January 25th 2016...
"If you don't open this door and let us in, we'll bust it down, Sami!" Dean says after banging on the door, Amanda and Finn pulling the covers over their heads, trying to stay as still as possible as Sami unlocks and opens the door, seeing a hungover Dean and Roman outside but both were also pissed off.
"Where is she?!" Roman demanded in a low, angry tone.
"Where's who?" Sami asks.
"Mandy! Who else would we want to talk to this early, you fuckwad?!" Dean says.
"Quiet, they'll hear you!" Finn whispered, covering Amanda's mouth with his hand after she snickered at Dean's comment.
"What was that?!" Roman demands.
"Ah, Finn's just talking in his sleep again." Sami says.
"That'd be more believable… if there weren't two people in the bed." Dean says, Roman walking over to the bed and trying to snatch the sheets off but was stopped by a foot ramming below his waist, Roman grunting in pain as Dean helped him up.
"Alright, we're going. But if we don't find Mandy, we're calling John. And trust me, you don't want him barging in on you while you're asleep." Roman says before Dean helped him up and out of the room.
In their own room after packing up, Roman finally broke the tense silence.
"You realise that there's something up with Finn and Mandy, right?" Roman asks.
"What, you think they hooked up last night? She's always hanging with Sami and you don't find that suspicious." Dean says.
"Yeah because Sami's got a huge crush on Bayley and only thinks of Mandy as a younger sister. Mostly everyone in the locker room thinks of Mandy as a kid sister, niece or daughter… Finn's always checking on her when she's hurt and she's always doing the same whenever he ends up hurt, they're always hugging each other, tickling each other-" Roman says.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with hugs, tickles or a playful nature. But… are we just imagining things? And when Seth and John come back from their injuries and see them like that, you know how one or both will react." Dean says.
"Yeah, they'd beat the hell out of Finn and tell him to stay away from Mandy. But then again, so would we if he crossed a line with her." Roman says.
"If anyone crossed a line with her." Dean says, Roman nodding in agreement…
Present time, WWE NXT Taping, 3/16/16, scheduled to air 3/23/16…
Catching him was the easy part… but the way she turned around after a barely audible pain filled groan indicated to him that she had hurt her right side and right shoulder, Finn brushing his left hand against Amanda's ribcage and resting his right hand on her shoulder as she looked up at him.
Thankfully, it didn't get taken out of its socket but he could tell she was sore.
"I'm okay, get back in there and finish that match." Amanda whispered, Finn kissing her on her forehead before running in there and continuing the match with Rich Swann.
But Amanda noticed it, how aggressive Finn got with each move… she noticed his face turn a light red with anger.
Finn had hit the Coup De Grace, which was how he was supposed to finish the match… but he noticed that Amanda was still rubbing her right side and picked Rich up, hitting him with the 1916 DDT, pinning him before Amanda slid into the ring and the two hugged.
"Damn, man, all this over an accident?!" Rich managed to ask after Finn had won the match and the cameras weren't focused on them, him, Finn and Amanda all on their feet and Finn glaring at Swann before looking at Amanda, his glare melting into a concerned look.
"An bhfuil tu ceart go leor?" Finn asked as his hands cupped her face, Amanda nodding as their foreheads were pressed together.
If anything, she was more startled than in pain.
"Ta me ceart go leor." Amanda replied, her hands on his sides before the two hugged.
In the backstage area, Amanda managed to pull her Balor Club tank top off and Finn saw that her right side was bruising. He grabbed a nearby Ziploc bag and opened it, putting some ice in it before zipping it and lightly putting it on her injured ribs.
"Rich is one of our friends… he's not too happy right now." Amanda says after Finn took the ice pack and taped it to her shoulder.
"It was an accident, yes. But you're hurting… and it angers me when you get hurt, Mandy." Finn says, his left arm encircled around Amanda's waist to hold her up.
His hand rested on her waistline, the thumb of it lightly stroking her skin.
Amanda rarely saw Finn get so fired up that sometimes she forgot that he had a temper… she knew that he would calm down just as quickly and that gentleness of his would come back.
But only if she was around.