Chapter 34

"You ready for this, bro?"

Roman cracked his knuckles one at a time, nodding. "Lead the way."

After Keyla screeched and gushed over Lennox and Roman being engaged, Jon gave his congratulations before both couples headed to the arena. As happy as he was for his best friend, the boys had business to take care of. Raw meant all the Superstars were in the same building. Seth Rollins had been in different cities throughout the weekend for house shows, so Jon and Roman had to bide their time until Monday to track him down. April and Heidi gave the information they wanted after being given a taste of their own medicine and now it was payback time. Jon didn't know why he couldn't piece the puzzle together sooner.

Of course Seth was behind the stalking bitches and mind games! He went behind his and Roman's back to split up the Shield and didn't have the balls to talk to them about it beforehand. Instead, they were beaten down with a steel chair, Jon more than Roman, and his shocked expression would forever be etched in the annals of WWE history. Jon hadn't gotten nearly enough of Seth during the months they feuded after the split and the pay-per-view Money in the Bank, when he was screwed out of winning the briefcase. Seth definitely had a beating coming his way and, the best part was, this time Roman would get a piece of the action.

With the backstage chaos and frenzy, it was the perfect time to confront Seth and beat what was left of the cheap dye out of his skull. Standing outside of the room marked 'Seth Rollins' in black thick font, Jon and Roman shared a look before bumping fists, kicking the door open a second later. Seth's head snapped up with dark wide eyes and he immediately rose to his feet, staring back at his ex-business partners. What the hell did they want? This was the final Raw before WrestleMania, where he WOULD defeat Randy Orton, and further cement his own legacy in the company. Seth had no time to deal with whatever problems Dean and Roman had, especially tonight.

"What the fuck are-" The words died on Seth's lips as he watched Roman shut the door to his locker room and flipped the lock on it, fear slowly gripping his insides. "I don't know what's going on here, but…" This time, he was silenced by Dean's fist plowing into his mouth, shutting it temporarily.

"You're a lying sack of shit, Rollins." Jon growled, delivering another blow to Seth's mouth and sent him sprawling to the floor on his knees. "Might as well cut the fucking act. We know what you did."

"To us AND our women." Roman chimed in, folding his arms in front of his chest to block the door from anyone coming in. "Didn't think we'd find out, did you?"

Jon squatted in front of Seth, pure hatred and disdain burning in his icy eyes, satisfied at the sight of blood coming out of the dick's nose. "No, he thought he had it all figured out. Sending whores after us and our women to try wrecking our relationships." Burying his fingers in Seth's hair, Jon was shocked when he received a sock to the face by Seth's fist and chuckled ruefully. "Good, I was hoping you'd put up a fight. Makes it more fun."

"I d-don't know what you're talking about!" Seth cried out, sounding terrified and shook his now sore hand, stumbling back from Dean. "Get out of here! Leave me alone; I didn't do anything!" The company had been doing investigations for over a week and Seth had been one of the first people to be interrogated. "T-They cleared me!"

Snorting, Jon didn't buy anything his ex-Shield brother claimed and drove his balled up fist into the man's abdomen, not lightening the blow. The breath left Seth's body as he crumbled to the floor on his knees again in front of Jon, clutching his stomach trying to breathe. He was sure a few of his ribs were cracked from that blow and, if they weren't, it would be a miracle. This was WrestleMania week; he couldn't afford an injury going into his match against Randy. Jon didn't care about WrestleMania at the moment or his career; nothing mattered except making Seth Rollins feel as much pain and agony as he caused them over the past several months.

"You don't, huh? You're gonna stick with that?" Jon demanded, whipping his phone out as Seth nodded shakily and scrolled through his media until a certain video popped up. "Then explain this, prick."

It was a video from the kidnapping and showed a tearful platinum blonde chained up to a bed. Jon had secretly filmed the entire confession, his voice yelling at her demanding to know who the culprit was. Who was the puppet master? Seth's dark eyes nearly fell out of their sockets the moment the crying woman murmured his name. It was loud enough and audible to clearly hear his name spill out of her mouth. The video footage ended with her head dropping in shame and Jon slid his cell phone back in his pocket, glad he'd used Keyla's charger to give it a full battery before leaving the hotel.

"T-That bitch is LYING! I n-never did anything! I don't even know what she's talking about! They cleared me! I was questioned and cleared by the investigation!" Seth blubbered, not believing the fangirl had lied through her teeth to save her own backside and accused him of being behind the atrocities Dean and Roman had to suffer through. "Dean…Roman…y-you have to believe me! T-Take me to Stephanie and Hunter and…"

"And what? Let them save your ass and protect you from the ass whooping you deserve? Not happening, BROTHER." Jon sneered, kicking Seth in the stomach and pressed the heel of his black boot against the man's throat, enjoying him writhing in pain and squirming like a fish on a hook. "You're going to pay for what you did to both of us, Rollins. Bank on THAT."

Roman could see the pure terror in Seth's eyes and had watched his reaction to the video, unable to shake off an unsettling feeling in his stomach. What if they had the wrong guy? What if Seth was telling the truth and wasn't behind hiring the fangirls to stalk them? The fangirls could've dropped any name to save their own backsides. Why were they taking April and Heidi's word as gold? Something wasn't right with this and Roman suddenly stepped forward to pull Dean away from further punishing Seth.

"Dude, what the fuck are you doing?" Jon blinked at his best friend, confusion lacing with the hatred and anger in his glacial blues, not understanding why he was stopped from inflicting more damage on Seth. "Roman…"

Seth rolled on his side, clutching his stomach tighter and coughed out while drops of blood came out of his nose, his entire body trembling from head to toe. Whatever the reason Roman stopped Dean, Seth was in his debt forever. He knew if it was just him and Dean, he wouldn't be walking out of the arena alive tonight. At least ONE levelheaded person was in the room besides him and seeing the truth of the situation!

"Roman! He fucking did it!"

"What if he didn't?" Roman stepped in front of Dean to block him from attacking Seth again, holding his hands up. "Just listen for a minute, man. What if he's telling the damn truth and those whores lied to us? I know the evidence is MOUNTED against Seth. I know he's had problems with our girls in the past, especially Keyla kicking him in the balls. I know that's what's fueling you to believe he's the one who hired the whores, but what if he didn't? They could've dropped any name on us just to escape and we didn't really question them. They could've had it planned to use Seth as a scapegoat this whole time and we're just now realizing it. Please Dean, just think for a minute. They're fans, they know we have friction and problems with Seth to begin with because of what he did to us last year. Why should we trust anything they say?" And why hadn't Roman come to this conclusion sooner?

"F-Framed…they f-framed m-me…" Seth rattled out, managing to peel himself from the floor and sat on the bench, hissing at his sore stomach, wiping the blood from his nose. "Stephanie and Hunter…have been watching me like a hawk ever since the investigation started. They wanted to make sure I wasn't the one sending these girls after you. I know this because I caught a PI watching me last week during one of my CrossFit workouts. I pulled him aside outside of the gym to find out why he was following me and, since he was a fan of mine, he came clean about being hired by the bosses to follow me around." He grabbed a bottled water from his bag, congratulating himself on not stuttering during the explanation. "If you don't believe me, take me to Stephanie and Hunter. They'll confirm everything I told you and you know they have no reason to protect me by lying to you guys."

Jon looked from Seth back to Roman, planting his hands on his hips in defiance. "Why should we believe anything the scumbag is saying? If you don't believe the whores, fine. But we shouldn't trust anything this asshole has to say either. We need to beat the fuck out of him and-"

"And what? Destroy our careers by going after the wrong guy? Dean, that makes no sense and you know it. We should be focused on finding who the fuck is behind this and stopping THEM instead of taking our anger and frustration out on the scumbag." Roman reasoned, trying to make Dean see the bigger picture regarding the situation and could see he was slowly getting through to him. "Let's go see Stephanie and Hunter. We'll bring Seth with us and, if they can't confirm his innocence, we'll continue beating him into a bloody pulp."

They wouldn't have to. Seth was innocent and had nothing to gain by going after Keyla and Lennox. He despised the women because of their encounters, but that wasn't enough to wreck his own life by going after them. Seth knew better than to mess with Roman and Dean's personal lives, too busy with his own to worry about. Honestly, he cared more about his wrestling career than anything or anyone, wanting to do whatever it took to get to the top. He would do it honorably; playing mind games and hiring fangirls to stalk his ex-Shield brethren was career and pure suicide.

"Come on, Rollins, on your feet." Roman ordered once he managed to calm Dean down enough to at least wait until they talked to the bosses. "We don't have all night to get this over with."

"What the hell were you two thinking?!" Stephanie wailed at the top of her lungs, rushing around her desk to check on Seth and could see the anger in her husband's brown eyes building. "You two better have a damn good explanation for this!"

Showing them the video footage of April and Heidi wasn't optional. "We heard Rollins is the one behind the crazed fangirls stalking us. Their names are April and Heidi. We know that much…"

"Oh really?" Stephanie sat Seth down before planting her hands on her hips, fire-ridden blue eyes boring into two of her top Superstars. "And why the fuck should we believe that? How did you acquire that information when we've hired the best PI's and authorities this country has to offer? And they haven't told us anything, including the women's names?"

"Not our fault you hired incompetent people to do the job." Jon could hide the smarminess in his voice and didn't bother trying, fed up with the games and waiting around for this situation to be solved.

"EXCUSE ME?!"

"Stephanie, calm down." Hunter ordered softly, not wanting his wife getting riled up when they had a lot on their plate for the Raw before WrestleMania. "They're upset and have every right to be. But that STILL gives you two rights to go after a fellow coworker because of RUMORS you heard…"

Roman didn't care about the consequences anymore, whipping his phone out and held it up with the video footage of Heidi's confession. "Don't ask questions because I'm not answering anything. We had to find out the information ourselves and did what we had to do to get it. Both Heidi and April dropped Seth's name and that's why we went after him. But Seth claims you two can confirm his innocence and, if that's the case, we were lied to."

Pinching the bridge of his nose, Hunter and Stephanie shared looks with each other, not sure what to do about this newfound information. "You do realize we can't turn that into the authorities unless we reveal it was you two who discovered the information." He pointed out, scrubbing a hand down his face when both Dean and Roman nodded. "We'll have to come up with another legitimate reason on how you acquired the information. Now, as for Seth, we had a PI follow him all over last week and reported nothing out of the ordinary to us." The bosses didn't know about Seth catching the PI and questioning him.

"Every single person in the company, including backstage people and the ring crew, have all come back clean. We have no idea who is responsible for this catastrophe, but you have to believe we are doing everything in our power to find the person responsible." Stephanie had a calmer tone of voice, somewhat floored Dean and Roman took it upon themselves to track the fangirls down to interrogate them. "Keyla and Lennox are back as of tonight, correct?"

"Yeah, I've already told Lennox the situation has been handled, so sending a PI after her or Keyla will make them suspicious." Roman stated informatively, hoping his lie didn't come back to bite him on the backside. "So confirm it, is Seth cleared or not of the investigation?"

Stephanie and Hunter nodded simultaneously, her hand gently planting on Seth's shoulder. "He was one of the first ones cleared, but we still had him followed just to be on the safe side. I'm sorry we didn't tell you sooner, Seth. It was for your own protection as well as the company's." Her blue eyes turned to Dean and Roman, arching a slow perfectly shaped brow. "And now it's YOUR turn, both of you, to apologize to him for a wrongful accusation as well as beating the shit out of him."

Seeing that coming a mile away, Roman nudged Dean when it looked like the man wouldn't cooperate, knowing they did grudgingly owe Seth an apology. "Sorry."

"Yeah – sorry." Jon sneered, not meaning it and turned glacial eyes back on the bosses. "I'm telling you right now, if something else happens and you don't find out who the fuck is behind this, we ARE taking matters into our own hands again. Fix this or else."

Stalking out of the bosses' office, Jon hauled off and punched the nearest cinder block wall, ignoring the pain shooting up his hand and arm. He was enraged for being lied to by those fangirl whores and now they were in the safe confines of their homes in two unknown destinations. This had gotten way out of hand and if the girls found out the situation hadn't been solved yet, Jon and Roman would have to come clean to them about everything, including the kidnapping.

Now here was the bigger question: Who the hell was pulling the strings of April and Heidi if it wasn't Seth Rollins?