Meanwhile…
"You don't slow down, you'll really be sick." Zola says as Seth drank his tenth shot of whiskey.
"Ah, you can just zap it away, right?" Seth says, starting to lose his senses to the alcohol.
"I calm nerves and lightly rearrange cellular structures, I can't prevent vomit." Zola says.
"Or hangovers… damn, that was insane out there earlier, did you see how Mandy jumped off the barricade?" Seth says, hiccuping slightly.
"I did and look, now you've got trapped wind." Zola says, placing two fingers on his sternum and quickly swiping them upwards, Seth releasing a loud burp.
"Thanks for that one!" Seth says, managing to stand up but hanging onto the bar itself before Zola helped him to his room.
She tossed him onto his side, Seth rubbing his face.
"I… I love her too much… I nearly lost her once last year…" Seth says quietly.
"Was she sick?" Zola asks.
"We thought it was just a cold, that Mandy would be okay… but then I woke up in the middle of the night and she was… convulsing on the floor…" Seth says, Zola's eyes widening in shock.
"I'm not sure how I'd take that… I've never been faced with it." Zola says.
"Neither did I until that night… none of us saw it coming, Mandy's never had any life threatening problems…" Seth says as tears ran down his face, Zola brushing them away.
Seth kicked his shoes off and then his clothes, curling up in his bed and Zola staying near him.
When she woke up, he was swallowing aspirin for his hangover and saw her.
"I… I got too damn drunk, did I… say anything?" Seth manages to ask.
"You spoke about Amanda's seizure… how much you can't lose her." Zola says.
"I should've taken her to the hospital before it happened… there were two more in the ER…" Seth says, lying back down.
"She's stronger than you think… she's still living because you saved her life." Zola says.
"It's always gonna be in the back of my mind, that thought of it happening again." Seth says.
"That happens… it reminds me of my species' issues of the males and their tails. They lose them mid-teens and naturally, most of them get pretty paranoid about it." Zola says.
"Losing them… that sounds painful, do they fall off?!" Seth says, asking the last part.
"Sorta. You know when it's gonna happen as the base sort of shrinks, thins out so it eventually just breaks off. Most will tell that it doesn't hurt much, it's almost like losing a tooth as a kid." Zola says.
A while later, Amanda was slowly opening her eyes and a look across to the bedside table told her that it was 11:15 in the morning when she remembered that Finn had set the alarm for 9:30.
"You needed your sleep." Finn says, Amanda tilting her head up to face him… she had remembered that only one of his arms was around her last night but now he was holding her to his side in a slightly territorial manner.
Much like he had after the fistfight at the bar last Sunday.
"How tired was I?" Amanda asks before they heard a knock at the door, Finn reluctantly letting go of her and standing up before walking over. He opened the door and let Zola into the room.
"Sleepless nights?" Zola asks.
"Sometimes…" Amanda says, Zola closing the door and walking over.
"I got those sometimes… difference in air pressure was what made me sleepless." Zola says.
"It's… usually a lot of noise… all of us are on the road for most of the year, we're all gonna drive each other crazy at times. But something strange… " Amanda says, letting Finn help her sit up before she started to explain.
Last week…
The door swung open and she jumped back, Finn fully waking up when he saw that Amanda had her duffel bag with her.
"I'm sorry, I just… I tried several other rooms and got doors slammed in my face." Amanda says, Finn leading her into the room and seeing a thin trail of blood from her mouth.
"Which one hit you directly?" Finn asks as he pressed a napkin to her mouth, getting Amanda to set her bag down and sit down.
"Baron… the arguing kept him up." Amanda says before they saw a flash of green and blue lights outside. She stood up again, the two heading to the window. "Where the hell did it go? You saw it too, right?"
"Whatever it was, it… vanished." Finn says, helping Amanda sit back down before putting his hand on hers and hers to the napkin. "Hold that there, I'll be right back, love." He says, kissing Amanda on her forehead before grabbing his room key and ice bucket.
Finn left and found the ice machine, filling the bucket with ice… he wasn't really all that surprised to find a drunken Tyler Breeze near it but the man looked at him with barely hidden anger, which caught him off guard.
"Keep your little tramp from roaming the hall at night! Trouble keeping her in your bed and out of Seth's?!" Tyler sneered.
Finn said no words, balling up his right fist and punching Tyler right in the nose… Tyler fell to his knees, crying and screaming about how his face was fucked up now.
Summer Rae had ran into the hallway from her and Tyler's room and to her travelling companion, helping him up and glaring at Finn.
"He needs to keep his mouth shut about Mandy… bruised face and broken nose will be the least of his worries if he doesn't, Summer." Finn explained, taking the ice bucket with him before leaving.
He put the key in the door slot and opened the door, Amanda looking up at him… her lip had stopped bleeding but it was swollen badly.
"Tyler wouldn't keep his mouth shut… I hit him." Finn says after closing the door, knowing that look in Amanda's eyes. He set the bucket down, put some ice in a Ziploc bag and pressed it to her mouth.
The dark haired Irishman could've sworn that Amanda tried to form her mouth into a slight smile at the thought of the Johnny Nitro ripoff on the floor crying like a little bitch… but Amanda stopped as it had hurt and Finn lightly cupped her jaw under his left hand.
"Still in its joint so that's a good thing… might be starting to bruise though." Finn says, pulling Amanda up to her feet.
She knew where this was going and it was better to be safe than sorry...
Present time…
"You're a territorial one." Zola says.
"All of us are at times." Finn says.
"Yeah. Where were we? Right, before the fight." Zola says, turning to Amanda.
"That wasn't the only time we saw the lights…" Amanda says.
"Green lights… my people tend to have lights and energies more in the blue through red to yellow area, green isn't a very common thing with us." Zola says.
"Was it… someone else, someone you know?" Finn asks.
"There's a lot of species out there… but green and blue sounds either Zorolian or Metropic, both from beyond this galaxy." Zola says.
Amanda reached for her phone, about to look up both species when she saw a text from what Zola could see was from someone listed under the contacts as Grouchy Lone Wolf.
'Get your tiny ass down here and out of Balor's bed!'
'And why the fuck would I, Baron?!' Amanda replies… she had been thinking of any kind of usual response but wasn't thinking he'd reply with 'Blue and green lights outside last night.'.
"Lobby?" Zola asks.
"Second floor, room 208, I doubt he's left his room." Amanda says.
Zola left and eventually reached Baron's room, knocking on the door… it swung open and she yelped when he dragged her in before slamming it, mistaking her for Amanda in the darkened room.
"You're not Mandy…" Baron says after flipping the light on, Zola surprised by his 6'8" frame.
"You're quite a tallie… no, I'm Zola, the girl from another world with a tail, six fingers and arguably six eyebrows or two split eyebrows, take your pick." Zola says.
"I haven't heard from her since last week… I slammed the door too hard when she showed up at 2:40 in the morning, looking for a place to crash." Baron says.
"Yeah, she had blood all down her chin!" Zola says as she started looking around the room for anything the lights may have left.
"She's such a tiny thing but strong… I get a bit carried away at times and forget how tiny she is." Baron admits.
Zola couldn't find anything out of the ordinary… but it still had her thinking that if it was a Zorolian, it was Zosha trying to reach out to someone.