Chapter Ten: Demonic Family Reunion

When I returned to Raw, it was after talking to Stephanie about Dad joining me in the match against The Shield. She loved the idea so much, she changed the match so that it was now a handicap match. Before I talked to her the match was supposed to be AJ Lee and The Shield versus Morgana, Rey Mysterio, Sheamus, and John Cena. After I talked to her, it became a four on three handicap in their favor, sort of.

AJ and The Shield entered first. As I waited to make my entrance in the gorilla position I was nervous as hell. The music started and the three of us started out. The lights were out in the arena and the fire kept blazing from the ring posts and the stage, purely due to the work of the pyrotechnics team. We made our way into the ring, Dad and I took off our matching leather dusters and he called the lights back on as he always does.

"Ladies and Gentleman, the following is a four on three handicap match set for one fall. Introducing first, from Union City, New Jersey AJ Lee and her partners The Shield!" Lillian Garcia announced. "And their challengers, from Death Valley, The Family of Destruction, Kane, Undertaker and Morgana!"

It had been a while since Glenn had wrestled under The Big Red Monster gimmick and not just been Corporate Kane, but for that one night, Stephanie and Paul decided a demonic family reunion was in order. Dean started the match, smirking at me as I started towards the apron. Kane saw the look in his eye and put his hand on Dad's chest, signaling he'd start the match.

The match was going great. Dad and Kane took turns beating on Seth and Dean. For some reason, they weren't tagging in Roman just yet. Finally, Dean tagged in AJ after Dad performed Old School on him. Dad came to the corner and tagged me in.

"Keep it controlled, Cass," he whispered to me as I climbed through the ropes.

I looked at my dad, trying to figure out if he was warning me or babying me. He looked tired so I decided he was warning me and didn't get upset. I nodded at him, but in that moment, AJ came running behind me, grabbed me by my hair and set me up in a neckbreaker.

As I stood back up, I wanted to hurt her. She wasn't supposed to do that. Across the ring, she just grinned at me with that psychotic smile of her's.

"What's the matter, Morgana? Did I break up Daddy/Daughter time?" she taunted me.

I looked at my father and he shook his head no. No, meaning do not let the pyrokinesis get the best of me tonight. I nodded that I understood and I ran at AJ, grabbed her and performed a DDT. While she was still seeing stars, I covered her. Dean ran into the ring and grabbed me from behind. I tensed at his touch.

"What, it's not like I don't know every inch of you," he whispered into my ear.

I could feel myself start to shake and I hated myself for it. He could feel the trembling in my body as I tried to work out how to break his hold.

"You've been a good girl. We'll come visit you again soon," he whispered.

I couldn't handle that. I let out a howl of rage and threw my head back into his, making a solid connection with his nose. He loosened his grip and I got out of his hold. When I turned, my father was standing there to grab him. I kicked Ambrose and my father lifted him for the chokeslam.

At that moment, AJ punched me in the face and tried to roll me up for the three count. My face started to sting. Before I kicked out, I felt my face near my eye and looked at my fingers, which were covered in blood. I looked at AJ's right hand, where she was wearing a ring that wasn't allowed during matches on her finger. She must have slipped it on when Dean was distracting me.

We were still the legal men in the ring. I kicked out and a brawl erupted in the ring. Seth and Roman jumped in to come to Dean's rescue. Kane joined Dad. AJ tried to grab my hair and bash my head into the ring. It wasn't going to happen. I got hold of her arm and put her in a cross-arm breaker submission hold while Dad and Kane tossed The Shield from the ring. AJ started screaming and tapped out. I leaned down where only she could hear me.

"If you keep going off-script, April, I'll break every bone in your body. I'm done," I warned her, blood flowing down from the corner of my eye.

She looked at me with real fear. I had never outright threatened anyone in the WWE before. I've stayed on-script or close to it with few exceptions since I started. I had never intentionally hurt anyone trying to get them out on injury. But with April Jeanette Mendez and The Shield, I was ready to cross that line. I wasn't going to keep being a punching bag.

I stood up and The Shield grabbed AJ and ran. The ref grabbed my right hand and held it up in victory. I grabbed Dad's hand and he grabbed Kane's. He hadn't noticed my eye yet. When the ref put my hand down and gave me my championship belt back, he looked at me and noticed. It was then he did the very thing he told me not to do. He lost control.

Fire struck down on the ramp, less than three feet from where AJ was standing. The Shield and AJ turned and looked in fear at the Family of Destruction. Dad exited the ring and started up the ramp, towards AJ. Dean tried to block AJ from him, but Kane left the ring after him. I wasn't sure what to do, so I stayed put.

Kane and Dad made The Shield look like babies with the way they demolished the wall they made between themselves and Dad and Kane. Dad grabbed AJ and shoved her back down towards the ring. Kane stayed with The Shield, standing over them, making it clear that AJ messed up and this matter was no longer any of their concern.

When AJ was in the ring, Dad made a big show of forcibly taking her right hand out of her pocket and pulling the ring off of her finger. AJ acted like she didn't realize the ring was still on her finger. All the while, I glared at her. I knew the little psychopath put it on during the match.

"You, AJ Lee, dared to intentionally injure my daughter?" Dad said angrily.

AJ cowered. I struggled to stay in character. I wanted to laugh maniacally like she usually did. Instead, I looked at the ramp and saw Dean and Seth struggling against Kane. Roman was too, but I could tell he was only doing it for the sake of appearances.

"I- I, uh, I didn't realize, um, I didn't realize it was on, Mr. Undertaker," AJ stammered out.

I saw the lie. Dad saw the lie. His features of anger turned to rage. He turned to me and gave me his signature thumb across the throat, signaling for me to finish her. Then he left the ring. As he did, The Shield broke past Kane. To keep them out of the ring, Dad raised his hands and brought them down hard. The apron caught fire. Nobody was getting in or out of that ring, with the exception of me if I wanted to, until they came and put the fire out.

With The Shield stuck outside of the ring and AJ having nowhere to run, I grabbed AJ and chokeslammed her. Before she could recover, I grabbed her again, and set her up for a Tombstone Piledriver. I set her up the way Dad did when he finished a match and left her center ring. Then I went to the ropes, and climbed out through the flames, joining my father and "uncle" Kane as we exited to Dad's music.

A/N Tell me what you think so far. I'd really like to know!