Unfortunately that night on Raw, Seth had to compete against Roman so there was no way he could avoid him. It was him and Randy against Roman and Chris Jericho. The match started off well, with him fighting Chris before tagging in Randy and taking a breather in the corner. Randy and Chris brawled for a while before taking the fight outside the ring. He tried to pay attention to the match going on, but his gaze was drawn to Roman more than once. Roman was reaching out far towards Chris looking for a tag, the muscles in his arms bulging in a way that made his mouth water. He shook his head to clear it and Randy reached for a tag just as Chris tagged Roman.
He got in the ring and circled Roman before they locked up. His hand briefly touched Roman's hair and he remembered pulling on it and begging Roman to take him harder. He broke away from Roman in a panic and ran to the ropes, looking to do a move that wouldn't actually have him touching Roman, when he felt Chris pull the ropes making him fall down on the mat. Roman was there in an instant, partially sitting on top of him as he rained punches down on him. Of course Roman was pulling his punches so it didn't really hurt, but Roman was on top of him and he felt his body stirring at the close proximity. He could feel the heat coming off Roman's body and smell the oil he used on his muscles and the conditioner he used in his hair and it was driving him crazy. He needed to tag out now before he did something bad like kiss that stupid, beautiful face above him.
He finally managed to kick Roman off of him and he practically ran to his corner to tag Randy in. He caught his breath and saw the scowl that Roman was giving Randy. Roman stalked Randy in the ring before hitting him with a flurry of fists and knees and he knew that most of them were real. 'What the hell was going on?' Roman rarely screwed up in the ring, he was usually extra gentle, worried that his strength or his weight would accidentally hurt someone.
As much as he didn't want to be in the ring with Roman right now, he couldn't stand by and let him hurt Randy, so he reached out as far as he could, trying to get a tag. Randy was standing and trying to get to him, but Roman held him just out of reach by his leg. Roman pulled Randy back and smashed his forearm down between Randy's shoulders and Randy fell down to the mat. Luckily Randy fell close enough for him to get a tag and he went to the top turnbuckle . He flew towards Roman, but Roman caught him and tossed him out of the way before turning back to Randy trying to get up and gave him the most devastating spear he had ever seen.
"Help me stop him." he yelled to Chris.
Chris shrugged his shoulders.
He turned away needing to save Randy and saw that he had fallen outside the ring and Roman had followed him. He ran as fast as he could doing a suicide dive onto Roman and pushing him into the barricade.
"Stop." he whispered desperately in Roman's ear. "Stop hurting Randy."
He saw Chris come up to Roman so he went to check on Randy and get him back in the ring. He managed to push Randy in the ring and make a tag before Roman and Chris got back in making a tag of their own.
"I think Randy's hurt." he whispered to Chris. "We have to end this quickly."
Chris nodded and they continued the match, drawing it to a quick close with Chris and Roman winning like planned. He put his arm around Randy and helped him up the ramp, turning and seeing the fire in Roman's eyes as he watched them walk away.
He helped Randy get checked out but luckily he wasn't seriously hurt. He was bruised and battered and his ribs hurt but he wasn't scheduled to wrestle for the next few days so he would have time to heal. He didn't want to leave Randy's side but he had to go talk to Roman so he asked John to watch him until he got back.
Roman was sitting on a bench in the locker room, looking at his shaking hands. He didn't know what had come over him during the match. He wasn't a violent man, but his jealousy got the better of him. He saw Seth and Randy smile at each other before the match started and he saw how hard Seth tried to stay away from him. Like Seth didn't even want to touch him anymore and he'd felt so hurt and so rejected that he'd just snapped. He wanted Seth to want him as much as he did, but he now realized that that was never going to happen. He needed to apologize to both of them.
He was about to get up when the door flew open and a very angry Seth Rollins walked in.
"What the hell is wrong with you Reigns?" Seth yelled as he walked right up to him.
"How's Randy?" he asked quietly.
"How do you think he is?" Seth yelled back. "He's hurt. You're lucky you didn't break any bones."
"So he'll be okay?" he asked lowering his eyes in shame.
"Yeah, he'll be okay in a few days." Seth said, running his hand through his fuzzy hair.
"I'll go to him and apologize." he said sincerely. "I feel terrible about what I did."
"You should." Seth said. "He's never done anything to you. He's a good guy."
"Is he still here." he asked. "I'll go apologize now."
"No, I don't want you anywhere near him." Seth said crossing his arms over his chest. "I don't trust you anymore. The Roman Reigns that was my best friend is gone."
"I'm sorry." he said desperately, scared of losing Seth. "I shouldn't have taken my feelings out on Randy."
"No you shouldn't." Seth said backing away closer to the door. "Stay away from us."
He stood up and took a step closer to Seth. "Seth please." he pleaded. "I'm sorry."
"Yes. You are." Seth said, shutting the door as he left.
He sank down on the bench and put his head in his hands, fearing that he had lost Seth forever.
