When we got inside the arena Dean went to get ready and I went down to catering to get something to eat so that I could have my painkillers. The pain was becoming too much and there was less than two hours before we were due to go on. So I grabbed a salad and bottle of water and sat down and played with my phone while I ate.
When I got to the locker room that I got to share with Roman and Dean, Roman was on his way out to go talk to someone so I got to spend a little bit of time with Dean. "Did you take your painkillers?" He asks as I sit next to him on the bench in the locker room. If I'm honest, I'm dying to give him a hug, I haven't hugged him in days and I sort of miss it.
"Yeah, they're starting to work now." I murmur.
"Good girl," He nods and shuffles over to me and put his arm over my shoulder. This is exactly what I was waiting for[ST1] . If I hadn't been such a hormonal cow this afternoon when we were at that café I would have gotten my hug a lot quicker, but unfortunately I was unsure about a lot of things and I pushed him away. I lean my head on my shoulder and close my eyes, the only down side to taking these wonderful drugs is that they make me sleepy. "Sleepy?" He asks curiously. I don't even bother opening my eyes I just nod my head gently and let out a yawn to confirm.
He chuckles, "We need a couch." I mutter in to his shoulder and he laughs loudly.
"Go see Seth before you fall over." He says and stands up so can't lean on him anymore. I pout but I do as he says and I take out my phone and text Seth.
New Message from Cat-
Hey Seth can we talk before the show? It's important.
New Message from Seth-
Sure, is everything ok?
New Message from Cat-
Everything is fine just need to tell you some stuff before we go on.
New Message from Seth-
Sure. I'm in catering. See you in five?
New Message from Cat-
Perfect, see you in a sec.
"I'm gonna go see Seth, he's in catering." I tell Dean and stand up.
"Do you want me to come with you?" He asks with a concerned look on his face.
"Nope it's fine, if I'm not back in fifteen minutes I give you permission to come find me. I'm only going to meet him at catering." I tell him with a small smile. The more time I spend with Dean the more I wonder why I disliked him so much in the first place. He's easy on the eyes, he's sweet and he worries far too much and his hugs are amazeballs and they make me so comfy that I get sleepy. He chuckles and nods in reply and I head out the door and make my way to the catering room.
I walk through the big double doors and spot Seth almost immediately shoving half a peperoni pizza in to his mouth. I roll my eyes and make my way over to him when he waves. Things have been calm the last few days, I haven't heard from him since he apologised to me in the gym when I had told him to keep his distance. If we were to become friends again I knew that he wouldn't do anything stupid, that talk he had had with Hunter had sure scared the living crap out of him and he certainly didn't want to lose his job. "I don't know how you shove all that down your gob right before a match." I frown at him and he grins at me. I take a seat opposite him.
"This is lunch and dinner." He grins at me cheekily.
"Of course." I roll my eyes.
"So what's up? You had me worried since you were the one who texted me first." He says as he swallow his mouthful of pizza and looks at me curiously.
"Well I'm gonna need you to take it easy on me out there tonight." I tell him.
"How come? Are you pregnant?" He jokes.
"No, I've got a bruised hip bone." I tell him with a frown.
Seth frowns in return and puts his piece of pizza down. "Can I see?" He asks. I nod my head and stand up and move around the table after getting up and lift up my top and move my skirt so he can see the ugly bruise on my hip. "Oh shit, did Dean do that?" He looks up at me with a look of pure curiosity on his face.
"No it wasn't Dean." I'm a bit shocked that Seth has just assumed that Dean would hurt me like that. "Remember that stalker I told you about right after we broke up?" I ask him and he nods his head. "Well over the weekend he turned up at my house and I was stupid enough to think that he would leave if I went out and asked him. He ended up pushing me in to the railing of the veranda and bruising my hip." I explain and continue when he opens his mouth to scold me. "And before you say it, I did call the cops." I've known Seth for a while and I knew that he'd assume that I didn't call the cops.
"You should be more careful." He says with a frown.
"So you'll take it easy tonight?" I ask and sit back down.
"Yeah of course, you know I'm sorry about everything right?" He mumbles.
"Yeah I know." I nod my head and a small smile spreads across my face. I think it's finally sunk in that it's over between us and he's moving on. "Hey I found a heap of your stuff in my bedroom when I was tidying up. I've packed it up in a box and I'll send it off next time I'm home." I tell him. Boy had that been a fun part of my weekend. When I decided to go through the pile of crap on my bedroom floor I hadn't expected to find a note he had written when we first started going out.
"Oh, you didn't happen to find my laptop did you?" It had been months since we had broken up but Seth had never come over to come and pick up all the things that he had left in my house. You could say that he had unofficially moved in to my house.
"Yeah I did, I brought it with me, and it's at the hotel." I say and try not to think about how weird it is that we're actually talking normally.
"Awesome, I'll come by after the show and pick it up. Ambrose is staring daggers at me by the way." Seth looks down at the table and tries not to laugh. I swing around in my chair and cringe when I hurt myself. Dean is standing in the doorway of catering and he's got his arms crossed over his chest and he's glaring daggers at Seth's head. Oh dear… I turn back to Seth and smile brightly. "You like him." At first I misunderstand and think that he's jealous but it turns out he was just pointing out the obvious.
Dean starts to walk towards us so I stand up. "We have to get ready." He murmurs stiffly not taking his eyes off Seth.
"Ok." I nod. "I'll see you at the hotel after the show." I tell Seth and walk off with Dean who seems a little confused.
"What's happening after the show?" Dean asks as soon as we're walking down the hallway. I look up at him and he's frowning at me, like that five minute talk with Seth had convinced me that I needed to get back with him. He looks confused and disappointed.
"He's coming over to grab his laptop." I tell him.
"Oh. So did you ask him to take it easy?" He seems relieved to know that I haven't ditched him to get back with Seth.
"Will you stop worrying, I did ask him and he agreed." I tell Dean and look up at him and smile. His concerned face is adorable and scowls at me in reply.
When we get back to the dressing room I go to get changed but Dean grabs my hand. "I think you should sit on my lap now." He smirks at me and I smirk back at him.
"I thought you said the reason we had to go was because we had to get ready?" I cock an eyebrow in his direction and chuckles.
"Well get ready then."
I grab my things and walk in to the bathroom and change in to tight black skinny jeans and pull on brown leather boots with a small heel. I team that with a cute tube top and then pull my hair out of its messy bun and ruffle it a bit and put some hairspray in it. I apply a little bit of make-up and then I'm done. By the time I'm done Roman is back, he and Dean whistle at me when I walk out of the bathroom, I have to smile to myself, I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have these guys in my life. Roman grins at me as he tells us that he's off to catering to get food.
"You can sit on my lap now." Dean says as I walk past him attempting to walk over to the mirror to check my make-up but he catches my hand and pulls me over to him and I sit on his lap sideways. I smile and wrap my arms around his neck and manage to hide my face and my blush in the crook of his neck.
"Better?"
"Much better." He chuckles and wraps his arms around my waist being careful of the bruise on my hip. "What's that?" I pop my head up when he asks. When I look up he points to my neck. I groan loudly, I thought I had covered it all up. I had left out quite a lot when I told Dean and Roman what happened on the weekend. Not only had my stalker bruised my hip but he had tried to choke me and had left quite a few bruises.
"Um..." I don't know what to tell him and I know that he's not happy. "Can we talk about it later please? I need to cover it up." I whisper and get off his lap and walk back over to my bag and grab out my make-up bag. He follows me to the bathroom.
"Was that the stalker guy?" He asks as I pull out bits and pieces from my make-up bag to try and hide the ugly bruise from my neck. I nod my head but don't say anything. Dean walks up behind me and wraps his arms around my stomach. "Did he do anything else to you?" He murmurs and buries his head in to my neck.
"No that's it."
"Promise?" He frowns in to my neck.
"I promise." I nod in reply.
"Get ready, we've still got a bit of time for lap sitting." He chuckles in to my ear.
I feel funny now, I don't want him to think that I was keeping things from him but neither Dean or Roman had asked if he had done anything else so I just didn't mention it. When I've fully covered it up this time I walk back to Dean and sit back on his lap. "Sorry." I mumble and lean my head on to his chest.
We sit there in silence for ages when Dean says something that shocks me. "Were you upset when I said I was going to pick up on the weekend?" I look up at him, I knew this would come up.
"I wouldn't say upset, confused maybe."
"Would you be upset if I did hook up?" He tilts his head to side and I smile softly at him.
"Depends, did you?" I giggle.
"Nope."
"Then no." I tell him. The silence is nice and lean my head back on to his chest and sigh happily, I haven't been content in a while.
"Sorry to break up your little party, but it's time to go." Roman stick his head back in the room and smirks at us. I frown, I don't wanna get up but I don't have a choice because Dean stands up and sets me back on my feet making my move my arms from around his neck. But I'm happy to say that he doesn't seem too fussed about public displays of affection and wraps his arm around my waist and leads me out the door.
All is good until we get to the gorilla where I wiggle out of his grip to give Randy a hug. "Randall!" I squawk at him and wrap my arms around his toned torso.
"Catherine!" He squawks back at me with a chuckle and hugs me back. "A little birdy told me that you were getting cosy with the lunatic." He looks down at me and raises an eyebrow and I grin back in reply. He laughs, "You be careful out there tonight, ok?" He mumbles and leans down at kisses my cheek.
"I'm always careful!" I grin at him.
I hug Dean before I leave and he also tells me to be careful, and then Roman takes my hand and leads me up in to the stands where he makes his entrance. "So is there something I don't know about?" Roman asks with an amused grin as we turn the corner.
"Um no?" I was pretty sure that Roman knew quite a lot about what was going on. Heck! Even Seth knew what was happened.
"Well in the car it sort sounded to me that you were making yourself available for him." He chuckles. "You told him that you weren't pregnant." I drop Roman's hand and stop in my tracks, what is he trying to say? "Relax, I'm just saying that you sort of made it a little obvious that you were available." He laughs.
"Roman!" I slap his arm and we continue walking.
When we get out to the ring Seth is standing beside Randy in the ring, Roman had helped me over the barrier and I was standing by the apron, if the was no need to get in the ring I certainly wasn't making the effort, not tonight anyway. The match started and I had managed to stay out of the way until Roman had been tossed out of the ring by Randy and Seth had made his way over to him to do some extra damage. I was quick on my feet and I raced over to him and stood in front of Roman so Seth couldn't get to him. "Get out of the way Cat!" Seth growled at me angrily.
"Make me!" I snarled back at him. Of course that was pretty much an invitation and he picked me up with easy and tossed me quite gently to the floor where I was able to land on my good side. Just as Seth went back to Roman I jumped on his back to try and distract him so Roman could get up, which worked quite well because just as Seth was about to toss me again Roman managed to crack him one right in the jaw.
I jumped off his back and helped Roman back in to the ring and walked around to the side of the ring where I had been before. But there is no such thing as luck and while I wasn't paying attention to what Seth was doing he pushed me against the apron of the ring and pulled my head back by yanking on my hair and made me 'watch' as Randy threw fist after fist in to Roman.
Funnily enough the crowd went while a few seconds later and Dean was standing at the top on the ramp staring daggers at my ex-boyfriend like he had been when he came to get me from catering. Seth dropped me for a second and prepared for Dean to run down to the ring. Unfortunately my sneaking away skills are terrible and Seth moved his attention back to me, this time turning me around and wrapping his large hand around my neck. Silly me hadn't told him about that either. I let out a cry of pain as he pushed me against the apron again and trash talked none the wiser. "Stop." I practically begged him, and this time I was being serious. I was in an intense amount of pain and my eyes had started to water but Seth wasn't paying attention. Dean of course was the only one that knew about the bruises on my neck and quickened his pace and ripped Seth a new asshole!
"How do you like it?!" He yelled at Seth as he pushed him against the apron and started to choke him. I sunk down on to the ground not paying attention to the match. But soon enough the bell rung and Roman's music started to play. I slowly got up clutching my neck only to see Dean and Seth still going at it.
"Dean enough!" I managed to mutter.
He stopped as soon as he heard my voice but not before sending an elbow in to Seth's gut. He dropped him to the floor and helped me up as he put his forehead against mine. "You alright?" He asks softly. I nod my head and against his, the show wasn't quite over. Now it was Roman's turn to get in on the action. He jumped out of the ring and pulled me away from Dean and pulled me up the ramp as I looked back at Dean. This was where it was going to get interesting, creative had decided that it would be interesting to make a rift between Roman and Dean instead having that stupid love square idea.
As soon as everyone was backstage Dean turned to Seth, "What the hell was that?!" He snapped as he walked over to me. I was sitting on a crate having a drink of water and Roman was standing next to me.
"Um I was doing my job? Maybe I should ask you the same thing?!" Seth grumbled back holding his neck, but I bet it wasn't as sore as mine. Dean walked the rest of the way over to me and cupped my cheek. He pulled my head back gently and look at the now visible bruises on my neck. "Fuck! Did I do that?!" Seth's eyes widen when he sees what Dean is looking at. "Oh my god Cat, I'm so sorry, I didn't think I was going so hard!" He says as he drops his unopened bottle of water and walks over to me to have a closer look.
"Not your fault, I should have told you about that too, it happened on the weekend." I mutter and take another sip of my drink. Roman was none the wiser about the whole situation until he looked a little closer.
"Dude!" He slapped Seth's arm.
"Roman it wasn't his fault, he didn't know." I mumble.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to make it worse." Seth is obviously really upset about this, he actually looks upset. I shake my head.
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"Its fine I should have told you." I mumble. "I'm gonna get an ice pack." I say and hop off the crate carefully and head down the hall to the medic's room to see the doctor. The doctor looked me over once just to make sure that I was alright and had no breathing problems and then sent me on my way. I had a shower which made me feel a whole lot better and then I went to find the guys. I found Dean in catering stuff his face.
"Hey, you feeling better?" He asks as I sit beside him and lean my head on his shoulder.
"Little bit, I hope Seth doesn't feel too bad. I should have told him." I mumble.
"He's fine, we had a talk." He replies. "You wanna go back to the hotel now?" I nod my head and he abandons his food and stands up and waits for me. His stuff is already in the car so he takes my bag for me and with his spare hand he laces his fingers with mine and pulls me out of the arena and through the parking lot.
When we get back to the hotel I go and change in to my pyjamas and when I come out in to the living room and Roman wasn't back yet. I walked over to the couch where Dean was sitting and he smiled up at me. "Can I see you hip?" He asks. I nod and stand in front of him. I wasn't going to tell him but I was still in a lot of pain. Seth had taken it easy on me but it still hurt being tossed around and now the bruises on my neck were aching and a lot worse than they were before the show. Dean leaned forward and grabbed me by the waist and pulled me forward and inspected my hip. He pulled me forward again and this time I had to place my knees either side on him and I made myself comfortable in his lap. "Oh I like this." He chuckled and look up at me with a cheeky grin.
"Yeah I'm sure you do." I mumble and put my hands on his chest and push him in to the back of the couch. I don't even know what I'm doing or if it's even me doing it! I lean forward like I'm about to kiss him. But it never happens because the door to the suite opens and Roman and Seth walk in and freeze when they spot us on the couch.
"Um… I brought food and Seth!" Roman offers with a cheeky smirk and walks all the way in to the room followed by Seth who closed the door and looked around awkwardly.
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