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"Go see him."

"Not happening." She shook her head. "I explained to him that it was nothing and we were just talking. Nothing happened, Seth."

"Two of the most stubborn people on the planet managed to get into this situation." Seth sighed, doing odd gestures with his hands. "He misses you, I know he does, but he refuses to call you until you own up to your mistake."

"My mistake?" Ava asked, disbelief clear on her features. "I went out to go talk with Corey, not jump into bed with him. Does that mean I want Corey or that I have feelings for him? Absolutely not. Does it mean I want him in my life again? Maybe. Seth I would never cheat on him."

"Ever since this all happened." He smiled, pointing towards her stomach. "He's been a different person. The more time that you two spent together, the more I noticed he was developing feelings for you. He can swear up and down that the baby brought you closer together, but I really think it was just you two getting to know each other."

"I care a lot about him." Ava admitted, setting her glass down. "He's been a constant in my life recently and I just don't like not having him around. Knowing that I have him makes me smile and I was really looking forward to us building a relationship together and now it just went kaput."

"It didn't go kaput." He sighed, sitting down next to her. "You two are just hardheaded and refuse to admit any wrongdoing."

"I don't see how I was wrong to hear him out." She muttered. "People change, Seth, I know they do. Sure, I never thought that growing up, but now, I don't know, being pregnant and knowing that there is a life growing inside me and that I'm starting a new chapter in mine, I feel that I'm seeing things differently now. I feel like I've gained an understanding throughout all of this."

"Roman just doesn't like it because of what Corey has said about you and what he could potentially still be saying about you." He offered as a reason. "Come on, Ava, doesn't it seem a little suspicious that Corey has decided to come around now?"

"No, it doesn't. People come and go all the time."

"You of all people should know what it means when someone comes back after a while." He pointed out. "He just wants you to be careful. Was it right of him to say that you can't be friends with certain people? No. You're a big girl and you can decide that on your own. But in a relationship like the one you two have, you guys have to listen to each other."

"He refused to listen to me, Seth!" Ava exclaimed. "I tried explaining to him numerous times that it was nothing but he saw nothing but his own jealousy."

"Think of it from his perspective, Ava. If one of his old girlfriends came back and tried to swindle him or break up your relationship, you would create such a disturbance. Your jealousy is just as bad as his."

"I understand where you're coming from. I'll admit that I would be jealous, but I'd believe him if he said nothing happened." Her eyes connected with his. "The feeling I got from him was that he didn't trust me. I'd repeatedly tell him nothing happened, but Roman would ignore it. It was the same argument coming from him that I had no choice but to tell him to leave."

"Shutting him out doesn't solve anything."

"It never does." She sighed.

"You two were thrown into this and you're still trying to deal with it, but you both have to be adult about this. A child is going to be brought into this and if you can't get along, the poor kid is screwed. Changes were progressing between the two of you nicely and then this happened."

"It will get worked out." Ava said with a hopeful smile. "I just don't like that he implied something happened when it didn't."

"Talk to him, Ava."

A short silence fell between the two of them. She contemplated talking to Roman and putting the whole incident behind them. If not for the sake of their relationship, then for the baby. It wasn't fair for him to be brought into a tense situation.

"What are you thinking?"

"That I need to go talk to him. It's been two weeks and I miss him."

"Go see him."

"I will." She said. "Right after you tell me who sent him the picture."

"We'll talk more in the car." He helped her up to her feet. "The NXT taping awaits us."

For two weeks everything festered on his mind until he shook with rage. His fight with Ava and the nagging suspicion that Corey was up to something ate away at him. It didn't help matters that Ava was being naive about it.

"Have you tried talking to her?"

"I refuse to talk to her until she realizes that this fight was on her."

"This relationship is never going to last if you fight about every single thing." Dean sighed. "There are things you have to forgive."

"All she ever did was bitch about Corey and how every word out of his mouth was utter bullshit. That everything he ever said about her wasn't true. How am I supposed to believe her now that she went out with him?"

"You said yourself that it was just to talk."

"And that she would probably let him back in her life."

"Key word here is probably." He leaned against the wall. "If nothing happened between them, then I'd believe it."

"I think it's bullshit." Roman growled. "He's up to something and I don't like it. I don't want him interfering in my life or hurting my family. Even if I am pissed at her, I still want to protect her. The last thing I would want to happen is for Ava or the baby to be subjected to any pain."

"Did you ever think about that when you decided not to speak to her? She was probably hurt about not seeing you or hearing from you."

"I doubt she was." He shrugged, then scrunched his face into a look of disgust. "Ava has that tattooed little douche bag now."

"I saw her a few days ago and she's pretty upset about the whole thing. Especially, with you not being at the last doctor's appointment."

"Didn't feel the need to be there."

"Oh man do you two need to do a lot of talking before giving a relationship a go. It will never last if it keeps playing out this way."

Movement out the corner of his eye caught his attention. Turning away from Dean, he looked in the other direction and smirked when he realized who it was. Cracking his knuckles, he put one foot in front of the other and started that way. There was some business that he needed to take care of.

"Stay away from her." Roman pushed him into the wall when he reached him. "I don't want you anywhere near my family."

Corey was quick to catch his balance and shove Roman back equally as hard. "I didn't do anything to your family!"

"Let me make myself clear then." He shoved him again. "Stay away from Ava and my baby. After all that shit you said about her and all those months of not talking, now you decide to worm your way back into her life."

"I don't know what you've heard..."

"I don't want to hear your bullshit excuses, Graves!" Roman shouted. "I want you to stay away from them! You have no right to be near them and getting inside her head."

"You can't fucking tell me what to do, Roman." Corey spat. "If she wants me around then I'll be around. If she doesn't, then I'll go away. I just missed her and wanted to see how she was doing. What's it to you anyway?"

"My girlfriend doesn't need added stress from dip shits like you being around."

"Girlfriend?" He asked, trying not to laugh. "You and her, together?"

"She's pregnant with my child." Roman seethed, not amused. "Why's that so funny?"

"You two loathed each other and I'm to expect that all is hunky dory because of the baby." Corey asked. "Or is that you're jealous that she is giving me attention? That I could possibly be in her life, in your baby's life."

Corey didn't have enough time to dodge Roman's fist. His knuckles busted into his jaw, sending him scurrying to the floor. Grabbing his jaw, he scrambled to his feet and tried to take him down. Only Roman anticipated the move and was able to send is elbow into his back, sending him back to the floor. Moving back, he sent his foot straight into his ribs. Everything seemed to go black around him as their fight escalated. Punches and kicks from each man seemed to cause as little pain as possible. Everything seemed to be going slow around him as he pushed Corey off and went to take him down again.

He didn't hear anything or even feel people pulling him back. Faces and sounds blurred around him as he was taken to a far off room. Somewhere where it would be impossible for him to do anymore damage.

"Let me go!" He tried to get out through the crowd of people holding him back. "He needs to learn to stay away."

"Everybody out!" Ava exclaimed as she walked past Dean and Seth. "Get out! I want to speak to him alone."

She watched as everyone filed out of the room. Hushed whispers of why it could have happened filled her ears and she impatiently waited for all of them to exit. When Adrian exited the room, she looked at Dean and Seth, silently pleading with them to leave too. Nodding their heads, the two exited the room, softly closing the door behind them.

"What the hell has gotten into you?" She demanded, standing in front of him. "Fighting backstage! Are you insane?"

He glared up at her. "Oh, are you speaking to me now?"

"Spare me the sarcasm, Roman." Ava spat. "I come here to smooth things over and I find you two idiots having a brawl in the middle of the hallway. And for what? The fact that I went to coffee with him two weeks ago."

"I don't want my family at risk." He rose to his feet. "I don't want you or my baby hurt. I sure as hell do want him in our child's life. He has no right to be this much of an ass or to even ask a thing from you after what he's said about you."

"You didn't either and I still gave you a chance." She looked over at him. "Maybe, it's my pregnancy and everything, but I'm slowly starting to realize that there are things I never noticed before. Despite what's happened, I've realized things change and so do people. If I make that mistake, then it's mine to make."

"We're a mistake now?"

"Don't twist my words." She held her hands up and then dropped them down to her sides. "I never said that. I'm just saying that sometimes not everything is what you originally think it to be."

"It's me or him."

"Choosing isn't the way to go. There's nothing for me to pick between." She walked over to him. Cupping the side of his face, she gently brushed her thumb across his lip, trying to wipe away the blood. "I was going to tell you about talking to him when you got back. It was nothing I ever intended on hiding from you, Roman."

"I don't want you around him or the baby either. Something isn't right, Ava." He whispered. "I don't trust him. Please, just listen to me when I tell you this. I'm only doing this to protect you."

"You're still implying that something happened between me and him. Nothing did. I need you to put everything behind you. Those rumors you've heard need to be forgotten. That isn't who I am, Roman. If we're going to be together we have to learn to trust each other and take things slow. We were stupid to think that just diving in head first would work."

"What does this mean?"

"It means we slow things down." Her arms wrapped around his neck. "It means that we both have to work on our issues with jealously."

"I'm not jealous."

"Yes, you are." She sighed. "So am I."

He scrunched his brows in confusion. "I beg your pardon."

"I know about you and Summer." Ava's eyes caught his. "I know she sent you the picture."

A/N: This is where I leave you.