A month earlier…
She couldn't believe how this night had turned out… there were times Amanda wondered why did she even try to unwind.
"How in the hell… do I hide this?" Amanda whispered, looking at the black eye that resulted from an intoxicated Seth punching her.
"Mandy?" Finn said from outside of the hotel room, Amanda quickly hiding the bruise with her cat eye sunglasses.
She turned and opened the door, Finn seeing how shaky her hands were… reaching over, he carefully pulled the sunglasses off of her face, set them aside and walked in. Closing the door, he lightly cradled Amanda's face in his hands as his focus was right on her injured eye.
"Where is he?" Finn asked.
"I don't know… when they saw what happened, Dean and Roman just dragged him off. They didn't even look back at me, that just…" Amanda responded, trying to stop the tears from falling and Finn taking her into his arms… and Amanda couldn't hold it back anymore. "I can't believe they had… they just left me… left me there." She sobbed as they held each other, Finn knowing that three of the former members of The Shield had broken the youngest one's heart.
Finn helped her grab her things and the two left, him guiding her to his room on the second floor… neither had bothered to leave a note for Roman or Dean, neither feeling the need to.
When both were in their pajamas, they got settled into the king sized bed.
Finn looked to his right when he noticed how quiet it was just minutes later… exhaustion had overtaken Amanda and she was out like a light, her arms curled around the pillow.
"Hell of a night… they can figure themselves out, acting like that." Finn whispered, kissing Amanda on her forehead before turning the Tv off and closing his own eyes.
Sometime in the middle of the night, Amanda felt Finn's arms wrap around her and wrapped her left arm around his waist, resting her head on his left shoulder.
The times that these two turned to each other in comfort were exactly what they needed…
Present time…
"How many times do you have to hear it?! It's not my fucking fault that you were stopped in your tracks!" Enzo yelled.
"Oh and I suppose that him kicking me in the back of the head was scripted?!" Colin shouted.
"You caused Finn to crash onto Mandy after that, she ended up hitting the back of her neck!" Enzo responded.
"Kiddo got up, shook it off like it was nothing!" Colin yelled.
Amanda could hear it from her and Finn's locker room… and it was making the ache in her neck and shoulders worse, her feeling Finn massaging her shoulders.
"Those two never fight, what's gotten into them?" Amanda muttered before she tried to stand up, Finn stopping her as Aestrid walked in… right before all three heard Samoa Joe yell "Shut the fuck up!".
"And the next time one of you mistreats Mandy, I'm putting both of you in the Coquina Clutch!" Joe responded, Carmella storming over to them.
"Maybe you should worry more about Finn mistreating Mandy!" Carmella responded.
"Finn hasn't done anything wrong to her!" Joe growled at the blonde.
"Oh yeah right, it'll only be so long! She's a tool, a tool to get him off when he's hard and a showpiece in the ring! When he finds something better, like every other guy in her wreck of a life, she'll be cast aside!" Carmella shouted.
Carmella turned around after feeling a hand tap her shoulder… and was punched right in the nose.
"Keep your damn mouth shut, Leah, I ain't being used or mistreated by Finn!" Amanda responded, calling Carmella by her real name after Carmella's painful scream stopped and Colin putting himself between the divas as Finn held Amanda back.
"Alright, enough fighting here! Leah, Mandy's not anyone's bedroom toy and Balor wouldn't toss her aside!" Colin said, Carmella running at Amanda and the two fighting before Finn and Colin managed to pull them apart.
The commotion attracted the others and the brawl escalated… until an air horn blared and everyone stopped, seeing Hunter.
"This looks like a very nice ring, doesn't it?! But maybe you should use a real one if you're gonna fight like immature children!" Hunter shouted.
Amanda cursed in Irish, Hunter seeing her rubbing the back of her head like someone had been dragging her by her hair and Finn glaring at Enzo.
"Enzo, was there any need to act like a caveman?" Hunter asked.
"She socked me right in the eye!" Enzo yelled.
"You were swinging at Finn with a bat, asswipe!" Amanda responded.
"Mandy, language." Hunter said, checking the back of her head. "Ouch…" He said.
"Any blood?" Amanda asked.
"Little bit… nothing alarming but certainly inducing cringe." Hunter answered.
"Sorry, Tiny." Enzo apologised.
"Everyone, your locker rooms, now!" Hunter said, everyone heading to their locker rooms. "Well, that reminded me of the Attitude Era." He said after closing the door.
"How many brawls were you, Shawn and the rest of DX involved in?" Amanda asked as Finn pressed a napkin to her head.
"Quite a few. Ace, can you find the trainer? Want to be sure that Mandy doesn't have a concussion." Hunter responded.
"Yeah, I'll do that." Aestrid answered and headed out.
"So what started this?" Hunter asked.
"Leah running her mouth… after what happened out there and hearing her true opinion of me, I snapped and hit her." Amanda answered, Hunter knowing that the storylines as well as the Dusty Rhodes classic were causing tension backstage.
Finn got Amanda to sit down and Hunter crouched down, lightly cupping Amanda's face in his hands… it wasn't so much the insult as that it was from someone she thought of as a friend.
Aestrid returned with Dr. Amann and they headed to the trainer's room, Amanda being examined.
At the same time, Carmella sat down after being fixed up.
"Those were some really horrible things you said, Mandy's our friend. What the hell's gotten into you, trashing her like that?" Colin said after sitting down.
"Me?! As soon as he walked into her life, she started distancing herself from everyone else!" Carmella shouted.
"Look, I love you to death but Tiny hasn't distanced herself from anyone she's close to." Colin said, Carmella going and grabbing her things.
"I'm gonna go crash with Emma tonight!" Carmella said before leaving, Colin turning and seeing Aestrid.
"Crazy damn night. How are Mandy, Finn and the others?" Colin responded.
"They'll be okay… at some point." Aestrid responded.
At the hotel later, Amanda was somewhere between asleep and awake as Finn lightly rubbed his right hand up and down her back.
"We all went insane tonight." Amanda said.
"Tempers under pressure, it'll happen at times, love." Finn whispered, kissing Amanda on her forehead.
She knew he was right.