Hello! Raw on Monday was... I literally don't even know what to say, I'm speechless! Y2J is back, AJ's back! Khali's back too but I wasn't too excited about him, and Dean's making it a living hell on Seth to cash in his Money in the Bank contract! That's going to be amazing and I can't wait for every opportunity that happens :D Not to mention Hunter's face when Roman came back, speared the living daylights out of Kane and roared, I died! Raw was perfection and yes I'm saying this, best for business! Anyway, before I say my thank you's something needs to be explained. There's a text convo between Roman and Scarlett below, Roman's texts are Like This and Scarlett's are Like This. Got it? Good. I'd like to thank ChelleLew, The Simonette254, Tori Moxley, UntilNeverDawns, Wolfgirl2013, flowersNfreaks, wwemicky, Slytherin Studios, JM242014, DeeMarie426, calwitch, Carol Reigns, Shield316 and Coreys Kitten. A special shoutout goes to lauraxxx who got me to 450 reviews! Thank you all :)

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Scarlett grumbled to herself slightly as she sat in the passenger's seat of her Range Rover the next afternoon. Tori had spent the night at her apartment in Daytona, agreeing while they were in Michigan that it'd be funner that way than just meeting up at the Full Sail University for their match. They'd done the typical girly sleepover things like watching movies, doing each other's hair and talked about boys. 3 boys in particular, and Scarlett still found herself blushing at what Tori told her about from her night with Seth. Scarlett had asked for it, and she certainly got it. She now knew information about the two-tone haired man that she almost wished she didn't know about.

While they'd talked about Tori's night with Seth, they'd also talked about Scarlett's agreement with Roman and Dean; how they were eventually going to go to the next level. Scarlett explained that they agreed that they'd choose a night and Scarlett would go from one room to the other, but seeing as how the younger girl was so curious, the conversation hadn't ended there as she questioned whether or not they'd agreed on a night yet. Which they hadn't. It wasn't that she was afraid to sleep with the two men, the thought excited her really, it was just that they were so busy with work and everything else going on it wasn't brought up at all, but then Tori reminded her of a vacation of sorts that was coming up for them all; her birthday.

Along with Roman and Dean, she'd invited Tori and Seth to the birthday party her Uncle had so kindly told her about that Michelle was throwing for her. It'd give her the chance to relax under her father's eye, and was a way for them to meet her family since she guaranteed all of her siblings would be in attendance since they rarely ever saw her. However the thought of the clichéd 'birthday sex' had Scarlett both blushing and in fits of giggles, but she didn't turn down the idea totally. Agreeing to think about it, they'd turned out the lights and fell asleep under the covers of Scarlett's bed.

The next morning they lounged around the apartment, playing an old-fashioned game of Mario Kart on Scarlett's old Nintendo GameCube she still had before it was time to leave. It was only an hours drive from Daytona to Orlando, one of the main reasons they decided to stay at Scarlett's rather than Tori's, and were halfway into their drive when Scarlett had to pull over to gas up. Once the tank was filled up and Tori had raided the store for her favorite kind of Snapple, they'd set off again with Tori taking the wheel this time.

It didn't bother Scarlett much to let the younger girl drive her Range Rover. She'd driven it the 2 hours from Greenbay to Milwaukee without crashing it, so driving from Daytona to Orlando was completely fine in Scarlett's book. Doing so allowed her to check her social media accounts anyway, seeing what the Shield fans were talking about or if there was anything going on she should know about.

Her searchings had started out innocently enough. People were buzzing that Ric Flair's daughter was going up against the Undertaker's daughter; one family legacy against another family legacy. She had been confused about how people found out so quickly but she got her answer when she dug a little deeper, finding out Hunter had tweeted out a graphic this morning announcing the match for NXT.

Pleased that people were excited for her match, she then made the mistake of typing in the word 'Shield' into the 'Explore' section of her Instagram account. Pictures immediately flooded the screen of herself and Tori with the boys or just the boys themselves, but one other picture had caught Scarlett's attention and it wasn't just because it was posted by multiple fan accounts. Everytime she tapped on the image a different message appeared on the bottom but they all said basically the same things, containing the words 'Aww' or 'They're so cute!' a majority of the time. Scarlett however, didn't think they were cute at all.

The picture featured 5 people in total. There was a guy who seemed to be in the forefront of the photo, but that was probably because he was the one closest to the camera. He wore a baseball cap on his head as he smiled at the camera, a blueish black t-shirt covering his upper body that had white letters across the chest spelling out 'BUFFALO'. Across from him stood what Scarlett assumed was a couple, she could be wrong but she couldn't find it in herself to care at that particular moment as she stared at the image lighting up her screen. The man was bald and was wearing a plaid shirt as he had his arm wrapped around the woman beside him. She wore a simple white long-sleeved shirt, smiling at the camera as she glanced at it over her shoulder. Scarlett's eyes however, had been drawn to the pair in the center of these 3 unknown people since she first laid eyes on the 'leaked' photo. Why? Because the two in the center of those anonymous people were none other than her boyfriend Dean Ambrose and reigning pain in her ass, Renee Young.

Stepping away from her emotions for a moment, there wasn't anything wrong with the picture. Just 5 friends out on the town hanging out, having a good time by the looks of things. Stepping back into her emotions though, she felt her temper flare and her jealousy spike. Yes, Dean was flipping off the camera making Scarlett want to smile because that was so him, but she couldn't smile because that damned Renee Young had her fingers in his hair as she held his head close to her chest, a smile on her face that Scarlett wanted to knock right off.

She knew she was overreacting, once again, but she couldn't help it. What if Dean decided he wanted to date her too? Like how Scarlett was dating both him and Roman. She was completely fine being shared by the two men, but the thought of having to share either one of them, particularly Dean in this instant, made her want to rip out the woman's pretty blonde hair strand by fucking strand so she'd go the hell away. So she'd be less pretty than she was right now so Scarlett didn't have to worry about Dean thinking Renee was prettier than she was.

"You know Mox'd probably want to kill you if he knew you've been examining the same picture of him and Goldilocks for almost 10 minutes, right?" She heard Tori question causing her to snort slightly at the nickname she'd used.

Scarlett remained quiet for a few seconds before she sighed and locked her phone again. "Do you think she's pretty?"

"Renee? Yeah, she's pretty fucking hot." Tori responded, chuckling when Scarlett groaned and tilted her head back against the head rest.

"Thanks for the reassurance, Tor. Really appreciate it." Scarlett huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest. She then eyed her friend out of the corner of her eye when she chuckled again.

"Let me rephrase then. Renee's pretty hot, yeah, but so are you." Tori stated, shifting her eyes from the road to glance Scarlett over before looking at the road again. "I wasn't sneaking glances at you all those times for nothing and if I were Mox, I'd rather have you than her. You can do all this amazing stuff in the ring, things that are fucking hot themselves, plus you're physically gorgeous... What can she do? Hold a microphone? That's fun."

"You really think so?" Scarlett smiled slightly despite her cheeks having taken on a reddish tone. Tori returned the smile as she paused to look at Scarlett once again, nodding her head.

"Definitely."

"I just wish they didn't have to ride together, you know? Some of these flights and drives are long. I trust him, just not her." Scarlett sighed as she glanced out of her window. She did trust Dean, wholeheartedly. She trusted her Dean, the one that wanted her, she didn't trust the side of Dean Ambrose that was allowed to be single while he was riding with an also single Renee.

"How big is Roman's Tahoe again? On the inside.." Tori questioned causing Scarlett to jerk her head back in confusion, turning her head to face the younger girl once more with furrowed eyebrows.

"Why?" She asked only to be woven off. "It's pretty big. Has the front where he sits and the passenger, then a middle row and a back row. Now can I know why you asked such a random question?"

"Because, the Authority said Dean had to accompany Renee on the road, to and from venues, blah blah blah. They didn't say he had to do it by himself." She answered now, a small smirk taking over her face. It took a few moments, but Scarlett gasped slightly once she got Tori's meaning.

"She can ride with us in Roman's Tahoe! We'll all fit!" She exclaimed, her smile nearly stretching from ear to ear. "That way I can keep an eye on her so she keeps her claws away from my man."

"And if you can't watch her from your angle, I will instead." Tori volunteered causing Scarlett's smile to grow slightly, if that was even possible.

"My god I love you, remind me to give you something special when we get back to my apartment later."

"That sounded dirty, Ms. Payne."

"It was supposed to, Ms. Cross."

Scarlett let out a loud laugh when Tori nearly missed a stop sign at her words as she fished her phone out from her pants pocket. Hauling up Roman's name, she was about to type him a message when she suddenly realized something.

"If Renee rides with us I won't be able to show any emotion towards Dean. I won't even be able to hold his hand or anything." She pouted, lifting her head to look at Tori again.

"Sure you can. We've all hugged each other out of random emotion, except for me and Mox, but you can still do that with him. Just don't kiss him, and maybe hand holding should be kept inside our locker room and hotel rooms. You'll do fine." She shrugged causing Scarlett to sigh before she nodded her head, glancing down at her phone again to type her message to Roman.

'Hey Superman, miss me yet? :) I have a question I need to ask you...' (Thurs 3:48 PM)

'Superman? & I always miss you when you're not around sweetheart. What's up?' (Thurs 3:51 PM)

'Just a little nickname I chose for you :) If Dean agrees, Tori and I think it'd be a good idea to use your Tahoe to drive us all venue to venue. Renee included...' (Thurs 3:52 PM)

'Alright then, but is that a smart idea? She's a coworker and you know what the Authority said about our agreement.' (Thurs 3:54 PM)

'I'm aware, yes, and you know I hate it, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we all were in the same car where I can keep an eye on her. Please Ro? I'd feel a lot better about this whole damn situation..' (Thurs 3:56 PM)

'As long as we're all careful about what goes on I don't think it would be a problem..' (Thurs 3:59 PM)

'Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) I'll tell Dean later, we just got to NXT so I'll talk to you later, alright? :) (Thurs 4:03 PM)

'Alright then. Good luck tonight babygirl, I'll be watching on the Network :)' (Thurs 4:05 PM)

Scarlett smiled at the message as she and Tori made their way through the familiar hallways to where they needed to be. She slipped her phone into her pocket before she could reply back with what she really wanted to say...

I love you.

A short while later found Scarlett and Tori headed to the spot where they'd make their entrance from, seeing as how they didn't enter using the ramp anymore. However they found their path blocked by the thorn in Scarlett's side as Renee Young ran up to them, microphone in hand as a camera trailed right behind her.

"Scarlett, Tori! Could we get a word?" She questioned, stepping in the girls paths so they couldn't just by-pass her. "The last time we saw you two was Monday night when Seth Rollins abandoned the Shield and Tori you walked out with him. Is that going to affect your match tonight at all?"

Ah, the WWE Universe, it's a wonderful thing. Let's explain the schedule when you get to the main roster, shall we? Every Monday night Raw goes on the air live, then Tuesday is used for taping Smackdown. Wednesday and Thursday are generally, if you're lucky enough, your days off, while the weekend is used for fan related purposes. Whether that be doing houseshows or fan signings, either or it was used for the fans. But in this little world exists a thing known as NXT which falls on Thursday nights. So if you have a segment that airs on Raw then another one that gets taped on Smackdown, nobody see's that second segment until Friday when it airs for Smackdown. Which means right now, as far as anybody knew, Seth and Tori have abandoned Scarlett, Roman and Dean, and haven't spoken to them since Monday.

Yet here are the Women's Tag Team Champions, set for a match on NXT when their stable has apparently fallen apart. The Authority weren't the smartest people in the world when it comes to planning out matches and doing what was actually best for business, so it's a good thing they have Diva's like Scarlett Payne and Tori Cross who are good on their toes.

"Renee, we're the Women's Tag Team Champions." Tori stated simply, pausing to give Scarlett a once over before turning back to the older woman. "Despite being on separate ends of an argument right now, we can put aside our differences for half an hour, or a few minutes. However long it takes to show those pretty girls while we own our ring on the main roster, we can still come back and dominate theirs at any time we want."

"But aren't you concerned at all that the cracks in the Shield might rub off on you both as well, seeing as how you've chosen sides?" Renee questioned them, unknowingly lighting a fuse behind Scarlett's eyes as she stepped forward slightly.

"Seth Rollins made a bad choice on Monday when he left Roman and Dean to fight for themselves..." She spoke lowly, glancing at Tori from the corner of her eye who merely rolled her eyes in response before focusing on Renee again. "He'll get what's coming to him tomorrow night on Smackdown I'm sure, but for now I recall the words of one of my team mates, Dean Ambrose; the Shield is a finely crafted machine that does not break down. We may hit a couple of bumps in the road, earn a few dents, but the Shield does not, and will not crack. Believe that." She finished, nodding her head in finality before she brushed past Renee with Tori following behind her. When they turned the corner, Tori let out an overly excited squeal.

"Oh my gosh, that was amazing! Who are you, Roman Reigns all of a sudden? Believe that." She mocked as she chuckled, earning a smile from Scarlett and a shrug of her shoulder.

"Gotta represent my man and my faction, I think I did a pretty good job of doing so."

"If I didn't believe before, I'd believe now."

"Good, just remember to be a bitch alright?"

"Can do."

They continued on walking in silence until they got to the hallway they needed. Ducking inside it, they listened to Bo Dallas and Adrian Neville argue in the ring before Adrian started a 'Bo Leave' chant that had Scarlett in fits of laughter while Tori was trying, but failing, to keep her laughter inside. Once they'd cleared out, they only waited a few moments before they heard the rocking beats of Charlotte's theme music.

"The following is a Divas tag team match set for one fall. Approaching the ring first, the team of Sasha Banks and Charlotte!" They heard Cody Rhodes's wife, Brandi, announce to the crowd.

"You ready to kick some Flair ass?" Tori questioned, glancing at Scarlett with a smirk on her face as she watched an identical one grow on her partner's face as well.

"Are you ready to kick some Banks ass?" She retaliated earning a nod from Tori.

"I was born ready to kick her ass." She answered and not even a second later, Charlotte's music was cut off by a loud warning bell that sounded around the room.

"And their opponents; they are the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions! Scarlett Payne and Tori Cross!" Brandi announced as Scarlett and Tori made their way through the crowd. It wasn't as loud here as it was in the arenas the girls toured now, but the amount of noise that was being made for them surprised both girls equally as much.

Once they reached the barricade Tori immediately launched herself over it, landing in a roll before she stood to her feet once more. When it was Scarlett's turn to climb over it she balanced herself on top of it instead, standing precariously on the edge as she lifted her title in the air from her shoulder as Tori did the same from one of the corners of the ring, staring inside the squared circle as Charlotte Flair tried her best to stare her down.

Smirking slightly at the older girl Scarlett dropped down onto the mat, handing the stage hand her title and her Shield sweater before she climbed up on the apron as she watched Tori do the same before ducking in the ring. Once the referee asked Tori and Sasha, who would be starting the match for their teams, if they were ready, they both nodded their heads and the ref signalled for the bell to be rung. However once it dinged throughout the room, it became clear very quickly that there was some tension between the two girls standing in the ring together.

"This is our ring now, you don't belong here anymore." Sasha said as she got in Tori's face, brushing her hair over her shoulder before she glanced over at Scarlett then back at the girl in front of her. "So why don't you run on back to your stupid little boyfriend before he realizes that you're gone and that he can get someone who can actually please him, rather than someone who can barely reach his height."

Tori let out a small breath of air in response, half chuckling before she shoved at Sasha's shoulders causing her to stumble back a couple of feet before she began speaking lowly. "First off, get out of my face. Secondly, don't you dare speak about Seth Rollins that way in front of me. He has more talent in one hand than you have in your entire body.." She spat but as soon as the words left her mouth, the corners of her lips started to curl up in a smirk. Looking Sasha up and down, she took a step closer to her before she lowered her voice to say, "And I would know because I know just how talented those hands are."

The next thing that happened could've been predicted had anybody had any clue what the two girls were talking about, but seeing as how they didn't it seemed the entire arena gasped as Sasha hauled back her hand and slapped Tori across the face. Everyone had gasped in shock, except for the one person who should've been the most shocked; Tori. Rather than hold her cheek in pain, or even stumble back a step, she instead stood her ground as a sarcastic chuckle bubbled passed her lips.

"Ooooh, you're going to regret that." She stated and before anybody saw it coming, Tori had launched herself on top of Sasha so they both fell to the apron before she knotted her fingers through the girl's hair and began banging her head against the apron over and over again. Scarlett merely watched on as the referee began trying to get Tori away from the other girl, an amused smile gracing her lips as she did so.

When the ref finally got Tori off of Sasha, Sasha had immediately ducked under the bottom rope out onto the mat for a breather so she could gather herself again. Once she had she slowly climbed back onto the edge of the apron, keeping an eye on Tori who was being forced to stay back by the referee on the other side of the ring before she ducked inside. She then nodded to the ref when he asked if she was ready again.

The two met in the center of the ring, locking up before Sasha quickly shifted so she could get Tori into a headlock. She then flipped forward, taking Tori with her so they both landed on the apron while Sasha still had the headlock locked on tightly. Pushing and pulling, Tori tried to loosen the arm cutting off her air but to no avail so doing her best to take a deep breath to fill her lungs, she then lifted her hands to press them against the side of Sasha's head, forcing her down so Tori could lock her in a head scissors.

Her upperhand didn't last very long as Sasha quickly worked her way out of the position Tori had her in, climbing to her feet and hitting the ropes as she then plowed the smaller girl over with a hard clothesline. Dropping to her knees, she went for the cover but only got a count of 2.

Getting to her feet once more, Sasha lifted Tori up by her hair before she flung her into her corner and tagged in Charlotte once she'd made it there. Once Charlotte was in the ring she quickly went to work on Tori, ramming her shoulder into her midsection so hard Tori's feet left the apron each time she did it causing the ref to have to haul her off. Raising her hands in defence, she made her way back over to Tori intending to lift her up but instead ate part of the turnbuckle as Tori had hooked her arm across her shoulders and fell back into a Reverse STO, driving Charlotte's face into said turnbuckle.

Getting to her hands and knees, Tori quickly crawled into her corner and slammed her palm against Scarlett's own to tag her in. Ducking under the top rope as Tori rolled out from under the bottom one Scarlett ran straight for Charlotte, hitting her with clothesline after clothesline. On the fourth time she went to deliver another clothesline, Charlotte dropped back to the mat so Scarlett had to leap over her instead. Hitting the ropes, Scarlett found herself being caught as she rebounded off of them into a powerslam from the older girl. She immediately clutched at her back as the pain shot up her spine but found herself being pinned to the mat, managing to get her shoulder back up at 2 and a half.

Charlotte took a moment to blow her hair out of her face in frustration before she got to her feet. She then grabbed onto one of Scarlett's ankles and parted her legs, then spun around intent on locking on a figure four leg lock but Scarlett saw it coming. Drawing her legs up to her midsection, she then extended them again as she kicked Charlotte halfway across the apron so she could get to her feet. However she only made it to her knees when Charlotte was on her again as she hooked her arm around Scarlett's neck and flipped into a somersault, driving Scarlett face first into the apron in a move Charlotte called 'Bow Down to the Queen'.

Rolling her over, Charlotte hauled Scarlett's legs up in the air for the pin and would've gotten the 3 count had Tori not ran in and broken it up. Getting to her feet again however, Tori found herself on the other side of a drop kick that sent her through the ropes from Sasha who had ran out from her corner. Once she'd returned where she was supposed to be, Charlotte got to her feet and hauled Scarlett up by the arm as she went to tag in Sasha.

Once she'd entered the ring again, both girls flung Scarlett to the ropes intending to hit her with a double clothesline but Scarlett ducked under their arms at the last second. Hitting the opposite ropes Scarlett bent at the waist and launched herself at the two girls, taking them both down with a spear. Rolling Charlotte out of the ring, she then went to turn around to pin Sasha but felt her shoulder being slapped and the ref signalling a tag.

Turning a convincing glare at the younger girl, Scarlett ducked under the ropes to get out of the ring as Tori climbed to the top turnbuckle. Scarlett thought about shoving her off to play it up for the fans but decided against it because how she'd acted at the Shield Summit on Tuesday wouldn't add up when it was watched tomorrow. So instead she watched as Tori stood high on the top turnbuckle before leaping off, crunching her body up before extending it again to land in a Five Star Frog Splash on top of Sasha. She then hoisted a leg in the air while the ref began to count; 1, 2, 3.

"And your winners, the team of Scarlett Payne and Tori Cross!" Brandi announced as the warning bell sounded through out the arena around them as Scarlett got in the ring again. Once Tori'd made it to her feet Scarlett moved to stand right in her face, fixing an unimpressed look on her own as she stared down at the younger girl.

"Play it up." She muttered lowly causing a smirk to cross Tori's features now as she looked Scarlett up and down, placing her hands on her hips as she did so. They then found themselves separated by the ref as he handed them their titles and held their arms in the air, signalling they had won. He was about to let go of them when instead Scarlett found herself shoved forward onto the apron from behind by Charlotte, cutting out their music. Charlotte then quickly kicked a surprised Tori in the midsection, sending her out the ropes to the mat below before she got Sasha to her feet again.

"Hold her down for a minute then watch for the other one." Charlotte instructed and Sasha nodded her head, dropping down to her knees to pin Scarlett's arms to the apron while Charlotte then rounded them to be at Scarlett's feet. She then lifted her ankle in the air and stepped over her hip again, spinning around before tucking Scarlett's ankle over her knee and falling back to lock in the figure four leg lock.

As soon as it was locked in correctly and Sasha had let go of her arms Scarlett shot up, a shriek of pain passing her lips as she dug her fingernails into the hard apron below her. Jesus fuck, she could feel the pain shooting up from her ankle into her knee as she fell back and attempted to tap out, but couldn't seeing as how the match was over. She nearly screamed out when Charlotte too laid on the apron and arched her back, applying even more pressure to her legs.

Bringing one hand up to clutch at her hair, she used her other hand to continue trying to tap out as the two girls laughed at her pain. She felt her eyes burning with tears that wanted to fall but she squeezed her eyes shut tightly instead, not giving in. However the next second her eyes shot back open as she sat bolt up straight while Charlotte and Sasha stopped laughing as Scarlett's saving grace came, in the form of a hawk's screeching call that was altered with music, sounded through out the room and Paige came running down the ramp.

By the time she'd slid under the bottom rope, Charlotte and Sasha had made themselves scarce as they walked backwards up the ramp Paige had just ran down from, smirking at them the entire time. Paige stood by Scarlett's side in a battle ready stance, lifting her hands to bend her fingers towards herself over and over in a 'Come hither' motion to the self-named 'Beautiful, Fierce Females' as they climbed the ramp. When it was made clear they weren't coming back, Paige ducked down to help Scarlett to her feet again.

"Are you alright?" She questioned as Tori walked up to them, eyeing Paige up and down slightly in curiosity as she rubbed the back of her head. Scarlett nodded her head in response which earned a nod from Paige as well before she turned and lifted both Scarlett and Tori's arms in the air again.

A few thousand miles away in his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, Hunter sat on his couch with his wife as he watched the 3 girls on the flat screen in front of him. He'd tuned into NXT just to see this match play out and as the show cut to commercial a smirk lit up his face as the wheels began turning in his head. This could work out very well if he played his cards right and chose his battles wisely.

The picture I used with Renee, Dean and their friends came out in May and I'm in March but I don't care! My world, my rules damn it! And Hunter's minds working, that's never good... The picture used can be seen on my Fanfiction tumblr amongst everything else and leave a review please! :)