"Too much today? Did you fall the wrong way? Mandy, lie down." Finn responded before helping Amanda lie on her side… she had her legs curled towards her and was sore and it worried him as she had been helping out with the ones signed to the Performance Centre, helping them sharpen their ring skills and learn new ones.
But she sat up anyway and whispered it to him, the reason why she was in pain.
"Oh damn…" Finn said quietly.
"Sometimes it gets really bad… I've been dealing with Endometriosis since I was 17 when I had a checkup to get either the shot or the pill and it came back that I have a far less chance of having kids than I thought. That hurt when I found that out… hurt a lot worse than the physical pain." Amanda replied, Finn reaching over and brushing her tears away. "For as long as I can remember, I've imagined a family… kids, little ones who'd have more love than they'd know what to do with. And when I found out it might not happen… it was like everything just stopped around me." She said as his hands wrapped around hers.
"Anything is possible, if we try hard enough… even the most seemingly impossible miracles can be real." Finn replied, both looking each other in their eyes as he spoke.
"It is… and I know one day, it'll happen…" Amanda said before both heard the doors of the Performance Centre open.
"No, I am not going back to it!" Cody responded.
"I'm sorry Cody but they're not budging on the Stardust storyline." Hunter said, Cody tossing one of his boots into the ring and Amanda letting out a scream as it hit her in the face.
"Fuck, Cody, was that even necessary?!" Amanda yelled, Finn seeing a cut on her lower lip.
"Damn it… I'm sorry Mandy, I didn't see you there…" Cody responded as he stepped over.
"Yeah… well I suggest you take up old tactics again and 'look before you leap'!" Finn responded, as he took a pack of tissues from his pocket and lightly held a couple on Amanda's lower lip, Amanda moving her hand up to hold it herself a few moments later.
"Look, it's just a little cut, she'll be fine!" Cody said as Finn helped Amanda up and she leaned against him. "Something else happen?" He asked.
"One of the rookies got a bit too crazy, that's all." Finn answered before taking Amanda towards the locker room and putting her on the couch.
"I don't know what's gotten into him, I think his current storyline is getting to his mind." Amanda muttered.
"You're half his size, he doesn't need to go throwing things at you." Finn said.
"There's one thing Hunter mentioned, possibly making Stardust an interchangeable character and getting someone else in the role… he's just not sure who though." Amanda responded.
"I'm not sure either… the storyline is involving a good number of us already." Finn replied, the two thinking for a moment. "I'm not sure where they'd interchange it either… there's quite a lot in the way of character arrivals this time around, it's almost like they're having multiple conflicts at once."
"Wouldn't be the first time, but… there's a lot more now." Amanda responded, the two looking at each other afterwards. "Gonna get chaotic." They both said simultaneously, chuckling afterwards.
"Especially with it getting closer to Wrestlemania." Finn replied.
"We still have to go through Fastlane and Roadblock… what were the writers smoking when they came up with those names for pay per views?" Amanda questioned before the two laughed. "I miss the old In Your House ones… but I'd never want Over The Edge to come back, too many horrible memories." She said.
"That was a real rough one… but we're lucky that they don't reuse storylines. Maybe sequel them, but not make something like a new version of the same storyline." Finn replied.
"Good thing just as long as they never even think of redoing the whole Undertaker trying to make Stephanie his bride storyline, that was too much… I still remember him setting that little teddy bear on fire." Amanda said as she leaned against Finn, who carefully wrapped his right arm around her shoulders. "One of my favorites from the Attitude Era was the referees going on strike… they have a thankless job and I was happy to see them fight back."
"They did… and it came out well. In some moments, it even overtook the focus on the storyline itself." Finn replied, as Amanda let out a long breath and settled into his arms around her.
Amanda would've dozed off were it not for the knock at the door. She tried to stand up, only for Finn to stop her as her legs started to buckle and answer the door himself, Amanda's eyes widening slightly.
"Shawn?" Amanda responded as she and Shawn Michaels hugged. "I thought you couldn't get a flight out of San Antonio til tomorrow." She said after they let go.
"There was a smaller plane flying the same way. Slightly more expensive but worth it to get here… you hurt yourself, Mandy?" Shawn responded, the last part as he noticed her slightly shaking legs, still slightly tensed from nearly collapsing under her before.
"Just a little sore." Amanda replied, Shawn noticing the cut on her lip and looking at Finn.
"Who hit her?!" Shawn asked.
"Cody threw his boot without looking. The bad part was that he said 'she'd be fine, it's only a cut'. Which is true physically but, you know… shock and memory reflexes last a lot longer than a cut does." Finn answered.
"I wanted to smack Cody for that… we had a different kind of bond when we were kids but it's not there anymore." Amanda said, Shawn lightly pulling a blanket over Amanda's lower body and putting a pillow under her before getting her to lean back into the couch.
"That's better, now you're comfy…" Shawn said, before sitting down on the bench nearby. "I learnt years ago that… everything ends… and it's always sad. But what's ended… doesn't have to be gone. In thought and memory, it's always there somewhere."
"It is." Amanda responded as Shawn kissed her on her forehead before he headed out and nodded at Finn for him to keep an eye on Amanda. "He's gonna go find him." She said as Finn sat down on the bench and lightly rubbed his left hand up and down her shoulder.
"Yep he is, lass…" Finn responded.