Notes: Okay I do know it's a sheep mask but I kind of have fun with no one seeming to know what it is.
Seth dropped the mask onto the hospital floor. He looked at Roman eyes wide. "It isn't what it looks like," he stammered, "I found it on the floor next to Ambrose's bed."
"He was wearing it," Ambrose said. "He was trying to move me and I saw him wearing it."
The nurse was giving them all dubious looks not understand what was going on. "Look," she said, "all I know is Mr. Good started screaming. When I came in here he was holding the cow mask until he," she said pointing at Seth, "took it from him. Do I need to call in security or something?"
Roman was staring at Seth intently, shook his head. "I don't think that will be necessary." He couldn't even begin to understand what had happened.
He had forgotten his phone in Ambrose's room and had gone back to get it. When he got out of the elevator, he heard screaming and ran the rest of the way to the room. He had arrived in time to find a terrified looking Ambrose and Seth holding the llama mask he hadn't seen anyone running away as he came into the room and Dean had just confirmed his worst fears. "We'll be right back," Roman said to Ambrose as he dragged Seth out of the room. As soon as they were out of Ambrose's hearing range but still able to watch the room, he said, "what the Hell is going on?"
"Look it's not what you think," Seth said looking as nervous as he did earlier that day. "I don't know why Ambrose thinks I was wearing the mask."
Roman wanted to believe him. It made more sense than the idea that Seth had joined the Wyatts but something in Ambrose's eyes and what the nurse had said filled him with doubt.
"Why don't you go get some sleep," Seth suggested. "You look really tired."
"Maybe later," Roman said as he walked back to Dean's room. "I don't think I could go back to sleep after what just happened.
Seth stopped him before he entered the hospital room. "You do believe me right?"
Roman put on a forced smile and said, "yeah." He wasn't sure what to believe right now though.
This seemed to satisfy Seth. "I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back," he said before disappearing down the hall.
Roman watched him enter the bathroom before entering Dean's hospital room.
Dean was watching him. "I know you guys think I'm losing my mind but Roman I know what I saw."
"I know," Roman said, "but I really wish you were wrong."
"No one wishes that more than me."
Seth counted to 120 before he left the restroom to make sure Roman was no longer in the hallway. He took the elevator down to the lobby. He exited the elevator and went out the door. A van, that was idling, pulled up to him. He opened the sliding door and got in.
"Where's Ambrose," was the first question.
"He woke up and started screaming," Seth answered. "Roman and a nurse came in before I could do anything."
"That's okay," he said soothingly. "We will try again." The van moved away from the hospital.
"We will have our revenge," Bray said with a smile. He started humming He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Seth closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Roman stood outside of the hospital room and tried to call Seth's phone again but it went straight to voicemail. "Seth where are you," Roman muttered under his breath. It had been several hours since he had seen him and now he was worried. First Seth had worn the llama mask and now he had disappeared. He went back into the room and shook his head at Sami Zayn to indicate he wasn't able to reach Seth.
Ambrose was sound asleep. Roman sat down in a chair on the other side of the bed.
"If you want to get some sleep or do something else," Sami said, "I can watch over Dean."
"No I'm okay," he said. He had no clue where to look for Seth and he was too wired to sleep. "I might take you up on the other offer later."
"Good morning," a nurse said cheerfully as she entered the hospital room. She checked Ambrose's vitals and the cast on his ankle before making a note on his chart. "Everything looks good," she said to them. "He should be released from the hospital on schedule. Let us know when he wakes up," she said before leaving the room.
Roman's phone rang so he left the room. "Seth?" He asked.
"No this is Vince McMahon," the person answered. "I'm in Orlando and was wondering if you could stop by the Performance Center. I'm calling a meeting to find out what happened yesterday. I want you and Rollins there."
"I'm not sure if Dean should be left here alone. A lot of stuff has been happening," he didn't want to mention that Seth was nowhere to be found.
"Would you feel better if I send a couple of NXT wrestlers to stay with him? I promise they won't be Bo Dallas."
Roman still wasn't sure this was a good idea. "I don't know…"
Vince was silent for a moment possibly talking to someone else in the room. "We'll patch you in through with a conference call. I can understand your concern for your teammate. I will call you when we're ready." He said and hung up.
An orderly came into the room with the breakfast cart. Roman went back into the room. Dean was awake and eyeing the tray that was set down in front of him. Roman looked down at it also. It didn't look very edible to him either.
"We'll bring you something better later," Roman said his stomach starting to growl.
"Sounds like you need some food too," Sami said, "do you want me to get you something from the cafeteria?"
"That'd be great." Roman said.
Sami left the room.
Ambrose started eating the food. "I think this is worse than what I ate when I was in the independents," he said.
"Definitely worse than the stuff I ate in college," Roman agreed.
"Have you seen Seth," Ambrose asked as he pushed the food around on his tray.
"Not in a few hours," Roman said honestly, "and his phone's off."
"I just want to know why." Ambrose said. "I think he's the one who carried me up to my room in Boston. No one would think anything was wrong with that. And he could have written something on the mirror and cleaned it off." He put his head in his hands. "But why did he do it?"
Roman didn't say anything because he didn't have an answer. Why did Seth do this? He wondered.
His phone started to ring. He looked down at the caller ID and saw it was Vince. He put the call on speaker phone so Ambrose could listen also.
"Hello Vince," Roman said.
"Okay so let's get this meeting going," he said. "I want to know what happened yesterday."
Ambrose spoke before Roman could say anything. "JBL told me the day before that I'd be wrestling Bo Dallas in a spar to test my ankle. The trainer said everything looked fine and when I wrestled Bo everything seemed okay until I tried a suplex. Bo managed to get his foot tangled in mine and when I went for a suplex, my ankle broke."
"Thank you Dean," Vince said sounding slightly surprised that Dean was a part of the call. "Joey," he said, "what is your input on this?"
"I was asked by you to work with Dean to get him ready to return to the ring. I could tell he was still favoring his ankle so I was making sure to go easy on it. If I had been asked if Dean was ready for a match, I would have said no but no one asked me."
"JBL what was your reasoning behind putting Dean in a match right away against someone who held a grudge?"
Roman had to give it to Vince. Vince was being diplomatic about everything.
"I was told Dean was ready for this test on the ankle. Bo had told me he was trying to escape his brother's shadow and wanted to try wrestling Dean. I had no idea his ankle would break. I…"
Whatever he was going to Dean and Roman didn't hear as there was a loud noise and the lights went out.
