Their senses were sharp as they walked into the commandeered meeting room of the hotel that morning, the NXT, SmackDown and Raw rosters looking at them as Amanda readjusted her Balor Club wristband on her right wrist and brushed a stray hair off her leggings and black coat… Finn had trouble taking his eyes off her.
She was dressed casually and her makeup was natural looking but she still looked gorgeous to him.
"What the hell is going on here, an intervention?" Amanda asked, Tyler Breeze being the one to answer that but with a question.
"Where you hiding her?" Tyler replied.
"Who, Summer? I'm sure your road buddy is hiding with someone else." Amanda responded sarcastically.
"And I've been around Mandy pretty much the whole time since I arrived, never heard of any 'Summer' other than the seasons." Zola added from the doorway, Summer looking up from where she was stood with Charlotte.
Stood behind them was Baron, who walked over and tried to touch Amanda but one look from Finn had Baron keeping his distance.
"To make a long explanation short, yes, I am an alien." Zola said.
"I couldn't tell at first, you… look like you're one of us." Sami replied.
"Split eyebrows, six digits on the hands and a tail… But inside, our organs and skeletons are actually very much the same." Zola said, showing each of her hands, tail and motioning to her eyebrows as she mentioned them.
"But why… are you on Earth?" Bayley questioned.
"By mistake, I crashed into one of your orbiting probes. Actually, there's a warning around this planet… Intelligent but aggressive species." Zola explained.
"Us, aggressive?! He hit me last week!" Tyler snapped, pointing to Finn.
"Your drunk ass wouldn't shut up, mouthing off about her!" Finn said angrily, his arms coiled around Amanda's shoulders but not too tightly… but he did tighten the embrace when Tyler stood up suddenly, Finn putting Amanda behind him and Tyler smirking.
"See? With the former members of The Shield fighting constantly and her own brother caring more about his own career-" Tyler says, caught off guard by Amanda slapping him.
"Drag my brother into this, you're gonna need years of reconstructive surgery after I bruise and cut that face of yours!" Amanda growled, Finn trying to calm her down.
Zola looked at some of the others, sensing that some of the upstarts were startled by Amanda slapping Tyler while the veterans were used to it, knowing she had picked it up from them.
"That'll be why there's a warning around the place." Zola muttered.
"Tiny's been in the business for years. First as a fan, then as a wrestler… started training to wrestle at 14." Enzo says.
"Sports based around causing harm… eh, we've got a few of those ourselves." Zola said.
"Sometimes it just goes too far… the head injuries leave lifelong aftereffects." Corey says, seeing Amanda trying to hide the look in her eyes.
Her left hand clenched into a fist but not out of anger… Zola reached over, opened Amanda's hand and saw the scar on her palm.
"That's a time in my life I wish I could forget… but no one can…" Amanda says, starting to explain when she, Finn and Zola were out in the hall…
Four months ago…
"You fucking twisted son of a bitch, how dare you bring it up on live Tv and barely weeks after two more losses?! Are you that much of a heartless ass?!" Amanda yelled, Kevin holding his bleeding nose after the tiny diva had hit him with a kendo stick.
"How did you even understand it? It was in French!" Kevin shouted.
"I've spent the majority of my life around here, learnt it from Chris when I was 11 years old! And trust me, Hunter knows it too and he's gonna be in an absolute uproar!" Amanda said, Finn's hands tightly gripping her arms before all three saw a flash of green light. "Enzo, stop screwing around!"
"Zo, what did you do to piss kiddo off?" Colin asked after walking to Enzo, who was confused.
"Nothin, I swear. She was tearing into Owens about what happened out there and then this green light just flashed over us." Enzo says, him and Colin walking over to Finn and Amanda after Kevin had left.
Tears were trailing down Amanda's face as she tried to hide, Finn resting his hands on both sides of her face.
"I'm still that messed up kid, I don't know why you stick by my side… what do you see in me that I don't?" Amanda says after the kendo stick fell.
"Someone so good of a person inside that she doesn't know it on the outside." Finn says, his thumbs lightly rubbing the cheeks they were on.
The two of them hugged, Enzo and Colin each resting a hand on Amanda's back…
Present time…
"I was only 17 when it happened… I still don't know how to wrap my mind around why or if there's even a reason why…" Amanda says as Zola rubbed her shoulder, Amanda's right hand held in Finn's left one.
"What you two have… you probably hear it from a lot of people but hear it from an alien. Don't let anything get between it." Zola says.
Before they could question her on why she had said that, she found Sami and went to talk to him as Amanda leaned closer to Finn and his left arm wrapped around her shoulders.
'She's right… I lost one friendship that could've been something more because it was torn apart, I'm not letting that happen again.' Amanda thought, her left hand lightly squeezing Finn's as he rested it below her collarbone.
It was when they were out later in the snowy streets trying to clear their minds that they stopped for a bit.
But it was as Amanda was about to ask Finn that she heard the screech of tires and immediately acted, throwing him and herself out of the way.
She hadn't been completely unharmed however... the car clipped her left ankle before it crashed into the streetlight as Finn helped Amanda up, picking her up into his arms.
"Damn drivers…" Finn muttered as he dialed 112 to report the accident, holding Amanda close to him.
To them, it seemed like they would never get a break from the craziness.