We're all getting ready for the show, well all of us except Mike anyway. Aly has decided to come with me and Alex to the show afterall. So she's in the bathroom finishing everything up, while Mike just relaxes on the bed watching tv. She walks out, putting the back on one of her earrings as she walks to her shoes.
"I just hope I don't run into Hunter tonight backstage. All hell's gonna break loose if I do."
"Call me if you want to leave and I'll come get you." Mike says.
"I will, don't worry."
She gets her shoes on and walks over to sit on the bed.
"You sure you'll be okay by yourself? I won't go if you don't want me to."
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Like you said last night, people have been asking about you. Don't want them to really worry about you."
"As long as you'll be okay."
"I promise, I'll be fine."
"Okay." She leans over and lightly kisses him.
"I'll keep in contact with you all night."
"I promise." She adds.
"Try not to miss me too much." She giggles, scooting a little closer.
"I'll try, but I can't promise anything." He chuckles.
"I figured as much."
"I think I'll miss Savvy even more though."
"She'll miss you too." She says as he tugs her closer and lifts her shrit to kiss her stomach.
"I'll make up for not being there when you get back."
"Sounds good."
"Well I guess you should get going now right?"
"Yeah..."
"...one thing first, before I go wait in the hall for DC and Dolce."
He looks at her curiously and she kisses him. That's when he can taste the raspberry because of her gloss and he can smell it too. That just sends him into a frenzy. She ends up on her back on the bed with him hovering over her, kissing her heatedly.
"I've got to go..." She mumbles.
"Uh huh..." He mumbles back, not stopping quite yet.
Mike distracts her with a french kiss and after a afew minutes her phone starts to go off. She tries to stop him so that she can get to her phone. It takes some maneuvering but she finally pulls her mouth away from his.
"Hello?" She asks breathlessly as she answers her phone.
"Hey, it's me. Just want to let you know that we're almost ready here, we'll be out in the hall in a few." I say on the other line.
"Okay, I'll ...be out...soon." She says, pausing between words since Mike is all over her.
"He's all over you isn't he? What'd you do? More so what're you wearing?" I snicker.
"...raspberry..."
"I should've guessed. Well we'll give you some more time to calm down."
"...'kay."
So we both hang up and Mike continues to be all over her. She squirms, making soft noises.
"Mike...I need time to...calm down before...I go."
"Nooo." He mumbles.
"Michael...Gregory." She scolds.
"I don't want tooo."
"Mike please..."
"Can I at least get one last kiss?"
"A quick one."
His lips are instantly on hers intensely. But assing as it wasn't turning out to be quick, she ahd to make him stop. She presses his indents hard, which makes him stop immediately.
"I said it was going to be a quick one."
"I need to catch my breath and calm down." She tells him, still kind of breathless.
"But...raspberry."
"I know. You can attack me later."
His pout then turns into a smirk.
"I know I'm probably going to regret giving you this much time to plan your attack but oh well."
"I'm gonna have fun with this."
"I'm sure you will."
"You have no idea what you've just done."
"Oh boy."
"I've got plenty of things in mind."
"I bet."
"But you go...go have fun at the show."
"I would but I can't get up."
"Oh oops, my bad." He says, moving so she can get up.
"Riiiiight." She says dryly, trying to push herself up.
Once she's up, she slides off the bed and fixes her clothes and everything. She goes in and grabs her lipgloss, deciding to take it with her.
"Alright, so I shall see you after we get back."
"I love you." She says after leaning down and kissing him quickly.
"I love you too."
Mike manages to sneak another kiss to her stomach before she grabs her things and heads out the door. She knows where our room is so she waits for me and Alex outside our room in the hallway. It isn't long before the door swings open.
"Took you a while, did you get distracted too?" Aly snickers.
I blush and Alex smirks, which makes her laugh.
"That's a yes then."
"Ready to go?" I ask, changing the subject.
"Yeah. Now that I've gotten away from Lover Boy and had time to calm down. I'm in trouble when we get back."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah. He's planning his attack."
"You're giving him all night? Oh boy."
"I know but he was giving me that ultra sad pout."
"Awwww."
"I couldn't help myself." She says as we walk to the elevator and head downstairs.
"Oh of course not."
"So, tonight should be interesting."
"Indeed it should."
"I just hope we don't run into Hunter."
"Yeah, Mike filed those charges him today right?"
"Yeah."
"Assault charges and the wrongful termination."
"Yup."
"Well that's good. I hate to see that done to him, but he had no right to do what he did last night."
"I know. Hunter was kind of dad/uncle-like figure but then he became COO and that went all to hell."
"Well I guess we'll see what happens tonight because of the group of whiners going to Otunga and possibly filing a lawsuit of their own tonight."
"Yeah I heard."
"Oh while we're talking about the show...no match tonight." Alex mentions as we get to the car.
"Seriously? Ugh." I growl.
"It's like every other week you're on Superstars."
"But look at it this way, he's still getting exposure. Through that, the radio shows, the magazines, the game, and now you even have the toys."
"Which we need to buy soon. Like I said a while back, I would love one of the action figures."
"I know." Alex nods.
"And hey good news, it comes in a battle pack with Mike's action figure. I get his and you get Mike's." I say to Aly.
"Hey, I want both." She laughs.
"Then we're each gonna have to get our own battle packs." I laugh too.
"Briefcase included with my figure." Alex adds.
"Nice."
"But hey we get our own figures too, which is awesome."
"Oh yeah."
"I think ours will be in a pack too, that would be cool."
"That would be awesome."
"What I can't wait to get is the video game."
"That is going to be fun for sure."
Then we get into the car and head off to the arena. As usual we head to the room to hang out until the show starts. We walk along, talking. Alex has an arm around my shoulders and my arm is around his waist. Of course because of the way the sleeves are on my shirt, he starts to play with it.
"I should've known you'd play with this shirt." I remark.
"Yes you should've."
Aly snickers.
"You can only blame yourself." She sings, still snickering.
"I know." I roll my eyes and look amused.
"Love you." He chuckles, before kissing my head as we reach the room.
"Love you too." I laugh lightly
We walk into the room and sit down on the couch, Aly deciding to sit with me and Alex like last night. Alex has an arm around us both and we exchange looks, laughing.
"You're a dork."
"But you love me anyway."
"I do."
He grins and kisses my head.
"Awwww." Aly smiles.
"Too cute." She giggles.
"I think he's only gonna get cuter as the weeks go by."
"Oh yes."
"Just wait until he starts talking to Bear." She adds.
"Soon." Alex says.
"I know." I smile.
"Aww." Aly giggles.
Then there's a knock on the door, and I get up to answer it. I open the door to reveal John.
"I heard a certain sister of mine is back..."
"Hi Sully." she peers around Alex and smiles.
"Come give me a hug." He says, stepping into the room.
She scooches to the edge of the couch and gets up. Then she walks over to him and gives him a hug.
"Oh, I've missed you."
"Missed you too."
"Been doing okay?"
"Yeah, I'm doing good. And before you ask, Savvy is fine too."
"That's good to hear."
"I would have called but things have been really up and down emotionally for both Mike and I so I was focusing on making that better."
"It's okay, I understand."
"I came tonight so that everybody could see I'm okay."
"Well I'm glad to see that you're okay."
She smiles and hugs him.
"Sorry about you not winning last night. That little shit Ricardo..I swear." She adds.
John chuckles at her caling Ricardo names.
"What? He's a little shithead." She says.
"If I could, I would've so beat him up after running out there, making sure he didn't get you locked out."
"I know."
"Cheaters."
"Yeah."
"I'll get it back though, you can count on that."
"Oh I know."
"But the fact you only had it for two weeks bothers me."
"It is what it is and I'll get it back soon." John shrugs.
"No doubt about that."
She nods and steps back a bit. She smiles as he rubs her stomach lightly.
"You don't know this yet, but you can see her move now."
"Really?" John asks excitedly.
"Yep."
"She's not moving around now, but yeah."
"That's awesome."
"Uh huh."
"Its really interesting to watch."
"Well you just let me know when she's moving and I'll be right back here."
"Okay." She laughs.
"Well the show is just about to start, I can do two things until my match later. Either stay here with you or leave."
"You're more than welcome to stay."
"Hmm, I think I'll stay. I need to make up for the time that we didn't spend together."
"Sounds good."
Then she and John go sit on the other couch as the show begins. The match of his that we find out about is a 12-Man Tag Team Match where he teams up with Sheamus, Punk, Mason Ryan and Air Boom to face Ziggles, Christian, Del Rio, Cody, Swagger and Otunga.
"Oh look it's the whine brigade."
"And their lawyer."
"Him too."
Back at the ring, Randy's music plays and he walks out for his match. In the ring already is Drew.
"Good luck Drew."
"You know I can't remember the last time that Drew actually had tv time."
"He hasn't had much, that's for sure."
The match starts shortly after and everyone starts chanting 'RKO'. Randy took over the match for a bit, dropkicking Drew out of the ring. Then he throws Drew into the barrier twice, before throwing him back into the ring. The ref backs Randy up, allowing Drew to take advantage. Everything Drew does only makes Randy angrier than before. Drew goes for a pin later, getting the near fall. Randy starts stalking Drew like he does all the time, before delivering the scoop slam. He goes to that place where he hears the voices and then delivers the DDT off the 2nd rope.
"And there's the Viper Mode."
"Yup."
He executes the RKO and gets the pin for the win.
"Sorry Drew."
"Sucks for him."
Randy goes and stands on the ropes in the corner, and then he looks back at Drew and he starts thinking about things.
"Uh oh..."
"Oh boy."
He goes back over to Drew and picks him up, delivering another RKO. He goes back into the corner and poses just as Mark Henry's music hits and he walks out.
"Ugh, go away."
"Annoying." Aly rolls her eyes.
There's a stare down between Randy and Mark, Randy benig very careful. Mark takes the title and flaunts it...rubbing it in Randy's face that he's champion and he's not. That's when Randy slides out of the ring and a fight breaks out between them. Security rushes out to ringside to seperate them, even Laurainitis. Mark goes after Randy again and security pulls him off with struggle. Randy runs and attacks him this time, security now pulling him away. Randy puts his hands up in defense, but fools security...rushing over to Mark and sending him over the barrier and onto the concrete floor. Security makes sure Randy is away from Mark and up the ramp before the show goes to a commercial.
Aly stretches and then pauses, a smile spreading across her face.
"Oh Sully..."
"Yeah?"
She points down at her stomach silently.
"Moving..." He says, his face lighting up.
"Yup."
"Just watch carefully...you'll see her."
"This might help." She adds, moving her shirt up since the shirt is more loose and flowy.
He nods and watches her stomach very carefully and closely. Soon enough her stomach shifts.
"Whoa...that doesn't hurt or anything?"
"Not really."
"Unless she kicks me in a spot that will hurt."
"Or moves too wildly for too long." She finishes.
"I wish she wouldn't but hey, can't control it."
"Right." He nods, fascinated with watching her stomach move.
"You can touch you know." She giggles.
He grins before placing his hand on her stomach. She watches him amusedly as she reclines comfortably.
"That feels weird when she kicks my hand."
"I know." She giggles.
"She's a strong one isn't she?"
"Yes she is." She nods.
"And why do you think that is Sully?"
She raises an eyebrow, looking amused.
"I know this...because of both you and Mike."
"Of course."
"I think we may have a future Diva in the making." He chuckles.
"Goodness knows she'll have plenty of people to learn from."
"She'd be really talented."
She nods and smiles.
"But that's a long time before we even consider that." You add.
"Right."
"I'll keep that in mind though."
"It all depends on Savvy. We'll support her in whatever she wants to do."
"Like good parents should."
"Of course."
"I think she knows you're around." She giggles.
"She does this when there's important people around." She adds.
"Ohhh I just think she knows who her one of her uncles is." He chuckles.
"Its not just you. She does this for Mike, Alex, Matt, Jeff, etc etc."
"Well of course she does it for Mike, he's her daddy."
"I know."
"I can't wait until she's born."
"Me either. I'm so ready to see her and hold her." She says.
"I'm sure." He smiles.
"About 3 more months." She sighs.
"Those months will fly on by, just watch."
"True."
"Just hang in there Boo."
"I'm trying."
"As long as you're trying."
"I am. Taking it day by day, week by week."
"That's good."
"Dealing with the aches and pains as I go."
"Right."
"Good practice for dealing with natural labor I guess."
"That's one way to look at it."
"Natural means no pain meds right?" John asks.
"Right."
"Ah."
"You're nuts." He deadpans and she laughs.
"You're just realizing this now."
"No, I knew you were but now you've reached a new level."
"Good to know."
Alex and I laugh.
After the commercial break, Mark Henry was in the ring and all upset over the fight with Randy. They show what Mark has done to superstars, before we find out that Show is returning to Smackdown Friday. Then Morrison comes out to face Mark in a match.
"Yeah good luck...NOT."
"I hope he gets flattened." Aly glares.
The match ended like we basically predicted...Morrison lost. Mark then does more damage to Morrison before getting a mic and starts talking smack.
"Oh my god, just shut up."
"Boringgggg."
He finally shuts up and leaves the ring.
"Thank you...god."
Then backstage all the whiners are crowded around Otunga and Lauranitis.
"Guys calm down. I understand...you all have your grievances, you're not the only ones around here. David, Triple H asked me to come in here and ask to see if you had anything to do with Miz and R-Truth filing a lawsuit this morning."
"And what business is it of his? I mean, so what if I did? What I want to know is, what is he going to do about these legitmate grievances."
"I don't know what he's gonna do about the grievances okay? Calm down, let me go back and talk to him and see what I can do, okay?"
"You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna go present our case to the public. Let's go to the ring guys...let's go." Vickie adds and they all walk out.
"Oh joy. The whiner brigade. I'll pass, I'm no interested in what they have to say."
After the commercial they were already in the ring, Christian's music blaring through the arena. Del Rio is the last to come out, no fancy car this time.
"Last night I became the new WWE Champion."
"By cheating! Your little shithead of a stooge cheated for you!"
"I got rid of John Cena and beat CM Punk. But unfortunately I couldn't celebrate my victory because two people who are supposed to be fired, jumped the rail...entered the cell...and physically attacked me."
"Good!"
"And that happened because of you Triple H. Because you don't know how to run this company. In the moment I became victorious, magically the cell was raised. Allowing John Cena to come back in, and allowing those hooligans to come in. And then again...magically...the cell was lowered. Only one man has the power to make that decision, and that man is you Triple H. Triple H...what kind of animal you are." Del Rio finishes, passing the mic off to Christian.
"Triple H is the C.O.O of the WWE and that's fine. But ever since he's taken over the day to day operations of this show, Raw has become an unsafe place to work. So I agree with you Alberto, and I think every superstar in this ring will agree with me when I say, I am not gonna take it anymore." Christian says, before handing the mic off to Cody.
"I actually agree with him. Things aren't really that safe anymore."
"That much is true. And it isn't just in the case of Mike and Truth either. A lot of things are getting out of control and its getting dangerous." Aly nods.
"This is not a conspiracy...this is a fact! Every single person in this ring has been a victim of his reckless and negligent actions. And why? Because of someone's enormous ego." Cody says, handing the mic off to Dolph.
"Triple H's actions...or actually lack thereof, have gone unsupervised for long enough. And you know what? We're actually gonna do something about it. We're gonna take action into our own hands." Dolph says, handing the mic off to Swagger.
"Thanks to Triple H, my friends...my family is now concerned for me everytime I step into the ring on Monday Night Raw...every single time." Swagger keeps it short and hands the mic off to Vickie.
"Excuse me! As a woman...as a woman I espe-" She starts to say but is cut off by the loud boos.
"...I feel especially vulnerable. I feel especially vulnerable to Triple H being in charge!" Vickie finally says before handing the mic over to Otunga.
"Come on now, this is serious. Now when I was a law student at Harvard, I studied cases that were specific to this situation. So when you're faced with an unsafe work enviornment, there's really only two options. Either we can keep working and risk our livelyhood, or we can band together collectively and contemplate legal action."
Hunter's music plays and he walks out before anything else can be said.
"What happened to this place huh? What happened to the WWE? Used to be a time where men stood in that ring and fought. Men, it didn't matter if they got beat up...it didn't matter if they got jumped...it didn't matter if they got screwed over. They picked themselves up and they fought. They didn't stand there and whine and cry like a bunch of little kids. They didn't threaten lawsuits. They fought like men. Now, I don't give a damn about Miz and Truth's lawsuit, I don't give a damn about your lawsuit. What I do care about is that later tonight, when all of you walk back down to that ring to stand in there with Evan Bourne, Kofi Kingston, Sheamus, CM Punk and John Cena. I don't want you to whine at them, I don't want you to cry to them, I don't want you to threaten to sue them. What I want you to do is stand in that ring and do what all of these people pay you to do. And that...is shut up and fight!" Hunter says, leaving after saying that last part.
Aly shakes her head, rolling her eyes. Then my phone goes off signaling a tweet and it's from Mike. He had said that he and Truth wanted to apologize for last night and there's a link along with it. On the screen the same tweet shows up and we find out that the link is a video that Mike posted to his Youtube Channel.
"Ah so they did do the video." Aly remarks.
"You knew about that?"
"Mike mentioned it earlier today."
"Ohhh."
Then there's a knock on the door, and we're lazy so we just yell 'come in'. The door opens and there's Charity with Beth and Nattie with her outside the door.
"We just wanna know if you wanna come with us for the match up next."
"Sure. Coming?" I ask, knowing they haven't realized Aly's there yet.
"Who are you..." Charity trails off, opening the door more to see you sitting next to John on the other couch.
She smiles and wiggles her fingers in a wave.
"Yayy you're back!" Charity exclaims, rushing in and hugging her.
"Hi to you too." Aly laughs, hugging her back.
Nattie of course is the next to come in the room to see what Charity was excited about.
"There's the other baby momma', we missed you!"
"Hi Nattie." She giggles.
"Normally I would be, yes. But I knew a lot of you were concerned about me after my anxiety attack so I wanted to let everyone see that I'm okay."
"Aww, well we're glad you're okay."
"I know." She smiles.
"By the way, I'm loving the evil side of you in matches. Very cool." She adds.
"Thanks." Nattie laughs.
"So are you two ready to go?" She asks us.
"Sure thing."
I kiss Alex quickly before getting up, and Aly gets up as well. She kisses John and Alex on the cheeks before following me out. We all walk through the halls, getting to the curtain just as Kelly and Eve go out first.
"By the way, congrats on the win Beth. I was so happy you won." Aly says.
"Thank you. I was really happy too."
"We could tell. We all have to just cry tears of happiness when we win something like that."
"Oh yeah. I remember freaking out when I won."
"Me too." I laugh as well.
Beth, Nattie, and Charity laugh too.
"Hopefully you can capture it later in your career." Aly says to Charity.
"I hope so." She smiles.
As soon as Eve and Kelly were in the ring, Kelly's music stopped and they played Beth's. Nattie and her walk out first, and we follow shortly after. Nattie mocks Eve and Kelly as we walk down the ramp. Kelly is looking pissed off and so is Eve. Aly, Charity and I stay outside the ring, one of us on each side.
Beth takes control early, throwing Kelly out of the ring. Since she was thrown out where Charity was, to not get Beth disqualified, she stepped back. Beth comes out to go after her, but Kelly slams her face onto the announcer's table. Then she just loses it and repeatedly slams Beth's face into the announcer's table. Nattie comes over to go after Kelly, but then Eve comes over and takes Nattie out. Kelly loses it even more, screaming and yelling, attacking Beth as much as she can. The ref comes out and starts to tell her to knock it off and she just yells 'I don't care'.
The rest of us exchange looks.
Eve just goes after Nattie and the bell is rung to signal the end of the match. Kelly flips out more, screaming 'I don't care' again as she beats up on Beth. After Eve was done beating up Nattie, she went to go get Kelly off of Beth, but I stormed over to Eve and just punched her square in the face...just for beating up Nattie. Since I was close to Kelly, I try to reason with her as she's screaming and I get her off Beth. But she just turns around after getting out of my grip
and slaps me across the face.
"Oh HELL no." Aly growls.
That's when the look on my face changes and as she's heading away from me, I grab her by the shoulder and spin her around to face me. Then I take her and throw her over the announce table, and after that I walk off in a angry huff, around the ring and back up the ramp. Aly stalks over to the table and grabs one of the drinks and promptly dumps it on Kelly. Then she goes over to Eve after dropping the cup and since she's laying on the floor after I punched her, Aly kicks her hard in the side. She insults her in Italian, glaring. Then she walks off, heading backstage. Charity walks off shortly after, heading up the ramp after checking on Beth and Nattie. Aly finds me.
"You okay?"
"No, not really."
"Emotional or physical?"
"It's more emotional than physical."
She pulls me into a hug. I lean against her in the hug while I just stare off into space. Aly sighs and rubs my back.
"Normally I'd talk about what happened, but I just don't want to."
"That's okay. Why don't we get you to your hubby? I'm sure he'll be better at helping you than I am."
I just nod and pull away from the hug, and we head back to the room. I go straight into Alex's arms when we get into the room.
"...before I start flipping out...need you..." I mumble.
"I'm right here." He murmurs, holding me as close as possible.
I cling to him tightly as all kinds of emotions about what happen start to begin. But I calm them down by breathing and trying not to think about them. Alex rubs my back and stomach while kissing my head.
"I figured Alex would be able to help her more than me." Aly explains to John.
"Ah. Yeah."
"Don't blame her..or you for what you both did. Kelly was one of the few people you got along with."
She nods and sighs.
"I don't know about getting along with her anymore." She adds.
"She just went way too far." She shakes her head.
"I mean I get it, she's mad about losing last night. But seriously, she didn't need to go all psycho bitch on Beth and Dolce."
"No, she didn't."
"God, even I didn't freak out as bad as her when I lost it."
"I just shut myself off for a while." She shrugs.
"We all have our own way with dealing with loss I guess."
"I guess."
"But seriously...psycho bitch...big time."
"Yeah."
After the commercial break, Jinder Mahal was in the ring.
"Seriously. Can't they get rid of this guy?"
He starts talking in his native language and it's just annoying.
"Oh joy another one who doesn't like to speak English."
"Just what we needed." Aly says sarcasticaly.
Then Santino's music interrupts him and he walks out in that dorky fashion down the ramp and gets into the ring.
"Heyyy, he's back."
"Nice."
He starts mocking Jinder's language and they get into an argument talking in that language.
"...yahtzee!"
"Yahtzee?"
"What the hell?"
"Let's go."
"Okay."
This turns into a fight between them and in the end, Santino wins with the Cobra like always.
"Now if only you can go back to FCW."
"We wish."
"What's that vote of no confidence thing?" Aly asks.
"Oh see all the superstars and divas are invited out to the ring to give their opinions on Hunter running the business." John explains.
"Okay...and?"
"If everyone isn't happy...he has to resign."
"Oh."
Then up next John's match is coming up.
"Alright, I have to go get ready."
"Okay. Bye Sully."
"Good luck." I say, picking my head up from Alex's shoulder.
"Thanks Car. You gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
"Good. Later guys."
"Bye." We all say.
He then leaves.
"You sure you're going to be okay Dolce?"
"Yes, I'll be fine."
"Alright, just making sure."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
After the commercial break, they replayed what happened at the end of Hell In A Cell, before going to the apology video that Mike and Truth did last night.
"WWE Universe, we got to send you a little something. Not as The Miz or R-Truth, just Mike and Ronnie."
"We wanted tell you guys that we're sorry that it all had to come to this. That we had to get lawyers involved in all of this. And uh...also we wanted our jobs back that's it."
Aly watches Mike's image longingly, absentmindedly rubbing her stomach and biting her lip.
"That's all we wanted, was our jobs back. Triple H will not give us the time of day. WE tried to explain to him, but we had to make a statement. How many times has Triple H made a statement?"
"What we did at Hell In A Cell was making a statement. We did exactly what Triple H would've done, if he was put in our position. We made a statement that was seen worldwide. As soon as we made that statement, we saw that the officers were gonna be involved. We surrendered, we put our hands behind our backs, we got cuffed. As we were getting walked out, what happens?"
"We got attacked defensively. Me and Miz both, with our hands behind our backs, we got attacked...assaulted by the C.O.O. Now is that a way for a leader to run a company? I don't think so, but neither one of us got the power to do anything about it."
"But we do have powerful attorneys, and our attorneys have advised...we took their advice to file a wrongful termination suit with the WWE and Triple H. And we have pressed charges...pressed assault charges on Triple H for brutally attacking us while we were defenseless. So the bottom line is, we just wanted to say that we are sorry to the WWE Universe. We are sorry that the C.O.O is a sorry excuse for a leader and that's...that's basically it. Thank you."
"Thank you."
Aly chews her lip thoughtfully, looking at her phone. Sure enough, it does go off.
"Hello?" She answers, after jumping from not expecting it.
"Hey, how're you doing?" Mike asks.
"I'm fine babe."
"Alright, just making sure."
"I know." She smiles softly.
"So you actually did the apology video I just saw."
"Yeah. We thought it was a good idea."
"It was."
"I think it was smark." Aly agrees.
"Yeah, that's what we thought too."
"So what are you up to?" Aly aks.
"Oh not much."
"Missing us much?" She teases lightly.
"Of course I am."
"Aww. I miss you too and so does Savvy."
"I know you do."
"How's Savvy?" He asks.
"She's fine. She was kicking up a storm just a bit ago."
"Awwww."
"I know you want to be here for her, sorry babe. I'd contemplate leaving early but I want to be here for this no confidence vote."
"Right right."
"It's okay. I'll have time with you two later." Mike says.
"Of course."
"I know you're planning." Aly laughs.
"Yes I am." He chuckles.
"You tortured me and then left." He adds.
"Well sorry, I didn't know you'd react like that."
"Really Lyssa? You had no idea? Really?"
"Really."
"I find that hard to believe since you know me so well."
"Well sometimes you throw me off."
"You and your sneakiness." She adds.
"I suppose."
"You do it purposely sometimes don't you?"
"Maybe..."
"Mike..."
"Yes?"
"Don't deny it."
"I'm not denying it."
"Suuuuure."
"Seriously, I'm not."
"Okay."
"If you say so."
"Yes I say so."
"Anyways, how's Carly? I mean I am watching and I watched her walk off after what happened."
"She's better now. She's curled up with Alex."
"She was okay physically, but was not okay emotionally. I figured he would help more than me."
"Right."
"But you're good at helping people feel better too." He adds.
"Sure I guess."
"You don't think so?"
"I couldn't help her and I couldn't help you."
"Don't blame yourself."
"...I know."
"I love you, remember that."
"I love you too."
"So what do you think is gonna happen with that vote of no confidence thing?"
"I don't know. A lot of people seem really unhappy."
"And I agree with Christian though, it is unsafe here now. Even more for me and Dolce given our conditions."
"Right."
"I don't need to worry about you even more when you decide to go to the shows." He adds.
"I know."
"I think what we can hope for is everyone turning against him. If everyone does that he only has two options...leave or appoint someone else."
"Yeah."
"Because as long as he's in charge, it's an unsafe enviornment." She adds.
"He can't control his employees."
"No he can't."
"Ugh, hungry again." She sighs.
"Want me to let you go so that you can go get something?"
"Or you could keep me company as I walk down there."
"An even better idea, I'll do that."
"Okay." She laughs, getting up from the couch.
"I'll be back." She says to me and Alex, and he nods.
She slips out of the room and starts down the hall.
"So is it weird being by yourself?"
"Yeah, just a little."
"Now you know how I felt."
"Yeah, but hey at least you're not far away."
"Very true."
"I like it better that way."
"Me too."
"Well we'll see where the week takes us."
"Right."
Then she reaches catering and as usual, she goes over tot he food and looks over everything, deciding on what to get.
"Hmm..." She muses.
"Deciding what to get?"
"Yup."
"They just have so many choices." She adds.
"I bet." He laughs.
"Think you can help?"
"I can try."
"Well you always love fruit." He suggests.
"True." She agrees, taking some.
"Okay, got that...what else?"
"Hmm...salad? I know you've been eating those lately."
"That's true too.." She agrees, getting some of that.
"Still needing more?" Mike asks.
"Yeah."
"How about chocolate?"
"Oooh yeah."
"Alright, I think I'm good now." She says after getting the chocolate."
"Alright." He chuckles.
"Can you carry everything back alright?"
"Yes." She laughs.
"Okay, just making sure."
"I know babe." She smiles, grabbing a drink.
After getting her drink, she starts heading back to the room.
"I think I will have to let you go though. I won't be able to talk and eat."
"Alright, see you when you get back then?"
"Of course. I love you Mike."
"I love you too Alyssa."
They say bye and hang up. She slides her phone into her back pocket and re-adjusts her grip on her food and drink. Then she gets back to the room, and opens the door, walking in.
"I live." She jokes.
"Welcome back." I laugh.
"Feeling better now?"
"Yeah, a little."
"I'm glad."
"What'd I miss?" She asks.
"Anything crazy?" She adds.
"No, not really."
"Good."
Since she missed a lot, it was getting towards the end of the match. When the match did end, John's team had won.
"Hah, take that you whiners."
"Haha." She laughs.
During the celebration however, we see that Hunter's vote of confidence thing is up next after the commercial break.
"Oh boy."
"Don't rush your through your food or anything. You can always finish after, or take it back to the hotel with you." I say to Aly.
"Okay." She nods.
"While you were gone, someone came by and told us that everyone is going out in groups."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah. A group from Raw...Smackdown...the whole Diva locker room, the refs, another Smackdown group and another Raw group."
"Ah."
"But I think I'm just gonna go out with the group Alex is going out there with."
"Okay."
"You're welcome to come out with me too." Alex adds.
"Okay, that works."
She manages to eat most of the food she got before we had to head to the curtain to wait to go out. She sets aside the rest and follows us out of the room. The area is crowded due to everyone being split up into groups. But after the commercial, the first group from Raw walking out consisted of Del Rio, Otunga, Vickie, Cody, Ziggler, Swagger, etc. Next was Smackdown and only Bryan, the original Sin Cara, Ezekiel and Titus O'Neil went out. The whole Diva's locker room from Raw and Smackdown walked out shortly after, followed by the refs. Then the 2nd Smackdown group consited of whoever else was here from Smackdown. We walked out next with Alex, along with Evan and Kofi, Morrison, Santino, Zack & Charity, etc. Jerry was the last to come out while we walked around the ring and chose a spot to stand and wait. As we're waiting Zack and Alex talk to each other, and we talk with Charity, just until Hunter comes out. Once he gets into the ring, he walks around and looks at each and every one of us.
"Alright so we're out here to get a vote of confidence, which means all of you are going to get the opportunity to tell me what you think of the job I'm doing...running Monday Night Raw. Before we do, I'd like to say a couple of things. First of all this job, as I've said before was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. It's not a job that I asked to have, it's a job I was given."
"Didn't mean you had to take it." I mumble.
"Could've done a better job." Aly mutters.
"Now that being said, Miz and Truth want to say I'm a...a hypocrite. They want to say that I'm mad at them for doing things that I would've done. And they wanna say they're sorry for lawyer-ing up and having to get a lawyer. What they should be doing is saying they're sorry to all of you for being a bunch of babies."
Aly glares.
"I'm not upset with them for what they did, I'm upset with them for their inability to accept the punishment. If you're willing to do the crime, be willing to do the time gentlemen."
"Yeah look at yourself years back, you did the same thing." I scoff and roll my eyes.
"Exactly." Aly grumbles.
"Now I will admit, I am a bit old school, I like watching people beat the hell out of each other. I enjoy confrontation, I enjoy the battles, I enjoy the chaos that is Monday Night Raw and that is the WWE. And I would bet my life on the fact that the WWE Universe enjoys that also."
"Maybe not the whole WWE Universe."
Aly agrees.
"And at the end of the day guys...girls...isn't that really who we work for? All of them? At the end of the day isn't it the WWE Universe that really, truly signs all of our paychecks?"
"Excuse me-"
"See no no no no, hold on. You see when it comes to running Monday Night Raw, what goes on on this show each and every week, it's my responsibility to make sure it's the best show it can possibly be for all of them. I don't work for you, I don't work for you, I don't work for any of you. Every Monday Night I work my ass off for all of them."
"Now with that being said, I'm curious...to hear your opinions. So what do you think guys?"
"Well as it happens, I have been selected by my collegues standing around the ring to say a few words with regards to some legitimate grievances that we have had of late. Now Triple H, we believe that you have created a very very unsafe working enviornment for us." Wade begins to explain.
"Now I speak for everybody around the ring when I say, that the reason we came to WWE..." Wade continues, being cut off by 'you suck' chants.
"...the reason we came to WWE is because we're all competitors. We're professionals, we like to adhere to certain rules and regulations, and that certainly doesn't include being attacked by outside individuals in places such as the parking lot. We shouldn't be subjected to that, and we shouldn't be subjected to an unsafe working enviornment purely because you're incapable of controlling your talent."
"Amen to that." I nod, leaning against Alex.
"Agreed." Aly says, hands on her lower back as she sways a little.
"You're really not capable of doing this job...I mean let's face it, you just admitted it yourself. You enjoy chaos, you enjoy confrontation, you enjoy watching people beat the hell out of each other. You even seem to enjoy placing your hands on your own talent. Well let's face it Triple h, the reason for all this chaos lately is you. You're completely out of control."
"Yes." Aly nods.
"Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you to Wade Barrett. You remember Wade Barrett, the man that a year and a half ago led the Nexus to come out here and destroy half this roster, and try to take down the set, and ruin Monday Night Raw to shut this company down. That's Wade Barrett."
"That might be true, but people can change." Aly mutters to me.
"Yeah and he has changed. I mean he apologized to us, to me mostly for all he did before." I nod.
"So I guess what you're saying Barrett is the only reason you have a problem with all this chaos, is because you're not the one causing it right?"
"Anybody else got an opinion?"
"Well Triple H, I've known you for 16 years. I mean as a WWE official, and I like to think of you as a friend. All these years of an official, I've never seen this much abuse that the referees have taken by the hands of WWE Superstars. We're supposed to be unbiased officials, we're not superstars. I mean how are we supposed to get any respect from these superstars and doing our job?"
"Mike I hear what you're saying. You guys were attacked, I fired the two guys that attacked you, what more do you want me to do?"
"Yeah but those guys got into the building last night, they totally caused chaos, havoc...I mean you didn't do anything to Ricardo Rodriguez that clobbered the hell out of Chad Patten."
"Exactly."
"Stupid little shithead." Aly grumbles.
"Not to mention with these guys, Scott Armstrong and I. I mean in 23 years of my career, I'm afraid to come to work."
"I think we all are."
"Yep."
"Hunter...Hunter...Hunter..." Beth starts to say.
"...can understand where you're coming from with this, I can...but um..."
"H..Hunter...Hunter come on. We're...we're girls. And on behalf of all the WWE Divas, I have to say that the bedlem around Monday Night Raw recently has led us all to fear that something might accidently happen. Or maybe something even intentional."
We exchange looks and nod.
"Beth with all due respect to all of the Divas...and I can understand where Mike Chioda is coming from but...can you please honestly just tell me one that's happened to any of the Divas since I've been in charge? Just name one please...one."
"Hey Hunter I'm just saying it could happen."
"It...could?"
"Yes."
"Triple H...Triple H..."
"Does anybody have anything-"
"Triple H." Jerry says getting into the ring.
"I'm not speaking for anybody except myself right now. I've heard everything that's been said tonight. Quite frankly I agree with some of it, some of it I totally disagree with. One thing that I agree with is, I think this show is spiraling out of control. I know that Raw has always been a volutable place, but they've got a point when they say it is becoming a hostile or hazardous working enviornment. Now wait a minute, the part that I totally disagree with is...I don't think it's your fault."
"I think...I think it's exactly what CM Punk said it is. I think there's somebody behind the scenes pulling the strings, trying to sabotage your job as C.O.O."
"I wonder who that could be..."
"I think it's multiple people."
"Only problem with that is...everybody around this ring...including myself, are paying the price for it. Now...you got to realize that somebody doesn't want you running this company. And as long as you are running this company, I'm afraid that things are only gonna get worse. So like it or not, you're in charge, and you're the reason that all this is happening."
"Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright. So let's have a vote of confidence then. Not tomorrow, not next week...right now. So on behalf of me and all of my collegues, we vote no confidence." Christian interrupts.
"I'm sorry Triple H...no confidence." Mike Chioda adds.
"Hunter...I'm sorry...no confidence." Beth adds.
"Hunter...I don't know if you hear what they're saying but I'm saying no confidence too. And I've always heard that...actions speak louder than words. I don't know what anybody else is doing but...right now I'm reluctantly walking out." Jerry says, getting out of the ring and walking away.
After Jerry it's the group of whiners to walk out next, followed by 4 of the Smackdown superstars. The whole diva locker room is next, followed by more Raw superstars and then the refs. The rest of the Smackdown superstars leave too. That leaves the group we were in, who are reluctant to leave. Cole gets up and leaves, and we follow after. Behind us is Booker T, Justin Roberts and then even the cameramen and everyone ringside.
"So we walked out, what does this mean now?"
"I don't know."
"We're just gonna have to see how the week goes." Alex adds.
"Yeah."
"But anyways, Mike's probably getting eager for you to get back so are you just gonna bring the food you got from catering with you when we leave?"
"Yeah. I'll eat on the way back. He's probably going to attack me when I get there."
"I wouldn't doubt it." I snicker.
"He's been planning."
"Oh boy."
"Yeah. When you called me, he had attacked me over my raspberry stuff."
"Ooooh."
"Yeah. So he's antsy to get more since he got interrupted."
"Awww."
"He can survive a little longer." She says amusedly.
That's when we hear her name being called and it's coming from Hunter's voice. She stops and clenches her jaw.
"No, don't stop...keep walking." I tell her.
She nods and starts walking again. He keeps calling her name, asking her to stop.
"Don't stop." I repeat.
Of course he doesn't let up with trying to get her attention. She growls as it gets annoying.
"I can't take it anymore." She says, stopping.
She turns around and faces him, a less than pleased look on her face. She folds her arms over her chest and waits for him to speak.
"I know you had a legitimate reason to walk out with everyone."
She shrugs in acknowledgement, still not speaking.
"Hunter, we just agree with everyone else that it's not safe around here anymore. Not just for everyone else, but more so for us, given our conditions." I explain to him.
"I know." He sighs.
"But I think there's one thing we wanna know about what you did...last night. Why?"
"That's what I want to know. Why. Why last night, why would you not have Mike escorted to the trainer's so he could be with me during my anxiety attack? Just...why?" She finally speaks up.
"As for the night where I threw him out, I had no choice...I fired him and from that point on he was no longer working here, so I had to throw him out."
"You could have done it. Don't tell me that you couldn't."
"I was pissed off okay? I wasn't thinking straight."
"Whatever. Just know that you caused a whole lot of emotional issues for myself and Mike but especially him."
"You have no idea what he's been like since he couldn't get to me that night of Raw where you fired him and I had the anxiety attack. He has trouble sleeping because he has nightmares, he has flashbacks. He worries about me even more than before." She continues.
"Hopefully being away from here for so long will help him get back to normal. I hate seeing my husband like this and its basically your fault. Now I think I better go, because I don't want to be going back to Mike at the hotel being a mess of emotions. So just leave me alone. I am not happy with you one bit."
"Come on, let's go." She turns around and tells me and Alex.
We nod and we all walk away. We make it back to the room, and we decided that it'd be better to leave now rather than later. She grabbed her food and her drink, along with anything else she had and Alex and I grab what we head. We head out of the room and go out to the car, heading back to the hotel. We get up to our floor and walk out of the elevator.
"Thanks. Night you two." She says.
"Night."
She heads to her room. She breathes deeply before sliding the card into the slot and she opens the door, walking inside. Immediately Mike is there as she closes the door. Once she closes the door, he wraps her in a hug. She wraps her own arms around him as best she can and sighs, leaning into him.
"Something wrong?" He asks, since from the sigh he knew something was.
"Ran into Hunter." She murmurs.
"What happened?"
"He didn't really get to say much. I pretty much ripped into him."
"But you're okay right?"
"I'm alright. I told him to leave me alone and walked away before I lost my cool."
"Well that's good at least."
She nods into his shoulder.
"I was bound to run into him at some point...I just wish I didn't have to."
"I know."
"But you're back here with me now, you don't have to worry about him."
"I'm glad." She mumbles, snuggling into him.
"Want to just relax or something? You seem like you want to do that."
"I don't care. As long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter."
"Alright, well why don't you get changed for bed first."
"Mmkay." She agrees.
She pulls away from the hug and goes over to her things to find something to change into. She puts on a cami and boyshorts that are the same color as Mike's eyes. He sees her and pats the spot next to him on the bed, since he moved to rlex on it while she got changed. She climbs onto the bed and into his arms.
"Guess what we get to watch Wednesday?"
"What."
"Well that episode of that show H8R, is gonna be on Wednesday. I filmed the episode on of the days when I wasn't around."
"Oh. I really wish I could have been on that with you."
"I know, especially since I couldn't change this hater's mind after all I did for him."
"Some people can be stubborn. You know that."
"I know, but it was fun though. He no longer looks like a dweeb."
She giggles a little.
"I'm not giving too much away...you're gonna have to watch for yourself."
"Okay."
"Oh but wait until you hear what he said about me."
"Oh jeez."
"Should be entertaining." She adds.
"Of course, it's me." Mike says.
She giggles again, looking amused.
"It'll be fun to watch, that's for sure."
He nods and she snuggles into him more. She subconsciously rubs her lips together.
"You just love to torture me don't you?"
"Hmm?"
"You know what you did."
"No..."
"Lyssa..."
"...what?"
"Don't play all innocent with me."
She shrugs and nuzzles her head against him..
"I'm watching you..."
"I know, I can feel it."
"Can't hide anything from you." He says, trying to hold back a yawn.
"Tired babe?"
"Just a bit."
"We can pass on your planning if you're tired."
"Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. I don't want to fall asleep on you or anything."
She sighs inwardly and kisses him before laying down.
"I'm sorry."
"It's nothing." She shakes her head.
"Lys..."
"Mike. Just drop it."
"...I did it again." He sighs.
"It isn't you." She gets out of bed.
"I'm wound up and hormonal."
"And I'm trying my best to not make it worse for you."
"I know. I think I'm going to soak in the tub for a bit."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." She nods, going into the bathroom to start the water.
He settles back down into his spot on the bed, the light off now and the tv still on. Mike falls asleep right after she shuts the water off. She gets in the water and tries to relax. It's clearly working because she could feel herself start to drift off. She doesn't feel like moving yet so she just lays her head on the side of the tub. She ends up falling asleep and a while after that, Mike walks into the bathroom half asleep. He finds her still in the tub, but sleeping. He sighs, almost amused. He then reaches in and pulls the drain plug before grabbing a towel, setting it close by. He picks her up carefully. Then he grabs the towl to help dry her off, before putting her clothes back on her. He hangs up the wet towel and then scoops her up, taking her out of the bathroom. She starts to stir as he lays her in bed. He pulls the blankets over you, before walking around and getting into his side of the bed and getting under the blankets as well. He leans over and kisses her head, quietly saying 'goodnight'. She mumbles a soft reply.