Amanda had exited the elevator on the 3rd floor when Seth grabbed her from behind and she fought back against him as he dragged her into the stairwell… and pushed him off.
"Get off of me! Barely two weeks and you're already going back to your ex?!" Amanda responded angrily, Seth grabbing her when she tried to leave and throwing her against the wall in the hallway in anger… and Amanda feeling her face hit the wall she fell to the ground.
But in his enraged state, Seth didn't care and grabbed her by her hair to force her to look at him.
"Hurt me all you want, won't stop me from telling her the truth!" Amanda growled… and after hearing that, Seth snapped out of his rage and Amanda made sure her nose was still in place… to her surprise, it wasn't even broken.
"Well you're a bit late about getting to me first." The two heard, finding that Sachael was stood outside her room door just across from them.
Amanda stood up and Sachael saw her scraped knees… and looked at Seth.
"Is this how you act when she tries to explain the truth?!" Sachael asked angrily, pulling Amanda into a hug.
"Hey, calm it down!" The newer of the two Sachaels said as the original was fuming with rage, both at what Seth had done with Zahra and to Amanda.
"Calm down?! Fucking look at her!"
"Listen, you don't need to be so angry-"
"I AM ANGRY! HE ASSAULTED MY FUCKING SISTER!"
As the original one yelled in response, she'd swung her hand out without thinking… and had punched the tree which the two had almost finished constructing, sending numerous deep and wide cracks splitting up the trunk and along the twisting roots.
She stopped, looking at the tree… she'd lashed out in response to part of her wanting to do something different, in the process causing effect to no one but herself.
Sachael may not have finished her mind merging yet but one thing was certain, she wasn't about to make a habit of hurting herself because she didn't like another part of herself. She could already feel the damage spreading throughout the tree and through its roots, to the forest itself.
"What do we do?"
The second Sachael thought for a moment before looking up and answering. "We need out of here. Whatever it takes, we go now."
"I think you'd be better at that."
"Now…" Sachael spoke as she loosened the grip on Amanda. "Seth… what was that night to you? I don't think you had any intention of staying around at all, until you found out 'Whoops, I just became this chick's first.', did you? It was only sex, nothing more."
Amanda stepped back a bit, looking at Sachael… all of a sudden, Amanda looked at her and she felt almost as if she knew nothing about her, as if this were a completely different person.
"Sachael… look, I'm-" Seth started to say.
"I don't need a fucking on the spot thought up apology with no heart behind it!" Sachael shouted, cutting him off.
Amanda limped away in fright… and the second elevator opened and Finn's eyes widened and he ran to her, holding her upright.
"Mandy, what happened, Darlin'?" Finn asked, seeing the bruises and blood.
Amanda pointed to where Seth and Sachael were… and Finn saw some strands of Amanda's chestnut hair in Seth's right hand, Finn grabbing his IPhone 6 and dialing 911 as Seth stormed off without glancing back at Sachael after she had told him to never hurt Amanda again.
"Yes, I need the police and an ambulance at the Mohegan Sun Pocono. My friend was assaulted, she can barely stand up now…" Finn responded to the dispatcher as Sachael walked over, Finn holding Amanda closer to him as she felt the adrenaline wearing off and pain fully hitting her. "I can tell you don't like someone involving the law but look at her…" He replied, Sachael examining Amanda's face.
"I know, that's why I didn't hit the phone away-" Sachael responded, before turning as she heard someone coming towards them. "-careful, you see these eyebrows? They're attack eyebrows!"
Hunter's eyes widened when he saw Amanda… and tried to reach out to her, Amanda hanging onto Finn and burying her face into his left shoulder as Finn held her.
"Who did this to her?" Hunter asked quietly after turning to Sachael.
"One of your other employees. You might want to consider suspending Seth or putting him in anger management." Sachael explained, Finn getting Amanda to look at him as she was still shaking and quiet as her right hand was in his left one.
The hand holding was something that the two often did when one of them didn't feel safe enough to be alone… and Finn kept his right arm around Amanda's back.
"Has this… happened before? The two of them just seeking comfort in each other?" Sachael asked after turning to Hunter.
"It's what brought them together. Two that just naturally find calm after chaos within each other." Hunter answered, looking at her afterwards. "You know anyone like that?"
"I thought I did…" Sachael answered, her original self returning for a brief moment. "I should've known though, not to put that sort of trust into Seth. He just… knew how to talk to me."
At the ER, Amanda had been examined and Finn got her to look at him.
"I should've trusted my initial instincts but I let him get close to her… the hell is wrong with me, why didn't I tell her that he's pulled this before. I should've but I didn't… and now she's hurting." Amanda replied, Finn lightly rubbing her back and holding her close to him.
"Maybe heartbreak is something we all just have to experience on our own. Everyone does at some point in their lives." Finn responded after a few moments, glancing out of the window where he could just about see Sachael's small yellow car across the parking lot.
"I should've told her… I'm a bad friend." Amanda replied.
"Hey, you are not a bad friend, Darlin'. You just didn't want to upset her, you were trying to help her." Finn responded at the same time they heard footsteps and saw Dianne and Enzo, both sets of eyes widening when they saw Amanda.
"I told you that those police officers are looking for someone who committed aggravated assault!" Dianne replied after swatting Enzo's right shoulder.
"They haven't found Seth yet?" Finn asked, Dianne turning incensed.
"He's flipped his lid again?! What's his excuse this time?!" Dianne responded.
"He didn't want Mandy telling me the truth on what he's really like." Sachael explained after walking in, Dianne turning to her.
And she knew it was true.
September 10th 2015, NXT Taping set to air September 30th 2015…
Amanda noticed Sachael turn aggravated when Amanda and Finn hugged… and a part of her felt like Sachael was being antagonistic towards Finn and, on a subconscious level, jealous of Finn and Amanda's closeness since the incident at the hotel.
'No, that's your sister. Don't think like that.' Amanda thought.
Noticing how quiet she was, Finn guided Amanda to their locker room as Dianne and Sachael continued talking.
"What's going on in that mind of yours, Darlin'?" Finn asked.
"Maybe I'm just overthinking it but… I can't help but feel like Sachael being silent at times and the aggravated looks whenever you and I are around each other that she's upset that things didn't work out with her and Seth and is taking it out at us." Amanda explained as Finn noticed that she had used the orange corrector concealer under her regular concealer to not only hide the bruises but the blue toned under eye circles under her eyes.
And he knew that the pain from her recent injuries were waking her up at night… and Finn held her closer to him, the two embracing each other.
Reaching the locker room, Sachael quietly opened the door… and her eyes narrowed as she just as quietly closed it and walked off.
'Why am I getting aggravated with him?! He's just being a great friend to my little sister.' Sachael thought.
"Sachael, you okay?" Immy asked once she found her, Sachael looking up.
"That obvious?" Sachael responded as they sat down.
"You're clearly not yourself. Talk to me, tell me what's going on." Immy replied.
"I feel like Mandy and Finn have what I wanted with Seth… even if Mandy and Finn won't admit that things between them are changing." Sachael explained.
"Did you go to tell her?" Immy asked.
"I don't want to seem jealous or envious to her." Sachael responded.
"She's our family. And he's a good man to her." Immy replied.
"He is." Sachael responded.
She knew she had to tell Amanda at some point.
