[Seth]
I was now doing some moves in the ring, getting some work done with Brock, I have to say he was a very strong guy and he isn't very vocal, I even called him selfish as he was only willing to throw power moves in his second run in the wwe. But now he was rehearsing the match with me, willing to do more than what he was willing to do.
"Hey Seth, let's stop now, we do it again tomorrow before the match, and to get through everything." He gives me an encouraging tap on the shoulder. "We are going to steal the show tomorrow, rest well brother." He fist bumped my chest and gets out of the ring.
I drank a bottle of water and stretches for a bit before getting out of the ring where I put on my old shield t-shirt. I took a look at my phone to see if anyone has called me and only sees Sasha texting me which I immediately took a look at it. "Watch your back?" I muttered to myself at what she wrote.
"Watch your back Seth." My back suffered a hit by Sasha instantly. "Told you to watch your back." She then takes my phone and taps onto something quickly. "I set a date to remind you about our gym session tomorrow since you ditched me twice." She glares at me and then hits my shoulder in jest. "Why didn't you tell me that Hunter is going to pair me up with you post wrestlemania, he thought that you would tell me, why didn't you tell me?" She growls at me as she pulls me out of the performance centre area.
"I was going to break it to you at night time during the concert, I didn't know Hunter would let you know so quickly." I tried defending myself as I took some fresh pair of clothing out from my duffle bag. "Has he told you everything?" That was what I wanted to know as I looked around to see if there was anyone who was listening in.
"He told me to ask you, the only thing he told me now is you have been bugging him to try to get us paired up for the last 7-8 months." She hits me again. "Why didn't you tell me you wanted to work with me, I would have come with you to find Papa Hunter and beg him with you." She shows me an angry pouting face for me to see. "I will do this till you give me a good explanation why." She continues making the same face for me to see. That is how she is like, she would makes all kind of faces to either annoy me or make me laugh.
"I don't know if you would be receptive of working with me anyway, that why I didn't tell you." He said as he walks to the showering area while she followed me showing the same face. "And you had a program with Bayley and you are going to win the tag titles with her, I wouldn't want you to lose that chance of being champions with her." I tried defending myself while trying to suppress a smile at that look she was giving me. "Alright alright, next time if I have any creative input about you, I tell you first and we think of a plan to tell Hunter, is that okay with you now?" I half begged her as I wanted to shower and I didn't want her to follow me inside.
"Good, I wait for you at the car later, don't take too long." She pushes me into the bathroom. "If you make me wait more than half an hour, I will come in and pull you out and we both lose our push." She shows me her tongue before leaving.
….
We were now at a café having some food and discussing how our upcoming partnership will be like and how are we going to create more buzz for it. "We do this tonight since Hunter was more than agreeable to it, you do your standard Facebook Q&A, I jump in and you get the people who are watching to ask me some questions whether we will be a good pairing together." I continued pondering about if we should do something extra. "We need to add extra stuff for sure so that we create more buzz." My mind was stuck on what needed to be done.
"Simple, we start by doing it now." She basically takes her phone out. "You be in my Instagram story right now, which would create some buzz, let people think what we are up to." She then taps on her phone to video me. "Look at this guys, Seth Rollins, the Mr Main Event is treating me lunch for always ditching me when I asked him to be my gym partner." She then moves towards me and shows a face at the camera with me. "Yes this loser is going to treat me." She shows a smile.
"You are being rude Sasha." I made a face back at her and then made grunting noises at her. "Look guys, she is so rude all the time with me, that's why I'm ditching her." I then took the phone from her and films her pouting face. "And she would always resort to this to make me give in to treat her, don't I have a tough life guys?" I stopped the video and uploaded it to Instagram for her. "Alright done and dusted, I will treat you anyway, so eat what you like."
She smacks my hands and snorts at me. "No, I will treat you this time." She checks her wallet and then looks back at me. "You been always paying for me whenever we are eating together, it's time for me to pay, and don't try your usual stun of throwing my wallet away so that you can make the payment." She warns me. "If you try, I will kick your ass."
"Okay okay, you pay this time, I won't do that stunt again." I promised her I won't do anything like this to her.
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It was at night time where we were at a concert and Sasha is now doing another IG story with me. "Whats up peeps, this is me and Seth at the SXSW concert, Seth, say hi to my fans watching." She leaned in close to me.
"Hey guys, look at what Sasha made me wear." I showed what I was wearing. "Some weird caps she forced me to wear and this ugly looking shirt she made me wear so that we be in matching shirt." I purposely look disgusted on the camera while she made snorting faces. "And she's going to resort to snorting at me so I agree with her, catch ya later when we continue arguing people."
After she stops filming, she pushes me on the head. "Baddy, we both agreed on the outfits anyway." She sits down beside me and takes a sip of her soda. "It's nice though to be hanging out with nice people who don't lie to me." She adjusts her specs and looks around. "And this place is rocking I have to say." She then takes her phone and leans in to me. "Selfie bro." She makes an angry face at me while I shows the I'm innocent face to her. "That's so funny, and people are already commenting on us, asking if we are dating? #Sashaballinsforever, #Sasha&Sethforever, #BossArchitectconnection." She smiles as she looks further at the tweets. "My fellow horsewomen are all bombing me now." She shows me the text.
Charlotte: "No wonder you didn't want to go clubbing with us, you are at SXSW with Seth, and you didn't bother to invite us! ? ﾟﾘﾡ
Becky: We are sisters for life and you do this to us, I'm heartbroken! No longer sisters….Jkjk, have fun with Seth!
Bayley: Tell Seth I will skin him from head to toe for stealing my BFF, he better bring you back in one piece or I make sure I tear him to pieces at MetLife stadium.
I laughed out reading the text they sent and looks back at her. "Looks like we are all in trouble." I placed one of my arms around her shoulders and looks around. "Shall we take a real selfie this time?" I took my camera out and prepares for a selfie. "You can't say no to mine since I been letting you take IG videos of me."
"Did I say I would say no?!" She hits me in jest before smiling at the camera showing a peace sign. I snapped the photo and she took the phone away where she decides to send it to her own phone. "Let me type some stuff out for you to send to IG first." She types something which shows. "#Guessthecaption." She then sends it before giving me back the phone and then using hers. "I'm going to send that pic to my girls group and let them see.
Soon, there was a fight involving a group of people and we didn't want to be a part of it so we left the place earlier, disappointed that we couldn't catch the climax of the concert, but still I wasn't that dampened as I could still accompany her. "So sad we couldn't finish the concert because some people couldn't keep their cool, argh, I hate them so much." She complains as she keeps her phone in the pocket.
"We still have many more concerts that we can attend, it's just bad luck that we couldn't enjoy this." I reasoned with her. "Shall we grab supper somewhere before I send you back to your girls?" I suggested as I wanted to spend more time talking with her.
"Sure, let's go, I want some pizza and I know where the place." She says as she pulls me towards the direction of the carpark. "And I will drive you there, you be the passenger and I will not hear no as a answer." She snorts at me on purpose and pulls me with her.
"Seth?" A familiar voice calls me out.
I turned around and froze. "Zahra, what are you doing here?" It was my ex-girlfriend whom broke my heart deeply and someone who I didn't want to see. "What do you want?"
"Still so hostile and still can't get over me Seth, can't you?" She walks towards me and Sasha. "I'm just here to say hi and to show you this." She shows the diamond ring on her finger. "At least he pampers me and helps me whenever I need, you can't compare shit to him."
Before I could say anything, Sasha stood in front of me. "What your issue bitch? Here to boast, don't you forget, it wasn't him that got you fired, it was your discipline issues anyway, and given you need to show off shows how classless you are Zahra, but oh wait, do you even have class in the first place?" She sneers at Zahra. "Do not annoy him any further or you get it from me." Her glares were like daggers
"Who do you think you are Sasha, what rights do you have to interfere about my affairs with Seth?" Zahra challenged Sasha quickly.
Sasha shows a devilish smile and just holds my hands. "That's something for me to know and something for you to find out, you lil bitch." She then looks at me and smile. "Come babe, let's go, we shouldn't bother about bitches." She pulls me with her and says something to me softly. "Continue this pose till we reach the car, let her see it and she will stop."
"Okay, thanks for standing up for me Sash." I gave my thanks to him and just smiles as I walked with her hand in hand, loving the short moment I could share with her.
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[Sasha]
It was wrestlemania weekend now and I was stretching out preparing for my match which is still a few hours. I was looking at the stadium and smiling as I will be performing in front of at least 80,000 fans and millions more watching on the WWE network. It was frustrating not to be in the main event with Becky/Charlotte/Ronda, but at least I get to complete on the mid card.
Just then, I got a phone call from Hunter and I quickly picked up. "Sasha, there's been an emergency, I need you to come to the locker room right now, its urgent." He gets off the line.
After I rushed to the locker room, I see Becky holding onto her right knee and she was grimacing. "What happened to you Becky?" I looked at Hunter and then sees him sighing. "What happened here?"
"Becky injured her knee as a production crate fell onto her, causing her to injure her knee, she's definitely out for tonight match." Hunter informed me as he looks at Becky. "You have to pull double duty tonight, I'm booking you to be Becky replacement for the main event tonight and you are going to win the title off Ronda by making her tap out by using Becky finisher."
I was just shell-shocked by the announcement. "But I haven't rehearsed with Charlotte and Ronda, what is my role, what am I supposed to do with them and what about my tag team title match?" I was just in a state of anxiety and I didn't know what to do.
"Don't worry, go talk to Fit Finlay now, he will tell you what to do, you have 2hrs to rehearse for your match with Ronda and Charlotte, go with them, don't worry, everything will be fine, you are the best we have and you are the best when it's coming to improvisation." He pats me on the shoulder and brings me away to find Charlotte and Ronda.
Hours later, I was just sitting at one of the production crate, all jittery and nervous as I have to do a second match at Wrestlemania. I am so scared because I didn't know whether I be able to live up to being Becky replacement, I'm so worried that I would screw up, I would botch a move. My match was soon, just 60 minutes or more, it will be the main event.
Seth was walking past me when he sees me. "Hey Sasha, congratulations on being in the main….event." He stops his words and sees me hyperventilating. "What's wrong, why are you like this?" He holds onto my hands. "Are you scared of something?"
"I am!" I lashed out. "I'm so fucking scared Seth, I am so scared. "I am afraid I botch the moves in the match later, I'm afraid I might hurt Ronda or Charlotte, I afraid I won't live up to the match expectations or to Becky one? I am just so scared." I hit him in frustration, I was just so scared.
I was pulled into a hug immediately. "Don't be scared Sasha, you are one of the best wrestler in the world, you are the best we have, don't worry about it, everything will be fine, you are going to get the loudest pop for sure, you are the best, I have faith in you." I felt so relaxed in his arms, and what he said got me out of my anxiety issues. "Come now, you said you will watch my match from the gorilla position and be the first to congratulate me." He drags me to the gorilla position and then says something for me to hear. "The Sasha Banks I know is always able to beat anything that comes her way, today is same thing, you will be able to do it, you are the best Sasha, you can do it, I know you can, give it your all, don't worry about anything, everything will fall in place for you babe." He hugs me to assure me that everything will be fine.
"Seth you are going to be up in about 2 minutes, Brock is doing his entrance, you are next." Triple H calls out for him.
"Alright, I'm coming now, he gets ahead behind the curtain, waiting to make his entrance. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath in.
I walked towards him as I wanted to wish him all the best and as well as wanted him to come out of the match unscathed. "Seth, Be careful." I said to him softly and I decided to do something that I didn't expect myself. I gave him a peck on the cheeks. "Good luck Seth, I be here waiting for you."
He smiles at me and holds my hands. "I will come to you first." He then leaves me and gets out to do his entrance.
I watched how the match unfolded, countless near falls, and many big spots and bumps. Seth was thrown like a ragdoll throughout the match against Brock, but came back hitting all his big moves, hitting the pedigrees and giving Brock the falcon arrow which he kicked out still. As I watched on, I see Brock countering Seth attempt to curb stomp him and gave him a F5 for all his trouble. I knew instantly Seth would lose.
But before the referee could count to three, he kicked out, causing the audience to pop for him loudly. It got Brock frustrated and he took a chair to the ring and got Seth up to his feet. "Stay down!" Brock shouted and lifted him up, preparing to do the F5 on the chair. As Brock prepare to threw him down to the chair for the F5, Seth countered it into a DDT on the chair, which didn't get Brock down, but it gave Rollins the chance for a pedigree, which got him down on both knees. Seth runs in to curb stomp him onto the chair, which got him down. Seth covers it and the referee started counting. "1…2….3!" The bell rang and I jumped for joy immediately, I didn't expect Seth to be winning it, he told me he would be losing, he said he would only win it the next night, he lied to me. I then heard the announcer shouting out. "HERE IS YOUR WINNER, AND THE….NEW….WWE….UNIVERSAL….CHAMPION….SETH ROLLINS!"
Seth got up threw all the chairs down in excitement before grabbing the title and falling on the knees. He was overwhelmed as he has finally gotten the title. After all the celebration he did in the ring, he enters the gorilla position and was congratulated by almost the big bosses, who all tapped him for one hell of a match. "Great match Seth, really great match, you executed everything to perfection." Hunter gave him a celebratory hug and taps his belt. "Great job, you deserve it champ."
Seth nods in joy and walks to Brock to hug him. "Thank you Brock, thank you so much for being willing to drop this title to me and thank you for working with me on all the spots and being cooperative, thank you." He was grateful to Brock for putting on such a good match with him.
"It's your moment now kid, enjoy it, and thank you for making me look so good, thank you Seth, kudos to you for all the big moments." He taps Seth on the shoulder before walking away.
Seth was showered with congratulatory hugs everywhere by everyone as I looked at him, all smiles aplenty. He looks at me and shows the title for me to see. "Hey Sasha, sorry I lied to you….I won it."
The only thing I did was to jump onto him for a bear hug. "That was one hell of a match Seth, you executed everything to perfection and you lied to me, I hate you." I hit him in jest as I broke the hug. "Now you are putting more pressure on me to outperform you."
"You be doing it for sure, I am sure you will." Seth said as he holds onto my hands. "I be here waiting for you and seeing you win the title, for sure, you will be remembered for eternity as the women that slew Ronda Rousey." He encourages me and just pulls me for a hug. "Take a deep breath now and everything will be fine, you will be good, you are going to have the best match Wrestlemania has to offer this year, you will do good Sasha, I have confidence in you, and you will be the best." He lets go of me. "I be here watching you, you will do it Sasha."
30 minutes later, after countless moves each of us did, I was pulling myself up to the turnbuckle seeing Ronda stuck in a figure 8 submission hold. I sold all the pain I received earlier from both of them, including a massive table spot where I was power bombed onto an announcement table. I got myself up to the third rope and landed a frog splash onto both Ronda and Charlotte, causing the hold to be broken. I placed my arm onto Ronda for the pin. "1…..2….." Ronda kicked out at the last possible second, and the match continues.
All of us got up and swung our fists at each other till I dodged a hard right from Ronda which hit Charlotte instead, causing her to go down to the mat and I took the opportunity to give Ronda a backstabber-Banks statement combo, getting her into the submission hold, she was about to tap out when Charlotte kicks me away and tries her signature figure 8 submission hold. Ronda reversed it quickly into her arm bar which she connects it quickly. That would have made anyone tap out but not Charlotte and she tried fighting to the ropes which she struggled to before Ronda lets go of the hold to pull her back to lock in the arm bar again.
Before she could do so, I did the backstabber on her and attempted to do the banks statement on her, but she reversed it into a arm bar hold which I recountered it. It was a sequence of countering each other submission before I got up and landed a kick onto her abdomen and gives her another backstabber before getting into the banks statement. I locked it in and she managed to reverse it at the last second before getting me into her arm bar, which I then countered into an arm bar of my own, which is basically Becky finish hold, and I got it locked in the middle of the ring.
"TAP RONDA TAP OUT NOW!" I shouted out loudly as I pulled her arm so hard that she was grimacing in pain. She took it all she could and soon there was slowly no response as her free arm was beginning to give out on her.
She taps out weakly just as Charlotte attempted to lung onto me to disrupt the finish, but the bell rang, and I fell to the mat, exhausted and realizing what just happened. Soon I heard these words, the same words that I heard earlier for Seth. "HERE IS YOUR WINNER AND THE NEW….RAW….WOMAN CHAMPION…..SASHA…BANKS!" My music played afterwards to the crowd who was giving me the biggest pop I could ever hear.
I milked it all in as I sold the pain from the spots I got from the match, and took the title from the referee, which made me cry for real because after a long year, I have gotten back the woman championship. I got up and began crying, lifting the title up high.
Right just then, Bayley rushed into the ring and hugs me immediately. "OH MY GOD SASHA, YOU WON, YOU WON, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ARE THE CHAMPION NOW!" She exclaims loudly as she hugs me. "What a hell of a match you had with them, the best ever I seen, you are so deserving as the best in the world Sasha." Bayley praised me.
"Thank you Bayley, thank you." I could only cry out in her arms as I felt someone getting into the ring, and it was Becky. I brought her in for a hug and cried out. "Becky I'm so sorry, this should be your moment, not mine, I took your moment away from you, I'm sorry, I am sorry." I cried out in her arms as she hugged me.
She shook her head as she hugged me. "No you didn't take anything away, you earned this moment, you earned it big time Sasha, you deserved it." She was as emotional as I am, holding back tears as she hugged me. "That was a fitting end, you used my finisher to make her tap out the way I was going to do to her, that all it matters for me." She burst.
Charlotte got up walks towards me, hugging me on the spot. "Sasha, this is your moment, you deserve it, you made it awesome, you are the best among us, you deserve it, this is your moment." She pats the title I was holding.
I shook my head and pointed out the 4 horsewomen sign. "No this is our time, all of us deserves this." I showed it to all of them. "We deserve this, lets show them." I told them to show our trademark to the crowd.
And we did, showing the 4 horsewoman sign to the audience and they popped even louder.
After all the celebration we did in the ring, all of us got into the gorilla position, where Ronda came across to hug me. "That was one hella fight you gave to me Sasha, thank you for such a great match, I might have lost, but I certainly didn't mind dropping it to you given how you made me look so good in front of those people. That was so awesome, after my break, we are going to get our rematch, am I right?" She said as she broke the hug.
"You are on." I then scanned the room and walks towards Hunter and hugs him quickly. "Thank you Hunter, thank you so much for choosing me." I broke the hug and then hugged Vince. "Thank you Boss, thank you for having faith in me."
"You damn sure deserve it after such a phenomenal match you did, you deserve it, enjoy it now." He gets out of the gorilla position first.
"Alright Sasha, get some rest now, you are going to be interviewed with Seth later for the morning show at Times Square." Hunter pats me on the shoulder. "Get a shower, get some rest and be ready for the interview later." He walks out of the gorilla position quickly.
I looked around the room while thanking everyone, but couldn't find Seth anywhere. I decided to get all the hugs done as quickly as I could before walking to the locker room area, where I got a quick shower before packing my stuff. I was quickly led to a big production bus where I rarely took and the moment I got in, I found who I wanted to find. "Hey Sasha, I have been waiting for you for a long time." He was in a t shirt and long pants. "Come here now." He show his hands out for me.
"SETH!" I ran right to his arms. "Thank you for everything you did for me." I snuggled closer to his arms. "I love you, thank you so much." I began tearing up.
Alright here is chapter 2, tell me how you guys feel about it, after reading this, please do so I know which path I can continue on with this story