Amanda's perspective…
The match was going great, Brie always knows to not make the shots too stiff… but suddenly, she stopped and looked outside the ring, eyes wide with terror.
She couldn't even speak… and once I saw what she did, neither could I… what the hell was Owen Hart doing here?! He looks just like he did seconds after falling and hitting the top rope at Over The Edge 1999…
"This… this feels wrong, you shouldn't be seeing me like this, ladies." Owen said, Brie helping me up.
"Come on, let's go find Finn and Daniel." Brie whispered before we bolted up the ramp and into the backstage area… only to run into another person we all lost… and me turning to where Brie was seconds ago.
Slowly, I turned back to 'Macho Man' Randy Savage… bruises that were caused post mortem because a heart attack had killed him while he was driving in 2011.
"Ooh yeah, little lady… hell of a match out there!" Macho Man said enthusiastically, me scrambling back and running down the hall… only to crash into someone.
She picks me up to my feet… then I realise that it's Miss Elizabeth.
"Mandy, it's-" Elizabeth replied, me shrieking in terror and running for my life… only to be grabbed around my waist and stopped in my tracks.
"Get off of me!" I yelled, getting out of his strong grip… and seeing that Eddie had stopped me from falling down the steps… the last time he held me was the time we last hugged, November 12th 2005.
"Tómelo con calma ahora, pequeña dama." Eddie replied… now I'm getting mad!
"I will not take it easy, what the hell is going on here?! And where did Brie disappear off to?!" I shout at the top of my lungs.
"Daddy always said that you had a sailor mouth." I hear, turn and see little Daniel Benoit… even after so long, the way he looked in death still horrifies me.
"Did you find her?!" We hear Chris and Nancy ask before they reach us… bruises on their necks and suffocation marks on Daniel's head, Nancy died from strangulation and Chris's death was self inflicted.
"Mandy-" Chris started to say.
"No… no, you're not here, none of you are!" I responded before taking off again, trying to find anyone that's not dead!
I crash into a person much taller than me this time and fall hard to the floor… he picks me up with ease and puts me on his lap after sitting down, me seeing the blue eyes of Andre The Giant.
"C'est bon, jeune femme." Andre replied kindly.
"Andre, I don't know what's going on… I was in a match with my friend, then I saw Owen, Macho Man, Elizabeth, Eddie, Chris, Nancy, Daniel and now you're here…" I say through my sobs, the gentle giant hugging me as I'm too overwhelmed to talk coherently.
"There's a reason for all of this, Mandy…" Andre said, tilting my head up so I can look at him again.
"Wh… why?" I manage to ask, my voice croaky.
"Someone just arrived… broke the barrier between life and death, and one of her strongest links is to you… this is the result, Mandy." Andre explained.
"Sh… she?" I managed to ask… before I heard footsteps approaching from behind me. Dreading seeing anyone else, I slowly turned… of course it was. Who else would appear other than my childhood, sisterly friend?
Sachael was almost flickering between two appearances. One, like the others, was how she died, with… blood all down her chest and her face severely damaged. The other… a blue glowing figure with white outlines around the edges, flowing and rippling almost like she was made of water.
"Sachael…" I said quietly, Sachael climbing into Andre's lap too since we were both small enough for the gentle giant to hold.
"I'm coming back, Mandy… to the world and for the world." Sachael whispered, and as she placed her hand on my cheek… it felt like it was wet with water, but left none behind on my skin.
"Coming back… I don't…" I said, Sachael lightly shushing me.
"It will make sense soon… but if you don't get out of this dream now, you'll end up late to the training. We'll be… around you, we always will." Sachael said quietly.
Andre held me to him like a tired child, lightly kissing my forehead.
"Andre…" I try to respond, wanting to tell him something.
"It's okay, kiddo… there's always next time…" Andre whispered before everything disappeared…
Third person perspective…
Amanda opened her eyes in the hotel room, the nightmare still in her mind… she remembered Finn saying something about Bayley having forgotten to grab her NXT Women's Championship and going to help her look for it.
As she turned to reach for the lamp, the hotel door clicked and opened… Finn turned the light on to its lowest setting, just enough to see by as he walked in and closed the door.
But he knew something was wrong when he saw tears trailing down Amanda's face and rushed over to her, sitting down and lightly brushing her hair back… Amanda immediately bolted upright and her arms wrapped around him, Finn taken aback by the sudden hug but returning it with one of his own as she sobbed into his shoulder.
"Hey… it's alright, whatever it was, it was just a dream. You're okay now… it's just us in the same hotel room." Finn said quietly, as he held her in his arms.
Amanda regained control of her breathing and they looked at each other… she mouthed Owen's name and Finn knew that was who she first saw in her nightmare.
"It was just a dream… but it just… every second I was running around, I crashed into someone I either knew or watched when I was younger. The scariest one was Chris, I wanted to yell at him, ask him why he did what he did… I never hated him once, why did I want to hate him so long after it happened? How could I hate the man who had become like a second father to me, he had no memory of it but… he took away Nancy and little Daniel." Amanda whispered as Finn reached his hands up and cradled her tearstained face in them as her hands rested on his wrists.
"How could you be angry at Seth when you at first didn't remember what he did? Sometimes… you don't have to remember something, just know that it happened. And sometimes… not often, but on rare occasion… it takes over our senses of what people meant to us before." Finn answered after thinking for a moment.
Amanda nodded as Finn took her into his arms again and the two stretched out on the bed, Finn pulling and readjusting the covers over them as he held Amanda… she was still trembling as he ran his fingers through her hair after brushing her tears away.
And then he remembered the bottle of Advil nearby, the one specifically used for migraine relief… and that it was strong enough to disorient Amanda to the point of nightmares but never this terrifying.
It was nearly 5 in the morning when he noticed that she was still fighting sleep… leaning in, Finn kissed Amanda on her forehead as she rubbed her half open eyes.
"You'll be here still… right?" Amanda asked quietly, looking for reassurance.
"Close your eyes for as long as you need to, Mandy…" Finn responded in the same soft tone, Amanda's eyes closing despite not wanting to.
Exhaustion usually won out no matter what she tried… Finn closed his own eyes once he was sure she was deep in sleep.