A/N: New character involved.
The early morning sunlight fluttered through the curtains… but both ignored it, Amanda burying her face into Finn's right shoulder and him sleepily running his left hand along her right arm before he saw the bruise on her face and lightly touched it.
"Why couldn't night time have lasted a bit longer?" Amanda mumbled, her voice rough from the enraged screaming… but a loud crash startled both into waking up. "Oh damn… one of them followed us."
"Stay up here." Finn says, standing up and walking downstairs… but instead of Dean or Roman, it was someone he hadn't seen before.
"Do all people lock their doors?" The girl asked as she stood up. She was about the same height as Becky but Finn noticed the USB socket.
"Usually… how the hell did…" Finn tries to say.
"Long story… where the hell am I exactly? This area doesn't look familiar." The girl says.
"Orlando, Florida…" Finn says before seeing Amanda's phone on the coffee table and picking it up, seeing multiple texts and missed calls from Seth, Roman and Dean after taking it off sleep mode, 17 missed calls from each of the three who called.
'Where are ya, kiddo?!'
'That was insane out there, are you alright?!'
'Pick up the damn phone, Mandy Rose Cena!'
'This isn't fucking funny, quit ducking our calls and texts!'
'They're calling me, saying they can't reach you! Are you okay, where are you?!'
"Damn, no wonder she's so stressed out." Finn says, setting the phone down.
"Friend of yours?" The girl asks as Amanda walked downstairs, yoga pants on under the shirt and slippers on her feet.
"Hello…" Amanda says, curious as to who this person was. She knew where the glass had come from, the window was broken completely. "Who are you?"
"Ayumi… I can't think of the translation exactly." The woman says.
'Name sounds… strangely familiar.' Amanda thought as Little Wing by Stevie Ray Vaughan played from her phone and she saw Dean's number. 'Quit calling, I'm okay!' She replied, Ayumi sensing that Amanda wasn't exactly okay when she saw Amanda's bruised hands.
"Some kind of fight?" Ayumi asks.
"Things got crazy last night… the line between personal and professional was crossed and I beat another co-worker to a pulp." Amanda says.
A knock at the door caught Ayumi's attention and she walked over and answered it, Dean screaming in fright at seeing the mechanical parts embedded into Ayumi's skin.
"Really, Dean? Was a scream warranted?" Amanda asks, her arms crossed.
"How are you not screaming?!" Dean asks.
"I still don't know how I'm not screaming!" Ayumi says angrily before walking off to the next room, trying to cool off from the fright.
Amanda walked over, Ayumi seeing just how little she was, even compared to her… she glanced at Amanda's slender fingers, closely examining the bruises.
"You don't look much older, if at all…" Ayumi says.
"I'm 25…" Amanda says, startling Ayumi as she thought that Amanda was 17.
Ayumi could sense it… the fight was more than a little squabble as she scanned Amanda, also finding bruised ribs and the bruise on the right side of Amanda's face from Amanda crashing against the ropes.
"One more bruise and I'd send you to the ER." Ayumi says.
"I've had worse injuries… broke my nose in a match once." Amanda says, Ayumi cringing at that thought.
Dean's phone rang and he answered it.
"Yes, I found her, Roman… and someone else." Dean says.
"Who?" Roman asks.
"Well she's with Balor but some strange woman crashed through the living room window. Yes, Roman, she literally crashed through it." Dean says, Roman chuckling slightly.
"Dean, are you still hungover?" Roman asks.
"They act like this a lot." Finn says, seeing the confused look on Ayumi's face.
Amanda stood up and walked to the kitchen, yelling out when Dean wrapped his arm around her waist which sent pain jarring through her ribs and startled Roman.
"Was that Mandy, is she okay?!" Roman asks as Amanda repeatedly smacked Dean and pulled away from him, hazel eyes blazed with fury as Finn ran to them.
"Yep. Damn kiddo, it was just a joke." Dean says as Amanda and Finn walked back to Ayumi.
"Bit jumpy?" Ayumi asks, Amanda nodding.
It was a while before Roman showed up and saw Ayumi.
"What are all the…" Roman tries to ask, motioning to the USB socket first.
"USB 3.0 socket, micro fibre wires, prosthetic computerised eye… and a complete mechanical implanted skeleton." Ayumi says, motion in to the socket just below her jawline to the right, a patch of wires close to the skin surface a little below it, her left eye and then down her body. "What's messed up is I don't even know if that's it yet." She finished.
Amanda stiffened at the thought of someone doing this to Ayumi, Finn lightly rubbing Amanda's back.
"I know you're all thinking the same… Why am I like this?" Ayumi says before pointing the ring finger on her right hand towards Roman's phone, which buzzed with a text just after. The text contained a website URL, which sent him to a news article from 3 years ago. "Because of that."
"A cross-Pacific flight returning from China crashed into a field in southern Canada, mere miles from the border. Only two of the 160 people aboard survived the flight which should have landed in New York… investigation into the cause of the crash revealed that a faulty fuel monitor had failed to display the low level and causes the flight to run dry and stall in the air, gliding for several minutes before coming down in the field in an attempted emergency landing, the hydraulics of the landing wheels having also been rendered unusable by the lack of power… you were… in that?" Roman reads, looking up at Ayumi at the end.
"Worst time of my life, and my life should have ended… but then the next thing I know, I'm waking up posed within a glass display case at some lab or museum over 2 years later with all of the mechanics in my body, only half complete… that's why half of it is on show, I had to do the best I could to finish off the ends and all before I could do anything." Ayumi says.
Amanda lowered her head, not wanting Ayumi to see her tears but Ayumi rested her left hand on Amanda's face, brushing the tears away.
"Why couldn't they just let you be?" Amanda asks.
"I'm… I guess alive. It was my father who did it, I think. From the small plans I pieced together, his work was to… you don't want to know actually. But he died of some sort of unidentified poison before he could finish his work on me, and when he turned on my systems… being incomplete meant I took about a year to activate. Between his death and me waking up, I know nothing of what happened. It's like there are no records anywhere, like someone refused to let that space of time exist." Ayumi says.
At the arena later, Amanda was replaying it in her mind as she drank her third cup of coffee… she jumped slightly when she felt Finn's hands on her shoulders.
"I'm gonna drive myself crazy, thinking about it… but I can't stop. She was nearly dead..." Amanda says as she set the empty cup down, Ayumi watching them and seeing the look in Dean's eyes.
"What's on your mind about them?" Ayumi asked.
"Hoping that he doesn't break her heart if they end up together… I'm just overprotective, she's like a little sister to me." Dean says.
"So you're watching them like a hawk." Ayumi says.
"I'm not the only one…" Dean says, Ayumi seeing Hunter and Stephanie.