10/7/15, NXT TakeOver: Respect…

"There's some kind of calmness to this as they hold each other…" Corey Graves says as Amanda and Finn hug after she had hugged Samoa Joe.

Finn and Joe had just won the Dusty Rhodes Classic tournament… and Amanda looked up to the rafters and mouthed 'Hope we've made you proud, Dusty.', tears forming in her eyes.

It had been nearly five months since the American Dream had passed on and Amanda was still taking his death hard, Finn lightly rubbing his hand up and down her back as they embraced again.

"We did, love. We made him proud." Finn whispered.

As the three left the ring, Amanda felt herself being lifted up but not by Finn or Joe.

"Okay, ha ha, got me." Amanda says with a slight laugh as she thought there was a harness strapped to her… it had felt like there was.

"It's not us, Mandy…" Joe says, Amanda feeling confusion hit her.

And before she could fully register that, she let out a scream as she was thrown right into the steel steps and fell to the ground, Finn and Joe running to her.

Amanda felt blood trailing down her left knee and tried to move her left leg, Finn stopping her and Joe tying Finn's shirt around Amanda's bleeding knee as Finn picked her up into his arms.

The three had seen a flash of a white sundress, small enough to fit a toddler, before it disappeared.

"Guess things got a bit crazy out there…" Amanda says with a slight chuckle as Finn took her to the backstage area with Samoa Joe following them, Amanda's left leg and foot already bruising.

"What the hell happened out there?! I damn well know you didn't jump three feet in the air and then toss yourself into the steps!" Finn says, placing Amanda onto a crate.

Amanda looked at him and Joe before looking down, both seeing that look.

"It's okay, you can tell me…" Finn says, rubbing Amanda's shoulders.

"That little flash of white you and Joe saw… that was a little ghost who's been angry at me since I was 11…" Amanda says as tears fell from her eyes, Finn's mouth falling open in shock as he encircled his arms around Amanda and rested his right hand on her face, brushing the tears away. "I'm sorry, I never wanted you to know…"

"Mandy, it's okay…" Joe says, lightly rubbing his hand up and down Amanda's back.

"Ghosts linger at times, love… it's not your fault, you're not crazy." Finn says, kissing Amanda on the side of her head.

Once Amanda was calm enough, she looked at both of them and all three agreed silently to keep this secret.

But they didn't know just what would spill out from keeping it between them.

Two days earlier, WWE Performance Centre…

She swung back and forth on the bar, her small body almost like a pendulum… and Finn wasn't exactly sure what that was about.

But he found himself watching Amanda after putting the barbell back on the Hammersmith weight machine as she seemed strangely quiet… no humming like she would during her workout, her slightly oversized Balor Club tank top hanging off her thin frame and giving Finn a slight glimpse of the white lace push up bra underneath it.

Finn felt his face heat up slightly and his mouth go a bit dry but shook it off, fixing his Balor Club shirt and black workout shorts.

"You alright, love?" Finn asked after walking over, Amanda snapping back into awareness and seeing him.

"Yeah… guess I just lost my train of thought." Amanda says, feeling Finn wrap his arms around her and letting go of the metal bar that normally held weight plates.

She would've jumped down but there was a dull ache in her left leg, it sometimes happened when it was storming outside like it was today.

Amanda had chalked it up to the old injury… it was a bad break after all and old injuries ached occasionally as people got older.

But something was bugging at her about last night's dream… and she was torn between telling Finn or keeping quiet.

'Get a grip, Amanda! It was just a damn nightmare!' Amanda thought, rearranging her now messy ponytail.

But she couldn't get it out of her head… it was almost like a warning.