Chapter Seventy Eight! Hey Guys you still have a chance to have your questions for Angel and Dean to be added to the story! Let me know what you got! Not all of them will be used by I'll keep it for the next time. There is a lot of time skipping in this chapter I hope its not too crazy. Let me know if it is.
European Tour Thursday: May 15th, 2014/ Friday: May 16th, 2014/ Saturday: May 17th, 2014/ Monday Night Raw: May 19th, 2014
Angel took a deep breath as she stepped away from the punching bag that she had been working on. She reached down and grabbed her water bottle off the floor. Resting her head against the wall near her, she brought the bottle to her mouth and took a gulp. As she felt the relaxing rush of cool water running down her throat, she let her eyes close before a yawn worked its way up.
"We're supposed to be working out, Babygirl. Not falling back to sleep." She heard Roman laugh at her.
"Well it's not my fault you guys decided to get up so early so you could work out before we caught the bus." She gave her neck stretch.
"Hey, we're not the only ones." Seth chuckled.
Angel opened her eyes and looked around to see that he was right, the entire gym was pretty much just members of WWE working out.
"Plus thing if of it this way, we got this out of the way so now when we do get to Newcastle, we don't have to worry about it, we can just get to work."
"Leave her alone." Dean said as he walked over from where he had been jump roping "She didn't get much sleep last night."
"I figured." Seth said as he patted his neck, which made her blush.
Without saying or doing anything, Angel knew what he was talking about. She had woken up to realized that Dean had left one hell of a hickey on her neck. One that she thought she had hid well, but apparently not.
Her eyes met Dean's and his shrugged.
She knew he felt bad. He had already apologized to her about it. But there was nothing that the man could do now.
Shaking her head, she took another sip of her water. As much as she hated that Seth and Roman knew how they spent their night, at least tonight wasn't a televised show.
…
Angel gasped as he watched Roman hit Randy Orton with an awkward spear. The Viper had ducked his head down as Roman came flying at him. The hit was effective, but it looked wrong. And she realized how wrong it looked when the ref counted to three and Roman stood up.
Above the man's right eyes was huge gash that was bleeding so bad that it was already dripping into his eyes and down his cheek.
Rushing into the ring, she grabbed onto the man's arm and looked up checking on his wound. "Are you ok?"
He smiled at her. "This?" He brought his hand up and touched near his injury. "It's just a little cut."
Little? She almost laughed as she looked at the thing. "Let's get you check out." She told him as she led him out of the ring and up the ramp.
When they got backstage Seth and Dean were already standing there waiting for them. They looked a little ragged from their match that happened earlier in the show, but she couldn't worry about that at the moment, not when Roman was bleeding as bad as he was.
"Shit man." Seth hissed.
"He got you good." Dean added.
Before Angel could even start to pull him down towards the trainers' room. They medical staff came and took him away to get stitches.
Angel let out a sigh as she pulled out her phone. "Galina's going to kill me." She looked at the time, trying to figure out the difference between here and back in Florida. Determining that it wasn't going to be late for the woman, she dialed the number.
"She's not going to kill you for something you had nothing to do with." Seth shook his head.
Dean chuckled as he unwrapped a piece of gum. "He's right, she's going to kill Roman." Angel glared at the man as he stuck the piece of gum in his mouth with a smirk.
"Hello?" She heard Galina answer.
"Hey, Galina." She said trying not to show off her worry.
"Hey Angel, what's up?"
"Um…So here's the thing."
"What he do?" The woman asked.
"He's got a really bad cut over his eye."
Galina sighed. "How bad?"
"Stitches."
Galina groaned as she heard her shooing away Joelle, who was asking who was on the other end of the phone. "It's Angel." She answered her daughter.
"Hi Aunt Angel!" The little girl called the new nickname that formed after her relationship with Dean went public. "Is Uncle Dean ok?"
"Shh…baby."
"Is he?"
"Yes, Dean's fine." Galina told her. "She's calling because Daddy got a nasty cut."
Joelle gasped. "Is he ok."
"I don't know, I'm trying to figure that out."
"He should be fine." Angel quickly answered her. "Just a bad hit. The medics are looking over him right now."
There was a pause on the phone before she heard a nice long sigh. "Well, thank you for letting me know." She said sweetly. "Can you have him call me when he's done being looked over?"
"Will do. Sorry about having to call you, like this."
"Don't be. I'm glad you did. Last thing I needed was to find about it tomorrow on the internet." True.
"Well, I'm going to go check in on Roman. I'll most certainly have him call you when he's finished."
"Thank you."
"Goodnight, Galina."
"Night Angel."
As the tense feeling washed from her, Angel felt Dean throw his arm around her shoulder. "See she didn't kill you."
"Yet." Angel sighed. She hated having to call Galina to tell her that her fiancé was injured, she was just glad that it wasn't a bad one. Or at least she didn't think it was.
D.D.D.
He thought Angel was going to pass out as soon as they walked into the trainers' room. They were stitching up Roman's eyelid and as soon as she saw them her face when pale.
"How are we doing, Doc?" He asked knowing that she wasn't going to be in the right mind to at the moment.
The assistant looked up and sighed. "Just a few stitches. Nothing that bad." He said as he dabbed the blood off Roman's face.
Seeming to be knocked out of her stupor, Angel ran over to Roman and grabbed his hand. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm good." He smiled lightly, trying not to disturb the men fixing his eye. "Like I said nothing to worry about."
"You got a whole lot to worry about." Dean chuckled. "Galina wants you to call her."
"Shit."
By the time they got down with patching up Roman. Angel was sitting against the wall playing with the zipper on her vest. The woman seemed to not want anything to do with what was going on.
"Take these for the pain and try not to bother it too much. No soap on it. And no more ramming your head into things."
"Hey, it was Randy's fault." Roman said as he jumped up off the table.
"Don't care." The medic said as he began to wash up.
Dean watched as Roman got up from the table and fixed his hair into a ponytail, bun thing. "You ready to go?" He asked
Roman looked up and nodded. "How about you, Babygirl?"
Angel's eyes shot from her zipper to the man's face. "I'm good." When they both raised a brow at her she let out a sigh. "I'm just not good with things like needles going near people's eyes."
Dean smirked as he thought about a match that he had way back when. Good times.
"Where's Seth." Roman asked as he gathered up the rest of his gear.
"Said he wanted to call Leighla before it gets to late." Angel told him as she walked up to them. Her eyes naturally drifted upwards to Roman's eye and her face turned so pale that Dean couldn't help but reach for her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Roman gave her soft look. "I'm sure. A little rest and I'll be good for tomorrow."
Dean watched as the wheels in Angel's head started to turn. 'Tomorrow? You're not really going to fight tomorrow, right?"
"Doc?"
The medic turned around and sighed. "I wouldn't, but that's just me. It's not that bad of a gash, only a few stitches, so it's really up to you. Do you wanna risk it getting ripped open? If so then go for it."
"Roman turned around with a cheesy smile on his half-swollen face. "See, he said I'm good to go."
"No." Angel shook her head. "He said that he wouldn't but it's up to you."
"Yeah, so I'm good. All I need to do is get out of here, grab a drink and get some rest and I'll be tip top tomorrow."
"Don't forget to call Galina." Dean hated but also loved to rain on his best friend's plans.
"Oh right." Roman sighed. "I'll guess I'll do that…right now." He could see the look on the man's face which was normally really happy to call home, was no dreading it. Galina was a sweet woman, but she also could pull up her pants and take charge if she wanted to, and most the time she would do so to lecture Roman about something.
Dean could remember the last time he had gone to spend time with the family, Roman had forgotten to take his gym gear of his back for the wash and Galina let him know by shoving the dirty clothes in the man's face.
"Sounds good." He held back his laughter. "While you do that, Angel and I are going to find Seth so we can head out as soon as you're done being yell at…I mean talking to Galina." He quickly pulled Angel out of the room as Roman flipped him off.
After they got down the hallway a bit, Angel let out a huge sigh. "I don't really think he should wrestle tomorrow."
"He'll be fine."
"Fine, he had stitches."
"Only a couple." He sighed. "That's nothing. I once fought with glass in my ass. Every time I landed on the mat it would wedge it a little higher."
Her face twisted. "I don't even want to think about that."
He snuggled her closer. "He'll be fine. We'll head out, he'll get some rest and then tomorrow all we have is the interview before the show. It's an easy day."
"That fine and all but what I'm really worried about is the evening. You know when the show starts" She sighed.
"He's smart enough if it's going to be a problem, he won't fight." Dean tried to ease her worry. "He's not me."
She giggled just as Seth came around the corner towards them.
"Hey." He called as Seth almost walked past them. "Seth?"
Blinking, Seth turned around and looked at them. "Sorry, didn't see you there."
"Is everything ok with Leighla?" Angel asked.
"Leighla?" His brows drew together. "Oh yeah, everything's fine. She misses me. But you know…"
Dean rubbed his chest as he looked at his brother-in-arm. "You sure? You seem a little…"
"Yeah man, just a long day. My heads still fuzzy from the match." He sighed.
Dean smirked at his friend. "I got you." There were some hard hits during their match.
"Oh, how's Roman's eye?"
"He'll live."
"He's got a couple of stitches." Angel said as she casted him a look.
Seth nodded. "Shit, is he getting them right now? Or?"
"Already finished, we came to get you while he called Galina."
"I'm glad I don't have to make that call." Seth laughed.
"You and me both."
Something's off. The thought wouldn't leave Dean's head as he looked at Seth. The man seemed jumpy, seemed distracted. It showed droning their match tonight. There was a moment when he had ample time to move away from a charging Ryback but he didn't. He stood there and took the hit like a deer stuck in headlights.
He didn't want to call him out on it, but it was starting to worry him. Their big match wasn't that far off. What if Seth let whatever get under his skin and it needs up messing with Payback. It could cost them everything.
A.A.A
"Welcome!" The reporter called as she pointed to the four chairs in front of her. "Hello, hello."
"Hi."
"Hey."
"Morning."
The boys all greeted her as they took their seats. Seth, Roman then Dean leaving the empty chair next to him for her. Angel walked over and sat down, sinking far into the cloth chair.
"How are all of you this morning?"
"Good." Angel smiled at her. "Tired by good."
"I can imagen." She smiled as she handed Seth the mic that was in her hand. "So, I'm Amanda, and I'll be asking you the questions for the interview." She said as she sat down in her chair across from the, right next to the camera. "You ready to start?"
"Please."
"First of all, what happened to your eye Roman?"
Everyone but Angel chuckled as Seth passed Roman the mic. "Pretty much what happened is you have a desperate Randy Orton lined up for a Spear and he did what no ones ever done before he put himself in full danger and threw his head at my head as I was a projected missile. Which split me open. That's the type of measures you have to take when your fight any member of the shield." Roman pointed to his eye. "Take a close look, you want your eye looking like that? Don't do my job."
Seth chuckled as he took a sip of water. "Warn all those little kids who try to preform are moves on their trampolines."
"Trampolines?" Dean played with his bottom lip. "That was fancy compared to what I had. Try couch, or bed, or floor."
As Roman and Seth busted out laugh and Tried her hardest to keep herself reigned in.
"Next question, how are you liking the UK?"
"This is our third time in the UK." Seth took the mic.
"Talk for yourself." Angel called across Dean and Roman.
"Right, this is our third time and her first time in the UK."
"Better."
"Every time we come here its awesome, fans are great, every show we do the crowds, their wild man. They don't get to see us that often. So, it's a great experience, we dig it every time. What about you Angel? Are you enjoying your first time?" Seth passed the mic down to her.
"If I would have known you were going to put me on spot I wouldn't have spoken up." She blushed as she took the mic. "I love it. It's so pretty here. And like he said the fans are great, some of the loudest shows I've been a part of. But the look of this place really has me in awe. I can't stop looking out the windows when we're traveling."
"Aw that's sweet." Amanda said as she looked down at the clip board. "Um, So, what's the best chant you've ever had from a crowd?"
"Best chant?" Angel took a deep breath. "I quite like the Shield chant. "Shield. Shield. Shield." She tried to replicate the chant. "It sounds a lot better when there's more people." She quickly passed the mic down.
"They do this one, 'You fell over, you fell over.'" Seth said in a fake English accent.
"I knew you were going to do it. I knew it." Roman said as he smacked the arm of his chair. "First night of every tour. It's always the first night of every tour."
"There's a good story behind that one."
Angel cocked her head as her curiosity got the better of her. "What's the story?"
"It's nothing." Seth shook his head.
"Oh, come on, what is it?" She leaned forward.
"We'll tell you about it later, Babygirl." Roman told her.
"Aw come on."
Dean patted her on the leg and leaned into her. "Roman fell off the apron our first time out here… like just fell. No one did anything to make it happen."
"Hey!" Roman smacked Dean. "What part of later don't you understand?"
"Eh." Dean shrugged.
"To answer that seriously," Seth tried to interrupt the bickering going on. "every time we get an 'this is awesome' chant that's probably the best one. Just cause. It's also one that seems to be following us around from town to town so that's just personally gratifying."
"Love it." Amanda smirked. "Do you think you can top your previous match with Evolution at Payback on June 1st."
"We're going to do what we do." Seth said as he looked at the floor. "The situation with Evolution it seems like every week it's been raised to another level, um. So, going into Payback in a few weeks all of us are on the same page, we got to do what we got to do to get rid of Evolution as a whole. They're really a nuisance, they kind of been a torn in our sides for the past month or so and it's just getting out of hand…."
"Getting out of hand?" Angel mumbled to herself. "That's putting it lightly."
Seth paused and looked over at her. "Really? Angel aren't you supposed to be keeping us on track and make sure we're behaving? What has gotten into you?" Angel laughed as Seth picked on her with a smile on his face. "Managers." He shook his head.
"She's worse than Dean today." Roman added.
"Hey!" Angel and Dean said as the same time.
"I'm not that…never mind." Dean tried to defend himself.
Angel chuckled slightly. "Its been really stressful the last couple of weeks and even though we're working harder now on this tour I feel more relaxed. Is that weird?"
"Yeah kind of." Dean nodded at her, his sunglasses that he refused to take off made reflected the lights right into her eyes.
"Says Mr. Sunglasses Indoors."
"She's got you there." Roman chuckled.
"The lights are bright." Dean sighed.
"Can we just finish the interview?" Seth clapped his hands before looking down to realize that he was holding the mic still. "Sorry for whoever has to listen to that." He said with a guilty look.
"Way to go." Roman picked.
"What have been your career highlights so far?" Amanda said as she tired to stop laughing.
"How about you answer this?" Seth said passing the mic to Dean.
"Fine I will." Dean took the mic almost defiantly and brought it to his mouth. "The thing that I'm most proud of that we've done is uh, there are specific moments and in the ring there has been a lot of them. And you know really memorable stuff we've done, WrestleMania, Pay-Per-Views, we've been in the ring with everyone from the Undertaker to the Rock to Triple H to John Cena, Randy Orton, you name it. But I think that uh, are biggest accomplishment so far is kind of to Seth's point, is that on one hand we're sponges and we're in here and we're learning and trying to get better ever single day. Going a hundred miles an hour, not taking any nights off but I think we've been able to raise the work ethic in the ring and have other people step their game up to match our intensity level. And I think that's happen across the board. Just being able to make the stamp we've been able to make on the product and the locker room, and to bring the energy level up and what we are continuing to do is our biggest accomplishment."
"Wow." Seth raised his brothers and looked out of breath. "That was something."
"Got to say." Dean pursed his lips together. "Wasn't ready on that one."
Roman gave Dean a tap on the shoulder. "You could have gotten brownie points by saying 'the biggest highlight in my career was when got our manager' or something along those lines."
"She's not really a highlight in my career…" Dean paused as a cheesy smile came to his face. "More just a highlight of my life."
Angel's heart did a little flutter as she looked at the man beside her. She could swear that he saw the small heated glance that he was giving her through the dark sunglasses, though that might have her own reflecting back at her.
"Awe." Amanda gasped.
"Ew." Seth frowned. "Get a room."
"Outside of the ring, who's the party animal, the most demanding and the best with the ladies…."
Angel chuckled at the questione.
"Angel is so the best with the ladies." Seth said as he took the mic from Dean. "Nah, I'm going to take most demanding and let you two fight over the other two."
"This question is difficult." Roman said. "If you would have asked us like a few months I would have said Dean is the ladies' man because he used to always have time for the ladies, that was his thing."
"You're going to get me in trouble." Dean said while chomping on the piece of gym in his mouth.
Angel gave a fake pout as Roman met her eyes.
"We may just take both of them." Roman said trying to cover himself.
"There are different demographics." Dean started. "This is why a three-man team is so good having your partner and stuff. We can't fill every demographic; you know what I'm saying but we can over all the bases with three different guys. So, we got all the ladies covered. Now saying that we are all happily in relationships." Angel couldn't help smiling as Dean elbowed her. "Happily, in relationships." He repeated making Seth and Roman crack up.
Angel ripped the mic out of Dean's hand. "The way I see it is they are all a bit of all of them. Each of them is demanding in their own way, trust me. And none of them are scared to party. In fact, it's a rare night if they don't have at least one drink and as for ladies mans?" She gave each a look over. "I've seen the fans come to the show, I've read all the signs, really it's a toss-up. As Dean said there something for each type of girl in the mix. Though just remember boys I have a certain couple of numbers in my phone."
"Yikes." Seth pulled at his collar.
"Good answers." Amanda said. "Now does it bother you that Roman is being called the next big thing."
He is? Angel questioned. Sure, she heard people say they really like Roman and can't wait to see where he goes but she's never heard anyone say that he's the next big think at least not over both Seth and Dean.
"You think I would be in a group and have a guy watching my back, have two guys watching my back who weren't going to get that kind of attention? You think any kind of any kind of serious successful group in wrestling or you know in music or anything like that isn't going to constantly have the rumors of crap going on between all of them. That all just comes with the territory. We're are all super competitive with ourselves and each other and that's kind of the glue that keeps us together. We've all got to check each other, they're no dead weight. We all bring a different game to the table, but we all need each other to play each other's roles in order for this to work. That's just par for the course. It just means that we're doing something right."
Roman took a deep breath and took the mic from Dean. "Say I'm the next big thing anybody can say whatever they want. Who do I roll with, if I'm supposed to be that dude, that guy, who do I have with me? Who would I put all of that on the line for, these three. That's just how it is, that's how I operate. I don't look into who's the next big thing. I'm just trying to do my job better then I should."
"What's it like experiencing WWE live?"
Dean took this one. "There's a million different ways to watch the product but nothing is like being there live and experiencing the energy, and hearing the crowd, hearing the contact and the physicality in the ring and the music. Being part of the audience live is something you can't replicate watching at home on television. It's great to watch on television but if you miss the show life when we are in your town whether it be in Europe, United States, or Australia or anywhere, you're really missing out. Because there's nothing that can really replicate that energy. Non-televised events are sometimes more fun for us then televised events or even Pay-Per-Views because you know, we're not doing anything for the camera's, there less interviews, so we're just out there for the people. We're just working our tails off to give them energy for them to give it to us back. And it just goes back and forth, it's a more intimate experience than television sometimes. Tonight, we've got a life even and it's a UK crowd and their going to be nuts and we're going to be working our tails off like we do every night in every town. And there's just going to be a lot of energy going back and forth and it's pretty cool."
"Thank you." Amanda said as she put her cards down in her lap. "Now I have one more thing to ask of you. Can you do an intro for us?"
"Sure." Roman smirked. "What do you want us to say."
"Just who you are and that this is your interview for MTV."
Angel watched as the camera man got really close on them, making them lean together. "Are you ready?"
"Who's going to say it?" Seth asked.
"I will." Roman groaned as he brought the mic close to his face. "Ready?"
"When you are." The camera man said.
"We are the Shield, believe in MTV."
D.D.D.
Dean collapsed on the bed; the tour was really starting to drag now. Tomorrow was their London show meaning it was Monday Night Raw time. A normal televised show for once. The only one they were going to get the entire tour. They left the States before Smackdown was filmed and Tuesday was going to be the tapping for Smackdown this Friday, however they weren't going to be part of it. Nope, they were in Sheffield doing another house show at the same time the tapping was happening.
He let out a huge sigh as he thought about tomorrow's show. He didn't have a match, it was Seth vs Batista, but he was still super excited for it. Just the fact that it wasn't the same god damn fight for once.
They had been facing RybAxel so much over the last couple of days, he swore he had an imprint of Ryback's huge paw on his back. Somehow, he just knew that it was the Authority was keeping then at bay with this stupid little fight. At least Randy was stepping and having bouts with Roman, that was more then could be said for Hunter and Batista who have been pretty much chilling on the side lines for most of the time.
He had caught a glimpse of Hunter the other day, talking to a crew member about something. It took Angel reminding him that Hunter is the COO and that it was his job to check in on the shows to keep him from running over there and pounding his face in. He could care less that there weren't any cameras to catch it, he just wanted blood.
"Dean." Angel called as the door to their hotel room opened. "I got a surprise."
Raising a brow, Dean rolled over his spot ignoring the pain the radiated from his back and looked up at the woman who was walking up to the bed with two take out containers. "What you got there?" His stomach was already rumbling for whatever food she had.
"I thought since we were in England, we should at least have some fish and chips." She said as she popped open one of the containers.
"Where the hell did you get that?"
"There's a little shop right next to the hotel that was still open. I thought why not." She shrugged her shoulders with a cute little smile on her face.
"I thought you said you were going to ask the front desk for another blanket?" He questioned as he sat up and took the containers so that she could climb into the bed.
"I did." She said joining him. "That's when I asked the front desk about late night food and he told me about the shop."
"Did you get Roman and Seth some too?" He asked already knowing the answer.
"Yep."
He chuckled as he handed her one of the orders of food. "You spoil us."
"I know." She said proudly as she turned on the TV.
He didn't know how but with one little action, Angel made his night from sit to well not shit. He could quite comprehend how she did it, but she did. He was sitting there, with a thing full of delicious food in his lap, with her sitting next to her while watching a show called 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which had to be the longest most ridiculous name he had ever heard. But he also couldn't stop smiling every time Angel laughed at a joke on the show, or thought she got a good word in one of the games they played.
Maybe just maybe he could make it through the rest of the tour.
A.A.A
Angel stood there with the camera on her shoulder as she readied for the boys to start their promo. Tonight, they were so worked up and ready to get their hands-on Evolution that she could see it even in Roman's face as his jaw ticked.
"Last week Triple H talked about humbling us." Dean said from his spot leaning against a ladder in the back of the hallway. "Triple H talked about teaching us a lesson. Eliminating us. Then Triple H is going to run his goons down and hide behind them. Nah, man. Because what that looks like to me is that Evolution might be afraid of the Shield." He emphasized the world Afraid. "I hope not because at Payback we want a Evolution that wants to fight. This Twenty on three crap…." He looked at Roman. "This." He pointed up to Roman's eye.
Angel moved forward to get a better look the man's face. Angel almost sighed, his eye was getting better, kind of. At least it would have been if it hadn't had been made worse during one of his fights with Randy. The man raked his face against the mat and ripped the stitches out of his face and spilt him open even more, making him for from five stitches to nine. Just like that. Not to mention the skin around his eye was a nasty mixture of black, purple, yellow and green and that there was a cluster of popped blood vessels in his eye.
"Hey, is this your brand of justice?" He said like it was Randy's aim to bust Roman open when they smashed heads at the beginning of the tour.
Roman smirked as he leaned in even closer to the camera. "Nine Stitches. And the question that remains for last week is, is that all you got? Is that your best shot? Because if it is you have so many problems. You keep trying to knock us down and we keep standing tall. And we're never going to stop coming for you."
"Yeah." Seth's voice made her pull back so she could fit Seth into the frame, which also gave her a nice view of the pacing, twitching man behind them. "Evolution that what you don't understand. You keep trying. You try to attack us when we're down, you try to put out down, you try to put us out. Example: two weeks ago, on Smackdown, my match with Batista. I took one risk too many, I made a mistake and he did what he was, he's smart and took advantage. Then he beat me half to death when I could barely stand on my own two feet."
A chill shot through Angel as she listened the Seth's recounter of the moment. She remembered standing there in horror. But to hear the man say what happened in his own voice and to label it as being beaten half to death was chilling, made her want to go back in time and do more. Try anything. Dean had told her she had been getting better at the punching bag. Though he was also looking as her ass when he said it.
"Try to put me out of action, tried to end my career. But he couldn't get the job done. But tonight, Dave." Seth's voice dropped down very low. "I won't make any mistakes. Believe that Batista and Believe in the Shield."
She brought the camera down to the fist bump that happened.
"And clear." Angel said in almost a whisper as she dropped the camera down. "Good promo guys." There was a strange feeling in the small area that they had claimed for their home for the night.
Dean was being well Dean as he paced around, throwing a punch in the air at random and give small cracks of his bones every now and then. Roman was standing silently against the wall as he clutched his vest and Seth, Seth was the one being slightly out of character. He was about as still as Roman as he stared at the ground. But that's how Seth had been for most of the tour.
The pep talking, always up for a fight guy was nowhere to be scene. Yeah, he would have a good time with the boys, smile and give a chuckle when one of them said something stupid, he would even throw out a witty comment every now and then but he always seemed to sink off to himself. Like he was thinking about something.
She knew that Dean had caught the strange behavior too because she would see him glancing over at the man out of the corner of his eye, like he was checking on him.
"I'm going to go get this to the production crew." Angel said trying to break the silence in anyway possible. "We only have a few more matches before Seth's so makes sure you're ready."
Dean quickly snapped up the clasps on his hoodie vest and smirked. "Always ready, sweetheart."
"I'll be right back." She said as she made her way back to the main part of the arena, getting a strange look from one of the workers that saw her come out of a darkened area. She gave them a smile and kept walking.
"Miss Miles."
She turned around to see a young man making his way up towards her. "Hello."
"Hey, I was just coming to find you." He said with a smile on his face. "Do you have that promo for us."
"Sure do." She said rasing the camera up. "And boy it's a doozy."
"It always is with the Shield." He took the camera. "Oh! Before I forget, Hank is looking for you."
Hank was the stage manger who had been working for them the entire tour and was actually one of the people who worked for the Authority that she actually got along with. He walked to her instead of sending someone else to do it.
"Do you know where he is?"
"Uh," He thought. "He's either in the gorilla or the production truck. I'm not really sure."
Angel sighed. It was getting close to Seth's match and the last thing she wanted was to go on a wild goose chase. She waved to the young man as she started down towards the gorilla. She was hoping that he was there because she didn't want to go anywhere near the production truck, that was where Stephanie liked to hang out when she wasn't needed for the show.
Much to her surprise when she rounded the corner to the gorilla, Hank was standing there with is clipboard oon his hand as he talked to another crew member.
"Hank."
"Angel!" He turned around with a smile on his face. "Hey."
"I was told you needed me."
"Yeah…" A sigh came from the man as he looked down. "Don't shoot the messenger."
Oh no. Her heart dropped at the words. "What is it."
"Everyone's been banned from ring sigh for Seth vs Batista." He said quickly like he was pulling off a bandage.
"What?"
"The Authority just let us know that only official people will be allowed down at ring side." Angel closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. "But hey, that means that Evolution isn't allowed down either. They aren't officials. The only ones that can be at ring side are, the ref, the medics, ring announcer, timekeeper, and commentary. That's it."
She nodded. "Yeah at least there's that."
"Sorry." Hank sighed as he patted her shoulder.
"Not your fault." She tired to smile at him. She knew he was genuinely sorry for having to deliver bad news to her there was no need to get angry at him. What she did need to do though is get back to the boys and let them know what was going on. Because something was fishy.
D.D.D.
Dean leaned back against the ladder again as he watched Seth warm up for his fight. He was envious of his teammate, he wished it was him going out to war in a one on one fight. Though at least this having to do with Evolution, he knew he was going to get his fists on someone tonight.
A noise came from the hallway that lead back to their corner and everyone's head perked up. That was either Angel coming back or someone trying to find them. Either could be just as possible.
It wasn't until Angel came around the bend did they all relax. That was until they saw the look on her face. "What's wrong?" He asked as she stopped in front of all of them.
"Just found out that everyone has been banned from ring side for Seth's match. Only officials are allowed."
An annoyed groan filled the area as all three of them shook their head.
"Of course, we couldn't be men and have a good match." Seth sighed.
"You expected to Evolution to be men?" Dean raised a brow. "Even after they hid behind entire locker room?"
"I just thought…" He raked his fingers through his hair. "I don't know what I thought."
"When you say officials, what do you mean?" Roman spoke up.
"I was told it would only be the ref, medics, timekeeper, ring announcer and the commentary team." Angel sighed. "Everyone else is banned."
"Meaning unless Hunter and Randy have something up their sleeves then we're good."
Dean shook his head. "Yeah but do you really want to chance that?" He asked the man.
"Nah."
"For all we know they could be guest commentator…." Roman trailed off as they realized what was going down.
Yeah officials were the ones allowed at ringside, that just means that Hunter found a way to make him and Randy officials. Meaning that it was going to be all three members of Evolution out there while Seth would be by himself.
"We can't let this happen." Angel crossed her arms.
"I agree." Roman nodded. "We need to stop whatever they have up their sleeve."
"Yeah, but how." Seth asked. "Unless you guys know how to become officials then we're shit out of luck. Because the only other way we have is DQing the match."
Dean leaned his head back between the rungs of the ladder. Seth was right. They really didn't want to throw the match, but that seemed like the only way to ensure Seth wasn't up against Evolution by himself. But it wasn't like they could stomp their way into the GM's office and demand that they become officials in the….
"Who's the GM?"
"I think it Brad tonight." Angel answered.
"I think it's time to give Mr. Maddox a visit." Dean smirked.
Skovko: Well Angel is a little tired in the morning but they both did sleep well
Silentmayhem: Wow, alright I'm trying to take your review in stages. One I'm going to try to do more with Dean, but it's hard because Dean's not the type of person who really wants a clothing line or something like that. He's just chill and wants to fight. But since it's His and Angel's story I feel like it will feel like he's more important. Since we're going to be seeing a lot less of Seth and Roman once they split. I might have Angel do something but I'm not sure yet. Thank you for you ideas though. We'll shall see.
Lissa003: Holy crap your rereading it! It's a lot of reading. I hope that it all flows together. That's been my biggest fear.
Canadice: I'm glad that you're speechless. I'll try to keep you doing your happy dance. You don't have to beg. I'm going to wright more
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Guest: I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter. I know it wasn't quite what you asked for. But we still have time. Lol
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