A/N: Shoutout to Brookeworm for help with this, thank you.
"How the hell am I the problem when you're running around with him and people are already referring to you two as a married couple?!" Seth yelled.
"That photo was a forgery, do you see a ring on my finger?!" Amanda says, holding up her left hand. "There is a thing called Photoshop and crazies on Instagram, there's no secret marriage!" She says, lowering her hand and turning to leave, Seth stopping her.
"We need to talk about this, Mandy!" Seth says, the brunette facing him before seeing Natia, who looked like she was gonna beat him senseless.
"And we will when you're calmed down… Finn and I are leaving early, I have a surprise appearance tomorrow." Amanda says, yanking her arm out of Seth's grip and leaving.
It was as she reached the locker room that her phone chimed and she saw a missed call from Baron. She put the phone away and her mind began to wander as she felt Finn's arms wrap around her and him kissing her neck.
"I think at this point with how Seth is, we should run off and elope." Finn says quietly as Amanda turned to face him and stood up on her tiptoes to make up for the height difference and the two kissed.
She was sorely tempted to agree with him… but it would royally piss Seth off past the point of no return...
Tension rarely happened on SmackDown… but Baron knew it when he felt it as he watched the segment between Randy and Jinder.
His attempts to contact Amanda after she didn't answer her phone had him worried… and when he heard his phone chime, he looked at it.
'Get ready for an unexpected surprise, pal.'
Baron's head snapped towards the Tv when he saw the Bollywood Boyz and Jinder attack Randy… and then he jumped back when the all too familiar gong went off and the lights went out.
"What the hell?! Is The Deadman back for revenge?!" Bradshaw exclaimed as the commentary team tried to figure out what was going on.
The lights came back on and a small hooded figure was sat on the top turnbuckle, one of the Bollywood Boyz running at it but got kicked in the face before the figure jumped down and slammed the assailant into the turnbuckle. Within seconds, he was hoisted up there and the figure hit an inverted Demon's Destruction before climbing up and using the Swanton Bomb.
"It's an ambush in the ring, who the hell is that?!" Bradshaw yells as the other twin was hit with the 1916 DDT.
Jinder charged at it but once again, the small figure ducked and jumped up with an RKO, Randy seeing a flash of stormy blue grey nail polish as after the figure was up to the full height, the hood was removed and the fans went crazy.
"I'll be damned…" Randy says quietly.
"Holy hell! That's Raw's Demon Mistress, Mandy Balor!" Byron exclaimed as the fans chanted "Mrs. Balor!" and "Demon Mistress!" as Amanda helped Randy to his feet.
"Sorry about the impromptu drop by but I felt like you needed help out here, my crazy viper friend." Amanda says into the microphone after the two hugged for a few minutes and Jinder pulled himself up and started shouting at Amanda in his own native language, who turned around and gave him a hard slap across the face for good measure, Jinder reeling back. "I get the point, you think of me as a whore because of the way you were brought up, believing that women should be pure before marriage… America may be going to hell in some aspects such as our newest president but not in the ways you think, Jinder. I'm in love, it's not wrong to express it." She says, Jinder snatching the microphone from her.
"You've said the same thing about every other man you gave yourself to! What's so different about-" Jinder says before all three heard Finn's music blare through the arena and he headed out there and into the ring, taking the microphone.
"Hey." Randy says, all three turning to him and seeing him put the title on his shoulder. "Unlike you, Jinder, I have no problem with them. People change, Mandy… or Mrs. Balor as they like to call her, certainly has and for the better. There's nothing wrong with that, she's still seen as beautifully broken but she's put every piece back together… and you do not get to disrespect her or Finn like that." Randy says, Finn turning to Jinder.
"You don't know what's right for everyone, Mahal. You disrespect my girl by dragging up the past… you disrespect the Viper by trying to take his title. You want disrespect?!" Finn says before dropping the microphone and slamming his forearm into Jinder's head like Jinder did to him on Raw before the superstar shakeup.
"Well, I'm glad Mandy stood up for her friend and her future husband and has that same kind of bravery returned ten fold!" Byron says as the three left the ring area.
Backstage, 20 minutes later…
Amanda, AJ Styles and Randy Orton were all sitting on crates after Jinder and the Bollywood Boyz had left, talking to each other when Baron walked by… and stopped when he heard AJ say "Babydoll, it would piss him off much worse if you two ran off and eloped." and turned to the three.
"Seth being an ass again?" Baron asks as he and Amanda hug for a minute before letting go.
"Yeah. Hey, I've wanted to ask what's with the screaming you do during your matches, Thomas." Amanda says, calling Baron by his real name.
"Just to be intimidating. Is it giving you those damned migraines again?" Baron says, Amanda nodding. "Well if I didn't look at your little face so much, I wouldn't end up with heartburn." He says as a joke, evoking raucous laughter from AJ and Randy and Amanda lightly shoving the 6'8" lone wolf before burying her face into AJ's shoulder. "I'm just messing, kiddo." He says, ruffling her hair before helping her off the crate.
Amanda hissed slightly as her left knee twisted and a dull ache shot through it, knowing it was the old injury from a decade ago.
"You alright?" Randy asks.
"Yeah, I'm good." Amanda says before heading to the cafeteria and seeing John and Finn talking, a small smile on her face… before she ran over, jumped onto John's back and swiped his hat.
Finn laughed as he saw the siblings play fighting before pulling Amanda off and kissing her.
The whole fiasco with Seth was wearing down on her… it was good to get some peace from it.