Last December...
"Damn it, are you trying to injure me?!" Alexa yelled after Amanda pulled her up to her feet in the WWE Performance Centre on a late Sunday afternoon.
"Would I deliberately do that to any wrestler? Come on, the first few hits in the ring can be a bit rough until we find how well we work together during a match." Amanda says, Alexa scooping her hair into a ponytail before the two locked up again.
Alexa sweeped Amanda's legs out and went to grab one when Amanda grabbed Alexa and slammed her down to the mat in an overhead takedown move that left Amanda in a position to punch… and if this were during a real match, Amanda would've.
"See, that wasn't so bad." Amanda says after she helped Alexa up to her feet.
"Yeah… we just need to not be rough in that ring." Alexa says before exiting it, leaving Amanda to think… but not for long.
"Might take some time before she gets used to working with different styles of wrestling, lass." Finn says after getting into the ring and him and Amanda hugging.
"If she's gonna need more time before the NXT: TakeOver: London pay per view, I've got my work cut out for me. There's a roster of people who have different styles of wrestling." Amanda says.
As far as she was concerned, she never wanted to work with Alexa Bliss again…
Last night...
'Of course… where else would they go?' Alexa thought as she walked into the bar, Strutter by Kiss practically assaulting her ears with how loud it was and Amanda and Finn dancing drunkenly. She hated Amanda, hated Amanda's taste in music and how Amanda, in Alexa's mind, glossed over the truth about her past.
The second the pint sized terror had seen Amanda's Facebook post and found out about Amanda's plans, she wanted to play amateur paparazzi.
No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne started blaring and Amanda and Finn started dancing differently, Amanda's back pressed up against Finn's torso and his right arm wrapped around her waist, her hands resting on his arms.
Alexa grabbed her newly bought Samsung galaxy phone and snapped a pic of the two when they were an inch away from each other's mouths and decided to send it to TMZ with the caption 'On screen good girl, off screen tramp!' before uploading it on Twitter with 'Demon King and Demon Mistress after dark. #What's Going On Behind Closed Doors?'
"You don't take that photo down, next hashtag will read 'Alexa Bliss, tossed off freeway ramp.'." Alexa heard, looked and saw Becky Lynch.
"What business is it of yours?!" Alexa snarled.
"Finn and I are like brother and sister and I know he and Amanda genuinely care about each other and they're not just messing around!" Becky says threateningly, Alexa looking and seeing Finn spinning Amanda around to face him as Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode started playing and the next dance became a little more intense as Finn and Amanda were pressed up against each other and he held her left leg up to his right one, his hand gripped under Amanda's thigh gently so as not to aggravate the stitches as they danced.
"That look innocent to you?!" Alexa snarls.
"They're adults. They want them time, everyone can piss off." Becky says, Alexa ordering a martini on the rocks as Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by The Eurythmics played.
Amanda and Finn were lost in themselves, lost in the music and enjoying it… until Amanda was hit by a flying beer bottle.
Amanda screamed out in shock as Finn kept his arms around her to keep her from falling and Amanda looked over her right shoulder.
Before she could do anything about what had just happened, her and Finn's eyes widened in shock as they saw Becky beating the hell out of Alexa.
"Becca, cnag se amach!" Finn yelled in his native language, Becky standing up and glancing down at a now bruised and bleeding Alexa.
"Why?! The fun's just getting started!" A guy who was nearly the same height as Braun Strowman says as he grabs Finn by his shirt collar… but then another sickening 'smash!' was heard and the guy fell to the ground, Finn seeing Amanda with a broken beer bottle in her hand.
"Keep your damn hands off him!" Amanda yelled at the guy, who was now bleeding from several small cuts in his head as Alexa pulled herself up.
The four looked at each other and decided that it was time to leave.
"So much for a fun night." Finn says, his right arm around Amanda's shoulders as she rested her head on his right shoulder.
"Are you alright?" Amanda asks as Finn kissed her on her forehead.
"I was about to ask you that… what the hell is with Alexa? First biting you during the match and now this?" Finn says, Becky glancing at them as she drove the rented Altima back to the hotel the three were staying at as Alexa had decided to take a cab.
"She's angry. Not necessarily at you two, just that there's a spotlight shining brightly on you two." Becky says, driving at a careful speed as she didn't know how much Finn or Amanda had to drink.
Once back in their hotel room, Amanda kicked her purple stiletto heels off and pulled off her reddish purple velvet mini dress.
"Finn?" Amanda says, Finn walking over to her. "I did have a good night… I love hanging out with you." She says, standing up on her tiptoes and lightly kissing him on his jaw before disappearing into the bathroom.
After Amanda was cleaned off and in an oversized Balor Club shirt, Finn guided her to the king sized bed and helped her lie down before pulling the covers over her.
"I love hanging out with you too, Mandy." Finn whispers, lightly kissing her on her forehead before going to get cleaned off himself…
Present time…
Finn opened his eyes, seeing Amanda curled up next to him in her hungover state with her head nestled into his neck and right shoulder and her arms wrapped around him.
This was what she was like the morning after the Royal Rumble after party and ever since that fight between Dean and Roman, Amanda had been crashing with Finn and Sami.
It had led the two into crazy adventures as Sami was spending most of his time with Bayley… and last night was just another one.
"Open this fucking door!"
Amanda and Finn bolted upright when they heard that, knowing who it was.
"Those fucking… Dean and Roman called him, I'm gonna murder them!" Amanda says, trying to stand up but Finn stopped her.
"Seth, go back home!" Finn says, angering Seth even more.
"Hey, people are trying to sleep here!"
Seth turned around, seeing a woman a bit taller than Amanda.
"Stay outta this, lady!" Seth says angrily before beating on the door again. "Mandy, open this door before I bust it down!" He yells.
"Val, what's going on out there?!" Another man asked from a neighboring room.
"JJ, this guy's not taking the hint to fuck off!" The woman says, Seth about to yell again when he saw another man a bit taller than himself walk over.
"Some kind of problem?" JJ asks.
"This doesn't concern you, pal!" Seth growled.
"Well if it's the business of the two in there then it concerns you no more than it does me. So you gonna leave… or are we just gonna have to pop one of those balloons in your arms?" JJ says followed by Val who was stood a bit back from them and leant against the wall, flipping about and doing a few tricks with her split handle switchblade, spinning it around her hand and up her arm without even nicking her clothes with the blade.
Seth turned and left without another word, Val folding the switchblade before carefully knocking on the door.
"He's gone." Val says, Amanda unlocking and opening the door after pulling on a pair of yoga pants.
"Thanks… sorry about my idiot friend." Amanda says, letting the two into the room.
"It looks like you two just crashed here after a night out. So why was he jumping to the wrong conclusion?" JJ says, Amanda checking her phone and finding it.
"Probably because of the bitch who decided that rumors were more believable than truth." Amanda says, Val seeing Alexa's Twitter post.
"Angry co-worker?" Val asks, Amanda nodding and pulling her disheveled curls into a messy bun.
"People are just flat out insane nowadays, especially the media vultures." Amanda says, JJ seeing people crowded outside the hotel with cameras.
"I could give them a good stickin', would that help?" Val asks jokingly while flipping her butterfly knife around her arm, it being open when it reached her hand.
"No more assaults, don't want what happened in Thailand repeating itself." Finn says.
"That was Corey who decided to stab a police officer." Amanda says.
"The fuck? Why?!" JJ asks.
"He… started a rather large riot in the heart of Bangkok that got us all in jail." Amanda says.
"Oh brilliant. So you're wrestlers who in reality seem as crazy as JJ, Gin and the others of the group." Val says.
"Crazy describes about half the company, the other half are certified lunatics-" Amanda says, her phone ringing and her ignoring Dean's call.
"Like that guy?" Val asks.
"Yep. They do call him the Lunatic Fringe after all." Amanda says.