"You do understand what you're asking me to do, right?" Adam asked and CJ nodded, although he couldn't see, from where she sat in The Shield's locker room during the Syracuse house show. The guys had been gone for about fifteen minutes for their match, Dean taking a minute to make sure the door was locked beforehand.

"I'm not safe anywhere as long as somebody knows where I am. Just being in a locked locker room has me scared."

"So you want me to help you fall off the face of the Earth for a while? Do you know what that'll do to Seth abs Dean? They love you, CJ."

"They deserve better than me, anyways. What kind of scum am I if my own father wants nothing but to end the only thing I'm good at?" She asked, pulling her good knee up to her chest and instinctively smelling the jacket she was wearing. It was Seth's and probably the most comfortable jacket she had ever worn.

"Don't say shit like that, Chrissie. You're not scum to them, and you're definitely not scum to me."

"What am I then, Adam?"

"My little girl, and I don't know how comfortable I am with you disappearing without at least telling them. They put a lot of work in protecting you these last couple months, and I don't think that's a good way to thank them."

"They don't need me holding them back anymore, Adam. I'd leave a note saying that I was fine, but I just need to not be pinpointed for a while."

"What about your rehabbing?" His question caught her off guard because she wasn't at all thinking about her surgically repaired knee.

"I'll figure it out."

"And your apartment?"

"That too." Adam sighed, causing CJ to bite her lip as she waited for a response.

"Just run the idea of disappearing passed them. You don't have to tell him where you're going, just run the idea." Adam instructed and CJ nodded, glancing at the door as heavy footsteps rushed passed.

"Alright. I've gotta go. Thank you for helping, dad."

"It's my job. Love you, kid."

"Love you too." CJ rushed out before hanging up and leaving her phone in Dean's bag as she heard yelling outside the door.

"You stay the hell away from her!" That was Seth, there was no questioning that and it wasn't long before the door was thrown open and Roman pushed Seth and Dean into the room.

"You were offered a position in The Authority?" Dean asked, looking heated, and CJ nodded slowly.

"Assistant to the Director of Operations. Kane offered after Seth and I got in that fight over my knee at Mania. I never accepted."

"Why didn't you fucking tell me!?" Dean shouted, kicking at the leg of the bench right by her injured knee. Not one man in the room missed the way her eyes widened and how she pulled her hurt leg up to protect it. Seth knew it then and there that Dean had scared her. He had come dangerously close to kicking her, and the last thing anybody wanted was for that knee to become any more of a hinderance. Too bad that Dean didn't realize how close he had come to getting her or how scared she was, because he was already in the showers.

"He's never yelled at me like that." CJ said softly, pulling her phone out of Dean's bag and turning it over in her hand. Roman pet her head once before heading into the shower, leaving Seth with CJ. He knelt down in front of her, pulling her legs down and bracing one arm over her thighs to keep her legs in place while he cupped her cheek in his still gloved hand.

"He's being a Dean right now, and you just have to let it simmer down a bit. He'll come around." He spoke softly, keeping her eyes on his while his thumb wiped away the lone tear that had fallen.

"He almost kicked my knee, Seth." CJ whispered, fighting the urge to just fall into his arms. She was stronger than that.

"I know, and I'll talk to him about it if Roman hasn't already. What matters is that he didn't."

"What would you have done if he did?"

"Take his ass down and make him pay." Seth answered without a second of hesitation, flashing that confident smile at her. "I'm going to go shower since I'm hella gross right now, okay?"

"Alright. Thank you, Seth."

"Not a problem, beautiful."

The drive from the arena to CJ's apartment was a bit awkward until she fell asleep in the backseat. She was sitting in the back with Dean, but instead of leaning towards him she leaned against the door. He expected it after what he did to her in the locker room. Seth had put him in his place in the shower, while Roman just looked at him in disappointment, both made him feel bad. Her ignoring him just made him feel like shit. She refused to make solid eye contact for longer than just a second and kept her arms crossed the whole time they waited for Seth and Roman to finish in the shower. He knew that some time would heal this wound and he would give her that. As much as she needed that wouldn't drive him crazy.

Although he was certain that if it was longer than a day he'd go insane.

"She's out." Dean commented as Roman parked her car and Seth nodded.

"I'll carry her up." He volunteered and Dean opened his mouth to protest, but nodded and got out of the car. He grabbed his bag and Seth's, watching as Seth carefully lifted her into his arms. The whole way up to her apartment, Dean was watching how Seth held her to make sure he wouldn't hurt her on accident.

Seth obviously noticed the way Dean was hovering when he laid CJ down in bed, and he really didn't have the heart to tell Dean to back off. Obviously Dean sensed that he was in the wrong, which was rare, so Seth cut him a bit of slack. His idea was going to be a bit awkward, since he'd never shared a bed with Dean, but he was willing to try since Roman had called dibs on the couch already.

"Come lay down with us, Dean." Seth spoke softly once he had laid down and CJ instinctively migrated to rest her head on his chest, since his arm was tucked beneath the pillow. He didn't miss Dean's raised brow as he surveyed the position, most likely scoping out the least gay looking way to go about this. "I know you're not trying to feel me up, and I know you're not going to get any sleep without her. We all need our sleep."

"Okay. Just don't grab the Ambooty and we'll be okay." Dean joked while he stripped down to his briefs and Seth shook his head with a tired grin before pressing a kiss to CJ's head.

"I can't believe you just said that." He laughed, feeling the bed shift slightly with Dean's added weight. After about a minute of shuffling Dean finally stilled and Seth looked over to see that the sandy blonde had his arms around her waist with his forehead pressed to her shoulder blade, his eyes already closed. If Seth didn't know any better, he'd say that this was probably Dean's most vulnerable position. But he knew damn well that Dean wasn't ever completely vulnerable.

"Stop staring at me and go the fuck to sleep."

Yep. Never completely vulnerable.

The warmth CJ was feeling was unbelievably wonderful. She knew waking up and getting out of bed was going to have to happen soon, since she was traveling with the guys for a few days, but she wanted to absorb that heat for a while longer. She didn't understand how she was this warm, and she didn't care, she just never wanted it to end.

"We have to hit the road in a couple hours." She heard Roman whisper and decided not to open her eyes.

"I know. I just want to let her sleep a bit." Seth responded, and then CJ felt a kiss to the top of her head as well as a pair of lips on her shoulder blade. There was no way she was in bed with Seth and Roman. Dean would never allow it.

"I don't think she's ever slept this soundly before." Dean mumbled against her skin and it was then that she realized the arms around her waist. The tight grip was reminiscent of what Seth would do, only she knew that her head was on Seth's chest, so she was caught off guard when she realized that she was, in fact, sandwiched between two men.

"I'm going to go make sure all my stuff is good to go." Roman excused himself, and CJ waited until the bedroom door shut behind him to open her eyes slowly.

"She's alive." Seth teased, smiling down at her when she looked up at him. "Good morning, gorgeous."

"Good morning. I fell asleep in the car, didn't I?"

"Yeah, but it's not a big deal. Did you sleep well?" He asked, noticing how Dean kept quiet and made no move to release her.

"I slept really well. Did you?"

"I always sleep well with you in my arms, babe. You know that."

Dean wanted to gag at how sweet they were being to each other. Didn't she remember that she had with him wasn't open? She was his, not Seth's, yet here she was cuddling with Seth and two seconds away from kissing him. He didn't know if he should be pissed off or not, considering that he scared her last night. He fucked up and Seth was there to fix it, and he definitely couldn't blame Seth for playing this game the same way he has been.

"I'm going to go to the bathroom." Seth announced and CJ picked up her head to let him go. Dean saw this as Seth giving him time alone with CJ to talk to her, and was grateful.

"Mornin', gorgeous."

"Good morning, Dean." CJ greeted, turning over in his arms slowly.

"I'm sorry about last night. I was just pissed because I felt like you didn't trust me, and-"

"It's not that I didn't trust you, Dean, I just felt that it wasn't important if I was never going to take the job. Being honest, once my knee is rehabbed I'm disappearing for a while."

"Disappearing?"

"You can't protect me while you're on the road, and I don't want to travel with you because it puts me near the Wyatts. If I go where nobody knows where I'm at, I'll be okay." CJ explained, bringing a hand up to cup his cheek.

"I don't want to not know where you're at indefinitely. I'll go crazy." Dean argued, tightening his grip on her. "Please, baby. Don't go."

"Dean, I don't know that I can keep living my life in constant fear."

"Stay in my place. Hell, switch between my apartment and Seth's house. I have to know where you're at." CJ didn't know what to say. She had never seen such desperation in his eyes before and she didn't know what to do or say about it.

"Dean-"

"What do you want me to do? I'll do it. Just don't go. Not yet. We don't even know that the Wyatts will be after you when you're done rehabbing."

Seth had chosen that moment to reenter the bedroom, seeing the two connected at the forehead in what looked like a tense moment.

"Okay." CJ finally mumbled and Dean smiled. An actual smile.

"Thank you."

"What did I miss?" Seth asked and CJ looked over at him as she sat up in bed.

"I was considering disappearing and Dean's convinced me to wait. Nothing big and nothing that leaves this room." CJ explained, welcoming him back into the bed with open arms. "This would be the perfect opportunity to get that threesome in."

"Sorry to be a killjoy, babygirl, but we don't have that kind of time." Roman cut in, smirking when CJ pouted.

"You're a terrible man, Roman Reigns."

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