Author's Note: Situations get deeper. The girls start to get lessons from their newest partner and try to save her. They start hoping for everything to turn out all right while Colton becomes absorbed in something other than wrestling. Sorry for no Crimson or Morgan POV this week. I wanted to get the chapter up so I could get on to Lockdown just a bit faster. This may be the only time you'll see a Colton POV though. I'm going to bring in Velvet's soon. Thanks to coolchic79260 for reviewing.

Disclaimer: I only own Athena, Devon, Colton, and the various other OCs that wonder about. Otherwise TNA has rights to their wrestlers and the wrestlers own themselves.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thursday April 7th, 2011 Backstage hallways (Athena's POV)~~~~~~~

I was doing a photo shoot. It was going back to basics for me. I looked at the clock and my eyes widened.

"I have to go." I said. They took one more picture and I hurried toward our locker room. Bad thing is that I have a habit of running into people. As proven when I ran into someone again. I still landed on my butt. You'd figure I'd have better balance. I looked up and my eyes widened.

"I'm so sorry." I said as I took his offered hand to help me up. I had just run into Scott Steiner.

"That's fine little lady why were you in such a rush?" He asked.

"My trainer will kick my butt if I'm late." I replied. I looked behind Scott and saw Tommy.

"Hi Tommy." I said. He nods to me.

"Who is your trainer?" He asked.

"Velvet Sky." I answered.

"Well I should let you go then." Scott said.

"I'm really sorry about running into you." I said one more time before I hurried over to our locker room. My heels tapping a staccato beat after me. I gracefully walk into the locker room and Velvet raises an eyebrow at me.

"I'm sorry. I was in a photo shoot and lost track of time." I said.

"No problem. I was just telling your sister I have a tag match today with Angelina against the Tag champs so I want the two of you to watch closely." Velvet said. I nodded my head.

"Okay." I said.

"I'll see you later." Velvet said as she walked out. I glanced over at Colton and rested my hands on my hips.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"No. I could handle you two but a new knock out throws me off." Colton said.

"You'll be fine you big baby." Devon said. I smiled and we settled down to watch the show. I was amazed at how smoothly Fortune was running now with Mikaela back up to speed. When the Knockout's match started I looked at Devon and she nodded her head.

"We'll be back." We said as we left. We were both in jeans and black tank tops. My heels were five inches while Devon was wearing sneakers so I was actually an inch taller than her. We stood at gorilla watching the match when Winter walked past us. Devon and I exchanged looks and hit the ramp. We knocked Winter down to the ramp and realized how stupid an idea that was.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Devon's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Why were we sticking our noses in something like this I didn't understand. Then we had done something completely stupid and taken out Winter. Which had Angelina had coming after us but we stepped out of the way and she picked Winter up and left. Athena and I went down the ramp to stand by Velvet.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I'm fine. What happened?" Velvet asked.

"Winter did something. I was afraid she'd come after us next though." I replied.

"We're going to have to do something about this." Velvet said. I nodded my head and we headed to the back.

"We'll figure this out and you can go back to being the Beautiful People with Angelina." Athena said. I looked at my sister. She wasn't making a promise we couldn't keep but something was going to stop us. I closed my eyes. It wasn't going to just be Winter but it could possibly be our hearts that would stop us. When Athena had gotten back from her dinner with Tommy she had giggled for about an hour before Colton threw a pillow at her telling her to shut up and go to sleep.

I wondered why she had been so energetic. I was tempted to talk to Velvet about it but Athena was here.

"I'll be back I need to go do something." Athena said. I nodded my head and looked at Velvet. Once my sister was out of earshot I took a deep breath.

"Velvet, can I ask you a question?" I asked.

"Sure." Velvet said.

"Athena went out to dinner last Thursday with Tommy and she came back all excited and giggled until Colton shut her up. Can you explain that?" I asked. Velvet chuckled.

"Have you guys never been in love before?" Velvet asked.

"No, it's been mostly flings and those have been complete jerks." I replied.

"I think your sister is in love but I could be wrong. What about you?" Velvet asked.

"What about me?" I asked.

"Do you have someone?" Velvet asked. I started to shake my head but stopped.

"I don't know." I whispered.

"Hm. Is he about seven feet tall, has a few tattoos, used to work with Fortune and Immortal?" Velvet asked.

"What? Why are you asking that?" I asked.

"He's coming this way. Good luck I'm going back to your locker room." Velvet said as she walked off. I sputtered after her and turned around to see Matt Morgan walking this way. Velvet was good. I'd give her that. He probably wasn't coming to talk to me though. I mean I wasn't the most important thing in the world.

"Hello Devon." He said.

"Hi." I replied.

"Are you doing anything tonight?" He asked. I did a mental double take but tried to appear calm.

"I don't think I am." I replied.

"Why are you asking?" I asked with a slight tilt of my head to the right side.

"I was thinking about taking you to dinner." He responded.

"You don't have too." I said quickly. He laughed at me. I rested my hands on my hips and raised my left eyebrow.

"What is so funny?" I demanded.

"You thinking that I'm doing this because I have too." He stated.

"Then why are you asking me to dinner?" I asked. He shrugged.

"I'll swing by your hotel room later." He said as he walked off not answering my question. I shook my head at him and headed toward the locker room.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Colton's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was going to murder my sisters later. Last Thursday sleep had been a very tough accommodation that hadn't happened. Even after we turned out the lights I could still hear Athena whispering to Devon. Now it was just distracting. I knew the signs of my steadfast always thinks things through sister falling hard and fast for a guy she only just meet. I saw the same signs in Devon but that was expected in Devon. Athena was true to her name while Devon could be a bit rash. I on the other hand tried to stay detached. It just didn't work anymore. Velvet Sky was sitting on a steel chair mere feet from me in deep conversation with Athena.

I wouldn't be a guy if I wasn't interested in her. I was really going to find drastic ways to murder them later. Like when they slept. I didn't want to join them in their little falling for anyone fest but I had this sinking feeling that I would be following in their footsteps very soon. I looked up when Devon walked in.

"You're not going to believe this." Devon stated.

"What?" Velvet and Athena asked.

"I just got asked out to dinner." Devon replied.

"By who?" I asked.

"Who do you think Colton?" Velvet asked with a smile at me.

"I don't know what to think." I replied.

"Anyway by Matt Morgan." Devon stated answering my earlier question. I held back my groan. They were doing it.

"I swear. I'm going to go sleep somewhere else so you two can have a long decision about dinner dates." I muttered.

"I'm rooming by myself because Angelina is rooming with Winter. They can stay with me for the night." Velvet suggested. My eyes immediately turned to her.

"You know I could kiss you for that." I said.

"I wouldn't object." Velvet said with a smile.

"I'm not the type to mix business with pleasure." I said.

"We could do it off the record." Velvet joked. I shook my head.

"I'm grateful for the offer for them to sleep in your room. I need my sleep." I said.

"That's great. We can head straight to the gym in the morning then." Velvet said.

"I'll move your stuff for you Dev." Athena said. I smiled at the thought of a quite hotel room. My eyes drifted to Velvet who was in a conversation with my sisters. I needed to figure out if she was seriously flirting with me or just joking around. This is why I disliked mixing business and pleasure. That and I wasn't sure how I felt about her yet. I looked up to the sky. If it wasn't for Chloe I wouldn't be doing this. Chloe had always said I was too uptight and that I needed to live a little. She could be right about that. She had also said I needed someone to love but that was harder to do then it should be.

My grey eyes drifted to Velvet and I realized that it couldn't be as farfetched as I thought.