Meanwhile…
"Alright, alright! Keep your pants on!" Dean yells, unlocking and opening the door and letting Seth in. "What did she say?" He asks after closing the door.
"Mandy didn't say anything about it!" Seth says.
"Did you talk to Finn?" Dean asks.
"He told me to go back home!" Seth says.
"Then who was there?" Dean asks.
"Mandy and Finn in their room, then this random 40s lawyer looking guy and a tattooed girl with a switchblade or something." Seth says.
"Well, you never know who's staying next door." Dean says, shuffling his left foot back and forth and evoking a scream before both jumped back.
"Damn you!" Bayley says angrily after climbing out from under the bed, her mouth bleeding.
"Sorry, Bayley." Dean says, the three hearing more footsteps and seeing three men in the now open doorway.
"Damn, Gin, I told you not to panic beforehand!" One of them says, examining the broken door handle.
"Shut it, Ty! She screamed like she was being killed!" Gin says.
"Ha, dude thought he was back in the hood, didn't he?" Wayne says.
"The hell is going on here?!" Bayley asks, Dean pressing a napkin to her mouth.
"Any of you seen JJ and Val?" Ty asks.
"If you mean the lawyer and the knife freak, 3 floors up." Seth says.
"Hey, you call the girl a freak, you're gonna get a whopping over yo ass pal!" Ty says.
"Calm your ass down, Rollins! Damn, no wonder Mandy went somewhere else to crash, you, Dean and Roman drive the poor girl crazy!" Bayley says.
"Small, 25, long brown hair?" Ty asks.
"Yep, that's her." Dean says.
"Then no wonder Val found her way there." Gin says, Wayne nodding in agreement.
"We're kind of a crazy bunch, all of us. Mandy's repressed wild side is now out." Dean says.
"Those times, I thought they were over with." Seth says, seeing a text from Roman.
'Really?! You couldn't wait til you're healed up to go hassling Mandy?!'
'What'd she tell you? Or did you talk to one of the ones outside the room?' Seth replies.
'One of them, Val, told me you woke them up with your yelling.' Roman replies.
'I did do that and Val's the girl with the knife right?' Seth replies.
'Yep, which is why I kept myself calm… she's scarier than Mandy.' Roman replies.
"Is he saying that Val's scarier than your friend?" Ty asks.
"Yeah. Mandy can be damn scary though, she smashed a beer bottle once and tried to cut me with it after I accidentally punched her." Seth says.
"Sounds like something Val did once… except she went for the throat and the guy was her punk ass uncle." Ty says.
"Damn… and I thought my family was messed up." Dean says.
"Absent father?" Ty asks, Dean nodding.
"Was finally able to get my mother out of the rough neighborhood she raised me in, she's living in a nicer place nowadays." Dean says.
"Like all of us really. We got out of the hood where murder was a weekly occurrence, once we were set up again we started helping others do the same, either get out of the hood or at least out of the rough part of it, the part where debt and loan sharks controlled your life." Gin says.
"People should be able to live their lives without that hanging over their heads." Bayley says, Ty examining her mouth once she threw the tissue away. "How bad?" She asks.
"Uh… don't pull that tooth and it should set itself back, fix itself. Other than that, you're fine." Ty says.
The group met up with JJ, Val, Amanda and Finn, who were in the lobby and Val's eyes widened when Amanda told her about the biting incident from last night's match that left her with stitches.
"Damn!" Val says.
"Yep, Alexa can get mean when she resorts to cheating in her matches." Amanda says.
"Sounds like she goes by the 'rules' my dad taught me about fighting. One rule; there are none." Val says.
"I've done that too but it was more or less pretending to get hit with a chair while the referee had his back to us… picked that up from one of my mentors." Amanda says.
"Almost like playing dead in a gunfight to catch the opponent off-guard. Done that once, fell back and snagged my chest with the knife to draw some blood, then when the guy had is back to me, threw the knife right to the back of his knee." Val says.
"Playing dead… the one time it wasn't funny was when Eddie actually did get hit with the chair about 48 hours before he died." Amanda says, Finn lightly rubbing his hand up and down her back as she tried not to cry. "It's been a little over 10 years now… his heart just stopped beating." She says, Val handing her a tissue.
"You were 15 when it happened?" Val asks.
"Yeah… just started training to wrestle but I had known Eddie since I was 10. I grew up around his kids, the middle one is just a bit younger than me… I really wish I hadn't left him by himself but he said he'd be okay." Amanda says as she brushed her tears away.
JJ looked over his shoulder, seeing the others along with Seth, Dean and Bayley.
"Your crazy friends found ours." JJ says, Amanda seeing them.
"He really should be using his crutches…" Amanda says, seeing that Seth's right knee was still braced.
"Did she say crutches? What happened there?" Wayne asks.
"ACL, MCL and Meniscus tears about two months ago. I've been off the road since." Seth says, Wayne gritting his teeth together.
"I've felt two out of three there." Wayne says.
"Injuries hurt… but being off the road, that a bitter pill to swallow at times." Seth says, seeing Amanda trying to hide her tiredness.
It was a while before the others walked over, pulling chairs over from other tables.
"No fighting you two." Dean says, pointing to Seth and Amanda.
"No promises." Amanda says, Finn lightly squeezing her right thigh to calm her.
"Around each other 24/7, tempers are gonna flare." Bayley says.
"Yes but what happened to your mouth?" Finn asks.
"It met a certain someone's boot." Bayley says.
"What the hell, Dean?!" Amanda says after swatting Dean's right arm.
"How'd you-" Dean tries to ask.
"Only two people on the main roster go for the mouth, you and Owens." Amanda says, Val seeing a scar below Amanda's lower lip.
"How the hell did that happen?" Val asks, Amanda starting to explain…
Six months ago, NXT Show…
"Did you really have to beat him to a pulp?!" Amanda asks with a slight lisp as Finn pressed a cold washcloth to her mouth. "Hunter watches the shows every Wednesday, you know he'll be pissed about character being broken." She says.
"I think he'll be pissed off about your jaw nearly being broken instead of me breaking character. Now don't move your mouth." Finn says.
"It hurts but it's not as bad as it looks… or am I gonna need stitches?" Amanda says… before she saw someone watching from a distance, Ty walking over out of curiosity. "Uh… hi there." She says, Ty examining the split open lip and skin.
"Damn, lady. How are you still conscious?" Ty says, having been in the front row when Kevin punched Amanda after she tried to pull him off of Finn.
"Pure luck." Amanda says.
"Not the first time he's punched her in the mouth… he's got a habit of hurting her when she tries to calm his crazy ass down." Finn says, Ty seeing Kevin and Sami and hearing them arguing.
"That little bitch should've stayed outta it!" Kevin yells.
"Mandy was just protecting Finn, they look out for each other! They're friends!" Sami shouts.
"You really believe it's innocent friendship, you're…" Kevin yells, stopping when Ty walked over. "Who the hell are you?!" He demands.
"The definition of innocent friendship." Ty says before the next thing Kevin knew, he was on the floor with the locker behind him dented in. "'bout time, been a while since I did that." He says, pressing on and clicking his knuckles.
Amanda's hand was resting on Finn's, who had covered her eyes as Kevin and Sami looked at Ty.
"The fuck was that for?!" Kevin shouts, holding his bleeding nose.
"Maybe because 'the little bitch deserved it' perhaps? Now get outta here, 'little bitch'." Ty says.
Kevin stood up and left, Sami hearing Amanda and Finn trying not to laugh at Kevin getting his ass kicked.
"Those two your friends?" Ty asks.
"Yep. Tiny one in the leather shorts and tank top tends to cause mischief at times." Sami says, pointing out Amanda.
"Lots of us do in life." Ty says.