raised his eyebrows at him. "You can talk Mr whole pack of chips to yourself." Cody said and grinned back at Ted as if to say they know all your secrets now. Mickie let out a small giggle, she did feel better around her boys. Pulling up to the restaurant they all got out and were escorted to a lovely table in the back, Mickie could feel this was going to be a good evening, and even if she only had one more it would be enough for now. They could think about tomorrow when it comes.
The meal was great the company was better. Mickie had almost forgotten about the tragedy surrounding them. Almost, but not quite something would be said and it would remind her of the people they had lost, she wondered if anyone else noticed this, but she chose to stay quite, tonight was for the living and she knew none of them would have wanted everyone sitting in their rooms crying for the rest if their lives. She knew if she was next she would want her friends to live their lives. Getting back to their room Randy collapsed on his bed and held his stomach. "I am so full." He said looking at Mickie and pulling a face. "I told you not to have desert but did you listen No." She said sitting on her own bed. "I know but it was so worth it." He said putting his hands under his head. "Well stop complaining then, but might I suggest we go down to the gym first thing in the morning." She said getting up and heading to the bathroom. "Deal but for now I am going to stay right here." Randy said closing his eyes. "You will regret that in the morning when you wake up in wrinkly clothes." She said giving him a grin. "I'll take the chance." He said not opening his eyes. The next thing he knew a damp towel landed on his face. "Get changed." Mickie said from the door way. With an exasperated sigh Randy got up and got changed. Mickie was very used to sleeping in hotels, this bed was much like any other soft thick duvet, bed not to hard, not to soft, but no bed was quite like her own. She thought this was a good thing, it made going home just that bit more special. Mickie was closing her eyes when she heard Randy speak. "I think I might have got inside this guys head." Mickie was confused, this was coming from no where, and they had not talked about this all night. "I know we were not going to mention it tonight but I just have to talk this out with you." Randy said, he sounded like he really needed to talk about this. Getting up and climbing in beside him Mickie looked at him. "Ok honey what have you found out. "The other night after Rey died I couldn't sleep, you looked so peaceful so I decided to go back and revisit my dark days, get into this killers head. I did." Mickie was slightly worried, how had he not told her this before. "Why did you wait till now to tell me?" Mickie asked, hoping it was not because he didn't trust her. "I don't know I just didn't know how you might react to something like this." Randy replied lying on his side so he was facing her. "Oh I see, look I know you have not had the cleanest past, but I would never think that you are capable of something like this that you would ever want to hurt some one like that." Mickie said taking hold of his hand. "Ok well this is what I got from it." He stated and Mickie kept quite waiting for him to continue. "I think the killer was in love with Kelly, Jeff was revenge, Beth was practice and Rey was collateral damage, the person he will go after next is the person he thinks is either closest to finding him, or someone who was close to Kelly." Randy looked at Mickie trying to gauge her reaction. "You worked all of this out yourself. Wow Randy, you know some times the way that brain works of yours its scares me." Mickie said keeping hold of his hand and giving it a squeeze. "Thank you now we have to put this information to good use." He said as she let go of his hand and started to get out of bed. "We can go to the gym in the morning and do some digging we can get Ted and Cody on to it." He said lying down suddenly feeling exhausted. "Yeah we can work this out tomorrow for now I am about ready to fall over." Mickie said climbing back into her own bed and letting sleep claim her body.
In the morning all of Legacy plus Mickie were in the gym, they had hired the ring and were alone in the room. "So we need to search for clues." Ted said stretching and warming up. "Yeah we need to know which one had the obsession with Kelly, I think that is the key." Randy said looking back at his friends. "Ok so how are we going to do that?" Cody asked walking around the ring, and eyeing up Randy who he was going to spa with. "We need to get into their rooms, their bags any place they maybe keeping photos, letters anything that might indicate they were seeing Kelly." Mickie said from the ring apron, while warming up. "Ok how the hell are we going to do that?" Cody said looking at her and forgetting about Randy for a second until he found himself on the matt. "Hey I wasn't ready." He complained getting up and looked at a smirking Randy. "We are going to do it by using cunning and planning." He said giving Cody time to recover from his RKO. "Great but first lets get on with this I can't wait to kick Mickie's arse." Ted said looking at Mickie and trying to look threatening. He just got a tongue poked at him, he couldn't help but smile. Randy and Cody were working on their moves for a tag team match they had on raw Monday night, they decided to throw people off by using each others moves. "Hey why can't I do the RKO." Ted whined. "Because Mickie is going to show you her DDT that's why." Randy said going though the motions with Cody. "Yeah that's if he can handle it." Mickie said grinning at the superstar. "Ha ha like I couldn't handle a girls move." He said but secretly he knew it was a good move, not that he would ever tell her that. "We shall see" Mickie said just looking at him knowingly. It seemed like they had been in the gym for ages, moves rehearsed and perfected they were just about to pack up when Dave and Mark came in. "Hey guys" Mark greeted as he threw his bag on the bench. "We are just leaving so it's all your boys." Ted said giving Dave and Mark a smile. "Cool see you guys tomorrow at the show." Mark said pulling off his shirt and climbing the steps into the ring. "Yeah bright and early I think Vince scheduled this meeting for eight am. I didn't even know there was an eight am" Dave said with a grin. Mickie couldn't help but smile back. This was the Dave she knew and she couldn't ever think of him as a killer. She and the boys made their way back to their rooms with only one thing on their minds. "God Ted you stink." Cody said as they all got in the elevator. "I think you will find it smelt before I got in here." Ted said as the door closed. "I think we could all use a shower." Mickie said as the lift ascended. "I know why don't we meet in our room, one hour and get some room service, we can discuss how we are going to get our evidence then." Randy said as the doors opened to let them out. "Ok sounds like a plan see you in an hour." Cody said as both he and Ted went to their room. Mickie let Randy use the shower first, she had to ring Melina, she had not spoken to her friend in a while and she wanted to see how she was doing. If she was planning on coming back anytime soon. "Hey honey how are you doing?" Mickie said as Melina answered. "Not bad I have been watching the news, I can't believe what is going on." She said and Mickie could here the disbelief in her friends' voice. "I know it is getting pretty crazy around here. It's hard to describe , its almost like I am used to it now." Mickie said confiding in her friend, she didn't realise till now how much she had missed Melina. "I bet, it was bad enough loosing Beth and Kelly, but now Jeff and Rey what the hell is going on?" Melina said, but it was a rhetorical question, which was a good thing because Mickie didn't have and answer for her. "Hey Mel do you know if anyone was having a relationship with Kelly?" Mickie said realising that if anyone knew it would be her best friend. "I knew she was friendly with Jeff. I think they had a thing, as for anyone else I don't know it was something she was oddly quite about." Melina said wondering what that had to do with anything. "Ok we were just wondering as Jeff was next to die there was some connection." Mickie said not wanting to get her friend to worried. "Oh I see, well not as far as I know but I wouldn't rule anything out." Melina said catching on. "so when are you going to come back?" Mickie asked her changing the subject. "Oh I should be back when you get to Denver, as much as I am worried about coming back I am going crazy around the house." Melina said. Denver was the next city on their schedule and Mickie was glad she would see her friend at the begging of next week. "That's great, look I had better go I have to grab a shower, now that Randy has finally vacated it." Mickie said a smile coming to her voice. "You and Randy when did that happen?" Melina asked the happiness evident in her voice. "It's not it's the buddy thing, we have been like this ever since Kelly you know." Mickie said wanting to avoid that particular can of worms. "Oh ok, well I will call you when I get back." Melina said not wanting to go though all of that and they said their good byes. "Hey how's Mel?" Randy asked running a towel though his hair. "Not bad she will be joining us in Denver." Mickie said trying not to look at his bare chest. "That's cool, showers free." Randy said grinning at her. "Are you trying to say I smell?" She smiled at him heading off for the bathroom. "Yeah I am what are you going to do about it?" He said grinning at her. "You'll find out." She said shutting the bathroom door. Randy didn't know what to say so he shrugged and hoped it would have something to do with being held down underneath her.
Mickie came out of the bathroom in a towel as she had forgotten to bring her change of clothes, she was however surprised to find the room empty. Looking around she spotted a note on the table. 'Gone to fetch the boys, be dressed when we get back, I don't want them getting an eyeful.' There was a smiley face underneath and Mickie had to smile at his note. Just as she was about to grab her clothes the door opened. "Mickie what did I tell you, boys cover up your eyes your too young." Randy said mock covering Cody and Ted's eyes. "Knock it off, I am sure I have more on display in the ring." Mickie said picking up her clothes and heading back to the bathroom. "it's fine you can have lunch in that if you want to." Ted called and the others grinned at him. "Perv" Mickie said before closing the door. Ted just sulked and sat at the table picking up one of the menus for the hotel's room service. When Mickie finally joined them having dried her hair everyone had chosen. "I will get the duck salad." Mickie said giving the menu a quick once over, she wasn't feeling that hungry and the boys were waiting. Randy called the order in and they said it would be twenty minutes. "Good that gives us plenty of time to work out what we are going to do." Randy said sitting back at the table with the others. "Yeah we have been talking about that. Getting into their lockers at work wont be hard, we just wait until they are in a match and sneak in. Their rooms however that's a different story, that's going to take a distraction." Ted said playing with the table cloth. "Ok so what about me and Mickie invite Dave and Adam for a drink tonight, then you two can get into their rooms, it will seem a bit weird as we have not really spoken to them in a while, but we can say we want to talk to them about the murders, that should peek their interest enough to want to come." Randy said looking to the others for approval. "Yeah it could work, but how are we going to get into their rooms?" Cody said as their was a knock at the door. Mickie jumped then laughed at her reaction. "Are room service, I forgot they were coming." She said thinking of just how silly she must have looked. Cody got up and opened the door. Thanking the waiter and giving him a tip, he brought their lunch over to the table. As general ides flew about how to get into the rooms, asking reception was out, the staff were under strict instructions not to hand out keys to any one other than the registered occupier. "Ok what about Vince, can we get him to get us the keys?" Ted said round a mouthful of club sandwich. "Hey dude I wanted the news not the weather." Cody said whipping a piece of bread off his cheek. Mickie giggled at Cody's face. "Sorry man." Ted apologised his mouth now devoid of food. "Ok how about we steal the keys at the arena then me and Mickie get them to come for a drink before they go back to their rooms." Randy suggested and Mickie said. "Looks like that's what we have to do, that or we just ask them." She said half smiling but knowing that this was going to be dangerous. "Ok so as soon as we get there tomorrow we have to make friends with Adam and Dave make sure they think we are just being friendly." Randy said looking at Mickie. "How friendly?" She asked with an eyebrow raised. "A little flirting couldn't hurt." Randy said as much as he didn't want to see Mickie draping herself over other men he knew it was all fake. "Ok but you know I don't kiss on the first date." Mickie said playfully and Randy smiled at her. "Ok it's settled. Boys you know what you have to do, be quick in and out then meet us in the bar, we can slip their keys back then they won't suspect anything." Randy said making it sound so much easier than he knew it would be. "What if they don't want to come for a drink with us?" Mickie said knowing it was not what the guys wanted to here but it needed to be said. "We will have to try and plan it for another night, but we have to do as much as possible to persuade them." Randy said tidying up the remains of their lunch. For the rest of the day they just hung around Randy and Mickie's room. They all decided they could do with a swim being a nice day they used the open air pool. Too their excitement Adam and Dave were already there. Mickie went over to them, towel thrown over her shoulder, her brown bikini not leaving much to the imagination. "Hey guys, how are you doing?" Mickie said standing between their sun beds. "Not bad you're looking good Mickie." Adam said giving her the once over. "Thank you, tan is coming along nicely." She said looking at Adam and smiling at him. She could do flirty with the best of them if she had to. Placing her towel down on the sun bed next to Dave's it was Randy's cue to come and join her. "Hey guy's how's it hanging?" He said walking up to the group and settling down next to Mickie's sun lounger. "Not bad Randy, how about you?" Dave said regarding Randy carefully, he thought they were going to have a nice time with Mickie for a change. "Good man I thought I might have a dip." He said giving Mickie a covert wink. "You coming Mick?" Randy said knowing the answer full well. "Nah I think I will sit here for a while in the sun, I will be in later though when I get too hot." She said taking out her sun cream and snapping off the cap. "Ok keep an eye on her for me will you guys?" Randy said alluding to the fact that they were all still in danger from a killer. "No problem." Adam said slightly distracted by Mickie rubbing sun cream up her legs. "Want some help doing your back?" Dave offered, Mickie smiled at him and handed him the bottle. "Sure thanks." She said not really enjoying the feeling of his hands on her skin, knowing they could be the hands of a killer, but also knowing this needed to be done, plus he was hardly likely to try anything here. "Any way I have been meaning to look you guys out." Mickie said as Dave finished her back. "Oh yeah?" Adam said intrigued. "Yeah me and Randy wanted to have a get together with you guys, we have found out some interesting things about these murders, and we were wondering if you guys would like to help us." Mickie said trying to gauge their reactions. "Cool I'm in." Adam said, Dave looked over at her then glanced at Randy who was doing laps. "Yeah sure it's about time we did something constructive." He said offering Mickie a smile. "That's great what about drinks straight after tomorrows show?" She said thinking this was easier than she thought it would be. "Yeah sure where?" Dave asked, Adam just nodded. "Hotel bar?" Mickie suggested and again they both just nodded. "Only don't tell anyone else, we don't want to many people getting wind of what we are doing, if the killer finds out we could be next on their list." Mickie said lowering her voice and leaning forward. "Course." They both agreed and Mickie smiled at them. "It's a date." She said placing her sun glasses on her face and lying back in the sun. That was the cue for Legacy to come in. Running into the pool splashing all three wrestlers and getting them wet, making Mickie angry enough to jump into the pool and start a splash fight, making it look like she wasn't really trying to escape. "Is it on?" Randy asked her as he caught hold of her and restrained her from splashing him. "Yeah tomorrow after Raw." She said slipping away from him and giving him a mouthful of water for his trouble. They all had a good time in the pool that afternoon, even Adam and Dave joined in to make teams foe water volley ball. Mickie couldn't believe she might be in the pool with a killer, it felt like old times. For now she just enjoyed the company of her friends, the hard work would start tomorrow.