Notes: Sorry for the delay in updating this story.
Dean reluctantly followed Roman, Seth, Punk, and AJ Lee to the office. AJ Styles walked away not wanting to be involved with this. Shane left saying he wanted to give them some privacy.
"What is going on?" Dean asked as soon as the door was closed.
"It's February of 2016," Seth said. He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his cellphone. He held it up so that Dean could see the date.
"Why don't I remember the past year?" Dean asked. He was so confused. Last thing he remembered was staying at the Styles' home.
Roman cleared his throat before saying, "Wyatt removed 2014 from your memory. Apparently, he decided to give it back and remove everything after the memories were removed."
"Why?"
"It was an agreement between us, the Wyatts and Evolution," Seth said. "We had to disband and Bray would remove 2014 from your memory. Evolution isn't a group either. Triple H left the company and Batista went to Hollywood."
"Why did you agree to have my memories erased?" Dean demanded as his temper rose.
"You weren't dealing with 2014. We thought it would be best to make you forget it."
"I was dealing with it fine!" he said. "You guys were the ones who dragged me back to WWE. I didn't want to work there anymore."
"You weren't dealing with it," Seth said. "You won't even talk about it."
"I won't talk about it?" Dean said. "What about you Seth? Do you remember what you did in Philadelphia, because I sure do! They didn't take that away."
Roman looked from Dean to Seth in confusion. He couldn't help but think about the conversation he had had with Cesaro in the locker room after Seth and Punk had left.
"What is your interest in Dean?"
"At least I care about what happens to him. You guys dropped him as soon as his memories were removed."
"You are part of the reason they had to be removed!" Roman fired back glaring at the Swiss.
"I know what I have done Roman. I didn't do more than hold Dean down, or in one case broke his arm. I've been trying to make up for what I didn't do. Seth probably doesn't even remember Philadelphia. I wonder just how long he's hated Dean."
Before he could even reply, he heard Here Comes the Money playing and left the locker room. He wanted to watch the back to make sure no one attacked Dean in the ring. He never saw Wyatt enter the building much less the ring as a security guard.
It suddenly dawned on Roman what both Dean and Cesaro were talking about.
Dean just walked out of the locker room.
Seth sat down hard on a bench. Roman left the locker room to make sure Dean was okay.
As he left, he heard a familiar entrance song start to be played in the arena. All thoughts of Dean left his mind as he rushed to the entrance to ringside and saw that Bray, Rowan, Harper, and a man he'd never seen before entered the ring. he wondered if it was the man who attacked Dean and Joey in Florida. he seemed to fit the description.
He didn't wait until Bray started to speak he charged to the ring. He knew he was outnumbered, but he didn't care. He stepped into the ring and Bray held up a hand to stop his followers from attacking Roman. Roman heard Bray say, "let him speak."
Roman picked up the microphone that JoJo handed him. "What are you doing here?" He demanded.
Bray chose not to speak into a microphone so no one in the arena except the men in the ring could hear him. "You challenged me a couple of weeks ago. I am here. I even brought the old Dean back. You broke our little agreement first so I decided I shouldn't have to uphold my side." He raised the microphone up and looked into the camera before saying,
"Come home Seth. You're always welcome."
The lights went out.
When they came back on, Roman was left alone in the ring.
DDD
Notes: Sorry for the short chapter. This will get someone's attention. Three groups are going to hash things out once and for all.
