"Hell of a blow to the face, I don't think she was the intended target but it obviously hurt Amanda!" Byron says after Amanda screamed out in pain and shock. Being punched in the face always hurt and jarred Amanda's neck at times… she was used to getting hit unexpectedly, sometimes wrestlers got crazy.
Hell, she got crazy herself in that ring… but she thought that Corey knew better than to use her as a human shield against a pissed off Kevin Owens.
"Well, obviously it was accidental!" Corey says to Byron before turning to Amanda and trying to help her. "Amanda, you alright?!" He says, Amanda shoving him away, bolting up to her feet and ripping the commentator's headset off.
Amanda and Corey had joined Dusty and Byron on commentary for Finn's match against Kevin Owens and Owens, while attempting to strike Corey for something Corey had said on commentary, punched Amanda instead.
"Accidental?! You pulled me in front of you, you stupid ass son of a bitch! That was no fucking accident, you're just a damn coward, Graves!" Amanda yelled, her mouth split open as Finn tried to calm Amanda down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for what Amanda's saying! We do not condone that kind of language on NXT or WWE Tv, no matter what happens or how angry our wrestlers might be!" Byron says.
"No, let her keep at it! It's funny watching a so called reformed bad girl lose it completely!" Kevin says after laughing maniacally, finding Amanda's pain and bad language amusing… he was unaware of Amanda's building rage.
Amanda snapped and ran right at Kevin, who screamed as Amanda tackled him and started bashing his head against the floor as Finn ran over, managing to pull Amanda off of a now bleeding Kevin.
"Is that funny, huh?! Is that fucking funny, Owens?! You don't find it funny, then you shouldn't laugh when you fucking hurt someone else, you heartless prick!" Amanda yelled at Kevin, who was leaning against the barricade and was shocked that Amanda did that to him.
Finn dragged Amanda backstage to their locker room and tried to calm her down, grabbing some tissues and pressing them to Amanda's mouth after brushing Amanda's hair out of her face.
"I hope they were bleeping you out on camera, lass. There are young fans in that audience and…" Finn says.
"Young ones watching at home… it's never pretty when I lose my temper, especially on live Tv. Damn, I most likely put Kevin out of action with that beating but he had no right to laugh his ass off." Amanda says as Sami walks into the locker room.
"Amanda, what the hell went on out there?! That wasn't scripted!" Sami says.
"Are you fucking kidding me, Sami?! Your old pal Kevin is the one who punched me, found it amusing and laughed like a jackal-" Amanda starts to yell, Sami putting his hands on her shoulders.
"I'm not mad at you, okay? I just want to know why Owens was laughing. He's rough in that ring but not heartless." Sami says.
"Obviously, he is or he wouldn't have found hitting Amanda funny." Finn says, throwing the tissue away and finding a gel pack, putting it on Amanda's mouth to take the pain away...
The sound of the rain pouring down on the roof woke Amanda and Finn back up, both shaking their heads.
"Typical Florida. If it's not sunny and humid or rainy and humid from May to September, it's rainy and chilly from Winter to Spring." Amanda says.
"Yeah… hey, you feeling okay? Any pain?" Finn says.
"Mouth still hurts a bit like it did after last week's incident. Other than that, I'm okay." Amanda says.
"Just as I was about to ask you how you doin', Mandy..." Both heard, looked and saw Enzo Amore.
"Sami must be awake if he let Enzo in." Finn mutters, Amanda playfully shoving him and snickering.
"Aw, you two are adorable together. Give it a few years, they'll be some mini versions of you two running around." Enzo says, joking a bit like he usually does.
Amanda buried her face into Finn's shoulder after turning red, Finn lightly hugging her.
Once the three walked downstairs, they were greeted with the mixed scents of coffee, tea, bacon, pancakes and hashbrowns, Sami smiling brightly.
"No matter how bad someone's feeling, they never turn down good food and coffee or tea." Sami says.
"Yeah. Hey, sorry about snapping at you last week, Sami." Amanda says after sitting down next to Finn, Sami setting a plate in front of her.
"It's alright, kiddo. We've all lost our tempers a time or two, we're all human." Sami says before they all start eating.
After breakfast, Amanda was drinking her second cup of herbal tea, the peppermint flavor calming her nerves as she was typing up her list of Christmas decorations for the tree and beverages and snacks for the Christmas party her, Finn and Sami were throwing.
Amanda finished the list, saved it to her Notepad app and leaned against Finn as the two, Sami and Enzo watched A Charlie Brown Christmas.
She had good memories of watching the Charlie Brown specials with her family when she was growing up and then watching it with the kids of WWE wrestlers.
"Remembering the good old days?" Finn asks quietly.
"Yeah… a lot has changed since then." Amanda says, handing the empty cup to Sami, who took his and Amanda's cups into the kitchen to rinse them out before rejoining the others in the living room.
Amanda and Finn stayed quiet as Linus explained the true meaning of Christmas, completely locked onto the Tv.
After the special ended, Amanda saw a look on Finn's face… one she had seen earlier.
"What did you do?" Amanda asks, now noticing the scrapes on Finn's hands.
Eight hours earlier…
"Four in the morning and I'm being bothered, this better be-" Corey mumbled as he sleepily opened the hotel door, only to scream out as he was pushed back into the room and thrown against the wall. The door was closed and locked with more force than intended and Corey looked in front of him, seeing an enraged Finn Balor.
"You attacked Amanda… an innocent person who only befriended you and tried to help you when you suffered neurological issues similar to the ones she suffered?! How fucking dare you?!" Finn growled.
"I did what I did in a moment of rage and no logical thought. And innocent? Let's be honest, she's no innocent person! She's done things that would make even Pamela Anderson think twice of doing!" Corey says.
The last part made Finn lose it completely and Finn tackled Corey to the ground, repeatedly punching him. Finn snapped out of it, stood up and left.
Finn quietly walked into his apartment, closed and locked the door to avoid waking Amanda and Sami up before pulling his bloodstained clothes off and walking into the garage, burning the clothes in a trashcan before heading to the bathroom and getting cleaned up.
Once he was back in his pajamas, Finn crept into the room Amanda was sleeping in, climbed into the bed and pulled the covers over himself, falling asleep.
He couldn't believe what he had done… but seeing how Amanda looked earlier and reliving seeing her hit the mirror, bleeding and crying in pain made him snap.
There was going to be hell to pay, he knew that… but he also knew that all reasonable behavior went right out the window whenever Amanda was hurt.