10/7/15, NXT TakeOver Respect…

Amanda found herself clearing her head outside… and felt a hand on her right shoulder, turning and seeing Finn.

"All too much tonight?" Finn asked, knowing that the Dusty Rhodes Classic tournament had caused Amanda's as well as everyone's emotions to hit a fever pitch.

"I feel like… I lost another part of myself after everything that had happened. And yeah, this tournament was a hell of a way to honor the American Dream… I guess I didn't think of how hard it would hit all of us." Amanda explained, Finn pulling her into his arms.

The tension and fighting had increased between the majority of the wrestlers on NXT and the main roster… and Finn could tell it was getting on Amanda's nerves.

"Hey… they'll calm down on their own. Well, most of them will." Finn responded before they let go, his hands lightly wrapping around her wrists and rubbing them.

"Depending on who they're hanging around tonight… I know we were thinking of going and hanging out with our friends tonight but I just feel like getting some takeout and heading home." Amanda replied, Finn lightly resting his right hand on the left side of her face as he held her right hand in his left hand.

"They'll understand, Darlin'." Finn responded before they left, Amanda grabbing her phone and sending a text to Yukie.

'Not feeling up to partying tonight, just gonna head back home with Finn.'

'Okie dokie, Mandy. You two look like you need the rest anyway.' Yukie responded.

She knew much like everyone else that her two friends were exhausted…

Present time, January 25th 2016, 8:20 pm…

"Hold still, damn it." Amanda said, tying Kevin's wrists together and making sure the rope wasn't too tight.

"I think he's still sore about you beating him to a pulp, Darlin'." Finn responded with a chuckle, lightly running his right hand along Amanda's left side.

"No, she'd probably be more comfortable tying me up if I was on a bed and with how she's dressed in those little-" Kevin responded.

"If you make one more Fifty Shades Of Grey joke at me, these ropes…" Amanda snapped irritably, pulling on the ropes and making Kevin scream out a bit. "Are gonna make your wrists bleed!" She growled, tying the ends of the ropes together.

"Don't give her attitude, Owens, or I will turn her loose on you while you're tied up." Finn replied.

'I already got the upper hand, you damn Demons!' Kevin thought, having spoken to Alexa 15 minutes earlier. "Working with you two has been a damn nightmare." He responded.

"You're the nightmare to work with but Finn and I love this damn business too much to walk away. And if you would just go five minutes without insults, mean spirited jokes or your piss poor attitude, I wouldn't be so bitchy towards you!" Amanda responded, Kevin sitting down and Amanda tying his legs to the metal legs of the chair.

"How Sami put up with you for so long, I have no idea." Finn muttered before helping Amanda stand up after she finished tying Kevin up, Amanda readjusting her leather jacket over her Balor Club Worldwide tank top and black leather shorts. "Okay, 5 minutes in, you break out of your restraints… and refrain from personal attacks in the future!" He responded, finally noticing the bruises on Kevin's face before him and Amanda left.

"Damn, he's acting like he's up to no good… and he most likely is up to no good." Amanda replied as Finn rested his right hand on her left one.

"Yeah but whatever he's up to, it'll just bite him in the end." Finn responded as he lightly rubbed Amanda's forearm.

"Yes it will." Amanda replied before she entwined the fingers on her left hand with the ones on his right hand. "Thanks for getting the guys out of the room this morning. I love them like brothers but they drive me crazy at times." She responded.

"I know they love you to death but they need to scale back on things a bit. You and I are adults and we want to stay with each other at night, there's nothing wrong with that… or me doing this if you're okay with it." Finn replied, wrapping his left arm around her back and Amanda laughing softly as Finn pulled her closer and nuzzled his beard against her soft skin as his left hand rested on her hip when her hands rested on his sides until her arms wrapped around him as they lightly sang the words to With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker.

At the same time, Baron had found them.

But instead, he headed to where Yukie was… he walked into her locker room and closed the door, Yukie looking at him.

"You look like you had a shock…" Yukie responded after applying a purple matte lipstick to her lips, twisting it back down into the tube before capping it.

"Yeah, I saw Finn and Mandy being all cuddly." Baron replied.

"Tommy, they're friends. Close friends." Yukie responded as she fixed up her teal eyeliner and mascara.

"So you don't find it suspicious at all that Roman tried to drag her out of Finn's bed this morning, Dollface?" Baron questioned after Yukie finished applying her makeup, Yukie closing the eyeliner and mascara tubes.

"You don't like Finn, I get that. Not everyone gets along in this industry, Tommy... but he's good to Mandy and she's good to him. Why don't you see that?" Yukie responded.

"I'm just trying to look after her, that's all." Baron replied.

"She's too old to be looking after, and beside she's like two years younger than me, Baron." Yukie explained.

"And looks much younger than 25." Baron replied.

"Are you implying that Finn likes them young looking?" Yukie responded.

"I'm saying that her youthful looks are an attraction magnet and could attract the wrong attention." Baron explained.

"Like her catching Finn is the wrong attention to you? Like how old are you exactly? I'm younger than you too, remember?" Yukie questioned.

"You know, we can hear the loudness out all the way into the neighboring hallway. Try to keep it down a bit?" Amanda replied after gently opening the door with Finn behind her.

"Shut up, 'fore I knock you out in your sleep!" Yukie retorted, before she realized who she was talking to. "I didn't mean that, Mandy!"

"No harm. I had a pretty bad night last night myself." Amanda responded, Yukie and Baron remembering that Kevin went too far and that she went off at him.

"Let's go, jumpscare awaits and we've gotta find Sami." Finn replied before they left, Yukie closing the door.

"She may not be crying and screaming anymore but it hit her damn hard. I doubt Kevin knows the full story of just how much they mean to her…" Yukie responded.

"You… didn't know Chris as well as she did, did you?" Baron questioned.

"Yeah, I did. We were like family to him, like his own kids. He would treat us great no matter what, until one day it all change with him and his family were gone for good." Yukie explained.

"And having lost Eddie…" Baron replied.

"That hit them both worse than anything." Yukie responded.

She knew that those memories would never go away.