Woman To Woman by Joe Cocker blared through Amanda's earbuds as she was in her black and red Demon Mistress outfit for the live event, her hoodie half zipped and her briefly pursing her brick red lips as she remained oblivious to Baron approaching her.
Until he nudged her, Amanda closing out Spotify and putting her earbuds away.
"You still cranky with me?" Amanda asked.
"You and Balor probably kept the hotel floor up. I almost tripped on Yukie while I was finding you. She was asleep once again, and her friend went to go get her something to wake her up." Baron explained, Amanda rolling her eyes.
But since it was clear that Baron didn't believe her, she was gonna play along.
"Well people can't help it once they get frisky… honestly, I feel better than I have in years, more rejuvenated." Amanda responded.
Baron chuckled humorlessly, muttering "Yeah, until you've outlived your sexual usefulness to him and he goes and finds some other unsuspecting girl."... and Amanda's demeanour changed.
"Tell me what exactly is your issue with Finn? Because I'm sick of the snide comments from you and others as well as the damn murderous looks you keep giving him and boy, I won't hesitate to shove a kendo stick up your ass so cough up the fucking info, Thomas!" Amanda replied as she gripped part of his shirt, Baron startled by the sudden change in Amanda's attitude.
The Lone Wolf scrambled away, almost crashing into Alexa.
"You look spooked, what happened?" Alexa questioned.
"I was just talking to Mandy and then she had a crazy look in her eyes when I talked about her and Balor keeping everyone up." Baron answered.
"Was there a kendo stick nearby?" Alexa asked.
"No, thankfully. How is someone so little so damn scary?" Baron responded.
"You don't want to know. Trust me." Alexa replied before she left.
Amanda had her earbuds in again, listening to Great Train Robbery by Black Uhuru as she walked towards the locker room area… she didn't want to threaten Baron but she still needed the info she was looking for.
It was after she had stopped listening to music, feeling amped up, that she found Finn and the two hugged… and she told him about what had happened, Finn trying to hide a smirk.
"Corbin ran from you?" Finn asked as they looked at each other, his arms around her back and hers around his shoulders before she rested her hands on them.
"He almost tripped over his own feet. Still don't know why he turns so damn hostile to you." Amanda responded.
"If I had to say… I think he sees me as the guy who's a bad influence on you." Finn explained.
"Older, overprotective brother is how he sees himself to me… I thought he was just feeling shoved out." Amanda responded.
"More like you never cared for anyone in your life." Yukie's voice was heard as Amanda turned around to see her dressed in her teal and black punk outfit while holding her weaponized baseball bat.
"You know damn well she did but you pushed her away every time until she got sick of being treated like that… but yet you still treat her like she's the reason you're so damn bitter." Finn responded after putting Amanda behind him in a protective manner, Yukie taken aback by what Finn had said.
And as she was about to hit him, the bat was caught in mid swing and she turned to see Shane.
"I don't think so, Miss Yang. Not on my watch will you go bashing people's heads in." Shane responded before taking the bat from Yukie.
"You act like I was going to hit him with a plastic bat with fake nails. That's not the real one, damn it! You know what, when we cross roads at SmackDown you two, there will be hell to pay no matter what." Yukie explained.
Yukie stormed off, Shane letting the two be as Finn wrapped his arms around Amanda's waist and nuzzled his face into her neck and left shoulder to try to coax a smile… which worked.
Demon Lovers vs Alexa/Murphy…
Amanda nearly slipped when Murphy grabbed her by her ring top to stop her from running back at Alexa and snapped it against her skin… and turned around, slapping him.
"Have some respect, you fucking pig!" Amanda yelled, Alexa turning furious… but as she stormed over to Amanda, the brunette turned around and responded with "Your taste in men is worse than your damaged bleached blonde and red tresses!" as Finn tried to charge at Murphy, only for referee Mike Chioda to hold Finn back.
"Yoohoo!" Yukie called out to Amanda, before she pulled onto Finn's right leg and made him fall backwards off the ring. "How do you like that, Irishman?!"
Chioda called for a disqualification as Finn got back in the ring with Amanda helping him.
He checked on Amanda and then ran at Murphy after yelling "Don't dare try to fucking run!" and tackling him before repeatedly punching him, the chaos infuriating Yukie… Amanda tripped Alexa up before pulling Finn off of Murphy and then ran at Yukie and dropkicked her.
But Yukie collided too hard against the guardrail and cut open her middle and index fingers on her right hand as Finn pulled Amanda back and Alexa and Murphy helped Yukie to the backstage area.
"They need to secure those things better!" Murphy hissed as Yukie was being fixed up in the trainer's office, the wounds cleaned out, stitched and bandaged.
"I could have done more if she didn't attack me." Yukie explained.
"Women can get very angry." Murphy replied before Alexa slapped him on his left ear. "Oi, now what was that for?!" He responded, rubbing his ear.
"You were being a perverted prick out there!" Alexa replied angrily.
"Yeah, damn right you were. We don't like her but you grabbed on to the Demon Mistress' tits." Yukie explained.
"I pulled her ring top, I didn't grab her breasts!" Murphy replied defensively.
"Looked like some tit grabbing to me." Yukie responded.
Amanda got Finn into the locker room and then walked in, closing the door.
"I had it handled, Darlin'." Finn responded as he put ice on his bruised hands.
"I don't like Murphy anymore than you do, he's a classless asshole... but you damn near killed him, Finn." Amanda replied, Finn setting the ice pack aside and turning to her before he rested his hands on her face, which was red from the anger she felt from Murphy touching her. "I rarely see your temper that sometimes… I forget you have one until you're beating up on some disrespectful bastard." She whispered as her hands rested on his wrists, her hazel eyes looking into his blue ones.
"You should never be treated like that, Mandy…" Finn responded quietly.
"You've never treated me like they do… and I know you never would." Amanda replied before they leaned in and kissed, her hands resting on his face as his hands rested on her back before the fingers on his right hand trailed through her shoulder length hair.
The kiss stopped after a few minutes as both needed to get air back into their lungs… but they stayed that way for a while, holding each other.
At the same time, Seth had been watching the footage of the beating that Murphy suffered… and then he saw Dean walk over.
"You saw that, right?" Seth asked.
"I saw Finn standing up for Mandy and making sure Murphy or any other man for that matter never touches her like that again. Finn genuinely cares about her… and things are changing between them, doesn't mean it should warrant a bad reaction." Dean responded.
"Bad reaction?!" Seth responded.
"The last time you caught someone near her, you nearly beat him to death. And all Alex Riley had done was walk into the wrong room and pass out on the bed that Mandy was in." Dean replied.
"It's called protecting Mandy!" Seth retorted.
"A jury would've seen it as attempted murder." Dean responded.
"But I still walked away a free man." Seth replied.
"And then you nearly broke her back. Face it Seth, you drove her away… and it'll be a snowball's chance in hell of you ever getting a woman like that back." Dean responded before he left, Seth leaning against the wall.
'Time to start betting on a snowball.' Seth thought before he left.