Quitters

One of the most difficult things to do is to watch something you do not like happen and you not having the voice to express your dislike for it...

Royal Rumble

Wells Fargo Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Why don't you want me out there?" Daphne Anne questioned at her boyfriend and Mr. Money in the Bank, Seth Rollins, "It's not fair because Brock Lesnar gets to have Paul Heyman out there. What makes me so different that you can't bring me out?" she felt anger the minute that Seth informed her that he did not want her to accompany him into his big WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match.

"Stephanie, thinks that it might not be a good idea to bring you out." Seth explained as Daphne rolled her eyes at him. This was not a good enough reason for her and she was not going to accept that reasoning.

"Stephanie," Daphne yelled as Stephanie stepped into the camera shot, "Why don't you want me with Seth?" she asked, feeling very angry, "We are a package deal. I am the one that picked him to be part of The Authority. I picked your "future of the WWE", even when you and Trips wanted Roman Reigns—gross!" she shivered in disgust.

"Listen Daphne," Stephanie tried to use her calm voice, but it was obvious that Stephanie was starting to have an issue with Daphne. She thought that Daphne held Seth back and that Daphne did not fit The Authority image of a champion, "Seth cannot be worried about you during the match. His focus needs to be on winning the title."

"Does Brock Lesnar worry about Heyman during his title defense? He couldn't give a hoot what happens to his manager. I don't get it why I can't be out there to support my boyfriend during his huge title match! I want to be there when he wins the championship—" Daphne complained.

"That's enough, Daphne!" Stephanie spoke up, "If I say that you're not going to go out there with him, it is final. If you ever question my word again and I swear, I'll take that Divas title off your shoulder, so you won't have to worry about it again." she sounded angry and tried to present herself as the intimidating tyrant, but Daphne was going to take a stand for herself.

"Why don't you try to take the title off my shoulder?" Daphne was going to play Stephanie's games and give her a fight. Stephanie and Daphne exchanged a stare with each other and holding on to it.

"That's enough," Triple H got in the middle of his wife and Seth Rollins' girlfriend, "We are a team and we cannot rip that bond apart. So Daphne, stay here and Seth go out there."

What broke Daphne's heart was to see Seth not fighting for her to accompany him in the ring. What made him not fight for her? Was she even worth it to him? Was six months of their time with one another nothing to him? Seth just did what Triple H told him to do and that was go to the ring without her. Daphne wanted to cry because she felt like Seth's feelings for her were not as strong as she felt for him.

Daphne Consuelos thought that the Triple Threat Match with Cena, Lesnar and Rollins was one of the best matches of the night—hell, it was the match of the night to her. Daphne watched the match with her good friend, Renee Paquette and the two of them marked at the moment where Seth did a Phoenix Splash because Daphne had seen Seth do it a few times in the Independent wrestling, but never in the WWE world. Even though, Colby displayed that he deserved to play with the big boys in the main event scene, he failed to capture the title because Brock was able to retain the championship and would go to WrestleMania to defend the title against the winner of the Royal Rumble, but…

Seth still had the briefcase.

"Royal Rumble time!" Renee did a little Dean Ambrose dance as she sat down in her seat again next to Daphne, "I'm think that Jon has this match in the bag." she said, confidently.

"I beg to differ," Brie Danielson, who had joined the two other girls for the match, "I think that Bryan has this match in the bag. This match has "Yes! Yes! Yes!" written all over it."

"I think that an Authority guy has a chance of winning," Colby came into the room with a smirk on his face. He had just taken a shower, so his hair was wet as he looked down at Daphne. The droplets of water from his two-toned hair came falling down to her face as she stood there and did nothing about it. Colby connected with an upside down kiss on Daphne as he picked her up from her seat and sat down on her seat with Daphne sitting on his lap, "This is much better!"

"Totally," Daphne responded, "It sucks that our friends are going against each other, but I got a new winner—Dolph Ziggler. He needs momentum because when The Authority came back, it made it seem like his accomplishment at Survivor Series was nothing at all. Plus, Shawn kept giving me good points on why not to choose Daniel Bryan." she formed a playful frown on her face, talking about Shawn Michaels, who kept arguing the fact that Dean Ambrose was going to win the match and headline WrestleMania.

"UGH! He did the same thing with me!" Brie growled, "And, I'm his wife!"

"I'm actually kind of jealous of the two of you," Colby looked at both Daphne and Brie, the two women that he knew were able to talk to Shawn Michaels, "How come Shawn talks to you two, but not to me?" he pretended to feel a little hurt about it.

"If it makes you feel better, Colby," Renee began, "Shawn never talked to me."

"But, that's because you're dating Jon and he does not need to worry about it. He assumed that you were rooting for Jon." Colby told her.

"Hey! It has not been confirmed that I am dating Jon. However, there are rumors that he is dating a magician. Whoever she is, she is probably one lucky bitch!" Renee corrected Colby as Daphne rolled her eyes.

"Seriously, when are you guys going to confirm your relationship? The fan girls have been going crazy about it for months." Daphne said as Renee looked down to her lap. The thing was: she knew that she was going to get a lot of hate, if she were to acknowledge that she was dating Dean Ambrose. Hell, she is already getting a lot of hate because she's even tried to give small hints to fans about her relationship with Jon, she would always delete the picture because she would get so much hate for it.

"It's not that easy Daphne," Renee told her, feeling a little insecure about it, "I get so much hate. More hate than you got, when you basically broke The Shield or turned on Colby at Payback last year. You see Joe does not get hate for being married, Colby does not get much hate for dating you, but if I were to acknowledge that I am dating Jon—World War III. The hate will tear me apart. I don't know, how you can handle all the hate, but I want everyone to like me. I'm a people pleaser."

"Just think about the positives Renee, you got the guy that all of the Divas want and screw the haters. Do you not know how much hate Nikki and I get on a daily basis just because I'm married and Nikki's dating two of the top stars in the WWE. There are days, where it gets the best of us, but we use that hate to make us stronger human beings." Brie advised her as Renee nodded.

"Who knows?" Colby spoke up, wanting to do his part in comforting his friend, "You might not be the one confirming the relationship. Jon might go on Twitter and confirm the relationship himself."

Silent.

The whole room got silent with the comment by Colby as the three Divas looked at him, not knowing if he was being serious.

"Seriously?" Renee asked, with a sarcastic stupid look on her face, "What are the chances of Jon ever getting on Twitter or getting an Instagram account to say "Hey! I'm dating Renee!" Yeah! Tell me when that happens!"

"Well," Colby began to defend himself, "It will be better than Daphne's "Hey! Meet my boyfriend!" and a Vine of me falling from the roof, when I took off my Christmas decorations from the roof."

The three girls snored and laughed in remembrance of that Vine.

"I remembered that!" Brie laughed quietly for herself as Colby gave her a glare, which made her stop laugh and go back to her serious ways.

"In my defense," Daphne defended herself, "You fell on a mattress, but that was a pretty dickish move from me and I apologize for that."

After their conversation, everyone placed their attention on the Royal Rumble Match. They all invested their eyes and ears to the television presented in front of them. Sadly to Daphne, the match was not living up to her expectations. They already made it to the ninth Superstar, but the ring felt so empty. She wondered when the ring will actually fill up with talent because everyone kept getting eliminated. The execution was done poorly so far, but why was she surprised about it? 3...2...1...

Buzz!

"Flight of the Valkyries" by Jim Johnston played throughout the arena as Daniel Bryan came out was entrant number ten. He did the Yes! Chant down the ramp as he was the favorite to win the match now. The WWE Universe had their sights on this goat looking man on winning the Rumble and heading WrestleMania.

"Bryan's got this!" Brie said, feeling confident about her husband competing in the match. Meanwhile, Brie seemed to have done pretty well in the match, he managed to eliminate Tyson Kidd, which made Brie light up, but the smile on her face disappeared as Bryan was the eleventh person to be eliminated in the match. The whole locker room was shocked and silent, when it occurred, "What?" she was speechless, "This was supposed to be his moment. He worked so hard to get his neck back into shape and he does not even win the match?"

"Wow! I thought that Bryan had a good chance about winning the match," Renee said, feeling speechless as well, "I wonder if Jon has a chance to win it?"

"Do you know which number he's going at?" Colby asked as Renee shrugged.

"You know Jon never opens up to me when it comes to that stuff. He likes to keep everything a secret. He is someone that likes that element of surprise effect. I don't mind it at all." Renee said it calmly.

Nine entrants later—3…2…1…

Buzz!

"The Truth Reigns" blasted throughout the arena as Roman Reigns was the nineteenth entrant in the Royal Rumble Match. Daphne shook her head in disapproval. What she prayed was that Joe did not end up winning the match as she felt like he was not ready to become the face of the company. She could assure everyone that what the WWE wanted, Joe would not be able to provide them with that just yet. Perhaps, in a year or two, but she believed that Joe needed to pay his dues and show that he can carry a match, which she believed that he could not do. Roman managed to eliminate Stardust and Goldust from the match, but that did not satisfy anyone as the "Daniel Bryan" chants were strong since he got eliminated a while back.

Six entrants later—3…2…1…

Buzz!

"Retaliation" by CFO$ blasted throughout the arena as the WWE Universe found their new favorite to win the Rumble Match within Dean Ambrose. Dean got to the ring and stood next to Roman as it seemed like the two of them would be allies until it went down to the two of them.

"Colby!" Daphne slapped him across the chest, "Get your ass down there! It's going to be a Shield reunion!" she joked around as Colby chuckled.

"Not going to happen, I might end up being the favorite to win the Rumble and I'm not even part of the match." Colby sarcastically told her.

As part of the mini-Shield reunion, Dean and Roman managed to eliminate Titus O'Neil from the match before he even stepped foot in the ring. They worked as allies as well as managing to eliminate some more people by themselves.

Five more entrants later—3…2…1…

"Here to Show the World" by Downstait played throughout the arena as Dolph Ziggler came in as the thirtieth and last entrant of the Royal Rumble. This was Daphne's new pick to win the Royal Rumble as she felt like Dolph was at a good place to steal the show and win the Rumble Match. Sadly, Dolph did not last more than five minutes in the Rumble as he was eliminated by The Authority's Big Show and Kane.

"No! The ending cannot no be more predictable!" Daphne felt so much anger, she almost felt like a member of the WWE Universe, "I swear, if Big Show and Kane are in the final four, I will be so pissed off! I will not have it." she protested as Brie and Renee tried to hold down Daphne by her hands, while Colby grabbed her by her waist, not wanting her to do something stupid that could jeopardize her career.

Apparently, Daphne did have it because in the final four, it was Big Show, Kane, Dean and Roman. Daphne's blood began to boil as this could be one of the most predictable Rumble wins in WWE history. Daphne was ready to flip a table or something. She was ready to express her anger in some way.

Then, Dean was eliminated like he was trash—like he meant nothing to WWE Management at all. His WrestleMania main event opportunity was not going to happen and it was most obviously going to go to someone that is not worthy. As Big Show and Kane got in some sort of miscommunication, Kane managed to let himself get eliminated by Reigns, followed by Big Show being eliminated in the exact same style. Big Show and Kane returned to the ring and gave a beat down to Reigns.

"Electrifying" blasted throughout the arena as The Rock came down to the ring to help Reigns out with Kane and Big Show. For the first time in about a decade, The Rock was booed just because he was helping out a cousin of his. What made the crowd even boo was when he personally endorsed Roman as the winner by raising his arm up in the air. When The Rock left, Rusev came from behind and thought that he could get a sneaky elimination on Roman, but Roman managed to throw Rusev out of the ring to win the Royal Rumble Match.

The result made Daphne so angry that she stormed out of the room without saying a word.

What do you think about the confrontation between Daphne and Stephanie in the scripts? What do you think was Stephanie's actual reason for not wanting Daphne to accompany Seth to his match? What do you think about how Daphne reacted to the Royal Rumble match? Was she overreacting? Also, what else can Stephanie have under her sleeve to get under Daphne's skin? Thank you for reading. Please favorite, follow and review! :)

Also, if you have not already. If you liked the segment with the Divas on Monday, I created a fic with the three teams called "The Spark That Ignited A Division". So, feel free to check that out! :)