December 27th 2004, Cena household…
The noise downstairs was getting too loud for her to ignore, Amanda pulling herself up and swinging her legs over the left side of her grey and green queen sized bed.
Yawning slightly and rubbing her tired hazel eyes, she stood up and stretched her arms before slipping her tiny feet into her grey fuzzy slippers and heading downstairs.
"I'm telling you, something strange is outside!" Dan yelled.
"Shh, you'll wake them up!" Sean whispered… but both brothers heard footsteps at the staircase.
"You already did… well, one of us."
The two turned, seeing their 14 year old sister in her pajamas with her hair in a bedhead texture.
"Why do you have Dad's shotgun, Dan?" Amanda asked with a sleepy yawn.
"There's something strange outside, kiddo." Dan says, Amanda looking to the windows… but all she saw was the winter frost on them.
When she walked over with a towel and wiped the window clean, she saw a strange light… but it disappeared as her brothers reached the window.
"Alright, back upstairs." Sean says, taking Amanda back to her room and helping her lie down after she took her slippers off.
Amanda's eyes closed after her head hit the pillow, Sean kissing her on her forehead after pulling the covers over her.
"Sweet dreams, kiddo." Sean whispered, heading downstairs after pulling Amanda's bedroom door to a close.
"I wonder what she saw out there, Sean…" Dan says.
"If she saw anything, it was most likely the neighbor's watch lights. Now let's just crash." Sean says, heading back up to his old room.
Dan put the gun's safety back on and put it away in the safe, locking it… but he knew that his teenage sister saw something…
Present time...
The lights flickered on, Amanda yanking the blanket over her head as she was unaware how much time had gone by as Finn lightly rubbed his hand up and down her back.
"And that's how you fix a generator, people!" Seth says loudly from the hallway, Roman taking the small sleeping traveller in his arms and into the hallway after glancing at Finn and Amanda.
"By hotwiring it like a car battery, Rollins?!" Enzo yells, shaking his head.
"It worked, didn't it?!" Seth retorted.
"Can you two shut the hell up?!" Roman growled, both seeing the small traveller curled up in his arms.
"Who is she?" Seth asks.
"I don't know but she's more cuddly than a newborn kitten to its mom." Roman says.
"And so little…" Seth says, reaching out and brushing the traveller's hair back as her eyes opened.
"Is she still asleep?" The girl asks.
"Yeah… you feeling alright? What's your name?" Roman asks.
"Zosha… Van Glorous… I won't go into all that… very long name." The girl says, lightly rubbing her left eye.
Seth knocked on the door, the door opening and him seeing Amanda… but she wasn't alone.
"At some point, I've got to get up and stretch my legs…" Amanda says as her right hand was entwined with Finn's left one.
Seth looked back to Zosha, who could sense it.
"Don't start, she still has a dull ache from what happened." Zosha says.
Seth turned back to Amanda, crouching down and lightly rubbing her head.
"You hotwired the generator… is it destroyed or fixable?" Amanda says in an attempt at trying to joke.
"Rest up, Mandy." Seth says, kissing her on her forehead before heading into the hallway.
"I thought you would've started yelling." Zosha says, Seth closing the door.
"Mostly out of shock… wait, how did you know?" Seth says.
"Like the hot coffee you want to drink as soon as this storm rides over or that itch in your ankle that's gonna make you collapse if you don't scratch it in a minute? I'll explain later." Zosha says.
Seth nodded and headed to the other locker room, finding Bayley.
"Hey. Sorry about yelling at you earlier." Bayley says.
"No harm done." Seth says, Bayley a bit concerned.
"Seth, you seem off. Everything okay?" Bayley says.
"Follow me." Seth says before he lightly dragged Bayley with him, the two reaching Zosha.
"Oh… hello." Bayley says, Zosha seeing Bayley's dark hair in a high ponytail and the bright headband.
"Well, he fixed the generator but I doubt he knows how to fix that strange vehicle outside." Enzo says after he and Colin walked over to them, Seth turning confused again.
"What vehicle?" Seth asks, Zosha poking her head up.
"It's a long story." Zosha says, climbing out of Roman's arms and opening the door. She walked in, resting her hand on Amanda's head. "Once again, I'm truly sorry." She says after looking at Finn.
"How exactly did you cause the headache?" Finn asks.
"Telepathy… I called for help." Zosha says.
Amanda's eyes opened and she carefully sat up, Zosha seeing her tired eyes but could see that she wasn't hurting anymore.
"Are you okay?" Amanda asks.
"I'll live… how you feeling?" Zosha says.
"I feel like getting out of the arena. Is the storm letting up?" Amanda says, pulling her messy curls into a ponytail.
"Should be…" Zosha says before Sami walked in, shivering and covered in snow.
"Sami, how long were you out there?!" Amanda asks, taking the blanket off of her and wrapping it around Sami as he noticed the no longer lit candles.
"Five minutes, if even that. I grew up in this country and every year, it gets colder." Sami says, seeing the condom wrapper on the nightstand before Finn crumpled it up and threw it away.
At the hotel after the storm had calmed down long enough, Amanda scrubbed her makeup off and changed into her pajamas before climbing into the bed, Finn pulling the covers over her and himself before they kissed… but he could tell she couldn't settle into sleep.
"It's okay… we're safe here, you're safe, Mandy." Finn says, kissing Amanda on her forehead as she closed her eyes.
But she couldn't help but think that she had seen Zosha before.