[Sasha]
I was watching the match Seth and Finn was having right now. Seth was cleared just hours ago after the doctors deemed that he is okay but I am still worried, worried that he is trying to put on a strong front.
I winced as Seth was thrown to a ladder, worried that he is given a beating that he isn't prepared for. "Sasha what's wrong, you are never that worried when Seth has his match?" Becky looks on. "Don't worry, he will be fine."
"He just got cleared today, but I suspect he is hiding something from me." I looks on as Finn hits him with a chair repeatedly. "His movement is very different today, not as quick as how he usually does." I eyes how Seth moves as he sold the pain he was dealing with from the chair shots.
"He just got cleared today as you said, he hasn't been doing much conditioning." Becky tries to assure me. "He will be fine, don't worry about it." She slings her arm across my shoulder. "He has Finn to help him too, so don't worry about it."
"I hope so." I continues looking on at the monitor to observe Seth further.
In the ring, Finn positions the ladder at the belt, and slowly scales the ladder, in an effort to get the title and unhook it.
Seth comes in and climbs up quickly, throwing shots at Finn and then smashing his head on the ladder. He stretches his hands out for the ladder but Finn recovers and punches his ribs a few times, causing him to stagger. Seth recovers shortly and punches him a few time before Finn returns with a few punches of his own. They hit each other one last time and they falls to the mat hard.
I winced after seeing Seth falls and observes further if anything happens to him. Thankfully he is able to move, and he crawls to the ropes and slowly pulls himself up and he pants as the referee gets to him to check if he was okay.
He attacks Finn right away with lefts and rights, and Finn returns the favour, throwing lefts and rights back at him and the crowd starts cheering as they starts hitting each other and Seth gets the upper hand as he uses his knee to hit Finn head and he goes to the rope to give him a slingblade.
As he uses the rope to push himself towards Finn, Finn counters it with a spinning dropkick, and Seth falls to the mat.
I have to say, I might have over worried for Seth as he doesn't look like he is sick right now and he rolls out of the ring to recover.
Finn gets out of the ring and walks towards Seth slowly, clutching his ribs. He pulls Seth up and was hit by kendo sticks instantly, Seth suckered him in and hits him repeatedly over and over again before Finn dropkicks him to the barriers as a last resort, but the damage was done.
Seth gets to the ring first and positions the ladder and then scales it slowly and he gets up first as Finn gets in to hits his back a couple of time, still showing the reddish marks of the kendo sticks on his back. He climbs up the ladder and tries to retrieve the title, but Seth hits him a few times and tries retrieving the title himself.
Finn hits him back a couple of times and kicks him on the head, causing Seth to slide off the ladder. Finn seizes the opportunity and gets up, and stretching for the ladder. He holds onto it and I know Seth would lose the match right away.
But just then, the ladder shakes and it starts falling down, Seth pushes the ladder down and Finn falls onto a table outside.
This made me and Beth wince. "Ouch, that gotta hurt a big deal, I hope Finn is fine, that was such a big bump." I said to Becky as I observes further.
The referee access Finn and checks on him, but everything looks fine as he was able to talk to the referee.
Back to the ring, Seth sets the ladder right and climbs up to it and retrieves the title.
The crowd applauds Seth for his effort and the win as his music plays and he shouts out posing with the title on the ladder.
I was relieved that Seth got through the match unscathed and looks at Becky. "Thank god he isn't injured or anything." I hugs her quickly before getting up. "Our match is next, are you ready? Ready to make history?"
"More than ready to do so." Becky gets up and gets up to do her final stretching as our promo began to play so that Finn can be brought to the back.
Seth comes to back with the title, and hugs Hunter first before shaking Vince hands. "Thank you, boss." He thanks Vince before looking at me. "Hey babe." He walks towards me.
I throws myself to him right away and gives him a kiss on the lips. "That is a great match, now you are going to make it hard for me and Becky to steal the show." I said in jest as I touches my forehead with his. "I was worried for you, I thought you were still sick and you were lying about being recovered."
"I'm fully recovered, you don't have to worry about me." He breaks the hug and just pinches my nose gently. "I be here waiting for your match to be over alright." He gives me a kiss on the forehead.
"You better be." I smiles out before getting away from him to do my final stretching as the promo was about to end anytime soon and Becky has to enter the ring as well.
Just then I heard a loud thud, and I turns around and to my horror, it was Seth on the floor struggling to get his wits back. "We need some help here!" Hunter shouts out as he tends to Seth. "Seth, what's happening to you, what is wrong?"
Seth was unable to reply or say anything and I quickly got to him, quickly holding onto his hands. "Seth, what is wrong, what happened to you?" I asked him as the doctors tends to him quickly. "What is wrong with him?"
"We need to get him to the hospital ASAP, get the stretcher." One of the doctor got Seth onto an oxygen tank so that he could breathe.
"Hunter, let me go with him will you?" I pleads, forgetting about the match I am going to have with.
"Sasha you are having your match next, don't worry, I will be there with him, he will be fine alright, I promise you." Hunter grips my shoulder gently, assuring me that Seth would be alright. "Once the match is over, we will bring you to the hospital to see Seth, you got to calm down now." He pulls me for a hug. "Seth will be fine, he will be alright, don't worry."
"He will be, he will be." I mumbled to myself as I recollects my thoughts. "I can do it, I can do it." I said to myself, doing all I can to control my emotions.
The boss himself comes to me and gives me an encouraging tap. "Don't worry Sasha, he will be fine, you can do it, go tear the house down."
I nods at Vince and takes a deep breath. "Thank you boss, thank you." I jogs on the spot to get the distraction away.
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I tore the house down with Becky, despite the fact my mind was on Seth, whether he will be okay, I didn't know how I did it but I did it, and I win back the title in a very closely contested match.
I got backstage and was applauded by everyone who was still in the gorilla position. "Good job Sasha, you have done it again." One of the producer came to congratulate me.
"Thank you." I shakes the hands of every producers who comes to congratulate me.
After all the congratulatory handshakes and hugs were over, I looks around and was brought away by Charlotte. "Come girl, go get a change, I will bring you to the hospital with Bayley alright, Sami will drive there, go get a change now, and we bring you there as quick as we can."
A short while later, I was at the hospital, being led to Seth ward and I sees Hunter, who was outside. "Papa, how is he?" I was worried.
"He is alright, just that the doctor is keeping him under observation for now as they are running some tests to make sure there is nothing wrong with him." Hunter pats me on the shoulder. "He was waiting for you to come, trying to keep himself awake but couldn't do so as he was too tired, he's asleep now." Hunter brings me to sees Seth from the window. "He's alright, so don't worry." He then pats my shoulder encouragingly. "I have to say despite all the things you saw, you and Becky tore the house down, no one would expect you to be dealing with so much and still be able to put on a 5 star calibre match."
"Thank you papa, but all I want is Seth to be safe and sound, I couldn't focus much on the match, and my mind was all about him." I confided in him. "Thankfully nothing happened to him." I breathes a sigh of relief. "Can I accompany him tonight and then be back by the tapings?"
"Sure, I get someone to drive you to the arena later, I will come by in the afternoon to check on Seth." He pats on me and then yawns. "Alright, don't stay up too late alright, take a rest if needed." That was his last piece of advice before he leaves me.
Charlotte and Bayley comes across to hold me. "Seth is alright, so it's okay now, you want us to stay here with you?" Charlotte offers.
"Yeah babe, let us stay here with you, at least we can help." Bayley joins in.
I shakes my head as I smiled at their thoughtfulness. "It's okay, I be fine, and I can handle myself. Both of you need to rest after the matches you had earlier." I wanted them to go home as I felt I could handle this alone.
"You just had a hellacious hell in a cell match, you are tired too, let us stay with you." Charlotte reasons with me. "Don't try to face it alone, you have us."
"Don't worry Charlotte, I will be fine, I am strong too, if I need help, I will call the both of you, is that okay?" I assures that I be fine.
"Call us if you need help alright." Bayley comes to hug me. "Seth is alright, so don't worry about anything." She pats me for the last time before nodding at me.
After they left, I walks into the room and made sure he was warmly covered before I sits down beside him. "Hey babe, I'm here now." I said softly to him as I placed his hand to my cheeks so that he could feel it.
He stirs shortly and weakly opens his eyes. "Sash you are here." He mouths out softly as he tries to get up.
"Just sleep Seth, just sleep, you need rest now, don't talk much." I ushered him back to down to sleep. "Don't talk first, rest up first, we talk later."
He listens and soon he falls asleep and I sits back down to hold his hands, before fatigue starts overcoming me and I fell asleep holding his hand.
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I felt something was touching me and my eyes flutters open and I see Seth smiling at me as he caresses my cheeks next. "Hey good morning." He greets me with more energy.
"Hey honey." I gets up quickly and stretches painfully as my neck and my back feels sore. "Why didn't you wake me up?" I asks as I gets up to stretch further. "And how are you feeling?"
"I'm feeling better now babe." He comes across to make me sit on the bed with him. "You got to be very tired given you had such a tough match yesterday." He caresses my cheeks gently and touches my forehead with his. "I just watched the match just 30 minutes ago, you really tore the house down and not knowing what was my condition, you really made me so proud." He pecks on my forehead. "And I have to apologize to you, I did not know what went wrong with me, my body just went limp and I lost myself right after." He holds my hands.
"Don't worry about it Seth, I came out of it fine, I am the Architect girl, I am as tough as you too." I caresses his cheeks and just smile. "You will be fine, but I will dictate your recovery from now on, and you can't stay no."
"Alright alright, you are the queen, I listen to you." He smiles before pulling me for a hug. "I am so sorry that I scared you." He apologizes to me. "Some more it was the second time, and the second time happened before your match, thankfully I didn't cause you to screw up."
"I was scared that I would screw up too when you were sent to the hospital." I tells him the fear of screwing up at the main event. "Thankfully I didn't and thankfully you are alright." I was relieved that he is feeling better now. "How are you feeling, are you feeling wobbly or giddy?"
"I'm feeling better now, just tired because of all the spots from last night." He gets up and just stretches his arms briefly. "Can you get the doctor and ask him how am I?"
"Okay sure I will ask him for you and ask him to check on you." I gets out to find the doctor.
Shortly after, Seth was given the all-clear after being given a scan but was not to be used in any physical role for the rest of the week so he can rest up to heal completely. He was thankful to be out of the hospital as he doesn't like staying in hospital one bit.
"Remember about the appointment you made with the doctor on Wednesday alright?" We were back in the hotel already, and I was making sure he takes note of the doctor appointment. "I will be accompanying you too." I said as I took note of it down in my phone. "I will inform Hunter that you are discharged already but you better don't tell him you are up for Raw tapings later." I warned him as I takes out a fresh pair of clothing as I wanted a shower.
"Okay okay, I stay here, I won't show up in the arena alright." He comes across to hug me. "Are you showering, can I join you?" He rubs my tummy and tickles me slightly.
"Go away!" I pouts for him to see. "I hate you, you always know my weak points." I takes a towel from the hotel wardrobe and just stretches out. "If you want to join, you have a few seconds to come in and it's like now." I walks quickly to the bathroom.
Seth was faster and he gets in the moment I comes in and he closes the door quickly. "So the answer is a yes then, right?" He pushes my shirt up briefly, revealing my tummy to him. "Can I?"
"You can." I lifts my arms up and lets him do what he wishes with me before he leads me to the bathroom and lifts the tap to let the water run down on us. "Don't be so naughty alright." I presses my lips to his gently.
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[Seth]
I was on the phone with Sasha, telling her it was okay that she wasn't able to accompany me to the doctor. "Don't worry Sasha, I can go there myself, just go for the press conference first, I see you later back home alright?" I smiles at her pouting face.
"Tell me what is the prognosis alright, and I am so sorry that I am unable to attend it with you, I have to attend the press conference for Evolution 2." She looks at me apologetically as her fellow horsewomen gets into the video. "Hey guys, stop coming in." She complains in jest as Bayley and Charlotte comes into the frame.
"Hey Seth, so sorry we kidnapped your girl away from you today." Bayley laughs out as she hugs Sasha. "You had her for too long, so let us have her for the time being, you won't be that petty to us right?"
"I don't think he dares to." Charlotte comes into the frame and waves at me. "Don't worry, once the press conference is done, she is coming back to you alright, we wanted to kidnap her for awhile longer but she said no as she wants to go back to spend time with you." She makes a face as she drags Sasha back to frame.
"Alright alright, we have to go now, so Seth, remember to update me later, I be back by 6pm, so see you later, love you babe." She blows a kiss to me.
"Love you too babe, goodbye." I ends the call and then heads to the hospital to see the doctor to get a result of what is wrong with me.
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My world came crashing down instantly as I got the bad news. "What do you mean I have leukaemia, and how could I be getting it?" I was in disbelief as I heard the words leukaemia.
"The fainting that you been getting was due to leukaemia, as of now, it's still early stage, so we can treat it quickly, but you need to stop whatever you are doing for now." The doctor advises.
"I can't wrestle? For how long I need to be on the shelf?" That was all I wanted to know.
"For at least 3 months while we try to get it in remission." The doctor replies as he types on the keyboard quickly. "I have referred this case to your WWE doctors as they requested." He tells me.
"What if I insist on wrestling, what will be the consequences?" I loved wrestling too much and I wanted to know what might happen.
"You might not survive if you keep wrestling, a misjudged move on you might kill you, so you have to stop wrestling." The doctor informs me and then pats my hands. "Mr Rollins, you need to understand, this is a life we are talking about, you need to take good care of yourself." He sighs as he continues on. "I know it's hard to take this in but you need to focus your energy on healing and getting better, you still can wrestle."
"I know doctor, thank you, what options do I have right now?" I asked.
"As of now, I am transferring your case to your WWE doctors first and I will give them my suggestions on how your treatment will be like." The doctor pauses and then writes something down on the paper. "I will also prescribe you some medicine to control your illness for the time being, but I suggest you go to your WWE doctors and talk to them and see what the best cause of action is."
"Alright, thank you doctor." I heads out of the room and just walks to get my prescriptions. "Why, why does it have to be me this time around?" That was the words that was running in my head.
Back at home, I was on the phone with Hunter, having to tell him the news first as he is the one handling my character creative direction. "Hey Hunter, I got the report from the doctor, I want you to be the first to hear it."
"It must be something bad isn't it, if you are telling me in this manner, so what is it?" Hunter replies back and could sense that something isn't right.
"I have stage 1-2 leukaemia, the doctor has referred the case to our doctors, I am just here to tell you because at least you know what to do with my character." I was already broken down telling him that. "I am sorry Hunter, I let you and the company down."
"Seth, you did not let me or the company down." Hunter voices it out quickly. "Don't worry about it, for now, just focus on healing and beating this illness away alright." He sighs. "Do you want to announce it at the next Raw taping or just keep it quiet?"
"I announce it at the tapings." I sighs myself and just kicks the sofa. "Hunter I don't know what to do now." I confides in him. "This isn't supposed to be happening now, what I am going to do, how I am supposed to tell Sasha." I falls to the floor. "Should I keep it from her?"
"Don't give up Seth, don't you give up." Hunter lectures me. "And you have to tell her and let her know about this, I know you don't want her to suffer with you, but I am sure she would rather you tell her than wallow in pain alone."
"I will tell her after she comes back." I was struggling to keep my emotions in check. "Hunter please don't tell anyone yet, let me be the one to tell people."
"Don't worry, your secrets are safe with me, I won't tell anyone about it, rest well Seth and don't think so much, I talk to you later." Hunter ends the call.
I shakes my head and just covers my face on my knees. "Why does this have to happen to me? I am at the top of the chain and I have the best girlfriend with me, why does god have to give me this illness." I mutters to myself as tears spills out.
I took the pills and just sees my phone ringing, it was Sasha who was calling, but I didn't know how to tell her and I didn't want to see or hear her reaction, she tends to be the one who wouldn't be able to take this kind of news easily. I ignored the phone call and just covers my face. I was trying to find ways to tell Sasha that I have cancer, and I do not know how to tell her.
I just covered my face and just stood there, ignoring all the phone calls from Sasha as I covered my face, and contemplating the choices I have left.
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Later on I dozed off onto the sofa and I could feel a hand on my cheeks and I stirs and opens my eyes to the familiar touch. "Sasha, you are back." I gets up tiredly and shakes my head as I tried to get myself awake.
"Why didn't you answer my phone calls?" She asks as she sits beside me. "I called you at least 30 times, why didn't you answer?" She presses the issue. "Is there something wrong with you medical report?"
"Just leave me alone Sasha, let me have some rest, I'm tired." I tries avoiding the topic as I didn't want to tell her right away.
"You are avoiding the topic, and that means something isn't right, tell me Seth, what is wrong, share with me please." Her voice was gentle still as she pulls me up. "Please. Seth?"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" I lashes out at her and just gets up. I didn't mean to lash out at her but it was too late to regret it. "Just let me be alone please?" I walks away from her, I wanted to run away.
Sasha just walks and grabs onto my hands. "Something isn't right Seth, you have to tell me now, you have never lashed out at me before, and I know you didn't mean it, don't do this now Seth, don't keep it to yourself, tell me now please, just tell me what's wrong, we can fix it together."
"HOW ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS?!" I lashed out at her again. "I have stage 1-2 leukaemia, how is it going to be fixable, I can't wrestle anymore for the time being?!" I began tearing up. "I thought I have the perfect life, I have you, and I have the title again, I thought I will be able to keep doing this forever!" I collapses onto the floor and tears up.
"Seth." She squats down and just hugs me. "You still have me to spend the rest of our lives together, I will go through this with you alright, everything will be fine Seth, you will not be alone for this, I will be here with you and we will beat leukaemia together." She pats my back and rubs it next. "Just let it out, everything will be fine alright."
I just cries out bitterly on her shoulder while she comforts me.
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My eyes flutters open and I realizes it was already night time. I recollects my thoughts and remembers I cried myself to sleep on the bed with Sasha accompanying me. This was something that Sasha did often in the past and how ironic it is now that the roles are reversed, I'm the vulnerable one now.
I walks out of the room and finds Sasha placing plates down on the dining table and she looks at me upon sensing my footstep. "Hey you are up, dinner is just done, come sit down and let's eat, alright." Her voice was tired and strained, and I could see her reddish eyes which meant she must have cried just now.
I felt a pang seeing the swollen eyes but I know if I asked her right away, she would spill for sure so I keeps quiet and just sits down to wait for her sit down as well. "We could have just ordered takeaway babe, you don't have to tire yourself to cook for me." I said to her softly as I held her hands.
"It isn't tiring to me when I can cook for my loved ones." She replies softly as she smiles back at me. "Let's dig in now, alright?"
I nods and just digs in and we didn't talk much to each other, as we were still visibly affected by what happened earlier. I wanted to talk to her more but I didn't know how to broach the topic and I was afraid she would cry out. The least I could do was to hold her hands as long as I could during the duration of the dinner. "Babe, let me feed you alright?" I starts something as I took a piece of the meat and place it near her lips.
"Alright, I feed you too." She smiles back at me and feeds me back. That was basically our interaction for our dinner as I didn't dare to say something else to her.
After the dinner, I observes her as she washes the plates and I notices her rubbing her eyes and I knows she was worried and scared, scared that she might lose me. I walks towards her and quickly envelops her with a hug. "Babe, don't cry please, if you cry, you make me cry too. Hush now alright, I will be fine." I said to her softly and just pecks on her cheeks.
"I'm not crying, my eyes just itchy today." It was a very bad excuse from her as I could sense how strained her voice is. "I'm tired too, I didn't get much sleep the last few days." She continues washing the plates.
"Sasha, I know you too well babe, don't try to lie." I said to her gently as I made sure her hands was free of soap. "I will be fine, I will fight this for you, I will fight leukaemia off and I will be with you forever, I bring you to see the northern lights like I promised." I made my promise to her.
She shakes her head and turns to face me. "You just need to promise me you will let me go through this with you, let me be with you through this obstacle, alright, promise me." The tears in her eyes was threatening to fall.
"I promise." I cleans the tears off her eyes and forces myself to control my emotions the best I could. "You have to promise me you will not cry, because if you cry, I would cry too, you are the one I living for, don't cry anymore Sasha, alright." I kisses her temple gently before clearing the tears off. "Just this time, I let you cry alright, but afterwards, no more tears, we face this and beat this together."
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. "I will not cry, until the day you recover and get this into remission." She shows me a smile before hugging me.
Here is chapter 10 guys, please enjoy