Ready for the day, Amanda unlocked the door and let Sami and Zosha in, setting the bat aside.
"He's in his own room." Sami says.
"Good… then he can chill out." Amanda says, absentmindedly tugging on her shoelaces and Zosha noticing the converse sneakers stopped just below the knee… and noticing aged scars on Amanda's knees that she guessed were from childhood wear and tear, smiling as the small scars resembled the ones Jorra had. "Lost in thought there?" She asks.
"Somewhat… you were more of a tomboy as a kid, weren't you?" Zosha says, asking the last part.
"Grew up with 5 older brothers, tends to be part of life with them… plus a few scrapes from exposed turnbuckles. Better the knees than the head though." Amanda says, Zosha grimacing in sympathy.
"When was the last time…" Zosha starts to ask, trailing off and tracing a finger along the most recent of the scars.
12/16/15, NXT: Takeover: London…
"Damn Emma, that twisted bitch!" Amanda growled, Finn tugging her left kneepad down… and seeing what he already knew. "Is part of the turnbuckle lodged in the wound?" She asks when she saw him grab a pair of tweezers.
"Try not to scream…" Finn says, Amanda's eyes snapping shut as the metal was removed from her knee and Sami ran to them.
"Oh damn… how does part of a turnbuckle rip right through its cover and lodge into someone's knee?!" Sami says, horrified.
"Just when I thought I've injured myself every way possible in that ring…" Amanda mutters as Finn tied his shirt around her knee like a tourniquet and Sami went to go find a trainer… but crashed into someone and both fell.
"Watch where you're going!" Jorra snapped at him.
"Sorry about that." Sami says, helping Jorra up.
"Sorry for snapping at you… how's your friend holding up?" Jorra says, pointing towards Amanda.
"Trying not to scream… she's tough but everyone has a breaking point." Sami says, heading off to find a trainer as Jorra listened closer to Amanda's thoughts.
'Every time we're here, a brawl either breaks out or one of us gets badly harmed!'
Present time…
"She's not kidding either, the same thing happened back in May when we were at the O2 Arena… of course, the turnbuckle stayed intact." Sami says.
"The guys who set up the ring had to replace the little metal parts… they were starting to rust after 15 years." Amanda says.
"The guy you ran into, did he tell you his name?" Zosha asks after turning to Sami.
"No… why?" Sami says.
"I have a feeling he's someone I know… and not someone you want to." Zosha says.
"We haven't seen him since then." Finn says, Amanda sorting out her ring gear and Zosha noticing the kneepads were a bit thicker.
And then a flash of black and red caught Zosha's attention and Zosha looked closer, noticing the shorts… before noticing a yellow note that had 'Find Enzo later. RE: Prank on Owens.'.
"What kind of prank?" Zosha asks.
"Anything that can be thought of, knowing what Enzo's most likely found." Amanda says, zipping the duffel bag up.
Later at the arena, Amanda was in her ring gear and had a Balor Club hoodie zipped up halfway to block out the cold A/C as Zosha and the others walked in.
"No sign of this guy?" Amanda asks, stretching her left leg and cringing as she heard a 'crick' echo from her knee.
"Quiet so far…" Zosha says.
"It's still early, just watch out when the fans start crowding outside the arena around 3:30 like they usually do." Amanda says.
"Really?" Zosha asks.
"Sometimes the crowds start earlier. We were in Texas for Wrestlemania, fans were camping out when we got there at 9:30 in the morning." Sami says.
"101,763 of them too." Finn says, Zosha looking at him in disbelief.
"You're kidding." Zosha says with a slight laugh.
"Nope. Beat the previous record, 93,173, which was set at Wrestlemania 3 although every year as of late, the attendance number gets called into question." Amanda says, her phone chiming and her and Finn kissing before she left the locker room.
Amanda rushed down the hallway and kicked the door to Enzo and Cass's locker room open, ducking when Jorra fired his laser gun at her.
"Take that thing from him, he's gone serial killer crazy!" Enzo screams, Amanda lunging at Jorra and punching him after disarming him.
"No one fucking hurts my dysfunctional family!" Amanda yells, punching Jorra again and her middle finger on her right hand bleeding, Jorra pulling himself up as the others ran into the room.
"He keeps asking for someone named Zosha!" Cass says, helping Enzo up as Finn pressed a paper towel to Amanda's injured finger.
"The hell did you do you pint sized prick, you stab her?!" Finn asks angrily.
"His teeth feel like knives." Enzo says, bandaging a bite on his left leg.
"Where's Zosha?!" Jorra demands.
"You terrorized my friends and then shot at me, you're not getting an answer from us!" Amanda says, her and the others leaving.
Zosha looked up when the door opened… and her eyes widened in horror when she saw Amanda's finger bleeding.
"You hit him right in the mouth, didn't you?!" Zosha asks after getting a better look.
"Yeah, didn't see his teeth because his mouth was closed." Amanda says, Zosha finding her first aid kit that she salvaged from the ship.
"You're lucky you didn't sever it off." Zosha says, spraying some lidocaine into the wound before bandaging it.
"Has that happened to anyone who's punched one of your species?" Amanda asks.
"Forget that, Zorolians have actually adapted to have a much higher regeneration rate in their mouths because of how easily we can bite our tongues clean off. That should tell you." Zosha says.
"Ouch…" Amanda says, remembering the one time she got bitten and had to have five stitches put in her upper left leg.
"I'd demonstrate it to you but I get the feeling you're already squeamish enough. But I can grow an entire new tongue in about 10 minutes, a new tooth in about the same and repair ulcers and splits in less than a minute." Zosha says.
"Okay, enough mention of blood!" Enzo says.
Wandering around the arena, Seth grew increasingly bored and checked his phone, seeing no texts from Amanda.
"That scrawny little bitch! I'm gonna rip her skimpy black and red outfit off!" Jorra growled, Seth's head snapping up.
"Is she about 5'1", long dark hair tied back in a ponytail and hazel eyes?" Seth asks.
"Yeah, why-" Jorra starts to say, letting out a strangled yelp when Seth picked him up before screaming as Seth tossed him out the arena after opening the door.
"I see you near her again, I'll rip your damn head off!" Seth shouted before slamming the door closed.
He felt like he had already lost Amanda in an emotional sense… he didn't want to lose her physically.
Summer In The City by The Lovin Spoonful flooded through Amanda's earbuds as Finn snaked his arms around her waist and lightly trailed kisses up the back of her neck.
"And babe, don't you know it's a pity that the days can't be like the nights…" Finn sang softly.
"In the summer in the city, in the summer in the city…" Amanda sang, closing her eyes and letting a small moan slip out of her mouth when Finn unzipped her hoodie and removed it, his kisses continuing as his right arm wrapped around her waist and she leaned against him as his left hand drifted to her inner right thigh.
The door was locked as she turned to face him and they kissed as they held each other and he pinned her against the wall, her legs wrapping around his waist as he ran his fingers through her hair, both getting lost in it… until they were interrupted.
"I know what's going on in there!" Both heard and stopped, realising that Hunter had stopped by to talk to Amanda and overheard them.
"You… better go take care of that." Amanda says quietly, Finn realising that his ring trunks had gotten tighter and he was aroused to where it was painful.
The two let go after another kiss and Amanda went to talk to Hunter.
"Crazy last few weeks, huh? The walls have ears, Mandy." Hunter says, Amanda realising that Hunter had known since Summerslam.
But she didn't know if she and Finn were in for a lecture or in serious trouble.