Chapter 41
A lot had happened during Jon's absence from WWE. The most important thing was, that Colby and Joe were the reigning WWE Tag Team Champions.
Options were discussed with the creative department about how Jon could be brought back and what the plans for the Shield were. Jon really liked one idea and here is how it looked on TV.
Oct. 17th, Smackdown
The camera zooms in on an unconscious Heath Slater in the Backstage Area.
Jinder and Drew can't figure out what happened, no one saw anything. They are nervous, someone is obviously gunning for the members of 3MB.
Oct. 20th Raw
Drew McIntyre is found beaten to a bloody pulp in the parking space of the arena.
Later that night
Jinder comes face to face with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns backstage.
"Where are your friends Jinder?" Seth asks without much concern, smirking.
"Tragedy what happened to them. Could they find out who did this?" Roman inquires and Jinder just looks around nervously. "I really don't have the time now. He's coming to get me, too!" he sounds almost frantic.
"Who?" Seth bites, interested now.
"The boogeyman!" Jinder whispers and runs away.
"Boogeyman. That's crap." Roman says laughing. "Yeah, it's the nerves. Makes him see things." Seth adds, twists his index finger near his head and they walk away laughing.
Oct. 24th Smackdown
The camera points to two bright lights. Between the lights you see a shadow moving, swaying from one foot to the other.
"I'm coming for you Sunday Jinder." the shadow says in a low, raspy voice and the camera goes black.
Sunday, Oct. 26th Hell in a Cell
Roman and Seth are scheduled for a match for the Tag Team Championships against none other than Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre. They earned the No 1 contenders spot 2 weeks ago, before the attacks started.
Backstage an official comes up to 3MB and tells Jinder Mahal to go out into the ring because he has a match.
"Against whom?"
"Don't know just get out there because your match is next."
Jinder waits in the ring after his music ends and looks around nervously.
The crowd boos and cheers and is excited as well.
The lights go out and the titan tron plays a video of the same dark shadow from Smackdown.
"I promised you retribution for the injustice you did to me. Justice will be served tonight."
The titan tron goes black. The crowd is screaming, they know who is coming to get Jinder and you hear
Sierra Hotel India Echo Lima Delta Shield
The spotlight illuminates one entrance in the crowd and you see Dean Ambrose there in his best lunatic fringe persona looking down at Jinder Mahal.
The coward tries to run but comes face to face with Seth and Roman who are suddenly standing in front of the ring, blocking his escape route.
Dean walks down the stairs smiling like a psycho the whole time.
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I sit backstage enjoying the segment and the following match greatly. Jon had so much fun filming his boogeyman sequences and he is thrilled to be back.
The crowd was wild outside and my husband performed like he never was out of the ring for 3 long month.
He hit all his moves and finished Jinder after a short 5 minutes with his Dirty Deeds.
The crowd went wild and Roman and Seth get in the ring to celebrate his return.
It was great being back on the road. We had spent the last 4 weeks in Florida at the training facility getting Jon ready and every drop of sweat, every weight lifted, every hour in the ring was paying off because he was great out there.
When he came back backstage after the match I was waiting at the gorilla position for him jumping in his arms, sweat be damned.
"I am so proud you looked great."
"Thank you." he mumbled.
Jinder passed us and I called out a quick thank you to him as well because he had made my man look good.
"The Tag match is in about 25 minutes after the divas match." I said loud enough for Colby and Joe to hear.
I was back in business, media relating for the guys for the time being. I lucked out because one guy had quit and the media guy for the Shield had to take over other talent and since Jon wouldn't work with anyone else I had the job again.
It was time for the Tag Team Title defense and Jon went out with his friends.
The match was a hard fight, at one point Roman was hit in the head pretty badly and instead of tagging Seth in he wanted to do his superman punch against Drew, failed, got rolled up with a small package and 3MB won.
Dean looked shocked, Seth looked outraged and they exchanged a glance. Roman was furious about the loss and walked away when Seth wanted to confront him about the tag not made.
It was all very well played and I felt with the fans who were shocked about the loss and shocked about Romans reaction.
Backstage I clapped Joe on the shoulder, tousled Colby's hair and kissed my husband. Plans were set into motion tonight, plans I didn't like but understood because business had to move on.
During the next couple of weeks a feud against 3MB was launched.
But the Shield couldn't really concentrate on their opponents, they were having difficulties among themselves.
Seth and Dean blamed Roman for not making the tag, Roman blamed Dean for the loss because without him they (Seth and Roman) had been successful.
It all accumulated in a match against 3MB at Survivor Series.
A fast paced match with great interaction between Seth and Dean, but Roman wanted to steal the show again.
That's when Dean flipped. He stopped Roman from delivering his superman punch with a spear in midair on his own partner and when Roman struggled to get up Seth came flying from the top rope to deliver a knee to the head.
The fans were furious and Seth and Dean trash talked Roman and left the ring.
Badly beaten Roman lost the match.
I was backstage again and I was shaking. I knew for once what was going to happen and all but it hurt. My boys were breaking up, Roman would get a push at the singles division and Seth and Dean would raise hell as a heel tag team.
I would lose Joe as my talent but gained Tyler Breeze who had a pretty good run at the moment.
Still, it hurt.
Joe saw me backstage and came over hugging me.
"Don't cry baby girl. I am still here and I am still your brother in law by heart. You won't get rid of me." "I know but it's still the end of the Shield." "Yes but not the end of the brotherhood."
We had RAW the next day and a Smackdown taping the day after that and I wasn't used to the heat Colby and Jon got from fans we passed during these two days. Especially Jon got it bad but he remained cool as long as the fans left me alone.
One Roman fan girl was especially upset when we had a chance encounter at a diner on Tuesday at lunch. Jon and I were eating out enjoying some alone time when Jon pointed out a young woman to me.
"She made me and she is pissed." he said and he was good at reading people.
She didn't even had the decency to wait until we were finished with our lunch.
"How could you betray Roman like that? He was your friend and you left him in the ring." She was really mad, it was almost comical because just this morning we had had breakfast with Joe and all three guys had trained together.
Jon remained cool and didn't even react until the woman turned to me.
"And you? How can you be with such a backstabber? Joe was your friend as well, I saw pictures. Aren't you ashamed?" Okay, Jon had exactly one short fuse. And that was me and how people treated me.
"Jon, don't." I touched his hand but he turned around to face the woman and he spoke really calm to her. And yes, you know Jon by now. Calm is never good.
"Listen. First of all, you interrupt our lunch. Second of all you run your mouth about stuff you couldn't be more wrong about. Third and most importantly you disrespect my wife. I could let all the other things slide but I won't let you get in her face like that. Everything in wrestling is scripted. Roman as you so nicely called him is still our friend. Everything you saw was just for TV. When you know Sam how in the world don't you know that wrestling is not real? How? No, don't answer. The only thing you will say in our presence is sorry to my wife and then you will leave or I call the cops. We're clear?"
Wow, calm Jon was scary. The woman was so pissed and she was obviously thinking about her options. But she had none. Jon had been calm and patient and respectful the whole time, everyone around us who watched the scene could testify to that. So she mumbled a "Sorry." my way and left.
"You didn't win a fan with her." I pointed out and eating another bite of my lunch trying to cool Jon down.
"I have enough fans, thank you very much." He was still furious but relaxed a little when the owner of the diner came to our table.
"Excuse me, I wanted to apologize for the scene. If I can get you anything else...on the house of course, please let me know. Again, I am really sorry that woman bothered you."
"It's cool, nothing happened. We are fine. Thanks." Jon said, not really paying attention to the guy.
"It's fine, really." I smiled at him and he left, still a little bit unsure about the fact that we took it so well.
When we were done eating Jon wanted to leave without paying. "Are you serious?" I whispered. "He said it's on the house." he pointed out. "You are an asshole!"
I paid for our lunch because it wasn't the owner's fault that his guests were a bit unstable.
"Really Jon, do you want to end up on the internet as the asshole who didn't pay for his lunch? And NO, don't tell me he told us it's on the house. You know how that turns out. People will claim you are the one who didn't pay."
Jon stopped walking and turned to me. "That last media seminar was obviously one too many."
"It wasn't. It was perfect for exactly this case. Ass."
I grabbed his hand and we enjoyed a little walk after our eventful lunch.