As per usual, this is a work of fantasy, I do not own the characters, and none of this reflects upon the lives of the people mentioned within. :) Enjoy! :)

Twenty minutes after they had entered the hotel room, Ashley was straddling Colby's back, massaging his shoulders, the damned heat from that tea starting to get to her. Now that she knew what it was and why she reacted the way she did, it didn't seem as powerful as it had been, still though, it did affect her. Her lower parts were needy for some attention, though she was still feeling tender from all the poundings she had been taking. The one good thing about sex was Colby's religious like use of condoms other than one time, she wouldn't wind up in any lasting trouble from him, she hoped.

When he had her rise up enough so he could turn over beneath her, Colby was already hard. Stroking himself, he asked Ashley to forget the massage and go down on him. Not really in the mood for wild and/or crazy sex with him, she complied. Grasping this eager stiffness and stroking it a couple of times, pleased to hear immediate moans, she smiled, took a deep breath and readied herself to begin to lick and suck on the tip of his throbbing heat, noticing the immediate dribbling once her mouth connected with his organ.

"Turn around," Colby moaned softly, indicating that she swing her hips towards his upper body. Thinking he wanted to give her some oral loving, she moved quickly. All she got though was fingertips teasing at her, rousing her, making her want more...while she worked away, sucking and bobbing on him while he flicked his fingers at her. Giving his balls a bit of a rough squeeze, Ashley felt a sharp swat to the ass, making her jump.

"OUCH! Damn it that hurt! Be careful!" Startled he had smacked her ass so hard, Ashley choked a little as he thrust upward really hard, then pushed at her head forcing her down and keeping her from retorting. Once he was feeling the pleasure, and had relaxed and was enjoying himself, Colby got around to giving her a couple strokes with his finger tips. Annoyed as she had ever been with a man, Ashley considered stopping cold and leaving Colby hanging but that would only lead to a nasty scene. He gripped at her hair and held tight, probably not considering he was starting to hurt her.

The most horrible moment came at the moment of his climax when he started moaning out a name, and it sounded like 'Zar...' Something, definitely NOT her name! Choking on the abundant amount of release, she got another swat for 'letting that shit get all over!' Still holding her hair tight he wouldn't let go until she cleaned up all the fluid that escaped her mouth. Mad because she had been hit twice, as well as Colby been a callous shit and had started calling out another woman's name while she was giving him a blow-job, Ashley was even madder to see Colby hadn't seen the look she fired at him, his eyes were closed!

"Cover me up Ash!" He yawned. Throwing the covers over him she stomped in to take a shower and have a good cry. That FUCKER! Oh! She could just strangle him! Using the mobile shower head to relieve some of her tensions, Ashley returned to the bedroom calmer and with mischief on her mind. Colby needed a kick in the ass, but what would do it? Colby was smack in the middle of the bed, there was no way she wanted to sleep with him now anyway, he might wind up dead! Looking around, she smirked at how neatly he lined up the stuff he kept in his pockets.

As Colby's snores filled the room, Ashley reached carefully and picked up Colby's wallet and grinned. One of his most annoying habits was alphabetically putting his cards in order and lining up each and every dollar bill by denomination and lined up facing forward, all precisely stacked up together, she realigned the order on both a little, knowing that small bit would drive him crazy. Another thing that drove him crazy was his athletic tape sticking, she opened all the rolls that were open and added a stripe of crazy glue from his emergency kit onto one each knowing he would have one hell of a fit, but it would be worth it!

The urge to create more havoc had her fooling around with the settings on his phone, not the big ones, not yet, but the small ones, just enough to annoy him, as she setting the phone down, Ashley saw a notice come up on it that an update was available. With a wicked grin, she wiped his music program off of the phone, made a few more changes and set the phone to update, wiping the phone carefully she set it down very carefully and precisely. With a smirk she lay down on couch to sleep.

Colby calling her name woke her the next morning, sleepily rising to look at a very confused man looking at her as she sat shivering.

"Why did you sleep on the couch?" Ashley sighed.

"You were sprawled out in the middle of the bed, there was no way I could get enough room." Surprised she got the mumbled 'sorry, you should have told me to move over.' She thought that his moving over on the bed, wouldn't have been enough unless he had fallen onto the floor! An angry outcry made her jump and she was hard pressed not to laugh.

"What the Fuck? SON OF A...! DAMN FUCKING PHONE! AGGGGHHHH!" Doing her best to look concerned as the furious Colby yelled loud enough to cause someone in the neighboring room to bang on the wall.

"What happened? Colby?"

"This Damn thing!" He waved his phone at Ashley. "Damn thing updated and now it's a huge fucking mess!" Trying to look alarmed, Ashley buried her face in the couch cushion and laughed herself silly when Colby when in to go shower. Feeling very happy she cleaned up their room and got things ready to leave, waiting for him to make more discoveries.

They were out of that hotel and getting coffee when he discovered the wallet was not in shipshape order. Snarling in temper, he paid for Ashley's water and his coffee and as they headed to the airport frantically went through his wallet and reorganized it.

"You didn't touch my wallet did you Ash?" Looking at him with wide eyes as innocently as she could manage, she asked back.

"I have no reason to, why would I?" Colby kind of laughed and shook his head.

"Nothings missing, someone had to get into the locker room while we were both out and messed things up." Ashley opened her eyes wide.

"WOW! The freaking nerve!" Colby totally bought it and things were peaceful until they got to the next arena. Finding the tape rolls messed up had Colby having one more tantrum of many that night, although that one was kind of amusing to Ashley. He was such a snot tonight! They weren't taping and he was being an out and out Bitch! It made her want to pull more pranks on him, but what could she do and not get caught? She looked around the room thinking. As Colby's mood darkened she thought better of pranking him, that could wait. Him getting any more pissed off tonight was bad.

Ashley was feeling uneasy about going home with Colby after she had heard him having one fit after another during the evening. Nothing and nobody in the company was making him happy outside of the dressing room. She seemed to be the only one not incurring his wrath, so it seemed. He had told her he had changed things so she would stay with him until after the next work week then they would be in her home area and they could pick up whatever she needed from home, he had cuddled her and loved her up to get her to agree.

Now they waited for the driver to get back to his car and open the trunk and help them load up the luggage, something that pissed Colby off even more. He'd not been happy tonight, and having Paul and Stephanie not here had made it worse. Colby just couldn't get things his way when they were gone and it made him act terribly. It was sad to see that the petulant, bratty behavior seemed to be all Colby, and not scripted behavior. The more time she spent around her boss, Ashley began to wonder what in the Hell had she been thinking in wanting to be his assistant?

After snapping at the driver, Colby at least let Ashley into the car first. He was being such an ass she was surprised he did! Looking out the windows and occasionally looking at his phone as they drove to the airport, Colby's mood softened up a little for a few minutes. He spoke about a few 'fun' things he wanted to do while home, they sounded good, she smiled at the thought. When Colby's phone rang, it signaled the end of that good mood.

Answering the phone with a half-smile, Colby's jaw dropped, his expression gray and dark, like a thunder cloud had settled over him and he was quickly pissed off and snarling.

"Aw come on! Why me? So what if I'm the damned champ? You run thin on talent of the lower ranks and I have to give up my few days off? Come on, I already worked an extra night!" Oh shit! NOT good! Colby listened with a foul look on his face, she could hear someone, a man, raising his voice. Finally Colby snapped out a 'Fine! We'll be there! Have travel deal with it. Yeah, thanks!' With a roar of anger as he hung up, Colby lit the air with profanity and curses at Paul and a few others, he hurled his phone at the window. It hit the support around the door and sprang back too quick for either to react to stop it before it bounced hard off of Ashley's right cheek. With a pained yelp, she grabbed at her cheek. OUCH! Son of a Bitch! Cringing away from Colby, tears starting to rise, Ashley fumbled to see if there was any ice in the refrigerator.

"Oh come on! It couldn't be that bad? Where did it hit you?" Colby came off as so pissed, and uncaring about anything but himself! It sounded like he was annoyed at her. When he pulled her hand off of her cheek, he muttered an 'oh shit', looked horrified then reached for the fridge himself. Quickly fashioning an ice pack, he carefully placed it on Ashley's face. For all the mutterings of 'I'm sorry', 'I'm so sorry' and 'I'm really sorry', Colby lacked enough emotion behind his words to make Ashley think he meant he was sorry he hurt her, unless she wound up marked up and he could get into trouble for it.

The ice came off for the first time at the airport as they were getting ready to leave the car. Colby glanced at her as she set down the ice pack and a loud sound of dismay and a 'fuck!' escaped him. Exiting the car she kept her head down, staring at the ground, not wanting whatever the hell was still showing on her face to be seen. Colby took her arm and guided her through to the check in and boarding areas. Keeping her sunglasses on, aware her eyes were red as her cheek probably was, from the tears that had escaped and many more that wanted to escape, Ashley stayed silent until they boarded the plane.

After the plane was in flight, Ashley took off her sunglasses and told Colby she needed to use the bathroom, and set off to the little cubicle, mainly to use the mirror and see what the damage was, she hadn't seen it yet. What she saw shocked her so badly, she had to sit down. A large, very dark bruise slanted across most of her right cheek. Still sore as hell at least she knew her 'whining' as Colby initially called it, was justified. Knowing he'd likely come after her if she stayed in here too long, Ashley tidied herself up the best she could and went back to deal with Colby.

To find that Colby had an ice pack waiting wasn't really considered a caring gesture. She was ticked off at him, his anger had hurt her. Jon had said things that were sadly coming true. What would the Unhinged one say if he could see her now? Ashley had to dig out some Acetaminophen for the headache she was getting. In spite of the ice, the bruising was bad and there was some swelling. She didn't like Colby very much right now, and he wasn't trying too hard to improve his status in her eyes.

The flight wasn't that long, but circling to land for over an hour, and three hours waiting on the tarmac, and then for their luggage made Colby probably be labeled as a major jackass by more than a couple people as he bitched. The lunch had been a meal on the plane, that was okay, but by the time they got a bite at a decent place that had healthy and tasty meals it was past 8, both were exhausted, and Ashley just wanted to go to bed, her stomach was a little angry, she assumed it was the stress of the day, and Colby, mainly Colby.

Arriving at his home, Ashley had no time to relax as she had to quickly learn from a brief tour where critical things were and what Colby wanted while here. Colby grumpily informed her they had 36 hours here then they were back on the road. Digging through to take some personal stuff from his bags, he took the stuff to his room and said good night. Standing in shock, realizing he'd left her standing in the hall while he went alone to his room, leaving her to settle herself into the guest room, alone, Ashley felt the tears she had held back on earlier starting to demanded release, and before she got the door shut behind her the tears were pouring! Throwing herself onto the bed, she cried herself to sleep.

When Ashley woke later in the morning, she quickly checked on Colby, he was still sleeping. Ashley started the coffee maker and dug through his bags to start his laundry after spending a few minutes putting little icy gel bags on her face for soreness and the puffiness she was stuck with. Spying the plastic container of tea she snagged a little in a baggie from the kitchen. The stuff had a slight spicy smell, almost licorice, she photographed the whole thing and sent the pics on a chat messenger then erased them from her phone. Next she checked her phone for calls and messages.

Several texts came through on Ashley's phone, beginning right after they boarded the plane to come here to Colby's home, she had been so tired when they got in she had taken her notes as Colby dictated on what he wanted and when he wanted it. He had shown Ashley where his rooms were and where the guest room she would sleep in was. She immediately fell asleep in her clothes after she said good night and had a long, hard cry.

Now after doing what Colby asked of her last night, Ashley stared at her phone in shock. Several messages indicated that people knew that she had been injured somehow, a couple showed pictures of her walking with Colby last night at the airport, the rising bruise of her cheek very apparent. From the way the phone had hit her, the mark it left, looked like it could have been a hand print! Oh my God!

A couple of the photos had links the senders apparently thought it important she see...links leading to posts of people who had seen her and Colby last night and this morning as they traveled to his home...with questions that sent chills down her spine. 'Seth's new assistant seen looking timid and bruised!', 'Seth Rollin's new assistant already feeling the wrath of the champ?', and 'the winner of the WWE contest for 'assistant for a day' seen looking beaten and frightened as being bullied through the airport by Seth. Look at that bruise! Did he hit her?' With a whimper of fear as she considered how Colby would react. Ashley thought..Oh My GOD! He was going to FREAK! The cold chills coursed through her. Then there was the last message, from Jon.

**Ashley! Are you Okay? I saw pics of you bruised up! Did Colby hit you? What did he do to you? Call or text! ASAP! If I don't hear from you I WILL come looking for you!** As her jaw dropped, she heard a loud groan from Colby's room. DAMN! Quickly texting to Jon as she headed toward the kitchen for a cup of coffee she heard a huge yawn from the champ.

**I'm okay, can't talk now, HE, just woke up, will message later.** Tucking her phone away she hurried towards Colby. Oh what a freaking mess!

As she was almost at the partially closed door Colby called out for her, with a polite knock she entered, startled to see her boss sitting up, looking half-asleep but wide eyed, his phone in his hands. He looked to be nude in his sheets, his hair was a mess he shoved back from his face as he struggled to get his glasses on and read something.

"What the f...!" He called her loudly then looked up and realized she was right there. The look of horror that froze on his face as he saw the mark he was responsible fore, was priceless. His phone rang and he looked down at it and swallowed hard. His hands began to shake and he answered the call. He sounded very nervous.

"Hey Paul!" Ashley set Colby's coffee down on the nightstand and left the room, giving the panicky sounding man some privacy during his call with his 'boss'. She walked down the call and heard Colby, he sounded scared. Good!

"No! No! No! It was a fucking freak accident! I SWEAR! No! I did not hit her! It was not me anyway that did it! My..um...my phone did!" Shaking her head as she kept walking, Ashley could hear Colby explaining the incident to Paul as it had happened while she answered a very upset Ohioan. She promised she would message back as soon as she could but, she WAS okay. Hearing Colby end his call, Ashley hid her phone and ran to shift the laundry around and make coffee for herself and try to look as if she had been very busy doing her assigned tasks while Colby was on his call.

Colby came into the kitchen, very upset, his arms wrapped around himself. He got close to Ashley and looked at her face without actually touching her.

"SHIT! Ash...we've got to talk! People took pictures, word is out your being beaten! It's a huge...Aw FUCK!" Colby roared in agitation as his phone rang again, he through an evil glare at the device, looking as if he was about to throw it again, then his eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped.

"Be back, gotta take this!" Ashley watched amazed as Colby spun around and high tailed it down the hall, practically running for his bedroom. Ashley heard the door shut and the click as it was locked. Feeling extremely brave suddenly, she followed to see if she could hear anything. At the doorway all Ashley could hear was the higher nervous voice of Colby talking in such a muted way he must be in the bathroom or closet trying not to be heard. It sounded as if he was pleading desperately. Carefully hiding away her tea sample where it would not be found by Colby if he looked in her bags, Ashley did a few things, waiting for Colby to re-emerge from his room.

Feeling her phone vibrate with an incoming call Ashley headed into the kitchen to check it and looked stunned at the screen. It was Jon, SHIT! Now what? Answering meant the risk of getting caught talking to him by Colby, not answering could set of the unhinged one and possibly cause him to come charging into town, or maybe have someone else burst in...taking a deep breath she made a decision and tapped the phone to answer the call...

Oh... Evil place to stop! I know, I am cruel, but I will be updating shortly! I am finalizing the rest of the chapters and will be posting this quicker now. :) I love all the feedback and suggestions! You are all so wonderful! Thank you so much for reading. :) xoxox