Dean refused to go to a hospital saying he felt fine. He said he was clocked in the head and that was it. Joey was at least able to convince him to let one of the trainers check him out. The trainer said there was no concussion and he should be fine. Joey thought that was possibly the only clean bill of health Dean had ever received after an attack. Dean left NXT with Enzo and his girlfriend Liv Morgan. Joey couldn't help but worry about Dean but at least Dean was leaving with someone. He didn't know how to convince Dean to stay at his apartment without saying something he shouldn't.

Joey picked up his phone and called Roman Reigns. He needed to give Roman a piece of mind about both what he said to Dean and about Wyatt's attack. The phone rang three times before Roman's daughter Joelle answered.

"Hello?" She asked.

"Hi Joelle. It's Joey Mercury. Is your dad there?"

"Hi Joey! Yeah one second."

A few moments later Roman's voice answered. "Hi Joey," he said sounding nervous not that Joey blamed him.

"How could you tell Dean that?"

"It's the truth."

"It's not and even he didn't believe you."

"Look it's for the best," Roman said with a sigh. "If we became friends again, Hunter could start this all over again. Dean can't handle it."

"Roman he was here."

"I know Dean was there." Roman said. Next his voice was muffled by a hand over the receiver as he yelled, "Joelle! Get ready! Grandpa will be here in 10 minutes to pick you up!" His voice came through clear again when he said, "sorry about that. I know Dean was there," he repeated. "I came to see him remember? You just said you couldn't believe I told Dean what I did."

"I don't mean Dean, Roman. The Wyatt family were here and attacked Dean. There was a note with my cellphone that read Tell Dean to Run."

"What?!" Roman yelled. "He said he'd back off."

"Didn't you call him out when you came back?" Joey reminded him. "You know he was never interested in making Dean a member of the family. He's trying to get at you." Or probably more at Seth, Joey thought to himself. He wasn't sure why Bray wanted Roman but he knew the cult leader had a fascination with Seth. Dean was always a pawn.

"Yeah," Roman admitted. There was a pause and then Joey could hear Roman say, "Joelle get your stuff." His voice came back on the line. "Sorry my dad's picking up Joelle. I gotta head back on the road tomorrow."

"You called Bray out two weeks ago," he said again trying to steer the conversation back to that.

"I know," Roman said with a sigh. "I just got back from surgery. You realize Harper was the one who injured my knee right? Shane claims he doesn't know what the Wyatts did but I gotta wonder."

"Hey Shane's a good guy," Joey defended. He had known Shane a lot longer than Roman did. "I doubt Hunter told Shane what was going on."

"Yeah I guess." Roman said.

There was silence.

"Roman?" Joey asked.

He looked at his phone.

The call had ended.

DDD

Seth was staring at his phone not believing what he was seeing. He had left his phone at home when he had gone to work out at the gym. He didn't want people bothering him while he was working out . When he got home, he turned on his cellphone and found a text from Joey Mercury. Or at least he thought it was from Joey. It was from Joey's phone, but it seemed way too cryptic and not at all like Joey. The message read:

You better tell your boys to run.

He quickly dialed Joey's phone number.

"Roman?" Joey asked.

"No, it's Seth. Why did you send me a text message saying 'You better tell your boys to run?'"

"Damn it," Joey swore. "I gotta get to Roman's. Seth, I never sent that message. My phone was taken by some guy who is obviously a part of the Wyatt family. He texted Dean asking him to come back to NXT, and then attacked him. Call Dean and tell him to meet me at Roman's. I don't know what I'm going to say to him, but we've got problems."

"I'll be there as soon as I can," Seth said and hung up.

Seth dialed Dean's number.

"Hello?" a voice that was decidedly not Dean's answered. It was a guy with a gruff New Jersey accent.

"Put Dean on." He didn't care who this guy was. though he wondered why he had Dean's phone.

"Dean doesn't want to talk to you at the moment."

"I don't care. I don't even know who you are, but I sure don't want to talk to you. Put Ambrose on now."

There was a pause.

He could hear Dean's voice say, "hang up the phone Enzo."

The call ended.

Seth stared at it. What just happened here? He was pretty sure he and Dean were at least somewhat okay when they both left Wisconsin. He decided to text Dean instead.

Look I'm not sure why you're mad at me, but meet Joey at Roman's. Roman wants to talk to you.

It was a lie, but at the moment he didn't care.

DDD

Notes: Things just fell apart with the stealing of a cellphone. Funny how that kind of thing happens. All I will say at this moment is: Dean's still cranky about his disastrous meeting with both Roman and Seth. He doesn't know why they hate him or why he has a stalker, he has a headache, and doesn't want to talk to Seth or Roman. Questions for next chapter: Will he heed Seth's message? Will Zo give him the message? Is Roman okay? Lots of questions as this this fic just got life in it.