a/n: A little late, I know but as promised a new chapter is here! I was amused with the reviews for the last chapter, you guys are the best. Good guesses too on who the people at the end were. We won't find out just yet, but little hints will be thrown around in upcoming chapters. This is a bit of a filler, but I like this chapter lol. Enjoy and happy reading! :)

February 14, 2014

Dean's Apartment

Las Vegas, Nevada

18 Days.

It has been 18 days since Ally and Dean have last spoken to each other. Sure, they saw each other at work and were professional and didn't let their issues interfere with their jobs, but they haven't spoken about the night Dean flipped out on her. They were both stubborn and it seemed like at this point, they'd never make up. While Dean was getting grumpy over the fact that she wouldn't speak to him and basically stayed quiet when she was around the guys, she never did mention anything about a breakup or wanting him out of her life. He supposed that was a good thing. She definitely didn't deserve him. If he were Ally, he would have kicked his ass. He'd allow it if she wanted to hit him a bit.

The way he reacted that night was disgusting, but he was just angry and took all his anger out on her. He took his anger out on the guys too but he knew it was way worse with Ally. She didn't deserve to hear the things he said to her and he didn't blame her one bit for not wanting to talk to him, but he was getting annoyed with this lack of communication and needed to make things right. Ally was the best thing that had ever happened to him in a long time and he wanted her in his life for as long as she would have him.

Sitting on his couch in Vegas, he took a swig of his beer and was trying to think about how he could make things up with her. It had to be good.

"Still being a lazy bum?" Seth asked as he walked into the living room.

After the Smackdown taping in Ontario, California on Tuesday, the roster had some days off and everybody went their separate ways. Ally and Roman were both in Florida this week. Roman went home to his family while Ally stayed with Paige, since she had to be at the performance center to go over her upcoming match with Paige and Emma for the NXT Arrival event that would be happening the following week. It was going to be a huge live event since it would be the first NXT pay per view to air on the Network. Dean decided to go home and spend his days sulking and getting in his workouts, but he didn't do much of that. Seth could have gone home, but he decided to crash at Dean's place for a few days until he had to go to Florida to spend time with Paige.

"Shut up." Dean snorted.

"Just saying. You've been sitting there since we came in from our workout and that was about three hours ago." Seth said, plopping down on the other couch. "What's up?"

"Just thinking." Dean shrugged.

"About?"

"Stuff."

Seth rolled his eyes. He knew what Dean was thinking about, rather who Dean was thinking about. Dean just never admitted stuff when it came to his feelings.

"You know, you can talk to me about Ally. You know that right?"

Dean looked over at Seth. "How did you know I was-"

"Because whenever she gets annoyed or pissy with you, you always look like how you do now. Lost." He snorted.

Dean rolled his eyes but then nodded, knowing Seth was right. "I'm just over this whole not speaking thing and I know I fucked up big time with her, so I need to make things right."

"You sure did." Seth said and this caused Dean to glare at him. "Hey, Paige told me all about it and you were a dick to her."

Dean agreed and knew he definitely was a dick. "Fuck."

"Fix it."

"How? She hasn't spoken to me." He snorted. "What makes you think she'd want to hear me out?"

"Because she cares about you and even though she's stubborn as fuck like you…" Seth smirked as Dean snorted, "…she will hear you out. You just have to be honest with her dude."

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

"I usually am." Seth smirked as he folded his arms across his chest.

"Whatever." Dean shook his head. "I wanna fix this now, I don't feel like waiting until I see her on Monday. That's three days too long."

"You're gonna have to wait, unless you call her."

"Yeah, something tells me I need to do this face to face." Dean said as he sighed and ran a hand over his face. He was staring blankly at his TV stand, when he suddenly had an idea. "I've got it."

"FaceTime?" Seth asked. "I know you're not into technology but that's a great idea."

"No moron, not FaceTime." He said. "…what the fuck is that anyway?"

Seth let out a dramatic sigh. "You really need to get with the times."

Dean shook his head and sat up, leaning closer to Seth. "Hear me out." He said and began to tell him his idea.

WWE Performance Center

Orlando, Florida

"I think from this point, Emma and I will try for a superplex while you're down on the mat." Paige said to Ally as they all stood in the ring, going over spots they could hit for their upcoming NXT Arrival match.

Ally nodded as saw Emma go to the top and then watched as Paige climbed up and put her into a superplex position. "I think that instead of me missing out on the spot, to make it better and more effective, I could go under you Paige and when you superplex Em, I can powerbomb you at the same time so we all take a bump and sell it better." Ally said as she showed them what she meant.

"That will definitely get the crowd pumped and it would be more effective." Emma nodded in agreement.

They all let each other out of their holds and then went to stand back in the ring. "How do we want to end it?" Ally asked. "I mean we know you're retaining."

"Of course I am." Paige joked.

"Brat." Ally laughed as Emma shook her head in amusement. "I think you and Emma should end it. After all, you've been feuding for a while over the title. It started with you two and should end with you two. Like, when I do the powerbomb, I can roll out of the ring and let you two finish it up."

Emma nodded. "I think that'll work. You can hit the Paige-Turner on me and I can kick out, to make it a "shock" for the crowd and then from there, we can go at it and you can put me into the PTO and I'll tap."

Paige nodded as she listened to the girls. "I think that'll work. We can work out the little details throughout the week but I think what we have planned out should be good."

"I hope so." Ally said as they stepped out of the ring, so other superstars could go over their upcoming matches.

"It will be." Emma said, grabbing her towel. "I'm going to the gym. Anybody wanna come with?"

Paige shook her head. "That's all you today. I have plans."

"Ohhhh right, how could I forget?" Emma teased. "Ally? How about it?"

"Sorry Em, I think I'm just gonna go back to the hotel and chill out. I'm exhausted."

"Fine. Be that way losers." Emma joked. "I'll see you guys later." she said as she hugged them both goodbye and then headed to the gym in the Performance Center.

"That girl just loves working out." Ally said as she walked out of the Performance Center with Paige, heading to their cars.

"Tell me about it." Paige shook her head. "Speaking of working out, how are things with you and Dean?"

"Well, I haven't spoken to him since he lashed out. So things are wonderful." She said sarcastically.

Paige slapped her upside the head. "Don't be sassy." She laughed.

"Sorry." Ally said and rubbed the back of her head. "It's just frustrating and it doesn't help that he's so stubborn."

"He's stubborn?"

"Okay, we're both stubborn." Ally said and then sighed. "I just don't know if he wants to talk and if he does, how he'll react. I'm not really interested in getting yelled at again for caring about him."

"Is it really caring? Or more of the fact that you love him?" Paige asked with a knowing smirk.

Ally looked over at Paige and just let out a small chuckle as she shook her head. "I don't lo—"

"Yes you do!" Paige grinned. "I can tell and that's amazing, I'm happy for you."

"Well, with the way he's been acting, he's making it harder to do so." She joked. "I'm just ready for us to finally talk about this and move on, it's so stupid."

"I'm sure he feels the same way."

Ally looked at Paige and squinted her eyes. "Have you been speaking to Seth?"

Paige scoffed. "He is my boyfriend, so of course."

"I mean talking to him about Dean."

"…maybe?"

"You guys." Ally snorted. "This is why we all can't be friends." She joked.

"Hey, it's a good thing we all are. That way we tell each other what's wrong and we help each other fix it. Lord knows the boys need it." Paige rolled her eyes.

Ally let out a laugh and shook her head. "Is Dean still upset?"

"From what Seth told me, he's just frustrated that you both haven't spoken and he wants this to be fixed."

Ally nodded. "I'm glad we're on the same page. It's just so dumb that we haven't spoken in 18 days."

"Well pumpkin, looks like you'll need to fix things, huh?"

The Ritz Carlton

Orlando, Florida

"You've reached Dean, I'm not answering because I don't want to or because I'm busy. Honestly, I don't know if this voicemail crap is working. I fucking hate techno-"

Ally let out a small giggle as she heard Dean's voicemail recording and waited for it to beep so she could leave a message. Stepping off the elevator, she started to walk down the hallway and to her room, while still on the phone.

"Hey, it's me." She said into the phone. "I uh, I just wanted to call and talk to you." Ally sighed. "I miss you and this whole not talking to each other thing is so dumb." She snorted. "I guess call me back later so we can finally talk things out. I'll be waiting." She ended her message as she reached her room and hung up.

After Allison hung up, she started to put her phone back in her bag but then noticed that her door was cracked open. She could have sworn she closed it earlier and now she was starting to freak out, especially when she heard a noise from inside. Who the hell would want to rob from somebody's hotel room? Keeping her phone in her hand, in case she had to call the cops, she started to push the door to open it more and step in. When she did, she saw that the lights were off and went to turn them on, but then stopped from doing so. The room was dimly lit with candles and she was able to make out that there was a trail of rose petals on the floor.

That's when it hit her.

She knew Seth was flying into town today to visit Paige and take her out for Valentine's Day. He probably figured Paige was going to be staying with Ally and set up the room for her.

"Seth, Paige isn't with me." Ally called out as she followed the trail and stopped once again, seeing somebody else standing there.

"I ain't Seth." Dean said with a small smirk as he looked at Ally.

Dean's plan was to fly out to Orlando and surprise Ally, wanting to make things right as well. He didn't have an elaborate plan to wine and dine her or anything like that, he wanted to do something simple and knew that she would love. The rose petals and candles were perfect, he figured and they would go from there, depending on how their talk went. Dean stood there in a pair of jeans and a black dressy top, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He looked a-fucking-mazing and Ally had to refrain from jumping him right then and there.

"…hi." She said meekly as she watched him start to walk towards her, holding a single red rose in his hand.

"Hey." He said as he reached her.

They stood there awkwardly for a moment, not knowing what else to say. Honestly, they were both a little stubborn again, wanting the other to apologize but it couldn't continue like this.

"Is that for me?" Ally asked, nodding at the red rose.

"Of course." Dean said as he handed it over to her and she smiled to herself, then brought it up to her nose to smell it. "Look uh, Ally…" Dean started as he rubbed the back of his neck, a habit he had when he was nervous. "What I said a few weeks ago, I didn't mean it and I shouldn't have taken out all my anger on you. You didn't deserve it and I was completely out of line with you…again." He chuckled a little and was relieved when he saw she gave him a small smile.

"Dean, I just wanted to make sure you were okay and prevent you from doing anything that could jeopardize your career. I care about you Dean, a lot and I don't want anything to happen to you."

"I know." He nodded as he took her free hand in his and brought it up to his lips to kiss the top of it, then held it in his hand as he continued. "You know how I grew up, hell everybody does, so you know I'm not used to people caring about me. The times I believed that people did, they didn't and only used me. It's hard for me to believe that there are good people out there that genuinely care about me."

"Well, you need to start believing Dean, because I do and I always will." She told him with a smile. "I love you, you dick." She chuckled and saw how he just stared at her. It was the first time she had said it and she wasn't sure what he was thinking. "You don't have to love me back, but just know that I do. I'm always going to be in your corner and stick with you through the good and the bad. I might be crazy for doing so, especially with how you lash out, but deep down I know you didn't mean it."

Loved him? He had never heard anybody say that they loved him. What was there to love? He was a jerk most of the time and didn't bother with people. When he did, it was mostly just the guys and there was alcohol involved. This woman had to be crazy to say that to him.

"How could you love me?" he asked. "I'm a complete fuck up and I've been a dick to you. You should be kicking me out of this room."

Ally shook her head. "Dean, since we've been together, you've been nothing but amazing to me. Yes, there have been arguments here and there and you have lashed out, but like I said; I know you didn't mean it. Think about everything you've done for me or with me. Accompanying me to the Hall of Fame, making that a date, listening and being there for me when I told you about my family and my Father, protecting me, assuring me that I had nothing to worry about when it came to other women, surprising me for my birthday and now surprising me by flying in from Vegas to come and make things right. Nothing in there makes me see you as a fuck up, or so you say."

Dean shrugged a bit. "Well, I care about you too and if you're my girl, I want to do everything I can to keep you happy."

"See? You're amazing." She chuckled. "And it is why I love you."

Hearing all that, Dean let out a small smile and then pulled her to him and leaned in to kiss her. This wonderful woman, who shouldn't even give him a chance, was doing so and she was in love with him. She though he was amazing? No, she was amazing and she didn't even know it.

He pulled away momentarily and picked up her hand that held the red rose. "You know, I was told that red roses are given to those who you want to show love and passion for. Especially when it comes to a single red rose. A single red rose shows love and let me tell you, you beat me to it tonight as I wanted to say it first, but hey." He shrugged. "I love you too."

"Yeah?" Ally asked as she let out a grin.

"Mhm." He nodded with a smirk. "I have to if you're crazy enough to put up with me." He joked as she swatted his chest gently and let out a laugh, resting her forehead against his chest. He chuckled as he kissed the top of her head, wrapping his arms around her. "That and because you're amazing too. You've changed me in many different ways I didn't even know possible. I sound like such a sap half the time and am, as Colby would say; whipped."

"You are not." Ally rolled her eyes as she looked up at him.

"I am, but that's okay. As long as it's with you and only you." He replied, not giving her a chance to respond as he kissed her once again and then picked her up by her hips, causing her to let out a squeal and a giggle as she wrapped her legs around his waist.

"Babe-"

"Shhhh." He said as he kissed her again. "I think it's time we make up properly." He said with a small smirk as he walked them over to her bed.

a/n: Hate to cut it there, but I've never written out a love scene on here before and I'm rushing to get this up first lol. I might write it in the next chapter or just edit this one and replace it eventually. We'll see. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter! Review? :)

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate on Thursday! Enjoy the holiday! :)