The day seemed to drag on forever as Amanda stopped in the hallway, closing her eyes. The atmosphere was tense and Amanda knew why.
Corey Graves had been told earlier today that his neurological issues left him no choice but to retire from wrestling… and it pissed him off.
Amanda heard Corey walk over and start shouting at her but decided to ignore him… or try to.
"Hey, listen to me, you career wrecking bitch!" Corey shouted as he grabbed Amanda's slender shoulders forcefully and shook her violently, Amanda yelling at him to let her go.
"Sami, do you hear that?" Finn asks as his and Sami's heads snapped up, the arguing getting louder. A sickening crashing sound made them jump out of their skin after they exited locker room, seeing the back and right side of Amanda's head hit the mirror. Sami and Finn ran over to them, Sami shoving Corey back as Finn crouched down to check on a now bleeding Amanda.
It wasn't just her head and face that hit the mirror… Amanda had a glass shard sticking out of her right shoulder, which had old scar damage from an accident when she was 16.
"Don't touch it, we'll let the doctor sort it out." Finn whispered when Amanda tried to yank the shard out.
"It's not her fault that your concussion issues forced your wrestling career to stop!" Sami yelled at Corey.
"How is it fair that she has similar neurological issues and still gets to wrestle?!" Corey shouts, Sami punching him and knocking Corey down. Corey stood up, his mouth bleeding, and stormed off as Sami crouched down next to Finn and Amanda.
Amanda was blinking her tears away, shaken up violently to the point where she wasn't talking. It had all hit her too fast and it was frightening seeing Corey like that.
Finn slinked one arm under Amanda's knees and the other around her back, easily picking her up because of how light she was compared to him and Sami, the two taking Amanda to the medical room.
Finn's P.O.V
That was scary as hell when I saw Amanda's head and face hit the mirror… damn it, Corey, Amanda was the one who recommended that you see the WWE doctors, she was worried sick when you hit your head on those steel steps in your last match!
Amanda's mouth is cut open and the right side of her jaw is too but the cuts are bandaged, the only injury to her head is a bruise on her scalp… I'm thankful that they have MRI machines here.
The worst injury is to her shoulder, ten stitches in it… but she's still not talking.
"Mandy?" I say, lightly rubbing my hand up and down her back. Nothing.
"Lass?" I say, Amanda carefully turning her head and looking at me.
She's stopped shaking but she's still scared…
"I… I didn't want… another one to end up dying… in that ring…" Amanda says… and then I realise why she's upset.
Like many other fans and young wrestlers back in 1999, Amanda watched the Over The Edge pay per view and it was the night Owen Hart died after falling almost 80 feet from the harness to the ring, bashing his head and chest on the ring rope.
"Owen was dying when they took him out of that ring." I say, Amanda nodding. "Amanda, you were looking out for Corey… that's what makes you a sweetheart, you really do care about your fellow co workers." I say, Amanda leaning against me as Sami walked in.
"Hey… security escorted him out of the building. They'll have him announce it next week." Sami says.
"Still want to go through with the show tonight?" I ask Amanda, who nods.
"They gave me some painkillers, I'm okay now." Amanda says before we leave the medical room, reaching our locker room.
Amanda's P.O.V, A few minutes later…
"Much better…" I say after reapplying my cat eye makeup, concealer and bronzer so I don't look like I've been crying when we go live tonight… and to hide the terror left by Corey's violent outburst.
I should really press assault charges against him, I was trying to help by recommending that he see the doctors… little punk lashed out and did this to me.
"Ah, there's our favorite lass." Finn says after I rejoin him and Sami.
Incident or not, the show must go on...