11/1/15, Orlando…
"Morning, sleepyhead." Finn says as Amanda, still in her pajamas, walked downstairs.
"Yeah, it'll be a better one once this hangover wears off. No more tequila shots with Ziggler, that guy drinks like Homer." Amanda says, Finn chuckling as he turned around… and because Amanda's hair was in a ponytail, Finn noticed the scar on her left shoulder and walked over. "What's wrong?" She asks, seeing the concern in his eyes.
"I hadn't noticed it before but you've got an old scar on your left shoulder. How'd it happen?" Finn says.
"Yeah. I don't remember how, it happened when I was 11 and I'd slipped and fell down the stairs. Children fall a lot, I just never thought anything more of it other than scratching it open on a nail. Why you ask?" Amanda says as he closely examined it. "It… doesn't look like a scar from a nail, does it?" She asks.
"I know a bite scar when I see one. Alden accidentally bit my arm when he was about a little under two years old." Finn says.
"That's right around the time children are almost finished teething… and Shawn and Rebecca's son was about two back then, I would babysit him at times and he would get really cranky if I gave him a sippy cup instead of a bottle. He almost bit Shawn's finger off once but he was five and trying to get rid of a loose tooth." Amanda says.
"Kids can be fussy at times." Finn says.
"I think it would be worth it though… to one day become a parent." Amanda says… but Finn noticed a hint of sadness and self doubt in her eyes when she said that.
As he was about to comfort her by saying that she shouldn't doubt herself, the temperature dropped in the apartment.
"Sami, stop fucking around!" Finn and Amanda said simultaneously… which confused a barely awake Sami Zayn as he sat up… or tried to, a still asleep Bayley hugging him even tighter.
"Hmm… what? What's wrong?" Bayley asks as her eyes opened halfway.
"Sorry." Amanda and Finn say, feeling bad for waking their friends.
"We all have those kind of mornings… it's alright." Sami says before all four heard lightning and thunder.
The power went out seconds later, Bayley clinging on tighter to Sami and Amanda gripping Finn's right hand out of fright as darkened buildings tended to unnerve her, Finn lightly pulling her to him by wrapping his left arm around her.
"Shh… it's okay, lass, it's just a lot of noise." Finn whispered once they were properly holding each other, him stroking Amanda's hair with his left hand and lightly rubbing his right hand up and down her back as she buried her face into his neck.
Finn knew that no one shook this violently from just a storm alone.
He had a feeling that something truly traumatized Amanda when she was a small child.
Present time…
"That party didn't stop you two from-" TJ starts to say, screaming when Sasha slammed her right foot into his left leg.
"Didn't stop them from what?" Kurt asks, Amanda laughing nervously.
"That was shortly before the tour in Europe… Finn and I got really damn drunk one night in Ireland, I dared him to do body shots off of me and he did." Amanda says, anticipating that Kurt would yell… but he laughed instead.
"You two are just perfect nutcases!" Kurt says.
"Oh, it was fun for them… until I saw it and went a little crazy." Seth says.
"A little crazy? You tried to strangle him." Amanda says.
"Seth, is that true?" Kurt asks.
"Yeah… I saw them like that and everything went hazy." Seth says.
Amanda let out a sharp yell of pain as without warning, the chair Kurt was using slammed into her left leg.
"Ow! Damn it!" Amanda yelled, rubbing her leg as Finn and the others tried to calm her down.
"Damn, I'm sorry. You okay?" Kurt says, Amanda nodding even though Kurt knew she wasn't okay because of how fast her ankle was bruising.
"How bad does it look?" Amanda asks, Kurt hearing a childlike giggle.
Kurt headed back to the room as the others helped Amanda outside, Nikoletta smiling when she saw him.
"Dada!" Nikoletta says, Kurt picking her up out of her playpen and hugging her… but Stephanie saw the look in her friend's face.
"What happened, where's Mandy?" Stephanie asked quietly.
"Auntie okay, Dada?" Nikoletta asks.
"She'll be okay, precious." Kurt says, kissing Nikoletta on her forehead.
Jackson Memorial E.R
It was visible again, that tense look in Amanda's eyes… Finn reached over and lightly squeezed her right hand, knowing what she was thinking as Seth walked into the hallway and saw the little girl and the lady that TJ and Amanda found last night.
"I remember you, from last night's event!" Emmalina says excitedly, Seth seeing her wearing the wristband he had handed to her before his match.
"Oh right… hey, how'd you bruise your arm?" Seth says, seeing the bruise that the small child had on her left arm.
"I slipped and fell… is that nice lady here with you? Did she fall too?" Emmalina says, looking for Amanda.
"She's worried because she saw the hand print on your friend from last night's match… but it's not that, is it?" The woman says.
"It's her left leg, isn't it?" Emmalina asks… but what startled Seth was that the small child already seemed to know.
"Yeah, just an accident." Seth says, turning to the woman. "What's your name?" He asks.
"Mira. Follow me, I'll explain how Emmalina knows these things." Mira says, her, Emmalina and Seth heading to the nearby chairs.
The X-Rays came back on Amanda's left ankle… and the doctor had reasoned that given Amanda's high impact style of wrestling, her constantly jumping off the top rope that the blow to her leg had been the last straw and resulted in a stress fracture although it wasn't a severe one and she would be okay within a month to six weeks.
Amanda let the doctor believe it too as her left ankle was being put in a brace and with good reason.
Her chaotic style of wrestling was an explanation that wouldn't get her sent to a mental ward.