Ice held to his jaw, Seth looked up and saw Ariel.

"Forgot how angry people can get." Ariel said.

"She was just supposed to slap me, not fuck up my jaw!" Seth responded.

"Well maybe if you didn't take enjoyment from insulting her, even if scripted, she probably would've just slapped you! You say that you miss her and then you go and pull that, of course she'd take exception to it!" Ariel said.

"What I said was part of the script, couldn't change it at the last minute!" Seth said defensively.

"Yeah but the thing is, you said every word not just from the script but from your own mind, you enjoyed those words and I felt it!" Ariel said angrily until drafts of wind started and she breathed a few times in and out to calm down.

Seth backed up and Ariel left, looking around… it didn't take too long to find them either.

"Why is it that whenever there's tension backstage, the writers use it for the scripts?" Amanda muttered as she tried to move her toes on her right foot but didn't have much luck.

"They want to create the gossip and drama… that equates to more of those dollars people all seem so obsessed with." Ariel replied.

"I think the writers sometimes take things too personally…" Amanda said, hissing slightly as Finn had set an ice pack onto her foot and the freezing feeling was a brief shock to her skin. She turned to her phone when it rang, seeing it was Aestrid and answering it. "You were watching that, weren't you?" She asked.

"As well as the NXT roster here at the Performance Centre… and from the background noise, they've gone a bit crazy." Aestrid answered.

"A bit? Ace, it sounds like a full blown screaming match." Finn said once the phone was on speaker.

"And there's usually that, everybody going crazy wondering what's true and what isn't." Amanda said once Ariel sat down.

"That's part of what made humans and… why I have so much less to do with you in my powers." Ariel said.

"Every one of you, chill the hell out!" Aestrid yelled at the members of the NXT roster, half of them going quiet and the other half muttering. "Don't think I don't hear that, Little Miss Bliss! Your mouth should be washed out with soap!" She said when she heard Alexa's insults towards Amanda before both hung up.

Amanda snickered at that last part as memories of Paul Heyman being held down by Chris Benoit and Amanda's brother John shoving soap into Paul's mouth resurfaced, Ariel knowing that Amanda remembered the good times.

"Those days were the ones you always think of when it gets tough… I like to remember back to the days of creation at times. Though I wasn't there… but when one angel of power passes their position to someone else, the new angel gets… sort of a copy of their predecessor during their time in the position." Ariel said.

"I miss those days… back then, I didn't think things would turn out how they did. By the time I was 17… I didn't even recognise myself in the mirror anymore." Amanda responded.

"Think of what I get, remembering over the past and seeing about 20 or so different faces in the mirror." Ariel said.

"It took… what felt like forever to feel normal again." Amanda said, the knock on the door the one she had been dreading.

"Mandy?" Hunter asked.

Amanda stood up with Finn helping her and headed to the door, opening it and heading into the hallway.

"He already spoke to you, didn't he?" Amanda asked, Hunter seeing that she wasn't putting much weight on her right foot.

"I don't like what he said out there any more than you do… but you could've easily broken his jaw. And your foot, it seems like." Hunter answered.

"It's just bruised…" Amanda said after Hunter got her to sit down on a crate… and saw the tears threatening to spill over from her eyes. "He said he missed it… but it doesn't feel like Seth misses that at all, I feel like he hates me…" She whispered as Hunter pulled her into his arms and rubbed his right hand up and down her back.

The door opened and Hunter looked up, seeing Finn and Ariel.

"Stay here with her, please?" Hunter said quietly after he and Amanda let go and she was in Finn's arms before he left, Ariel following him.

"You're far from happy about what's happening." Ariel said as they stopped by a window where Hunter took a moment to breathe in some fresh air from outside.

"I watched that kid grow up… helped her pick herself back up even when she tried to tell me she was okay. She finds some stability and Seth is deadset in destroying it." Hunter responded, hitting his fist against the window pane and Ariel getting him to step back from it.

"Believe it or not, that tree is dead that made up the window frame, you won't hurt it. Just your own hand." Ariel said, Hunter knowing that in other words she was saying that hitting the window and taking out his anger wasn't going to do any good.

Hunter took another deep breath and headed to the locker room… only to jump back when the door flew open and Seth hit the floor, Hunter seeing John.

"What my little sister does in her private life is none of your business, you had no right running your mouth about it on Tv!" John said angrily as Seth pulled himself up, Seth angrier than he was earlier and Hunter and Ariel forced to intervene.

"All that online craze has gotten to your head, get it in there that it was scripted!" Seth shouted, moments before Ariel formed a pile of salt in her hand and threw it at his face.

"Enough, both of you!" Hunter said before smiling at Ariel. "Nice one, kiddo, brought back old memories of Mr. Fuji doing that." He whispered, Ariel smiling.

"Things were different in those days." Ariel said, Hunter turning to Seth.

"Scripted or not, you got Mandy thinking that you hate her! She was crying!" Hunter said after rinsing Seth's eyes out with water, Seth drying his face off.

"Is that why I just got salt thrown in my eyes?!" Seth asked.

"That and acting like you didn't just rip Mandy's heart out and break it!" John answered angrily.

At the same time, Amanda wrapped a towel around her after drying off and stepping out of the shower before she washed her makeup off and put some Clear Eyes eye drops in.

Amanda reapplied her makeup the same way she had applied it this morning and put it away before pulling her hair out of its messy bun. When she was ready for the remainder of the show, she set the towel aside and walked into the locker room, her and Finn hugging and his hand rubbing up and down her back as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"You don't need to build the wall back up around me… I'll never hurt you, Mandy." Finn whispered as he kissed her on her forehead, his hands now cradling her face as her hands rested on his sides.

It wasn't long before they held each other again… they just wanted to stay like that.