Hey ya'll, sup? I have a bit of a migraine because of writing this chapter til 6:30 in the morning my time so this message will be short :) Thank you to Tori Moxley, UntilNeverDawns, emmasmummy, ChelleLew, The Simonette254, flowersNfreaks, ShikyoKiri, Devata, wwemicky, caleb's babe, and Annabelle for commenting on my last chapter, it means so much :) Also an extra note, I couldn't handle writing this chapter, so I really hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did writing this one :)

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She only got halfway back before she was pressed against the wall, a hard body pinning her to it. Gasping, she looked up and was met with a pair of cold blue eyes staring back at her.

"Well, you're just a pretty little liar, aren't you?" Dean muttered through his teeth. He was pressing her into the wall using nothing but his body, his hands placed on either side of Scarlett's head encasing her between himself and the wall. She had nowhere to go.

"Dean, let me ex-" She started but he cut her off, slapping his hand against the wall beside her head causing Scarlett to jump. As much as she could anyway.

"Let you explain? Explain what? How you lied to me and Rome right to our faces?" He chuckled darkly sending a shiver up her spine. "You were wrong when we met for the first time. You're just like everybody else, thinking you can make a fool of Dean Ambrose."

"I don't think th-" She started speaking again but Dean cut her off once more.

"Stop lying!" He shouted at her as his hands moved from the wall into her hair, gripping onto it.

"Dean! What the hell are you doing?!" Scarlett heard Seth's voice before Dean was suddenly moved from her sight and she was tugged behind Roman.

"You do realize someone could've seen that, right? It didn't look good, man." Seth said, trying to contain Dean but he didn't seem to be listening. He just kept pacing back and forth in front of Seth, rubbing his palm on his shoulder.

"She's a fucking liar!" He ground out. "She doesn't deserve us!" He continued and Scarlett furrowed her eyebrows. She didn't deserve them?

"Roman, she lied to your face. She lied to both of our faces! And you're standing there protecting her?" He gestured towards them and Scarlett hid herself more behind Roman. "She doesn't deserve it! She's a liar, and we can't trust her."

"Not like you haven't lied before, " Roman deadpanned and Dean suddenly stopped pacing, turning instead to look Roman in the eye. "Just because she lied doesn't mean you can put your hands on her. If you do, and I catch you, my spearing you won't be an accident like it was at TLC."

Dean said nothing and shook his head as he let Seth drag him away. Scarlett sighed as Roman turned to her.

"Are you okay?" He asked and she nodded her answer. "Were you leaving when he found you?"

"Uh, no. I forgot my phone in my locker and was going to get it." She answered, finding her voice. She thanked him for his help with Dean and began to walk away but was surprised when he started walking beside her. Neither spoke to the other as they made their way to the locker room, walking in a peaceful silence. Although Scarlett was scared that it was so quiet Roman would be able to hear her heart pumping so fast.

Once they arrived at the locker room, Scarlett made her way inside and nearly ran to her locker and opened it, praying to God her phone was there. She smiled once she saw it laying on the bottom grate, God apparently had heard her. As she picked it up however, her smile faded. She had multiple missed calls and texts from her Uncle. She loved the man, but he was a bit overprotective, and overpowering.

Making her way out into the hall, she was surprised to find Roman still standing there but she shrugged it off. They began walking and fell into the silence again as Scarlett read her messages. However since she was distracted, she didn't notice how Roman kept looking at her from the corner of his eye.

She sighed as she slid her phone in her pocket. Apparently her Uncle was disappointed in her. Oh well, she thought to herself. It wasn't the first time and probably wouldn't be the last.

"Something wrong?" Roman asked her, breaking her thought bubble.

"Hm? Oh, no. Nothing important." She answered, stuffing her hands into her sweater pockets.

They continued walking in silence before Roman broke it, again.

"You didn't have to lie to us, you know. We're grown men, can handle it." He stated but Scarlett said nothing back. She had nothing to say. She hadn't lied to them at the time, she still wasn't because she wasn't actually dating Phil. She was just pretending to to piss off the Authority.

At her silence she heard Roman sigh to himself but she just kept walking forwards, keeping her eyes on her dirty converse adding a mental note to scrub them later.

Once they were outside Scarlett finally looked up, getting smacked in the face by the wind that swept through her hair, blowing it back. Her eyes settled on Phil who was talking to Tori through the passenger's side window. Her eyes connected to Tori's who then pointed towards her and Roman causing Phil to turn around. Once he saw Roman he slipped back into character. Not CM Punk, the character of Scarlett's boyfriend.

"There you are, was getting worried." He said as he walked over to them and pulled Scarlett into his arms as he eyed the Samoan, Roman staring back at him. They were still looking at each other when Scarlett pulled away from Phil.

"Sorry. I uh, tripped on my way back and Roman wanted to make sure that I made it to my car okay." She lied, glancing at Roman. He raised an eyebrow at her then shook his head slightly. In his point of view, she must've seemed like quite the liar. Twice in one day.

"Oh, are you okay?" He asked her and when she nodded he kissed the top of her head before turning to Roman. "Well, suppose I owe you a thank you."

"It's nothing. I seen her fall and wanted to make sure she was okay." He replied, his eyes glancing over at Scarlett as he lied for her. Phil nodded.

"Well she's in good hands now. Come on, gorgeous." He said as he slid his fingers in between hers and took a step back. Scarlett blushed slightly at the endearment and glanced up at Roman just in time to see his body language shift. His jaw tightened and it looked like he was restraining himself from doing something.

Scarlett furrowed her eyebrows but let it go. "Thank you for walking me here."

Roman nodded and made his way to where she was sure Seth and Dean were waiting for him.

Turning around, she followed Phil as he walked her to the driver's side of her Range Rover. She expected him to open the door for her as he usually did, however she was pulled into his arms instead.

"Are they watching?" He whispered as he leaned down, burying his face in her neck. Scarlett turned her head subtlety to the left so she could see where Roman had went. She saw Roman and Seth loading their bags into the trunk so she knew they weren't paying attention. However when she looked through the windshield she saw Dean leaning forward against the steering wheel, his eyes seemingly glued to herself and Phil.

"Dean's looking." She muttered back. She felt Phil nod his head slightly before she was suddenly backed up against her car door, causing a gasp to slip passed her lips. Hadn't she just gotten out of this position?

"I'm going to pull away and hold your chin, I want you to smile at me and stand on your tiptoes, got it?" He questioned her and she nodded slightly. He then did as he said he would, pulling his head away from her neck then reaching up and taking her chin between his thumb and index finger. Her mind flashed to being in this exact position with Dean but she shoved it from her mind and did as she was told. She smiled softly up at him and lifted herself on her tiptoes as Phil leaned down towards her. As their lips met, Scarlett heard the sound of squealing tires drive passed them.

Once Scarlett finished telling Tori about why she was suddenly 'dating' Phil both girls settled down into bed and agreed that for the next few days they needed to rest up as much as possible. So when morning came, Tori left on a flight to Tampa and Scarlett left on a flight to Daytona, both agreeing to text and call each other. But how does one rest when within the next 5 or so days, they could have championship gold around their waists? It was nearly impossible.

Not to mention the fact that Scarlett had started feeling guilty for 'lying' to two-thirds of the Shield halfway through her flight. So once she had landed and gotten used to the heat again, instantly loving the feel of it against her skin rather than the snowy gusts of wind she'd been dealing with the past couple weeks, she pulled out her phone and began calling and texting Dean. Each call and text going unanswered, but she wouldn't give up. Not until he heard her out.

Then there was the madness that hit once Smackdown was aired. She had watched it and was surprised herself as she watched herself with Phil. They did seem good together, but she just didn't feel that way about him. She even blushed as she watched herself bend over in front of him. Where that nerve had came from, she didn't know.

Their kiss wasn't aired because they had done it when Smackdown had cut to a commercial but that didn't matter. People from the audience that night had snapped pictures of them kissing and they hit social media like wild-fire. So now whenever she checked her twitter feed she had threats from some of Punk's fangirls, threatening her for stealing their man. However, she'd take the lunatic fangirls over her families reaction to everything.

As soon as hers and Punk's segment was over, her phone had started buzzing and hadn't really stopped. Family member after family member kept calling her, texting her, emailing her, tweeting her their disappointment in her choice of a man. They kept reminding her of what he had done, how CM Punk had disgraced their family. Certain family members were worse than others, but for good reason. The worst part of it all was that she couldn't even tell Phil what was going on with her family. It was too complicated and would blow her secret sky-high, and she wasn't sure she could trust him with it yet.

Shaking her head, Scarlett focused on the road again. That was all she needed, to crash on her way to the arena. Tori would kick her ass to hell and back if she made them miss out on an opportunity for the Women's Tag Team Championships. As she stopped at a red light, she plugged her phone into her car stereo and flew through her songs, settling on My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) by Fall Out Boy, turning up the volume until her windows shook and she was pretty sure everyone could hear it outside of her Range Rover but she didn't care. She had to clear her mind of all things to do with her family, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and CM Punk before she ended up in a car crash on one of the biggest nights of her life.

When she pulled into the Consol Energy Center she was belting the lyrics out at the top of her lungs until the very last second when she cut out her engine. Unplugging her phone, she got out of her car and got her bags before locking up and making her way in the arena. As she checked the sign for where the Diva's locker room was set up, all the things she had tried to block out of her head came flying back. So sighing, she began to walk in the direction of the locker room as she pulled out her phone. Searching for the number, she held her phone up to her ear and was met with the voicemail message again.

"Okay, this is message... I don't even remember how many messages I've left you, voice and text. I just want to talk to you and Roman, is that so hard to understand? If you even listen to these damn things, call me back." She left her message before hanging up. Slipping her phone in her pocket once more she was stopped suddenly by someone. Scarlett didn't even have to look up to know who was standing in front of her. She'd recognize the 'Stay Down' tattoos on this mans fingers anywhere. Hell, she used to beg for those fingers to be anywhere on her body on a regular basis.

"My, my, my, Scarlett Payne. Haven't seen you in a while." Corey Graves spoke from above her. Why must everyone be taller than her?

Looking up at him, a smile had made it's way onto her lips before she could stop it. "Corey Graves, it has been a while. What are you doing here?"

"Came to see the show. I had to once I heard you were competing for championship belts before even making it a month in the main roster." He said, stroking his finger over her cheek. Scarlett swallowed a little, nodded and began walking again. She knew Corey would follow her.

"And I had to come see our boy fight." He added in once he matched her stride. However Scarlett furrowed her eyebrows and turned her head to look at him, "Our boy?"

"Punk. Phil Brooks." He raised his eyebrow at her. "Who else is your boy around here, Payne? I've seen the pictures of you two and you know from experience I hardly miss Raw or Smackdown."

"Oh. You know him?" She questioned. They had dated for half a year and she hadn't been brought to the attention that he was friends with CM Punk?

"Yeah, I was just about to go see him when I saw you. Since you're prettier than him I thought he could wait." He grinned at her. She was about to respond when she heard her name being called from behind her. Turning around, she saw Tori running their way.

"Hey, I thought you were gonna text me when you got here?" She asked when she reached them before she noticed Corey. "Oh, whoops. Was I interrupting?"

"Not at all," Scarlett butt in before Corey could comment. "Tori Cross this is my friend Corey Graves, Corey this is my tag team partner and friend, Tori."

Scarlett watched them shake hands before Tori turned to her again. "Are you busy? Cause we need to go over strategy for tonight."

"No, I'm good. I'll be at the locker room in a minute." She said then watched Tori walk down the hall. Her attention was brought back to Corey as he let out a low whistle.

"I'm your friend, huh? That hurt, doll. It really did." He said using his old nickname for her, placing his hand over his heart. Scarlett shook her head.

"Remember who dumped who, Graves? You said you never wanted to see me again, so be glad I still call you my 'friend'." She spat at him and he chuckled, raising his hands in defense.

"Okay okay. Sorry, guess I'll go see Phil, let him know you're here." He went for a hug but Scarlett dodged him. "Okay, I'm going. See you around." And he left, walking down the other end of the hall. Shaking her head, Scarlett made her way to the Diva's locker room.

"I could look at that man all day." Tori voiced from her spot on the bench she sat on as Scarlett made her way over to her locker.

"Believe me, that's a road you don't want to go down." She laughed slightly. "Besides, I don't think Rollins would be very happy to hear you're checking out other men."

"You don't talk to them so he doesn't need to know." Tori laughed as well before turning her body to face Scarlett's. "So tonight, what are we going to do?"

"Hm.." Scarlett thought out loud as she pulled the zipper of her sweater down, revealing her pink and white polka dot bra underneath before taking off the sweater and shoving it in her locker. "I think I should go after Tamina. Powerhouse vs. Powerhouse." She reasoned, turning her head to look at Tori once more. Her eyebrows furrowed when she could've sworn she saw Tori staring at her, but she must've imagined it.

"Yeah that's a good idea. And I'll handle AJ." She agreed, turning to play with a string hanging down off of her gym bag.

Scarlett was about to ask if something was wrong when Cee Lo Green began playing out of her sweater pocket.

"I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind.

There was something so pleasant about that place,

even your emotions had an echo in so much space."

"Whose ringtone is that?" Tori asked, trying to hold back her laugh but she couldn't. Scarlett chuckled as she grabbed her phone, "No one's.

"Mhm, sure." Tori laughed.

Shaking her head, Scarlett slid her thumb across her screen answering the call then lifted her phone to her ear, "Hi, so you actually use this thing?"

"What do you want?" Dean asked her, sounding annoyed.

"You know what I want. I wanted to talk to you."

"You are talking to me." He pointed out. Normally Scarlett would've laughed, but there was no joking tone in his voice at all.

"You know what I meant." She sighed, "Can I see you and Roman?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because we have to focus on our match tonight. I don't want to screw up my opportunity to headline Wrestlemania just because you're fucking with my head."

"Dean, if you'd let me talk to you guys you'd know-" She began but he cut her off.

"Save it. I don't want to hear it." He said before Scarlett heard the line go dead. Groaning, she dropped her phone from her ear.

"So.. Dean Ambrose is crazy then?" Tori asked, biting her lip so she held in her laugh. Scarlett just looked at her and laughed.

"The following contest is set for one-fall and is for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships!" Lilian Garcia spoke over AJ Lee's music. "Introducing first, the team of Tamina Snuka and the WWE Diva's Champion, AJ Lee!"

Scarlett sucked in a breath as she and Tori moved into position. She was so nervous she was nearly shaking in her wrestling boots. What if she fucked up and made them lose?

Her mind was so preoccupied by her thoughts, she nearly did jump out of her wrestling boots when she felt a hand slip into her own.

"You're going to do great, don't worry." Phil whispered in her ear trying to calm her. She smiled at him softly.

"Thanks for trying to help, but I have to go down there and compete against a female Samoan and your crazy ex-girlfriend." She said and Phil laughed.

"That sounds like a walk in the park for what I have to do later."

Scarlett was about to apologize to him but her words died on her tongue as she heard 'This Means War' by Nickelback starting to play through out the arena. It was time.

"And their opponents, being accompanied to the ring by CM Punk, the team of Scarlett Payne and Tori Cross!"

Once they were on the ramp it actually hit Scarlett. She was at the Royal Rumble, on her way to fight for championship belts. Holy fuck.

Sensing that Scarlett was overwhelmed, Phil squeezed her hand and walked down the ramp along with her and helped her get in the ring. As Tori began trying to pump up the crowd even more, Phil bent his head down and kissed Scarlett square on the mouth. She was so surprised she barely heard AJ Lee start screaming something at her partner.

When he pulled back, Scarlett furrowed her eyebrows at him only to be met with a smirk.

"Good luck." He said before kissing her cheek and exiting the ring. Scarlett shook her head and watched as he went and stood at the edge of the ring.

"You ready?" Tori asked her and Scarlett nodded. "Good, Tamina's in first so kick ass. If I don't get tagged in I won't care, just make us win." She said before ducking under the ropes and standing by the steel pole.

When the ref asked if she was ready she nodded and the bell was rung. Scarlett walked forwards and immediately locked up with Tamina but before she could do anything, Tamina shoulder tossed her half way across the ring. Scarlett groaned and held her back, actually thankful that she and Tori had taken those days off to relax instead of sparing. If they had, that shot of pain could've been a whole lot worse.

She felt Tamina pick her up by her arm and then she was sent into the ropes. Rebounding off of them she was met with a boot to her face, knocking her down to the apron. Blinking slowly, Tamina disappeared from her vision but she was suddenly rolled up for a pin. She managed to kick out at 1 and a half.

Lifting up her head she saw AJ was in the ring with her now, and was coming closer to her. Faking she was more injured than she actually was, Scarlett laid her head back on the apron and covered her nose and mouth with her hands. When, as she predicted, AJ skipped her way over to her and began to reach for Scarlett's hair, Scarlett rolled her body up and kicked AJ right in the side of the head planting her to the apron.

Rolling over, Scarlett quickly pinned her but only got 2 and a half.

Getting herself and AJ to their feet, she threw AJ to the ropes and hit her with a clothesline as she came back off of them. She then grabbed AJ by the ankle and dragged her into their corner and slapped Tori's hand, tagging her in. Tori then hopped over the top rope, landing directly on top of AJ's midsection with her feet.

Tori dragged her to the middle of the ring before pinning her, earning a 2 and a half. Getting to her feet once more, Tori pulled AJ up and flung her to the ropes. As she hit them, Tori jumped up to drop kick AJ but only met air as AJ held onto the ropes, causing Tori to fall to the apron below hard. AJ then started smiling that big smile of hers as she skipped around to Tori's back before dropping down and putting her in a headlock. Tori grabbed onto AJ's arm underneath her throat, trying to pry it away but couldn't.

"Come on Tori! Get up!" Scarlett shouted to her partner and she watched Tori do as she said, however AJ countered and hopped up onto Tori's back, wrapping her legs around her midsection so that her air supply was shortening quicker.

Feeling herself getting light headed, Tori did the only thing she thought might work. Turning her back to Scarlett, she slowly ran backwards, running AJ right into the turnbuckles so that she released the hold. Tori flopped on the apron on her hands and knees as AJ sunk down behind her. Crawling around quickly, Tori slapped Scarlett's hand and rolled out of the way.

Scarlett got back in the ring with renewed energy and ran at AJ's corner, knocking Tamina straight off the apron. Turning around, she was met with AJ running towards her. As she leaped onto her, Scarlett caught her easily and spun around before dropping down, slamming AJ's back against the apron delivering a spine buster. Quickly pinning her, Scarlett got to 2 and a half before Tamina broke the pin by stomping on Scarlett's back.

Rolling onto her back, Scarlett watched as Tamina was ushered out of the ring by the referee. Shaking her head, Scarlett got to her feet at a reasonable pace. She then pointed her finger at Phil who immediately smiled, knowing what Scarlett was about to do. Scarlett then pointed at AJ Lee and joined her hands together and put them next to her cheek signalling one thing and one thing only; CM Punk's Go To Sleep.

Lifting AJ Lee onto her shoulders, she turned to face Tamina so she'd have to watch what happened, when AJ suddenly squirmed her way off of Scarlett's shoulders and landed beside her. When Scarlett turned to face her, she was met with AJ's sneaker to her face kicking her through the ropes to the mat below.

Scarlett groaned and held her head. It was now pounding, just like apparently Tamina's foot against her ribs. As Tamina stomped at Scarlett's ribs she didn't notice Tori taking AJ out with a Hurricanrana, and she didn't notice until the very last second that Tori was running straight for her. Tori ran from the side of the ring and jumped up onto the announce table with one foot so she could push herself off it, then delivered a drop kick to the side of Tamina's head. Once she was laid out on the ground, Tori got Scarlett up and shoved her in the ring. "Pin her!"

Scarlett slowly crawled her way over to AJ who was still sprawled out in the middle of the ring and laid her arm across her stomach as the referee started his count.

1..

2..

3!

Scarlett barely had time to register the 3 count as Tori and Phil launched themselves onto her. Holy fuck, they won!

"The winners of this match, and your new WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, Scarlett Payne and Tori Cross!" Lilian Garcia announced and suddenly Scarlett held a belt in her hand. Slowly getting to her feet, she lifted the belt above her head with one arm as she held onto her side with the other. She watched Tori run over to the corner and climb to the second turnbuckle as she lifted her belt high in the air.

"I told you you could do it!" Phil exclaimed in her ear so she could hear him over the music and crowd. She was about to respond when their music cut out along with the lights.

"Seriously?" Tori shouted, hopping down off the turnbuckle.

Just like before, the titantron gave a static noise before letters started scrolling across it. Scarlett leaned against Phil, hardly able to keep herself up as she furrowed her eyebrows at the screen. Her eyebrows furrowed deeper when the letters came together to spell out 5 words,

"We'll Shield You From Harm."

"What harm?" Tori asked and Scarlett shrugged.

As they waited for the lights to come back on like they usually did, this time they didn't. Instead, the titantron let out another static noise drawing everyone's attention back to it.

Everyone watched as 4 of the 5 words began to fade away, and a gasp rung out through the arena at the one word left on the screen.

"Shield"

Hehe, don't you all just love cliffhangers? :)