2/18/15, NXT Taping scheduled to air 4/22/15…

"Bravo, Finn. Everybody's so impressed with Finn Balor, everybody loves Finn Balor. Well you know who doesn't? Me, Tyler Breeze!" Tyler said after appearing on the titantron. "You walk in here and let me assure you, you're nothing more than a flavor of the month… well, in more ways than one, just ask your Demon Mistress. It's time you meet someone who's been dominating NXT since day one. Prince Pretty… see you around, Finn."

The titantron returned to the NXT logo and Finn turned to his right, seeing that Amanda wasn't having much luck keeping her anger controlled, judging from her clenched right fist.

"Prince Pretty, crashing the party. Tyler Breeze obviously not as impressed with Finn Balor as we are." Tom Phillips said.

The backstage area was tense when they reached it and Finn got Amanda to sit down, rubbing his hands along her shoulders and upper arms.

"Read that part of the script multiple times over… what the fuck is with him, taking cheap insults like that?!" Amanda growled, attempting to stand up but Finn stopped her. "He's either really into his character or he is a narcissistic son of a bitch!" She said as his thumb rubbed back and forth on her right wrist.

"And you need to calm down before going and finding him… that wasn't right what he did but beating someone senseless backstage won't help." Finn responded, Amanda closing her eyes and taking a deep breath before opening them.

"Just when I thought this wasn't starting to feel like high school again… it was damn uncalled for." Amanda said quietly before Finn sat down next to her and lightly wrapped his arms around her shoulders, pulling her onto his lap.

"It damn well was uncalled for… when we find him, he better have a damn good answer as to why." Finn whispered, lightly kissing Amanda on the side of her head.

The closer she got to him, the more that tension seem to surface backstage…

Present time…

Amanda opened her eyes halfway about three hours later and looked up, seeing Finn and Sami.

"Wait, what did she describe this creature as?" Sami asked quietly.

"Rather tall yet back hunched, one big red eye, a third arm in its chest… all sounds like an alien from a 1970s sci-fi to me but I've never doubted her word and I'm not gonna doubt her now." Finn described, repeating along the lines of what Amanda had said to him earlier.

"I'm surprised she didn't wake up screaming… maybe we should tell the physicians here to dial back on the medicine doses." Sami responded.

"Sami, she was in too much pain to talk much last night. She needed her sleep." Finn replied.

Amanda sat up, the two noticing that she was awake and Finn sitting next to her while Sami sat down in a nearby chair.

"Any last minute changes I should know about?" Amanda asked when she saw the script in Sami's hands and the highlighted part concerning the Rusev vs Ryback match that had both Amanda and Kevin on commentary… and Finn resting his hand on her back as Amanda adjusted her black cropped lace bustier top.

"Seems like they want you to start speaking your mind out there." Sami said as he handed over the script to them.

"And hopefully, it goes over well… give or take a few punches." Amanda replied as Finn grabbed the jacket and put it on her.

"You're poking the bear by doing that." Sami responded jokingly.

"A bear would maul me if I poked it, Kevin's just gonna run his mouth." Finn said.

Rusev vs Ryback…

"I don't know… in all honesty, I think Rusev's got something up his sleeve that's gonna shatter Summer's heart." Amanda answered after Jerry asked her for her opinion on Summer proposing to Rusev on Raw.

"Kevin, your thoughts on the whole thing? Is any romantic relationship in this business a strong one or one that's caught your attention?" Bradshaw asked as Amanda absentmindedly played with the collar of the jacket as the match progressed.

"You gonna answer the man's question?" Amanda responded, resting her lace and leather skinny pant clad legs on the table and crossing the right one over the left one.

"I don't think it matters so much about the business as it does about the people. Some of us… change a lot between home and work lives, being almost like two different people is when it fails." Kevin replied after a moment longer.

It wasn't long before Summer tripped up Ryback, Amanda rolling her eyes.

"Gonna take more than that to stop Ryback, that man tears through his opponents like they're paper… and he will get that Intercontinental Championship back, it's just a matter of time. Cheating someone out of what's rightfully theirs will turn and bite you… and I've been waiting to say this for months, the way you won the NXT Championship, Owens, was pure bullshit. Finn is a much better champion, he earned it the right way." Amanda replied, Kevin turning fully to her with the Intercontinental Championship on his right shoulder and completely angered.

"No less of a technique than some of the things everyone else has pulled! You've got no room to talk, you've hardly been an angel yourself!" Kevin responded.

"I didn't stab my best friend in the back and injure his shoulder, Sami did nothing to deserve that!" Amanda replied, Sami turning to Finn when both were watching from the locker room.

"I had a feeling she was still sore about me getting hurt." Sami said quietly.

"I'm not surprised, it was quite bad and shocking at first." Finn replied.

With the match going on, Rusev and Ryback exchanged glances after noticing the tension at the commentators table.

"Tiny's livid." Ryback whispered, Rusev nodding in agreement… and then clamped his right hand over his mouth as a hard slap connected with Kevin's face.

"Tiny's very livid." Rusev responded, briefly pausing to look towards the commentator stand.

"Au moins, je suis brutalement honnête à propos de ce qui s'est passé, Owens, vous venez de rejeter la faute sur quelqu'un qui se trouve à proximité!" Amanda shouted, Summer's mouth hanging open in shock and Kevin yelling back at Amanda in the same language.

"Ça vient de toi, le petit clochard qui est devenu le prochain copain de la chambre de Balor?!" Kevin responded.

"Yeah, that's going too far." Rusev replied before Summer walked over and tried to intervene when Amanda grabbed a kendo stick and whacked Kevin with it repeatedly.

Summer yanked the kendo stick from Amanda, who turned her anger to the blonde as Kevin left.

"Stay out of this, Summer, don't involve yourself in business that don't concern you!" Amanda yelled.

"If we can cut to the backstage area, please do so." Bradshaw said into his headset as Jerry put himself in between the women who were about ready to fight.

Kevin reached the backstage area… and was immediately accosted and thrown at the wall by Finn.

"You just don't know when to stop!" Finn growled.

"She's not fucking worth your attention or protection! You should've left her with Rollins, they would've fucked each other and gotten their anger out of their system!" Kevin yelled, ending up on the wrong end of a punch after that.

"That's your words, not mine! If some useless scum is all she is to you anymore then, well… I'm proud to be the same kind of scum!" Finn responded.

Kevin swung back at him but was stopped by a kendo stick whacking against his wrist and yelled out in pain before he turned and saw Amanda.

"Find another person to abuse, Kevin! I'm fucking fed up with it!" Amanda replied, Kevin storming off… Finn was about to question how Amanda got the kendo stick back but then saw Summer with a black eye before Summer left and Ryback and Rusev walked over to them, Ryback resting his left hand on Amanda's upper back. "Sorry you guys had to see that." She said quietly as her right hand instinctively wrapped around Finn's left one.

"It's okay… that nearly went way too far though." Rusev replied, briefly raising a hand to gesture that he was calm about it.

"It did but Owens should've kept himself controlled as well." Ryback responded, kissing Amanda on the side of her head before he and Rusev left.

"That went a lot better than I thought it would've… and definitely a lot better than the incident at the Performance Centre a few weeks back." Amanda said as she and Finn held each other.