ATM: Seth and the God Girls – The Black Tower

Seth and the God Girls suspect that the dark force surrounding WWE HQ has something to do with Stephanie McMahon but ATM rally around the DX family knowing that it was worse than Shawn and Hunter expected.

Chapter Four – A Home away from Home

The Hardy's, Cameron, North Carolina

BayRock decided to pay a visit to Stephanie McMahon after visiting Roman and his family in Pensacola, Florida. After knowing their plans to visit Stephanie Roman decided to go along to North Carolina with them, to keep an eye on Bayley and make sure nothing went down that Seth and the God Girls would have to deal with later. On top of that, he just didn't trust his cousin's intentions these days let alone Stephanie and Bayley's, even though the former WWE owner's days of causing trouble for the DX family appeared to be over thanks to the Prince of Saudi Arabia demanding that she behave herself.

Stephanie paced back and forth angrily, her hair was uncombed, and she was wearing normal clothes. Yup, things were definitely out of order in the Hardy household.

Jeff Hardy welcomed BayRock and Roman into their warm wood-panelled country home and to their surprise, Jeff Hardy had a big smile on his face. He loved having his wife home for a change and he was doing everything he could to make her feel good about the change to her life. As difficult as that was, Jeff was up for task. He had already experimented with various blends of herbal tea, including strawberry vanilla and cherry blossom, neither of which Stephanie felt like drinking. She wasn't eating either but Jeff was on top of that too.

"This food smells amazing," Roman said smelling the home-made burgers in the kitchen.

As much as his wife pretended not to be hungry, Jeff knew that she wouldn't be able to resist his cooking for long.

"Hey Steph, can we talk?" Bayley said coming over to the former head of WWE.

"What the Hell are you doing here? I thought you'd be celebrating with the God Girls and the DX family," Stephanie said sarcastically. "I know how thrilled they all must be now that I'm under my daughter's conservatorship,"

The Rock came over to Steph while sipping some of Jeff's delicious tea and Roman helped himself to a burger.

"I know this is going to be rough to hear coming from me Steph…oh this tea is delicious!" Rocky said being totally taken off guard by the delicious tea.

"Drink up I ain't sucking down any of that country swill!" Stephanie said folding her arms angrily.

"She really does like it, she's just being a baby," Jeff Hardy said to Roman as the Big Dog took another munch of Jeff's home-made burger.

"Forget the tea, give me the recipe for this burger," Roman said and he realised Jeff might be a better cook than he was and suddenly, Roman felt competitive. He thought he was the best cook in the world, until now.

"Give it up Roman, you're supposed to be here giving Stephanie some support, not munching her out of house and home," Rocky said to his cousin annoyed.

"I'm not here to give Stephanie support, that's what you're here for. I'm here to give Jeff a run for his money. What do you say Jeff? We have a food contest and invite the whole locker room, then we can find out who truly is the best cook between us," Roman said and Bayley shook her head at Roman.

"I don't even wanna know what Seth would say if he found out you were challenging Jeff Hardy to a cook off," Bayley said to Roman and suddenly Stephanie started screaming to everyone's alarm.

"DO NOT MENTION THAT MAN'S NAME IN MY HOUSE!" Stephanie screamed. "HE'S THE REASON BETH TURNED AGAINST ME AND HE'S THE REASON I LOST MY FATHER'S COMPANY – AGAIN!"

"Whoa Steph, calm down," Rocky said coming over to Steph with a cup of Jeff's herbal tea in hand, "Why not take a little sip? Your husband is truly an artist. This is the loveliest herbal tea in the world!"

"Get that cup out of my face!" Stephanie said and she smacked the Waterford mint green tea cup out of Rocky's hand but Jeff caught it before it smashed against the wall. Jeff knew how bad Stephanie would have felt if she had broken the cup, it was part of set first bought when they moved in and it had a lot of sentimental value.

"That's enough Stephanie, you have guests and you know to behave better than this when we've got company," Jeff said to his wife sternly.

"What about when you don't have company? Is this how she's been acting since we got back from Saudi?" Roman asked Jeff concerned as the green eyed daredevil carefully put the cup down in a safe place.

"Beth's been in Connecticut getting everyone caught up to speed on the changes now that she'll be running things at WWE Corporate, she hasn't been home in a week and Stephanie's not too happy about it," Jeff said and BayRock nodded while Roman looked at Stephanie concerned.

"Still, you shouldn't be the house with her alone, not under these conditions, you never know what'll set her off given the way she's been behaving lately," Roman said and Jeff looked at him offended.

"I can take care of my wife Roman," Jeff said firmly. "I don't need any outside help from you,"

"You can't even get her to drink a cup of herbal tea!" Roman replied.

"I got this Roman! Jeff Hardy said.

"I have a better idea, why don't you guys move in with me?" Roman said and Stephanie looked at Roman like he was crazy. "I'm serious, my kids are awesome and Galina could do with the company while I'm on the road. You guys shouldn't be all the way out here by yourselves, I'd rather have you both in good hands, i.e., the hands of my family,"

"I would rather not do that Roman, it would be fun being in Pensacola but I need Stephanie to get used to being at home alone with me," Jeff said and Roman shook his head.

Bayley and Rocky agreed with him but they also liked their version of it, "Why don't you come out to Malibu with us?" Rocky said. "California is the place to be, Florida is gator town and you don't wanna be stuck on an island with Roman's hungry-a** family over the summer,"

"You're never home Dwayne and Bayley's a God Girl, she's not going to be home either, it won't be long before Seth calls her and tells her she's on assignment again," Roman said.

"Actually, Seth and the God Girls are on a break. I got time to chill at home with my husband so Steph will have plenty to do with me around," Bayley said and just as she spoke those words, her cell-phone rang. It was Bianca and Seth and the God Girls were back on assignment. "Okay I'll be right there," she said and Rocky gave her a suspicious look. "That was Bianca, the God Girls are back on assignment, I have to go to New York for orientation. Seth and the God Girls want me there immediately,"

"Huh?" Rocky said and Roman smiled.

"See I told you, neither of you are going to be around, only my family can look after Steph and Jeff right now. You guys are coming home with me," Roman said and Jeff looked at his wife's miserable face.

"If I move into your house I'm taking over that kitchen while you're on the road," Jeff warned Roman.

"I chose the menu you cook the food," Roman said and Jeff shook his head.

"No deal," Jeff said.

"I'm not going anywhere!" Steph yelled. "I'm not eating and I'm not drinking, I'm going on a hunger strike until Beth puts me back in control of the WWE!"

"That's never going to happen Steph, you might as-well get out the house and let the Reigns look after you for awhile. They're a great family, just forget about trying to get the company back and enjoy being a married couple for awhile," Bayley said.

"I'll wait for you to pack up some things then we'll leave together," Roman said looking at Bayley who almost had one foot out of the door.

Rock looked at her sourly, "I can't believe you're leaving again," he said with a frown.

"This is my calling, you know I can't say no to Seth," Bayley said.

"We're going to talk about this later," Rocky said and Bayley shook her head.

"There's nothing to talk about," she replied and she kissed him on the cheek and he took a call from John Cena while Jeff packed up some things for him and his wife and their most needed trip away from home.

Stephanie shook her head furiously, "I said I'm not going," she said firmly and her stomach rumbled loudly. Roman walked towards her with a plate of burgers.

"Are you sure you don't want one of these delicious, juicy burgers Steph?" he tempted her and she licked her lips unconsciously.

"Fine, I'll eat it but I'll just throw it up later," she said and she took a burger and bit into it like a rabid hyena as Jeff loaded their stuff into Roman's car. Roman lured Steph into the car with the burgers and Jeff quickly checked the house to make sure he hadn't left anything important behind.

"Going to the Reigns household for awhile. Love you, so proud of you," Jeff texted his daughter Beth before getting into the back seat with his wife taking over from Roman and fed his wife as the Big Dog pulled away from their country home and headed to the Island of Relevancy, where they could rebuild, restore and reunite as a couple and save what they almost lost in the war against DX.