Amanda pried her eyes open halfway, trying to stretch her legs… but the way Finn was holding her had his left hand on her right hip and right hand on her lower back.
Last night's episode of Raw had Amanda wondering why Cody double crossed Wade and trying to get answers from them was a bust… so Amanda found herself hiding out with Finn instead of crashing with Wade.
But just as she was about to call him and tell him why she left without leaving a note, the 6'7" Brit was knocking on the hotel door… and showed no sign of leaving as the knocking increased in volume.
"It's barely light out, shove off!" Finn growled at the door, burying his face into the crook of Amanda's neck.
"I don't bloody care how early it is, my roommate disappeared without a trace last night!" Wade responded, Amanda trying to move again but Finn refused to let go.
"You're a relentless one." Amanda muttered, Wade now increasing the volume in his voice.
"Balor-" Wade shouted.
"I'm not alone in here, Barrett!" Finn replied, now half awake.
"You're with Mandy?... well then damn it, open up! I! Need! Answers!" Wade shouted in response.
"You'll have a coffee machine upside your head in a minute if you don't shut up!" Brie yelled from down the hall, Wade about to yell at her when the door opened and he saw Amanda, hair disheveled and pajamas in slight disarray.
"Wade, it's not even nine am, I can crash with whoever I want and you were driving me crazy last night with you and Cody arguing. That enough answers for you?" Amanda said, a migraine fully set in and her face a light shade of red… she turned to head to the room, Wade seeing a flash of finger imprints in her hip after stopping her. "Wade!" She hissed as he narrowed his eyes at Finn.
Wade turned and left, Amanda closing and locking the door before Finn guided her back to the bed and got her to sit down.
"I'm sure he hates me." Finn said quietly.
"He's just a grouch at times. I don't know how Ace put up with him when they were roommates last week." Amanda replied as Finn lightly rested his hands on her shoulders, noticing the tension in the muscles and starting to massage Amanda's shoulders and neck. "Careful, okay?" She asked quietly, Finn seeing bruises and scratches between her shoulder blades and turning her to him before seeing scratches on her wrists. "What's wrong, what did you see? Finn, it was an accident." She said, referring to how she was shoved too hard last night by Cody… she started to stand up when he did but he stopped her and grabbed the room key.
"Stay here." Finn responded before leaving, finding Cody's room and knocking on the door… Cody opened it, assuming it had been Wade but turned confused when he saw Finn.
"Did I do something wrong to you?" Cody asked… before Finn responded by punching Cody right in the nose. "Ow! Fuck!" He yelled, reeling back in pain and Finn lunging and putting Cody against the wall by pressing his right forearm to Cody's throat as Dianne ran in.
"The hell is going on here?!" Dianne asked, managing to pull Finn off of Cody.
"If you saw the bruises and scratches on Mandy's back, you'd be in the same damn actions as me!" Finn said angrily, Dianne looking at Cody.
"Scratches?!" Dianne questioned angrily, before grabbing Cody's left wrist, pulling his hand up and quickly swiping her fingernail under his, finding a gathering of skin and blood left on the corner of hers. "What the fuck were you thinking?! It ain't right, it's never right!"
"I scratched her before shoving her down like I was scripted to but I thought her ring top would protect her skin!" Cody responded, resetting his nose.
"You took your gloves off last night…" Dianne growled.
"I was gonna go for the blade but we get in a lot of trouble for that…" Cody explained, Finn about to hit him again but Dianne stopping him and putting a small tube of Neosporin in his right hand.
"Go." Dianne said, Finn leaving and returning to the room. He walked in, seeing that Amanda had managed to pull her hair into a bun but couldn't pull her cami off.
"Dianne hand you that?" Amanda asked.
"Yep… I've seen her taking it when she aches around her prosthetic before. It must be good if it works on aches for… that." Finn answered, holding out the tube to her.
Amanda opened it and applied some to the scratches on her wrists before Finn applied some of it to her back. Closing the tube, Amanda started running through what she would say if anyone asked.
At the Dunkin Donuts Centre in Providence for the SmackDown taping, Amanda was reading through the script when Dean walked by.
"Hey, Mandy." Dean said, Amanda oblivious as she had her earbuds in and Dean heard her singing the lyrics of Forever Young by Rod Stewart. Dean also saw the bandages and walked over, gripping her right wrist in his hand.
Amanda yelped when Dean ripped the bandage off, Dean seeing the scratches and looking at Amanda as she turned the IHeartRadio app off and put her earbuds away.
"Dean, did you ever learn to not sneak up on people?" Amanda asked, yanking her wrist away as Roman walked over, asking what was wrong. "Nothing's wrong, Roman." She said, Dean holding Amanda's wrists up so the scratches were visible after taking the other bandage off.
"Where is he, Mandy?!" Dean demanded.
"I ain't tellin ya where he is, he didn't do this!" Amanda responded, knowing that Dean assumed it was Finn.
"Oh you're gonna tell me where someone is, or he's gonna get it, guilty or not!" Dean growled.
"He ain't getting nothing! Now just listen to her, she said it wasn't Finn and I don't doubt it either, he'd never lay a bad finger on anyone!" Roman said in response, as he pulled Dean back.
"Thanks, Roman." Amanda said before looking at Dean. "Stop listening to the bullshit that comes out of Seth's mouth!" She hissed before leaving, Roman restraining Dean.
"Roman-" Dean said.
"Dean, what first went through your mind when you saw the scratches?" Roman questioned.
"She told me once that Randy would like to pin her down at night during sex." Dean explained.
"So you thought Finn had gotten too rough? Dean, Finn doesn't treat Mandy like Randy did." Roman replied.
Dean nodded… and now he had an apology to put together.