It was early into the next morning when Amanda and Finn heard the angered yelling outside and looked at each other.
"He found it…" Amanda said quietly as Finn sleepily buried his face into her disheveled hair. "Burning those things was one way of dealing with it… and thinking back, it might've not been the best idea. I just… I felt like I had lost him for good when he said what he did." She said as they looked at each other, Finn lightly brushing Amanda's hair back.
Unknown to them, Sariel heard what Amanda had said… she had heard Amanda talking in her sleep earlier and had been observing her and Finn since.
But she incidentally knocked the chair leg into the wall as she left… and for a second, Amanda saw her.
"Who was…" Amanda started to whisper.
"Was someone there?" Finn asked.
"For a few seconds… then she disappeared." Amanda answered, lying back down as she felt Finn's left hand resting on her back.
Out in the hallway, it didn't take long for Sariel to see Seth and Dean.
"You're the one who betrayed her, why so surprised that she burned everything that meant the world to both of you?! Face it, Seth, you lost Mandy for good this time!" Dean said angrily, neither him or Seth taking notice of Sariel… until she appeared to them.
"Okay, this isn't fucking funny!" Seth said, thinking that Amanda was playing a prank on them.
"Trust me, she ever goes near you again, you'll end up on the wrong end of a bat or her fists." Sariel responded.
"Who… are you?" Dean asked.
"You really want to know?" Sariel questioned before she looked at Seth. "Play dead." She said, suddenly raising her hand and Seth collapsing, his breathing stopping for a few seconds as Dean crouched down to check him over, and once he was breathing again he quickly shot back up to a seated position, Sariel looking over the hand she'd raised. "It's an angel's touch, you might say… actually, that's exactly what it is."
"You killed me!" Seth said as he pulled himself back up.
"Man up a bit, you're still standing… that's not right to say, damn it Erela's power is getting to me too much… I'm sorry…" Sariel said, her fists bunching up for a moment midway through.
"He ain't my problem anymore, you deal with him, bitch!" All three heard Amanda yell when Alexa had started banging her fist against the wall.
"Yep, she's really pissed off this time." Dean said.
"Can't blame her one bit." Sariel said as Seth went to try to shut Alexa up. "I'm sorry I did that, made him collapse. I'm between two minds right now in a sense, fortunately the other one is sort of… unconscious now."
Alexa let Seth in and glanced at Sariel before closing the door as Dean and Sariel decided to check on Amanda. After pulling her grey flannel shorts on, Amanda opened the door… and her eyes widened when she saw Sariel and she looked back at the chair leg.
"You were in here earlier…" Amanda said quietly.
"Yeah… sorry, I've just been a bit dazed, confused… I'm carrying something I really shouldn't be, in a manner of speaking." Sariel replied.
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Amanda asked before she heard her phone chime, remembering that sleep mode could automatically deactivate after a certain time… she glanced at it, seeing a text from Val.
'What the fuck was his problem out there?!'
'I'll explain later.' Amanda replied before setting the phone down, Sariel seeing the bruise through the thin material of Amanda's cami.
"So what is going on here?" Finn asked after standing up, pulling his jeans back on.
"As in who am I? Well… usually, I'm the one who guides. When you're lost and without hope, I'm the one who pops in that little idea into your head… but that's usually. I'm sorta conflicting right now, I've carried someone else's power so they can have a rest… or retire." Sariel responded.
It was quiet as they processed the information… Amanda stretched a little, cringing when pain shot through her ribcage.
"I might be able to help you…" Sariel said, focusing on Amanda's chest, trying to at least numb the pain with the abilities she was holding… but all she managed to do was cause a breeze of cold air to brush over her. "They aren't my powers to use… it's driving me mad."
"It would drive me mad too if…" Amanda said, trailing off.
"You can't understand it… you aren't meant to, just like I'm not meant to hold the key to nature. In basic terms, I'm the angel of guidance and the angel of nature is tired, she's taking a long rest and I'm holding onto her powers until she's back, like… I don't know, leaving a pet with a neighbour while you go on a vacation." Sariel said.
At the arena for the SmackDown taping, Amanda was quiet again… and Finn knew that she was still processing what Sariel had explained.
But he also knew she was still hurting and carefully rested his right hand on her back.
"It's one thing to make it believable for the viewers… it's another to flip out entirely. I read it over and over again, not once was he supposed to hit me last night." Amanda responded as she leaned against him when his arm wrapped around her shoulders. "Is it even worth holding onto… whatever's left between him and me? I don't even know when things went wrong beyond fixing."
"Sometimes we don't… but whatever does happen, it'll be over soon." Finn said, his hand lightly squeezing on and massaging her upper arm.
Amanda still felt tired and closed her eyes, Finn pulling the blanket over her.
At the same time, Sariel was walking around when she overheard Hunter and Stephanie.
"I'm just about fed up with him, hurting her like that!" Hunter growled, Stephanie resting her hands on his shoulders.
"He was… being strange earlier." Stephanie said, Hunter looking at her.
"How exactly, what happened?" Hunter asked.
"Seth had said that some angel… killed him." Stephanie answered before both noticed Sariel.
"I've apologised a lot for that already." Sariel said, a bit quietly.
"That's more than he apologized for how he treated Mandy… he needs to get over his petty jealousy." Hunter said.
"He feels threatened…" Sariel replied.
"But Finn hasn't done anything to him, all he and Mandy did was become friends… Seth doesn't show any hostility to any of her other friends." Stephanie said.
"Were there any other incidents recently?" Sariel asked.