WWE Fastlane 2015, 20 minutes after six man tag…
"Hey… that was great out there." Seth heard before he saw Amanda walk over… she reached out to hug him but stopped when he lightly pressed his fingers into her collarbone. "Okay, that's not like you at all… what's going on here, Seth?" The 24 year old diva responded.
"Nothing." Seth answered and turned to leave… he reached the edge of the hallway when he heard "You know, I'm getting really sick of this, Rollins!" and turned back, walking to Amanda.
"What did you just say to me?!" Seth demanded.
"Ignoring me! Lately, you've treated me like we barely know each other and that's when you're not taking your temper out on me and treating me like I betrayed you… and you damn well don't care but that hurts me, Seth. What did I do wrong?" Amanda responded, Seth slamming the Money In The Bank briefcase down in rage and muttering a name under his breath… but Amanda heard it. "He is my friend but the Demon King and Demon Mistress thing, it's just a storyline, Seth. Just like The Shield splitting apart was for the cameras, it shouldn't affect us backstage!" She said, Seth turning away from her.
"You keep telling yourself it's just an innocent friendship, when does the lying stop?!" Seth responded angrily… and Amanda could no longer hold back.
"Calling me a liar. That's what it is, you're angry… I'm not really surprised with what I heard just leave the mouth of the guy who cheated on his fiancee! Hell if your affair was never exposed, you would've kept lying to Leighla!" Amanda responded.
"That's what you think, I'm just angry because things fell apart?! Before we know it, you and Balor will be in the same bed and room, you'll be walking out into the arena hand in hand, leg up and lips together and it will be far from 'just an act'!" Seth said, his temper completely taking over.
"Well when it's far from just an act, it'll at least be honest! I bet you sleeping with Zahra is far from the first time you cheated on the so called love of your life!" Amanda responded, Seth backhanding her.
"Watch your fucking mouth, you little bitch!" Seth yelled, Amanda hauling off and punching Seth right in the nose... it evoked a scream and he stumbled back, hands over his bleeding nose before Amanda took the briefcase and whacked Seth over the head with it.
Seth fell to the floor, hitting his head again and rendering himself unconscious… and Amanda dropped the briefcase and stormed off…
Present time…
'Asshole deserved it!' Amanda thought as she kept an ice pack to her bruised and scraped hand… and heard the door open before seeing Finn, who walked over after closing the door and pulled the ice pack down.
"That was you who rendered Rollins unconscious?" Finn responded.
"I flat out told him off after he tried to act like he hadn't hurt me… we argued, he struck me, I punched him… which broke his nose. And then I whacked him with his own briefcase. Is he still on the floor?" Amanda answered.
"Jamie and Joey were dragging him to the trainer's office as I was walking back here… I guess when he ran his mouth about you and me being close, you told him off about him screwing Zahra?" Finn replied as he held the ice pack to Amanda's hand.
"Which, looking back on it, was a metaphoric low blow… I felt like he was placing blame on me for his own damn stupidity so I wanted him to feel as bad as he's made me feel." Amanda responded, Finn lightly reaching his left hand over and tucking some of her straightened shoulder length hair behind her right ear… before he saw the bruise on her face and got her to sit down.
"Fuck… he really whacked you this time." Finn replied before Amanda's phone alarm went off and she pressed the button before she opened the little prescription bottle nearby, taking one of the pills and swallowing it with water before she closed the bottle and put it in her duffel bag before Finn pressed the ice pack to her bruised face. "Ba chóir dó dul a asal agus a fheiceáil conas is maith leis an gcaoi a gcaitheann sé leat!" He muttered in his native language.
"I doubt he'd give a flying fuck about why you'd hit him, probably be really pissed about being hit." Amanda responded, Finn knowing that she cursed at times… but he could tell it was not so much out of being physically hurt as it was how she was feeling emotionally, Finn pulling Amanda into his arms after setting the ice aside and the two holding each other once they were stretched out on the couch and Amanda's head resting on Finn's right shoulder. "I don't know why I feel like crying, he's not worth it…" She replied quietly as tears had formed in her eyes.
"Losing a friendship is never easy to handle… but it's clear that over time, Seth turned more possessive and less friendly, Darlin'. And he doesn't need to hit you… no one has the right to hurt you." Finn responded quietly as he brushed Amanda's tears away.
And Amanda felt herself calming down.
At the same time, Seth glanced at the golden briefcase… blood was splattered on it, his own blood.
"Fucking bitch!" Seth muttered angrily, ice pack on his nose after they had reset it… and him seeing Dakota walk in.
"Tiny finally snapped and tried to murder you, I take it?" Dakota asked.
"I was… a bit brutal to her earlier but she acted like she didn't do anything wrong!" Seth responded.
"You threw her aside when The Shield split, then acted like she deserved it and got insanely jealous when she started getting close to Finn! How is she wrong for finding someone who doesn't treat her like something to lash out at whenever you're pissed off?!" Dakota replied.
"Well did you really have to go telling her about us sleeping together a year ago?!" Seth yelled in an accusatory tone, Dakota punching him right in his left eye.
"I didn't tell anyone, why would I tell anyone about it?!" Dakota replied angrily, Seth holding his left hand over his bruising eye… before they saw Yuki.
"You slept around behind Leighla's back and yet you're pissed about Mandy and Finn's friendship? Wow, you know… that is fucking hypocritical even for you, Rollins. You're not looking out for Mandy, you just want her chained to your side, you possessive ass!" Yuki replied after looking at Seth, who turned incensed.
"That's what you both see me as, possessive?!" Seth yelled.
"You are correct, Rollins!" Yuki responded.
"Yeah. Finn actually cares about Mandy, he knows what a normal friendship is like." Dakota replied before she and Yuki left. "I'm gonna head out for a drink with Luke and Bryan after this pay per view is over, you want to tag along?" She asked.
"Hell yeah, I need a few drinks after what's going to happen tonight." Yuki responded.
"Same here." Dakota replied before they high fived each other.