A/N: Devan is KiranTheRay's character.
Early Monday morning, 10/20/14…
"Ow!" Amanda yelled after being yanked out of her much needed sleep by Seth's size 11 right foot slamming into the back of her left knee, the raven haired man once again drunk.
Fed up, Amanda sat upright and balled her right hand into a fist before giving him a slightly hesitant look.
"No, wake him up." Amanda muttered, slamming her fist down hard onto Seth's torso and regretting dragging him from the bar earlier.
Seth screamed in pain as his eyes snapped open, rubbing his now sore sternum and looking at his now furious roommate, who's hazel eyes shone with anger instead of sparkling with happiness.
"You keep hurting me, you fucking idiot! You need to lay off the drinking and go crash somewhere else!" Amanda yelled, dragging Seth towards the door after getting up out of the bed as Seth started to regain full awareness around him.
"Mandy, it was an-" Seth said, Amanda opening the door and shoving him out it before throwing his things at him as he pulled himself up to his feet. "Mandy, calm down, it was an accident!" He yelled.
"Oh, I'll calm down once you're outta here, now shove off! And don't come back until you get your sleep rage under control!" Amanda shouted, slamming and locking the door. Amanda limped back to the bed and grumbled in Irish… before hearing a knock and yelling in the same language.
"I think you meant to say it the other way, love." Finn said, Amanda's head snapping up and her limping to the door.
Amanda unlocked it and opened it, letting the 5'11" NXT superstar into the room… and he saw her left knee starting to swell up and helped her sit down on the bed, propping her knee up on the pillows before finding the ice bucket and a bag, Amanda cringing slightly as the freezing cold cubes were on her knee.
"Grab your laptop" Finn replied, Amanda looking at him. "I've got a good distraction." He said, Amanda grabbing her MacBook Pro and opening it as she rubbed her sleepy eyes.
When it was on, Finn linked his left arm around her shoulders and draped his right arm over her left shoulder, typing in some Irish phrases in on Google Translate.
Amanda memorized them as she leaned against Finn and he started singing to her.
It wasn't long before she was asleep again, soft snores escaping her mouth… Finn smiled slightly, turning the laptop off and closing it after setting it out of Amanda's reach before setting her onto her back and taking the ice pack off of her knee before pulling the covers over her.
"That's better… let those peaceful dreams flood your mind, Mandy." Finn whispered, stretching out next to her and pulling the covers over himself.
His eyes closed when her soft snores soothed him into sleep and his right arm wrapped around her back… now both were content in their sleep…
Present time…
Brandon found Seth in the usual kind of place both went to countless times back in Davenport… walking further into the dive bar, he snatched the glass of Jack and coke from Seth, who lurched forward to try to take it back.
"Well hello to you too brother, if you'd be so kind as to return my drink?!" Seth said after a few moments, angry at losing his Jack and coke.
"Why should I when you can't take back what you did to Mandy, you little shitbird?!" Brandon growled, sipping the last bit of the drink before punching Seth and then twisting his right arm behind his back, Seth yelling in pain.
"What the fuck are you trying to do, kill me?!" Seth yelled.
"You've come close enough to that already… but Mandy sends her regards on this!" Brandon responded, still holding Seth's arm locked behind his back before he quickly raised his knee and slammed it against the arm, a sickening crack echoing as he did.
Seth stood up and charged at Brandon, the fight escalating… until both were pulled up to their feet and their heads were smacked together.
"That's enough out of the both of you though I appreciate the effort to protect your friend, Brandon!" Liviana shouted as Brandon and Seth stood up.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Brandon asked.
"My name… Liviana Diesel. And I knew your name through this, because quite honestly, a lot of things that have happened were never meant to happen." Liviana answered, as she took a small, phone-like object out of her pocket, except that it was a piece of transparent glass with only units at the top and bottom, projecting images onto the glass.
The first one had Seth beating on Amanda… but instead of Callista, it was Finn who had shown up and thrown him against the brick wall.
"Leave her the fuck alone, asshole!" They heard Finn yell in the video before he was seen punching Seth… and in the video, Amanda's injuries were a lot less severe.
"Wait, if it was supposed to be Finn who'd stop the attack, why did that woman show up instead?" Brandon asked.
"Callista shouldn't even be here, she… obviously I'm not exactly from your time, but she's from even further forward. Me, I'm from the 23rd century but Callista… the 29th. And so far, she's the only rooting thing that we can find out of place, and we have been working with 2863's agency to work out what's happened… that's a lot to take in at once, so take your time." Liviana explained.
"Well how much trouble could she be in? They'd understand that she was saving someone from death, right?" Brandon asked.
"I'm afraid they're very cold and with the iron fist on the matter of altering timelines… let me give you an example. Say someone who was supposed to die, was saved from death by a time traveller. Now they'll live a life, get married, no big deal. But you see, now they have a kid or two… then their kids have kids, and then down the line one of them has a bad raising and ends up seeking to overpower people, that one's child takes it a step further… so by saving one life, when that traveller returns to their century, the planet could have changed entirely, maybe one of those kids ended up becoming a massively powerful dictator of some sort. And all because the traveller saved one life that was supposed to end. Now with Amanda she would have lived either way, but I think you get the idea." Liviana explained.
"Yep. Goodbye." Seth said, starting to leave but Liviana stopped him.
"Oh hell no, ain't gonna work that way, pal!" Liviana replied.
"You said the timeline was altered, doesn't that mean I should stay away?!" Seth questioned angrily.
"No, it means that Callista is entwined with events now and that you can have everything that's coming to ya!" Liviana responded.
"Not gonna run this time, Seth." Brandon replied.
In the apartment, Amanda found herself feeling drowsy after taking the painkillers and Finn wrapped his arms around her.
"She wasn't supposed to stop him…" Amanda mumbled, confusing Finn and him looking at the side effects label of the Vicodin.
A knock at the door sounded, Finn helping Amanda sit up and lean against the couch before going to answer the door… the second he did, Devan ran in and nearly knocked him down.
"Sorry, Balor! Where's Tiny?" Devan responded after Finn closed the door, Amanda motioning to Devan and him seeing her. "Oh my damn…" He said, horrified at seeing her injuries as the two hugged.
Amanda and Finn knew that explaining this to Devan wouldn't be easy.