7/31/13…

Walking into the room he and the other Shield members shared with Amanda, Seth dropped his duffel bag… and he immediately saw red when he saw her in the bed and him passed out next to her in his drunken state.

Seth snapped, pulling Alex off the bed and beating on him even as he screamed and Amanda tried to break it up, screaming at Seth to stop and saying that Alex was just sleeping next to her and hadn't done anything wrong. Seth turned and tossed Amanda to the ground before turning back and continuing to attack Alex, not noticing that he had caused Amanda's head to bleed.

"She's telling the-" Alex starts to say before the coffee pot was bashed over his head... the savage beating continued until Roman and Dean managed to break it up.

"Amanda? Hey, it's-" Dean says softly, Amanda screaming in terror and scrambling away from Dean after he touched her shoulders. "No, hey, it's alright. I'm not gonna hurt you, baby girl, it's okay." He whispers, picking a frightened Amanda up into his arms as all four heard security guards run in and Seth screaming as they tackled him while paramedics ran in and strapped Alex to a backboard.

Dean took an eerily quiet Amanda out of there as she rested her sore head against his right shoulder and to Renee's room, setting her on the bed.

"Seth went batshit after finding Alex passed out next to Mandy. Go grab her things, please. Police will most likely show up soon." Dean says, Renee lightly rubbing her hand up and down Amanda's back before leaving. She glared at Seth as he was dragged out of the disheveled room, Seth's hands cuffed.

When Renee returned, Amanda was curled up in Dean's arms and had given in to her exhaustion. Feeling terrible for the younger woman, Renee set the things down and pulled the covers over Amanda, lightly stroking Amanda's messy curls.

"Cops are holding off questioning her..." Renee whispers, Dean nodding. He looked at Amanda, who had even more quiet... and then he noticed the cut on her head.

"I think we should take her to the hospital, make sure there's no concussion." Dean says, carefully lifting Amanda up into his arms as Renee grabbed the bag and keys.

Present time…

Morning started off for him with her somehow having gotten her right arm tangled into her pillowcase and him helping her free it.

"Thanks for that…" Amanda says as Devitt lightly rubbed her right shoulder to take the knots out of the muscles in it… he noticed her bite down a bit on her lower lip, seeming a bit bashful in the early morning hours as she rubbed her makeupless face.

She was in a slightly oversized black pajama top with the sleeve nearly falling off her right shoulder as well as grey flannel shorts and her hair was messy… but to Devitt, Amanda looked so damn beautiful.

"Does that… happen a lot? Your arm getting tangled up like that?" Devitt asks.

"Not normally… first time it happened, it was just after I had injured my shoulder about six and a half years ago." Amanda says before they kissed when his hands lightly cupped her face.

Quickly checking their phones, Amanda saw angry texts from Seth.

'The fuck is going on?!'

'Who is he and why were you with him?!'

'What the fuck was Hunter thinking sending you over to Japan by yourself?! He should've sent Natalya or one of the other divas!'

'I beat Riley to a pulp, don't think I won't do the same to this guy you were with last night!'

'Damn it Mandy, just answer your damn phone already!'

Amanda put Seth's number on the block list, hating herself for doing so… but Devitt saw the look in her eyes.

"He nearly killed of your other male friends, didn't he?" Devitt asks after Amanda set the phone down and turned to him, taking her right hand into his left one.

"Yeah… I've had some bad relationships before, one before I met Seth. When I had a nightmare one night and Seth woke me up from it, I confessed to him about how Randy treated me. It was some time after that when I had gotten involved with Cody but he and I… I was starting to move on from my wild child years at that point but he hasn't been serious about much in his life. So I started leaning on Seth as a friend… and Cody got the wrong message from that. That was almost a year ago and… one of the few men I've remained close to is Seth. But now he's just driving me crazy." Amanda says, Devitt pulling her into his arms and the two hugging after he brushed her tears away.

"Things need to change… he's been your friend for how long?" Devitt says, asking the last part.

"Four years… and yes, things do need to change. Seth does care but he needs to know that this isn't the way to go about getting someone to respond to him." Amanda says after they let go.

A knock at the door caught their attention and Amanda stood up, walking over. She unlocked the deadbolt and chain before opening it, her and Devitt seeing Karl.

"Everything okay?" Devitt asks.

"Tama… he got ice water... shoved down his pants by a masked person in the lobby." Karl says in between laughter.

Amanda and Devitt looked at each other… and laughed as well, knowing that Tama had gone and pissed off the wrong person now.

"It's not funny! I can't feel anything down there!" Tama yelled.

"Well, use your damn brain next time, Tama!" Karl shouts after letting Amanda and Devitt be by themselves.

Amanda let Devitt take her into his arms after closing the door, the two kissing.

The outside world could wait a little longer.