*Raw
Feb 25th,2019
"Ro!" I smiled carefully looping my arms around his torso."I've missed you so much."
"You visited every week." Roman chuckled." I actually just saw you yesterday."
"Yeah well, it's different now. You're back here, backstage with us." I looped arms with Roman as we headed back to the bus which was now solely Seth's.
"How's life away from the ring?" Roman asked. I rolled my eyes playfully and shrugged.
"Surely not as interesting as yours."
"Surely not as stress free as yours." Roman shot back while I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Touché." I replied as we stepped into the bus, At the Evolution Paperview I was once again sidelined due to shoulder injury. I had what was billed as Nya & I's final battle with the winner walking away with the Raw Woman's Championship. Unfortunately for me, Nya was willing to get just a tiny bit more hardcore than I was in our call back to CZW a Cage match of Death.
October 22nd to October 28th, 2018 were some of the worst days of our collective lives. Roman had to relinquish the WWE Championship due to his cancer returning, in that very same night Dean stabbed Seth & I in the back and twisted the knife by attacking us after their title match. And then 6 days later Nya dislocated my already tweaked Shoulder thanks to Dean.
"Can you spill any details on this big announcement, Ro?" Seth asked coming out the bathroom dressed in his ring gear.
"You'll find out with everyone else." Roman said with a tight lipped smile.
"If you're coming back, I'm coming back." I grinned not missing the smirk on his face.
"Aren't you the same person who asked for their release because they got injured?" The voice of my younger very annoying cousin sprang from the door way.
"Who flew you out here." I scoffed at the curly haired rookie.
"Why would I miss my boyfriends special announcement?" She crosses her arms in the door way.
"You flew from Florida to Atlanta for an announcement that I'm pretty sure you already know." Seth chuckled.
"I'm also representing NXT tonight in a tag team match against ... drum roll." Shamera pauses dramatically ." Your Woman's Tag Team Champions."
"Sasha is gonna wreck you." Seth teases.
"I'm pretty sure Bayley will body you." I added." I don't know who's idea it was to use Nxt's hottest women tag team on a throw away episode of Raw but hey."
"I was hoping for Ests of NXT to debut night after mania but hey I guess not." Shamera shrugged.
"Roman's coming back, Mera's debuting, oh I'm calling Vince right now." I whipped out my phone and stepped off the bus.
"He's back!?" I screeched as the crowd cheered happily at the news. I sprinted away from the monitor and onto the stage with Seth right behind me. Roman made his way up the ramp with the crowd eating this moment up. We finally met up and engaged in the most heartwarming group hug to ever grace anybodies televison. Roman kissed the top of my head before we broke apart, he held out his fist and Seth & I happily put our fists together.
After heading backstage the air was different, everyone seemed happier. Sasha & Bayley pulled me into a bear hug.
"I see you guys every week, what's the hug for?" I asked as the two pulled away.
"Check Twitter now." Sasha shoved her phone into my face. I squinted for a second before taking it from her.
"We're delighted to welcome Katarina Love back to the Raw Roster #HellKatsback #ShieldReunion #WelcomebackKatAndRoman"
"Well Vince works fast. I didn't actually sign anything I just asked to come back." I smiled handing Sasha back her phone.
"How long are you sticking around?" Bayley asked.
"I have one last thing, I need to do for me to happily close the door on this chapter of my life."I smirk dramatically as Sasha & Bayley lean in curiously.
"And that is?"
"You'll find out later, I need to get pretty." I turned and walked off to wardrobe/hair & make up.
45 minutes later I traded in my black sweat suit and shimmery uggs for a strapless blood red sequin dress that hugged my body beautifully paired with my trusty spiked red bottom heels.
"There's the Rina, I remember." I groaned as the face I loathed more than anyone else appeared in front of me.
"Ambrose, you're about 22 seconds away from getting this Louboutin shoved so far up your ass." I spat Seth may have softened toward him,but I couldnt. He's the reason for my injury, the reason my title reign got cut short, the reason I hung up my boots in the first place.
"Oh come on Rina, I barely touched you." Dean whined I raised an eyebrow at him before snorting.
"You put me threw a goddamn table surgically repaired shoulder first."
"In my defense I never did anything to you for talking Seth into leaving us the first time around" Dean shot back. I sighed in annoyance, he was actually right. He'd chased Seth to the end of the earth for months but only done things to scare me.
"I didn't injure you." I replied weakly crossing my arms.
"You betrayed my trust, you were a lot more than a pretty face, you hung out with us, you played wing woman for me, I'm pretty sure you spoon fed me when I got sick." Dean replied." And then you bashed me over the head with a chair."
"Roman actually was the one who fed you the soup." I smirked as he rolled his eyes playfully." But you're right, I betrayed you, the amount of trust you had in me, to have only had me with you guys for a month should've deterred me but I had a job to do. It was either sway Seth or I'd be going back to NXT."
"It's fine, Seth already forgave me, and so did Ro. I just need to make amends with you before I go." Dean confessed, I jumped up from the chair nearly getting my hair snatched out in the process.
"Easy with the flat iron." I muttered." What do you mean before you go? Roman just came back and I'm partially resigned."
"I'm not resigning, I almost died from that injury Kat. I came back to the Shield which fell apart right in front of me. I can't take doing this anymore."
"Wrestling is our blood, our passion, are you sure you're ready to give that up?"
"I've made enough money to live comfortably, you're younger than I am and those injuries haven't full caught up with you yet. You haven't done half the things I've done on the independents, that stuff wears you down Kat." He replied I narrowed my eyes at him.
"You were trying to keep me out the Cage of Death, in your own sick twisted way."
"Maybe I was or, maybe I just owed you." He chuckled walking off.
"Ass." I called out sitting back in the chair allowing the girl to finish straightening my hair out.
"You really went out there looking like you just rolled out of bed." Alexa snorted." I didn't know you even owned a sweatsuit."
"I didn't plan on being on TV, home wrecker." I replied with a tight smile.
"Honey, I did what I had to do. Dean was getting too clingy too needy, I needed something else." She smirked. " Welcome back I look forward to kicking you right back out."
"Aren't you just a talk show host now ? That must really suck. Becky, Nya & Devin are feuding over the title while you sit back here and host things." I smirked back she flipped her long blonde hair and shrugged.
"I'm bidding my time."
"I look forward to dragging you out the WWE with me."
"So Bayley beat my ass." Shamera whined as Bianca held ice on her friend's back." Why did they put me in this situation."
"They were feeding us to them." Bianca said shaking her head.
"It was a good showing, and hopefully after much more training Mera you'll be able to hang with them." I placed a hand on my baby cousin's shoulder
"Yeah she's right, Sham." Bianca said confidently." We're still the ESTs and we're still Undefeated."
"Yeah I don't think Bayley appreciated you attacking her before she could pin Mera." Devin laughed from the doorway of the Woman's locker.
"Well, I'm just looking out for Mera." Bianca shrugged." You ready to go?"
"Yeah, let me meet up with Ro then I'll meet you back here and we can go." Shamera stiffly got up before walking out the door past Devin.
"I told her she wasn't ready." Devin said." Yes other rookies are a cake walk for her, but seasoned veterans like Bayley and Sasha. Bayley was literally 8 steps ahead of her before Mera even got in."
"We'll work on it, Dev." Bianca promised changing into her street clothes.
"So what's the verdict on this whole Nya/Becky thing." I asked.
"Well Nya's definitely going to beat Becky's ass tonight. I think she's tired of the whole trash talking Becky's doing." Devin explained going into her dufflebag.
"I would love to see that." I grinned evilly, sure Becky was dating one of the most important people in my life but the two of us never got along.
"I believe their going out, right now." Devin said glancing at her phone." Wish me luck."
"Luck? Luck isn't for Rollins." I gave Devin a cheek splitting grin as she scoffed and walked off.
"In two more weeks you can say that." She called over her two more weeks, I'd officially become Katarina Love-Rollins, And I couldn't be more excited, Devin & Nikki helped with everything and it'll be absolutely perfect.
"I'll catch you guys later." I say to the rest of the Women and exit the locker room only to run into the Devil herself.
"Stephanie, just the person I was looking for."
"That is not fair." Roman said in shock as we watched Drew, Elias, Bobby, Baron & Alexa gang up on Dean after his match.
"I'm going down there." Seth said. I looked down at my chosen attire and groaned.
"I pray these pasties don't fail me." I said kicking off my high heels.
"Let's go, together or apart nobody messes with us." Roman growled as the three of us sprang off the bus and sprinted to the gorilla.
"I'm right behind you, I think I stepped on something." I winced lifting my barefoot up." Go save him."
Seth nodded and disappeared through the curtain along with Roman. I rubbed my foot lightly before casually walking through the curtain hoping I timed it just right. The ring was littered with bodies while Roman, and Seth stood y'all helping Dean up. Alexa was standing on the stage screaming her head off at them. The crowd popped massively for me as I spun Alexa around and laid her out with a nasty big boot well as nasty as it could get in this tight dress. Her head smacked the ground with a sickening thud, I gingerly stepped over her and regrouped with my boys in the ring.
Dean grinned at me, I think my delayed entrance made him think I wasn't coming to his aid.
"So that's it?" Devin asked as we drove to the hotel in her rental, the guys were having male bonding on the bus while I decided to have a girls night to give them the space they would need.
"There is one condition, next week Dean's going to publicly apologize to us and then we'll be the shield again. He's lucky this is what Roman wanted." I replied.
"You already forgave him." Devin pointed out." I'm very good at blending into the background when I want."
"I just wanted to sound cool." I pouted as Devin pulled into the parking lot.
"Aww."
"Hush, I'll grab the bags and meet you guys in the suite."
"Not with that shoulder." Devin chastised grabbing one of my bags from the back seat." You're going back with the boys tomorrow anyway you don't need three bags."
"I like to have options did you not see how under prepared I was to go on TV?" I asked disgusted." I had to wear a wardrobe dress gross."
"If you had three bags of clothing on the bus in the first place why did you even borrow that?" Devin commented making me narrow my eyes.
"You're asking all the wrong questions."
