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Part Ten

Eve arched a brow, sending a look in the direction of CM Punk. "Couldn't you have brought someone else with you?" she asked, and while Punk snorted, Ambrose arched a brow at her.

"Looks to me like the only 'someone elses' left out there are Kane and Daniel Bryan. And didn't Kane, like, terrorize you for awhile last year?"

"He did."

"And Daniel Bryan skipped out on you during a mixed tag."

"He did. Still prefer their company to these two," Eve said sweetly, drawing something of a smile from Ambrose, but Zack had that look on his face that he got right before he said something really rude and inappropriate - something he thought was hilarious - but he stopped himself when CM Punk moved to stand right in front of him, the WWE champion staring the other man down. Apparently, the somewhat evil look that Punk was able to bring to his face pretty much at will was enough to convince Zack to shut up for the moment. Well, either that, or he remembered Punk kicking him in the head earlier and didn't want to have a repeat of it.

"Can't say as I blame you. Putting up with that one is enough to make someone want to stab themselves in the eye," Dean finally said, gesturing to Ryder as he spoke, though the look he gave Cena wasn't exactly friendly, either. Actually, Punk and Cena weren't giving each other very friendly looks, either, which made Eve kind of wonder what had been said amongst the men when they'd run into each other. Of course, part of her was also pretty sure that she didn't *want* to know what had been said. Since Ryder and Cena knew that she and Punk had been at the arena together, and his reaction to Zack's comment about her had been a kick to the head, proving they could use talking smack about her to get to him, whatever they'd said to the WWE champion had probably at least partly been about her.

"Then we'll make sure you have sharp implements around then so you can act on the urge," Cena said in reply to Dean's comment, and Ambrose gave him a look that Eve couldn't see, but it was apparently enough that it made even John Cena take a step back.

"Actually, I'd just stab Ryder in the eye. The pain of it would probably convince him that shutting up would be a good idea. And if it didn't, at least it would amuse me," the man said before turning and heading toward the table with the snacks and the water, grabbing a bottle of water and a candy bar, then hitching himself up so that he was sitting on the edge of the table. He shot a look at Orton, who was so far remaining silent since the others had come back, then turned toward Eve and Seth. "Did you run into any problems out there?" he wanted to know.

"None. We found Orton, told him the plan, and he came back with us. No issues, and everyone behaved themselves," Rollins replied, leaning his shoulder against the wall, the man still holding his flashlight, though he had turned it off for the moment. Lilian and Heyman's book lights were both on, as was Dean's flashlight and, even though it wasn't much light, there was still enough to more or less see each other, and it was no use wasting batteries by leaving all the lights on all the time. Even if they did have extra sets of batteries. Better not to use the lights unless they really had to.

"Good to know," Dean said, and Orton frowned, the man crossing his arms over his chest before speaking.

"So what now? We still going to go and look for Daniel Bryan and Kane?" he wanted to know, his gaze moving over the group in the room. While he looked nowhere near as hostile as Cena and Ryder did, he still seemed a bit uncomfortable about the fact that all three members of the Shield were now there, and Eve supposed she could understand that. After all, the trio of men had attacked him before, actually messing up his shoulder, if she remembered correctly. There was no way he was going to be at ease around them.

Ambrose took a bite of his candy bar. "That's the plan, I guess. Find out where everyone is. Make sure they didn't get trapped somewhere when the lights when out," the man said, then gestured toward the others. "Most of them were in the stands when we found them, which wouldn't have made for a fun night. No clue where Kane and Bryan would be, though."

"Yeah, because if you knew, you'd probably attack them or something," Ryder said, and Ambrose gave him a look.

"I didn't attack you, did I? No, I didn't. Which means they're safe, too, because if I was going to attack anyone right now, it would be you. Because you're being a pain in my ass," the man said, casually continuing to eat the candy bar as he spoke, though there was something menacing enough about his gaze that Zack took a step back, causing Eve to smile. She still thought Dean Ambrose was a very dangerous man, but at least right now, he wasn't dangerous to her. Truth was, none of the men of the Shield had gone after any of the women in the company, and nothing she'd seen tonight would indicate that they ever would. After all, Seth Rollins had flat-out told her that he didn't hurt women, and from the look on his face when he said it, she believed him. Plus there was the whole way that Roman Reigns had protected Kaitlyn from that glass and tree branch not so long ago... An act that had left him with several cuts and likely a few bruises.

"So, uh... Who goes looking for Kane and Daniel?" Kaitlyn piped up then, the woman twisting a ring around her finger as she spoke, a frown on her face as she looked around the room. It was clear that the younger diva didn't care for the change in atmosphere since Ryder and Cena had shown up, and Eve didn't really blame her. The tension had seriously increased once the two had walked in with Punk and Ambrose. Before they'd shown up, things had seemed pretty calm, even when she and Seth had returned with Orton.

Ambrose shrugged his shoulders, taking another bite of the candy bar, then balling up the wrapper and tossing it toward the trash, easily making the basket despite the fact that he was several feet away. Eve smiled slightly at the sight, mostly because she remembered Zack trying to 'impress' her by doing something... And repeatedly missing, even when he'd moved closer and was only a few feet away. She'd ended up laughing at his lack of skill and Zack had tried to play it off as a joke, but she'd been able to tell from the look on his face that he was annoyed. The look on his face now told her that Ryder was jealous of the fact that Ambrose was actually capable of making the throw.

"I'll go," the Shield member said, arching a brow as he looked around. "Don't really care who goes with me."

Lilian Garcia glanced around then, her gaze moving over the tense faces of some of the others - mostly Cena and Ryder - and then the ring announcer got to her feet. "I'll go, too," she announced, and even Ambrose looked more than a little surprised at that one, likely because he didn't figure the petite blonde woman would ever voluntarily go somewhere with him... Especially since right now it seemed like it could be just the two of them-

"What the hell, I'll go, too," Orton said, pushing himself away from the wall as he spoke, making his way over to where Lilian stood, and Eve kind of got the feeling that Orton was mostly going so that Lilian wouldn't be alone with a member of the Shield. Which was nice, she supposed, but Eve wasn't sure it was really necessary.

Ambrose nodded slightly at the other man's statement, arching a brow as he made his way toward the door, flashlight in hand. "Well, this should be exciting," the man said with a smirk, reaching out to pull the door open, indicating that the others should head out first... Ambrose giving them all a look as he paused in the doorway. "If we don't find them in, say... forty-five minutes, we'll come back without 'em. Now y'all don't do anything I wouldn't do," he said before he headed out, and Rollins let out a snort.

"Please. Like there's anything Dean wouldn't do," the man muttered with a shake of his head, pushing himself away from the wall as well, his gaze moving over those that were left in the room. The tension was still pretty high, what with Ryder and Cena in the room, but it had lessened slightly once Dean had left. For his part, CM Punk had moved so that he was close to Eve, and Rollins stepped forward as well, making sure that he was between Eve and the pair of Cena and Ryder. Flipping his flashlight back on, he gripped it tightly.

"We don't want any trouble. We're stuck here together, and we have to make the best of it," Seth stated, and Cena gave him a look.

"Why the hell should we trust you guys not to start something?"

"We could have just left you guys to wander in the dark, but we didn't. As I said, we're stuck here. And the Shield isn't going to start something while ladies are present-"

Zack snorted. "With Lilian out walking around right now, the only lady I see present it Kaitlyn. Eve's no lady, she's-"

Rollins flipped the flashlight in his hand so that he was gripping it closer to the actual light, the man holding the long end of it up and glaring at Zack. "You finish that sentence, and I'll knock you out with this light."

"I thought you weren't going to start anything."

"You say it, then you started it. I'll just finish it with one solid hit. Your buddy Cena might try to stop me from doing it, but I think Roman and Punk could hold him back. You keep your trap shut, and we'll let you stay conscious. Got it?" he snapped out, not waiting for an answer before he stepped back, turning away from Zack... Definitely intending to insult the man by turning away from him like he wasn't a threat. Arching a brow, Rollins looked at the others. "So? Any ideas on what to do while we wait?"

"I am not playing Truth or Dare," Kaitlyn declared, and Seth smiled slightly.

"Wasn't suggesting it," he said, and the diva shrugged.

"I have a couple decks of cards in my bag. We could kill time that way," she suggested, and the others looked at each, Punk shrugging.

"Nothin' better to do."

"Strip poker?" Ryder put in, eyeing both women in the room, and Eve let out a snort. The guy was unbelievable. He spent his spare time trying to come up with more insults to call her, and yet he still suggested strip poker... Even though she and Kaitlyn were the only women in the room and there were half a dozen guys there. Not to mention the fact that Seth had actually just gotten done threatening him. Idiot.

"Yeah, that's not going to happen," she said, and he made a face.

"Why not?"

"Because, Zack, you suck at cards, and no one wants to see you naked."