How Taking Down Legacy Failed

Becky's P.O.V

"Settling in okay?" Randy asked as the two of us walked down to the hotel lobby together. A new city. A new hotel. It was surreal.

"Yeah. I hung out a bit with Mickie last night." I smirked at Randy, "You have my approval. Just make sure this one isn't a crazy psycho okay?"

"Mickie? 'Crazy psycho' is the definition of her."

Randy and I both turned around to see Ted walking towards us, a smirk slung onto his face.

"Ted." I greeted. I had had a massive crush on this guy and it felt embarrassing to be back in his presence, even though I had hung out with him a few times since I had arrived.

"Becky," He nodded before looking at Randy, "Where are you two off to?"

"I need to grab a couple of things but I'm dropping Bex off at the mall."

"Trying to take your mind off tonight, hmm?" Ted raised his eyebrows, "Well. If anyone wants to hang out with me… then just say because I'm all alone."

"We won't." Randy assured and the two of us turned around at the same time and walked out of the lobby, leaving Ted alone.

"That's cool," Ted called, trying to sound nonchalant, "because, you know, I have other friends."

Randy simply called over his shoulder, "No you don't."

Half an hour later

I wasn't a tomboy but I was hardly a girlie-girl, so after a while of shopping, my mind began to strain slightly but I didn't know what else to do. It wasn't like I had many friends here.

"Hey! What're you doing here?"

Scratch that. Maybe I had one friend.

I lifted my head to see Cody, his hands in his pockets and a smile on his face. Cody and I had hung out occasionally – sometimes with Ted and Mickie and once Randy- and I actually really liked him. I used to have a hard time becoming friends with guys but Cody made it easy.

"Nothing interesting." I raised both my eyebrows, "You?"

"I was getting a gift for my mom but couldn't find anything. It's her birthday next week." There was a small pause before he said, "Like the hotel?"

"Yeah. Very swank." I shrugged, "So, what are you doing now?"

Cody wrinkled his nose, "Nothing. I've given up. You?"

"Snap. I need to find something to do though or I think I'll go insane with boredom."

Cody nodded, "I know how that feels but I need to keep my mind off tonight."

There was another small pause – although, thankfully it wasn't awkward – and then I gently shrugged, "I guess I better go. I'll see you around."

"Wait."

I stopped and my eyes roamed back to his face, "What?"

"Let's go to lunch."

"What?"

"Lunch! A meal commonly consumed in the middle of the day," Cody grinned a little nervously, "You just said that you had nothing to do and would be bored… well, me too. And I'm hungry. So, let's go to lunch."

I studied him through half-closed eyes for a moment before saying, "This has nothing to do with Randy?"

Cody looked confused, "Randy? No, of course not. Why?"

I thought about what to say, "Randy's always been over protective of me. I'm his only sister and, even worse, I'm his younger sister. In his eyes I'm fragile and delicate." I lifted my eyes to the ceiling, "He wants me to travel with him but I know he's worried that I won't fit in or I'll be lonely or whatever… and I also know that he wants to keep an eye on me."

Cody suddenly realized what I was saying, "Oh no! No! God! No. I promise that Randy hasn't sent me here to spy on you or whatever. This is a genuine offer coming from me, Cody Rhodes." He then pointed to himself for emphases, "So. Lunch?"

I grinned, "Sure."

Another half an hour later

"I have never seen anyone give someone a dirtier look before." I sniggered.

Cody pulled a face, "It isn't my fault."

"You tripped him over."

"No!" Cody wagged a finger, "I was stretching my legs – it's not my fault if a waiter with about twenty stacks of food can't see where he's going and decides to trip over them!"

I gave him a look, "Bull! You saw him coming, didn't you?"

"I'm insulted you would think such a thing."

"Cody…"

"Becky…"

Cody squinted at me for a moment before a smirk stretched onto his lips.

I laughed but quickly quietened it when an old lady on a neighbouring table threw me a dirty look.

"I knew it." I whispered triumphantly.

Cody winked, "I'm a good boy really."

I made a disbelieving noise, "Sure."

Cody grinned before stretching his arms, "Wanna hit the road?"

"Fine by me."

Admittedly, I was slightly disappointed but that was only because we had been having so much fun. We had received a countless amount of glares from the other people in restaurants for laughing too loudly.

We paid for our meal and started to make our way back to the hotel but, before we could even get that far, the car broke down.

"Well. This is embarrassing."

I laughed and nodded, "Yeah. It is. I think there's a gas station somewhere…"

Cody sighed and slipped off his seatbelt, "Come on. It won't take long."

I grimaced, "You're not going to let me wait here for you, are you?"

"Not a chance."

Ten minutes later

"You're insane."

"How?"

"Not many people would want to take a shortcut through a forest."

"I'm unique."

I gave Cody a look and then winced as a branch smacked me in the face, I recovered my face, maintained my dignity and continued following him, "Or maybe you're just insane… or maybe you just lured me in here so that you can kill me"

Cody burst out laughing, "I am not a murderer!"

"Never-SHHH!"

Cody jumped out of his skin at my sudden instruction and I held out my arm to stop him moving any further. He followed my gaze and the corner of his lips twitched.

Gently grazing on the grass was a deer. A doe. She stood there at complete ease, not aware that two people were watching her.

I lifted my camera from my bag and took a series of photos, wincing at the slightest sound in case it scared her off but I got loads of good angles of her.

"You're taking a picture of a deer?"

"Problem?"

Cody thought about it before shaking his head, "No, I guess not."

The deer eventually sauntered off but Cody and I explored the forest even more and I got some of the most amazing photographs. It might have just been an interesting looking tree or an odd animal or a lake but some of them had colours and details that were so incredible that they didn't look real.

"You really love all of this, don't you?" Cody asked after I finished snapping a large raven that was standing proudly on the perch of a branch.

"What?"

"Photography."

"Yep." I turned to face him and snapped a picture of his face, he looked taken-aback for a moment but I laughed, "I love capturing moments. It's keeping a memory for life. It also shows the different of places and the way that places contrast. I hate posed photos. They don't show the true… soul of things. I'm such a loser, I know but…" I left the sentence hanging and shrugged.

Cody was suddenly deadly still and he spun me around on the spot, "Look!" He hissed.

I stared as a white wolf padded towards us, its claws delicately scraping the forests floor.

I took a few quick pictures but Cody and I backed away slightly in case the wolf got violent. However, it merely threw us a lot before disappearing into the depths of the forest.

As soon as it left, I turned to Cody, "That was a wolf!"

"It could have killed us."

"Hey, you're 'unique' and I'm optimistic." I grinned but then paused, "Thanks, by the way."

"For… what?"

"For letting me distract you from your car! I got some of the best photos ever." I beamed, "And… well, thanks for taking me to Kyle's last week and thanks for saving me from boredom this afternoon."

"It's hardly been tough on me," Cody laughed, "I haven't laughed this much in ages."

"I find that hard to believe if you're best friends with Ted and Mickie." I grinned before checking my watch, "We should probably be getting back."

Cody murmured in agreement and then grinned, "I've had a really good day."

I smiled shyly, "Me too."

Mickie's P.O.V

"I'm scared Teddy" I was indeed. Last night had been Extreme Rules, Randy didn't win, it was good because that way he didn't have to go to Smackdown, but it was bad because he didn't become champion. I had faced that fear of him getting traded; now I just needed to get through tonight. It was the Draft. Any of us could be traded to Smackdown, me, Cody, Randy or Ted. I do not know what I would do if even one of them went to Smackdown. They are all a huge part of my life. "I don't want to leave, I've already left once, I don't want to again" I was hugging Ted.

"You won't baby, if worse comes to worse, I have handcuffs in my bag, if they take you, they have to take all of us!" Ted grinned.

"That's a good id…wait, why do you have handcuffs in your bag?" I asked him suspiciously, he just wiggled his brows at me. The worrying thing is, when I did check his bag, he did have handcuffs, I now never doubt Ted.

"And also baby" Ted tugged on my elbow as I was getting up when he started talking. "You are like a boomerang, you keep coming back!" I didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. "We just can't get rid of you"

"Cheers Ted"

It's a new day

"Popular man" I nodded at Ted. He smirked and reached into his bag to get his phone.

"Hello?" He answered. He suddenly sniggered and gestured for me to come over to him. He put the phone on speaker phone. "Excuse me?"

"Baby, I said what are you doing? Want to come over later?" A man's voice replied, Randy looked over at me and Ted, I just gave him an innocent smile.

"What?" Ted said confused.

"You heard me baby, I've got an agenda for us to do" The man laughed.

"A fun agenda?"

"Something like that"

"That does sound fun…but Sir, I think you may have the wrong number, this is Ted" Oh darn it Ted! We could have gone along with that!

"Whoa! You serious?" The guy asked, I shook my head and laughed.

"Yes" Was all Ted replied.

"I'm so sorry!" Fun is ruined!

"It's okay."

"So…do you want to come over?" The guy asked, I couldn't hold it in, Ted had just been asked out! By a dude! Ted hung up immediately.

"No laughing!" He put his hand over my mouth, I licked his hand. "Baby! That is disgusting!" He walked over to Randy and wiped it on him, Randy looked at him weirdly. "It's your girlfriend's saliva, you're used to it!" He commented, oh god, that's embarrassing.

It's a new day

Me and Ted leaned over to see who was calling, it was the same number as before, Ted sighed and pressed the answer button. "Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna talk anymore! I left my head and my heart on the dance floor" He started to sing down the phone. He then hung up. "What?" He asked me noticing that I was starring. "I had to go out in style" "Ah Ted" Was my reply, I ruffled my hand into his hair. "Your hair is getting quite long!"

"Yeah, but at the end of the day, I can cut my hair, you can't do anything about that face" I wasn't even insult him and he came back with a good come back! "Do I hear a piano because Mickie just got played" "You know Ted, I was going to be kind, I was going to order a pizza and share it with you, but you've just changed that bitch" I opened up my purse. "What the? I had like two hundred dollars in here" I saw there was a piece of paper wedge in there. "IOU and a smile face" I read out loud. I turned to Ted. "This is your handwriting" He leaned over.

"So it is" He smiled innocently. I glared at him.

"Randy" I did in a 'You know you love me' voice. He chucked his wallet at me. "Love you"

"You know, I shouldn't give you the money seeing as you took off in my Bentley the other day" Randy said, crossing his arms.

"You deserved it! You questioned my driving!"

"You drove off the road once because you were lip singing" He pointed out.

"That was once! No one will let me live that down. What like you've never done it?"

"No, because I'm not a woman, I'm a man, I can actually drive"

"Ted are you hearing this?" I yelled like I was outraged.

"Yes and I agree completely with Randall here" Ted stood by Randy's side and too crossed his arms, I starred at the two in disgust.

"Don't call me Randall" Randy told Ted sternly.

"You let her" Ted whined.

"Yes, but she does things to me you can't"

"I could so!" Ted protested. "What are they?" We both stayed quiet, Ted just looked between us. "Oh…EWWWW! I'm not going to do that, you sick man! How dare you ask that of me"

"I never asked you!"

"I will go along with your story because your girlfriend is here, but you should know better"

"Right, I'll be back, save me pizza" Randy kissed my cheek and walked out the locker room.

"Where is he going?" Ted asked me.

"For a smoke" I replied. "He doesn't do it around me as he knows I don't like it"

"Awww, isn't that sweet, now order the damn pizza woman!"

"No, I'm putting up an invisible wall, so you can't hear me or have any of my pizza" I looked at Ted and pretended to build a wall between us.

"Right, I will get my invisible hammer" He pretended to hold a hammer. "And knock down your invisible wall" He proceeded to knock it down. "Now order the pizza"

Half an hour later

Randy was back and it was only ten minutes until Raw. I was laying on the couch watching the music channel until it was on. Miley Cyrus came on singing her new song. Ted came over and sat on my feet to watch it. He watched it all the way through, didn't say a word and once Miley was done, he stood up and said 'Well that was horrible' And walked back over to Randy who was finishing off the pizza.

"You keep changing your mind about her, you liked her the other day" I pointed out.

"Yeah, the other day, things change Mickie"

"Hey Teddy, Are we an item?" I sang to him.

"Mickie quit playing" Ted sang back to me.

"Teddy we're just friends"

"Mickie what are you saying?" He turned to see Randy shocked that he knew the words to a Justin Beiber song. He looked around the room in a panic. "DON'T JUDGE ME" He cried and ran at the room.

"Revenge" I laughed evilly. Randy laughed too and came over and sat with me. I laid into him, I was still worried about tonight, he put his finger under my chin and lifted my head up.

"Smile, you're pretty"

"And you're a keeper" I replied kissing him softly.

"Go on" Randy smirked wanting me to talk about him some more.

"No! You can't make me!" I pretended to sulk like a child, I moved out of Randy's arms, he pouted at me.

"*Makes you" There's cotton candy in it for you" He reached out and put his hand on my hip and tried to pull me back into him.

"Too bad, I don't like cotton candy" I looked back at Randy, he was thinking of something to say back.

"Smile! You're pretty" He repeated, I shook my head and went back into his arms.

"Don't be flattered, he just wants to fuck you" Ted said walking back into the room. Way to ruin a perfectly good moment!

"Oh Ted! I just remembered! Do you remember awhile ago, we had that discussing on imaginary friends?" I asked him, he nodded. "Well I spoke to my mother and she said I had one!"

"Really? Did you grow out of it or is it still here?" Ted joked.

"It was called man and no, instead of growing out of it, my grandmother sat on him and killed him" I poked my bottom lip out.

"You called your imaginary friend man?" Ted sniggered.

"You listen to Justin Beiber" I retorted.

"Touché" He replied glaring at me.

We all sat around and watched the divas match, we knew that if Smackdown divas Michelle & Layla win then a diva from Raw will be traded and that could be me. It was Michelle & Layla versus Maryse and Eve, but because they couldn't get along, Michelle and Layla picked up the victory for Smackdown.

"Great" I mumbled. I watched nervously as the all the divas of Raw including me flickered across the TV. Every time my face showed Ted screamed 'There you are! There you are!' I closed my eyes and I heard the noises which meant that they had chosen, I opened one eye to see it was Kelly Kelly!

RESULT! I wasn't going anywhere!

Sheamus was in the ring next, he was talking about how he beat Triple H. Randy rolled his eyes. "I will be back" Randy got up, but I tugged on his Randy Orton shirt.

"Go easy on him, he is my favourite" I told him.

"I thought I was your favourite!"

"You're second" I grinned.

"Even more of a reason to do this, you better watch what I do to your favourite" I scowled jokily at him.

"Think of the consequences of your actions, if you hurt him, I'm going to be pissed and you know what I'm like when I'm pissed"

"Man, she's a bitch" Ted muttered. I slapped the back of his head.

"Thank you Ted"

"Is that your pathetic way of saying thank you?"

"Wow, ungrateful much"

"You slapped the back of my head"

"I'm sorry, is that illegal?"

"No, but it's just plain rude baby and I thought I had raised you better"

"Well jokes on you"

"As much as I would love to listen to the rest of this conversation, I have an Irish man to beat down" Randy said as he walked out and it wasn't long until 'I hear voices in my head' hit the arena. I did what Randy said and watched. Randy started to talk about how he hated Triple H and how he tortured him and his family, but when it came to fighting him, he did it like a man.

"Is he implying that Sheamus is a woman?" I gasped.

"I think he is baby! The nerve!" Ted growled. "When he gets make he is writing Sheamus a letter"

"Damn right" I agreed with Ted. Randy then went on to tell Sheamus that he did not deserve a title shot.

"He did not just go there" Ted commented when Randy threatened to RKO & punt him. "This is your fault! If you didn't say that he was your favourite, he would have been nice to Sheamus! I think you're the one who should be writing the letter!"

Me and Ted both laughed our heads off when Sheamus started calling Randy a loser. Stupid Cena then decided to stick his neck in and get involved. "Have you ran into him yet?" Ted asked me.

"Nope" I replied glaring at the Tv. He then started to make fun of Sheamus, asshole.

The matches were then decided. It would be Randy versus Sheamus for the Number 1's contenders match. Sheamus tried to do a sneak attack on Randy, but Randy was to quick for him and goes for the RKO, Sheamus was then too quick and countered.

"Now it's my time to shine!" Ted grinned and walked out. His match was next. It was team Smackdown versus Team Raw.

On team Smackdown there is R truth, Rey, Drew and crime time guy. For Team Raw we have Santino, Ted, Mvp and Mark Henry. It's a royal rumble. I cheered for Ted. He won! It was between him and Rey and he won!

We got three draft picks because of Ted. Edge, R truth and Christian. I waited for Ted to come back, God knows where Randy has gotten to, hopefully he isn't outside smoking, I have a feeling he is. Ted came back on the screen, he was backstage.

He wants Carlito to accept some kind of offer. Carlito turns him down and calls him uncool. He then goes after R-truth who slaps him! No one slaps my Teddy and gets away with it! He wants someone to watch his back. When he walked back in the locker room, I sniggered.

"Not a word baby" Ted growled.

"You ask the wrong person, I know someone who would love to be your Virgil" I told Ted. His eyes brightened up.

"Who?"

"Me!" I grinned. Ted just laughed, I glared. Was I not in the standards Ted needs for a virgil?

"Smooth Ted, real smooth" Randy chuckled walking back into the room. "Did you see babe, I went easy on Sheamus"

"You tried to RKO him…" I said pretending to be angry.

"I gave him the opportunity to counter" He replied smirking.

"Oh yes, so noble of you Randall"

"I think that nobleness needs to be rewarded"

"Oh really? Well then maybe I should…"

"Dudes, don't want to spoil your sex talk, but I'm still here" Ted yelled from the couch.

"It wasn't sex talk and FYI I'm a GIRL, get that into your thick skull"

"I have never been so insulted" Ted gasped. "And it was SO sex talk, that's what you had in my mind, didn't you Randall?"

"Theodore, Randy does not, unlike you, think about sex constantly" I placed my hands on my hips. "Right Randy?"

"Right Mickie! God Ted, how low do you think of me?" I smirked at Ted. "But yeah, I was talking about you rewarding me with sex Mickie"

"Oh baby" Ted laughed to himself. "Oh the humiliation, there should be a show named after me, Ted knows best"

"But you don't"

"I knew best about what Randy was thinking about, 'Randy does not, unlike you, think about sex constantly'" Ted mocked me. "Don't you feel silly"

"Alright, alright, don't push it Theodore"

"Mickie was wrong, Ted was right, I could get used to hear that"

"Theodore, I'm warning you"

"You see that failure?" Ted asked Randy pointing to me. "Well your sleeping with that, how do you feel"

"Randy, tell him!"

"If I wasn't so comfy here Ted, I would RKO your ass right now, you've been warned"

"Cheers Randy"

Should Ted let Mickie be his virgil? Will more develop between Becky & Cody? But what about Ashley!
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