Some more drama for everyone…this is the scene I was talking about a while ago – as in the beginning author's note to Chapter 36. Thirteen chapters later here it is!

May 6, 2016

"Thanks for all your help, Matt," Eleanor smiled as Matt Bloom began collecting his sheets and notepad. She had been in production for NXT and had called some matches with his help. Matt knew so much about the business; Eleanor was truly amazed that she was able to work with him. He was a great teacher.

"Anytime, Eleanor!" he smiled. "You're improving so much. The way you called the end of the Nakamura and Alex Riley match was good. You could see the crowd wasn't in to it. Even though you waited for me to call it short, you were still prepared. That's good," he said. "And you called it to the referee like a pro."

Eleanor couldn't help but smile at his praise. "Anything I should improve on?"

"Well, I'll write 'em down…I know you like everything in writing," he joked. "What I can tell you now is that your mind needs to be sharp, always ahead of the curve. Just like you knew how to call the ending, you need to be on the ball about the next set of moves, what's going to lead up to the next pin."

Eleanor took everything Matt was telling her to heart. "Okay, thanks Matt. Let me just clean up everything here and I'll come meet you in your office."

"Sounds good, kid," Matt smiled, walking out of the room.

As Eleanor began to organize her notes and collect them all neatly in her folder, she began to feel the fatigue in her body. It had been another whirlwind few days: it was purely coincidental, but it just so happened that Rami, Eleanor, and Colby were all in Orlando at the same time; Eleanor for business, and to finally post the job posting for a new executive assistant for Paul; Rami came to tag along and give some advice to some of the new recruits; and Colby to see the doctors and physiotherapists, and to get some intense training in. The three had gone to lunch together earlier that day, and had generally hung out with each other the entire time. She knew both Rami and Colby were lurking around the building somewhere, and after going to see Matt again, she knew she'd have to find them.

As she stood up from her seat to leave the room, she heard some commotion down the hallway. Just as she made it to the front of the room, she heard a voice huffing and puffing, yelling, "Where's production? Where is it?!"

Before she could do much else, Kevin Kiley, better known as Alex Riley, appeared in the hallway. "What the fuck was that?!" Kevin demanded, stomping into the room. "What the fuck?!"

"What's wrong, Kevin?" she approached the conversation cautiously.

"Why the fuck was my match cut short, huh? Why'd you call it so early?" he demanded.

"I was relaying what Matt was saying – I didn't call it by myself," she explained.

"You think you've got all the power cause you work with Paul?" he heard absolutely nothing she'd said because of his rage. He gripped her arm with his hand tightly, jerking her back and forth. "If you ever pull that shit again there's going to be severe consequences."

"Are you threatening me?"

"Damn right I am!" he yelled, gripping her even tighter.

Eleanor winced, trying to pry his fingers off their vice grip on her arm. "Let go, Kevin! Let go of me!"

"What's with all the yell—HEY!" Suddenly Eleanor saw Colby walk through the door. He took in the situation quickly and acted accordingly. "Get your hands off her, Kev!" he yelled, shoving Kevin away from Eleanor.

"Mind your own business, Lopez," Kevin focused his anger temporarily on Colby.

Colby huffed, shaking his head at Kevin. Kevin wasn't scaring him at all, and he be damned if he was going to scare Eleanor any further. Colby looked over at her to see her eyes wide, staring at Kevin. He knew he needed to get Eleanor out of the room so Kevin could blow off some steam. "Let's go, Eleanor," Colby said, dismissing Kevin.

Eleanor didn't say another word, and began to walk towards Colby and the door, clutching her notepad and folder against her chest. Suddenly, she heard him take steps towards her. "I'm not finished yet!" Kevin yelled, grabbing her again at her shoulder and pulling her back, causing her to lose her balance and stumble.

That was the last straw for Colby. He wound up and punched Kevin in the face. Eleanor shrieked as she heard the fist-to-face impact. Kevin was bending over, clutching his face in his hands. She looked over at Colby with her jaw on the floor. His chest was heaving as he shook his hand out, checking his knuckles. "Go. Now."

She ran out of the room on a mission to find Regal, Matt Bloom – anyone with enough authority to do something. She found Rami refilling his water bottle. "Rami! Rami!" she called out to him. "Where's Matt? We need to find Matt!"

Rami looked over at her immediately, seeing the scared and worried look on her face. "What's going on?"

"Colby just punched Kevin in production. We need to go get him and we need to tell someone or Paul and we need to get Colby and calm him down -" Eleanor began to ramble nervously.

"What? Colby and Kevin got into it? Why?" Rami asked.

"Kevin was yelling at me cause he thought I cut his match short, and I guess -"

"Kevin was yelling at you?" Rami asked in a serious tone.

Eleanor nodded her head quickly before continuing, "And I guess Colby overheard the yelling, so when Colby was getting me to leave the room, Kevin pulled me back in and -"

"Wait," Rami said sternly, raising his hand and causing Eleanor to go silent, besides her heavy breathing. "Kevin pulled you back in? He put his hands on you?"

"Y…Yeah."

Rami saw red, and with a flicker in his eyes, Eleanor knew she lost him. He began stomping through the halls to the production room so fast Eleanor had to jog to keep up. She kept calling his name to get him to stop, but to no avail.

"Adam! ADAM!" she called for Adam, who was taking a phone call. Upon watching Rami's angry beeline into the production area, seeing Eleanor running after him, and sensing the panic in her voice, he immediately dropped the phone call and ran with her.

Eleanor and Adam got into the room just in time to see Rami wind up and clock Kevin right in the jaw. Eleanor shrieked again as she saw Kevin stagger back and fall down from the impact. "You put your hands on my wife?!" Rami screamed at the top of his lungs, Colby holding him back. "Huh?! You put your hands on my wife?!"

"Rami, back off," Adam warned.

"You motherfucker," Rami bellowed as Colby continued to shove him back so he couldn't get another shot in on Kevin.

"Rami, out, NOW. Colby, get him out of here!" Adam ordered, not bothering to tend to Kevin. "Get to Bloom's office – now!"

Eleanor could only watch as Colby shoved Rami out of the room. She looked at Kevin, who was cradling his jaw. She looked at Adam, who wasn't even tending to Kevin – he was looking at Eleanor. "You get to Bloom's office too," Adam said in a calm voice. "He's going to want to hear your story above everyone else's."

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Colby, Rami, and Eleanor sat in Matt Bloom's office as if they were three kids in a principal's office, waiting for detention. Every so often the two men would flex their fingers, checking their red knuckles. Matt Bloom had already called her out of the room to get her side of the story, without the interruptions of Colby or Rami. He did the same with the two men shortly after, and now they were stuck waiting.

Before long, Matt entered the room again, a stern look on his face. Eleanor didn't feel any nervous energy from Rami or Colby – she only had to assume this was a semi-common occurrence in the indies, but definitely not in the WWE locker room. And in the indies, there definitely weren't any major repercussions.

Matt sat across from them at his desk, looking at them. He stared at them a while before he began speaking. "The good thing about the Performance Centre is that every room has a camera," he began. "And Eleanor, your story matches up with what we saw on tape."

Eleanor exhaled a breath she didn't know she was holding in. She hadn't lied about anything – she was just glad the truth was on video. "So what does this mean?" she asked.

"If you don't mind, I'm going to call Paul and relay what has happened to him. Being the EVP of Talent, the order has to come from him, as you understand," Bloom said.

"Yeah, sure," Eleanor nodded her head.

"Kevin should be fuckin' embarrassed," Colby let out. "It was despicable the way he was talking to her."

"I understand, Colby," Matt said curtly. "But you understand you're going to be punished for your actions."

"Fine me, whatever. I know I did the right thing," Colby muttered.

"You two can be here, in the room," Matt nodded at Rami and Colby. "But I'm sure Paul's gonna want to hear Eleanor's side of things more than yours," Matt said. He looked to Eleanor again. "I don't want you to be nervous. You have to tell him exactly what you told me," he continued, speed dialing Paul's number on the office phone.

Eleanor nodded her head. "I will. Are you guys…I mean, is the footage being wired to Stamford?" she asked, and Matt nodded his head.

"Matt? Where's Eleanor?" Paul demanded, not even bothering to say hello. Eleanor guessed he had Matt's number in his phone so he knew he was calling.

"She's right here, Paul," Matt said. "You're on speaker."

"Eleanor, are you okay?" Paul asked immediately.

"Yes Paul, I'm fine. Please don't blow this out of proportion," Eleanor warned.

"Blow this out of proportion? Eleanor, a superstar put his hands on you. I'm blowing this out of proportion whether you like it or not. Tell me what happened now."

Eleanor told the exact same story of events that she had relayed to Matt to Paul. He didn't speak the entire time; from working with him and knowing him for so long, she knew it meant he was angry. As she kept telling her turn of events, she could only imagine him getting angrier and angrier.

When she was finished, Paul didn't wait long to start speaking. "He's fucking fired, Matt. Tell him to pack his shit and leave, and not to look back."

"Paul," Eleanor said sternly.

"He's fired Eleanor. He put his hands on you? He's dead and gone," Paul said. "That's not me being rash. That's protocol."

"What's the punishment for Colby and Rami?" Matt asked.

"Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine dollars. Anything higher and we'd have to report it, and I'm not having that. Especially since people will connect Rami with Eleanor. The media would have a fucking field day, especially in Canada."

Eleanor was grateful for Paul's quick thinking. She looked over at Rami and Colby, their faces still serious. Matt was nodding his head. "Well they're glad to hear that, Paul. They're here in the room too."

"Put out a statement, Matt, and release it ASAP," Paul ignored the little tidbit of information. "I'll be fucking damned if I see him in any wrestling promotion again."

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WWE Official Statement

Kevin Kiley, known to fans as WWE Superstar Alex Riley, has been fired from the company due to extremely unprofessional conduct and an altercation with an employee.

The WWE does not tolerate such behaviour and Kevin Kiley's firing is effective immediately.

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May 22, 2016

"Are we all buckled in?" Claudio asked from the driver's seat.

"We're good to go!" Rami chimed in from the backseat, finally clicking his seatbelt in. He leaned forward and grabbed Colby's shoulders, sitting in the front seat. "Feel good, buddy?!"

Colby had just returned from his injury, interrupting the ending of Extreme Rules. Earlier in the night, Rami and Claudio participated in an epic fatal-fourway match for the Intercontinental Title – needless to say, everyone was on a high due to their success. Colby laughed as Claudio reversed from their parking spot. "Feels fuckin' amazing, man," Colby said. "Everything went off without a hitch."

"And that crowd reaction was amazing," Claudio chimed in, driving through the parking lot and finally out into the street. "Everybody's really happy to have you back."

"I'm happy to be back. I just wanted to soak it in all night," Colby admitted. "But hey, Baltimore awaits." He turned to look at Eleanor in the backseat. "You calling my promo tomorrow?"

"No idea," Eleanor shrugged her shoulders. "I doubt it, since it's so important and I'm still technically in training."

"Try to push for it!" Colby encouraged her. "How amazing would it be if we got to work together?"

Rami smiled at the conversation happening before him, so incredibly happy to see Eleanor and Colby getting along, working together, and being friends. Although they got off to a rocky start, Rami was impressed that they were able to turn over a new leaf and be friends.

The foursome barely stayed quiet as the conversation flowed naturally from one topic to another. Colby, still hyped from his return and the crowd reaction, did most of the talking. "Hey, how's the wedding planning going?" Colby asked suddenly, looking back at Eleanor and Rami.

Eleanor shrieked when she heard the question, not believing that she almost completely forgot to give Claudio and Colby their invitations. She dug into her handbag to retrieve them, giving them both to Colby. "I can't believe I almost forgot! These are for you!"

Colby's eyes went wide as he held the invitations in his hands. "Invitations! He exclaimed, prying one open. He held the invitation in his hands as he read it out loud,

Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Catherine Desjardins and

Mr. and Mrs. Yousef and Halla Sebai

Request the honour of your presence

At the wedding of their children

Eleanor Louise

To

Rami Tariq

Saturday, the seventeenth of September

Two thousand and sixteen

At eleven o'clock in the morning

Notre Dame Basilica

Old Montreal

Reception to follow

At six o'clock in the evening

The Ritz-Carlton Montreal

1228 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest

In lieu of gifts, donations may be made to Montrealers Supporting Syrians

Rami grabbed Eleanor's hand as Colby read out the invitation. Claudio smiled throughout the reading and was first to comment. "September 17! You guys don't want to wait, do you?" he joked.

"Would you want to wait?" Rami asked, raising her hand to kiss it. "I told her already that if we hadn't promised our families we'd get married in Montreal, I'd have taken her down to the courthouse already."

"But that's not romantic Rami," Claudio said.

"Yeah Rami, be romantic for once in your life!" Colby chastised him.

"Hey! I've been romantic plenty of times! Right Eleanor?" he looked to his fiancé for confirmation.

"Uuuuuhhhhh," she smiled.

"Eleanoooorrr!"

"Who's gonna be invited anyway?" Claudio asked.

Eleanor began to recite the names of their co-workers that would be attending, "You two, obviously, Fergal, TJ and Nattie, Ben and Natalie, Kevin and his family, Bryan and Brie, Phil and April, Chris Hero, Sasha and Mikaze, Becky, Pamela and Aaron, Jericho and his family, Eric and Bill, Jon and Renee, Breeze and his girlfriend, Matt Bloom and his wife, Regal and his wife, Omega's flying in from Japan…and Paul and Stephanie."

Eleanor saw Colby smirk as she revealed the names. "This is gonna be one hell of a wedding."