A/N: Again, this is going into AU territory so Paige and Alberto Del Rio will be involved. While I think that infidelity is wrong, no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors or who cheated first, Alberto or his wife and until any accusations are proven definitively, they're just accusations.
After getting ready for the day, Amanda and Finn met up with Roman, Dean, Seth, Becky and Sami.
"No sign of the others yet?" Amanda asks, the snow up to her knees because of her small height.
"I doubt several of them have dragged themselves out of bed yet and who could blame them in this weather." Roman says. Amanda nodded, still rattled from earlier, Finn rubbing his hand up and down her back.
Amanda grabbed her Samsung Galaxy s6 phone out of her trench coat, seeing a text from Paige.
'I know we haven't talked much but are you alright?!'
'A bit shaken up but okay… a night out tonight sound good, you, Del Rio, Seth, Becky, Finn and me?' Amanda replies, Finn smiling because he was glad Amanda was trying to make things less awkward in the locker room.
'Sounds perfect, tiny.' Paige replies.
"Hopefully, things won't go haywire." Finn says.
'And hopefully Alberto's estranged wife doesn't cause trouble if she's here tonight.' Amanda thought, knowing from witnessing past events that estranged spouses will sometimes seek revenge, feeling like they've been wronged. She had heard Angela and Alberto argue at events before about multiple things, one of their biggest disagreements being over parenting styles, Angela being a little old fashioned and Alberto believing that a parent should never raise a hand to their child, no matter what the circumstances were.
Amanda partially agreed with Alberto, Amanda's parents never believed in physical punishment either… but Amanda also knew that people today still held old fashioned values…
"Hey there, you. Can we talk?" Alberto says after walking over to Amanda, who was leaned against a wall in the backstage area of the TD Garden in Boston, nervously watching the Sasha Banks/Charlotte hell in a cell match.
"Yeah. What's on your mind?" Amanda says, drinking part of her Chai Spice tea.
"Just checking on you… thinking that trying to keeping your relationship with Finn quiet for now is a good idea… " Alberto says.
"Especially when we're not sure how people will react… my brothers are okay with it. How are things going with you and Paige?" Amanda says.
"She and I are getting married." Alberto says, Amanda coughing a bit as the tea got caught in her throat and Alberto pulling her away from the wall and lightly patting her on her back until Amanda stopped coughing, slowly drinking some more of her tea.
"I guess I should've waited until you weren't worrying for your friends in that cell. You okay?" He says.
"Yeah, I'm okay… it's just… are you guys sure about this, have you thought it through?" Amanda says.
"It is a bit of a shock but when you know it's love, why put it off?" Alberto says…
"No wonder you haven't said much to them since." Finn says.
"And then he turns and trash talks us on the internet… I want him to be honest and tell me right to my face because there's a damn difference between saying something online and being honest when-" Amanda says, cut off by her phone chiming and her looking at it, seeing a text from Alberto.
'Over at that coffee shop we found a few years back, can you and Finn meet me here?'
'Yeah, we'll be there.' Amanda replied before putting her phone in her skinny jeans pocket and leaving with Finn.
Amanda's P.O.V
"There you two are. Traffic slow you down?" Alberto says as Finn and I sit across from Alberto and Paige.
"That and the 3 ½ feet of snow outside… so what's going on?" I say, Alberto showing me something on his phone… and then I realise it. "Your accounts were hacked into?!" I ask.
"Both of ours were as well as several others, including Triple H's… take aside the comments that have been randomly appearing, only a few are genuine and the rest are libellous." Paige says, me breathing a relieved sigh… I knew that both of them would never say hurtful things about me.
"I'm sorry about-" I start to say.
"It's alright, senorita. Once people get a hold of something, there's hackers that tend to try to cause more trouble."
Alberto says. He's right about that, Seth's phone was also hacked into around the time the photos of him and Zahra were put online… I remember how angry Seth was that something that should've remained private was thrown into the media and out there to judge him by.
Paige's phone chimed, her looking at it and smiling slightly.
"Good news?" I ask.
"I've been cleared to get back in the ring, I should be able to return in February." Paige says… that's something else to be happy about, neck injuries are nothing to mess with.
Let's just hope things stay good for all of us…
Meanwhile…
"Are you absolutely sure? Okay, thank you." Stephanie says before hanging up, Triple H walking into the office.
"Fire department came back that quickly?" Triple H asks.
"Yes. Fire was caused by a pyro malfunction… reason the extinguishers didn't activate right away is because after testing them, one of the crew forgot to turn them back on afterwards." Stephanie says, the two hugging.
"Accidents do happen, I'm just thankful that none of them were hurt… everyone in the company, they're basically family to us." Triple H says, him and Stephanie kissing.
At the same time, Shane McMahon was walking around the Baycrest Arena, making sure that the wiring was up to code and that the fire extinguishers were running properly, not wanting a repeat of what happened on Raw to happen on tonight's episode of Smackdown.
"Hey, John. Mandy okay after what happened at the pay per view and last night?" Shane says as John Cena walked over to him.
"I checked in on her earlier, she's okay. Still, that was rather scary, her getting hurt during her match and then last night's fire…" John says.
Shane knew that just like he always worried about Stephanie's safety like Stephanie worried about his, John always worried about Amanda's the same way Amanda worried about John's.
No matter how old siblings got, they always worried about and looked out for each other… habits like those were damn near impossible to break.
