WWE Hell in a Cell – September 16th 2018
Bayley was whipped into the ropes by Sonya Deville. At the same moment, Alexa Bliss had gotten up on the apron after slamming Mandy Rose into the ringside barricade. Bayley collided with Alexa, sending her flying off the apron, hitting the barricade face first.
"What are you doing?" Bayley yelled at her partner, spreading her arms wide and momentarily losing focus on the match and her opponent. It was a fatal mistake.
When Bayley turned around, Sonya was ready and waiting, and connected with a stiff kick to the side of her head, turning her lights out and sending her collapsing to the mat like a bag of wet sand.
"What a kick by Sonya!" Renee Young cried on commentary. "Deville into the cover! This would be a huge upset!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"Three!"
The crowd cheered loudly, in surprise as much as delight. Even Sonya didn't seem to believe that she had just won the Women's Tag Team Championships for her team.
"They did it!" Trish Stratus shouted. "What an upset! The upset to end all upsets!"
"At the start of this tournament, no one gave Sonya and Mandy even an outside chance of victory," Renee agreed. "But they've done it! They're the Women's Tag Team Champions!"
Mandy re-entered the ring and rushed over to embrace her partner. Shock was written all over both of their faces. The seemingly improbable win had further cemented their new status as babyfaces. They spent a minute or so celebrating with their newly-won belts before leaving the ring.
Bayley was just getting up, looking dazed by the kick she had taken to the side of her head. Alexa was also back up. She rolled back into the ring before standing with her hands on her hips and a look of annoyance on her face. Her anger was aimed squarely at her partner.
Sonya's music stopped playing, leaving the fans to fill the silence with boos and jeers for the two women now standing in the ring.
"What was that?" Alexa demanded, clearly blaming Bayley for the collision that had cost them for the match.
"Where were you? Why didn't you stop the count?" Bayley fired back, holding the side of her head.
"Maybe you shouldn't have knocked me off the ring?" Alexa yelled back, getting even more heated.
Bayley squared up to her, towering over the much smaller woman. "Maybe I shouldn't have picked you as my partner?"
"Maybe you shouldn't," Alexa raged back, pushing Bayley with both hands, sending her staggering back a couple of steps.
"That may not have been the smartest move Alexa Bliss has ever made," Renee commented as the fans gave a collective 'Ohhh!'
It seemed to take a moment for Bayley to comprehend what had just happened. The fact that her supposed partner would have the nerve to push her didn't seem to compute. Eventually, she pushed Alexa back, much harder than she had been pushed herself. Bliss fell down on her ass, but bounced right back up and rushed at Bayley. The two women started flailing away each other with right hands.
"So much for this team, I guess," Trish said. "Bayley and Alexa are attacking each other now. Look at them go!"
The crowd cheered the destruction of the brief alliance between the two heels, but began booing again when Bayley got the upper hand, forcing Alexa back into the corner.
The referee who had officiated the tag team match had rushed back to the ring to try and break up the fight. He had limited success, managing to get Bayley to back off and let Alexa out of the corner. However, when Bliss came staggering out into the middle of the ring, Bayley hit her with a lifting spine buster.
"Savage spine buster by Bayley," Renee called.
"And she's still not done," Trish reported.
Bayley stepped through the ropes and climbed up to the top turnbuckle. Wasting no time on ceremony, she leapt into the air and came crashing down on her former partner with an elbow drop.
"I guess that's what you get for trying to partner up with Bayley," Renee said. "She truly is a nasty piece of work."
"Alexa Bliss threw the first punch," Trish pointed out. "They're both as bad as each other, but Bayley won the fight. Regardless, we've obviously seen the last of this team. Bayley has decided she's better off alone, and that's bad news for the rest of the women's division."
Bayley stood there glaring down at Alexa for a moment before her music began to play. She left the ring and made her way to the back, making a point of not looking back towards the ring the whole way up the entrance ramp.
"That was an odd match," Bayley commented to Seth. They were in their hire car, having just left the arena after the pay-per-view for their drive to the city where the next night's Raw and Women's Evolution episodes were going to emanate from.
"Yeah," Seth agreed, knowing that she was referring to her tag team contest. "I thought there was some mileage in having you and Alexa together as a team. Apparently creative didn't agree, for whatever reason."
"And now, as seems to be usual, I have no idea where they're going next with me."
"Don't worry about it, angel," Seth said, glancing at her from the driver's seat. "We both know Hunter has a lot of faith in you, and they're bound to push you with this new gimmick they've given you. It's seriously hot, too," he added. "You make such a good job of playing a nasty bitch."
Bayley turned to him with one of her cutest smiles on her face. "But you loved the hugger, too."
"Of course I did. Everyone loved the hugger. But I think I like loner Bayley even more."
"Only because I wear leather and keep my hair down," she teased.
"You said that, not me," Seth said, feigning innocence that was fooling no one.
They drove on in silence for a few minutes. Seth could tell that while she had put a brave face on it for him, she was still brooding over the wayward creative she had been given. He didn't want it to start weighing on her too heavily, so he decided to bring up something more positive for them to talk about.
"Only a few days to the auction," he ventured, referring to their opportunity to buy the house that they had viewed as the potential first business opportunity for Bayllins Property Developers. The company was now founded, and Seth had purchased a van which was now in the process of having branding graphics applied to it, not that Bayley knew anything about those things. It was all going to be a surprise for her when he came home with the van when it was finished.
"I can't wait!" Bayley said, brightening up immediately, as he had known she would. "I hope we get it. We have to get it!"
"I want to get it, but we have to keep in mind that this is business, Bay. We need to pay a reasonable price. If there's someone else there who decides to be stupid about it, we may have to let it go."
"I know you're right," she admitted. "But that had better not happen. If it does, I'll be dropping another elbow on someone!"
"That's my girl!" Seth exclaimed with a contended laugh. As ever, her natural bubbly and excitable personality hadn't been hard to bring back to the surface.
"I'm just going to look on the positive side," she said. "This time next week, the house will belong to us, and we'll have hopefully made a start on it."
Seth glanced at her and smiled. "I certainly hope so," he said with confidence in his voice.
Any nervousness that Seth and Bayley had been feeling about the auction had proven to be unfounded. Only one other person had bid on the house that they had gone there hoping to purchase, and his interest had been fairly half-hearted. It had come as a surprise to Seth that they had won the bidding so easily, but it had definitely been a pleasant surprise.
Now, on Saturday morning, he had just been and picked up the newly-customised van which had the Bayllins Property Developers branding on the side of it – a similar yellow coloured cartoon drawing of a person with a black side ponytail to the one that WWE had at one time used for Bayley's merchandise. In the Bayllins logo, the character was holding a plasterer's trowel. Even Seth found it cute, so he could only imagine how Bayley was going to react in a couple of minutes, when he got home. He had told her he was going out to 'pick up a few things' before they could head over to the house they were going to start work on. They had started referring to it as 'the project' to save the confusion of having two places to call 'the house'.
Before leaving, Seth had asked Bayley to start getting all of their tools and supplies ready, and bring them out of the utility room at the front of their house. She probably assumed they were going to be making a couple of trips in the car to get everything to the project, but no, it was all going to be put in the van, where it would stay from now on.
Seth approached the house as quietly as he could and parked the van on their driveway, quickly killing the engine. He saw that the front door was open, and Bayley had begun stacking up some of their power tools in their heavy duty cases just inside the hallway. He just had time to get out of the van before she appeared in the doorway, having heard his arrival despite his attempt at stealth.
"Seth!" Bayley squealed, looking at the van with wide eyes.
The way her face had lit up was more than worth the money spent on the van to Seth. He raised his right arm, presenting the Bayllins logo to her. "What do you think?"
"What do I think?" she exclaimed, running over to him like a kid on Christmas morning. "I love it! I love it! I can't believe you got this done without me knowing a thing about it!"
"That's how surprises work, babe," he beamed. "Bayllins Property Developers is officially a company, and we have our own van!"
To his surprise, Bayley put her hands over her face. It took him a second to process that she was crying. "Bay?" he asked with concern, wrapping her up in a hug. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," she said, her voice muffled by her hands and the fact that she was pressed against his chest. "Nothing's wrong. I'm so happy, I just can't deal with it."
"Awww, angel," Seth said as his heart melted. "That's all I ever want to hear. If you're happy, that's all I need to make me happy."
Bayley wriggled out of his embrace so that she could look up at him with her teary eyes. "I love you so much," she said with a sniff. "I don't know what I ever did to deserve you, but I'm so lucky."
"If you ask me, I'm the lucky one," he replied before leaning down to give her a sloppy kiss. "Now what do you say we get our stuff into our new van, and we go start work on Bayllins' first project? We have to get the car, too. It's parked near the shop where I got the van from."
"I say yes, let's do it," she said, looking at him adoringly. She reached up and gave him another kiss. "I love you."
"I love you too." He set off towards the small stack of power tools, with Bayley walking beside him. "In fact, I love you so much, I'll do the heavy lifting."
A/N: Thank you to everyone who left a prediction last time! Ads611, SoraOblivion62, Forza Azzurra, Klay and Rams called the outcome of the tag match correctly.
Come on, you guys didn't think this Bayley was going to team with someone long term, did you? ;)
I can't really give a prediction question for the next chapter when it will be Seth and Bayley working on their project, so just leave your thoughts on this chapter in a review I guess! Thanks, guys.