Chapter 10

Phil had just finished taping his hands and drew the patent X mark on each knuckle when his locker room door swung open. He stood at the sight of Jonathan Good carrying his trembling sister and immediately rushed over to her. Her face was buried in Jon's chest and her fingers clutched his tactical vest to the point of her knuckles turning ghostly white. Anisa was scared out of her mind and Phil had to find out what happened, shooting a glare at Jon.

"What the fuck happened to her?" Phil demanded, extracting his sister from Jon's arms and held her close to him, feeling Anisa cling to him as if he was her lifeline.

Jon ignored Phil's attitude toward them since they weren't the best of friends. He respected the man professionally though. "I don't know. She rounded the corner in the hallway and slammed into me. I checked to make sure I didn't hurt her, which is why I brought her here instead of the trainer's. Figured it'd be best to bring her to her brother." He explained, concerned pale blues focused solely on Anisa, genuinely worried about her.

Noticing the worry from Jon made Phil uneasy, but he wouldn't be rude to a coworker who cared for his sister – not yet anyway. "Thanks for bringing her to me." Phil gently set Anisa on the couch and noticed how pale she was, walking away to grab her a bottled water out of his personal cooler.

"Not a problem…"

Jon didn't want to leave Anisa, but he had a feeling Phil wouldn't let him stick around to make sure she was alright. She was in good hands, though Jon had second thoughts about bringing her to Phil. He would've much preferred taking her to the Shield locker room where he could keep a close eye on her. Whatever or whoever scared her deserved a 6 inch hole drilled in their head and if Jon found out who was responsible, he'd make sure they received the maximum punishment. Giving one last long lingering look at Anisa, Jon turned and reluctantly left Phil's dressing room to go get ready for the Shield segment that night.

The Shield and Phil didn't see eye-to-eye on many things just like the Wyatt Family. They were both enemies of Phil's for different reasons – the Shield on a professional level and the Wyatt Family was personal. Anisa knew if she spoke a word while Jon was in the locker room, her brother wouldn't appreciate it, so she opted to keep her mouth shut until the Shield member left. Sipping her water slowly, Anisa felt her heart rate slow down and drew her knees up to her chest, still curled up. Phil sat down next to her, placing a hand on her pant covered knee and she finally looked up at him with a deep frown. She could see the questions swirling through his hazel eyes and heaved a shaky sigh, knowing there was no use in trying to lie to him. Phil could read her better than most because of how close they were.

"Did Ambrose hurt you?" Phil demanded in a gruff voice, every part of his body tensed and coiled ready to pulverize whoever scared his sister this badly.

"It wasn't him." Anisa assured him softly, not surprised at all by Phil's question the least bit.

"Then mind telling me whose ass I have to kick?"

Hesitant, Anisa could feel tears burning her midnight blue eyes and lowered them to her lap, pressing the bottled water to her forehead. She was still angry at him for keeping his WrestleMania opponent a secret – for going behind her back instead of being straight with her. Coralie's words flooded through her mind and Anisa knew she had to forgive her brother because they really were all each other had. If they were going to make things right between them, it had to be now since Mark Calaway was on his way back to the WWE in less than a week. Mark would love for the siblings to be at each other's throat and if it meant Anisa being the bigger person in order to refuse her ex-husband that satisfaction, she would.

"Stop being overprotective of me, Phillip." Anisa ordered, not giving him a choice anymore and managed to keep the tears in her eyes. "I know you love me and you want to protect me. And I love you for it, but I'm not made of glass. I can fight my own battles, especially when it comes to Mark."

Phil cringed as soon as that name left her mouth, already feeling his blood begin to boil. "Anisa…"

"No, you have to hear me out and listen to what I say." She cut him off, raising her hand when he opened his mouth to try contradicting her. "I'm not pissed at you for breaking your word going after Mark so much as you keeping WrestleMania a secret from me. I'm not a little girl anymore and I'm tired of you treating me like one, Phillip. I'm a grown woman and I should have a say in what I can and can't handle. I feel like you don't trust me when you keep secrets and I thought we were close enough to be truthful with each other. Coralie knew before I did, so that tells me you trust her more than your own sister. It hurts."

Up until now, Phil thought he was doing the right thing by making the challenge to Mark for WrestleMania. He thought he was doing it for his sister's honor. However, that wasn't the only reason why he wanted to face his ex-brother-in-law on the grandest stage of them all. Point blank, Phil wanted a shot at Mark's undefeated WrestleMania Streak – which was 20-0 so far. He wanted to be the guy that broke it because not only would it catapult his career to a new level, but also take away something precious from Mark. So it was a win-win situation and Phil would be lying if he said fighting for Anisa's honor hadn't been on the forefront of his mind when making the challenge.

"It's not all about you, Anisa." Phil spoke after collecting his thoughts and stood up from the couch, scrubbing a hand down his face. "Part of it is, but not the whole reason."

"I don't care what your reasons are." He didn't understand and Anisa felt drained, tired of fighting with her brother over her ex-husband. "You kept it from me, that's what bothers me about it. Whatever your reasons are, they don't matter to me. You are a grown man capable of making your own decisions. I was wrong to make you promise me not to go after Mark because he is an icon in this business. It'd be insane for you not to want to wrestle him because of a personal vendetta. I just wish you were honest with me about it, that's all." Anisa lowered her head, not able to hold back the tears anymore and felt them slide down her cheeks. "I'm sorry about hitting you last night…"

There were very few things in life that could drive Phil to his knees and Anisa crying was at the top of the list. "Don't cry, sis." He wasn't above begging at this point and lowered to his knees in front of her, taking both of her hands in his. "I can't stand seeing you cry, you know that. I'm sorry I wasn't honest with you." He'd do anything to get her stop crying and moved to sit on the couch beside her, wrapping his arms around her letting her head rest on his chest. "Don't apologize for slapping me, I deserved it for not telling you."

Anisa knew crying bothered Phil and she tried stopping, but it was useless. It took her a little while to calm down, but the tears finally ceased and Anisa pulled away from her brother to rub her red-rimmed eyes. "I wanna know why you challenged Mark at WrestleMania. I want the truth this time."

Phil wouldn't make the same mistake twice and heaved a sigh, admitting everything he'd been thinking. "If I can break the Streak…"

"Do you have any idea how hard that's going to be, bro? I have all the faith in the world in you, don't get me wrong, but…Mark's Streak is all he has left to stay in this business." Anisa knew it was pointless to argue with Phil on his decision to face Mark since it was signed and sealed to happen. "Just be careful, please. He's a different animal at WrestleMania and I don't want your personal feelings interfering with the match. I want you to be safe. Can you promise me that much?"

"I'll do my best not to get hurt, but you know shit happens when we're out there." Anisa would have to accept that because Phil didn't know what would transpire between him and Mark once the lights were on bright in front of thousands of people.

Maybe telling Phil what happened with the Wyatt Family wasn't the smartest idea considering they'd just made amends. Bray and his cronies hadn't made their debut yet, but the bosses wanted them backstage to watch and learn how things ran during shows. They were also taping video vignettes in certain cities the WWE performed in order to gear up for their debut. Since they were part of the main roster now, they were required to sign in like everyone else, even though their debut wouldn't be for several months. July was the latest rumor Anisa heard, but the month changed on a daily basis, so it would happen whenever the bosses wanted.

"So, are you ready to come clean about what scared the shit out of you earlier?" Phil hadn't forgotten how shaken up his sister was in Jon's arms, not sure if he liked Anisa hanging with one of the Shield members.

What Luke had said about Coralie chilled Anisa to the bone and that's what made up her mind to tell Phil what happened. "I had to go to the Wyatt Family dressing room because they didn't sign-in and you know how anal Rick is about that."

Phil groaned, already not liking where this was going and squeezed her hand gently. "Go on." If Bray -Windham, whoever the man was- laid a finger on his sister, Phil would make sure he never made his second debut in the company.

In 2010, Bray had debuted for a short period of time as Husky Harris during the Nexus –a heel stable formed from the television show NXT, season one to be precise, that came in and terrorized the WWE- period. He interfered at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in John Cena's match with Wade Barrett, the leader of the Nexus at that time –His real name was Stuart Bennett- and helped him defeat Cena. With Cena's loss, he was forced to join the faction, which was the stipulation of the match. It was Bray's way of trying to get into the Nexus group, but Barrett refused him. Barrett then had a change of heart and inducted them into the group a few weeks later. However, at the start of 2011, Phil ended up becoming part of the storyline by taking over the Nexus group and exiling Barrett from the group. Each member of the Nexus was put through an initiation and Bray's was being lashed by the rest of the group with Phil watching on. 3 weeks later, Bray was punted in the skull harshly by Randy Orton and sent back down to developmental for a complete character change since Husky Harris didn't work. Now he was Bray Wyatt, the leader of the Wyatt Family, and Phil knew eventually Bray would come for his revenge for what happened in Nexus.

Anisa explained everything that happened with the Wyatt Family, shivering involuntarily at the feeling of their hot breath on her neck. Phil didn't miss the shiver and clenched his fists, knowing this was his fault his sister was being targeted. It wasn't a secret they were siblings, everyone knew about each other on the roster. They were one big dysfunctional family, in a sick and twisted way. This wasn't good, Phil had to do something to keep Bray from going after Anisa, but he didn't know what yet. He would figure it out, refusing to let his sister pay for his past actions against the man.

"They freaked me out more than anything and when I ran into Jon, I thought they'd come after me." Anisa felt stupid for how she reacted and now Jon probably thought she was an emotional lunatic. "Anyway, enough about me there's something else that happened you need to be aware of."

What else could there be? Phil braced himself for whatever his little sister was about to tell him. "What is it?" He asked in a low voice, seeing the hesitation in her midnight eyes and hoped Anisa didn't clam up on him.

"Luke apparently had a run-in or something with Coralie earlier tonight. He said he enjoyed cornering her and that I'm as stubborn as Coralie. I didn't know how to respond, so I didn't say anything. But judging from the look of murderous intentions on your face, I'm gonna assume Coralie didn't tell you about it or hasn't had a chance yet." Anisa regretted opening her mouth because Coralie and Phil more than likely hadn't seen each other since arriving at the arena. They both had jobs. "You need to give her a chance to tell you before blowing your stack, bro."

She was right, no matter how much Phil wanted to go pound Luke Harper's face into mush. "I will. We're meeting in catering in about an hour. If she doesn't tell me there, I'll wait until we're back at the hotel, give her some time to mellow out and then see if she tells me. One way or another, she's going to tell me what the fuck happened." More occurred with Luke than Anisa knew of and Phil planned on finding out everything on what happened to his girlfriend. "I'll handle it, don't worry."

"Please don't tell her where you found out if she doesn't tell you. I don't want her angry at me for telling you."

"I won't, you have my word." Phil promised, hugging his sister and kissed the top of her head. "You feeling better now?"

Anisa nodded, cracking a small smile and was glad she told Phil how she felt about hiding things from her. "Thanks for listening and understanding why I was upset. I should really get going and check in with Rick before he has a coronary. He's probably sent a search party after me already."

"Probably." Phil shrugged, not overly concerned with Rick right now considering what he just found out about his girlfriend. "If you see Coralie, send her to my room."

"You got it." Anisa stood up from the couch, dropping a kiss on Phil's practically bald head before heading out the door to finish doing her job.

All she really wanted to do was end the night and go back to the hotel for some much needed rest and relaxation.