Same Day:

In the short time Belle had been at the Arena, she had already extinguished a few spot fires that had popped up. After Thomas had left her, Belle began to import her work bookmarks, logins and passwords to her new phone, whilst she waited for Stephanie to arrive. Once everything had been transferred she clicked on the alerts to find a couple of new emails had come through. She sighed when she checked the time on them and found the ones marked urgent had actually been sent earlier that morning.

"Brilliant start." She huffed. They were both from Josh - the main cyber security specialist for her website.

"Good Evening/Morning,

Someone has been very busy. Found these pics someone tried to post. They're from several IP addresses virtually at the same time, but all from the same registered email...such an idiot! Thought you would be interested. And your leaker has struck again!:) Xx Your King.

"Oh my Lord!" Belle gasped when she scrolled down through the attached photos. She closed her eyes for a split-second and swallowed the lump in her throat. There before her eyes in ALL his glory; was the one and only Mr. Seth Rollins!

Belle bit her lip and took in another breath and hoped the heat she felt hadn't turned her face into a bright red beetroot. "WOW." She murmured to herself.

She decided against another peek and sent off a quick reply. "Joshy, these are not to be published anywhere on the board! Can you please send me through all the IP's and email addy. I need to look into this further. Thx. P.S: DELETE THOSE PICS! Xo B.

"Hell of a first day girlie." She said to herself and moved on to the leaked script. The leaker had supplied copies with handwritten notes from what she presumed was from a meeting and photos of backstage. Belle looked closer when she noticed that one of the outfits looked familiar. It looked like what one of the gossip twits from earlier was wearing. She glanced around again but nothing stood out to her, but then again it's not like she would know if anything was a miss.

She typed in a few notes about what had happened and saved them. "Hard at work already?" A voice called out.

Belle locked her phone and looked up to see Stephanie. "Good morning, sorry I was saving some notes. How are you?"

Stephanie smiled. "I'm well thanks Belle, how are you? Did Thomas help you this morning?"

"Yes, he was brilliant - we're going to catch up a little later, after his meeting." Belle replied and stood up.

"Great, well come on in, and we'll get started." Steph said and walked into her office. She placed her handbag down on the desk when a ping flittered through the air.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Belle said and looked down at her phone. She internally screamed as a new alert from Josh appeared with the headline... "MORE PICS."

"Anything serious?" Steph queried as she took in the strange look on Belle's face.

"I think we've got a problem."


Meanwhile:

Paul sat down behind his desk and listened as Colby relayed what had happened all the way from the time he got woke up till he left for the Arena. He leaned forward to grab the phone that Colby had put onto the desk for him to search. The moment called and demanded for complete honesty and nothing less, even if it lead him down another path of total humiliation.

"Man, I'm beyond words at the moment." Paul exhaled out aloud as he looked over the screencaps and text messages.

"Boss, I apologise for all of this. I really didn't think she would do something like this."

"Sadly, I think we all underestimated her, especially after what she did to your house when you broke up with her." Paul said and shook his head. "Maybe you should try to look for another sort of Woman?"

"I'm never going to date again." The superstar declared. "You know Joe said I'm a magnate for crazies, I think he might be right."

Paul couldn't help but chuckle. "I hate to agree with him, but he's not wrong with this one."

Colby cracked a small smile and leaned back on his chair. "So where do we go with all of this?"

"Well, Vince has left it up to me and I'm not going to punish you for what another has done." Paul said and handed back the phone. "You've shown me everything and I don't think you did anything that would have honestly pushed her so far over the edge. Colby, unfortunately she's just one of those sorts of people that doesn't take rejection very well." Paul sighed. He couldn't help but feel sorry for the man. He knew all to well how far some would go in order to destroy another and Colby didn't deserve to have his World turned upside down and torn apart.

Paul continued, "I'm not going to turn a blind eye or anything but if I pulled you from the card then that will only feed into it all, but the last thing I want to happen again is to throw you out to the wolves and put you in front of a live crowd. What do you want to do?"

Colby stared at his Boss - a million different answers swam around his head. "I don't think it will help if I left. Maybe we could do a few backstage vignettes?" He said with a shrug. He honestly didn't want to leave but the thought of going out there to be at the mercy of their fans, would no doubt be a nightmare.

Paul mulled over the suggestion before he nodded his head back and forth. "Yeah, I think that's for the best. They'll be easy enough to organise and set up not a problem. Did you want to go back to the Hotel afterwards or stay here? You're more than welcome to stay."

"Let's film everything, and we'll go from there, is that okay?" Colby asked.

"It's totally fine Colby. Go back to your dressing room and I will send someone to come and get you once we're ready to film."

The two men shook hands and Colby exited back down the hallway. He was thankful again that they had been mostly empty, and he slipped back in unnoticed. He sighed as he sat down onto the bench and dropped his head in-between his legs. "Holy shit." He muttered, relieved that the meeting had gone the way it had; he truly hadn't known what to expect when he first received Paul's text. He wouldn't have blamed him if he had turned his back on him and said it was too much and released him effective immediately.

Colby moved back slowly and interlocked his fingers behind his head and closed his eyes. He blew out another deep breath unable to steady his mind or heartbeat. "Calm down, breathe. Nobody is going to take this away...nobody."


In similar fashion to what had just occurred with Paul and Colby, Belle and Steph sat across from each other as the boss went over everything Belle had forwarded through from Josh. Stephanie couldn't believe what it and shook her head. "What the hell? Is this all from the same person?" She fumed and looked up.

"It looks like that, and they all match what she apparently put up online before it was taken down. It seems once all the IG posts were taken down from both of their individual accounts, she's come over to the blog and photo bombed us, obviously not knowing about our strict no porn filters." Belle replied equally as confused. "I've also updated my alerts so if anything else appears I will know about it. Do you want my guys to look into this more or do you want your team to investigate?"

"No, let your people handle the blog, and we'll have ours work on the rest." Steph replied. "Hell of a first day!"

Belle let out a small laugh, "I just said that before you arrived. Is it always like this?"

"No, I promise!" Steph replied and held her hands up in front of her. "Any regrets yet?"

"No. I think I'm right where I need to be."


Later that day:

Colby shook hands with his producer after he finished with his vignettes; and walked over to Joe. "Hey Man, what's going on?"

"Nothing, just watching you in action." The Samoan smirked. "You all finished?"

Colby shook his head with a smile, "Yeah. Paul agreed to my idea of filming a few little things instead of waiting around here all day and going out there tonight."

Joe nodded his head and took a seat on the production boxes behind them. "You alright?"

"I don't even know to be honest." Colby sighed and sat next to him. "I honestly didn't think it would come to something like this."

"So what did Paul have to say about it all?" Joe asked with a raised brow. When Colby had told him what had happened he offered to come in early and join him in the meeting, but he understood when his "brother" said he needed to go in alone.

Colby shrugged, "I showed him all the messages and everything on my phone. I didn't want to go in there and talk my way out without any proof, then have her turn around and put more shit on the Internet and be called back in. So I handed it over and let him see it all. He also agreed when I said you told me that I was a magnate for the crazies."

Joe let out a laugh. "Seriously though can I do anything?"

"She tried to take everything away from me." Colby replied after a moment of silence. "How do I even come back from this again?"

Joe placed his arm across his friends shoulders in an act of support. "This isn't on you this is entirely on her. Now I'm not saying it will be easy and that you won't get shit, but don't let her or anyone take away what you've worked your ass off for. Seriously, don't let any of them get the better of you."

Colby nodded his head and thanked his "brother" for his kind words. "I better get going before it gets crazy around here. I appreciate you checking in."

"Of course, but do you think it's a good idea to drive by yourself right now?"

"Paul said he would arrange for a rental to be dropped off in case I didn't want to stick around. I need to clear my head and I don't feel like answering a million questions." Colby replied.

Joe pulled him in for a hug and told him to check in once he arrived at his new Hotel.

"I will man, thanks again." Coby said and returned the hug before he turned away and headed back to his dressing room. He opened the door as he sent off a quick reply text to Paul who had sent through the rental details. He thanked him for everything and said he would see him in the next town.

He checked around the room one last time for anything he might have forgotten and zipped up his suitcase. He walked out towards the exit and thanked the guard who gave him his keys and slipped him a little money when he pointed out where the car had been left.

"Thank you, drive safely." The guard replied with a smile .

Colby shook his hand and slipped away without much fanfare.

"See you around Lafayette."