January 30th 2007, 1:30am…

"Hey… sorry that took so long." The man lying on the king sized bed heard, looked away from the Tv and saw Amanda standing a few feet away, red and black pajamas on, her makeup off and her hair soaked… but Chris Benoit knew what had delayed Amanda's shower.

It wasn't exactly the shower itself, it was that Amanda, despite not admitting to it, was hurting. A reddish purple bruise took up most of her right shoulder, the bruise the result of Amanda crashing into the barricade. Chris sat up and moved back on the bed a few inches.

"Come here, little one." Chris said in a gentle tone, Amanda walking over and sitting down after handing him the towel she had been holding. Chris reached over, lightly wringing the water out of Amanda's shoulder length hair and rubbing the towel against it… when the two first met, he had thought of her as a student. Now he considered her one of his family and wanted to help ease the pain she was feeling, making sure she didn't move that aggravated shoulder.

"First thing in the morning, we're going straight to the doctor." Chris said, Amanda looking over her left shoulder at him. "Don't fight me on this on, you can barely move your right arm." He responded, having gone through that kind of pain himself from the neck injury he suffered nearly six years earlier.

Amanda nodded as Chris kissed her on her forehead… six years, the two had known each other because John used to bring her to the events or bring her along with him during the summer… nearly three years since Chris started training her and Amanda caught attention quickly.

He wanted to be around to see her career flourish, see her live out all her dreams.

Neither one of them knew that moments like these were starting to become numbered…

Present time...

Downstairs in the lobby, Finn and Amanda met up with the others and Finn held Amanda's chair out for her and she sat down before he sat down next to her, the two kissing.

"Whoa, cameras around, you two!" Enzo said, covering Liv's eyes as she let out a slight laugh.

"Babe, come on, they're just being themselves." Liv responded, Enzo lowering his hand.

Amanda put her right hand to her mouth and muffled a lingering cough, Finn lightly rubbing his right hand up and down her back… and then leaned in and decided to be silly by lightly blowing the wispy bangs of hair out of Amanda's face.

Amanda laughed and smiled, which made Finn smile as he put his right arm around her and held her to him.

She lightly tugged on the collar of her leather jacket with Demon Queen printed on the back of it in white when again, a sharp and cold wind blew past her and Finn putting his hand to her forehead.

"Is she still feeling sick?" Enzo asked.

"I'm not sure, she just keeps feeling these little bits of cold air fly past her and then shivers for a few seconds." Finn answered.

"I'm alright." Amanda said… but Enzo's eyes were wide with terror.

"This hotel is haunted!" Enzo screamed, hiding under the table.

"Here we go again." Liv said.

"This is just like that time in Tijuana." Finn and Amanda said simultaneously before Amanda crouched down to where Enzo was after feeling his head hit her right leg.

"Don't make me go find Colin, you twit. This hotel is not haunted." Amanda said.

"Yeah, that's what you say, Tiny." Enzo responded.

Amanda shook her head and stood up… but seconds later, she screamed out in shock as she was yanked down by her right ankle, Liv pulling Enzo off of Amanda and Finn running over and helping Amanda up to her feet as Liv quickly apologized and then dragged Enzo away.

"You okay, love?" Finn asked as he helped Amanda sit down.

"Yeah… but I don't think Enzo's ever gonna let that incident go. We even reassured him then that the hotel wasn't haunted." Amanda answered, Finn checking her over when he saw her rubbing her recently healed shoulder.

But something was visible across the lobby… Amanda could see the faint outline of a girl that clearly wasn't alive and Finn saw the color drain from Amanda's face.

But the girl was gone within seconds.

"I never told you what I saw just after I was rendered unconscious at the Royal Rumble…" Amanda said quietly as Finn sat down next to her.

"I knew you saw something… when you came to, your mind was half elsewhere, that much I could tell." Finn replied.

"Jimmy Snuka had been there… I thought it was the aftermath of losing him like we did but… he had said that there's a lot lying ahead, some things we might not understand right away." Amanda said before Finn pulled her into his arms. "I'm sorry I didn't say anything… part of me thought I was losing my mind. I was a messed up kid nearly ten years ago, I really didn't feel like I had my life together." She said as he cradled her face in his hands before leaning in and kissing her, their foreheads pressed together.

"You're afraid to need someone… because you don't want your heart to break again. Mandy, I'll never hurt you, we love each other too much to hurt each other." Finn said as they held each other again.

At the arena later, Amanda, Sasha, Becky, Bayley, Alexa and Charlotte were testing the ring again to make sure it was sturdy by running through their match from the Royal Rumble.

"Seems okay… stable. I think Mandy's right, it had to have been sabotaged." Bayley said after Amanda had readjusted her curly hair into a messy ponytail.

"If it was Emma, why would she target all of us though?" Alexa asked.

"She's still claiming that she started the Women's Revolution in WWE when we damn well know it was started way before the six of us were born… she's pissed about the Emmalina gimmick being dropped and it was supposed to be similar to Sable's back in the mid 1990s…" Amanda said, lightly resting her left hand on the third corner turnbuckle.

But then she let out a sharp scream and yanked it away, the other sets of eyes widening in horror at seeing her bleeding palm. Bayley grabbed the nearby towel and tied it like a tourniquet around Amanda's hand as Becky went to go find Finn.

"I heard her scream, what happened?!" Finn asked as Becky stopped him.

"The top turnbuckle fell off and Mandy's hand got cut on the steel ring." Becky answered as the two ran towards the ring, both as well as Bayley helping Amanda out of it and Finn securing his right arm around her back while examining her injured hand while Charlotte, Alexa and Sasha went to find Hunter.

Amanda looked up again… this time, she saw the same girl but a lot more clearly.

She was cradling her own hand to her body as Amanda was taken to the back, her hand being checked over and stitched up.

"Sariel…" The girl heard, turning and seeing her brother.

"Micah… I tried to keep her from putting her hand there…" Sariel said quietly, Micah taking her into his arms.

Amanda could see them clear as day… and she hated the feeling she was getting.

That feeling to go wake up a long gone spirit for answers.