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The song for this chapter is "All For Love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting

Renee Young and Seth Rollins had to be at Main Event in Orlando the next night, so Tasha drove them to the arena, careful not to let anyone see them together Colby entered the building first, followed by Tasha and Renee a few minutes later.

Sitting in Seth's locker room Tasha watched Colby getting ready for his match against Fandango, which personally she thought was an insult to Seth. Sure, Fandango was a skilled competitor, but he was not even close to the level Seth Rollins was on. This was just Triple H wanting Seth to have as much TV time as possible, to continue his rise to the top. Considering that now she and Colby had actually started talking about dating, she was now more concerned than ever that Triple H would turn on Seth Rollins. And she knew that on that day, should it ever come, the world would know about them dating, because she would not stand idly by and watch him get hurt.

"You okay?" Colby asked squatting down in front of her as she sat on the couch.

Tasha nodded, not wanting to tell him what she had been thinking about, so she fibbed. "Yeah, I'm okay. Just trying to figure out how to get you and Jon past this."

"Maybe I should let him beat the crap outta me, get it out of his system." Colby joked, kissing her forehead as he stood up.

She smiled as he stood up, more from the kiss than from the thought in her head. She was actually thinking that Colby was right, maybe that was what they needed to get past this.

Standing up she followed Colby to the gorilla position where they waited for his music to hit. "Be careful."

"Always doll." He winked before his music hit and he left out of the curtain.

Tasha moved over to the monitor on the wall just beside the curtain, it was there so anyone could plan their exact moment of going out on stage. She shook her head as Seth swaggered his way down to the ring. Had he always been that cocky, brash and arrogant? Smiling, she knew that was one thing about Seth Rollins she loved, he knew he was good and he proved it every time he stepped into the ring.

She couldn't help but laugh as he stopped at the bottom of the ramp, bobbing his head along to his music. She knew that his new found swagger was partly do to things getting better with their group. She smiled at Seth's laugh when he realized Fandango was his opponent for the night, Seth shaking his head as Fandango dances his way down to the ring. Again Tasha laughs as Seth motions to the announcers, pointing at Fandango like "are you serious?".

As Tasha was watching the match she felt someone come up beside her and bump her right arm. Looking over she found CJ or Lana as the WWE Universe knew her standing at her side.

"You look happy." CJ said in her normal English.

It amazed Tasha that while Lana could speak a thick Russian accent fluently, there were no traces of it when she was just CJ. "I am."

"So, things are working out?"

"They are. Slowly, but we're getting there."

"I'm very happy for you." CJ smiled giving Tasha a hug. "I just hope when the time comes, you don't have to break the rules to be with him."

Tasha nodded, "Yeah, me too. But, hey, wouldn't be the first time I've broken the rules over the years, would it?"

The two laughed as they watch Seth finish off Fandango with a curb stomp. CJ bid Tasha goodbye, she had to go get ready for Rusev's match later that night.

Seth came back through the curtain, giving Tasha a smirk before he brought her into his arms and hugged her.

"Ew, you are so gross." Tasha laughed pushing him away, his sweat now on her arms and shirt.

"You love it." Seth laughed out loud as they went back to his locker room so he could shower and change out of his gear.

Once the show was over the two met up with Renee, the ladies went out to get the car while Colby waited by the doors. Tasha thanked God her rental car had limo tint in the back as she stopped by the doors so that Colby could jump in the back. He stayed down as they drove out of the lot, Tasha and Renee waving to the fans that were outside to see them.

As they got on the road Colby sat up, chuckling at how they all had to hide from being friends. They pulled up to Joe's house, all of them getting out and walking into the house. Tasha was greeted by her daughter as she ran up to hug her mother, then she took off again to go play with Jojo.

The group had a nice dinner followed by sitting around the fire pit on the back deck, though the tension between Jon and Colby was still there, it wasn't as strong as before.

The next morning Tasha resorted to desperate measures, this tension had to go, it was uncomfortable for everyone, and it was just plain stupid. So she took a page from Colby and decided to let the two hash it out themselves. So after pulling Colby and Jon out of bed and forcing them to get dressed, she took them to a local gym.

"What are we doing here?" Colby asked from the passenger seat.

"Yeah, if we're working out shouldn't you and Joe be with us?" Jon questioned.

"No." Tasha said turning in her seat to look at both of them. "This shit between you two needs to be resolved, today. Jon, you have to learn to separate yourself and Dean, and Colby you have to atone for lying to Jon. So, I rented out the gym, it's only you two. I don't care how you get past this, but you need to do it. I am not gonna lose my best friends for this company, we've all lost enough over the years, haven't we? I'll be back in three hours to pick you up and this better be squashed when I do, or so help me God, I will take my kendo stick and beat you two senseless, got it?"

The two men shrunk back at the fierce tone of her voice, they knew she meant what she said. They nodded quickly as they got out of the car and headed into the gym.

Tasha headed back to the house where Joe met her in the kitchen, raising his eyebrow with a curious look. "Think it'll work?"

"I hope so." She admitted.

Joe was preparing lunch when Tasha left to go pick up the two men. She pulled up outside of the gym to find Colby and Jon laughing together abut something. As they climbed up into the car she turned to look at them both.

"Jesus Christ. You two look like hell." She smiled as she took in their disheveled appearances. Colby was sporting a split bottom lip and the beginnings of a black left eye, while Jon had a split on his right cheek and a split on his top lip. "We all good now?"

The two looked at one another before Jon smiled, holding up his fist. "We're good." Colby smiled back knocking his fist against Jon's.

"Good." Tasha smiled as she started the car and drove back to Joe's house.

When the three walked in the other's just stared at the two men, Joe walked over smirking at them. "Did you leave any for Seth and Dean?"

The group chuckled as both Colby and Jon flipped Joe off, the two men adjourned upstairs to their rooms to take showers before joining the others for lunch. Sitting out on the patio Joe smiled over at Tasha and Colby who were sitting beside one another, Colby gently holding her hand in his.

"So." He said, earning their attention, he pointed to their intertwined fingers. "You two gonna give that a shot?"

"If you don't, I'll beat both your assess." Jon said smirking at them.

Tasha laughed, "With that being said, yes, we're gonna try." Tasha admitted looking over at Colby who smiled, nodding his head. "I don't know how we're gonna do it though. We can't be seen together, so we're gonna have to sneak around." She groaned lying her head on Colby's arm. "I hate our job sometimes."

Everyone else laughed, they all had that feeling at one point of time or another.

"We'll make it work." Jon said. "We're all in this together." He raised his beer bottle. "All for one…"

They all smiled raising their glasses up as well, replying in unison, "One for all."

Thursday night Smackdown emanated from Orlando, Florida. The group rode in Tasha's rig as it could park close to the venue, out of the view of fans, so that everyone could at least remain together.

As they walked into the arena together you could feel the shift in the air. Superstars and crew members smiled, breathing a sigh of relief as they saw the former friends back together. It had been a tense working environment since the breakup of The Shield, but now there was a calm enveloping the backstage area.

However the group ran into two people who didn't seem so thrilled about their reunion. Hunter and Stephanie stood in the path of the group, looking less than happy.

"Well, look at you guys, all back on the same page, one big happy family." Triple H sneered glaring pointedly at Colby who glared back. "If this screws up anything out there, I will personally fire all of you."

"Nothing will change out there, Hunter." Tasha said. "Unlike you two, we know how to separate our characters from our real lives. Once we step on camera, it'll be like nothing ever changed."

Stephanie scowls at Tasha, she doesn't like being spoken to like that, she looks down seeing Tasha's hand intertwined with Colby's and shakes her head. "Uh, uh, no. I can't control you all being friends, but that, I will not allow."

"We don't need your permission." Colby states, squeezing Tasha's hand.

Stephanie smirks, "Yes, Colby, you do. Seth Rollins and Siren cannot be seen together, I will not allow you to ruin what we have built in The Authority."

"No one will see us together." He said, shrugging his shoulders. "You cannot stop us from being together, I lost her once, I won't do it again. If you can't deal with it, then fire me."

To say that everyone was in shock at Colby's words would be an understatement, especially Tasha, she was staring up at Colby with amazement.

"Can we go get ready now?" He casually asked as if he hadn't just slapped the bosses in the face.

"Yeah, go." Hunter said, a small smirk on his face, no one had the audacity to speak to his wife like that. Secretly he was proud of Colby, he knew what if felt like to have to hide your relationship. He had to stand up to Vince about his relationship with Stephanie, and Vince nearly fired him, but Hunter stood his ground. He knew it wouldn't be easy, but if any couple could make it work, he knew it was Colby and Tasha. He also knew that one day, the stress of keeping it a secret and spending time away from one another would eventually take its toll on them. A plan started forming in Hunter's head, and for once it wasn't a devious plan that would only benefit the company, it would benefit Colby and Tasha as well. He just had to wait for the right opportunity to present itself.

Tasha sat in the locker room that the entire group now shared, her mind should have been on the show about to start, but in truth, it was millions of miles away. She couldn't believe that Colby had put his career on the line just to be with her. She was still trying to wrap her head around it when she felt a hand on her knee.

Looking up she found Colby sitting on the couch beside her, already changed into his ring gear. "Penny for your thoughts?"

She smiled, "I can't believe you told them to fire you, for me. You know I would never let you do that right?"

"I know." He nodded. "They won't fire me, but I needed them to know that this, us, is something I'm willing to fight for."

"I can't believe it took us this long."

"Me neither. But sometimes you gotta lose something, to know how much it means to you." He smiled, leaning forward he kissed her forehead.

The nights show kicked off with Jimmy and Jey pulling a little Bella "Twin Magic" on Curtis Axel and Ryback to secure the win. Siren stood off to the side of the interviewer's area while Roman cut a promo with Renee.

"Please welcome my guest at this time, Roman Reigns."

The man in question stepped into the frame, giving a smile and a nod to Renee.

"Roman, this past week on Monday night RAW, you stopped The Authority's plan A, Randy Orton from accepting his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at Summerslam."

The big dog breaks into a large smile, "Of course, Randy Orton's plan A, he's The Authority's spoiled little baby and his daddy Triple H, he's always got a plan, ooh. Who cares about a plan? Because when you get hit with this right in the mouth, there ain't no plan that matters anymore and that makes me a wanted man around here. It's all good for me. One versus all."

"Roman, tonight, you face another opponent in Alberto Del Rio. How do you feel heading into tonight's match?"

"As far as Alberto Del Rio goes, last time I checked, he's not on my side. So, that would put him in the category of all and he can't stop the one. He better have a plan because I got the punch. Believe that."

Siren smiles at Roman as he finishes the interview, he sees her standing off to the side and makes his way over to her.

"Deano, up next?"

"Yep."

"You be careful out there, Babygirl."

Siren rolls her eyes at his big brother nature, "Come on, Rome. It's no disqualification." She swings her kendo stick up, letting it rest of her shoulder. "I thrive in the chaos."

"You are Dean are two of a kind, you're both lunatics." He smiles shaking his head.

"That's why he's my partner-in-crime." She smirked before she turned and skipped off down the hall to gorilla, Roman chuckling as he watched her disappear.

Dean's music cued up and the two walked out on stage, the fans on their feet, roaring with cheers as Lillian Garcia announced the match.

"The following is a No-Disqualification match. Introducing first being lead by his manager Siren, from Cincinnati, Ohio, weighing in at 225 pounds, Dean Ambrose."

Siren and Dean climb into the ring, she climbs up onto the turnbuckle holding the kendo stick in the air. Nodding to the fans she points at a few of the kids wearing her new shirt, they break into smiles when they see her notice them.

She climbs down as Cesaro makes his way to the ring, rolling out of the ring as the match gets underway. Dean gets the upper hand on Cesaro, giving him ample time to roll out of the ring and start looking for toys to play with. He pulls out a few kendo sticks, and a plethora of steel chairs.

Cesaro grabs Dean and tosses him up against the ring post, grabbing a kendo stick he moves to hit Dean, but the man ducks and then clothes lines Cesaro over the barricade, into the timekeepers area. Dean then hops over the barricade and proceeds to pummel Cesaro, then he tosses him back over the barricade and grabs the ring bell. Jumping up onto the wall he takes the ring bell and jumps off, slamming it down onto Cesaro's head. He punches Cesaro in the head for good measure, then picks up a kendo stick and climbs up onto the announcer's table. Jumping off of it he brings the kendo stick down, but Cesaro avoids it, instead nailing Dean in the stomach with another kendo stick.

As they come back from commercial Cesaro has a kendo stick across Dean's throat. Siren is slamming her fist down on the mat, trying to urge Dean on. Cesaro picks Dean up and gives him a back body drop onto two steel chairs. He then pins Dean's lower back under a chair and tries to choke him with the kendo stick.

Siren riles up the fans who start chanting "Let's go Ambrose", Dean hears them as he fights his way out from under the chair. Cesaro then focuses his hits to Dean's injured shoulder, punishing Ambrose. As he moves to hit Dean again, Ambrose traps the stick under his left arm, surprising Cesaro. Dean gets to his feet, looking behind him at the ropes he allows Cesaro to push him backwards, Dean pushes off of the ropes and clothes-lines Cesaro viciously.

Cesaro picks up the steel chair, raising it over his head, which leaves his mid section open to attack. Which is exactly where Ambrose focuses a swing of the kendo stick, and as Cesaro doubles over Dean swings again bringing the stick down on Cesaro's back and then another shot to the gut. Dean wraps the stick over Cesaro's throat as he had done to Ambrose earlier, giving him a Russian Leg Sweep planting him on the canvas. He covers Cesaro but only manages a 2 count before the Swiss man kicks out.

Dean motions to Siren who tosses him another steel chair, he catches it and sets it up right next to another chair, the fronts pressed together just as Cesaro had done earlier. Then thinking for a moment Dean grabs the chairs and flips them around so that they sit back to back instead. The two block another as they try to each lift their opponent up and drop him on the steel chairs. Finally Dean has enough, he picks up one of the chairs, closes it and then rams it into Cesaro's stomach. He then grabs Cesaro and delivers a suplex to Cesaro onto the remaining chair, bending the metal as he lands on it. Dean again covers him, but still only gets a 2 count.

Ambrose grabs the remaining chair and climbs up to the second rope, he then delivers an elbow drop to Cesaro with the steel chair. Cesaro jolts up grabbing his right arm in pain as Ambrose goes for another cover, but Cesaro again kicks out at 2. Cesaro then runs Dean's injured shoulder into the steel ring post, he covers Ambrose but the lunatic kicks out at 2. Cesaro again runs Dean's shoulder into the post, then climbing out of the ring with a steel chair he moves to hit Ambrose's shoulder with it. But he's cut off in his attack by Siren as she nails him with a hard hit to the stomach with her kendo stick. Dean then launches himself out of the ring in a suicide dive onto Cesaro , taking them both to the ground.

Dean gets to his feet, motioning Siren over to the side of the ring with him they pull out a dozen more steel chairs and toss them into the ring. Dean then picks up Cesaro and tosses him back into the ring, but as he turns to get into the ring he is ambushed by Seth Rollins.

Seth moves to Irish whip Dean into the barricade, but Dean reverses it instead hurling Rollins into the barricade. Then before he can recover, Dean clothes-lines Seth knocking him over the wall into the timekeepers area.

Dean focuses his attention back on Cesaro climbing to top rope, but Cesaro instead grabs him delivering a German suplex off of the top rope, onto the pile of steel chairs.

"Oh my God, Dean!" Siren yells as she sees him hit the chairs and immediately holler out in pain.

Cesaro goes for the cover, but miraculously Dean kicks out at 2, the entire arena is stunned that he's still fighting. Cesaro grabs Dean going for another suplex, but Dean reverses it, rolling Cesaro up in a small package for the win.

Siren hikes a leg up onto the ring apron to roll inside when her hair is grabbed from behind. Seth pulls her off of the apron jerking her back towards the announcer's table. "Steel steps, ready baby?" Seth whispers into her ear as he holds her tight to his body.

She gives a light nod that he can feel through his hand in her hair, he whips her around, shoving her back first into the steel ring steps. Her body makes a sickening thud before she slumps to the ground. Seth then jumps into the ring and begins to pummel Ambrose, nailing him with kicks to the body. He and Cesaro start double teaming Dean, Cesaro giving Ambrose his finisher before he rolls out of the ring.

Seth smirks as he stands over Dean's body, he kneels down placing one of his knees on Dean's back. Gripping Dean's hair in his left hand, he lifts his head up and screams at him. "When are you gonna learn to stay down!?" He gets up and bounces off of the ropes delivering another curb stomp to Dean's head.

Once the trainer's had helped them backstage both Dean and Siren found Seth awaiting them. They all broke into smiles, knocking fists on a job well done out there. They looked up to find Triple H and Stephanie approaching the three superstars.

"See, Steph. Nothing's changed." Siren smirked before she took Seth's hand and Dean's arm and walked off to their locker room.

Roman's music cues up as he and Siren make their way down the stairs through the crowd, both of them high-fiving the fans as they walk down.

"The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Making his way to the ring being lead by Siren, from Pensacola, Florida, weighing in at 265 pounds, Roman Reigns!"

The two hop over the barricade, Siren stands down on the floor raising her fists as Roman climbs the turnbuckle and does the same.

As Del Rio makes his way to the ring Siren walks over and sits in the empty chair beside JBL, who hands her a headset. She puts it on as Michael Cole welcomes her to the announce table. "And we're being joined right now by Siren. Welcome."

"Thank you Michael." She smiles sweetly.

"It's good to see you out here after that assault by Seth Rollins earlier."

"Awe thank you. I'm happy to be out here."

Del Rio goes for the cross arm-breaker but Roman powers out shoving him out of the ring. Roman stands there egging Del Rio back into the ring, "Come on, bitch."

They come back from commercial, and Roman has taken control of the match over Del Rio.

"So, Siren, as a manger shouldn't you be out there giving Roman advice, instead of sitting here on commentary?" JBL snarks.

Siren coolly looks over at him, "No, I have full confidence in Roman, he doesn't need me to yell advice to him. As he always says, he evaluates the situation and then he attacks. If he needs me, he'll let me know. But let me ask you a question JBL, why do hate me?"

"I don't hate you." He argues.

"I bed to differ that." Cole adds. "I've never heard anything nice come out of your mouth about Siren."

"Thank you, Cole."

"I've had plenty of nice things to say about her." JBL states.

"Name one?" Siren challenges, but JBL seems caught off guard, like he can't think of anything. "I'll tell you what your problem is, you're still holding a grudge."

"No I'm not." JBL says going on the defensive.

"Yes, you are. You're still angry about me and Cena ruining your limo and then taking your championship at Wrestlemania 22."

Siren checks on Roman who is dominating Del Rio, as Cole laughs remembering that night on Smackdown.

"I remember that, it was a great night." Cole laughs.

"I thought it was funny too." Siren adds.

"It was not funny!" JBL snaps. "You and your criminal ex-husband ruined my limo, my suit and my hat."

"Oh my God, I'd almost forgotten about the hat, thanks for reminding me, that was hilarious." Siren laughed along with Cole. "Finish him off, Rome!" She yelled as she saw Roman calling for the superman punch.

Roman nails Del Rio with the punch, then hits him with a spear for good measure. Siren gets up as Roman gets the win, setting down her headset she climbs into the ring, raising Roman's hand up in the air.

"Nice job, big dog." She says as Roman pulls her in for a hug.

They climb up on the turnbuckles celebrating with the fans as Smackdown goes off the air.