"Where's Dean?" Finn asks as Amanda walked back to them.
"I… whacked him with a hardcover book and tied him up, he was on his way to kill you." Amanda says as the figure, who had told the others that her name was Talora, saw the bites on Amanda.
"He's got that brotherly instinct to protect you… happens a lot." Talora says.
At the same time, Roman walked into Dean's locker room… and immediately laughed after closing the door.
"Damn, man, I thought you and Renee weren't trying it tied up yet." Roman says, untying Dean as Dean responded angrily and Roman's ears perked up. "Mandy?! Why did she tie you up?!" He asks, ripping the tape off of Dean's mouth and helping him up.
"Because I was gonna go kill Balor for biting her!" Dean says angrily, Roman looking at him in disbelief before laughing.
"He bit her? Yeah, right, good joke Dean. Mandy wouldn't let anyone bite her." Roman says.
"She would if they were 'playing rough', it seems!" Dean says.
"Dean, calm the hell down. Look, I'll go find them and have them explain what happened, alright?" Roman says.
"You don't have to go looking." Both heard, looked and saw Amanda and Finn… and sure enough, Amanda's hoodie was unzipped and Roman saw the teeth marks.
"See? Told you. Seth saw it himself." Dean says.
"And then went crazy and things spiraled!" Amanda says, pulling the hoodie off and both seeing her bruised back.
Curious, Talora snuck off and went looking until she found Seth, who was talking to Chris Jericho.
"I don't see what all the fuss is about, we've all gotten a bit too drunk and gone crazy." Chris says.
"Oh really? Why are you so relaxed about this, you said she's like a niece to you!" Seth says.
"Mandy's also an adult with the freedom to get as crazy as she wants to." Chris says before both saw Talora walk over to them.
"He's right. She needs her freedom." Talora says.
"And who the hell are you to make that decision? You don't even know her!" Seth says angrily.
"Who says I have to? Freedom is what every person deserves, you don't have to know someone to know that!" Talora says.
Seth was about to leave when he turned and saw Amanda, her hoodie zipped and arms crossed and Seth knowing that look on her face.
"I didn't go shooting my mouth off when you were cheating on Leighla and this is how you repay me, by telling Dean what happened at the bar?!" Amanda asks angrily, Seth trying to calm her… but the second he touched her back, she shoved his hand away. "Not until the bruises disappear. We have to work together tonight… and don't try anything stupid in that ring." She says, Seth seeing it although the worry was carefully hidden.
Amanda headed off back to Finn and Seth turned to Talora
"Trust me, I know about problems like that." Talora says.
"She worries that I'll end up getting hurt badly in that ring." Seth says.
It was later before the match between Seth and Kane was minutes away that Dean approached Amanda… and saw her holding a kendo stick.
"Relax, it's to keep both of them in line." Amanda says, Dean seeing that the stick was painted white, black and red… but it wasn't the colors so much as how the paint resembled the one Finn had worn at The Beast In The East pay per view in July that had Dean wondering. "And… sorry about clobbering you and tying you up earlier… why are you staring at the kendo stick, Dean?" She says, Dean snapping out of it.
"Kind of lost in my thoughts there." Dean says, his hand resting on Amanda's back but she hissed slightly and he lowered it to his side.
"Sorry… still sore." Amanda says, Dean pulling up her hoodie and amongst the bruising, he saw the scar where her left kidney is. "I haven't had any more problems with it, Dean… but it still worries you, doesn't it?" She says.
"It's always gonna worry me, kiddo." Dean says.
When the others watched the match from the backstage area, Talora saw the worried look in Amanda's eyes from the Tv as she tried to stay in character… and was startled at the size difference between Kane and Amanda as they shouted at each other, Kane being 7ft tall.
And then the table was set up and Seth was setting up for the sunset flip powerbomb… midway through was when they heard the tearing sounds of his ACL, MCL and Meniscus in his right knee and Talora saw the frightened look on Amanda's face as she dropped the stick and ran in there to help him.
"Fuck… that was horrible to watch." Dean says.
"Is he gonna be okay?!" Talora asks.
"We've seen that kind of injury end careers…" Roman says.
"Forget careers… where I come from, I've seen injuries like that end whole lives." Talora says.
Leaning him against her, Amanda helped Seth out of the ring and slowly to the backstage area… when he looked at her, he saw tears streaming down her face and pulled her in for a hug.
"I told you to not try anything stupid, you scared the hell outta me! For fuck's sake, you could've broken your leg out there!" Amanda says through her tears as Seth tried to calm her down. "Please don't ever try that again… promise me." She says quietly as the others and paramedics ran to them.
"I'll be okay… it's gonna be okay." Seth says, Amanda helping him sit down.
The ride to Saint James Hospital was nearly as torturous as the wait in the E.R… and when they were waiting was when Kane, still in his ring gear, walked over to Amanda, who glared up at him… but as she attempted to punch him in his side was when Finn grabbed her right hand.
"Just go." Finn says, Kane leaving and Amanda closing her eyes for a few seconds as he pulled her into his arms, the two of them hugging.
"This is just hell!" Amanda says angrily, muffled by Finn's shoulder.
"Damn right it is… it'll get better, lass. Don't worry." Finn says.
"I hope so… the last time I saw something similar happen, Hunter was out for most of the year. I was scared he wouldn't come back." Amanda says as they looked at each other, Finn brushing her tears away. "The sick irony of it was that it was the second time he had torn his quad muscle… first time it happened, he had planted his left foot the wrong way." She says as she struggled to keep her tired eyes open, Finn rubbing his right hand up and down her back.
It wasn't too long before her eyes closed and her head settled onto Finn's right shoulder as a pillow, Finn picking her up into his arms before heading to the couch in the waiting room and sitting down, his arms around her and her body curled up towards him as Talora walked over to them.
"They confirmed what we knew… the muscles in his knee are torn badly." Finn says quietly, trying to not wake Amanda.
"Don't ask me to get in that ring. If things like that happen… I'd probably be shattered." Talora says.
"You sound like your… your people, are very delicate." Finn says.
"Like egg shells compared to you." Talora says.
Amanda curled up closer towards Finn, Talora seeing that her eyes were closed.
"She rarely gets this tired out." Finn says.
"Does she have trouble sleeping at times?" Talora asks.
"Not as bad as last year…" Finn says, the memory of Amanda's kidney injury still in his mind.