The atmosphere was tense as the five, now ready for the day, were at Full Sail University for the NXT tapings and Aestrid found Hunter.

"I'm not gonna fire them if that's what they're worried about." Hunter said.

"You did a lot of crazy things in your younger years, didn't you?" Aestrid asked.

"Much worse… I started here in the Attitude Era, no one batted an eye at anything we did then." Hunter answered.

"You were young… and so is she, relatively." Aestrid said.

"Yeah… though she's still kiddo in my eyes." Hunter says, Aestrid seeing a picture of a much younger Amanda hanging onto Hunter's back and laughing. "I feel old when I look at that picture." He admits.

"I feel old looking at my real-time ref...lection…" Aestrid said, trailing off and stopping herself as she realised midway through that she hadn't wanted to say that.

"That'll take some time to get used to, are you alright?" Hunter asks, Aestrid nodding.

"Let's go find them." Aestrid said before they left the office, reaching the locker room and Hunter knocking on the door… when it opened, he saw that Amanda had the hood of her Balor Club hoodie over her head and turned confused.

Amanda lowered the hood and pulled the bandage back, revealing the scabbed over bite and Hunter turning startled.

"Are you gonna kill him?" Amanda asked as Finn stood up from the couch.

"No… no, of course not…" Hunter said after shaking off the shock, him and Aestrid leaving. "She really thought I was gonna murder him?" He asked quietly.

"Yep." Aestrid answered.

The door finally closed, Amanda turned back to Finn.

"I really thought you were gonna be killed…" Amanda whispered as they sat down.

"Not a chance in hell… something didn't seem right there though. Ace was there and she sorta just…" Finn said, trying to think of how to word it.

"Distant?" Amanda asked.

"Yeah… like she's seen it before, so many times, enough that it didn't phase her at all." Finn said.

"We've only known her for a little over a year and she hasn't talked much about her life… sometimes I think it's too much for her to talk about." Amanda said as she lightly rubbed the back of her head.

"Yeah, like… a week or so ago, I saw her watching a film that was on TV, not sure what film but someone was dying in someone's arms… and she seemed so lost in it, like anything around her was just gone from her mind… and she was absolutely pouring out her heart." Finn said.

"Those kind of things affect us… more than we want to-" Amanda says, cut off by a loud knock at the door that made her sore head ache worse. "No more tequila…" She mutters as he held her in his arms.

"Open this damn door, you gave Murphy a concussion!" Blake yelled.

"Asshole had it coming, now shove off!" Amanda snapped at the man on the other side of the door, Finn standing up and opening it.

"Things got out of control and you know why? Because your friend bashed a whiskey bottle over my head!" Finn said, Blake glaring at the NXT Champion and then at the diva a few feet away.

"We were unwinding, enjoying a night out and then both Alexa and Murphy showed up. And if she forgot to tell you, she swung at me first." Amanda responded after standing up.

"Do you mind me asking what's going on over here?" Blake heard, turned his head and saw Aestrid.

"Have you seen the damn video of them?!" Blake asked.

"Yeah, I have, and I've also taken the time to listen to them about what happened. If you're not gonna do that, on your bike, buster." Aestrid answered, leant against the wall with her arms crossed.

Blake left, Aestrid seeing Amanda setting out some quarters for the vending machine and knowing that she was gonna stock up on coffee.

"That head pounding again?" Aestrid asked.

"I thought sprinting down the blocks and streets last night would've vented the alcohol out…" Amanda answered.

"Not always." Aestrid said with a little chuckle, sitting down in a chair in the corner of the room, near the windows.

Amanda headed off, reaching the machine… and leaning against it for a few seconds, Bayley turning the corner and walking over, resting a hand on Amanda's back.

"You look terrible…" Bayley said.

"Finn and I got piss drunk last night." Amanda admits, Bayley knowing that the Dusty Rhodes classic tag team tournament had taken an emotional toll on Amanda. "None of us ever saw it coming, losing both Dusty and Roddy within weeks of each other… Aestrid once found me curled up in a ball in the ring at the Performance Centre, crying my eyes out."

"I remember that day but it wasn't her who found you first…" Bayley said.

7/31/15…

"Bayley?"

The brunette turned, seeing Aestrid.

"Why is Mandy curled up in the ring sobbing?" Aestrid asked, seeing Finn holding Amanda in his arms as she cried into his shoulder.

"You never want to get that call… she thought of Roddy Piper as an uncle…" Bayley answered quietly, her own eyed reddened.

"Oh no…" Aestrid said, covering her face… and Bayley heard the quietest whisper from her. "Not again…"

Aestrid walked over but while Amanda had cried herself out, she was still shaking.

"He should still be here… both of them had been sick but Roddy was in remission for nine years…" Amanda said quietly.

"Was it a relapse?" Aestrid asked, Amanda letting Finn help her sit up.

"The vessels in his heart were weak from the chemo… they say that that happens even years after. I just never thought it'd be him, he was always so full of life…" Amanda said, letting Finn brush her tears away and Aestrid resting a hand on Amanda's left shoulder.

"It always seems like that… sometimes them getting better turns out to be the last of their energy venting before the end." Aestrid said quietly.

"Yeah… Kitty had told me that Roddy had passed in his sleep, he didn't suffer." Amanda says as she was helped up and out of the ring…

Present time…

"That call just rips someone's heart out… everything around you just stops." Amanda says in a quiet tone, feeling a hand on her shoulder… but it wasn't Bayley and Amanda turned, seeing Finn and Aestrid.

"I know… I've felt it more times than you'd think." Aestrid said.

"We all have…" Finn says after pulling Amanda into his arms.

"Maybe drinking myself senseless wasn't such a good idea last night." Amanda said.

"Hey, we've all had those kind of nights… but they don't normally end with two people mostly naked in a bar." Bayley says.

"Bayley!" Amanda said, her face red from embarrassment as Bayley laughed quietly.

"Is that video still online?" Finn asked.

"Not on the WWE media pages themselves anymore. But still elsewhere, through re-uploads… they can't be taken down." Bayley answered.

"We're never gonna live this one down." Amanda said after she and Finn look at each other.