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Randy was stunned. "What how did he get it?" Randy said letting them all into his room. "I don't know but it's pretty creepy." She said sitting on her bed and hugging her knees. "I'll say it even smelt like you come to think of it." Cody said remembering the smell. "You smelt it that's disturbing." Ted said pulling a face at Cody. "No man I had to, to see if it was brand new like a present or something." Cody said defending himself. "Good point." Randy said. "Ok so how did he get it, I have never been in his room, this one or any other. We have never shared a locker room. This is just so weird, I have been missing that bra for over two months, before all of this started." Mickie said looking at Randy, hoping he believed her. "Well it's one of two things." Ted said stepping into the silence. "Either he found the bra intending on giving it back, but he realised he didn't know who it belonged to so he just kept it and brought it with him. Or he stole it." Ted said hoping for option A but suspecting option B was more likely. Randy got up and he walked around the room trying to process this. He knew if Adam was the killer Mickie was in real danger now. "Ok so it's looking unlikely that it is Dave, no one obsesses about someone with nothing to obsess over, and Adam is anyone's guess, but I suggest we don't jump to conclusions." Randy said sitting next to Mickie. "You need to steer clear of him though, there is no way to know how he got your bra, but it's just weird how he kept it." Randy said giving her a brief hug, knowing they had company. "So what now?" Cody said sitting at the table and leaning forward on his knees. "Now we look at our other suspects." Randy said getting out their list. "Ok lets start with Chris Jeherico." Randy said looking around the room for anyone who had a better thought. "Ok same thing, we get Stephanie to get us the key. Me and Mickie distract him and you two check him out." Randy said sitting down on his own bed. "Yeah worked once, and if it aint broke don't fix it." Ted said grinning at Mickie who smiled back at him, she knew he was trying to take her mind off their recent discovery, and it had worked a little. "Ok then if.." Before Randy could finish the phone rang. "Hello, yeah hi, I see ok well that makes something easier, yeah I will, you sure you still want to go ahead, cool I don't see any problems here, ok see you tomorrow bye." Randy finished closing the phone. "That was Stephanie, she says that there is a big football game on tomorrow, we won't have such a big police presence, she hasn't told anyone else, she does not want the killer getting wind of it. There will still be guards on the corridors and we will have restricted movements, but no escorts. It will make getting into Chris's room easier." Randy said as Mickie smiled at him. "Yeah and me and Cody can get back here early to search his room, we are on first, we can be in and out before he gets back." Mickie said. "Yeah cool locker room first though we don't want to have to risk the hotel if we don't have to." Randy said agreeing on the plan. Ted tried to stifle a yaw but was unsuccessful. The rest of the room followed him. "Oh god its contagious let me out of here." Ted said faking being scared and clutching on to Mickie, who grinned and slapped him upside the head. "Grow up you idiot." She said laughing at him as he tried to climb under the duvet. "Can't I stay here tonight?" He said wiggling his eyebrows at her. "No out I am tired." Mickie replied rolling him on to the floor where he landed in a heap, much to the amusement of everyone else in the room. "One day you will give in to me." Ted said rubbing the back of his head and grinning at her. Mickie lent forward as if she was going to kiss him. Ted almost looked to shocked to move as her mouth came right next to his ear. "Never going to happen." She said and then gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Now out." She said pointing to the door. Ted was holding his cheek and smiling as Cody dragged him to the door. "I am never washing the cheek again." He said smiling like an idiot. "Nothing new there then." Mickie called out as they left and Randy fell back laughing. "Did you see his face when he thought you were going to kiss him?" Randy said between gasps for breath. Mickie got up and headed for the bathroom. "Yeah reminded me of yours." Mickie said sticking her tongue out at him and disappearing into the bathroom before Randy could reply.
At the house show people seemed more relaxed, not only had it been over a week since the last death, but without the constant escorts people were not so reminded of it. Mickie and Cody were first up, they had a tag team match against Jillian and the Undertaker, they knew it was going to be a hard match, the thing to do was isolate Jillian who was the week link. The match went to plan at first, but Jillian got Mickie with a kick and managed to tag out. Cody got in the ring and helped Mickie out of the way but was blindsided by the big man and was down. It was only a few moments later Cody was in position for the last ride. Mickie jumped on the Undertakers back to put him off, he didn't even seem to notice her. He slammed Cody to the matt, Mickie landed hard on Mark's shoulder knocking the wind out of her, Mark suddenly had her in his strong arms. He seemed to hesitate, realising that pile driving her would not look good for him. It gave Cody just enough time to recover and he took out the Undertakers legs. Mark dropped Mickie but Cody was there and half caught her and she climbed back out of the ring. The undertaker went for his finisher and landed it this time. 123 it was all over they had lost but it was a Damm good match. Mickie checked on Cody as Jillian held up the Undertakers hand for the victory. Making their way backstage marked tapped Mickie on the shoulder. "I didn't hurt you did I?" He said genuinely concerned for her. "No I am fine, take more than landing on you to rattle my cage." Mickie grinned up at him. "Made for an awesome match though." She said giving him a pat on the shoulder. "Hey Mick's want to come back to the women's locker room. We are having a party for Michelle's birthday." Jillian said smiling at her friend. "Oh that sounds great, but I have to get back, Vince has made the rules clear, I don't want to get into trouble, but we can go for a drink tonight if you want." Mickie said hoping that would be enough for Jillian not to push the matter, she and Cody had Jobs to do. "Ok sure I understand and yeah we shall have to do that, what's a party without dancing." Jillian smiled at them and headed off with mark to the women's locker room. "Phew that was close." Mickie said going with Cody to Legacy's room. "I know well done thought we were going to have to call it off." Cody said opening the door and seeing Randy and Ted looking at them with sad faces. "Well?" Randy said trying to sound cross. "Hey come it it's the Undertaker man you have lost to him, twice." Cody said using his fingers to emphasis his point. "We know, we are only kidding it was a great match, I thought he was going to snap you in half." Ted said pointing at Mickie smiling. "And the way you were wiggling on his back, you looked like a dying fish." Ted said laughing at the thought of it and randy had to give in to. "Ha I was wondering what that move was." Randy said holding his stomach. "Laugh it up boys, one day you will get what's coming to you." Mickie said wagging her finger at them both and pouting. "Ok enough Ted and Cody you have to get going, Chris's match is up next, we will stay here, we don't want to look to obvious." Randy said finally looking at Ted who had sobered up and stopped laughing. "you ready Cody?" Ted said turning to his best friend. "I am always ready." Cody smiled at him and they left the room leaving Mickie and Randy alone. "God I hope they don't get caught or this is all going to come apart." Mickie said airing her worries. "Nah they won't they are too good at this sort of thing. Cody could talk his way out of a paper bag and Ted is a lot more resourceful than I give him credit for." Randy said turning on the TV to watch Chris's match just in case it finished quickly he would ring Cody to tell them to get the hell out of dodge. Mickie sat down to watch the match. "Hey Dave is going to kill Chris if he doesn't get back in it soon." Mickie said getting comfortable next to Randy.
"Ok paper, scissors, stone winner gets to distract the guard." Ted said. "Deal, on three." Cody replied and counted to three. "Looks like it is you." Cody said smiling at his friend. "Great ok but you keep him busy, I don't want to spend the night in a jail cell." Ted said looking at the guard and then down towards Chris's room. "Ok here I go." Cody said and he walked up to the cop. "Hey what can I do for you?" the cop said eyeing Cody. "Oh nothing I have just come to see my friend." Cody said trying to continue walking. "Sorry mate but this area is restricted to locker room personnel only." The cop said standing in front of Cody and giving him a weak smile. "I know, but you must know who I am, I just wanted a quick word with my friend Chris." Cody said as he watched Ted slip into Chris's room. "Yeah I do know who you are Mr Rhodes and I still can't let you passed, rumour has it it's one of you guys doing all of this." Cody pointed to his chest. "Well it's not me god I would never hurt one of my friends." Cody said hoping that Ted would hurry up he was running out of things to say. "Speaking of my friends have you seen Ted Dibase around here I was supposed to meet him here?" Cody said thinking it was time to get the guard out of the way so Ted could make his escape. "No he has not been here, but I would have told him the same thing. "Oh no that means he is missing then, shouldn't you do something about that?" Cody said faking worry. "Umm yeah where did you last see him?" The cop asked suddenly looking concerned. "He went to the bathroom and I said I would meet him here, that was ten minutes ago though." Cody said pulling the cop by the sleeve. "I can't leave my post." The man said unsure of what to do. "But you have to help me look for him, what if he has been hurt?" Cody said seeing that Ted had not yet come out and was probably waiting for them to leave. "Ok ok a quick look around I am going to call for back up though." The cop said thinking he could get someone to cover his post. "Ten four wrestler missing last seen at the men's bathrooms, need assistance locker area three." He said and a voice came back saying they would be two minutes. Cody dragged the man off hoping Ted would make his escape before the other cop arrived.
Mickie and Randy were walking to the gorilla position for Randy's match when the call came in over the police radio. "Oh God." Mickie said looking at Randy. "It's ok it's probably Ted or Cody creating a distraction, sounds like one of Cody's, only he would lose someone in a toilet." Randy said with a smile. "Hey looks like Vince is coming over." Mickie said pointing to the boss of the WWE. "Hey there what's up I heard someone is missing?" He said looking concerned. "Yeah the police seem to be all over it." Randy said trying to look worried. Mickie didn't have to try very hard she was worried. "Ok quick change of plan, go back to your locker room. Find Ted and Cody and stay there until everyone is safe. I will get Stephanie to get the half time guy on and we can sort this out." Vince said going to find the cop in charge. "Ok lets go I want to here what the guys found out any way." Randy said as they walked back.
"Hey maybe he went to our locker room, yeah I bet that is where he went probably thought we were meeting there." Cody said trying now to get rid of the cop. "I will go check, and you go back to your post or whatever you need to do." Cody said and the cop nodded at him. " Ok but you report it to your officer if you find him ok." The guy said as he hurried of. Cody let out a sigh and relief and headed for the Legacy locker room. Opening the door he was surprised to find Randy and Mickie there but not Ted. "Hey I thought you had a match?" Cody said momentarily confused. "Yeah but Vince postponed it because someone went missing." Randy said folding his arms. " oh yeah that would have been me, but I can't believe Ted is not back yet, he should have got here ages ago. I text him to let him know the coast was clear." Cody said looking down at his phone which had no new messages. "Try ringing him." Mickie said coming over to where the boys stood. Both their faces held genuine concern now. Cody let the phone ring for almost a full minute before hanging up. "No answer just voice mail." Cody said his face full of concern. "Ok then we go back to the locker room, he might still be in there." Randy said and they all made their way out towards locker area three. Mickie and Randy spoke to the guard while Cody slipped around them and into the locker room. It didn't take him long to see his friend. First there was the feel of something sticky under his foot and a distinct smell of copper in the air. Cody looked down at his friend, he was face up on the floor, a pool of blood surrounding him. Cody was stunned he fell to his knees in Ted's blood and picked up his friends hand. "No!" He yelled. Ted was still alive he groaned softly. The wound was to his side and he had lost a huge amount of blood. "Who did this Ted?" Cody asked getting down to Ted's mouth. Just then Mickie burst in being followed by a cop who was trying to restrain her. He had no chance once she saw the body. "Damm it I am going to kill this guy, even if I go to the chair for it." Cody said getting up and smashing everything in sight. Randy tried to restrain him so he didn't hurt himself, he looked at Mickie who had pulled Ted's head into her lap, she was covered in his blood. "Someone dial 911." Randy called out to the confused officers, while he held on tight to Cody. "It's ok Ted help is coming." Mickie said brushing the hair away from his face. She watched as the light went out in his eyes and her own tears splashed down on his face. "Don't cry Ted, we are all here for you." Mickie said as the sound drowned in on the room, and the only thing she could focus on was Ted's body on her legs. Mickie felt hands take her and EMT's were all over Ted. It seemed like everything was going in slow motion. "He is gone there is nothing we can do for him." One of them said standing up. The room emptied as Vince burst in. "Oh my god, what the hell happened, you guys are supposed to be here to stop this." Vince said turning on the cops who just looked at each other. "Vince I think we need to get Cody out of here." Randy said as Cody had all but collapsed with grief. "ok get him to the medical wing, then some one is going to tell me how the hell this happened." Vince said looking around the room when his eyes finally landed on Mickie who was closing Ted's eyes. "Honey don't do that, leave it for the Dr's." Vince said going to her and having to almost pick her up off the floor. "I will tell you how this happened, but I need to get out of this room." Mickie said, knowing if she didn't say this now, she never would, she had to hold it together just a little longer for Cody and Randy, someone would have to tell Vince what happened. " Ok sweetheart, come to my office." Vince said taking the small woman by the waist and leading her away from the horror within the locker room.
Ok this one took it out of me but I had to get this scene out, I hope I did Ted's end justice, please hit the review button I do read them all and I really love to know what you think ta x