Um…yeah, sad. Very sad.
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Tears
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It's cold.
It's dark.
Randy doesn't think that he'll see him tonight but then, his eyes are glinting off in the dark and they're both looking at each other, staring. "Randy, please…"
"Shut up." Randy says, and his voice's so weak.
He's lost his own strength.
Tears are running down his eyes.
"I love you," John whispers.
"All lies. Get away from me."
John holds onto Randy's arm and Randy flings John off, throwing him towards the cool lake towards them. John's head bobs up and he stares at Randy. Confused as Randy leans down towards him, both of them are now staring at each other's lives.
"I'm done being your toy, John. I don't want you to play me!"
"I need to tell you why, Randy." John says as he tries to slip his hand towards Randy's shoulder but Randy snaps, stepping away, showing John his back and John stares down at the ground.
It's all his fault.
It's all his damn fault and he can't fix anything ever again.
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"Randy?"
Ted and Cody jump from their kiss as they stare at Randy's face, tear stained and their hearts are bursting through his chest.
"Randy! What happened?"
"That jerk, John Cena, happened!" Randy says, sitting down onto the thing these people called a 'bed' and feeling his stomach wrench. Disgust. It's so disgusting just thinking about John want for him after all that…it just makes Randy sick.
"Oh, really, what's wrong?" Ted asks, sitting beside his friend.
Cody looks at him, staring straight at Ted and then his eyes shifts to Randy. "Did he hurt you?"
"He broke me! That little piece of…" Randy swears under his breath, swears that Ted and Cody wouldn't say to their worst enemies and beyond the anger and rage and fury, Randy's crying on the inside, crying and tearing into pieces of brokenness that he can never fix and anyone who'll try to fix them will just get hurt.
"I'm sure he doesn't really mean it." Ted says.
"So you're on his side?" Randy spits out, stirring anger into his body as he walks over to Ted who simply steps back and shakes his head.
"Never, Ran!" Ted exclaims, slightly angry at thinking that he'd be on another side beside Randy's.
"Then stop defending him!"
Ted's eyes glow into a headed blue set and Cody just steps back, knowing that this will cause a fight because it's always had.
"You can't control what we think of anyone, Orton!"
Randy's eyes glare at Ted's and as the tension builds, a timid and slightly intimidated Cody steps closer to the both of them, knowing that he shouldn't get into the fights of theirs or he'll get hurt too but he needs to let out a voice, even if it's squeaky and weak—
"Ted, I…"
"And you," Ted says, looking at him, staring deep into Cody's eyes, 'you always agree with Randy freaking Orton! And you supposedly like me…"
"Randy, you know what I feel for you but Randy's got a point…"
"When did you ever agree with me?" Ted spits out, standing closer to Cody, holding onto the boy's wrist and staring deep into Cody's now scared and frightened turquoise eyes which now have more of blue than green. "When?" Ted repeats, spitting it out.
"Cena plays him like a toy. Yes. But you always play us like dolls, too, Randy! We can't always handle that."
Randy stops and looks into Ted's eyes.
That thing in Ted's eyes…
That's not Ted.
That's Randy.
Randy steps away and nods his head, finally letting the tears flow out of his eyes. "I know…I'm sorry for playing you, guys…maybe I needed closure. Maybe I needed someone who knew how it felt to be played…and I took it out on you both…I'm a horrible Legacy member and you all know it."
"Oh Randy…" Ted suddenly feels sick to the stomach, having that beast inside of him fade away in an instant. "I didn't mean—"
Randy shakes his head and strides his backpack to his back, before walking away before Ted can finish his sentence and he knows that the only thing that's running through is mind is that you break everything and he knows it and he lives by it and it hurts so very much that Randy cannot even fathom the image in his head.
He stops by the nearest tree and holds onto it.
He stares at the cold, murky lake.
Everything's a reflection of Randy Orton today.
Except Randy himself.
He lets his back press to the tree. "I'm sorry…I'm so very sorry…" he whispers to practically nothing as he shakes and holds onto his arms, sliding down the tree and falling to the floor. That's all that's happening to you, hasn't it?
Falling.
Falling into a black pit.
Of darkness and deception.
He's being played by his own game.
And he doesn't remember the rules anymore.
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Mike Mizanin's fingers press against the tree as tears run through his eyes.
He'd been stuck in the woods for so long and he hadn't eaten. A few days of this and he'd be ready to become a female supermodel. The 28 year old man had spend his time running around from seemingly horrifying sounds and searching for any traces of his John Morrison and he sees a sign of something in the cold, night lake and as he walks over to it.
His eyes widen.
That's John Morrison's shoe.
In the lake.
He takes the shoe in his hands and looks at it, and from the bedazzled, sequins that seem to shine without even him trying to rub off the dust, his heart cringes and twists, bleeding completely and there's nothing left in him anymore as he lets the shoe fall down onto the dull grassy ground.
Mike falls to the ground, sobbing and his sobs erupt and collide into the sky.
He just can't believe it…
His Johnny is dead.
He feels it.
And he just hopes it's wrong.
And for once, the shoe shines and the stars shine, but Mike's lost his sparkles.
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Ted tries to fall asleep.
He can't.
He feels as if his eyes are glued tight.
As he holds onto his sleeping Cody's body.
And they're both on the floor, pressing their bodies against each other but not caring about the touch.
Their thoughts are colliding with each other.
And it hurts to think that.
Ted knows that Cody doesn't mind being a doll and that's why he got with him in the first place, to break him free out of it, but in the process, he's looped them down into a dangerous game of deception and darkness and terror and he doesn't know how to get out of it.
"I'm sorry, Cody…" he says to the sleeping, shaking boy in his hands as he kisses Cody's forehead and feels him grip onto him in comfort.
The feeling inside of you just burns you.
The tears finally fall.
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John Cena walks around the woods.
His watch flashes.
2:00.
He doesn't really care.
He stares up in the sky.
He wonders why the sky isn't crying anymore.
He wonders when the universe just stopped revolving around the sun and started revolving around just nothing.
Because everything's confusing him.
He lies down a log and he feels like Winnie the Pooh or any of those other children stories as he presses his finger against his forehead, once, twice, three times. "Think, think, think…" he says as if imitating the bear.
But the humor doesn't get to him as he looks down onto the floor.
You haven't really thought in a while.
He throws his cap onto the ground and squashes it.
You've really crushed your own heart, haven't you, John?
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Told you it was sad.
But so is the entire story. :P
Next is 'Foreign'.
Summary: John steps into an unknown place, and he doesn't know how to get out. Mike's trying to find his way back to the campsite but meets with Travis. Ted and Derek have a talk. Cody becomes someone's pet. Randy needs his medicine and to what lengths would he go to get it?
And yeah…that's one hell of a summary.
;) Sam