How Taking Down Legacy Failed

"It's 4am, what are you doing still up?" Ted asked, rubbing his eyes as his came out of the bedroom. I was seating on the couch with my legs tucked up. "Can't sleep?"

"Just been on the phone to the prison Randy is staying at" I replied, he starred at me waiting for an answer. "I called to get a visiting order"

"So when are you going to see him?" He asked.

"I'm not"

"What? Why?" Ted asked me, his eyes full of confusion.

"Randy rejected it" I kept nodding with my mouth squeezed shut as I tried to shake the tears threatening to fall. "He doesn't want to see me Ted"

"Come here baby" I shifted so I was sitting closer to Ted, he placed his arm around me and rubbed up and down my shoulder. "Of course Randy wants to see you and there is probably a reason that he keeps denying your order"

"What reason Ted? He told me will explain, he promise everything was going to be ok" I sniffed; he picked up a tissue and dabbed at my eyes.

"I don't know, how about I phone up and see if he will see me?" I nodded as I blew my nose. "I'll give them a call in a few hours" He said followed by silence. We both just laid on the couch for awhile. "Feels so empty now doesn't it? No Randy, no Cody and no Becky, unless has she come back from the hospital?"

"No, she refuses to leave his side" I told him. "I'm worried about her Ted, I'm going to go up there later on today"

"I miss him Mick" We were sitting in the dark, but Ted's eyes still looked really shiny. "I still walk in expecting to see him, make some kind of sexist joke and…" His voice started to break by this point. I put my arm around him and just held onto him. "I actually had a dream that everything was different, it was like one of our typical days a month ago"

"I wish I could have had that dream" I sighed. "Mine was really strange and off topic"

"What was it about?"

"I woke up tied to a chair in the shrieking shack. Voldemort came up to me and asked where "it" was. I thought it was the Harry Potter prophecy and refused to give it up. Voldemort then proceeded to go look into my bag and bring out something. He then proceeds to steal my ipod, do a little a victory dance, and leave" I told him, I then heard him chuckle. "Yey, I made you laugh"

"It's what I needed" He nodded. "Let me look it up on my phone"

"What?"

"Your dream, apparently there is like meaning behind your dreams" He continued to type stuff into his phone. "Aha, To dream that you have been robbed, indicates that you are experiencing an identity crisis or are suffering from some sort of loss in your life" He read out.

"Loss in my life seems pretty accurate, Randy…Cody" I just starred up at the ceiling for a little bit before speaking again, trying to remember more of my dream to look up. "How did you know to look up your dreams?"

"Well one time I kept having a dream about my teeth falling out"

"What did it mean?" I asked him.

"Sexual desire" He smirked. "Whenever I had a bad dream and when you refused to entertain me…"

"You used to wake me up at 3 in the morning to entertain you!"

"Don't interrupt me!" Ted shushed me. "Anyway Cody would always tell me the tale of Cody the Overweight hamster and his quest for pot noodles"

"Cody did that?" I found myself smiling.

"Bromance" Ted held his hands up, smirking, his smirk then dropped. "I feel like I can't have a good time when Cody is in the condition he is"

"I suppose Cody would want us to laugh though, right?" Ted stifled a nod. "Seeing him barely moving on the hospital bed, all those wires connected to him, it's like it's not him, it's not our Cody"

"Codykins" Me and Ted just looked at each other, before pulling a blanket over us and settling down for the night on the couch.

Becky's P.O.V

I hated leaving but it would've been rude of me not to let a mother and father have private time with their comatose son. I made myself cheap, disgusting tasting coffee but I needed to stay awake. I didn't want to leave.

I shudder as it touched my lips but then heard someone say my name.

"Yes?" I turned around and did a double take when I saw a cop standing there.

"Ms Orton?"

"Yes…"

I knew the cop because he had been one who had gone over the facts with me before but he had another officer with him and I regarded them suspiciously, wondering what they wanted for me.

"As you know, we have your brother in custody-"

"Randy didn't do it." I told him confidently. When Ted first called me and told me, I had been furious and for one moment I had truly fretted that he had done it.

Then I thought about it.

Randy was aggressive, rude and easily angered but a killer? No. He wouldn't kill someone. I knew he wouldn't.

"If you say so." The other cop said with a knowing smile. Urgh.

"Okay." The first one said, "Well, we just want to go over a few details with you."

"I've already done this!"

He smiled, "Sorry. We're just fact-checking."

I heaved a sigh but nodded, "Okay. Fine."

"Where were you at twenty minutes past eleven on the night that Mr Rhodes was shot?"

I ran a hand through my hair, "I went to the hotel bar."

"Can you get anyone to confirm that?"

"Yes. The staff or security cameras." After my fight with Cody, I had gone down to the bar, just to cool off and get a drink. I hadn't even finished it before I regretted my decision and went back up to see Cody.

"Where were you before that?"

I paused, "Cody's hotel room."

The cops exchanged knowing looks, which just irritated me.

"Why?"

"We…" I didn't want to lie to the police, so sighed, "we had a fight."

"About?"

"He had… he had an argument with my brother." Ah crap, I hoped that wouldn't look bad against Randy.

"Right." The second cop then smirked, "What is your relationship with Cody Rhodes?"

"Becky!"

I turned around to see Ashley hurrying towards us, tears running down her cheeks. She threw her arms around me and hugged me. I felt sick.

"Hi… Ashley."

"Oh, Becky, I got here as soon as I could. I can't believe it!" She started sobbing and I tried to stay composed.

"Ms Orton?"

I gently untangled Ashley from me and turned to them, "This is… Cody's girlfriend, Ashley Massaro."

They both looked at each other knowingly again and nodded, "Ms Massaro, we might have a few questions for you later."

She shrugged, "That's fine! I don't care. I just need to see Cody."

I looked at the officers, "Are we done here?"

They nodded and then the second office suddenly stopped me, "Wait, what was your relationship with Cody Rhodes?"

What an arsehole. He knew.

I looked at Ashley, who was wiping her tears away with her thumb. I bit my lip and then said, "We're just friends."

Mickie's P.O.V

I had just dropped Ted off at the prison that Randy was staying at. He had said yes to Ted's visiting order, but no to mine, I had to know why. Right now, I was just picking up some stuff for Becky then heading to the hospital. Ah crap, I needed to let Vince know that none of us were coming in for the show tonight, I don't have time to call him, I…wait, there is John. I jogged over to him. "Listen I need a favour" I tapped his shoulder and he turned around, smirking instantly when he saw me.

"I knew this would happen sooner or later" John said smugly, he then held up his hand. "So what picks your fancy, one finger or two?" He wiggled his fingers round, I made a face of disgusting before slapping him round the face. He held his cheek and looked me back in the eye. "So..three?"

"Forget it" I scowled at him, I'll give him a call later, what was I thinking trusting John to pass on a message in the first place. I went to walk away when he pulled me back. "So how are you and Randy?"

"What's it to you?" I spat.

"I'm sorry" He held his hands up. "If I was you and my boyfriend was with some other chick I would want to know"

"Stop trying to stir shit, Randy is more then a man then you will ever be"

Ted's P.O.V

I waved Mickie off, trying to give her a comforting smile. The past 48 hours had been hell for both of us, Cody getting shot, Becky refusing to leave his side, Randy getting arrested for it and him denying her of seeing him. Seeing Randy, I'm not thinking of it as seeing the guy who shot my best friend because I didn't know that, for Mickie sake, I hope he is innocent. The thing, I honestly don't think he would risk it all, Mickie and the baby is his whole world, he wouldn't let one argument ruin everything.

Mickie and the baby…I can see how scared she is, scared that Randy won't be released, scared that Randy will never see the baby, scared that she will never see Randy again. I tried to tell her not to stress because it's bad for the baby, but how can she not stress? Her life has been turned upside down and her future is unclear.

And then there was Cody. There are so many things I wish to tell him, it's time like these you wish you appreciated people more, took the time you had for granted. I always find myself praying that I will get that chance. I wish I would of supported him more when the truth came out about him and Becky, let him know that I was always there, stuck up for him when Randy laid into him. But the thing is, I wasn't always there for him, I wasn't there when he got shot, I'm not even there for him now.

I had to go through the security until I had Randy in my sights. He was sitting at a table, he looked like hell. He didn't notice me walk up and sit down, it was like he was in a daze. "Randy" I said snapping him out of it.

"How is Mickie? The baby?" He blurted out as soon as he noticed I was there.

"They are ok, although she doesn't understand why you refused her visiting order" I told him, a little harshness to my voice.

He ran his hand down his face. "It's not that I don't want to see her Ted, of course I do, more then anything" He closed his eyes. "Fucking hell do I want to see her"

"Then why did you refuse it? This could be her and not me"

"Look around Ted, I don't want her or my baby stepping in a place like this, I don't want her seeing me like this" It sounded like he had been waiting a long time to tell me this, he knew what he wanted to say and had to get it all out.

"You owe her an explanation" I pointed out after a moment of silence. He lifted his head slightly to look me in the eye. "Did you do it?" I was afraid to ask, if he did it then god knows what this would do to Mickie, it would kill her.

"No" He said simply.

"You don't sound so sure" I told him.

"I was angry Ted, but did I want to kill him? Yes, but did I do it? No, I couldn't, because doing so would hurt Mickie and you know that's the last thing I ever want to do" His voice had this certain pleading voice about it, like he was secretly begging me to believe him. "Where is she?"

"She's with Cody at the moment"

"Any change?" I didn't reply, he nodded guessing the answer by my reaction. "How's Becky?"

"Not good, she hasn't left the hospital"

"I should be there" He growled. "I shouldn't be here, I should be over there with them, they need me"

"What happened that night?" I asked. "I mean, we all know you were there"

"After me and Mickie had that fight, I went out and all I could do is blame him, blame him for the argument with Mickie, blamed him for her being upset, blamed him for messing up my sister's head, just everything seemed to come back to him" He titled his head as if trying not to get distracted from his flashback. "So I went to see him, I saw Becky come out and she was upset which just pissed me off even more, I went in and we argued, he started bringing up the fact that me and him were similar and how even though I had hurt Mickie that we…" He stopped talking.

"Yeah I know" I said so he didn't have to repeat it, he nodded appreciatively at me.

"So I tried to punch him, he ducked and my fist hit the wall, that's it, that's all that happened, I swear" He told me sternly.

"You left after the punch?"

"We threw a few more comments at each other, but I'm telling you Ted, when I left Cody, he was fine"

"You didn't see anyone go in after you? Or anyone hanging around outside?" He was the last to of seen Cody alive, he could have seen something, anything that will help the police catch who did this. Until that person was caught or new information was brought to attention, there was no way to prove Randy didn't do it.

"No" Randy shook his head. "I didn't, I just got the hell out of there and went back to Mickie. Before I had left he told me to go to her and as soon as he said that I felt like, that's all my mind was set to do, her face came into my head, the way she looked at me before I left, I needed to make things right"

"She's trying to be brave"

"That's my girl" He chuckled. "I couldn't even sleep last night thinking about her"

"That makes two of you" I told him, he titled his head to the side. "I woke up to find her awake on the couch, just sitting there"

"Did she not get any sleep?" Randy asked, his eyes full of concern.

"Well she did, but she had this weird dream about Voldemort stealing her ipod"

Randy shook his head and chuckled. "God I miss her Ted, I love her so much, it's hard being away from her knowing that she's hurting" He sighed and his fist clenched. "I'm sick of this stupid place, she needs me"

"Where did you go? That night, someone must have seen you"

"No Ted, no one saw…"

"You're lying" I slammed my fist down. "Mickie needs you and if you're holding back information then you have to come out with it now"

"I can't" He told me firmly, it was then I searched his eyes, along with sadness and anger, I saw…guilt? "She'll hate me"

"Randy, it's Mickie, you know she could never hate you"

"It's not that easy"

"What's not easy? Randy you could be out of here, with her right now, you just got to tell the truth" He stayed quiet. "C'mon Randy, would you rather her think of you as a murderer then the truth?"

"She thinks I did it?"

"She doesn't know what to think" I sighed. "You've got to speak up, do you realise if you don't, you will spend the rest of your life seeing your baby maybe an hour a week?"

"Ted…."

"Don't Ted me! Just tell me!"

"Ted…."

"Stop" He hushed me. He bit his lip but nodded. "The reason I can't tell Mickie is….I was with another girl"

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