Chapter 2
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"Please welcome Mandy Rose and Riley Morgan," Justin Roberts announces as they made there way to to join Excalibur on commentary for AEW Dark. They both waved to the fans. "Mandy, Riley welcome," Excalibur greets. "Hey." "Hello." they greet after putting on the headsets. "Big night here on AEW Dark we have Dr. Britt Baker vs. Big Swole," Excalibur says as Swole's music plays. "This should be great match I've been in the ring with both in recent weeks," Mandy says. Britt makes her entrances and flashes a dirty look at Mandy and Riley. "Now is she mad at me for that time I poisoned her boyfriend or the fact you used to kiss him," Riley jokes.
Both had a great time doing commentary. Riley manged to get Mandy to crack up during a Sonny Kiss vs. Peter Avalon match. Sonny had been doing his head scissors twerk spot and Riley deadpanned, "shades of how Whipper Watson beat Lou Thez for the NWA world championship." The main event for Dark was the Young Bucks vs. the Hybrid Two. Nick and Matt scored the win and started to celebrate with the fans. Riley gets up and heads to the ring to join his friends. Mandy smiles as she watches the three clown around like kids. Life was good and nothing could ruin it.
Las Vegas A Few Days Later
Jon Moxley stood at the grill in his backyard. "They almost ready?" Renee asks steeping out of the house. "You can't rush quality meat," Jon reminded her. "Yes but you can over cook a steak someone wanted as medium rare," Renee told him. "That only happened because you distracted me," He says holding up the BBQ fork and pointing at him. She reasoned by sticking her tong out at him. Jon meanwhile got an idea looking at the sharp point on the fork. "Oh no," Renee says. "What?" Jon asks. "I know that look Jon," Renee says. "What look?" "The I have an idea on how to work this into a match," Renee says. "I'm just thinking…" "No. Seriously Jon I barley survived the last death match you had with Kenny Omega. I don't even want to think about what crazy idea you have come up with now," Renee says.
She wasn't trying to talk him out of it. She knew it was pointless. For her own sanity it was better to not know Jon was going to do so she couldn't think of all the ways it could go wrong. "Fair enough and steaks are done," he says putting them on a plate. They moved over a picnic table they kept in the backyard. "I can't believe I am asking. But would Jericho even be willing to use a fork?" Renee asks. "Not for the Jericho feud. I am thinking after we are done with that. Me and Morgan," Jon says. "Mandy's husband?" Renee asks making her plate for her meal. "You know any other Morgan's on the AEW roster?" "He had a broke neck? Should he be doing death matches?" Renee asks.
Mandy and Riley's Home Orlando
They had gone out see the movie Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker with Adam Cole and Britt Baker. Mandy and Britt had liked it. Adam had hated it but he took bigger issue with Riley not hating it. "Riley it was crap," Adam says as the couples sat in the living room. "Give it fifteen years," Riley says. "Fifteen years?" Britt asks. "Look when the prequels came out everyone hated them. They were a disaster a disgrace, George Lucas had sold out. The series couldn't be saved. Now years later people have warmed up to them. Give the Disney movies time people will warm up to them. Sure there mistakes and stuff that could be improved on. The biggest issue was so many fans had either read all the expanded universe stuff or filled in what came after Return of the Jedi. Nothing was going to make people happy," Riley says. "They wasted so many chances," Adam rants. "Yeah they did," Riley says.
"Wait did you like it or not?" Britt asks. "I didn't hate it but its not one I will go out of my to see again," Riley says. "Riley if I didn't drag you to the movies everyone once and a while you would never see one," Mandy points out. "Well you are the social directer in this relationship," he says. "And thank you for that. I stayed with Riley one weekend all he did was watch wrestling and NASCAR including waking up at 3:00 AM to watch a race," Adam says. "That was F1 not NASCAR," Riley says getting mad. "I know I heard this speech before how there are different forms of motor sports and how NASCAR races at Daytona and F1 at Le Mans," Adam says getting the fact about F1 wrong knowing it was piss Riley off. "Boys stop," Mandy scolds.
"Well Mrs. Morgan the boys are getting cranky I better take mine home so you can put yours to bed," Britt jokes in a motherly tone. The other three all laugh. Once Britt and Adam have left Mandy and Riley clean up a bit. "You know a lot of fans that are living and dying by Wednesday night rating would lose it seeing the NXT champ spent the night hanging with AEW stars," Mandy says. "Well hey we got to show some sympathy to the losers," Riley quips. He wasn't serious. The truth was beating NXT was great but not the long term goal for the company. Plus NXT had won some recent battles. So it's not like AEW could declare victory any time soon. "Oh crap we could have done something with Britt doing the face and put it online," Riley says.
"I think doing Britt Baker has run it course," Mandy says. "Until the next time Adam nearly kills himself at a TakeOver," Riley says. "There is no way he can go beyond that air raid crash off the cage," Mandy says not wanting to see her friend try to top that dangerous spot. "You never know. God only knows what he and Keith Lee will come up with when they have another singles match," Riley says. "He needs to be careful," Mandy says. "Hey at least he never broke his neck like I did," Riley says. He can see right away that was the wrong thing to say. "Hey its a joke. Adam is fine. I am fine. Hell if Hiromu didn't get after hurt after all the crazy shit he and Ospeary did I don't think anything will break my neck again," Riley says assuring her.
Advanced Tech MMA and Kickboxing
Riley stood in the ring with his boxing gloves on. A trainer was taking him through some rounds. The bell went ending Riley's final round. "Great work today Riley. We need to get you to come in on sparing days push the pace on some of these young guys. "Not a chance. I risk enough concussions," Riley says. "I don't know how much you would get hit. You move pretty good." "I just can't risk an injury… Maybe I can work with the students but not the damn pros," Riley says. Truth was he had always loved sparing it was just something he could only do so often. He had learned that hard way when a broke noise forced him to miss something bookings early in his career.
Saying goodbye to the trainer he headed to the locker room shower and change. Mandy was spending the day in a bunch of meeting. The happy homemaker she wasn't. No his wife had a fitness app, a cosmetics line, her growing DaMandez brand with Sonya. She still modeled and that was all on top of her work with AEW. It was one of the many reasons he loved her. She had so much energy and she had amazing drive. More and more she made Riley think beyond wrestling. Talk about irony a big reason he had signed with AEW over WWE was all he wanted to do was wrestle. Of course Mandy had told him "I get not wanting to do it WWE's way. But you have freedom to try things now."
As he get his stuff together for a shower a thought hit him. Why he had come back to martial arts. Off and on it had been part of his life almost as much as wrestling. Stepping into the shower a thought hit him. "Moxley and I could do that. He's got that knee and been working the Thai clinch," Riley thinks. What ever thoughts he had about life out of the ring would have to be tabled he was getting ideas for his next big feud. This was why he loved wrestling this surge of energy that came with a big idea. The rush of planning a match and playing it out.
Once he got out of the shower he got dressed and checked his phone and saw he had an e-mail. It was the current line up for this week's tapings. Riley saw he was booked for a match with Kip. Both Mandy and Penelope would be at ringside. "Should be a good match," Riley thinks packing up. Frankly he just wanted to get past this feud. It wasn't anything against Kip and Penelope they were talented but name value wise they just didn't match Moxley. If Riley was being honest this was the most excited for a match and feud he had been in a while.
Sonya's Place
Mandy and Sonya had just gotten done going over thing for the DaMandez Foods brand. With Mandy in AEW and Sonya still in WWE they couldn't film as often as the used to. But they still found ways. Meeting up on the road or finding places in Florida. "Okay those shirts will be big sellers," Mandy says. "I hope. So you seen the stuff they are doing with Liv?" Sonya asks. "Oh yeah. Amazing we pitched a story about us having romantic feelings for years. And now they do something like that," Mandy says. "To be fair would you really want to be part of that wedding segment?" Sonya says. Even for WWE's die hards that segment was hard to defend. "To be fair Riley and I were part of that Dark Order beats everyone down segment," Mandy reminds her. That was another segment that fans of the company had a hard time putting over or defending.
"So how is teaming with Chelsea going?" Mandy asks. Chelsea Green had been called up and in a lot of way plugged into Mandy's old role. Lately she had even been teaming with Sonya and being the object of Otis affections. "She's talented. But its not the same. She's and I really don't hang out that much after the show," Sonya admits. "I know the feeling. I mean people like Penelope and Britt are good but it's not like it was when I was hanging out with you or some of the others," Mandy says. "But at least I know you hang out with them. Chelsea and I travel since we are teaming but she's just kind of cold. Hell if anything I'm spending more time with Dana these days," Sonya says. "Hopefully this stuff with Otis will pay off," Mandy says. "I hope. If nothing else it would nice to get some wins. But hey what about you? Are you Riley going to team up?" Sonya asks.
"Yes its a mixed tag match at the Revolution pay per view. I am so excited. I think it's going to be great. I think all of the elements are there for a great match," Mandy says happily. "I thought you didn't want Riley doing hardcore stuff," Sonya asks. "That won't be a factor. Penelope's ex is the one that does all the hardcore stuff. Kip the guy she is dating and teaming with now is more of a high flier," Mandy explains. "Okay good. I remember how much you thought his stuff with Jericho pushed the limits of what he can do," Sonya says.
AEW Offices
Tony, Cody, and Kenny were in the main office while Nick and Matt were joining in on a conference call. "I think it's a great idea. We could maybe even do some stuff with Kenny trying to warn Riley not to let Moxley get to him," Nick says over the phone. "Yeah maybe we do something where he and I have a long talk. I leave and than we just hear him just say "I'm just getting started," Kenny suggested. "Oh I love that maybe we have Riley say it really angry," Cody says. "But Tony are we going to go hardcore with this?" Matt asks. "Well after the stuff we did back at Full Gear I think it's to soon. What we can do is have a very physical feud with Riley and Jon," Tony says.
"You mean like Moxley vs. Ishii from the G1," Kenny says. "Exactly. Jon made it very clear he doesn't want to be stuck in a box. And well Riley has talked to us about wanting to do something more like he worked in Japan," Tony says. "I know that would make him happy. Two of of his top three matches in his career are Jay White and Ibushi. Riley has always loved that hard hitting style," Kenny says. "What about Mandy?" Nick asks. "We can keep the stuff with her and Penelope Ford going maybe even have her team with Joey if we want to do the intergender stuff," Cody says. "Guys do we have any reason to not book Riley vs. Moxley?" Tony asks. "I think our biggest issue will just be getting them to pull back and not go to nuts. Last thing we need is for them to be pulling some crazy old school All Japan stuff and take years off there career," Matt says.
Orlando A Few Days Later
"Hey Mandy they came," Riley says as he comes into the house carrying a package. "What came?" Mandy asks coming out of the basement. "That gear I had made," Riley says excitedly. "Great," Mandy says. For there match teaming up Riley had gotten gear to match hers. Riley almost always wore black usually some white or red. Mandy would mix it up quite a bit but she had a black with gold set she always loved. So Riley had a net set of tights made of black with gold accents and even a new pair of boots. "That is going to look really good," Mandy says taking a took as Riley pulled the tights out of the box. "I wish I had enough time to get a ring jacket made up. But it was already a rush job," Riley says. "You could wear one of mine," She says with a smile.
He laughs. "Yeah I don't think feather would look all that good on me. Plus I don't think they fit over these massive shoulder as hard I have been hitting the gym lately," Riley says. "Oh I've noticed Mandy says rubbing his shoulders. Rile leans in and they kiss. Mandy returns it but breaks. "Riley its not going to work," Mandy says breaking the kiss. He kisses her again and playing with her hair before saying. "What's not going to work?" He moves to this one spot on her neck that always drives her wild. "Trying to turn me on so we have sex...I'm a mess I've been working out downstairs," Mandy says. "You are beautiful. And I love a fit woman," Riley says. "Don't you have some merch to ship out?" She asks. "AEW takes care of most of that now and anything I handle I took care of last night," She says before kissing her again.
She returns it. "I need to get cleaned up and make dinner," She reminds him. "Its my night to cook and I made that chicken meal in the slow cooker so we have time. And baby its your fault you are so damn sexy," Riley says. Mandy smiles and moves into his arms. He stands up and carries up to the bedroom.