Chapter 56:

"The following tag team contest is scheduled for one fall and it is a Love Him or Leave Him match." Lilian Garcia informed the crowd. "Please welcome, the man on the line, BATISTA!"

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I WALK ALONE!

As Saliva rocked in the background, Batista made his way onto the stage, dressed in jeans and black polo shirt. His skipped his pyro effects this time, knowing this wouldn't be the only time he came out to the ring. He exchanged high fives with the fans.

"No worries." He called to them. "I'm still going home with Haley tonight!"

I walk for miles inside the pit of danger

A place where no one follows me

I walk alone

"Introducing first," Lilian paused after Dave had entered the ring and stood in the center and waited for the next music to hit the airwaves.

Ooooooooooh

Let me show what love is

Let me show you how to move your body

Move your body, move your body

The techno dance mix of a certain Diva's titantron filled the area. Multicolored strobe lights flashed and two brunette Divas appeared center stage, both shooting keep the faith hand signs into the air. They were greeted with enthusiastic cheers from the crowd, as they started down the ramp, high fiving those who were straining against the barricades.

"The team of Haley Mariano and Candice Michelle!" Lilian Garcia announced, as the two Divas reached the bottom of the ramp.

Raise your hands up!

Raise your hands up!

Raise your hands up!

Haley entered the ring, while Candice went around the side to use the stairs so she could stand in the middle of the apron. Haley climbed the turnbuckle to her left and used Candice's keep the faith hands signs again, while her friend began to fiddle with the ties of her robe.

ALL EYES ON ME!

As the music hit its mark, Candice whipped open her thin robe to reveal the wrestling attire underneath, gyrating her body in rhythm to the music. While she entertained the fans on that side of the arena, Haley leapt off the turnbuckle and moved to stand beside Dave, who hugged her to him.

"Relax." He murmured. "You're going to do great. Both you and Candice are former Women's Champions, Eve maybe knows how to do an arm drag takeover by now. You've got this in the bag."

She didn't respond because just as Candice came fully into the ring, Mickie's music blasted through the speaker system and was accompanied with a rousing chorus of boos.

"And their opponents, the team of Eve Torres and Mickie James!" Lilian flashed Haley and Candice a supportive smile, before exiting the ring.

"You want to start or do you want me to?" Candice asked, coming to stand beside Haley and Dave.

"I doesn't really matter to me. I just want to end it by doing a Haley's Comet on Eve." Haley shrugged, unimpressed by the entrance of Eve and Mickie.

"Okay, well then you start, I'll hold the middle and we'll finish it together." Candice suggested readily. "Cause I wouldn't mind giving Mickie a candiwrapper for all the shit she's done to you."

Haley nodded. "Sounds good to me." She chuckled when Eve took the apron and Mickie stayed within the ropes.

"Go get 'em Tiger." Dave kissed Haley briefly for luck and gave Candice a quick one armed hug before going to sit with Jerry "The King" Lawler and Michael Cole.

The bell rang to start the match and the two women locked up in the center of the ring. Using a leverage advantage, Haley pulled Mickie into a side headlock. She then rammed her former friend chest first into the corner turnbuckle, ducking underneath to slide her arm between Mickie's legs and roll her up for a quick pin. Mickie managed to kick out at two, but as she rose, she found herself flat on her back again with a bench press from Haley.

Mickie squealed and attempted to cover up as Haley assaulted her with numerous left hands. Finally, the woman from Richmond managed to wriggle loose and return to her feet, but Haley was quicker and attacked with a vicious clothesline, followed by another and the third time Mickie rose, she met a Randy Orton replicated standing dropkick.

As Haley bent down to haul Mickie to her feet, the Women's Champion lashed out with a boot to the chest. Haley stumbled back a few steps, sucking deep lungfuls of air while Mickie used the opportunity to get to her feet.

Haley ducked under her attempt at a clothesline and met Mickie with a left hand shot to the face. She stepped back, leapt up, locked her legs around Mickie's neck and used a hurricanrana into a roll-up attempt for a victory. Again, Mickie just managed to kick out before three.

Both women rose to there feet, this time Mickie with the speed advantage. Haley saw stars as Mickie sent a harsh kick right to her face. She fell over backwards, shaking her head trying to get refocused.

Mickie continued her offense by using the ropes to get in a sharp low dropkick. She made a quick cover and out of pure instinct Haley kicked out just before the ref reached two.

"Come on!" Mickie complained.

"Two Mickie." Jack Doan reprimanded firmly.

Once Haley managed to weakly get back to her feet, she found herself on the receiving end of one of Mickie's springboard headscissors. She followed it up with her own bench press and this time it was Haley who covered up from numerous right hands thrown by Mickie. She bucked upwards, dislodging Mickie and made a mad scramble back to her vertical base.

"Ah!" Mickie charged forward, looking to use a Thez press this time, but Haley countered with another grade A spinebuster.

Haley lay dazed on the mat for a moment, exhausted from her effort of reversing Mickie's momentum, before she began to crawl for her corner where Candice was pacing like a caged lion, dying to get her chance against Mickie.

Once the tag was made, Candice flew through the ropes, using a clothesline to knock Mickie off her feet. While Candice kept the pace fast and in her favor, Haley used the ropes to pull herself back up to her feet on the apron. She wasn't paying too close attention and didn't realize Eve Torres was frantically motioning to someone through the crowd.

She only realized something else was going on, when Dave flashed by her to meet Paul Burchill at the bottom of the ramp. The two men began to exchange punches, Batista easily over powering the man from Chelsea.

"Candice, heads up!" Haley shouted the warning, knowing Katie Lea must not be far behind.

Katie leapt over the security barricade, pretending to jump on the apron near Candice to distract her, but she stayed on the floor when she realized Candice was ready for her. The next moments happened so fast, Haley couldn't remember all of them clearly.

Mickie twisted enough for Eve Torres to make a blind tag unknown to Candice, who was cursing Katie Lea. Mickie attacked Candice from the side, while Katie came around the ring where Haley stood. Haley turned on the apron, prepared to attack the British Diva. She had not prepared to be launched off of it.

Mickie charged across the ring like a bull finding its target. She slammed into Haley from behind like a freight train, her momentum sending the former Women's Champion careening through the air like rag doll. Meanwhile, Katie used her shoulder like a battering ram to knock into Haley's fallen body as she fell, slamming her forcibly into thinly matted cement floor.

There was a searing sensation in Haley's left shoulder, followed by an excruciating pop. Haley screamed in agony while she crumpled to the ground, cradling the injured limb. "Candice!" She cried, knowing that now she wouldn't be able to continue the contest.

"Haley!" Candice shoved Mickie aside, leaning over the ropes where her friend lay below. "Oh my God, are you…ah!"

Eve Torres ducked underneath the Candy-coated Diva, shooting and hand through her legs and knocking her backwards into a roll up. "Gotcha!"

"One…two…three!" Jack Doan called for the bell, while Eve's music blasted in the background.

"What?!" Dave spun around from where he had been knocking Paul unconscious to stare in horror as Mickie, Katie and Eve celebrated in the ring.

"Haley!" Candice dropped outside. "Oh God, I'm so sorry."

"Candice, my shoulder." Haley let her head fall against her best friends chest. "It hurts so bad. Oh my God, it's killing me!"

"Get the EMTs!" Candice ordered, her voice getting panicked. "She's hurt, get the EMTs!"

"Here are your winners, Mickie James and Eve Torres." Lilian Garcia announced in disgust, looking over to the far corner where Candice and several referees surrounded Haley.

"Haley!" Dave's voice was full of horror, as he started towards where she lay. "Is she okay?! Haley!"

Eve Torres slid out of the ring and right into his path. "Looks like we're going to be a team now, Big guy."

"Not now, Eve." Dave pushed past her in disgust.

She simply grabbed his arm. "Yes now. We work together, therefore we celebrate together."

"If you think I'm celebrating this, you're out of your mind!" Dave snapped.

Meanwhile, Haley felt tears spill over, while Candice tried to murmur soothing words into her hair. "It'll be okay, Haley. We'll get you checked out, you're going to be fine."

"I want Hunter." Haley gasped. "Please, someone get Hunter!"

"Haley!" The referees seemed to part, as Randy suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "What happened?"

"Something's wrong with her shoulder." Candice explained anxiously.

"The EMTs are coming down." Jack Doan tried to assure him.

Randy snorted in disbelief. "They're not coming fast enough." He crouched right beside the two Divas and pulled Haley's right arm around his neck, while his free hand slid under her knees. "Hold on to me, Haley, I'm going to get you backstage okay?"

"I want Hunter, Randy." Haley was terrified for her arm, as Randy lifted her off the ground bridal style, her injured shoulder, held protectively against his chest.

"We'll get him, Hales." He kept his voice increasingly calm. "Let's go, Candice, you can get the doors for us."

"You got it!" Candice started up the ramp ahead of him, shouting to one of the referees to inform Triple H if he wasn't already on his way.

"Haley!" They heard Dave's panicked shout, who trying to shake Eve off without knocking her unconscious.

"We'll be in the trainer's room." Randy called to him absent-mindedly; his only concern was getting Haley out of there.

A/N: Uh oh. I told you it had an unexpected ending. Now the question is, how serious is her injury. We'll find out next chapter. And now what's in store for Haley and Dave, and Haley and Randy?

Up next…We find out the verdict on Haley's shoulder, Hunter offers comfort and Haley decides what she needs to do.

Dreamin'BIG: Hey, you can't do that! Leave my Davey alone, you can't hold him against me!

Nic-002001: Well, I didn't make you wait too long and this chapter's a little longer than my usual.

Rossi's Lil Devil: thank you. Unfortunately they didn't win due to a certain amount of cheating.

FrequentlyDazzled619: Hey, don't kiss Baley goodbye just yet! It's so not over by any means lol. Although Raley's really going to heat up now.

Ctar: haha you better be kidding or I'll throw a bitch fit on your ass. Lol. Nice Jewel reference. And no, I don't suppose the ending is one anyone likes.

IrshBeth: Unfortunately not this time…

Jewelgirl04: Yes you did and it was an awesome update! And look at me, trying to update daily again lol. And no, you don't like the end of this match, but Dwayne's in the chapter after this next one.

I luv Drama and Jeff Hardy: I'm not really ripping on Randy, just annoyed that he kicked my boy.

CenaCandiceFan4Life: Please don't cry lol. Triple H is in the next chapter, so there's a plus side.

SBMFanatic: I know, I love good ole Hacksaw. Chris was so mean. I hope Jim calls him a ho and hits him over the head with the two by four.