ATM: The Bonehead and the Brain – Seth and the God Girls Strike Back!
Seth and the God girls grow closer while Sasha spends more time with Roman and his family. Hunter deals with the fallout of losing his family's trust and Stephanie and Bayley release the Black Heart Diaries and reveal more than the wrestling world expected.
Chapter Nineteen – Who's the Boss?
Sugarfish, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
Beth Hardy sat opposite Seth Rollins smiling from ear-to-ear as Seth ate his sushi and she didn't want to even look down at her plate. There were butterflies in her stomach and she was twisting her napkin under the table looking across at the man she had tried to sleep with via an enchanted necklace.
"How's your sushi?" she asked Seth who shrugged at his food indifferently.
"It's sushi," he replied and Beth looked down at her hands, they were in a knot until Seth tapped her on the foot. "What's wrong?" he asked her casually.
"I just feel so stupid in this dress," Beth said. "I know I'd be more comfortable if I was in my own clothes,"
"Is that because half the men in Sugarfish wouldn't be staring at you?" Seth replied and Beth looked around and noticed several men eyeing her from across the restaurant, most of them with girlfriends shooting her evil looks right next to them.
Beth laughed shyly with her head down, "What are they all looking at?" she said taking a sip of her water.
"The beautiful girl in the tight black dress," Seth replied simply.
"Well, I didn't want to wear this dress, I wanted to change back into my normal clothes, I don't like it when guys stare at me, it makes me nervous," Beth replied and Seth leaned back in his chair and played with the rest of his food.
"It must be so frustrating not being able to be yourself," he said and Beth Hardy nodded.
"Yeah, it is," she said honestly. "My Mom wants me to be one way, the Jimmy Choo people want me to pretend I'm a model. I just wanna be myself,"
"Who you are is not determined by your clothes or your occupation. Who you are is how you feel about yourself when no-one else is around. That's the person that should feel comfortable in every room, in every city, in every place they go," Seth said.
"Well that's not me, I haven't been myself in months. I'm so frustrateed and this dress is just proof of how far I've gone for my mother," Beth said. "Bayley complimented my legs, she told me I should show them off more but everytime I show them, I just wanna hide them again,"
Seth listened carefully as Beth spoke, "I'm done eating, you ready to go?" he said. "I wanna go home to my wife,"
Beth's heart sank at the mention of Seth's wife, "Am I really that bad company?" she said sadly.
"No, Sasha's just that awesome," Seth replied. "I love my wife and I miss her legs, I miss her arms, I miss her smile, I miss everything about her and I wanna go home to her and tell her just how much she means to me,"
Beth nodded and she looked behind Seth and saw Sasha and Roman at the restaurant door.
"I don't think you'll have to wait to go home to tell her how much you miss her Seth," Beth said and Seth frowned not seeing his wife strutting over to their table with Roman behind her.
"Hey babe!" Seth said delighted as his wife appeared. "I was just telling Beth how much I missed you, this is awesome what are you doing in L A?"
"Taking out the trash," Sasha replied as Seth got up to kiss her but Sasha was interested in kissing her husband right now. Instead, she pulled her fist back and shot it directly against Beth Hardy's face, knocking the lil' McMahon to the floor in one violent punch. Then, Sasha mounted Beth and pummelled her senseless as Beth tried to cover up. "You tryin' to take my man, you little rich brat, huh? Not so fast Beth Hardy!" Sasha shouted and she grabbed Beth by the hair and dragged her up to her feet. "Did you really think it was going to be that easy to steal my husband?!"
"Let go of me!" Beth Hardy yelled. "We were just talking!"
"You came here to talk?! In this dress, in this restaurant, at this time of night? Who do you think you're talking to girl? Do you know what your father would do if he saw you having sushi with Seth Rollins at Sugarfish, dressed up like a high-class call girl?! If you ever try to run game on my man again, your face will be as black as this cheap-ass dress," Sasha warned Beth with a full clump of her hair twisted around her fist.
"It's not cheap, it's Armani!" Beth Hardy replied and before Sasha could say another word, Beth Hardy Transcended herself home to North Carolina, leaving Sasha holding her own angry fist.
"B," she cursed before Roman fixed her hair and gave her back her purse.
"You okay?" he asked her before pulling out a chair for her to sit next to Seth.
"I wanted to beat her within an inch of her life," Sasha replied as Roman sat at the table and Seth wrapped his arms around his wife's waist lovingly. "Thanks for not getting involved,"
"I know you like to handle your own business, I wasn't about to get involved," Seth said and they kissed each other softly while Roman ordered a full platter of sushi. "I missed you,"
Sasha smiled into her husband's mouth, "You just saw me a few hours ago," she said.
"I still missed you," Seth said caressing her face.
"Even when I'm a bad-a* b*?" Sasha said pulling her thumb down Seth's lower lip.
"Especially when you're a bad-a* b," Seth replied and they kissed each other passionately for a minute while the other people in the restaurant admired their show of affection.
Sasha broke the kiss momentarily, "I'm no God Girl Seth," she said.
"I know," Seth replied.
"But love you," Sasha said and Seth smiled and caressed her hair lovingly.
"I know," he replied and they resumed kissing while Roman reviewed the sushi options quietly knowing a storm was about to come.
A few hours later, Seth, Sasha and Roman were still in Sugarfish, this time with some fans signing autographs and being sociable. Seth and Sasha were enjoying their own company for once, it felt like a date that they really needed and the fans were just along for the ride.
When Seth and Sasha decided to dance on the karaoke floor, Roman sat and watched, eating what was left of the sushi, as the sound of bad singing reverberated through the restaurant.
"Will you be joining your friends?" the waiter asked Roman.
"No, bring more food please," Roman replied, he needed to keep his strength up for what was about to come after Seth and Sasha's date came to an end. Sasha still hadn't told Seth the Truth, that Becky didn't trick him into sleeping with her and that Sasha had lied about what was on the baby monitor so that Seth would break up the God Girls. Seth thought that Sasha's hands were clean but the Truth was, her hands were as dirty as the sushi plate Roman had demolished.
After Seth and Sasha disappeared to have sex in the bathroom, Roman called his wife and told him he'd be home late.
The McMahon-Hardy home, Cameron, NC
Beth Hardy paced back and forth in her bedroom like a raging bull. Her hairline was sore as a result of Sasha Banks almost pulling the hair from her scalp. Her hands were shaking and the only thing louder than the angry words raging in her head was the sound of the shower spray coming out of the bathroom.
Beth pulled the little black dress off her body and hung it up before getting in the shower. The anger remained as she dried herself off and she threw her super soft towel to the floor and stood in front of her full length mirror and looked herself up and down. Her hair was wet and it stuck to her face and neck but the steam wasn't just coming from the shower, it was coming from her. For the first time, Beth Hardy liked what she saw in the mirror and she smoothed her hair down and admired every inch of her body from head to toe.
"So, you think you're the Boss? Well, I got news for you Sasha Rollins, I'm a freakin' McMahon and a Hardy Girl. You wanna call me trash in front of your husband, a man I respect? Well, the time has finally come for me to live up to my family name. I'm going to show the whole damn wrestling world, that there is only one boss in this industry and it sure as Hell isn't Sasha Banks," Beth Hardy declared as she continued to admire her body in the mirror, "I'll see you on Saturday Seth and you will be seeing a lot more of me, more than you ever thought you would,"
Jeff Hardy listened outside of his daughter's bedroom with a frown. He'd come to give Beth a glass of his home-made peach tea, he wasn't expecting to get a little tea of his own.
"What on Earth happened at the Black Heart Studios?" he wondered. "Sounds like I need to be there on Saturday and find out what's going on,"
Jeff knocked on Beth's door and gave his daughter something to drink before finding out just what had gotten her so upset. Beth didn't bother to fill him in on any of the details. Jeff would find out the Truth soon enough, as would the rest of the wrestling world.
Sugarfish
The restaurant was closing and Roman was waving at the fans who had gotten more than they could have ever wanted from him, Sasha and Seth.
"See you at 'Mania next week!" Roman said as the restaurant emptied, leaving only the three of them there.
Seth kissed Sasha's hands and Sasha reciprocated sliding her hand up and down his leg appropriately.
"Let's get out of here," she said. "Do you think Rocky would mind us borrowing his Hollywood mansion for one night? I am in no mood to go home, what do you say we spend the night making love right here in L A?"
"Sounds great to me," Seth said still decorating his wife's hand with kisses. "Roman, can you call your cousin and see if its cool if we head over to his old place?"
"It'll be cool, I'll call him to be sure," Roman said getting up to call the Rock, "I'll go make this call outside, I know there's something Sasha really needs to tell you before you head out,"
Seth raised his eyebrow at Sasha, "What is it?" he asked her and Sasha felt like ice water had just been poured all over her night. Sasha was enjoying herself with Seth so much that she had forgotten she still had to come clean about what she said about Becky Lynch back at the Sandbox earlier in the day.
"Yeah, there is something I have to tell you," she said and she pulled her hand away from Seth much to her husband's disappointment.
"Oh, I really like your hands," he said putting hand on top of her other hand that was on his leg and he gave it a squeeze. "Whatever you have to say, say it quick so we can get out of here and finish this wonderful night in bed,"
Sasha gasped liking what she was both feeling and hearing from her husband as her hand remained under the table exploring the more intimate parts of her husband's lower body.
"I have something to tell you, about what happened the night we celebrated our pregnancy," she said.
"Okay, that's gonna bring me down. Let's not talk about that right now," Seth said and Sasha bit her lower lip not wanting to talk about it either.
"As much as I would love to go make love in Rocky's mansion right now, if I don't tell you this, Roman will never let me hear the end of it," Sasha said and she pulled her other hand away from Seth's leg and rested it on top of the table much to Seth's displeasure.
"What did Roman want you to tell me?" Seth asked trying to regulate his thoughts which were full of his wife's naked body right now. "I can't be this turned on in public, we have to go, we need privacy,"
"Seth, I lied about what was on the baby monitor," Sasha blurted out and Seth's face went cold, just as Roman came back into the resturant.
"Rocky says the mansion is yours," he said putting his phone away. When he didn't hear anything he noticed that the tone in the room had completely changed and he looked over at Seth and saw his face had turned to stone. "You told him the Truth," he said to Sasha and the Boss rested on her chair and took a deep breath. "I'll go to the mansion now, see you guys when you get there,"
Roman squeezed Sasha's shoulder before he left, it was the only warmth she was going to feel for the rest of the night.
"Seth I'm so sorry," Sasha admitted.
"Why did you lie?" Seth asked her in a low tone.
"Because I wanted you to get rid of the God Girls," Sasha replied and Seth looked at her crushed.
"I yelled at Becky, I accused her of lying to me. I had your back and you were lying. Do you know how dumb that makes me feel?" Seth said.
"This isn't about you, this is about us, our marriage, the future of our family. Seth, I've told you a million times that I don't want those women in our lives but you don't seem to care what I want, so I did what I had to do to get you back on my side," Sasha said.
"You lied Sasha," Seth said.
"Yes Seth I did, I lied. I'm not a good person, so I want you all to myself, so sue me?! I did what I had to do to get you to listen to me and not them," Sasha said. "They can't protect you, they couldn't do anything for us, all they were doing was getting in the way. I'm done with other women controlling our lives. We are having another child Seth and I want our family to be exclusive, besides Roman of course. He'll always be a part of our lives but the God Girls are an outlier, they don't matter the way Roman does,"
"What about Bayley, does she matter?" Seth asked Sasha and the Boss covered her face to center herself before replying.
"I know that whole necklace thing didn't work out the way I wanted it to but I know Bayley, I can handle her. The idea of any other woman being as close to you as me and Bayley, makes me sick to my stomach. Why do you think I beat the living crap out of Beth Hardy tonight?" Sasha said.
"To show her who's Boss," Seth replied and Sasha smiled with delight.
"Yes, that's exactly why I did it. I'm not some other woman that plays wife on the weekend, no I am your wife 24/7. That has got to mean more to you than anything else, I have got to be the thing that gets you hot, the thing that gets you excited, the person that keeps you motivated, I'm the Boss, that's my job thats what I do! I don't need anyone's help to keep my man happy. I want our family to live together without this awesome force surrounding us like some Holy storm troopers," Sasha said and Seth folded his arms and looked down in silence.
"I can't believe we're still here. After all that we've been through, you still think that you have to do justify being my wife. Everything you said is True; you are the Boss Sasha, there is no-one else I love on this planet more than you. But God doesn't live on this planet, He is bigger than our marriage and He brought the God Girls together, I just agreed to it. If I get rid of Becky, Bianca, Charlotte and Alexa, I'm telling God that His will means less to me than yours. The fact that you made a deal with Bayley and got her that stupid necklace behind my back and then you lied on Becky so that I would break up the God Girls is proof, that I really am on assignment. I need them because I trust them. They have proven themselves to be trustworthy and you have gone behind my back and lied to me," Seth said and Sasha reached across the table and squeezed his hand.
"I told you, I'm not a good girl but I know what's best for our family. They can't protect you, I can't be like them, I have to do things my way because how the God Girls operate, doesn't make sense to me," Sasha said. "The way they act, the way they respond to every instruction you give them. I think its nonsense and when they're around, they get in my way," Sasha said and Seth pulled his hand away from Sasha and sighed.
"The reason they irritate you is because they are behaving the way they are supposed to behave, as Born-Again believers, sold out to the man God has assigned them to. You, on the other hand, have been an unfaithful, untrustworthy lying wife," Seth said and he pulled Sasha over to his side by the legs of her chair. "Who turns me on so much I have to steady myself when we're in public,"
Sasha smiled with glee as Seth touched her legs, "You're attracted to the bad girl Seth, admit it. It's my badness that you find so irresistible,"
"What I love about you is the very thing that's tearing us apart," Seth said. "This is us, this is who we are and you're right, you're not a good girl. You're a bad girl married to a good man, who needs the God Girls because I can't be in this marriage without them. I guess that's the difference between us Sasha; I'm not bothered by other women. Try as they might and they certainly can if they want to, I will never be with anyone but you. I love you Sasha,"
"I love you Seth," Sasha said relieved. "So, you forgive me?"
"Of course I forgive you, you're a bad girl, you don't know any better," Seth said and Sasha went to kiss him but Seth stood to his feet and didn't give her a chance to kiss him.
"So, can we go back to how we were before I came clean?" Sasha asked.
"No, we're going home to the Sandbox. You need to apologise to Becky and the rest of the God girls and then you need to call Stephanie and explain why you beat up her daughter in a public place," Seth said.
"But I don't want to do any of that, I want to stay here in L A and make love to you!" Sasha said.
"See, that's the thing about being a bad girl Sasha, if you want me and I know you do, you have to make good on all the bad that you did first," Seth said and Sasha threw a tantrum.
"I can't believe we're not making love tonight, you're punishing me for coming clean?!" Sasha said.
"No, I'm just not rewarding your bad behaviour with passionate love-making. You want our marriage to be right? You need to stop being so threatened by all the women in my life, women that I care about very much and on that subject, Beth Hardy is not trash," Seth said and Sasha slapped Seth across the face.
"You are too good Seth, you can't even see what's going on right in front of you! Don't ask me to back down to any woman, I am your wife, I back down to no-one who tries to step across the line and inject themselves into our marriage. I'd pull every nasty strand out of that debutante's head if it meant she never came near you again. But she will come near, she'll come back because you keep letting her in, you let them all in. Well I'm done with you letting all these women into your life Seth. You either change the way you think about me or I am going to be the b* in the parking lot, chopping down every skirt that tries to get in your pants," Sasha said as Seth touched his now tender cheek and Sasha grabbed him by the waist and slammed herself against him. "You're my husband dammit and I ain't sharing you with nobody else,"
"I have no words left Sasha, you have literally slapped the taste out of my mouth," Seth said.
"Good because I don't wanna hear anymore of your lectures, all I want are these pants around your ankles and my body on top of yours. I am not going home before I get you in bed," Sasha said and Seth called for Shawl.
"Fine, we'll make love in the air," Seth replied as his flying prayer shawl arrived and he escorted his wife onto Shawl and they made love all the way back to Connecticut while Roman slept in his cousin's mansion alone.