We're here at Chapter Fourteen! I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far! I'm really enjoying writing it. I hope the slow burn isn't too slow for you. Just remember they've only known each other for like three weeks now. Thank you so much for all the support it really makes me happy and makes me want to put out the best work I can for you!

Sunday February 9, 2014

Edited: 3/15/2020

Chapter Fourteen

"Alright, Seth." Angel smiled as she talked to the man on the other side of the phone. "See you when you guys get here."

"Sounds good." Seth said over all the sounds of the airport. "I'll call when his plane lands."

"Alright, talk to you there."

As she hung up the phone she sighed and rubbed her eyes. Cracking her neck, she turned towards Dean who was sitting beside her on the shuttle that the hotel has sent for them. "Roman's flight was delayed and Seth's going to wait for him."

"Poor bastards." He smirked as if he was enjoying his friends' misfortune.

Stifling the chuckle that was working its way out of her, she watched as Dean leaned slightly back in his seat, placing his arms behind his head. "I wouldn't get too comfy there, we're almost to the hotel."

He only answered with a grumble.

Angel gave a little pout as she wanted so much to do the same thing that he was, but she knew that if she did, she would be out fast, and she needed to be awake for the meeting tonight.

When they finally pulled into the hotel's entrance, she was fighting the yawn that so desperately needed to come out. "Dean, we're here." She gave him a little shake.

"Bus didn't stop." He shrugged off her hand.

Rolling her eyes at the man, she started to gather up her thing to get off the shuttle, but she froze as she caught a glimpse of what was waiting for them. Gathered all around the outside of the hotel were a whole load of people. Fans and paparazzi were piled together around the entrance, holding signs, cheering and taking pictures as they waited for the members of WWE to come off the bus.

Butterflies started up in her stomach. This was the first time she really saw the 'famous' side of being part of the WWE. Before this everything had happened in the arena and she had totally forgotten that stuff like this was going to be part of her life outside of the arena as well.

A bit of movement came from beside her, drawing her attention from the window. She towards Dean who was slowly getting up out of his seat. He stretched his arms, legs and back as he moved around in the small space. She watched as Dean, stretched his arms, legs, and back as he moved around in the small space.

After he was all stretched out, he rolled his left shoulder and looked out of the window at all the chaos that was about to greet them. A slight groan came from him as he turned away and made his way off the shuttle.

Quickly trying to keep up with him, Angel grabbed her bag off the floor and scrambled from the bus. As she got to the bottom of the shuttle's steps and stepped foot on the sidewalk, she was hit by a barrage of screams, flashes, and clapping.

As she looked around, she had to stop her mouth from falling. She couldn't believe how many people were standing here waiting for them to show up. Her eyes landed on two young woman, who were wearing practically nothing as they jumped up and down trying to break through the WWE security guards that had formed a barrier.

"Dean!" They squealed just as he walked past them. Which was when she realized that both women were wearing shirt, well more like small pieces of cloth that were covering their chests, had 'Dean Ambrose' and 'Believe in the Shield' painted on them.

Raising a brow, she turned her attention to Dean to see what his reaction to the two girls would be, but much to her surprise he didn't even give them a second glance.

"Angel!" She heard someone call out her name but when she turned to see who it was a flash of a camera caught her eye, throwing her completely her off.

Stumbling around, she tried her hardest to blink away the dark blue spots that now covered her vision. With nothing else to do, she locked her eyes onto the back of Dean's head, or at least what she thought was Dean's head and followed it.

When finally, she made it into the hotel lobby, Angel took a deep breath as the chaos seemed to die down. Her head was now pounding from all the screaming and camera flashes. Letting her eyes readjusted to the bright lights of the lobby, she gave the room a once over to see that there weren't nearly as many people in the hotel as there was standing on the outside.

She never realized how crazy fans could get.

"Here." A voice from behind her made her jump and spin around to see Dean standing there with a brow raised. Giving a shake of his head, he gestured at the hand that he was holding out.

Looking down, she saw that he was holding out a small paper folder that hotels liked to use to hold their room keys in. She took the little folder, opened it, and saw her name and the room number 605 written on the inside.

"Oh, thanks." She said looking back up at him, though as soon as she did her heart fell. Behind him, she could see all the other managers standing in line at the front desk while their Superstars waited for them. And yet here she was getting her key from one of the people she was supposed to manage.

"Oh, and one of the words said since someone leaked that we're staying here, they're going to bring our things in from the bus for us, that way we don't have to back out there." Dean said fiddling with his phone.

Angel nodded. She was happy that she didn't have go back outside, but she still felt bad that Dean had to be the one to deliver the information and not the other way around.

Letting out a sigh, she turned back towards the glass windows of the lobby to see those same two girls from before, practically smashed against the thing. Their muffled yells came through the glass as they tried their hardest to get Dean's attention, but once again the man just ignored them.

"Angel!" She turned her head to see Renee making her way over towards her with a huge smile on her face. "Hey."

"Hey." She smiled back.

"Are you sure don't mind if we share a room?"

"No, not at all." She answered. Yesterday, Renee had called to ask if they could share a room together, and Angel was more than thrilled to. She really did prefer not to be alone.

"Thanks girl." She said holding up her card key. She let out a little laugh before she turned towards Dean who only pursed his lips and looked down at the woman.

"What?" He grumbled.

"I need to kidnap your manager here for our meeting." She said reaching out and grabbing Angel's arm.

"Ok?" He said looking at the woman like she was nuts for thinking that he cared all that much. Shaking his head, Dean went to walk away. "I'll text you when Seth and Roman get here." He said looking over his shoulder.

Angel watched him as he walked towards the elevator and couldn't help but smile as he rocked back and forth with each step. It looked like he was listening to music.

"Whatcha smiling at?" Renee said in a playful voice making her turned away from Dean. "It wouldn't be Dean Ambrose, would it?"

The smile quickly faded from her face. "Stop it." She took a quick look around, hoping that no one could hear them. "I already told you that there's nothing going on between us."

"I know." Renee gave her a wink. "Well we better get going or we're going to be late for the meeting."

Angel rolled her eyes at the woman who bounced away before falling her towards where the conference room were. Only catching up to her as she stopped at the door that had a sign that said 'WWE Crew' taped on it.

As Renee opened the door, Angel took a deep breath and looked around. In the middle of the room sat the biggest table she had ever seen, with chairs all around it. It looked like something out of a supervillain's lair and seeing the two intimidating powerhouse that were sitting at the far end, only added to that feeling. With one look at Stephanie McMahon and Hunter Hearst Helmsley, she knew right away why they were called the Authority. Just sitting there, they screamed that they were large and in charge.

Not able to take her eyes off the pair, she slowly walked around the table with Renee until they found two empty seats. After they got settled into their seats, Renee instantly started to play on her phone, leaving her to just sit there and twiddle her thumbs.

Not able to sit there doing nothing, Angel placed her backpack on her lap and pulled out her notebook that she had picked up at the airport for the meeting. Turning to the first page she wrote in the top margin, 'Feb 9, 2014 Raw Meeting', then proceeded to doddle around the date.

"Alright." Sometime later, Stephanie's powerful voice shut the room up and turned everyone's including Angel's attention towards her. "Let's get this thing started; first Kane is out right now due to his actions last week, so we're going to need you guys to pick up the slack for him." She said with that air of command. "So, what do we got?"

"Well as we know, Betty White is our guest star tomorrow." One of Stephanie's head members of the WWE board said as they stood up. "She'll be here to promote her new show 'Off Their Rockers'."

Monday Night Raw February 10th, Betty White guest staring. She quickly wrote down.

"We're going to have some of our Superstars show her around. Now, her agent called and said that she would like to pull a prank on someone for the show, but won't say who or what it will be, so we'll have to keep a camera crew with her."

Both Stephanie and Hunter smirked as the man talked. "I can't wait to meet Betty." Stephanie smiled. "I love her."

Hunter placed a hand on his wife's arm as he turned toward the head staff member. "What does our line up look like tomorrow?"

The man took a deep breath before looking down at his clip board. "Of course, we have our main event, John Cena vs Randy Orton."

Go Cena! Angel smirked as she wrote down the main event.

"Then, we have a three-man tag team match between The Wyatts and Rey Mysterio, Goldust and Cody Rhodes. And then there's the All Americans verses Sheamus and Christian" The man read off his papers. "Oh, Fandango asked for a match again Santino Marella because of what happened between Emma and Summer Rea." Santino had picked Emma from NXT out of the crowd, because he knew who she was, to face Summer Rea in a dance off. Which he named Emma the winner in.

Which seeing that Summer Rea can actually dance, and Emma did pretty much her entrance dance, it was a bit of a slap in the face. Anyone could understand why Fandango wanted a match against Santino to defend his girl.

Hunter rolled his eyes and Stephanie nodded her head. "Go ahead and give him the match, put it between The Wyatts verses Rey Mysterio, Goldust, and Cody Rhodes and the All Americans verses Sheamus and Christian. That way we have a singles match to break up the tag teams matches."

The head crew member quickly scribbled down what Stephanie had told him before he looked back up. "We then have, Dolph verses Alberto, The Usos verses RybAxel, last there's the Diva's fight which is The Bella's and Cameron verses AJ Lee, Aksana and Alicia Fox."

"Sounds good." Hunter nodded his head. "We got a good line up tomorrow."

Wait, that was it? Angel looked over her notes really quick and realized that the Shield didn't have a match, at all. Her eyebrows drew together as she went to say something, but Hunter stopped her by cleared his throat.

"Renee, what's do you have for us tomorrow."

Trying to bite her tongue she looked up at Renee as she stood up with her small notebook in her hand. "Alright, so of course I want to interview John Cena tomorrow about his match with Randy Orton and about the Elimination Chamber." She got a nod from Hunter. "And then possible an interview with either Sheamus and or Christian about how they plan to team up tomorrow when they are going to be enemies in the chamber together. And then I think with everything that has been happening, and all their success, we should have an interview with the Shield." Angel noticed as Renee gave her a small wink.

"I like it." Hunter agreed. "Give the Sheamus and Christian spot to Byron Saxon, and you take on of course, John Cena and the Shield."

Renee sat back down with a sigh as she scribbled something on her notebook, as Stephanie stood up once again. "So, over the week we're going to getting new photoshoots of some of the Superstars." She said as she passed out huge packets of paper. What was with this lady and killing trees? Angel sighed as she took her packet. "Inside the packet, you'll see an out of ring schedule for the Superstars, including what day and what time they are needed for their photoshoot."

Quickly going though, the packet, her eyes landed on the photoshoot schedule, and found the slot that was for the Shield. Their shoot was Tuesday at eleven in the morning. She then saw the little note next to the time slot that said 'bring the United States title'.

As the meeting went on, Angel found herself tuning out everything that was happening around her that was until her phone went off, making her jump. Looking around, she pulled out her phone and saw that Dean had just texted her, telling her that Seth and Roman had made it to the hotel, and that the three of them were chilling in their rooms.

"Hey, I have to go talk to Byron about tomorrow." Renee sighed. Angel looked up to see Renee packing up her things. Looking around, she realized that the meeting was over.

"Yeah, no problem." Angel nodded her head. Renee had told her about Byron, the reporter that was to replace her as after-show reporter. They apparent they liked him so much that they wanted to him some main show time. "I'll catch up with you later."

"Sounds good girl!" Renee waved as she made her way out of the room.

As she packed up her own things, her eyes landed back down on her notes. She gave a mental run through the of the lineup and sighed. The boys weren't going to very happy about not having a match tomorrow.

Looking up at her bosses who were getting ready to leave as well, she bit her lip and quickly gathered her things before heading over to the two Authority members.

"Um, Stephanie?"

"Angel!" Stephanie smiled as she looked up at her. "Just the manager I was looking for, your computer came in."

"Oh?" She had completely forgotten that Stephanie had order her a work computer.

Hunter placed a large laptop bag on the table, and her eyes widened as he pulled out the silver computer that was inside. "We've had one of the tech guys set this up for you already. They also installed some software to help make managing the boys a bit easier, so you are good to go." Hunter said as he opened the screen and pushed the button to turn it on. "In the bag there are some wipes to clean the screen and its power cord."

"Thank you." Angel smiled at him as she watched what was now her computer boot up.

"In the folder that I gave you before, there should be some tutorials on how to use the software" Stephanie said as Hunter put away the laptop. "If you have any questions just ask."

"Will do." She gave a quick nod as she took the bag from Hunter. Slinging the bag over her shoulder, she almost walked away; completely forgetting why she came up to see them in the first place.

"I do have a question about something else, though." When Stephanie looked back up from her papers, she continued. "I noticed that the Shield doesn't have a match tomorrow."

Stephanie gave a quick look at her open notebook in front of her and nodded. "You're right, they don't have a match scheduled at the moment." She frowned. "Though that can change, if Hunter and I can think of a match to throw them in. However, I will warn you, we do have a lot of tag matches scheduled for tomorrow, so if we add anything its probably going to be a singles match to even everything out. We'll let you know, though."

D.D.D

"So how was your weekend?" Seth asked through the door that connected their rooms. Dean could never figure out how they always seemed to get a conjoined room but hey he was complaining, for they liked to take turns on which member of the Shield got their own room. And it was his turn this time.

"It was pretty much like every other weekend." He sighed. "I worked out, ate, and drank." He said as he walked into Seth's and Roman's room to see the two of them finishing unpacking.

"Yeah, that sounds like you." Roman laughed. "Were you able to get along with Angel without us being here to play middle man?"

Dean rolled his eyes as he leaned up against the doorway and gave his friend a half glare. "I'm not a kid; I know how to behave without you here to scold me." Seth and Roman looked at each other for a moment with surprised looks on their faces. "Oh, fuck you!"

"Hey man, we're just speaking from experience." Roman shook his head as a knock came at the door.

Seth quickly went over and opened the door. "Long time no see."

"Hey!" Angel voice seemed to seep into the room. "How was your time home?"

"Good, it felt nice to sleep in my own bed and to be able to just chill out on the couch."

"I'm sure." She said as Seth stepped to the side and let her into the room.

"Hey Babygirl." Roman turned around and gave her a hug. "You miss us?" He asked pulling away.

"Of course." She smiled up at the man. "Though I had Dean and Renee to keep me company."

Dean groaned as he let his head fall forward. His eyes locked onto the strange pattern in the carpet, he didn't want to know the look that his brothers-in-arms were giving him.
"That was nice of him." He could just hear the smugness in Seth's voice.

"It was."

"So, how was your meeting?" Roman thankfully changed the subject.

"Fine." The tone in her voice said otherwise.

Looking up from the carpet, his eyes landed on Angel as she set down what looked to be a new laptop bag on the table. Frowning, he tried to figure out where the hell she had gotten a laptop from, since he knew she didn't have it on the plane.

"I do have your schedule for this week." She said rummaging through the bag, pulling out a packet of papers. "You have an interview tomorrow with Renee, I think she wants to talk to you guys about the Wyatts again, and you have a photoshoot on Tuesday with some ring time on Wednesdays. Then we head out to Ontario, Friday morning for Smackdown, and Saturday and Sunday there are house shows."

He cocked his head as he listened to her list off all the things that they had to do this week, before turning to Roman and Seth who seemed to realize the same thing he did. "We don't have a match tomorrow?" Seth pointed out.

Her eyes dropped to the floor as she shook her head. "I asked about it and Stephanie said that it might change but as of right now… no."

"That's bullshit!" He barked out, making Angel jump slightly while Roman and Seth shook their heads at him. "If they're not going to give us a fight, then why the fuck are we even here?"

For an interview and some photos? Fuck that. This was just like the Authority to do shit like this. He would bet anything that they didn't give them a match on purpose. Clenching his fist, he slammed it against the doorframe behind him.

"Hey," Roman snapped. "I agree with you that this is bullshit, but…"

"But what?" He pushed himself away from the door and got right into his best friend's face. "But what Ro? Huh? We got screwed by The Authority, again." He cocked his head at Roman, waiting to hear what he was going to say.

Excitement shot through him at the challenge that he saw in Roman's eyes.

"Dean."

"Roman."

"Will you two stop?" Both he and Roman frowned at the voice that came beside them. He knew that they both were expecting Seth to break them up, but no; his eyes dropped down to Angel, who was standing there looking up at them with a semi-stern look on her face. "I'm just as frustrated as you are." She told them. "I feel like this is my fault since I'm the one supposed to making sure that the WWE schedules you in a way that's best for you, and yet my first official meeting as your manager I failed to even get you a match."

Tears welled up in her eyes as she spoke. "But I promise you." His body tensed as she sniffled slightly. "I promise you." her voice grew stronger with each word. "I promise you that I will stop at nothing to make sure you have a match on Friday."

Skovko: Dean to the rescue! Oh I can't wait until Dean figures out what Bray had been up to. ;)

Labinnacslove: Well I think Dean would be annoyed if it was anyone but right now Bray is at the top of the list of people that Dean don't like, and of course Renee is trying to get more info from Angel, she's a reporter. It's her nature! Lol