A/N: Samuel, Devan and Kenneth are KiranTheRay's characters, please read The Story Of Samuel, The Free or The Monster

WWE NXT Taping, 10/16/15 set to air 10/23/15, Amanda vs Asuka…

"Hell of a match between these two well respected wrestlers- oh my damn!" Tom Phillips said, exclaiming the last part as at that moment, Amanda and Asuka fell to the mat after their heads collided.

"Asuka, you alright?! I'm sorry!" Amanda responded, Asuka nodding and apologizing as well but she wasn't feeling pain at the moment and neither was Amanda… but Amanda did feel one hand resting on her left side and the other hand under her neck and saw Finn.

"Keep her still, Finn." Asuka said quietly.

Finn nodded and held Amanda still, helping her to the paramedics… but Amanda insisted on standing on her feet and Finn knew that's how she was at times.

In the backstage area, Amanda started to relax as she felt a gel pack pressed onto the side of her head and felt Finn's hand rubbing up and down her back.

"Now I know how Adam and Dave felt after their heads collided seven years ago…" Amanda said quietly.

"You also said that Dave got into a lot of trouble for using a razor blade and cutting his forehead open." Finn responded.

"Yeah, he did… damn, that hurt." Amanda replied, letting Finn pull her closer for a hug as he massaged the back of her head.

Amanda went to go clear her mind and sat down on a crate in the hallway, closing her eyes… when she felt a gust of air in front of her face and opened her eyes, seeing a flash of purple and immediately acting with by slamming her head forward.

Samuel screamed as he fell to a knee, readjusting the contact lense in his right eye before he stood up and saw Finn run over to them and put himself in front of Amanda.

"Easy, Balor. She's not in any danger, I just gave her a bit of a jumpscare. I'm sorry I did… Mandy, you okay?" Samuel responded.

"Yeah…" Amanda said as she rubbed her aching head, Finn rubbing his hand up and down her back…

Present time…

"I slammed my own head into Samuel's? You're kidding…" Amanda said after Finn explained the part of last night that Amanda didn't remember.

"Nope, you hit him hard too… that's what exacerbated the headache." Finn responded, placing a cold gel pack onto Amanda's bruised eye and Amanda feeling it comfort her and take the soreness away.

She could feel his warm right hand resting on her left side, his thumb rubbing back and forth against it and Amanda resting her left hand onto his right one… Amanda felt her face heat up slightly and knew she was blushing.

"Does it look worse than it is? I haven't… gotten a chance to look in the mirror." Amanda said.

"Here." Finn replied, bringing up the selfie camera on his phone and holding it in front of Amanda's face, letting her be the judge.

"Not as bad as past injuries. I ended up breaking the orbital socket once when my head collided with Seth's about five years ago." Amanda said.

"That must've pissed him off." Finn responded.

"Not really… he was worried that he had accidentally killed me, it took them about ten minutes to keep me awake and alert." Amanda replied. "I wasn't sure how to mention it but I noticed something strange when I found the replay of the match." She said before finding her own phone and replaying the part of her and Asuka's match before pausing it at 1 minute and 32 seconds. "See how that woman in the crowd and Samuel look directly at each other?" She asked, Finn seeing how Samuel reacted to seeing the woman.

"Like he knows her and… it's bad that she's there." Finn answered.

"How they know each other, it could be any way… but she also looked like she was trying to keep an eye on him.I think he was trying to tell us last night but I just saw the contact lenses after opening my eyes and was still feeling the adrenaline." Amanda said, rubbing the sore part of her head.

At the same time in the lobby, Samuel was keeping an ice pack on his head when Aestrid walked over to him.

"Oh damn, Mandy doesn't fuck around." Aestrid said after moving the ice pack, seeing the reddish purple bruise Samuel had.

"No she doesn't… only went to tell her and Finn about Natasha and nearly got my skull cracked. Who uses their head as a weapon in this industry nowadays?" Samuel responded.

"The desperate… with no other resort. And even if she hadn't done that… who Natasha is can be pretty chilling when you're new to it." Aestrid replied.

"Yeah, that's true. It just worries me a bit that Mandy's still using moves like that with her neurological health history." Samuel responded.

"Samuel, she's always been a 'throw caution out the window' kind of person." Aestrid said.

"Yeah. It's better that she's getting opponents who won't bite her, scratch her eyes or try to rip her hair out. Alexa fights like a highschool girl or a bully on the playground." Samuel replied.

"She fights in the style that mirrors herself… bitchfight." Aestrid added.

"Yep… aw, fuck." Samuel said, muttering the last part as both heard Alicia and Wade arguing and left. Reaching the fourth floor, Aestrid knocked on the door.

"Ace, is that you?" Amanda asked.

"Yep. Samuel's here too." Aestrid answered, Amanda opening the door after tying her robe closed and Aestrid hissing slightly when she saw the bruise.

"It looks worse than it is." Amanda said after letting them in and closing the door, her and Samuel hugging. "Sorry about last night." She said after they let go.

"It's alright, Tiny, I've had worse hits to the head." Samuel replied, lightly cupping Amanda's jaw and examining the bruise.

"Sam? It's not broken again." Amanda said, Samuel dropping his hand. "I saw the replay… who is she? She looked a little startled when you shouted "Mama, we all go to hell!" but that's just your on screen character." She said after a few seconds.

"Because Hell is where she's from." Samuel answered, Amanda looking confused and a bit startled. "It's hard to grasp exactly, but… you play the Demon Mistress, well she's the Demon Princess. Daughter of the big boss down below."

"Was she looking for someone at the arena last night-" Amanda started to ask, yelping slightly when Samuel carefully placed his thumb and index finger on the bruised part of her face.

"Sort of… sorry about that, just making sure it's still there." Samuel answered.

"I already said it's not broken." Amanda said as Finn handed her another gel pack and she put it on her eye. "John is gonna lose his fucking mind when he sees this." She muttered.

"Yeah he is, how well can you hide it?" Samuel responded.

"I've hidden bruises before, I can easily hide it." Amanda answered.

"And to answer your question… someone was looking for Natasha, not the other way around. She's good at hiding though." Samuel said.

"Family looking for her?" Finn asked.

"In a sense." Samuel answered.

At Full Sail University for the second taping once they were ready for the day, Amanda glanced in the mirror again… it hadn't taken much makeup to hide her injury but she looked up as the door opened and saw Hunter.

"Maybe putting you in a match with Asuka wasn't such a good idea." Hunter said.

"It was a mistimed accident, we both went for the same move and our heads collided… is she alright?" Amanda replied.

"Yeah, she's alright… and Samuel told me about Natasha, explained how he knows her." Hunter answered.

"Hunter?" Amanda responded, Hunter looking right at her. "Are we all in some sort of danger that Samuel's not telling us?"

"Okay, this will be a very brief outline because there's enough to it to fill a small novel…" Hunter warned before he began to explain. "Natasha is the princess of the underworld, hell, whatever you want to call it, I believe Samuel told you that. It's obvious who her dad is, but when she was young another demon pulled a stunt and murdered the queen, Natasha's mother. Now he seems to believe that if he can kill Natasha or capture her, he can force his way to the throne."

Amanda took a deep breath and looked at Hunter.

"Lorka." Amanda said, Hunter turning startled. "I had this nightmare that kept switching back and forth between Natasha attacking me and Lorka attacking me… and then trying to kill Natasha when she was a newborn. And in the last part, Natasha asked if this is what happens in my nightmares…" She explained, Hunter getting the visibly shaken brunette to sit down. "Finn, I know you're out there… I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier." She said before the door opened and Finn walked in and crouched down, pulling her into his arms and seeing the scars on her left arm.

He had seen them before countless times, knew how she had been yanked out of her bedroom window when she was 14… but he didn't know by who.

Amanda looked at both of them and took a deep breath.

"I didn't sleep for two nights after that…" Amanda started to explain.