'You're gonna do amazing tonight Nat, I'm so excited for you' Amy grinned at Natalya through the mirror as she used the curling irons to curl the Canadians blonde hair whilst they were watching Evan's match on the TV.
'She's gonna be great' Tyson agreed.
Tonight was Natalya's debut match on Raw, the first since she was drafted from Smackdown back in April. She was going to be facing Tamina and had decided she'd be dedicating her match to Bret, who unfortunately wasn't going to be around to see the match.
'I just cannot believe that these animals have got contracts, I really can't. I can't believe that they've replaced Bret with some anonymous idiot who's given them contracts' Natalya ranted, when Raw had started Vince McMahon had acknowledged the WWE Universe and said how Bret Hart was fired, he hadn't actually been fired, but had been released of his duties as General Manager so he could take time out to recover from the attack by the rookies. It was revealed that the new General Manager was anonymous, and worse than that he'd decided to give all seven rookies contracts.
'It sucks, but just because they have contracts doesn't mean they can carry on the way they have been' Amy said hoping to reassure Natalya, and Eve, Tyson and DH who were also in the locker room.
'Why the hell didn't you tell me he threatened you?' Randy bellowed as the locker room door flew open making Amy, Eve and Natalya jump, Amy could have sworn seen she saw Tyson jump too.
'What the hell?' Eve asked at the sight of an enraged Randy Orton standing in the doorway.
'Why? Huh? Why didn't you tell me?' he shouted as he got closer towards Amy, 'I thought we were back on track. I thought we'd fixed all that mess. I thought that you might at least tell me things'
'Randy, please can you just calm down' Amy said quietly placing her hands on his chest.
'How? How can I? How can I calm down when he's made a personal vow to break your legs?' he seethed, as he grabbed at his face in fury.
'What the hell is going on?' Tyson asked quite curious as to who had threatened to break whose legs.
'Skip Sheffield grabbed her last night and threatened her, he shoved her against a wall and told her he was going to make her leave the WWE, but no she doesn't think that's worth mentioning does she!' he ranted.
'Nat, you need to go… Evan's match has finished! You're on in a few minutes' Amy said looking at Natalya and then at Tyson and DH.
'Is it true?' DH asked.
'I'm fine aren't I? My legs weren't broken, I'm okay' she said shaking her head.
'But he did threaten too?' Natalya asked in shock, she was aware these people were animals and had clearly gotten their kicks out of attacking innocent people, and that Amy had been caught in the middle a few times before but she didn't realise they were actually up for intentionally hurting her.
'Nat… your match! Go! You're gonna do great so I'm not wishing you luck, just go kick some ass' Amy said with a smile as she pointed towards the door.
'We're talking about this later' Natalya said sternly, as DH nodded in agreement.
'Thanks a lot, why do you always have to cause a scene?' Amy shouted at Randy as soon as Natalya and the boys had walked out of the room.
'It would be more of a scene when you got your legs broken' he shouted back.
'Guys… guys come on. Please don't fight' Eve said trying to reason with the pair of them, Amy was her best friend, and Randy was a close friend but she couldn't deny the pair weren't only stubborn, they both had awful tempers.
'Randy, he isn't going to break my legs. I doubt he'd have the balls to do it, but even if he did I'm not gonna give him the chance. I'm not a child ok, I don't need you or John or anybody to be there for me every single time' Amy sighed.
'Eve, can you give us a minute?' Randy asked nodding towards the door and signalling her to leave, she looked at Amy for approval and once she got it decided that she would go and see Evan while Amy and Randy argued it out between them about who was right and who was wrong.
'None of us are children, but you're still here every week coming out to defend whoever needs it from the rookies. I'm not saying you're a child, but I am saying that I care about you and I am not having someone, anyone, let alone a guy, hurting you… or threatening to hurt you' he said softly reaching out and stroking her arm.
'I'm sorry ok; I just didn't think I needed to mention it. If I had said anything then you and John would have gone and kicked his skull in, and there would still be six of them and one of you. It isn't worth the hassle' she said.
'It isn't worth the hassle? YOU are worth the hassle, I don't want you getting caught up in all of this' he said to the back of Amy's head seeing as she had now turned around to the TV as Natalya was making her entrance.
'Are you listening to me?' he asked as he moved closer to her so that her back was now against his chest. She didn't say anything but she nodded as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
'So if he threatens you again? I'll hear about it from you? Not from Sheamus, or from anyone else?' he asked, again she just nodded.
'I'm serious, promise if he threatens you again I'll hear about it' he said not satisfied with the nodding. He wanted her to say the words, he was having a difficult enough time having to look over his own shoulder constantly, and he didn't want to be worrying about Amy too.
'Alright, I promise okay. You better go anyway, you need to check everyone is ready for tonight in case there's any trouble' she told him as she turned around to face him. He and John had taken it upon themselves to make sure the entire roster was ready if there were any more attacks.
'Ok, I'll see you soon and don't forget Amy, you've promised me' he said reminding her as if she might of forgotten already, she hugged him goodbye before turning her attentions back to the TV and the match that Natalya clearly had the upper hand in.
Natalya was just about to apply the sharpshooter to Tamina as the seven rookies began strolling down the ramp and towards the ring while the Uso twins quickly grabbed Tamina and ran off up the ramp. Tyson and DH climbed into the ring and stood protectively in front of Natalya, once the rookies were standing by the announce table they pushed her from the ring into the arms of the referee and ordered her to go backstage out of harm's way.
Amy ran from the locker room and to the top of the ramp just out of sight from the crowd and met Natalya there, she held her hand as they watched on TV as Wade Barret took the microphone and began to issue what seemed like an apology. A few seconds later both Tyson and DH were throwing themselves out of the ring and trying to attack the rookies. The fact that it was seven against two meant they didn't stand a chance and before they knew it they were the ones being attacked. Amy and Natalya looked at each other, they didn't need to say anything, and they both knew what they were doing. They weren't going to leave them out there to take a beating.
The crowd erupted into cheers as the two divas ran down the ramps, Natalya in her ring gear and Amy wearing an extremely high pair of heels seeing as she was just dressed in her usual clothes. The two of them shoved past the rookies and got down on the floor next to Tyson and DH, they helped the two men to their feet as the rookies began to climb into the ring.
'What the hell are you two doing? Get out of here' Tyson groaned in pain as he clutched his ribs,
'We're all getting out of here' Natalya told him, turning around and checking that Amy and DH were only a few steps behind them as they headed towards the ramp.
Once the four of them reached backstage two medics took a look at Tyson and DH whilst Amy and Natalya fixated on the TV as the rookies stood in the ring issuing so called apologies.
'There are a few people we want to personally apologise too' Heath Slater said before Justin Gabriel demanded the microphone from him.
'First up we would like to apologise to Bret Hart, you wouldn't sign us, and then you fire the only connection we have to the WWE. But I would just like to let you know whatever we did we are sorry and we hope that you are doing okay now' he said in his strong south African accent, 'Secondly we would like to apologise to Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith, guys I know your angry…'
'Angry, too right we're angry' Tyson snapped.
'…but we had to defend ourselves tonight.' Justin continued, 'and from here on forth I hope that we can co-exist, peacefully. Finally I would like to apologise to WWE Diva Amy, who was caught up in the commotion and was injured by us, we never meant to hurt her and we are truly sorry' he said, much to Amy's shock. Darren Young stepped forward and took the microphone from him.
'He just apologised to you, in front of the entire WWE Universe. Vince won't be happy that they've just reminded everyone a diva was injured' Natalya said as Darren Young rambled on with an apology to John Cena, she was almost in as much shock as Amy was. After Skip Sheffield, Michael Tarver and Wade Barrett spoke the Nexus music hit and they removed themselves from the ring. Not long afterwards Eve found Amy and the two of them headed off back to their locker room where they discussed the apologies that the Nexus had just given.
'I don't trust them; I mean I think maybe one or two of them are sorry. But the others aren't, they've obviously been told to apologise by McMahon' Eve told Amy who agreed with her.
It wasn't long before the last match of the evening, John vs. Sheamus with Mr McMahon as the special guest referee began. It took even less time for the rookies to come running down the ramp and chase away Sheamus before throwing John across the announce table and tipping it over on top of him.
'Please don't' Eve said pleadingly to Amy.
'I promised I wouldn't' Amy sighed, John had made her promise that if the rookies did anything she wouldn't run out. Not tonight, and it seems John had been right… he said that that because they'd just been given contracts they'd be on a power trip and they wouldn't think about the consequences of their actions, meaning she could easily be hurt if she involved herself in any way.
'He's okay, as long as they leave him under there, he's fine' Eve tried to reassure Amy, and herself.
Vince McMahon took to the microphone and asked Nexus to join him in the ring. Eve and Amy thought he was about to punish them, but instead he seemed to praise them. Neither of them was paying a whole lot of attention to the TV and was instead ranting about the Nexus when suddenly they began attacking Mr McMahon. The beating lasted a good few minutes before Justin Gabriel hit the 450 splash and they all quickly left ringside.
The two divas made their way into the corridor where there was a huge mass of people all shouting and screaming.
'Amy! There you are' Randy shouted as he saw her and ran over towards the two of them, 'you girls are alright yeah?' he asked her and Eve.
'We're fine, we were here. Well we were there, we were in the locker room' Eve nodded, still in shock from what she had seen and feeling more scared than ever. These men had just attacked the most important man in the WWE, the man that could make them or break them. They hadn't just slapped him around, they'd brutally attacked him. They weren't scared, not of anybody and not of anything, and that was what scared Eve.
Whereas usually as soon as Raw went off air it would only be roughly half an hour to 45 minutes before everyone was on the coaches and heading back to the hotel, it took almost two hours. Everyone was furious; Mr McMahon had left the building in ambulance. The rookies had made a quick exit through the back door. The whole backstage area was just chaos. Chris Jericho had led everyone to the management roster where over 30 of them gathered inside and protested that the rookies be fired. The management agreed they would speak to the general manager and resolve the issues by next week. So when they finally got on the two coaches to take them back to the hotel they were all hopeful that next week would be the end of the Nexus.
'Do you think he's alright?' Amy overheard Mike Mizanin asking Adam Copeland,
'I duno, he didn't look alright. It wouldn't surprise me if he's broke a hip or something' Adam shrugged; he would be the first to admit he didn't much care for anyone else's welfare as long he was ok. That's probably why he and Mike were such good friends; they were on the same page when it came to looking out for number one.
'Are you okay?' Amy asked John who had arrived at the hotel earlier than the rest of them seeing as he had been taken straight there after he was helped from underneath the announce table.
'Yeah, I'm fine. I got a few little scrapes but nothing I can't handle' he smiled, 'I heard McMahon got rushed to hospital?'
'They reckon he's got a good few legit injuries, so we shouldn't be expecting to see him for quite some time' Randy told him, repeating what he'd heard the medics telling the management team.
'I can't believe this happened again, they stand in the ring and give bullshit apologies and then just attack people anyway? I guess old habits die hard' John sighed, 'I did see one of them before though, they must have just left straight away because they were still in their ring gear. I gave him a smack, told him what I think of them'
'Who was it?' Randy asked.
'Otunga' John told him.
Eve didn't want to say for sure she but she was nearly certain she saw a sigh of relief from Amy.
'Right we better head up to our room, we'll see you guys in a bit' Eve said, grabbing Amy's wrist and rushing off towards the elevator.
'What would you of done if it was him?' Eve asked, glaring into her eyes making sure she answered honestly.
'I don't know what you mean' Amy said, genuinely confused as to what Eve meant.
'I mean, if it hadn't been Otunga. If it had been Gabriel, what would you of done?' Eve asked as they stepped into the elevator. Amy just looked at her blankly,
'I saw your face, when he said Otunga. When he didn't say Gabriel, the look of relief' Eve whispered as they stood in the elevator with Alicia Fox.
'I didn't look like anything' Amy whispered back defensively.
'If you really don't think you did then that worries me even more, because you obviously care without even realising' Eve whispered before the elevator stopped and they both got out leaving Alicia inside it.
'I don't care, at all. Believe me' Amy scoffed, pretty convinced that she didn't.
'You remember when you saw him for the first time right? What you said to me?' Eve asked as she slipped the key card into their door and they made their way inside.
'What did I say?' Amy asked, not seeming to realise why Eve was so worked up about it.
'You said he was hot' Eve reminded her.
'So?' Amy shrugged as she kicked off her heels and threw herself onto the bed.
'So? Do you still think he's hot? Is that why you defend him? Please tell me you aren't secretly dating or something?' Eve said getting more worried about the situation with the more thought she put into it.
'No, that was months ago. It was first impressions kind of thing, and I am definitely not dating him. Don't get so worried over it. There is absolutely nothing going on, you know if there was you would be the first person I told!' Amy laughed.
'You realise Randy would absolutely kill him if he thought there was something happening right? And then John would bring him back to life just to kill him again' Eve said with a slight laugh.
'Eve, trust me. There isn't anything going on!'
'Not even friends?' Eve asked.
'Not even friends. I promise' Amy reassured her.
'Good, because he's an ass. His whole little group are' Eve smiled feeling a lot better knowing that she didn't have anything to be worried about.
'And that is why I'm not friends with them. You don't need to worry anyway cos even if I did fancy becoming BFF's they'd rather snap my legs' Amy joked.
'That isn't funny, you've been hurt by them before and honestly, it sounds like at least one of them plans on hurting you again' Eve raised an eyebrow seriously.
'Nobody is going to hurt me, trust me. Now let's get changed and go down to that bar. I really need a drink' Amy grinned as she slipped out of her clothes and rifled through her suitcase to find something to wear. Eve did the same and as the two women stood there in their underwear there was a knock at the door.
For whatever reason Eve assumed it would be Natalya and opened the door without thinking, unlucky for her. It wasn't Natalya.
'oh my god' she screamed out attempting to slam the door quickly causing Amy to turn round to see that Justin Gabriel and Darren Young had stopped her from shutting the door and rushed into the room shutting the door behind them.
'Oh my god, please just don't hurt us. I don't know what you want but….' Eve began to say as she walked slowly backward across the room towards Amy.
'What do you two want?' Amy seeming a lot less frightened than Eve, who as she reached the bed grabbed a pillow and covered herself up with it.
'How did you find out what room we were in? Did you follow us?' Eve asked them as she stood next to Amy, quite unsure of why she seemed so calm.
'I just called reception, I'm sorry about barging in like that we just didn't want anybody to see us' Justin said.
'Okay… so now what do you want?' Amy asked as she moved closer towards them, for some reason they seemed more frightened than she did and took a few steps back as she got closer to them.
'Huh? What do you want? Have you just come to stare at us in our underwear?' Amy snapped, the two men blushed slightly as she drew attention to the fact that she and Eve were both in fact wearing nothing but underwear.
'Justin… I mean we, umm we wanted to check you were okay and just see how everyone was doing?' Darren Young muttered.
'Why wouldn't we be ok?' Eve asked nervously, 'oh god what are you going to do to us?' she panicked. She was in two minds to just scream and hope to god someone called security.
'Eve… don't worry okay. They wouldn't' Amy said as she turned around to the terrified diva that was in the furthest corner of the room trying to cover herself with a pillow whilst slipping on a pair of jeans.
'Jesus Christ is that… is that from…' Darren Young began to say at the sight of the huge mark on Amy's back that was visible because she had her long blonde hair thrown back into a messy bun, it was the wound from the first week the rookies had attacked everyone. It wasn't scabby anymore; it was just a large purple gash.
'Yeah' Justin nodded guiltily,
'What?' Amy asked, 'oh that, it's fine now' she said as she figured out they were talking about the gash across her back.
'I'm really sorry' Darren said looking as though he was about to vomit.
'so you should be' Eve snapped dropping the pillow and reaching for her t-shirt before pulling it on and then standing next to Amy.
'I thought nothing was going on?' she said.
'What? No! It isn't, don't be silly' Amy told her,
'going on?' Darren asked.
'Don't talk to me!' Eve snapped, 'but these two…'
'Oh no, there isn't. it isn't like that' Justin corrected her quickly, 'I… we, just felt really bad for ruining Natalya's match and that John was hurt and we just wanted to check everyone was ok'
'Yeah because if you asked them yourself you'd be murdered' Eve added.
'I don't know if this is some kind of trick…' Amy started to say, which clearly wasn't the wisest thing to do as Eve lunged herself across the room grabbing her iPhone.
'That's it, I'm calling John' she said as she quickly dialled his number.
'Wait no it isn't a trick, I'm sorry. We'll leave. Please' Justin tried to convince her,
'hey John' Eve said with an obvious tone of panic.
'Eve, please' Amy mouthed at her.
'Umm, I umm, I just needed to tell you that umm, me and Amy we're in our room and…'
'please don't' Amy whispered.
'Umm, Amy spilled a drink on herself so we're gonna be a bit longer than we thought' she lied.
'Thank you' Amy mouthed at her.
'You two need to leave, I don't know what the point of this was but it isn't happening again. I don't want anything to do with you, any of you. I want you to just leave us alone, all of us' Amy said to the pair who looked terrified after Eve had called John.
'I just, we just…' Justin tried to say.
'No. I don't wanna hear it. I don't care. You made your beds now you have to lie in them. I'm not gonna be here to make you feel less guilty about what you've done. Now go, and don't come back. Ever. I really don't want you to ever say so much as two words to me again' Amy said storming past them and opening the door for them to leave.
'I'm sorry' Justin sighed as they left the room and Amy slammed the door behind him.
'What the hell was that?' Eve yelled.
'Don't yell at me! I didn't invite them here ok!' Amy yelled back.
'Oh my god I'm sorry okay, I don't want us to fight over them. I just don't get it, you said you weren't even friends but they turn up here looking for reassurance about what they've done?' Eve said, Amy was just as shocked as Eve was so couldn't really give her an explanation as to why they had turned up.
'I know and I don't know why they came here. But they're gone, and I'm pretty sure they won't bother either of us again' Amy told her.
'I suppose I feel slightly better than out of the seven there are two that I don't need to worry about beating me up' Eve said.
'Three'
'Three what?' Eve asked.
'There are three, Gabriel wouldn't. Neither would Young or Slater, I saw them last week. I was on my own and I bumped into them and then when Sheffield and Otunga were coming they made it look like they were scaring me and they told me to go quickly before they got to us' Amy told her.
'What? Why didn't you tell me?' Eve asked.
'I duno, I guess I didn't want to talk about them at all. I don't think you need to worry anyway' Amy said giving Eve a hug.
'At least next week it'll all be sorted. I'm guessing they won't even have jobs here after what they've done to Mr McMahon' Eve said with a sigh of relief at the thought of the management team promising it'd be resolved by next week.
