2: Hi, Aunt Dottie
Dottie woke up in a strange place and in a bed far smaller than any of the ones she shared with Fergal. She opened her eyes first only to realize that the too small of bed was far smaller than she had anticipated, seeing as Fergal was wrapped up around her. His arms circled her upper body, his legs entangled with hers and they were laying on their sides.
She found herself looking at a bucket of Legos that had obviously not been put together in a long time. If Dottie even tried to roll away, which had been her first inclination to do, she would have rolled right out of the bed that wasn't even on a bed frame.
Then there were voices coming from downstairs. Closing her eyes, Dottie sighed and hugged Fergal's hand closer to her chest. She was still groggy from all the traveling the day and night before. She basically climbed a set of stairs and fell asleep in bed after stripping off her pants and shoes.
"Finn, no." Someone whispered. "Mia, no!"
"Aunt Dottie, Uncle Ferg," a boy said almost directly in front of her face.
"Finn, it's too early," Fergal mumbled.
"We want to meet Aunt Dottie." This time it was a little girl.
"Mia, Finn, come away now." It was Leonie who whispered.
Dottie opened her eyes to see a set of blondish kids in front of her. With Fergal still pressing his face into the back of her head, she was the only one with a clear view of two kids who couldn't have been more than four years apart from each other. The girl was older.
"Morning, Aunt Dottie." The girl said.
"Morning, Mia."
"You know my name?" The girl smiled real big.
"Your grandmother said your name, so now I do know your name. And he's Finn, named after his uncle's wrestling persona." She flicked her finger towards the boy.
"Get up." The boy insisted, grabbing at Fergal's arm. "Get up, Uncle Ferg."
"Off with you two. Let them sleep a little longer." Leonie came around to the side of the bed and grabbed the two kids' hands. "Come on, we'll talk to them when they actually wake up."
Leonie escorted the children out and then closed the door behind them. Leonie was still scolding the two kids as they headed downstairs apparently.
"Are you ready for kids?" Fergal asked from behind her.
"What do you mean?"
"I have a few more nieces and nephews coming to see us. Are you ready for kids?"
She shrugged. She did okay with them, mostly if they were special needs if anything else. But these were young kids who probably never met an American accented woman before. What could she say to them? Would they understand her and her problems?
"I'm here, aren't I?" She twisted around as far as she could. "And you'll be here with me."
He smiled and leaned forward to kiss her. "Remember, if you are having problems let me know and I'll take you away from it. Okay?"
She nodded.
"Come on, better not let them wait any longer. Finn might find his way back in here. If he's anything like me, he sure will."
"I want to take pictures for your Finn Balor Instagram." She said.
"I would love for you to do that, Dottie." He tossed back the covers off the both of them. "I also didn't want the kids to see you in that pair of panties." Fergal pinched her buttocks through the blue cotton boy shorts she had been wearing.
She reached over and swatted his buttocks as he stood up wearing his own boxer briefs that were decorated with Spiderman images. Yes, she did make them and she was happy to see Fergal wearing them as nightwear.
"Minx," he said over his shoulder as he got some of his skinny black jeans on.
She found some pale blue jeans and a t-shirt with the BC logo patch she had sewn over her heart where a pocket would have been. She hadn't been able to do much of sewing unless she was needed to help mend something.
"How are you doing after last night?" Fergal asked as she was brushing her hair.
"I'm better. Sleep deprivation isn't something that I dealt with. And the flying questions, after everything that had gone on, I didn't want to answer the questions."
"When are we getting married?" He turned around and looked at her. "Just between the two of us, before my brothers ask anyway when do you want to be married?"
"Summertime, but after Summerslam, because I want it to be here in Ireland, so your family doesn't have to be put out and have to travel to America."
"Can I say something about it?" She looked at him when he asked that. "I want us to go somewhere special for our honeymoon."
"Okay. Where?"
"It will have to involve animals because whatever my Lovely wants, I'll make sure she gets."
She smiled at him.
Small hands were knocking on the door, and little voices calling out to them.
"Aunt Dottie, Uncle Ferg, Dad's here." It was Finn, the nephew. Little Finn, it was a cute nickname for her to remember.
Finn Balor was still for everyone, but Fergal was just for her. She smiled as Fergal opened the door.
A man stood on the other side of the door, behind the boy. There was definitely a Devitt family resemblance in the face, that's for sure. Dottie started playing with her fingers as another guy showed up, a little younger looking than Fergal and the first man. Both wore jeans and t-shirts, just simple looks that didn't scare her too much.
"You're starting to crowd her," Fergal said as he crossed his arms.
"Right, sorry about that. My boy, Finn here, has been extremely excited to finally meet his Aunt." The one with a hand on Little Finn's shoulder said. "Come on, we'll wait in the kitchen."
Dottie took a deep breath when the three at the door left. She started feeling the jitters, like when she had seen Fergal for the first time. Like bugs crawling on her skin, she rubbed her arm as she looked at Fergal.
"Sorry about that, Lovely. I didn't think they would be here all at once. The kitchen might be crowded." Fergal said as he walked back to her.
Dottie took a deep breath, flapped her hands at her side and shook her head. "Better get it done, like a sliver or a thorn and get it over with fast. We have a lot of appearances to do today in Dublin and then tonight for the live event."
Fergal nodded, kissed her and took her hand to lead her out of the room.
Downstairs there was a nice smell. Waffles, just the thing that Dottie could get excited for. But when they got into the kitchen, two sets of little arms wrapped themselves around her waist. She held her hands up, dropping Fergal's hand as the two young kids seemed to have instantly fallen in love with her.
"Hi, again," Dottie said and then bit her lip. She wasn't sure what the best thing to do was, touch them or try to hug them back. When special needs kids hugged her she always did the side hug, but most just wanted to shake her hand.
She patted their backs, one hand on the girl Mia and one on the boy Finn.
"You two are going to have to learn not to do that," Leonie said.
"I don't mind. I won't be around a lot, so they need to get their hugs in while I'm here." Dottie looked at Leonie.
She gasped when a man, one of Fergal's brothers, also joined in the family hug, pinned her arms down with his arms.
"Eoin," Fintan sounded annoyed.
Eoin was the Jon Good of the family, Ciaran was Finn's and Mia's father. Annie-Marie was going to be over with her two girls. Eoin's ex-girlfriend was bringing his son and daughter over as well. At least that was described to her.
"Please let go of me. I'm not liking this."
"All right, all of you. Stop right now." Leonie actually sounded mad. She ended up pulling the two kids from around Dottie's waist and it was then that Eoin actually let go.
She was shaky, only because of the strange man that had suddenly taken the Dean Ambrose place but she knew almost nothing about him aside from the few times she talked to him and what Fergal had said.
A new set of arms, the ones she had memorized, wrapped themselves around her. The smell of Fergal wafted up into her senses and Dottie was able to focus again.
"Eoin, you know better than to do that," Fintan said.
"Sorry, I've been on pins and needles waiting for you to come to Ireland." The guy said.
Fergal rubbed Dottie's back as she looked around at the ever-growing family she kept meeting. The two kids were still watching her and she was the center of attention, much like any time she was escorting Finn Balor to the ring. That Dublin show was going to be no different. As it was Sunday, they were going to have a live show in Dublin and then a few more in Ireland, even in Northern Ireland.
"Can we have breakfast and talk?" Dottie asked. "Your waffles smell good, Mam."
"Of course. Finn, Mia, go sit down. Dottie, sit please." Leonie said.
Finally, with something to look forward to, Dottie sat down at a breakfast nook on a bench next to Mia with Fergal sitting in a chair next to her. Breakfast in the Devitt household was something typical, or at least what typical family breakfast would look like.
"When it's summer, we have cookouts at a cabin we rent near a lake," Fintan said. "Corn on the cob seems to be Fergal's favorite food growing up."
"I saw that picture on Fergal's Instagram. I take his pictures. Are you coming to Dublin's show?" She looked Ciaran.
"Definitely." He smiled at her.
"Okay." Dottie looked at Fergal. "May I take family pictures, Fergal, for your account?"
"Definitely. I'll hand you my phone beforehand."
At least that was something to look forward to.
Dottie didn't know what to do. She looked at road agent, the person who made the matches. Fergal's match was against the man known as Elias. She was supposed to walk out with Finn, smiling and waving to the Dublin crowd.
She bit her lip and looked around. Before the show, she had done what she wanted, take pictures of Fergal, Little Finn, and Mia together in the ring before the show started. They were happy, which made her happy to see Fergal's face light up. But Dottie wasn't happy anymore.
"Everything okay?" Jindar Mahal asked.
Even though Jinder was a bad guy in the show, she hardly ever dealt with him. With him were the shorter Singh brothers, who were a little taller than her in height. Fergal was talking to the road agent about something and that left her alone with the singing superstar.
"Just pre-show nerves. I always worry before these things." She looked behind the curtain that would lead out to the small stage. "I just have to know where you're going to be, and stuff like that. Are you going to hit Finn with your guitar?"
The Singh brothers were on 205 Live and they were the bodyguards or whatever they were to Jinder over on SmackDown Live.
"Do Hindus worship cows?" Dottie asked.
The two brothers laughed. She stepped back and looked down. Did she say something wrong? Did she ask the wrong question?
"Cows are sacred because female cows give us life-sustaining milk." Jindar thumped one of the brothers in the shoulder.
"Oh. I guess that makes sense. So you don't eat beef?"
"We can because we're not practicing Hindus. But there are laws in India that make the killing of cows a sin." Jinder explained.
She looked back at Finn as he turned and looked at them.
"I saw a water buffalo at a zoo. There's a difference between the Cape Town South African Buffalo and an Asian Water buffalo." She said, trying to make a conversation work. "India has a lot of Animals, I like the elephants and cobras. Are you two going to try to scare me or something?" She asked the two Singh brothers.
They went over what was going to happen. She was going to stop Samir from holding onto Finn's foot while the referee was distracted. She had never pushed anyone before. Dottie made it clear she didn't want to hurt anyone.
Ringside was the Devitt family. As Dottie and Finn came out, with Finn carrying the IC Title around his waist, Dottie took a few pictures when Fergal as Finn Balor went to get a few good luck pats to Little Finn's head.
Luckily she remembered her spots, remembered where Samir was going to grab Big Finn's foot while the ref was trying to get Sunil, who was trying to help Jinder. This gave Samir the chance to grab Finn's foot and Dottie ran in and shoved at the shorter man.
Only they both sort of ended up tripping over each other. Luckily Finn wasn't dragged down with them as Samir and Dottie fell onto the hard pads around the ring.
"Sorry," she mumbled as she pushed off the guy.
"No harm." He mumbled as he scrambled up himself.
She backed up, looking Samir over. Nothing was hurt but she had to be a good actress and show that she was a good person. She had to protect Finn, who was looking down at her Samir slunk back around to the other side of the ring to back up Jinder.
In the end, Finn won with the coup de gras, with Dottie jumping up and down while hugging his IC title.
"Yay, that's my Aunt Dottie!" Little Finn called out from nearby.
Ciaran was holding Mia, but Little Finn was still standing next to the barrier. Dottie handed up the IC Title to the ref and then went over to Little Finn.
She reached down and kissed the top of Little Finn's head. "Thank you, Finn." She said loud enough for him to hear.
There you guys go. Hope you liked this update. I'll be back with another one once I know what's going to happy on SmackDown Live this Tuesday.