How Taking Down Legacy Failed

Mickie's P.O.V

We had arrived at the arena and were getting ready. I had a match against Layla tonight, I was looking forward to it after what she and Michelle did to me last week, I was going make sure there wasn't a repeat of that.

I was finishing up my hair when Randy came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist; he smiled and kissed my neck. "You seem to be in a good mood"

"Of course I am, I got my wife back" I smiled and turned around, putting my arms around his neck. We turned our heads when we heard Hayden squeaking. He was trying to pull himself up by the couch. "C'mon champ" Randy moved and sat beside him. "Can you pull yourself up?" Hayden pulled himself up and was standing. "That's my boy" Randy smiled and ran his over Hayden's head, but as soon as Hayden let go of the couch he fell down onto his bottom.

"It won't be long now until he is walking" I said, as I pulled Hayden back to standing up.

"And talking" Randy replied. He pulled himself up and sat on the couch, he put his arm around me as I sat down next to him with Hayden on my lap. Raw was just starting, surprise, surprise, The Miz was out first. He looked so smug and proud, I don't know how he could be, he has never retained that championship fairly.

"You all better get used to here, AND STILL WWE CHAMPION THE MIZ!" Miz yelled into the mic. "I beat Randy Orton, I put him through a table and now I-" Suddenly, this really creepy music started playing, Randy raised a brow.

"This is ridiculous" He muttered as Alex Riley came out in a reaper's costume. "Mizzzz…It is I, the ghost of Christmas past, I am here to show you the error of your ways, behold, your first ever WWE title defence" It showed a clip of the Miz versus the King. Randy got up and headed out the door.

"Randy" I called after him, he didn't reply, he just kept walking, oh boy. Then Michael Cole came out, I rolled my eyes, this really was dumb, even for mine and Ted's standards.

"I am the ghost of Christmas presents and I quote" That bit made me laugh. "Miz! Miz! You need to change, your actions from last night, in your table match against Randy Orton were extremely unacceptable, Miz, you should be ashamed, you should be ashamed" Oh Michael Cole.

"No, no, no that's where you're wrong, the actions of a true champion are defined by one sentence and one sentence only, I'M AWESOME!" Miz continued.

"This is disgusting" Ted said as he sat next to me with Mia on his lap.

"Tell me about it"

"He clearly ripped off my catch phrase, I'M SEXY"

"Oh Theodore" I shook my head.

"So, I have something for Orton, here is an image for him to put on his and Mickie's Christmas cards" Miz said as he held up his title and smiled directly into the camera.

"O! O! He mentioned me! I was mentioned!" I grabbed Ted's shirt. "He mentioned me!"

"Get off me before you crease my shirt!" Ted slapped my hand away angrily. "Stupid" He muttered as he smoothed his shirt back down.

"HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE MIZ"

The Christmas music started playing again, it showed the picture of the angry Miz girl from when Randy first lost the title to Miz. "I like Cmpunk as a commentator, he is actually really funny" I told Ted. I was surprised to find that the person who came down to stop this, wasn't Randy, it was John Morrison. Morrison started attacking Alex Riley and he was dominating until Sheamus got involved. "Oh my god! We haven't spoken to Sheamus in ages!"

"That's because you've neglected him for Justin!" Ted pointed out.

"It's not my fault Justin is so high maintenance! God Theodore!" Miz and Alex Riley then went onto picking on King. "Where the hell is Randy?" The GM then sent an email saying that later on tonight it will be Alex Riley, The Miz and Sheamus vs. Randy, King and John Morrison. Miz was angrily taunting the crowd up the ramp when finally Randy showed himself and came down the ramp and started attacking the Miz. He then stared down at Alex Riley and Michael Cole, and then walked backstage.

I waited for him by the door to come back. When he did, he wasn't alone, John Morrison followed him. I turned to look at Randy, he had a frown on his face, he stepped in between me and John.

He didn't look at John; he was just starring into space. "Nice match last night" Randy told me, distance was in his voice. "-looks like you're the new number one contender for the WWE title"

"Thanks Randy, I saw your match last night against the Miz, that was bogus bro" John replied.

I stepped forward so I was standing by Randy's side, he looked me briefly. "Yeah about that, if you happen to win your championship match against the Miz, I just want to give you a fair warning John" Randy paused. Randy finally looked John in the eyes. "-I'm coming after you"

"Alright, well if that happens, I'll be ready, I'll trust you'll be ready too" John replied.

Randy went to turn away, but froze when he said this, he turned back to face John. "That's your first mistake, do not-" He shook his head "trust me" He said sternly. They had a small stare down before John left.

Randy turned slowly to face me; he placed his hands on my hips and waited till John was out of sight to turn to me. "Can I trust you?" I teased. "Your really cold towards the other superstars, you know that?" I said to him.

He starred down at me. "I'm not here to make friends Mickie"

"Wouldn't kill you to try" I said as I placed my hands on his shoulders.

"All I need is you and Hayden, I don't care about anyone else" He kissed my forehead.

"So….if I won the title…..you're going to come after me?" I teased.

"Oh I'll always come after you" Randy grinned.

"Even though I'm your…..hey wait a minute! You didn't mean title wise did you?"

"Are you ready for your match?"

"Stop changing the subject"

"Are you ready for your match?"

I glared at him. "Mmhmm" I answered.

"Want me to walk you down?" He asked me.

"No it's ok" I kissed his cheek. "Make sure you feed Hayden" I told him.

"Good luck" He told me as I walked out of the door.

Truth is, I wanted to see Justin before my match! "Justin! Justin! Hey! Justin!"

He groaned when he heard me calling his name, he turned around. "What?"

"Man hug me bitch!"

"…."

"Bitch…bitch…" I repeated.

"Why do you keep calling me a bitch?" He asked me angrily.

"Sam? dean? Remember we are them! Supernatural! Dean goes bitch, Sam goes jerk, go on….bitch" I tried to explain.

"No."

"No! you're supposed to say jerk!" He just rolled his eyes at me. "C'mon Justy! Work with me here!"

"Mrs Orton" I turned to see a crew member speaking to me. "Your match is next" I nodded at him.

"Practise it for next to, I will know if you haven't" I told him sternly, I then went to the gorilla position. Layla was already waiting in the ring. I charged down when my music hit, slapping the fans hands on the way to the ring.

I glared over at her as I entered the ring, bitch was going to pay after what she did last week and so would Michelle soon. The match started out not good for me, Layla dominated. It was five minutes into the match and I needed to up my game. I was starting to get up but Layla drop kicked me. I fell to the ground, this was not going how I planned. She went for the pin, but I kicked out. She pulled me up by my hair, she went to slap me, but I punched her mid drift which gave me a few seconds to get the upper hand. I stood up and started to throw punches at her, she kicked me and I fell down, she tried to throw me into the term belt, but I used the ropes to lift me up and over Layla as she tried to tackle me. I put my arms around my waist and pulled her back, I then flipped over into the bridge and went for the pin.

1, 2, 3, the ring bell went off and my music hit. "Here's your winner, Mickie Orton" The ref held up my hand and smiled at the audience. I did a little innocent shrug into the camera and took a bow.

"Hey Mickie" My celebration was interrupted by Layla. "Well now that I have your undivided attention, go ahead, celebrate all you want, but before you get the party started honey, maybe, you should take a look at this" She pointed up onto the monitor.

Cuckoo noises started to play, followed by country music. Michelle popped up with a farm style green screen. "Hey piggy, piggy, hey piggy James, over here! Oh I'm sorry, I mean Mickie, I've got something for you, Michelle McCool had a farm, Ee i ee i oh!" I bit my lip and continued stare up at the monitor as she humiliated me in front of all these people, making fun of my home, my family and me. "And on that farm she had a pig" a picture appeared of a pig with my face on it. She was taking this too far. I looked down at the ground and nodded my head, trying not to cry, I felt stupid for wanting to cry at something as stupid and pathetic as this. "Ee i ee i oh, with an oink oink here and a oink oink there, here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink" I let out a little cry, this was so embarrassing. She crossed her arms and smirked into the camera. The camera zoomed into the pig with my face on it, I felt a tear roll down my face. Michelle appeared back on the screen. "Sorry piggy James, we warned you"

I made my way out of the ring, I pulled my hair back and looked into the audience. I looked back down as I made my way up the ramp and wiped the tears from my face. I walked backstage and everyone was giving me looks on sympathy, I can't believe they did that. Randy met me half way.

I stared up at him, I gave him a small shrug as my eyes watered again. "Come here" He whispered and pulled me into a tight hug. "Don't listen to them Mickie, your beautiful" He walked me back to our locker room, with me still in his arms. We walked him and he gave everyone a look to get out which they all did, apart from Ted, he hesitated and bent down to eye level with me.

"Baby….I'm a really shallow person….I only let the beautiful people be my friend, you have to be exceptionally beautiful to be my best friend, which you are" Ted said to me as he squeezed my hand. He then followed the rest and left. "Oh wait…Cody…." Ted said awkwardly and looked at Cody, "I suppose sometimes I drop my standards…." Cody glared at him.

"I never thought I'd say it but Ted is right" Randy sat down next to me.

"Hey!" Cody protested.

"Not about that!" Randy told him, "I couldn't stand watching them do that to you, I swear babe when I get my hands on them-"

"No Randy, this is my battle" I told him sternly.

"But babe-"

"I need to do this on my own, I can't rely on you"

"Yes you can, they've pissed me off by hurting my wife" He put his hand over mine. "Please just let me help you, I can make sure they never bother you again" I shook my head at him. "Your so beautiful Mickie, I don't know why it upset you when it's all so obviously untrue" He wrapped his arms around me, he laid down and put me on top of him so I was resting on his chest. "It was such a tacky, high school thing to do, it was pathetic" I just cuddled into him. "Your not Piggy James, your Mickie Orton, you're my beautiful wife" He ran his hand down my body. "You know they say couples deal with their problems together…."

"I don't want to be known as the woman who gets her boyfriend to handle any problems, any enemies, I'd be no better then the Nexus"

"That's not true" Randy said. "Besides, remember, Lita did it to Trish when she was married to Kane"

"I think you're more worked up about this then I am" I chuckled.

"Of course I am Mick" He replied. "You're my wife and I hate seeing you upset, you have no idea" I looked up at him, he looked at me hopelessly, I knew how much he wanted to help. "Especially seeing you cry, that broke my heart" He kissed my forehead. "I want to hurt them, women or not, they upset you….they upset me" I closed my eyes trying to forget what just took place.

"They insulted me, my family and where I came from Randy, called me a pi-" My voice broke.

"Please don't cry babe, I love you so much, what does it matter what two pathetic idiots think?"

"If they think it, maybe other people do to"

"Mickie, when you met me, you may not have known this, but I was an incredibly shallow guy" May have not known this my ass! "You were the girl who caught my attention, out of the women I had met, out of the divas, you caught my eye"

"So…." I sniffed. "-not my sparklingly personality?"

"Nope, I'm only with you for your body" He laughed and kissed me. "I have to go for my match, are you going to be ok?"

I nodded at him. He kissed my forehead and went to leave, he stopped and looked back at me as he was about to open the door. "Go" I told him.

As Randy left, Ted walked back in. "Oh baby, what am I going to do with you?" He put his arm around me.

"Where's Mia and Hayden?" I asked him.

"Cody and Becky took them down to the canteen with them" Ted replied. "I thought this would be a good time for us to plot"

"Plot?"

"To get back and Michsmell and Laysmell"

"Ok the first one was good, Michsmell, but the second one not too much" I told him. "I'm going to tell you what I told Randy, I need to fight this on my own"

"But why? There are two of them, you might as well have someone"

"You're a man Ted" I pointed out.

"Not according to Cody" Ted replied.

"It wouldn't be fair"

"You were my Virgil once, its mine turn" Ted said. "Don't be sad baby, I will use my bitchface move"

"Your bitch face move?"

"Yeah, watch!" He picked up a pillow and gave it to me. "Hold it up" I did so. "WAAA YA!" He bitch slapped the pillow. "It's been in development for weeks"

"So it shows!" I laughed. "Where is Melina Theodore?"

"She isn't talking to me"

"Why not?"

"Well basically, I tried to be all romantic and shit by throwing her in a bed laid with roses" He explained.

"Does she not like roses?"

"Not when I forget to remove the thorns first…."

"Ouch"

Randy came out looking extremely pissed off, I think he was more angry than he showed about the whole Michelle and Layla situation. "Randy Orton does not look happy" Cmpunk commented.

"Would you be if Michelle and Layla did that to your wife?" King asked him.

The results of the match was that Randy, King and John Morrison got the win. Afterwards, The Miz tried to attack Randy, but Randy countered, Alex Riley came in and this was the advantage Miz used to escape. It was then announced that Randy will be facing Miz on Smackdown this week.