"Okay, if we don't see any paranormal activity, we're heading back into the city. Agreed?" Amanda replied as they got out of the Equinox with things they had borrowed from Hunter.
"Yeah… but not until we've thoroughly swept the place for anything." Mordecai answered from where he was stood, waiting by the door for them as he'd arrived earlier, camcorder in hand.
"The NV works on that, right?" John asked.
"Should, just got it." Mordecai responded.
"Forgot earlier, sorry for kicking you right in your arm and jaw." Amanda replied before the tall white haired man ruffled her hair with his hand.
"It's alright kiddo, who we are on-screen isn't all of who we are behind the cameras. As long as it doesn't spew out, you're always forgiven." Mordecai answered before he began to tap on buttons on the camcorder, until it rang out a small tone and came to life, Mordecai flicking it to NV mode in a test while looking down the hallway through the open front door, the old reception and half collapsed Never Lose Hope Hospital sign visible through the LCD screen, seemingly deep in a bright green fog.
Amanda stayed close to Finn as they all looked around, all four hearing voices that made them jump… until they realised who the three were.
"She dropped a damn bucket on my head!"
"Oh, quit your bitching, Rollins! You're the one who wanted to come here in the first place!"
"Would you two shut your traps?! No wonder y'all nearly drove Tiny insane during her time with us in The Shield!"
Mordecai turned to Amanda, who was muttering in French and then turned to the camera.
"I assume you watched the program when we all fell apart as a group, old pal?" Amanda replied.
"Yeah… damn insane." Mordecai responded before Amanda aimed her flashlight… she wasn't really surprised to see Seth, Dean and Roman in their old Shield gear.
"Who's been talking?" Amanda asked.
"Well Seth won't stop whining because an old bucket fell on his head, thinks that we're being targeted by a demon. Though that is conveniently creepy." Dean answered, pointing to the hospital sign and now that they were on this side of it, the others saw that the certain letters that had fallen had left it saying Never - Hope Hospital.
'Stay calm…' Amanda thought before she spoke up. "Emily? It's okay, we have no harmful intentions to you." She explained.
"What, do you really believe there's a girl who died still walking…" Seth started to question in a frustrated manner, trailing off as they all began to hear from the elevator, echoing from the corridors above, a noise almost like someone sobbing.
"Who's there? It's okay, we're not here to harm anyone." Dean replied… but when no response was given, Seth started to drag Amanda towards the doors.
"Hey, let go of her!" John responded, pulling Seth off of Amanda as Finn held Amanda to him.
"Don't ever grab his little sister like that, what's the matter with you?!" Mordecai questioned, Seth turning to him.
"There's nothing here, we don't need to stay here anymore, least of all her!" Seth answered angrily.
'If there really is a ghost out here, I'm damn sorry if I'm about to offend you.' Dean thought, before he turned to Seth. "What's the matter, Rollins? Don't tell me you're scared of a harmless little ghost, are you? She probably can't even physically touch a wall, you're telling me you, the big champion, wants to run from that?"
'And they're at each other's throats again.' Amanda thought as Seth turned back to Dean.
"You might want to record this in case neither of them remembers this fight tomorrow." Finn responded, Seth glaring at him.
"Oh, you've got some fuckin' nerve…" Seth shouted, Amanda turning slightly and trying her best to tone it out, focus on something else. She focused her attention on the crying noise, trying to work out where it was coming from… so with the fighting happening, only she noticed when the sobbing stopped, and its source let out a couple of angry, almost demonic hisses before the elevator creaked open across the room, nobody being closer than at least 10 feet to any of its switches.
"Guys…" Amanda said with a bit of fear in her voice, everyone noticing the open elevator.
"I guess… something wants us upstairs." Mordecai said as all eyes were locked upon the lift, before he daringly stepped ahead and inside. "There's… blood on the button for the 3rd floor." He called out as he examined the selection of several buttons.
"Mordecai, get on out of there before the doors slam shut and the elevator falls too far down!" Amanda responded, remembering what had happened in her nightmare and Mordecai doing so as they walked over… he noticed how Amanda's left hand was entwined with Finn's right one and that she was trembling, Mordecai not remembering a time when Amanda was genuinely frightened.
"Emily… is there something or someone upstairs that you want us to see?" Mordecai asked… before Emily responded by throwing an old clipboard at Seth, who yelled out in pain.
"He drives me crazy too but that wasn't nice. No one here will hurt you." Amanda replied once they were in the elevator… before they saw a faint blur…
When it materialized completely, they saw her.
"Emily…" Amanda said quietly, Emily seeing the similarities between herself when she was alive and what Amanda looked like except for the eyes. But past death, Emily's appearance featured a dark grey dress with blood splattered across it, brown hair had turned to black almost like it was constantly wet, and dark bruises surrounded both of her jet black eyes.
"Something's happened… where you're all staying at." Emily replied after a few moments.
"What do you mean, is someone in danger?" Finn asked.
"When you go back… you won't be alone." Emily answered.
Amanda's phone rang, the brunette answering it.
"Dianne, what's happened?" Amanda responded.
"Reporters, absolutely everywhere, interviewing anyone remotely involved with the WWE, I don't know what the hell they're thinking." Dianne answered.
"Damn mob…" Amanda muttered, Emily looking at her and Finn.
"I think I can gather… what it's mostly about." Emily said as she switched her glances between the two of them, though the blackness of her eyes would have made it nearly impossible to tell who she was looking at if not for the twitches her head turned when she did switch.
"Dianne… are police there?" John asked once the phone was in his hand.
"They've been called, but the reporters have quite the advantage in numbers, and apparently it's not deemed serious enough to send out more officers to tame the situation, two cars is all we have." Dianne answered.
"Head back to calm them down… but be careful." Emily responded.
"Someone got violent…" Amanda started to ask.
"With me… yes… once or twice. But now he's way too terrified to ever do it again, maybe that's the power that fuels me." Emily answered.
Yelling and screaming was heard in the background, a punch to one of the reporters following as Enzo was livid about Dianne being shoved down.
"She ain't got nothing to do with this, hands off her!" Enzo yelled before helping Dianne up. "You alright?" He asked.
"Yeah… just a scraped elbow, I'm fine." Dianne answered as she stood with his support, leaning her weight on him as pain began to flare through the end of her leg where her prosthetic was connected.
Emily decided to get them out of the elevator, the group heading to their cars… but when Amanda turned around to thank her, Emily wasn't there.
"Come on… I'm sure she'll reappear." Finn replied before they all left.
At the hotel, the group made their way into the lobby and found that the officers had too when one of them approached Amanda and Finn.
"Were you two staying in room 318?" The officer asked.
"Yes. What happened?" Amanda responded as the woman who wasn't much older than her turned serious.
"It was our main concern with this call. A journalist was found, having broken into your room and hidden in the closet, intent on waiting for you both to return so she could listen in on your conversations until you fell asleep. At least that's what she's confessed to, once we got her in the cuffs and dragged her out of there." The officer explained.
"Damn media's gone crazy…" Amanda replied as she leaned against Finn.
"Are any charges gonna be filed against the journalist?" Finn asked.
"That depends on the DA but we need to talk to you both." The officer responded before they sat down.
At the same time, Liv walked out of the elevator and over to Alexa after seeing the police.
"The hell's going on, why are the cops here?" Liv asked, Alexa turning to the blonde.
"Journalist hurricane, one even broke into Balor and Mini Cena's room which is the main reason for real cops rather than just crowd control officers." Alexa explained.
"Damn media." Liv muttered.
"They only zone in on what they consider to be legitimate stories is what you're gonna say, right?" Alexa responded.
"Alexa, a journalist broke into their room, that's not gonna help how they're feeling. How would you feel if the room you're staying in was broken into? No matter who it happens to, it's still unsettling." Liv replied before Alexa headed back to the elevator.
After explaining everything that happened after they left the hotel, Finn and Amanda headed up to the room that the hotel switched them to and set their things down… but in it, Amanda looked through everywhere that someone could hide before Finn got her to sit down.
"It's alright… that police officer gave me these." Finn said after a few moments, holding out a small box to Amanda and flicking a small switch on it, which caused it to let out a succession of fast and loud beeps. "Motion sensor. We put them in places to hide, we'll know if someone comes in here… might be a bit of a nuisance when we go in the closet or other places in the morning, mind you."
"Just as long as we can sleep through the night without someone walking in." Amanda responded before both got ready to go to sleep.
Downstairs, Dianne and Enzo found themselves unable to sleep right away and were in the lobby.
"She seemed rather startled and something tells me it wasn't just the break in." Dianne replied.
"Possibly something she saw, I know that Mordecai took her and Finn somewhere… hey, you alright there?" Enzo responded, the last part as Dianne started letting out a few little coughs.
"Yeah, just a little… tickle…" Dianne answered, her voice trailing off as her gaze went to the corner of the room… and when Enzo stepped around her, he paced back in fright as he saw that her eyes had turned completely black.
"Dianne… what's…" Enzo tried to say.
"I'm using her to leap through… mild body hijack…" Dianne said, though her voice sounded doubled, like one person speaking a split second after another… and then she closed her eyes, squinting in a painful manner, before she jumped up off the ground… and split into two people, Dianne shooting to one side of the room and Emily shooting to the other, both impacting hard against the walls. The difference was, Emily was able to stand up instantly, Dianne sat there clutching her abdomen in pain.
Enzo picked Dianne up into his arms as several others ran into the lobby, Seth seeing Emily… and then turning to Amanda, who was a foot behind him.
"You idiot… you stupid bitch, you invited her back?! Have you never heard of demonic attachments leading to possessions?!" Seth yelled as he grabbed onto Amanda's shoulders, and started shaking her towards the end.
"I didn't invite her back here, let go!" Amanda shouted as she managed to get free and run through the crowd towards Finn… but Seth caught up with Amanda and threw her into the oak desk in the lobby, angering Finn.
Finn immediately tackled Seth and proceeded to beat him to a pulp until Dean and Roman pulled them apart as Mordecai helped Amanda up to her feet and Finn ran to them.
"I take it this has happened off camera countless times…" Mordecai said as Finn helped a bruised and bleeding Amanda sit down.
"Not usually so violently… I think this time he's scared as well as angry, that'll drive anyone beyond their limits, as if he has any." Finn answered.
Amanda tried to stand up to get to Dianne and help her, Finn and Mordecai stopping her as John managed to reach them and crouched down to Amanda, seeing that her nose and mouth were bleeding.
"John… it's not what you…" Seth started to respond as Finn held a washcloth to Amanda's nose and mouth, John standing up and charging over to him before grabbing him by his throat.
"Not what I think?! My little sister is bleeding and terrified and you're gonna tell me that it's not what I'm thinking, huh?! I'm thinking you've snapped and tried to kill her!" John growled, shoving Seth back and punching him.
"She invited a demon back with her, John! Look at that thing there, it'll take a lot more than fake ol' Mordecai to exorcise that outta here!" Seth responded, pointing towards Emily who while watching the chaos, had remained backed up against the wall she'd flown into.
"She didn't invite me here, I showed up here on my own!" Emily replied, Dianne managing to stand up and walk to Amanda after Mordecai had called 911 to report the assault. Dianne carefully sat down in front of Amanda, pulling the washcloth down… Amanda's nose wasn't misshapen and only had a thin trail of blood so Dianne knew the bleeding was from the mouth and gently pulled Amanda's lower lip out towards her, seeing the deep wound.
"Punched and sliced against your tooth, I'd expect." Dianne said halfway quietly as she gently let Amanda's lip return to its normal position.