Finn looked up as he heard the apartment door open, seeing Amanda kicking off her black cross trainer shoes and white socks, shoving them aside with her right foot after she walked in.
"That kind of day, lass?" Finn asks. Amanda nodded, groaning in frustration before walking into the living room and flopping down on the couch, moving her upper body up so Finn could sit down.
Amanda rested her head in Finn's lap as he lightly rubbed his hand up and down her back, stretching her sore and tired body out, reminding herself to run a hot bubble bath in a bit to take away the aches and soothe her aggravated nerves.
"If I hit Alexa with one hard punch on the top of her head… I think I can drive her straight into the ground. Either that or crack her skull." Amanda says, Finn knowing that Amanda only said things like that out of frustration.
Amanda hated times when she was trying to be professional and someone would just start yelling at her. Today, it was Alexa Bliss and Amanda got fed up, went off and yelled at Alexa before leaving.
Amanda was going to catch hell for the screaming match but didn't care at the moment. She seemed to relax a bit more as Finn kissed the side of her head, lightly stroking her hair.
With friends like Finn and Sami, Amanda could let her guard down...
"You think he's gonna press charges?" Amanda asks after Finn had told her what he had done to Corey, Amanda now leaning against Finn and his arms wrapped around her slender shoulders. Before Finn could respond, a knock at the door sounded and both saw a blur of reddish orange hair and half black, half blonde hair.
"Hang on, you two." Finn says after standing up, walking to the door and unlocking it, opening it and letting Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins in, who both ran to Amanda and lightly hugged her.
"You had us scared there, kiddo." Becky says, carefully looking over the injuries Amanda sustained yesterday as Seth's phone rang. Seth looked at it but decided to just let it go to voicemail.
"Leighla giving you hell, Seth?" Finn asks.
"Yeah, I… I'm starting to think I shouldn't marry her." Seth says, remembering when Leighla caught him and Amanda hugging… an innocent embrace between friends, both who were celebrating how the 2013 Slammy Awards were turning out.
And then when Leighla showed up, it all went straight to hell...
"You bitch! Get your fucking hands off him!" Leighla yelled after Amanda screamed out in shock from being assaulted unexpectedly, Seth immediately pressing a towel to Amanda's wounds.
"Leighla, Amanda and I were just innocently hugging! What the hell?!" Seth yells at his fiancee.
"That wasn't innocent, that was-" Leighla yells, Dean and Roman running in and dragging the angered woman out while Seth looked back at Amanda, who seemed to be snapping out of the initial shock.
"I hope you and her go to premarital counseling beforehand if you decide to go through with it, Sethie." Amanda says, Seth seeing that Amanda's cuts were surface wounds and had already stopped bleeding but he wanted to get her checked out by the doctor anyway and carefully guided her to the medical area as wrestlers started emerging from their respective locker rooms, wondering what the hell happened.
Seth couldn't blame Amanda for being concerned for him… he just didn't know how out of control things would get…
"It's all over the news, the incident at the hotel. I'm not one to say things like this, especially since Corey's in the hospital with a concussion, bruises and broken ribs but he brought it on himself by attacking you, Amanda." Seth says.
"Yeah, you're not normally one to say something like that… especially after I ended up in the hospital earlier this year." Amanda says.
"Yeah because it could've easily happened again, kiddo." Seth says.
"And we'll help you through this, you and Finn are like family to us." Becky says.
Amanda and Finn knew that they would need their friends help, especially with how violent things had escalated to.
After a while, Amanda decided to head upstairs and pull her hair into a messy bun, heading into the bathroom and setting up a hot bubble bath before stripping down and climbing into the clawfoot tub, closing her eyes as the physical and mental damage began to fade away… even if it would only be temporary.
She knew there would be some explaining to do, especially to Stephanie McMahon… but having known Stephanie for years, Amanda knew that if she explained the truth that Stephanie would listen.
At the same time, Corey was waking up in Orlando Regional Medical Center, finding Kevin Owens standing a few feet away from him.
"Damn… why are you here? Don't you have anything better to do, Owens?" Corey asks.
"I figured you could use a friend, given what Finn did. Never took him for the vicious type of person." Kevin says, walking over and sitting down in a chair. "When things turn crazy, people get violent. Amanda's gotten angry and let her temper out before, she's injured other wrestlers as well as paparazzi." He says.
"I lashed out and acted without thought… Finn went and almost killed me. Safe to say he only had one thought in mind and that was to hurt me because I hurt his friend." Corey says.
"Hurt her?! You could've killed her!" Both heard, looked and saw a pissed off Sami in the doorway.
"Sami, I get that you care about Amanda but you and I have known each other for 10 ½ years-" Kevin says.
"The Kevin that I considered a friend wouldn't have found it funny after punching a woman or continue trashing her! Amanda didn't do a damn thing to you and you and her actually got along at first so why did you suddenly started treating her so badly?!" Sami says angrily to the point where he was almost yelling.
"Despite what she has you and everyone else believing, she's not innocent!" Kevin yells.
"If the only thing you're going on is the accusations from 2007 where she was allegedly suicidal and drugged out of her mind because she reportedly knew more about the murder-suicide than she claimed, you need to let it drop completely! She only hurt herself once out of grief! If you had lost someone you considered to be family, you'd do anything to make the pain go away, Kevin! To say otherwise would be hypocritical!" Sami says before leaving.
When Sami exited the hospital, he stopped to let himself calm down... he and Kevin had been friends for a long time but Sami could not bring himself to ignore how Amanda was being treated, especially because he felt that she didn't deserve it.