Roman, Seth and Dean stood with their fists together while Rhyno slowly rolled out of the ring to join Heath that had managed to pull himself up after the beatdown they had just received.
To the three Shield members it didn't matter who they beat up. Nothing mattered these days. Nothing had mattered for the last two months since she disappeared. Nothing mattered without her.
It's time to play the game...
"What the fuck does he want?" Dean sneered.
Hunter came walking out with a little smirk on his face. As always he was up to something. It was just the way he was. Everyone knew that. He eyed them all down from the top of the ramp, buying his sweet time to make them feel uneasy, before finally raising the microphone to his mouth.
"Boys, boys, boys," he said. "I get it. You're angry. I would be too if Stephanie had walked out on me in the middle of the night without as much as leaving a note."
"You watch your mouth!" Roman yelled.
"However, Stephanie would never do something like that. You don't do that if you truly love someone. Devina clearly didn't love any of you," Hunter said.
"Shut the fuck up! You don't get to take her name in your mouth!" Seth yelled.
A sick laughter rumbled deep from Hunter's stomach and up through his entire body. He shook with laughter, not able to control his body language.
"I have someone I'd like for you to meet. Someone you may or may not have heard of," he said.
All three Shield members growled as Devina's song started playing. Hunter had no right in using that song. It belonged to her. However, they quickly stopped pacing and looked with wide eyes as she walked in. That hair and those eyes that shared the same hazelnut brown colour. She went to stand next to Hunter, sharing that little smirk of his with one of her own.
"Devina!" Roman snapped at the sight of her.
"Not quite," she said.
"What are you up to, darling?" Dean asked.
"Darling? What a boring nickname you chose for her," she laughed. "Allow me to introduce myself since you clearly have no clue who I am. I'm not even surprised she never told you about me since we didn't get along. I am, as they would put it in cartoons and bad movies, her evil twin."
"Twin?" Seth looked surprised.
"She never mentioned me with a word? Not one little word? I'm glad she's gone or I would kick her ass for sure," she said. "Name's D.D., by the way."
"What's that supposed to stand for?" Roman asked.
"Only my true friends know," she answered.
She grinned and ran her tongue over her teeth while Hunter took a step forward to join in on the fun again.
"You look like roadkill," he chuckled.
"What the hell are you trying to play here?" Dean asked.
"Play? What makes you think I'm playing? D.D. came to me and asked to work with me. If anyone's playing, it's her," Hunter answered.
"I like games," she giggled.
"Anyway, I just wanted you all to meet each other. After all, she's your sister in law. Oh wait, she used to be. Devina left you three and I'm still having a blast about that and it's only so much better that D.D. reached out to me so I can rub in your faces everyday what you no longer have," Hunter said.
Hunter and D.D. left the stage and Roman, Seth and Dean rolled out of the ring and disappeared up the stairs. A couple of minutes later they were in their locker room trying to make sense of what just happened.
"I don't buy it for one second. That was Devina," Dean said.
"It sure looked like her," Roman said.
"Twins?" Seth nearly whimpered. "She even sounded like Devina. Does identical twins have the same voice?"
"I don't think so but I'm not sure. They say the voice is the first thing you forget about someone," Roman said.
"I didn't forget it!" Seth shouted.
He was all up in Roman's face, pushing the bigger man up against the wall. Roman just wrapped his arms around Seth and pulled him in for a hug.
"I didn't forget it," Seth cried.
"I miss her too," Roman said.
"Why did she leave us?" Seth cried.
"I wish I knew," Roman sighed. "I wish I knew where she is and if she's still..."
"Don't say it!" Dean snapped.
Alive. The unspoken word hang thick in the air. Both Seth and Dean knew what he had been about to say but saying it out loud made it so much more real and they weren't ready for that. Devina wasn't dead. She couldn't be dead. She was out there somewhere.
"Why didn't she tell us she had a twin?" Seth asked.
"Maybe for the same reason she didn't tell us she was leaving," Roman answered.
"Do you think those two things are connected somehow?" Dean asked.
"I don't know," Roman answered. "I honestly don't know what to believe anymore. It sure looked like her but that woman was cold and almost cruel. Devina was always so warm."
"Light and day," Seth said. "She was like the sun."
"And whoever that was, she was darkness and night and I'm not talking about the bloody moon or stars. No light shone in those eyes," Dean said.