A few days later at Smackdown, Dean and Roman approached The Raven. She was in the cafeteria with Kane, they were having a snack before the show started. "H-uh Raven can we talk to you for a minute?", Dean asked timidly as he looked at Kane. Roman stood beside Dean, looking warily at The Raven.

It had been about 4 days since the incident at his house, since then Seth had been avoiding them until they apologized to The Raven. He had come back from her place upset with both of them for making her cry and making her change her mind about being his girlfriend. He had to convince her to stay with him. Seth refused to have anything to do with them until they made their peace with her. He did not travel with them, share the hotel or locker rooms nor train with them, he avoid them completely. They only saw him minutes before the show started (Monday Night Raw) in the lobby they were going to use to enter the arena, before they could say anything they had to make their entrance. Because they did not practice or discuss their entrance or performance before Raw, which was their usual routine when in a new venue, they looked sloppy and made mistakes. They could not let this go on and effect their performance, plus they missed him, they were use to it being the three of them. Not to mention it was Seth that kept the peace between Roman and Dean, he was the person that would usually settle their disputes. Without Seth, they were constantly bickering. They had to pull themselves together the Royal Rumble was a week away.

Kane looked at The Raven. "Do you want me to stay?", he asked. She stared at Dean and Roman, she could see they were uneasy and nervous as they stood before her. She was not sure what they wanted, but was certain they did not come here to fight or argue with her at work and in front of their co-workers. "No, its ok. I will catch up with you later.", she said. Kane gave them a warning look and then nodded his head and left. Dean and Roman sat in the chairs in front of her as she continued to eat. They said nothing but stared at her which was making it very awkward and uncomfortable.

Since they were not saying anything she spoke first. "What do you guys want? I think you made it very clear the other day how you feel about me, but it doesn't matter Seth and I are staying together, so deal it.", she said rebelliously, as she looked at them directly.

It was Roman that finally spoke up, "We actually came here to apologize to you about that." The Raven was surprised, they had her full attention now. "We didn't mean to hurt your feelings. We were just trying to protect Seth from getting hurt again." As Roman spoke Dean stayed quiet and starring down at his thumbs as he twirled them in his hands. With his elbow Roman nudged Dean hard in the arm. "Ouch." Dean said as he looked up at The Raven, rubbing his arm. He could see her smirking at him. He hated this and didn't want to be there but after hours of arguing with Roman, their poor performance on Raw and Royal Rumble around the corner it was decided they had to talk to The Raven and make things better.

"Look I didn't mean to call you a whore all right. Its just I don't want to see Seth get hurt again.", Dean said defensively.

"Well I don't want to get hurt either.", The Raven shot back.

"He won't hurt you.", Dean said reassuringly.

"How do you know that?"

It was Roman that spoke up this time. "Because he likes you a lot. Ever since we started with the WWE and he saw you, all he did was talk about how you two had first met and how he thought he would never see you again. He kept debating whether to ask you out or not and if you were with Kane or not. My god, we were ready to ask you out for him, so he would just shut up already.", Roman said with a great deal of annoyance. The Raven bit the inside of her mouth trying not to smile at what Roman had said, however she did start to blush a little.

"Yeah but when we started to hear what people were saying about you, we got worried."

The Raven was about to say something but Dean held up his hand "Let me finish. You didn't see how badly Elizabeth had hurt Seth. He loved her and they had been going out for more than 2 years. She started to see some guy behind his back and he found out by accident. He broke-up with her and for weeks he moped around my apartment not wanting to do anything, he didn't even want to workout." Wow, The Raven thought, the break-up really did hurt him because Seth lived to workout. "We were about to start with the WWE and he was all over the place when it came to wrestling, he was unfocused. Finally, he pulled himself together and put his all into his career. I just didn't want to see him go through that again. Yes, he was a bit of a player for a while, but once Roman and I had girlfriends and he saw you again. He decided wanted something more serious. We just hope you are serious about him."

She couldn't be mad at them for wanting to protect Seth, she felt herself begin to soften toward them. "I don't want to hurt Seth and I can't say that I won't but I can promise you guys that it will not be because I am cheating on him. I may not have a lot of experience when it comes to relationships but I know what it means to be in one."

"We are sorry Raven.", Roman said sincerely. "Yeah we are.", Dean added.

"I am sorry too. For ruining the party and for hitting you Dean."

Three weeks later.

Seth was getting annoyed with Dean and Roman, again they were at each other about who was the better wrestler. At Royal Rumble, they had agreed to get rid of all the competition and when it came down to the three of them then they would fight it out to see who would be the contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. However, Dean tried to throw Roman over the ropes with still a hand full of opponents left to eliminated but he had stopped him, only to have Roman throw them both over the ropes. They had some tense filled days after that but then a rivalry started with the Wyatts, having a common enemy brought them together.

Things with The Raven on the other hand were going great, he just wished he hadn't said he would wait for her to take their relationship to the next step. He would not go back on his word but it was so hard to be around her when all he could think of was wanting her naked underneath him and being inside of her; thrusting into her and hearing her moan his name in pleasure. God even now he was getting hard thinking about it. They fell into a routine, they would workout in the morning, go back to the hotel and take a shower and spend the day with each other either in her or his hotel room watching movies or going out and exploring the city they were in. They would make out before she would go back to her room that she shared with Kane, leaving him all hot and bothered. He would usually take a cold shower once he returned to his room. He was also glad that Roman, Dean and The Raven were getting along. They would sometimes all go out to dinner or spend the day together and sometimes Maya and Rene would join them as well. The only thing he did not like was when there days off would come, she would often times go back to California to be with her grandfather and uncle. He missed not having her around.

"Good Morning", The Raven said as she got off the elevator. She smiled at Seth as she walked up to him. She put one arm around his neck and brought his face closer to hers for a kiss. He returned her kiss as his arm went around her waist bring her body closer to his, when they ended the kiss he said "Good Morning", and hugged her. "We have to get going or we will be late. Daryl is expecting us." He took her hand and intertwined their fingers as he led her to his rental car.

Today, they were going to a local school for gymnast. Seth wanted to work on his upper body strength and they had met Daryl who was a gymnastic teacher at a crossfit gym. Daryl and Seth hit it off right away and he offered to help Seth condition his upper body.

When they got to the school, Daryl greeted them along with two other of his assistants. Seth and The Raven started to stretch out and warm up their muscles. Seth removed his shirt, all he had on was a pair of red and black biker shorts and his black tennis shoes. Once they were done, Daryl had brought them over to a pair of rings that hung from the ceiling. He explained how the rings would help with his upper body strength because he would be using all of his muscles to lift and hold his body in place. Today, they were going to time Seth to see how long he could last on the rings, from there Daryl will show him some workout routines he could do to build up his strength and then at a later date they would test him again on the rings. As Daryl was explaining all this, one of his assistants started to wrap Seth's hands up with tape to offer support and so that the rings wouldn't bite into his skin. Daryl had one of his assistants get on the rings first to show Seth how to grip them and how his body was to be positioned in a T-shape with his toes pointed down toward the ground and his head at body level.

The Raven watched as Daryl's assistants one on each side of Seth, grabbed him by his thighs and lifted him up off the ground bring him closer to the rings. Once Daryl was satisfied by how Seth was gripping the rings he then instructed him how to position his body. His shoulders and the rings were to be aligned, once he had that position they would let go of him and start to time him to see how long he could hold it.

"Are you ready Seth?", asked Daryl.

"Yes" said Seth confidently.

"Ok boys let him go."

Once Seth was steady, he looked straight ahead keeping his concentration and willing his body to hold the position. The Raven could see the definition of his muscles in his neck as he strained to hold the position. The muscles in his arms and shoulders rippled, as well as the muscles on his chest. She could see every single muscle in his abs working to maintain the position he was in. Beads of sweat start to form on Seth's forehead and some of his muscles were turning red from the strain but he was determined to hold the pose longer. As she continued to watch him, she felt her heart beat faster and her mouth go dry. She was completely turned on by his show of strength and power, she wondered what kind of lover Seth would be. Would he be aggressive and rough or would he be gentle and considerate? She opted for the latter. Her body quivered thinking about what he would do to her with such vigor and strength. She could not wait to experience Seth as her lover, but she had to be patient and make sure that she was doing it for the right reasons. Also, another part of her was scared of the intimacy they would share, which would connect them forever.

Finally, Seth could no longer hold the pose, so he relaxed his shoulders and let his body go toward the ground. When he was inches from the ground, he let go of the rings and landed on his feet.

"Wow, Seth you hung there for 50 seconds.", said Daryl.

"50 Seconds. Is that all?", Seth was disappointed by his performance.

The Raven could not believe it was 50 seconds it seemed like an eternity. He turned toward The Raven and said, "Can you believe it? Only 50 seconds."

"You were awesome, babe."

"No I wasn't. I-" he was cut off when The Raven kissed him passionately. When she pulled away, he could swear he saw desire in her eyes and she looked a little flushed. Was she turned on by the workout? Mmm now that is interesting he thought.