Aria's Shield

I kept getting taunting text messages from Punk. He kept sending me pictures of the snake and in between the photos of the snake, he would slip one in of Randy. I've always hated snakes and the image of one crawling over Dean would not escape my mind.

I'm so glad I got out of that arena otherwise I knew Punk would have come for me with that damn snake and I'm not talking about Randy Orton! I was taking shelter in Becky and Brad's room. They had arrived back and I was waiting to hear from Roman, Dean or Seth that they were now back too. I was staying with Becky and Brad for the rest of the week as the Shield would be travelling after the Smackdown taping for a live event.

I was curled up on the couch when there was a knock at the door. Brad who was sitting in the arm chair called out. "REBECCA!" No answer. "REBECCA!" He shouted louder.

"What!?" Becky yelled, coming out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her head.

"Door." Brad told her, returning back to his inside voice.

"You have legs, don't you?" Becky shot back as she made her way to the door.

"Wow." Brad said turning his head back round. "Attitude."

I didn't look to see who Becky was opening the door to. I just figured Brad had ordered room service or another massage. "Um, Aria." Becky said awkwardly.

A single head turn made me jump out of the comfortable position. "Hello Aria." Punk smirked from standing in the doorway. I stared at him warily. "What's wrong, Nik?" He stepped in; still with that smirk in place. He looked around as if I wasn't glaring at him. "What? You're not happy to see me?" He placed his hand over his heart in mock hurt.

"Why are you here?" I asked calmly, trying not to get myself in a state.

Punk shrugged. "I just thought you'd want to meet a friend of mine."

"No, I really don't." I answered back. "So you can leave...now."

"Hi Aria!" Jake Roberts beamed as he stepped into the room, carrying a sack over his shoulder.

My lip trembled as I backed away from them both. "I hate you!" I whined at Punk.

"He's real friendly, I promise." Jake grinned and set the sack down on the floor. "Just as your boyfriend!"

I had met Jake Roberts only a few times and in those few times it had always been Punk pranking me by chasing me around with that damn snake. "You keep that thing away from me." I warned, ready to sprint at any moment. "I mean it, Punk."

"C'mon now, you're hurting his feelings." Jake reached into his sake.

"Hands where I can see them!" I demanded. Jake just laughed as he begun lifting the slimy disgusting snake out of the sake. "Oh-" I scowled in disgust. "You're so horrible!" I cried out to Punk; almost stamping my feet like a ten year old would.

"Isn't it time you faced this, my love?" Punk asked, running his hand over the snake's head.

"This wasn't funny the first time and it's still not!" I continued, deeply frowning at Punk and Jake.

Brad, who found Keeping up with the Kardashians a better watch, had no idea what was going on behind him, he was so deeply enthralled by the reality show. Taking Brad's trance to his advantage, I watched in horror as Jake lowered the snake by Brad's ear. I squirmed as the snake stuck out his tongue and plunged it in Brad's ear.

"Rebecca..." Brad gasped. "Down girl." He purred. I don't know what was more disgusting. Becky, who was watching from behind, gave him the biggest eye roll. Brad puckered his lips and went to turn to kiss what he thought was Becky... "EEEEEEEEPPPP!" The most girly shriek came from Brad's mouth as he fell from the couch and scattered away from the snake. He grabbed me by my shoulders and forced me in front of him. "Eat her first!"

"Get off!" I shoved him away.

"He's so cute!" Becky cooed at the snake. "Can I hold him?"

"Becky-" I called out.

"DON'T!" Me and Brad said in union, we then looked at each other in surprise. Great, I had something in common with Brad.

"He's harmless." Becky told us as the snake slithered around her neck.

"Oh my god, he's going to kill her!" Brad exclaimed, bringing his hand to his forehead. "I'm going to be a widow!"

"Widower." Becky corrected and watched as the snake brushed her skin. "It tickles too!"

"Fancy a hold, Aria?" Punk taunted.

"You keep that thing away from me, Phillip." I quickly said.

"What's the number for animal control?!" Brad cried out.

"Don't be stupid!" Becky rolled her eyes at him.

"I'm with Brad on this one!" I then looked at Brad. "I don't think I've ever said that before."

"I feel like I've misjudged you, Hayden." Brad said, giving me a nod of respect. "I think we've turned a new leaf here today."

"As touching as this is-" Punk took back the snake and stepped towards us. "Time to face your fear." Punk almost dropped the snake giving me the chance to run past him. "OH ARIA-" Punk sang in a Paul Bearer type voice down the hallway.

I just kept running.

Unfortuantely, as I was running, I saw Damien bend down to tie his show lace, but I was too scared to stop so I ran into the back of him, causing him to fall down.

A/N: Bo and El Torito style

"My bad, Damien!" I called back. I'm sure I'd be insulted for that later.

As I was looking back to see if Punk was there, I bashed into someone. Their arms curled around me and I instantly caught Dean's scent. I looked up at him, panting slightly. He looked down at me with confusion and then looked down the hallway from where I was running. Seth and Roman were by his side and they stepped forward making sure there was no one there.

It then hit me what they were all probably thinking. "Snake-" I panted. They probably thought I was running from the fan.

"Orton?" Seth asked, his fist clenched as if ready to protect me.

I didn't think that's the last I've heard of that joke.

"No, that snake, Jake's snake." I then backed away from Dean remembering that he only just had that thing crawling over his body. I backed into Roman who put his hands on my shoulders.

"Why are you looking at me like that, kiddo?" Dean frowned, his head titled with his brows furrowed as he looked down at me.

"It was...crawling over you." I leaned into Roman.

Dean continued to look confused. "Isn't it obvious?" Roman chuckled. "She's afraid of snakes." Roman just...got me.

Dean's eyes flickered to Roman and then back down to me. "You're afraid of snakes?" Dean asked, both his brows raised.

"...No..." I mumbled sheepishly, not wanting to lose my tough guy persona which the guys obviously thought I had. "What?" I said as Roman and Seth stared at me with smirks on their faces. "I don't!" They continued to grin. "I don't!"

"Hiss..." Seth blew in my ear.

"Oh my gosh-" I jumped away from him causing him to laugh. "Why do that?! Lemon!" I scowled at him.

"Well she left that part out." Dean murmered, looking between Roman and Seth.

"Who left what out?" I asked.

"Becky came and found us." Seth told me as he pulled a key card out of his pocket. It turned out I had run right to the Shield as this was their room. "She let us know that you went back early." He swiped the card into the door and held it open for us. Seth opened it for Roman and Dean, but when I tried to walk in, he dipped down, crossing his arm over the door, blocking me from walking in. "You must have loved Raw tonight." Seth smirked.

"I would prefer not to talk about it." I cleared my throat, pushing against his arm so that I could walk in.

"Why were you running, Aria?" Dean asked as he threw his shirt off. It was boiling in the hotel room, but hey, I wasn't complaining. He opened the mini fridge and pulled out a water, he looked at me whilst he was drinking and rolled his hand in a gesture for me to answer the question.

"Oh, um-" I shook my head as I had to repeat in my head not to blush. "Punk knows about my snake issues and turned up at my room with the beast itself." I shook my head, unamused by the situation. "That's why I left the arena, I knew he would have done it then too."

Dean leaned his head back, "Aria-" He started, but stopped. He ran his hand over the stubble that was starting to grow back on his chin. "C'mere." He said and leaned his weight on the door to his room to open it. I thought I had gotten away with it.

I reluctantly shuffled into the room, preparing myself for the berating Dean was about to give me. "I know I shouldn't have left...alone." I quickly said. Dean closed the door and looked over at me. "I wasn't thinking about it."

"You really think that was the best idea, kiddo?" His face was stern. My hands came together guiltily as if I was being told off by a teacher. "It was this fucking hotel, this fucking morning that you saw that little shit, Aria." Dean walked forward. "It pisses me off that you didn't even think about that." Dean stopped mere inches from me, his hand coming up to play with the ends of my hair. "It pisses me off that you don't realise the stupid things I'd do to protect you." His lips twitched in a snarl as if he didn't want to admit what he was about to, "Somewhere along the way, you've surpasssed what was most important to me." Wrestling. "And that's dangerous for me, Aria, because there's nothing I wouldn't do to keep you safe, with me." This was becoming more of a confession of love. I stared up at him, not knowing what to say. "You freaked me out when I couldn't find you." He frowned. "I worry about you. That's why I prefer when you're with me, not running off on your own. Got it?"

Dean went to turn around, to head back inside, but I grabbed his hand and pulled him back to face me. "I get that you're worried about me and I know I have to be careful, but I can't have you guys with me 24/7." I told Dean softly. "I need to be on my own sometimes."

Dean didn't look like he liked that answer. "When I saw you running, you scared me." He said lowly and sternly. "And that's hard to do." His eyes casted towards my hand I had running gently up his arm. "I'm protective of you enough as it is, so how the fuck do you expect me to be fine with you disappearing like you did?"

"Becky told you-"

Dean's eyes rejoined mine. "You should have waited for me tonight." He cut me off with a stern, shape voice.

"I didn't mean to make you worry, Dean."

"I know, Aria." He muttered, and pulled me closer to him. "And that's why I'm trying not to be too much of a dick right now." He looke down at me before shaking his head and looking away. "I've never been the protective boyfriend before; I don't know what people do and how they control the urge to fucking tear the shit to pieces."

"Because most people can't."

"But I can."

"Not without risking everything." I put my hand to his cheek. "And I'd never want you to do that. Not in the heat of the moment."

He closed his eyes, "Just don't run off again, Aria. Not on your own." He pulled away from me and moved to the other side. "I need a cigarette." He walked towards the door. He then stopped, "It's in my jacket."

I looked to his jacket that was lying on the bed. I picked it up and dug my hands in the pockets to give it to him.. I narrowed my brows as I felt something different in there. I pulled out a key.

Dean had side tracked me with berating me from taking off from the arena that I completely forgot he was going to surprise me with the key to our new home. I pretended to look surprise as I looked up at Dean. "It's ours?"

"All ours." Finally, he smiled which made me feel instantly relieved. I hated when Dean was angry with me.

I smiled widely and ran up to hug him. "I was scared you were going off the idea."

I felt him shrug as I continued to hug him. "Had to take you off the scent." I pulled out of the hug and rested my hand on his peck which I smoothed up to his shoulder.

"I'm really sorry about taking off, Dean." I said softly whilst looking up at him.

"I don't like yelling at you, darlin'." He said quietly as his hand combed through my hair. "I've always had this short temper, but I'm working on it." I smiled and rested my head against his chest. He wrapped his arms around me as I did so. "Like I said, I don't want to scare you off." Through his shorts, I could feel his fully hard erection poking at my thigh. I looked up at him and he edged his head down towards mine. A small moan escaped his mouth as my lips brushed against his.

I pulled out of his arms and then out of touch completely as I walked towards our bathroom. "I was just going to take a shower." I spoke as I lifted my top over my head. Dean's tongue swiped over his bottom lip as I pulled down my leggings. I did a teasing slow twirl before twisting the knob of the door to get into the bathroom.

"Hey dude, we're off to the gym, you coming?" I heard Roman call through the door.

"...Nope." Dean answered and rushed to the bathroom before I could close the door on him.

He locked the door behind us and pushed his pants down to his ankles, revealing to me the extent of my teasing. I walked up to him and put my hands on his shoulders. His finger hooked into my panties and pulled them down, allowing me to step out of them. As he went to go for my bra, I stepped away from him, taking it off myself and headed into the shower.

I got into the shower and slid the door shut before pushing my chest against the glass, giving Dean a perfect look at my breasts. "You coming?" I asked as I drew a heart into the steamed glass. I heard a deep moan escape him and then the glass door being forced open by a naked Dean. I shrugged innocently at him and turned on the warm water. I grabbed some body lotion and began rubbing myself down. I wasn't surprised when I felt Dean's arms loop under mine and cupped each of my breasts. He played with one in each hand, groping them in a circular motion as he pressed his excitement against me.

"Mmm, you have the perfect tits." He rumbled in my ear as he continued to rub. I gave a small wiggle against him causing him to increase his pressure. I turned around and his eyes dropped straight to them. Another low moan escaped him as he walked me back into the shower wall. He hung out his tongue allowing it to slide over my nipple before giving it a hard suck. He only stopped when I slid my hand over his dick. His mouth became hot and even more wet as I started to rub his cock. He moved up to rest his forehead against mine before wrapping his fingers around my wrist. I thought he was going to make me stop, but he only moved them further south to cup his balls. I stroked my hands over him causing him to disappear into the crook of my neck for a moment, letting out low growls frequently. When he knew he was about to cum, he stepped away from me and into the water of the shower which cleaned off the pre-cum that dripped. He slicked his wet hair back before coming for me again. He pressed his lips against mine in a hot kiss. I swiped my tongue against his causing his hands to grip at the shower wall tighter in support. He ripped his lips away from mine when he could no longer stand the teasing.

"Fancy putting that mouth to work, sweetheart?" He almost growled out of desperation.

"You want me to suck your dick?" I asked innocently which always turned him on. I walked away him and back into the warm water. "I don't know if I can do that, Jon." I pouted and shrugged my shoulders.

"Well, if you can't suck me then fuck me." He drawled, watching as the water fell down me. "

"Tempting." It came out as whisper as his lips drew dangerously close to mine.

I felt his excitement rub against my core causing me to give in, wanting nothing else, but him. I put my hands on his shoulders allowing him to lift me.

I came out of the shower later feeling completely empty and spent. I relaxed against the wall as I caught my breath. Dean came out of the bathroom with the most smug expression on his face. "I should buy you a house more often." He winked. "Up for another round?" He asked as he walked towards me.

"No." I laughed, putting my hand out to stop him. He just hung his tongue and continued to trap me against the wall. "Dean!" I giggled as he kissed my ticklish spot on my neck. I was able to walk around him and put on my pyjamas. Dean chuckled at the sight of me in them. He found the concept of pyjamas funny as all he ever slept in his whole life was his underwear. I threw my hair up into a pony tail and went to go watch Frozen whilst Dean went on a run.

"I'll probably need another shower." He said as he jogged backwards towards the door.

"No!" I threw a pillow at him.

I spread out on the couch and watched the most awesome movie ever. Roman and Seth came back not longer after. Roman came and sat in the arm chair, watching Frozen with me whilst Seth just floated around. I was getting pretty sleepy after it had finished.

"I still can't believe Hans was the bad guy." I shook my head at Roman as I lied on the couch. "Biggest twist ever. It'd be like you turning on me, that's how surprised I was." I continued as I went onto my twitter to tweet this, but something else caught my eye.

Seth Rollins RollinsWWE
AriaHaydenWWE watching Frozen for the billionth time
*Attached instagram video of me giggling at Olaf singing In Summer.*

I chuckled to myself and began tweeting back.

Aria Hayden AriaHaydenWWE
Don't be a lemon RollinsWWE

Ten minutes later

"Oh my gosh, Adam Rose retweeted me!" I cheered. "I can cross that off my bucket list."

Dean gave me a playful eye roll whilst Roman chuckled to himself. "You have a cute little giggle there, baby girl." Roman said as he replayed the video Seth put up on Instagram.

On hearing my laugh from Roman's phone, Dean reached out his arm. "Let me see." Roman handed him his phone and Dean smirked. "That's cute." He then peered up at me. "You always laugh at that bit."

It was the bit where Olaf sang:Winter's a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I'll be a…. happy snowman!"

"He's so adorable, I love it!" I grinned.

"Dude..." Dean looked towards Roman. "You're in the background watching it too."

"I was reading." Roman lied.

"I don't see a book."

"Off my phone." He cleared his throat.

"You never gave Frozen a chance." I said to Dean giving him a disapprovingly look.

"I went and saw it with you, didn't I?"

"You fell asleep!"

"And that's how bad it was."

"Call Frozen bad one more time, I dare you." We all turned to look at Roman in shock. What can I say? The man loves his Frozen.

"Ha." I said to Dean.

He retorted my hissing in my ear like a snake. "This is why I didn't tell you guys!" I exclaimed. "It leaves me vulnerable to pranks."

"It sure does, sweetheart." Seth smirked.

"You don't want to mess with me, Rollins."

"Oh yeah?" Seth came over, face to face with me. It looked funny as he was a lot taller than me and I had to lean my head right back to take in the full of him.

"Yeah." I stated before looking over my shoulder at Dean. "Can you-" I whispered to Dean whilst giving a little jump. He chuckled and placed his hands on my hips; he lifted me up this way so I was level with Seth. Seth just grinned and used one hand to tickle my stomach. I squirmed instantly which made Dean put me back down. "Stop it." I giggled and wrestled Seth's hands away. "Roman!" I called out. "Seth just said Frozen sucks!"

"What?" Roman stood up.

"Good night!" I raced into my room. Dean followed me in and put his arm around me, pulling me in for a hug before I went to bed. It's times like this that I felt really close to him. "I can't wait to start moving stuff into the apartment." I said as I kept my arms around him. "And decorating."

He chuckled. "I think I'll leave all that to you."

"You trust me?" I leaned my head back to look at him.

"Am I right to?" He raised a brow questioningly.

"Of course!" I smiled widely, he shrugged and nodded, relinquishing control. "So I was thinking a snow man patterned wall paper..."

"Ha ha." He slapped my butt which pushed me into the direction of the bed. I giggled as I crawled into the bed and pulled the covers over me. Dean stood in the door way scratching the back of his neck as he debated whether to come join me or not. I turned off the lamp next to me and shuffled down to sleep. A couple of moments later I felt Dean cuddle in next to me. He kissed the back of my head and I would hear him softly snore shortly afterwards.

In the morning

Seth reached out his hand to me as I laid flat on the mat; exhausted. "You're doing good." He encouraged, pulling me up.

"I'm a weenie." I moaned. Dean and Roman had been called in to do some new head shots whilst Seth had already had his done so I was training alone with Seth.

"You're not a weenie." Seth chuckled. "It's a tough submission and I'm a lot bigger than you, Aria."

"But so is Kharma." I placed my hands on my hips as I walked to the side of the ring.

Seth slipped his hand in mine and brought me back to him. "How about we try something else then?" He asked. I just continued to pout sadly. "There are even some moves I find difficult, sweetheart, it's no big deal." I nodded and tightened my pony tail. Seth went off to the side and threw off his shirt. My eyes widened slightly, but I quickly recovered by the time he turned back around. I had already adjusted not to feel awkward about wrestling with Seth, but this just brought it back on. Seth didn't seem to think anything of it as he walked back towards me. "Let me show you something." He had already retrieved his phone from the side. One of the techniques the Shield taught me was to watch videos of my opponent wrestle so that I could learn the moves and how to counter them. "You can see Kharma has her in a head lock-" Seth said, pointing at the phone. "Watch Eve lean forward to get away. The more she is trying, she's actually choking herself. Now I've seen Kharma do this on a regular occasion so let's assume she will try it on you." Seth walked behind me and put his arm around my neck as his bare chest pressed against my back. He did it tight enough so I couldn't escape, but not tight enough that he was hurting or choking me. "You ok?" He asked, checking if that was the case.

"Yeah, it doesn't hurt." I dismissed. The boys were very careful with me in the ring. They never wanted to hurt me so would always apply the moves lightly.

"Ok, so instead of moving your body forward to get out, I want you knock your shoulder back as hard as you can along with your elbow." Seth spoke. For a moment there, I thought I could feel something poking into lower back, but the moment it came to mind, it was moved away.

"Ok..." I breathed out before throwing my shoulder and elbow back at Seth.

"Harder." He encouraged. "Don't be afraid to hurt me, Aria. Do it as hard as you can." I moved to do it again. Seth let go of me and snaked his arm down my arm. "Like this." He spoke gently and drove my shoulder back in a violent manner. "Try for me-" He went back and put his arm around my neck from behind. I was much better this time causing Seth to stumble back from me. "Good. Just remember not to pull forwards, alright?"

"Yes, Mr Rollins." I said teasingly. He gave me a smirk and an eye roll causing me to giggle. "You know, you're a pretty good teacher."

"It helps when you have a good student." Seth shrugged with a smile. "But you are aware I'm charging for this, right?"

"...Put it on Roman's tab, yeah?" I dismissed.

He shook his head at me and gestured for me to come to his side. "Alright, sweetheart." He chuckled. "When you knock your shoulder back, aim for the nose-" Seth told me, I nodded. "She should end up in a position like this-" Seth bent forward. "Now I want to show you a move similar to my finisher." He pulled up a video of his finisher and explained to me what to do instead. Seth then bent forward. "Go for it."

I ran and bounced off the ropes before I did a curb stomp on Seth, but as he went down, I lost my balance and ended up falling with him. I landed sideways on Seth, slightly confused. "Well, that wasn't supposed to happen." Seth chuckled from under me. I used my arms to lift myself off him, but I stayed hovering over his body. "This time, don't fall with me." He teased as he put himself in the sitting up position causing me to have to lean back. I breathed out, a little winded from the fall. "You ok, sweetheart?" He put his arm around my waist and shuffled me closer to him.

"You've got some hard abs." I chuckled, rubbing at my ribs.

He chuckled too. "Sorry about that."

I pushed my hands down, lifting myself off the mat. Seth got up too and walked me through what I did wrong. "Go." Seth instructed. I bounced off the ropes again, but this time, Seth moved and put me in the AA.

"Hey!" I kicked my legs against him. Instead, he started spinning me around like an aeroplane. I gripped on hard to him in fear of falling off. He spun me around twenty times before lowering me to the ground. Straight away, I stumbled back from dizziness causing Seth to reach out and put his arm around my waist to keep me balanced.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't resist." He grinned as he looked down at me.

I pretended to be dizzy until I knee'd him in the mid section, causing him to bend over and I was able to do the curb stop. "Ok, I deserved that." Seth laughed from the floor. "But you did it!" I noticed Seth remained laying on the floor. "Top rope." He then instructed. I climbed onto the turn buckle and did another move that Seth had taught me. A 360 flip onto your opponent. I straddled Seth as I pulled his legs over by his head for the pin which he let me get. "Yes!" I did the yes movement whilst still on him.

I was suddenly flipped from my position and pinned to the mat with Seth hovering over me. "Hey!" I exclaimed and tried to wrestle him off. It was when I stopped messing about that I saw Seth was staring down at me, not as amused as I was. He was just...staring at me, his face close to mine. He was straddling me, keeping me flat against the mat, underneath him.

I didn't know what was wrong with him, he wouldn't move.

"Been around the world; don't speak the language-" We heard someone loudly and badly sing as they walked in. Seth immediately withdrew from me and stood up, offering me his hand. Cautiously I took it, giving him a look of confusion on what just happened. "But your booty don't need explaining." I turned my head to see it was Brad who had just walked in. He had headphones on with a towel thrown over his shoulder. He hadn't yet acknowledged us. "All I really need to understand is, when you...talk to dirty to me." He bobbed his head as he set up his bench weight. "Da da da da da da da da da da, talk to dirty to me."

"What have you got to show me today, kiddo?" Dean's voice then echoed through the gym, snapping my attention off Brad. Becky came in too, she gave me a wave before heading to Brad's side.

I was relieved to see Dean. "Hey." I said as I leant against the ropes. Roman followed from behind, the men were both in their gym gear. Dean slid into the ring and threw off his shirt. I could feel Seth's eyes burning on me, but I kept my eyes focused on Dean.

I ended up creating a pretty cool sequence with Dean where I put the moves I had learnt into practise. We spent a long time in the gym which led to us heading straight to the arena afterwards for the Smackdown taping.

"There better be no snakes." I stated clearly to Dean as we walked towards the arena together. It was ironic that Randy then past us. Dean gave me an amused look at that. "That one doesn't count. Although..."

He chuckled. "You never did tell me why you were afraid of snakes."

I gave a small groan, "Daxton had a snake when we were kids." I began telling him. "One night, it went missing." Dean laughed, catching on. "I didn't like the damn thing to start with and for two days I lived in fear of finding it. It turned up in my bed at 3am in the morning." Dean continued to laugh at my scarred childhood. "It's not funny, it bit my ankle!" I pouted. "And I was scared Damien would bite you."

"I'm tough as nails, kid." Dean shrugged.

"Yeah, so was I." Dean raised a brow mockingly. "Hey, I only cried for twenty minutes."

Once again, he chuckled at me. "You're looking real good tonight." Dean commented, looking back forward. "I like your hair up."

I smiled and looked around, stopping when we past the Exotic Express. As Dean was holding my hand, he was stopped also and pulled back to where I was. "Kid?" Dean asked questioningly.

"I kinda want to get on." I said, staring at it suspiciously. Dean rolled his eyes at me with a smirk on his face. "Aren't you the least bit curious to what goes on inside there?"

"Nope."

"Don't you want to know who the bunny is?"

"Nope."

"Don't you want to be a rosebud?"

Dean sighed. "C'mon, you little weirdo."

"We're going to regret not taking on this adventure." I tried to tell him.

I then stopped again when I heard a door opening. I turned around to see Zack Ryder getting off the Exotic Express. "I knew it!" He was totally the bunny!

"Uh, hi Aria." Zack said quickly and awkwardly like he had just been caught doing something bad. "Uh Dean..." He greeted timidly.

Dean stepped forward with his eye brow raised, but I quickly stopped him from getting anywhere near Zack. "Do you have to scare everybody off?" I asked him. "This is why I don't have any friends!"

We passed Dolph Ziggler on the way who was on the phone. "Brittney...I'll call you back." He hung up. "Ryder?!" And went towards Zack Ryder who was still guilty standing outside the Exotic Express. I watched as the cameras followed him.

"They're filming for the JBL and Cole Show." I told Dean as I watched on. Dean retook my hand and started pulling me along. "I should totally be on that."

"I think you have your hands full with Total Divas, kiddo." Dean held the door open for me. I tip toed up and kissed him as I passed through. We were the first to arrive and we made good use of that time. I wrapped my arms around Dean and he dipped his head to meet my lips with his. He placed one hand on my waist and used the other to try and slide down my shirt. He was forced to pull out when Roman and Seth arrived. I'm pretty sure Roman missed what we were doing, but Seth, I thought caught on.

"I better let you guys get changed." I said as I started moving towards the door.

"Stay away from that bus, Aria." Dean warned as I opened the door.

"Bus?" Seth asked, furrowing his brows.

"The Exotic Express!" I chirped. They all sighed and rolled their eyes. "You're all lemons." I stated and closed the door behind me.

As I was walking, I passed Rusev. He didn't smile, he didn't say hi, but he did greet me with a manly nod.

I was so in with Rusev it was unreal.

I headed to the locker room I shared with Becky and Brad, getting a call from my dad on the way over. "Yeah, Dean actually surprised me, he bought the place."

"Oh that Jon." My dad laughed. "What is he like? Awesome, that's what!"

I rolled my eyes. "Yep, he's that."

Sometimes I thought my dad liked Dean more than me. I walked into the locker room where Brad and Becky already were. I mimed to Becky that I was on the phone with Dad. "Hi Nigel!" Brad called out.

"Was that Mox?!" My dad asked excitedly.

"No, just Brad."

"Oh."

"Yeah, most people have that reaction." I smiled. "Dea...Jon is getting ready for tonight."

"Oh good. I bet he'll be cutting one of those classic Moxley promos." My dad sighed happily. "Let him know I said hi."

"Will do." I smiled. "Talk to you later."

"Bye my sweet."

I hung up the phone and threw it on top of my bag. "I don't understand why your dad doesn't like me." Brad stated. "Yet he likes...Dean, of all people."

"It's because you flirt with my mom."

"Mom's just love me, Aria." Brad leaned back, crossing his arms.

"Dad's don't." Becky sniggered.

"Jealousy." Brad clicked his cheek. "They don't like when a new alpha males comes along. Takes over as the man of the house, you know?"

"Yeah." I rolled my eyes.

Brad then suddenly sighed. "Something needs to be done about Vickie." We all looked at him to elaborate. "What was she thinking making the Shield open up the show?" He gestured to the TV.

Sure enough, Seth, Roman and Dean were in the ring, all with large frowns on their faces. "This past Monday night was Old School Raw." Roman held the microphone up to his lips. "A night where we celebrated our history and the legends who owned it." Roman continued to talk to the crowd, taunting that he defeated CM Punk which made him the new Best in the World. "And how could we forget Jake 'The Snake' Roberts." Roman lowered the microphone and looked towards Dean.

Dean stepped forward agitatedly, his lip curled into a nasty snarl. "I hate Snakes!" Dean sneered, "Scaly...slimy.. slithering, filthy, disgusting, beady eye, evil little creatures!" Dean brought his hand to his shoulder and started rubbing it hard. He couldn't stay still for the life at him and his head kept turning in every direction. "I don't know how it's legal in this country to own a ten foot python, but somebody is gonna pay for that!" He raged, glaring up the ramp. "Do you know what kind of nightmares that gives you?" He looked to Roman and Seth. "Having those things crawl all over you?" His hand stroked over his chest. Dean's eyes then widened as he walked up to the camera, looking straight into it. "My girl couldn't even touch me after, she was so disgusted." Dean snarled through gritted teeth before pulling away from the camera and bouncing off the ropes in anger. Becky smirked over at me. I loved it whenever Dean found a way to secretly reference me."If that snake was here right now, I would choke that snake out! Right in the middle of this ring!" Dean growled, unable to control himself whilst Seth tried to wrestle the microphone from him.

"What a psycho." Brad shook his head.

"Shhhh." Becky told him.

"Hey, hey-" Seth stated trying to calm Dean down. Dean continued to rant off microphone, ripping away from Roman as he tried to grab him. "That was Monday, ok? Tonight is not Old School Raw. Tonight is not about the history of the WWE. Tonight is about the future of the WWE." This seemed to calm Dean down a bit. "One thing I do know is that the future does not involve the New Age Outlaws." Seth's eyes darkened. "Monday on Raw, the Outlaws stuck their noses in our business. So tonight, it will be our pleasure-" Roman and Dean smirked at each other. "-to put the Road Dogg, Jesse James and Billy Gunn, out of their misery. And as for CM Punk-" Seth's lips tugged into a sadistic grin. "Well, we'll just do what we do every single time we step into the ring with CM Punk. We'll break him and prove that we are the future of this company and no one can stop us." The crowd half cheered and half booed. "And for whoever their partner is-" My brows furrowed, they have another partner? "I really hope it's your little friend, Punk." Seth laughed spitefully. "Aria's due some justice for putting her hands on me last time we met in the ring." I was so confused to why Seth was mentioning me, but I got that his reference was when I tagged teamed with Punk last time and Seth let me do a move on him. "Like I said sweetheart, you're gonna regret that."

"Believe that." Roman stated sternly, looking into the camera. "And believe in the Shield." He stuck his fist out.

Seth and Dean put their fists out also. Smackdown faded out on that imagine and then came up with the promo picture for the match and it was then I realised what Seth was talking about.

On the app, the fans could vote on what Divas to put in the match to tag team with Punk and the New Age Outlaws and to team with the Shield.

For Punk's team the options were me, each Bella, Naomi, Emma and Natalya.

For the Shield's team, the options were, Kharma, Eva Marie, JoJo and Tamina.

"Did you know about this?" Becky asked me.

"No." I shook my head. "I didn't, but it's awesome. I hope I get picked."

"Of course you will!" Becky exclaimed. "The fan girls love seeing you and Dean interact."

I headed out to find Dean or even Punk about this match, but on my way, I got stopped by Triple H who was next to Renee Young.

"Why don't you take this one?" Hunter said to me. I gave him a confused look until I saw a look of fear flash on Renee's face as she side stepped away. I turned around to see the Shield looming over me. I noticed that the camera was rolling so I kept to my on screen persona where I was on a different side to the Shield. Dean had a little smirk tugged onto his lips as he peered down at me whilst Seth stood on my other side and Roman stood just behind me, both looking intimidating. I pretended to be a little fearful of them.

I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do, but Mark who was now next to the camera encouraged me to read off the transcript. I was now doing Renee's interview for her.

"Ask away, sweetheart." Seth drawled as all three men towered over me, making me the centre of their attention.

"I like this one-" Dean purred, tilting his head as he drew his face closer to mine. "She's pretty." He ran his tongue over his bottom lip as his eyes flickered up and down me. He brought the back of his hand to my shoulder and brushed my long hair over it.

"Easy man." Seth chuckled. "She's a trembling little kitten." Seth smirked as I glared up at him.

"Relax, baby girl." Roman's voice boomed from behind me. "We promise we won't hurt you." I looked over my shoulder and saw Roman frowning down at me. "At least not yet." Since the camera could only see his face, I pouted at him. I saw his lips twitch in an attempt to suppress a smile. "Ask away."

"At the Royal Rumble-" Whilst the Shield was 'intimidating me' I memorised what I had to say from the monitor. "It's every man for themselves and as Vickie said in regards to you guys, it's brother versus brother." I felt Dean's hand stroking my lower back from which the camera could not see as his chest was pressed against my arm, blocking the camera seeing anything behind me. "With the three of you being entered in the Royal Rumble match, I just wanted to know if you guys have devised a plan to remain a unit."

I felt Dean's hand smooth down my back, curving under my cheek and giving it a little squeeze so I placed the microphone where he could speak clearly into it. "The Shield is a finely crafted machine that does not break down, the real question is-" I snaked my arm round my back and trailed my fingers over Dean's hand which still rested on my butt. His lips twitched into another smirk as he felt me doing so. "How are the twenty seven other superstars in the Royal Rumble going to compete against the most dominant force in WWE-" I pushed Dean's hand off me and instead he pulled it back round the front and ran the back of his hand against my hair. "Trust me, darlin'-" He said lowly, my eyes instantly casted downwards as I felt myself blushing, he chuckled at this. "We're all on the same page."

I had to pull myself out of the trance Dean had me in to see what I had to say next. "Are you all on the same page, Dean?" I asked, his eyes were firmly on me with that smile still playing on his lips. "If it came down to it and you had to throw Seth Rollins over the top rope, to win the Royal Rumble-" Dean mockingly put his hand over his heart as if he would never do such a thing. "-to go on and headline Wrestlemania for the WWE World Heavy Weight Championship, would you do it?" I hated to ask that question, but Dean took it lightly, even looking slightly amused.

"Do I not look like a trustworthy person to you, Aria?" Dean answered. Both hands now pressed against his heart as he leaned down; moving his head closer to mine which caused me to step back, bumping into Roman in the process. I looked up at Roman and moved forward again, but found myself trapped between Roman and Dean's chest. "These are my best friends. I can never bring myself to do something like that, absolutely not. Never, I could-"

With Dean so close to me, I was back in my Dean trance, finding it hard to look away. "Well-" Seth interrupted, forcing me to snap out of it as I turned my body to face Seth. Seth trailed his fingers up my arm until he reached my wrist, raising it up so the microphone was now level with his mouth. I could hear the fan girls going nuts with The Shield's flirty interactions. "Dean, that's very kind of you, but let's be real here-" I didn't like where this was going. "-you couldn't throw me over the top rope if your life depended on it." My mouth fell a little in surprise, but I quickly recovered. Seth tugged on my wrist which his fingers were still wrapped around and brought me closer to him as he continued to speak into the microphone. I glanced quickly at Dean to see his brows had narrowed at Seth, but I didn't know whether that had something to do with Seth bringing me closer to him or what Seth was saying. "I would toss you over in a second if it meant that I got a shot at the main event at WrestleMania."

Dean's hand wen to my waist and pulled me back to him, but as quickly as he did this, he let go. He did a similar action to Seth and put his hand around my wrist and used that to raise the microphone to his lips. I was still in surprise about being jolted around, especially Dean putting his arm around my waist in front of the camera. Did he...did he get jealous of Seth?

"Ok, first of all-" Dean said sternly. "I was kidding, of course I would throw you over the top rope. And second of all, you would go sailing kid, sailing over the top-" He said, raising his voice as Seth tried to talk over him, but Dean's voice dominated. "Work on your landing, alright?" I felt Roman shift from behind me, coming in between Dean and Seth. I stepped back, but Dean's hand behind me acted like a barrier and stopped me from going back anymore. Despite him doing this, his eyes were now firmly on Roman.

"We're talking about headlining WrestleMania here, boys." Roman spoke, taking a slow glance down at me. "I'd throw you both over the top rope in an instant." I felt very small between these three large men. "Regardless, one of us is gonna win the Royal Rumble and we'll still be united-" Now that's what I wanted to hear. "-and we'll still be The Shield." Roman put his fist out. Dean and Seth followed in this action and shoved their fists out. I was so tempted to put mine in too, but I resisted!

Seth and Roman moved from my side and started walking away. "You did good, kid." Dean winked as he backed away whilst facing me. I felt the camera zoom on me so I had to pretend to not look amused by this. "See you later, kiddo." He drawled, his eyes once more grazing me.

The camera was still on me and I wondered why until I felt a chest press against my shoulder. I looked up to see Punk staring off in the direction of where the Shield were going. "Hey partner." He then looked down at me, the cameras then stopped rolling.

"I got chosen?!" I asked him eagerly.

"Of course you did." Punk gave me a little eye roll.

"And on the Shield's team?" I asked him.

"Who do you think?" Punk answered.

"Kharma?" I asked fearfully.

He nodded. "You ready for this?"

I sighed. "It'll be good to know what I'm up against. I need a taster."

"You'll be fine, Nik." Punk placed his arm around my shoulder. "I'll be there with you along with your boyfriends."

"Boyfriend." I scowled and pushed away from him.

"If you say so." He winked.

I gave Punk a playful glare and headed in the direction that The Shield went. They were all in deep discussion when I pulled up. "I hate to break it to you guys-" Their heads snapped up to look at me. "But I'll be eliminating all three of you and winning the Rumble myself."

"Yeah?" Dean challenge.

"Yeah." I crossed my arms. "Problem?"

Dean took a few steps towards me and made me have to tilted my head quite far just to look up at him. "Try and lift me." He challenge. I didn't move. "If you're going to eliminate me, darlin', you've got to be able to lift and-" He bent down to my level, keeping his face close to mine. "I don't think you can."

"I don't need to be able to lift you." I said with attitude.

"Yeah?" Dean stuck his tongue in his cheek as he dared me to go on.

"Yeah. I've got a secret weapon."

"...Jinder Mahal?" Seth said.

"Maybe."

"You never know-" Roman spoke. "They still haven't put all the entries in. They've put Divas in there in the past."

"Not gonna happen." Dean quickly declared.

"Scared I'd beat you?" I then did a few light punches to his abs as I jogged up and down on the spot.

"Nope." Dean said, grabbing my fists with his hands. "In fact, I'd be the one to eliminate your cute ass."

"You'd do that to me?" I gasped. "You are not the man I thought you were!" I pretended to strut off, but Dean hurled an arm around my waist and pulled me back to him. His lips found my tickle spot on my neck and squirmed against him. "Noo!" I whined, cracking my neck to close it off from his lips. He chuckled and straightened up to his full height.

"I wouldn't want you getting hurt in there." Dean stated.

"You're right... I have made a few nemesis' in the locker room."

"Oh yes, your feuds." Dean said dryly.

"You just don't take me seriously-" I poked his chest. "Well you will when I'm kicking your ass tonight."

"You better hope I don't get my hands on you, kid." Dean taunted with a drawl. "Because I'll paddle your ass." He raised his hands and slowly curled in and out his fingers at me.

"You are tag teaming with my enemy I hope you know." I pointed out.

"Likewise." Dean shot back. "You're on the wrong team, kiddo."

"Yeah, come to our one." Seth spoke. "Come to the dark side."

"You'd swap me for Kharma?" I asked them.

"Any day." Dean shrugged.

"You should probably think of using those moves we taught you tonight." Seth said to me.

"On you guys?" I smiled cheekily at them.

Seth chuckled at me. "I'm sure you'll get your chance."

"I hope so." I leaned up and kissed Dean's cheek. "I'll see you guys out there."

I headed back and changed into my ring attire. I met with Punk and the New Age Outlaws after to start planning a tactic against the Shield. I was so excited to be part of the main event that I completely forgot Kharma's role in all this. I didn't like the idea of her teaming up with my guys, but it wouldn't fit if I teamed up with them. I wondered if I would ever get the chance too. I knew adding Divas to the match was only Stephanie's way of hyping up me and Dean for Total Divas. Punk gave me the advice to use my speed against Kharma, I kinda wished I could talk about this with Dean beforehand.

The Shield came down first through the crowd. Seeing them in the ring only got me more excited. Kharma's music then hit. As she entered the ring, she did nothing, but glare daggers at the Shield and the Shield equally shared a look of distaste at her. I heard Seth giving her stern instructions, but she didn't look to happy and bared her teeth at him. Dean then took a shot at Kharma and it looked like he was telling her to take a backseat in this match.

The New Age Outlaws music hit next followed by Punk's. I was excited when my music hit and I could go out there.

I slapped a few hands on my way down before sliding in the ring. Dean's lips twitched into a smirk as he watched me. I stood in the corner with the New Age Outlaws and Punk as we debated who was going up first. Dean was already standing in the centre, already the chosen one to go first.

"How about a little one on one, kiddo?" Dean taunted over to me, opening his arms encouraging me to come closer. Punk went to step forward, but Billy Gunn stopped him and said he was going first.

Dean got the upper hand straight away. He took Billy Gunn down with a flurry of punches before throwing him into the corner and making a tag to Seth. The Shield would continue tagging each other in, not allowing Billy to come anywhere near us to get the tag. With each tag made, Kharma was ignored. There were many times she stuck her hand in to be tagged, but each Shield member would ignore her. I knew what their mind set was; they didn't want to tag Kharma in because they didn't want her to get her hands on me.

The tag was made to Seth who delivered several punches to Billy. Seth ducked a clothesline, but was hit with a swinging slam allowed Billy to crawl over to our side to make a tag. Seth jumped to his team, but as Dean went to go tag himself in, Kharma leaned over the ropes and tagged herself in the match. The Shield looked shocked and Roman stretched out to tag Kharma back out the match, but she moved away from their corner, not allowing him to do.

Kharma pointed at me, wanting me in the match. Oh crap. "You can do this." Punk tapped my back. Billy Gunn raised his hand and I tagged myself in the match.

The crowd cheered loudly as I stepped into the ring and came face to face with Kharma. I saw the looks of worry of the Shield's faces although they had tried to cover it up.

As Kharma lunged for me, I ducked under her arm. I then tried to knock her down with a drop kick. Although she stumbled back a little, she still remained standing. She came at me and shoved me down. Her strength caused me to go flying into the Shield's corner. "You've got this, kid." I heard Dean say quietly to me, but to the crowd it probably looked like he was taunting me. Kharma began laughing loudly in the centre of the ring, I used this moment to drop kick her again. I then kicked her in the mid section causing her to bend over which I then used the move Seth taught me, the curb stomp.

As I went to go make the tag, Kharma grabbed my leg and swiftly raised it causing me to fall flat to the floor. She dragged me far from my corner and picked me up by my hair causing the referee to tell her off. She gave me a headbutt which caused me to fall to the ground again. Just as she went to pick me up again, Dean tagged himself in the match.

Kharma's head snapped angrily in Dean's direction, "Take a walk." Dean jerked his thumb in the direction of their corner to her. She reluctantly returned to her corner.

Dean stood over me and as I looked towards the big monitor, I saw that he was smirking. He made sure he was out of distance for Kharma to tag herself back in and he also made sure he was blocking my way to go back to my own corner. I didn't know what Dean would do here, I knew he wouldn't hurt me.

He pulled me up by hair and began pretending to taunt in my face.

"Just like we practiced, kiddo." He was in the prime position that we did our sequence in. He was letting me get a move done on him. I slapped his face away from mine, causing his hand to raise to his chin with a scowl on his face. As he did this, I performed a running bull dog on him. He lunged for at me as I jumped for the tag which he allowed me to make.

I tagged Road Dogg in the match and he catches Dean in with a chin lock. In this lock, Road Dogg dragged Dean over to our corner and tagged in Punk. Punk delivered punches in the corner, but Dean was able to throw Punk off him and went to tag in Roman. Roman got a couple of punches on Punk, Dean sent me a wink from his corner and it wasn't long until Dean was tagged back in the match.

Roman had ducked out of the tag Kharma tried to make leaving her fuming. She jumped off the apron and with her eyes on me, began making her way round. Seth jumped off the ropes and followed her. I could hear him yell 'What do you think you're doing, huh?' I quickly ran in the ring and before the referee could stop me, I bounced off the ropes and slid through the other ropes to jump on both Seth and Kharma, leaving them a tumbled mess on the floor. I walked backwards with a smile on my face and ended up colliding into Roman's chest. I slowly turned around with my eyes wide. I then tried to walk back from Roman only to walk back into Seth. I was now a sandwich between the two big men. With Punk out of the ground, Dean also slid out the ring and surrounded me.

Dean puckered up his lips at me and when I tried to get away, Seth and Roman held me in place. I pretended to struggle against them and was surprised when they actually let go. When my head turned, I saw Billy Gunn bounce off the ropes and comes flying through the ropes towards us. I felt myself being thrown back, but I was still hit by some of the impact of Billy Gunn's dive. Kharma, who had only just got up, was also hit with Billy Gunn. We all sprawled out onto the floor.

Ow.

My eyes connected with Dean's briefly, a nasty snarl came over his face and then he lunged for Billy, angry for using that move when I was there to get hurt too. Road Dogg came over and a brawl broke out against the Shield and the New Age Outlaws. Punk slid out the ring, but not to help the New Age Outlaws, but to pick me up instead and check if I was ok.

"You hurt?" Punk asked, checking over my body.

"I'm ok." I answered shakily. He put his hand on my lower back and walked me round to our corner, shoving Billy Gunn and Road Dogg back with us. He berated Billy Gunn for jumping whilst I was still there. Dean was looking over at me, I tried to nod subtly at him so he knew I was ok.

Punk was still the legal man and had to go back into the ring likewise with Dean. Dean was able to make a tag to Seth who instantly punched Punk in the jaw. Seth charged across the length of the ring for a splash and then looked to get the pin which Punk kicked out of. Seth made the tag to Roman who dragged Punk away from our corner as he got a little bit close to us.

Roman then did the suck it chop to us.

I gasped. "How rude!"

Roman smirked as he saw me react to that. This distraction allowed Punk to kick Roman from behind and crawl towards our corner. He went to make the tag to Billy Gun when...

The New Age Outlaws jumped off the apron.

"What?" I blurted out. "What are you doing?" They mockingly waved at me and Punk as they headed up the ramp. "OI! We're in a middle of a match here!" I yelled down at them.

They then did the suck it chop at me.

Wow, I didn't realise how much that move offended me.

When I looked back in the ring, Roman had speared Punk. I took a deep breath and climbed onto the turn buckle. As I went to jump on Roman to buy Punk some time to recover, Roman caught me in his arms. He walked me over the Shield's corner and threw me into Dean's arms who held me back as I was forced to watch Roman superman punch Punk.

"You can go now." Dean instructed Kharma as Roman got the pin.

Kharma looked to lunge towards me, but Seth stepped in between us. "Don't even think about it." It was pretty amusing to watch Kharma square up to Seth, but eventually she jumped off the apron and headed up the ramp, but not before giving me a look that told me we were far from over.

I struggled in Dean's arms as he climbed into the ring. I managed to break out of his grasp, but only to have his arm wrap around my waist and bring me back to his chest. He brought his lips to my shoulder as he forced me to watch as Roman and Seth picked Punk apart.

Roman held onto Punk as Dean brought me in front of him. With his hand buried in my hair, Dean dipped me back and brought his lips to mine. I had to keep reminding myself not to kiss back. When Dean let go, I fell to the ground, holding my hand to my lips and pretended to look outraged and disgusted. Dean wiped his lips with his arm as a smirk grew on his face.

Seth then did a move on me which we had also practised in the ring which he knew wouldn't hurt me. I pretended to be sprawled out on the mat, but I could see on the large monitor the Shield delivering a triple power bomb to Punk.

I crawled over to Punk's lifeless body as The Shield stood over us doing the symbol of excellence.

I looked out to the Shield who were walking backwards through the crowd, smirking at me. I pretended to glare out at them with hatred as once again I moved my hands over my lips which Dean then licked his.

"Are you ok?" I whispered to Punk.

"Just peachy." Punk groaned and begun sitting up. "Are you ok?" He asked, checking me over. I nodded and hugged him.

Hope you guys enjoys that chapter!

The next chapter is skipping two weeks to be at the Royal Rumble and then it will be the Shield and Wyatt feud which Aria will play a good role in! I can't wait to write it! Is there anything anyone wants to see in the Wyatt and Shield feud, leave in the reviews (:

Next Chapter: Aria deals with The Royal Rumble fall out and Aria tells someone about Seth, but who?!

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