Chapter X (17.07.2017)

"Look, I'm not her for a fight or anything. What I'm here for, Dean is to ask you a question" Seth told his former friend, trying to calm him down. This could go awful if he made a bad movement "When I take the fight to The Miz and I will, brother. Will you be standing in my way, or will you be standing by my side?" He asked, carefully.

"I'm sorry… Did you say brother?" Dean ignored the rest of his speech. Seth tried to interrupt him, knowing he had fucked up with that word "Brother… I ain't your brother. My family was in the Shield! My family fought with me in the trenches. I trust my family!" The lunatic was not stopping and the public was having a blast "My family had my back! My family stood for something!" He looked Seth up and down "You… I don't know you… I mean, I knew a guy who looked a lot like you. He was a liar and a cheater. He was the kind of guy that would stab his family in the back. In fact, that guy took a chair just like this one" He showed the steel chair "and he stabbed right through my back and right through my heart"

"And that was over three years ago, alright?! And you know what? I'm sorry!" Seth needed him to understand that he regretted it "And I never said that to you before so I'll say it again, I'm sorry" He looked the lunatic's eyes "I live with that every single day of my life and I'm trying to earn my forgiveness, Dean" He had just go out of script. This was personal and he needed his Shield Family to know he was serious.

"I see your lips moving but I don't hear nothing" Every time he looked at Seth, all he could see was Roman and himself going on a rampage and his sister crying herself to sleep for a year because of him.

"You don't trust me. I get it. You don't want to listen to what I'm saying; I'll let my actions speak for me then. You got that" Seth pointed to the chair in Dean's hands "You got that little chair" He walked to the other side of the ring with his back turned in the other man's direction "Do it. Do it! Hit me! If that's what's going to make you feel better. Hit me!" Dean was pacing behind him, seriously thinking about it "Hit me, dammit!" Seth threw the microphone to the mat and extended his arms to in a cross, waiting for the blow. Dean prepared himself to do it but instead of hit him, he threw the chair out of the ring. Before anyone could react, The Miz theme song started to sound and a fight broke out.

Valerie was looking at Dean and Seth argue about the news they had just received, they were been paired up together against The Miz and his goonies and Dean didn't like the idea at all, when she felt a presence beside her.

"You know that he's going to forgive him at some point, right?" Roman said with concern in his voice.

"Like you have?" She answered him, sarcastically. She was still hurt that he had forgiven Seth so easily. Roman murmured her name but she was not having it "You keep telling me to listen to him but the truth is that I've seen him in the hallways multiple times and he had looked at me in the eyes and ran the other way. The truth is that it's impossible to listen to someone when the only contact you've have with that person in the last three years is thousands of flowers and a very vague note. The saddest thing is that for two years, all he needed to do was say hello to me and I would have forgiven him without a second thought. Now… Now, I've moved on" She said "And I knew Dean was going to forgive Seth since the he first interrupted one of his fights. Once he has fought the betrayal out of his system via fights with Seth, they will be friends again. I know that. I accepted that long time ago. What I didn't know was that you would side with him without a second thought and that… That's what hurts me the most, Joe" She before disappearing in search of A.J.

Roman stood in the middle of the room and looked at his two brothers argue. He needed to have a really long talk with Seth. If his brother didn't want to talk, he will force him to do it, even if it meant revealing Seth's true feelings about Valerie to Seth. He needed to start opening people's eyes. And soon.