Chapter 7


"Fine I can see there's no talking you out of this, so at the Elimination Chamber it will be all three members of The Shield vs. all three members of the Wyatt Family… I hope you boys know what you're doing…" Triple H said the next night to kick off Smack Down. I stayed in the back of the three men, my back carelessly resting on the ropes while I watched Triple H leave the ring and then I watched my guys put their fists together "And Oh Abigail" Triple H said once he was at the top of the entrance way. My ears perked up as I looked over at him, the camera training on me from the side. "We have yet to see you in action, so tonight you will be in a qualifying match for the Diva's championship, good luck." My eyes widened with that news before a grin broke over my lips.

"That was news wasn't it?" I muttered as I sat with Naomi in the diva's locker room a few moments later "When did you get the news?"

"When I got here around four, little exciting isn't it?" She asked and I nodded while I taped up my wrists with the black tape. Our match was set just before the main event which was The Shield vs. Daniel Bryan, Sheamus, and Rey Mysterio. My first match was a qualifying match, which was mind boggling to me. Sure the divas didn't get a ton of chances to prove themselves but tonight, I could. There was a knock on the door and I stood up, knowing it was call time for a segment "I'll see you out there" I nodded with a smile. We had had many matches in FCW, and NXT so we were going to put on a clinic so to speak.

"Excuse me…" I heard Josh Matthews say as The Shield surrounded me while I sat up on one of the large cases against a wall.

"What do you want?" Seth asked the shorter man and Josh explained how he wanted to get in a few question with me. "Well she's not taking any questions right now" Seth said as I hopped off of the case and slid my hand up onto Seth's shoulder as he parted a ways for me to get by him and Dean.

"What is it you want to ask me Josh?" I asked him with a small smile, my fingers flexing in front of me as I fixed the black tape.

Josh looked at all of the men behind me, especially Roman who decided to put his hands down on top of my shoulders before he started speaking "I just wanted to ask what the WWE Universe can expect from you tonight in your qualifying match against Naomi."

"What they can expect?" I gave a small laugh "They can expect something they haven't seen in a very long time, and that's a woman kicking another woman's ass until she begs for me to end her pain. You know that Naomi asked to be in this match with me?" I smirked "She really is underestimating me and that isn't something I particularly like to hear, and that goes for all of the diva's in the back; they should believe I'm the best or I'm just going to have to kick the respect out of them."

"Was that your plan coming into the WWE? To be the most dominate one?"

"Look at me Josh" I smiled at him "Take a good, hard look okay?" He did and Roman's hands squeezed my shoulder a bit as he growled, I bumped my back into his chest. "I take my job very seriously; I've been training to be WWE Diva's champion since I walked into NXT all those years ago. Some may love me, and some may hate me but after tonight I know one thing everyone is going to do; and that's believe in me."

"Thank you for your time" He turned towards the camera "And up next, it's Naomi vs. Abigail Woods in a qualifying match to see who will face off against AJ Lee at the Elimination Chamber for the WWE Diva's Championship."

I was going down the aisle by myself this time and it was a little intimidating to say the least, I didn't have Roman to block people from touching me or grabbing at me, just a security detail who would travel a few steps behind. I knew how the match was going to be played out, me and Naomi would take a few bumps, create a little drama and I would be the winner. Then there would be a small little thing afterwards but I couldn't worry about that right now, my main focus was this match which was scheduled for 10 minutes. 10 minutes was a long time for a diva's match on Smack Down, usually I was in NXT matches that were 15 or 20 minutes long, I've even had a 90 minute Iron match before in ROH, never again was I doing that.

"Now making her way to the ring representing The Shield, accompanied by Dean Ambrose; Abigail Woods!" I heard Justin Roberts say as I raised an eyebrow, I wasn't with Dean, was I supposed to be with him? Just as I was pushing the black curtain open an arm snaked around my shoulders and I looked to my side, Dean was there out of breath.

"Last minute change, got here as soon as I could"

"Yeah I can see that" I told him as we walked down the aisle like that together. I stepped on the small foot stool placed by the barricade and balanced myself on to the four inch black barricade top before dropping down onto my feet. As Naomi's catchy theme played, Dean wrapped me in one of his large arms again.

"I'm on commentary, don't ask because I have no fucking idea what I'm going to say" I laughed a bit as I nodded "Kick her ass toot's" I leaned up and pressed my lips against his cheek before letting him go as I rolled into the ring and went up onto my feet. Cameron was on the outskirts watching as I rolled my head and loosened up my arms by shaking them out. I gave her a small little wave as she put up her hand to not look at her as I chuckled.

"You ready for this?" Naomi mouthed towards me and I gave her a small nod as the ref signaled for the bell. We were locked up for a minute, going back and forth on whose shoulders were the strongest before she finally got me down but before she could perform a leg drop on my head I moved out of the way and stood up, shaking my head at her with a wide grin, knowing her game. We locked up again as the crowd died down like we knew it would, but just they wait.

I finally caught her off guard and hit her with a clothes line that sent her flying backwards and the crowd started speaking in murmurs. I dragged her from the side into the middle of the ring and performed my leg drop on her and went for a quick pin but she kicked out at 2. When she sat up she slapped me hard in the face which knocked me down onto my ass, then she regained some strength and started to put her kick pads into my ribs as I tried to get away from her, she then dropped to her knees and put her fists into my back as I squirmed around in "pain". Finally the last fist came down and that was the last straw as I saw red and quickly rolled onto my back and shoved my own kick pad into the side of her head and she went tumbling to the side holding her head. I straddled her and started to shove her head into the mat, hitting her with a few head butts as well. The ref pulled me off of her as I pushed him away once I was far enough away from a laid out Naomi.

I crouched down and watched her as the ref helped her and finally she regained herself but I wasn't giving her a time to breath as I hit her with enough force for both of us to tumble out of the second rope. She fell onto her back as I climbed back into the ring and waited for the moment as she got up and I ran the ropes and pushed off on the top rope and she caught me in a cross body and she laid out as I laughed while clutching my throbbing ribs while I sat against the barricade. I stood up slowly as the crowd was a bit louder this time and I climbed back onto the apron as the ref was counting and telling us to get inside the ring. I smirked and watched as Naomi moved a bit so she was in perfect position as I looked over at Dean who was now watching my every move with a smile. I took in a deep breath and jumped from the apron backwards and performed a moonsault on top of Naomi as the crowd erupted.

"You okay?" I muttered as I lay on top of her and she squeezed my arm to let me know she was fine. I stood up and flipped my blonde hair back as I grabbed Naomi's arm and swung her up onto my shoulders as I stumbled at first from the weight but then grabbed the ring post and climbed up the steel steps as the crowd cheered a bit louder from the show of my strength. I hit a Samoan Drop on her and just before the three count, Cameron hit me with her feet to break it up. I pushed her away and just as she was about to come at me again from the corner, I hit her with a spear that her stop in her tracks.

"Looks like we are rubbing off on her after all" Dean said into his headset after watching the crushing spear from the beautiful blonde. She had the strength like Roman, the lunatic crazed mind like Dean, and the high flying calculating moves like Seth. She was perfect.

I rolled over onto Naomi again and got a two count before she kicked out and I growled as I wrapped an arm around her head and my legs tightly around her waist into a submission. She quickly tapped out once I put the pressure on her throat so she couldn't breathe and the bell rang indicating I won the match. I let Naomi go as I pushed her out of the ring as Cameron soon followed suit next to her. The ref raised my arm in victory as Dean pulled his headset off of his head and tossed it to the side quickly, seeing the two dark haired women coming from the top of the ramp, one in particular running towards the ring and straight for me.

"Behind you!" I heard from my left and I looked over at Dean and then the ref let my arm go as Tamina was getting into the ring and started after me again but I ran and speared her in the stomach quickly, dropping her there as I flipped my hair back and looked up the ramp towards AJ who just stood there with her Diva's title clutched to her chest.

"And your winner; representing The Shield, Abigail Woods!" I heaved out a deep breath as Justin Roberts said that to the crowd and I stood and looked down at Tamina while the crowd cheered for me. Finally they all thought, a woman who could actually give everyone a run for their money. After she rolled out of the ring, I did as well and Dean picked me up over his shoulder and then put me down in the chair he pulled out that he had been sitting in at the commentary table.

"Thank you darling" I said to him as he nodded and crouched down next to me.

"You did great out there, I'm thoroughly impressed" He said as his hand patted my bare thigh gently.

"Thanks, I was trying to impress you"

"Me?" He asked as he turned his head my way and I nodded.

"It's hard to match your intensity in the ring"

"Don't worry toots, you made everyone a believer." I smiled at his words and nodded, placing my hand on top of his that was still on my thigh.


"Still up to grab dinner?" I glanced over at Roman as we walked back to our hotel room and nodded.

"Yeah just let me get in a quick shower first" The woman's locker room unfortunately didn't have working showers and I needed one badly. He nodded after pushing open the door for me and I put my bag down on the bed and pulled my jacket off and grabbed a few items of clothing from my rolling suitcase before I gave him a small smile and walked towards the bathroom.

"Everything okay?" He asked which made me turn a bit to look at him as he pulled out some clothes from his bag.

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"You've barely spoken to me today" I sighed gently and shook the thoughts of Dean from my mind as I put my shirt and jeans down on the dresser as he sat down on the bed after tossing his suitcase onto the floor by the television dresser. I stood between his legs and ran my fingers back through his hair that was pulled back into a low ponytail.

"I just had a lot of things on my mind today, I'm sorry if you felt ignored"

"Not ignored, just wondering if it was something I did" I shook my head and wrapped my arms around his shoulders as his strong arms wrapped around my small waist, his face pressing into my chest.

"Why don't you come take a shower with me, that way we can get out of here quicker" I didn't need to say it twice as he lifted me up easily and I laughed while holding onto him.

"Yeah then maybe later we can talk about how you stole my moves tonight" He said and I raised an eyebrow while shaking my head, my legs pulling up to wrap securely around his waist.

"No way did I steal it from you; I stole my spear from Edge and my Samoan Drop from Jey"

"Sure you did" I smiled as his lips pressed against mine.

We didn't end up going out to eat after all, we ordered take out and laid on the bed eating and watching late night old movies. It was very romantic and it was all I needed.

"What time is your flight?" He asked after the food was trashed and the lights had soon been shut off.

"Eleven, I was hoping to get there around two so we can knock out the podcast and then hang around the city for the day" His fingers massaged into my scalp again and I hummed in approval against his chest.

"What are you doing Thursday?"

"No idea, it's my first Thursday off in a while so I might just go home and sleep all day until the house show in Tennessee in which my family is going to be there so I'm dreading it"

"Who's going your uncle?"

"And my step-mom, and my cousins who I somehow got roped into going to lunch with all of them before the show"

"Need company?" He asked "I wouldn't mind seeing your uncle again."

"I'm sure you wouldn't, but I'd rather my step-mom not ask questions that we don't even know the answers to just yet" I continued to trace my fingertip over the shadow of his tattooed shoulder before closing my eyes.

The next morning was full of long kisses and Roman not wanting me to go away for a few days, but I promised him I'd text him every chance I got which he took graciously. My flight to Chicago was supposed to be last night but thanks to the cold weather in the Windy City, it was pushed back and I was grateful for that because I got to have a relaxing night in with the big man.

"On my way" I texted Colt once I got a cab from the very long line and then texted Roman to let him know I arrived safe and that I would talk to him later, hoping he was keeping himself busy once he got to Tampa. I scrolled down to Punk's number and took in a deep breath as I texted him that I was heading to Colt's as well. He texted me back before Colt did "Swing by after."

"Doors open, recording with someone now" Colt texted back a few moments after and I tossed the phone into my bag once I tweeted out that Chicago was so cold and took a photo of the wet window from the backseat of the cab. It was windy and sleeting a bit and near zero degrees, I was not happy with this weather.

Once I got to Cabana's, I pushed open the door and tossed my bag to the side before rubbing the bottom of my boots on the mat by his shoes and then pulled off my jacket and hung it up before walking further into the apartment. I spotted a green shirt and a hat first but that was definitely not Cabana, Cabana was in front of the green shirted man sitting on the two couches with Microphones. Who was this man that Cabana was recording with right now?

I listened as the train went by and then heard the other man's voice and smirked while shaking my head. It was a deep and gravelly voice and it was a voice that I had spent listening to for 3 hours on my flight earlier on the plane. I had YouTubed Jon Moxely and watched all of the clips and he was… interesting. It had been a week and here I was stuck in the middle of feelings for two men, one of which I had just met and the other who had been my rock for three years.

I sat down with my warm coffee off to the side while I listened in on his early life on the Indy scene which I found very interesting. God, what did I think of him? Interesting was the damn word all around. I sat there for 15 minutes as they finished up by talking about the Grinch. That made sense why he was wearing a green t-shirt now. When he put the microphone down I decided to make my presence known.

"So I'm sure this is a coincidence that you're here when I remember telling you I was coming here today" Dean turned his head and gave me a smirk and it made my insides tighten. Oh god dammit, not butterflies for him, please body work with me here.

"Total coincidence" He said as Colt worked on his laptop in front of him.

"Actually he called me last night and scheduled it for today" Cabana said and I laughed

"Thanks Cabana" Dean muttered as he stood up "What are you doing after this?" He asked me once he moved away from the working man on the couch to not disturb him until I was up in the hot seat.

"You already know what I'm doing after this" I gave him a look and he nodded.

"Ohhhh so that's still on?" I gave a quick nod "What about after? Unless you plan on staying the night over at his" I hit his chest playfully with a shake of my head.

"I don't actually, him and I are just going to grab a bite to eat and talk about some stuff; mostly about him quitting"

"How'd Ro take that?" I looked down and let out a deep breath "You didn't tell him you were going to see him today?"

"No because I know what his reaction would be, so I told him I was doing this and then probably going to spend the night here before going home tomorrow before the house show on Friday"

"Well I'm not going to tell him or anything"

"Him and I aren't really together, we're still working out the kinks so to speak" He nodded "I mean he really wants to be together but being in that much of a serious relationship right now is sort of making me have panic attacks."

"He is pretty fucking serious when it comes to you" I raised an eyebrow "Nothing just something he said in the locker room."

"Did he tell you to back off?" He looked at me with those blue eyes and I shook my head, already knowing the answer "Fuck him, seriously? He needs to stop being so overprotective."

"Any man in their right mind would be if they had you on their arm" I swallowed hard at his words

"You know if you were taking Ro seriously about his threat then saying things like that can't happen" He grinned again

"Yeah probably not toots"

"Ready whenever you are" Cabana said as he cleared his throat.

"Mind if I sit in?" Dean asked me as I shook my head, it was only fair considering I got to learn more about him today. I gave a small hug to Colt before sitting down next to Dean on the love seat and grabbed a microphone as did he.

"So everything is game?" He asked and I nodded

"Everything, just if you would change lover's names to BOB that would be amazing considering I already know one of your questions"

"His name is Bob today, got it" He smirked as he typed away on his laptop before pushing it off to the side and I relaxed a bit next to Dean who was very warm next to me. "Some may know her as Abigail Woods from the WWE; some may also know her as just Abby from NXT and ROH, as well as countless other independent promotions around the United States but today she's just Abby Hulette-Poffo."

"Just Abby Hulette-Poffo?" I asked him into the microphone with a small laugh "That was an introduction wasn't it?"

"I try but seriously Hulette-Poffo is your last name and it's a very big name in the wrestling industry. Why have it Woods instead of your real name?"

"Mostly because I didn't want to get treated differently when I was starting out, sure everyone still figured out who my mother and father were eventually but by that time they had seen me work in a ring and respected me on my ability to compete and not who my parents were, I guess it just made sense at the time on the independent scene but now that I'm with the WWE there really is no stopping it from getting out there on the interwebs."

"Speaking of the interwebs as you so coolly put it, why'd you stop the selfie Sunday work out photos? Pretty sure that was the most asked question when I put it out there that I'd be sitting down with you."

"Seriously? My selfie Sunday photos are what people want?" I gave a small laugh "Well I guess this Sunday I'll have to change that won't I? I was a bit busy last Sunday, walking my men out to the ring" beside me Dean gave a small smirk.

"Yeah how was your first paper view experience?"

"It was unbelievable, when I first got the call up there was this big character I was supposed to play but they quickly scrapped that so I could join The Shield, I wasn't game at first but with some talking to from the guys I understood that it was the right way to go; I mean I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten a chance to go for the Diva's championship if I was the other character"

"What were you supposed to be doing?"

"Cutting promo's backstage, being a distraction"

"Like you're not a distraction now?" Dean piped up all of a sudden and I hit his side

"Ladies and Germs if you don't know who that voice is, that would be non-other than Dean Ambrose who just happened to be here when I walked in" He smiled at me "So you think I'm a distraction?" I asked him and he shrugged

"I think you are in a way, you're a beautiful woman on the outskirts of the ring helping us win every night" I bit back the huge smile "But your match last night against whatshername…"

"Naomi" I said and he nodded

"Against her, it was mind boggling" He turned to Colt "You know that she does a moonsault off of the apron?"

"I've seen it" He said "It's pretty well done, just wait until she's up on the top rope doing that. When was this match?"

"Last night so it'll be on Friday's Smack Down episode, it was my first match and I think I made a few more fans, especially Ambrose"

"You made a fan of me toots that's for sure" I smiled at my nickname

"Speaking of The Shield, what's up with your relationships? I know that you and Seth Rollins have been friends for what? Six years?"

"Something like that, we worked ROH together for a year before he got a call to head over to Tampa to be in FCW" I said

"What about Roman and Dean here? How are you guys getting along?"

"Do my actions not speak loud enough on television?" I asked him while glancing at Dean who was now leaning back with the microphone on his thigh "Ro and I have known each other for about four years, I was down in FCW and NXT for about two years before he came in and we instantly clicked because we both came from very well-known wrestling families. Dean here, we met about a week ago. Sure I'd seen him countless times backstage at NXT tapings but that was it; he's surprisingly a lot of fun and it's safe to say we're good friends already."

"Hey Cabana, even I didn't know Savage was her father until she told me"

"Seriously bro?" Dean nodded

We continued on for about another 40 minutes until we couldn't figure out anything else to talk about any longer which was a good thing in a way, that meant that we went over every single thing that had gone on in my life to make it to where I was today.

"Need a ride over to his place? I grabbed a rental until my flight later"

"That would be great actually, thanks" He nodded while watching me pulled my leather jacket on and zipped it halfway up, pulled the beanie onto my head and then grabbed my bag, fishing for my phone to text Punk to let him know I was coming over now.

"Shoot me a text if you're done with him by 8"

"What are you going to do until then?" I asked him while he drove

"Probably get into trouble" I smirked

"Don't get into too much; we're back here on Monday"

"Ah that's right" He groaned "Fucking Chicago." I smiled and nodded

"You hate the weather too?"

"Yes, as much as I loved it growing up in Ohio, I don't miss it"

"Neither do I. Growing up in Kentucky all we got was one winter storm a year if we were lucky, when I started to date Phil him and I were always in Chicago and I hated the cold weather"

"Opposites attract though right?"

"If that's true then that's pretty shitty. We weren't good for each other; it just took something major for me to finally realize that he wasn't the guy I thought he was"

"The baby?" He asked and I nodded while he pulled up to his apartment corner and I unbuckled myself "Seriously though, I'm just going to be around with a few buds so don't hesitate to call me if you need to get out of there."

"Thanks Dean, but I should be fine and if I don't see you thanks for the laughs today; I'll see you Friday at some point" He nodded as I leaned over and pressed my lips against his stubbled cheek and exited the rental.

I guess it was now or never.