A/N: Katherine is LadyKatherine29's character
No Mercy 2017 to WWE Raw September 25th 2017…
The choking noises caught his attention quickly, Finn turning and seeing that Bray had grabbed Amanda by her throat and was dragging her into the ring.
Without any hesitation, Finn ran at Bray and dropkicked him. Bray lost his grip on Amanda and she fell with a thud to the mat outside, Finn running out and picking her up to where she could sit up as he was checking on her as the referee kept Bray back.
Bray had no choice but to stay in character… but he had a bad feeling he was gonna be in a lot of trouble when he got to the backstage area after this.
"I'm okay…" Amanda managed to say.
"Love, you can barely talk…" Finn whispered as he helped her up.
It was scripted but Finn had gotten the feeling that Bray had incidentally put too much force into choking Amanda.
Finn and Amanda kissed and Finn got back into the ring and finished the match, executing the Coup De Grace off the top rope. When the bell rang, he jumped out of the ring and picked Amanda up into his arms, holding her close to him and resting his hands on her face as they kissed.
They reached the backstage area and took a few minutes to catch their breath as Finn helped Amanda sit down, seeing that her neck was starting to bruise as Kurt ran over to them.
"Damn it… I don't think this storyline should be dragged out anymore, not when it results in this." Kurt said, handing a bottle of water to Amanda after opening it.
Amanda slowly sipped it, setting it down after drinking half of it and closing it once Kurt handed the cap to her.
"Are you both okay?" Kurt asked, Amanda nodding.
She had to be out there and she knew it… Miz, Bo and Curtis saw the small brunette had run to ringside and into the ring.
Without any warning, Amanda hit Bo and Curtis with the kendo stick before she crouched down to Roman and helped him sit up.
Something in Mike's mind snapped after he had gotten the gauntlet back on… he got into the ring and kicked Amanda in the back and then in her chest before snatching her up by her hair.
He was still on his high and adrenaline he was smiling from ear to ear, he grabbed Amanda by her bruised throat and said, "The Shield is gone, you are nothing! Don't go crying to anyone when Balor kicks you to the curb too!" He shouted in her face as she tried to take the gauntlet off of him, hoping to bring her friend back out of this.
But then he was ambushed by Finn and got trapped in the 1916 DDT before Finn turned to Amanda and cradled her close to him as he picked her up in his arms as Mike had gotten away.
"Son of a bitch!" Amanda yelled despite the pain.
When they were out of the ring, they reached the backstage area… and found that their friends were waiting.
"What we did was just for show, he crossed a fucking line out there!" Dean said.
They knew he was right… but what Amanda couldn't wrap her mind around was how Mike had gotten the gauntlet.
It felt eerie to her, that unsettling feeling had crept back in.
And she didn't know why or what was waiting for her.
Across the state in the Temple, Dario had watched the chaos on Raw unfold.
"Bastard… hurting a woman is just wrong." Dario growled, his temper beginning to boil.
But he had no idea that he and the young woman were on a collision course towards each other…
Present time, September 27th 2017…
Stretching her body out, Amanda moved closer to Finn… and Finn lightly rubbed her right hip, Amanda's right leg over his left one.
"No one's yelling…" Amanda whispered as Finn ran his fingers on his left hand through her straightened shoulder length hair… and both were relieved that Amanda was feeling better than she had earlier in the week.
It had been a rough week as the second that Amanda had seen Mike Mizanin put on a gauntlet, it had unsettled her.
But as Amanda thought back, what was even more unsettling was how Yukie reacted when Amanda told her.
"I know what I saw and I know what I felt, that thing Mike had with him tonight is pure evil!" Amanda replied, Yukie trying not to laugh.
"Mandy, I think you're a little too worked up over this. It's a harmless gauntlet, not an evil thing." Yukie responded.
"Did you watch when Brian Cage had lightning in his eyes, was strangling Dario and was beating up his co-workers just like Mike did to me?! That thing is pure evil from what Rey, Johnny Mundo and Katherine told me!" Amanda replied, Yukie rolling her eyes. "Yukie, if Mike isn't separated from that thing, it'll overtake him! It could even put Maryse and their unborn baby in danger! You lost a child, Yukie, you want that happening to them?!" She responded, Yukie slapping her across the face and Amanda returning fire with one of her own slaps before Finn reached the two and pulled Amanda back.
"Yukie, what the hell did you slap her for?!" Finn asked angrily.
"Cause she's talking about strange things. There is no such thing as whatever she said. If that was real, hell, I rather have that thing possess me instead." Yukie explained with her arms crossed.
"We saw it ourselves, we saw how it's controlled people! Kat and Rey can verify it, call them and ask them!" Finn responded, lightly examining Amanda's face.
"Like I said, I rather have that thing possessing me, so I can believe it. All that bad dreams, fairy tale jazz is over, and I don't believe in that anymore. And she's fine, she's lucky I didn't scratch her." Yukie explained.
Yukie stormed off and Finn and Amanda held each other…
Amanda felt Finn tickling her right hip and smiled… but Finn saw that what had happened right after Raw was still on her mind.
"Still think it's nearby?" Finn asked.
"If Mike is thinking clearly, I hope he threw it in the ocean." Amanda responded.
"I'm sure he'll be okay once he's thinking straight. We just need to hope it doesn't possess anyone else." Finn repiled.
"Especially not Yukie if she goes looking for it… I still can't believe she slapped me." Amanda responded.
"I know it hurts, Love. But how else you were going to explain it to her? She barely believes in supernatural stuff." Finn repiled.
"Yet she believes that there are ghosts in every hotel." Amanda responded, Finn remembering the recent rant about the ghost after SummerSlam.
"Ghost tried to have sex with her?" Finn asked.
"That's what she claimed. I went throughout that hotel with that detector Rey gave me, the hotel was completely quiet the whole time." Amanda responded.
"She was drunk during that time." Finn stated.
"We're all limiting ourselves at the SummerSlam after parties." Amanda replied before they kissed.
And when they were back into sleep, Finn thought back.