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Monday Night Raw: February 10, 2014

Edited: 3/15/2020

Chapter Fifteen

"In coming." Angel yelled through the closed door of the locker room as she gave a little knock. After getting a few 'oks' from the people in the room, she opened the door. It was packed, almost all if not all of the Superstars that weren't away on medical leave were here today. Which she knew was only because everyone wanted to me Betty White.

As she walked through the small opening of people, she received a few 'hellos' and 'what's ups', from the Superstars like John Cena, Daniel Bryan, and the Usos. Smiling she said 'hi' back before making her way over to Dean, Seth, and Roman; who were surprise, surprise sitting off by themselves in the corner of the room.

She gave a quick survey of her team; Roman was sitting on one of the metal folding chairs, Dean was leaning against the wall while wrapping his hands, and Seth was sitting on the small seat that was built into the lockers. Each of them had an angry look on their face as they got ready for their interview. She hoped the news that's she was about to give them cheered them up at least a little.

"Hey guys."

"There she is." Roman looked up from his phone and gave her a wink. "What's up?"

She moved so that she could see all the men at the same time. "I just got finished talking to Stephanie about getting you a match on Friday." Dean and Seth's head snapped up as she spoke, waiting to hear what she was going to say. "And you got one; the Shield verses Sheamus, Daniel Bryan, and Christian." Roman nodded as he looked back at his teammates who both had smirks on their faces. "I thought that maybe versing some of the people in the chamber match might take out some frustration."

"That's some good thinking." Seth smirked. "I think a match like that, is just what we need."

"Hell yeah." Dean agreed with a smirk as he pounded his fist together.

"Shows starting!" A voice echoed through the locker room as the screen that was stationed in the locker room suddenly turned on and started to show the broadcasting of the night's show which started off with the announcement of the special guest tonight, Betty White.

Angel smiled as she watched Betty being escorted out onto the stage by the Big Show. The crowd loved her, but how could anyone hate Betty White.

"I can't possibly tell you how thrilled I am to be a guest here on Monday Night Raw." Betty said making the crowd cheer again.

"Now Betty, uh…" The Big Show brought the mic to his face. "What are we going to do tonight?" He asked as he leaned down so that he could point the mic at her.

Betty gave a sweet smile. "I'm going to kick some ass!"

Angel couldn't help but laugh as The Authority's theme started to play.

"God, that woman is funny." Seth chuckled.

Realizing that she was getting too sucked into the show and needed to get the boys ready for their interview, Angel turned away from the TV. "So, you boys ready for your interview?"

"Always." Roman sighed as he stood up from his chair just in time for Randy Orton's theme music to play over the TV.

A chill went down her back as she tried to fight the urge to turn back to the TV. However, she lost…

Eyes wide, she turned her head and watched as Randy walked towards the ring where Stephanie and Hunter were standing, looking less then please to see him.

"Randy, are you seriously doing this again, considering that we're out here talking about the potential new face of the WWE. I highly recommend that you go back to the locker room and prepare for your main event match tonight." Stephanie started in on Randy before he even got the chance to open his mouth.

"Well Stephanie, I've been doing some thinking." Randy took a deep breath. "I've been doing some thinking and I decided that I needed to come out here and apologies for my actions." Angel eyes widened at the man's words. "I don't want to confuse anyone; I'm not out there to apologies to them. I'm out here to apologies to you Stephanie. I'm out here to apologies to you Hunter."

"If he needs to apologize to anyone, he needs to apologies to Angel." She heard Roman mumble behind her.

Angel's heart almost stopped when she heard the word apologize come from the man on the TV's mouth, she couldn't believe that even for a split second she thought he was going to a public apology to her…but this was far from that. Randy was claiming that he wanted to be the face of the company in and out of the ring. Wanted his face to be on every cereal box and build boards…

"Yeah, let's put the face of a man who hit a woman and John Cena's dad on live TV, on cereal boxes and build boards; that would be great PR." Dean snickered as Randy went on and on. "This scumbag isn't even bringing up what happened."

Angel let out a sigh, as she turned to see Dean watching the TV with pursed lips, while rubbing his left peck. Those bright blue eyes held an ungodly amount of hate in them as he watched what was going on.

All of a sudden, the TV seemed to shake as Daniel Bryan's theme music started and Daniel came out on the stage. The 'yes' man wasn't very happy looking, and she knew it was in part to do with what happened with Kane last week when he tried to interfere during Daniel's and Randy's match. She also knew that he wasn't too happy with the fact that Randy was going on saying that he was the heart and soul of the WWE.

Once again getting sucked into the show, Angel barely felt her phone going off in her pocket. Sighing, she pulled it out and looked down at the screen to see a new text message from Renee.

Meet me in the loading dock when the Wyatts fight is over.

Loading dock? She questioned as she sent a message saying 'ok' back to Renee. "Renee wants us to meet her in the loading docks."

"Alright." Roman said not even fazed with the request, as he grabbed his belt in that 'long ranger' style. "Well why don't we head down now?" Roman suggested. "If you're really into watching the show, we can always catch it on one of the TVs down that way."

Everyone agreed and got up to head out of the locker room. However, when she went to follow behind the boys, she noticed something gold and shiny sticking out of Dean's duffle bag.

Really? She shook her head before rushing over and grabbing the thing out of his bag with a slight grunt. How could someone forget the United States title just sitting in their duffle? She wondered as she quickly made her way out of the locker room.

"Dean!" She called. "Did you forget something?"

Dean slowly turned around and looked at her; only for his eyes to dropped to the title. "Oh, yeah." He smirked as he took the belt and slung it over his shoulder. "Thanks." He said before starting down the hallway.

She rolled her eyes at him. Only Dean Ambrose.

By the time they got to the loading docks the match between the Wyatt family and Rey Mysterio, Cody Rhodes and Goldust had already started. Bray had just been tagged in by Luke Harper, and the two of them double teamed Goldust.

"Who do you pick in the Shield, Wyatt match?" She heard Cole ask over commentary. "I don't even know who you'd bet on."

The Shield. She said proudly to herself, as Bray gave Goldust an uppercut.

"How would you like to be the referee in that match? How would you like to have to control those six wild individuals?" JBL asked.

Angel couldn't help but look between Seth, Roman, and Dean who all stood around her watching the TV with smirks on their face. She couldn't tell what they were thinking as they watched the Wyatts but knew it wasn't good.

God, she did feel sorry for that poor referee that was going to be in the ring with them and the Wyatts at Elimination Chamber. It was surely going to be one heck of a challenge to keep reins on everyone. A job she found herself glad she didn't have. All she had to do was make sure that the boys got down to the ring, after that….it was the refs call.

D.D.D.

Dean sighed as he watched the Wyatt's verses Rey Mysterio and the Brotherhood aka Cody Rhodes and Goldust. He knew right away before even finishing the match who was going to win. The Wyatts… as much as he hated to admit it but; Goldust didn't seem on his A game, Cody seemed still a bit banged up from his cage match, and with Luke and Erick there, there wasn't really anything that the 'Biggest Little Man in the WWE' could do to keep Bray down.

Not caring much for the fight, he tuned the thing out and took the time to put on the United States title. Wrapping the thing around his waist backwards, he latched it before spinning it around so that the front of facing the right way. He then let out a sigh as he rested his arms on the thing and turned back towards the TV.

However, his eyes seemed to catch on the certain short brunette who was watching the match intensely. She was jumping around a bit and twitching with each hit. She telegraphed what was happening so well that he didn't even have to look at the TV to know what was going on.

She gave a cringe when the Wyatts landed a hit and smile and got pumped up when someone hit them. But suddenly all that energy when away as Mysterio went for a pin on Luke Harper only to be stopped by Bray. He could tell that in her eyes the match was over, and he knew that she was right.

After the breakup on the pin, Bray tagged himself in off of Harper as Mysterio went for the 619. The Luchador never saw the tag and was caught by surprise as Bray caught and flipped him instantly into a Sister Abigail and that was it….

"How can you stop the Wyatts? Who can stop the Wyatts? Can the Shield do it?"
"Hell yeah, we can." Seth answered Cole as they showed replays of what happened.

When the show came back to what was happening in the arena, the lights were dim, only showing Bray who was sitting in his stupid rocking chair.

One day I'm going to break that thing.

"Others have played this game with me before, Shield." Bray said sounding like he was trying to catch his breath. "And they have all failed. You…you will be no different. You are but tiny little toy soldiers…" He started to scream in that airy voice of his. "…trying to play your part in a war that's not meant for you!" He put his free arm out and looked up. "You. Will. Fall." A smirk came on his face. "Right in time for my next game to begin." He laughed as he completely fell back in the chair until it hit into the legs of Luke and Erick.

Dean found himself imagining what would have happened if those two weren't there and smiled at the thought of Bray falling backward and smashing his back against the ramp.

"There you are!" Renee came running over towards them, cutting off his nice daydream that was turning into him smashing that damn chair over Bray's head. "You ready?"

"As ready as we'll ever be." Seth answered her as they turned away from the TV.

"We have two minutes before we go live with the interview." Renee told them as she gestured for them to move away from the TV. "Right before we go live, we're going to be showing the highlight of Roman's record breaking Royal Rumble and the camera is going to start on your face."

He couldn't help but roll his eyes as the smug look appeared on Roman's face, as Renee talked about his 'record breaking' Royal Rumble performance. You throw a few people out of the ring and everyone thinks you're a god. He shook his head at his friend.

"Break a leg." Angel smiled at them as she took a spot behind the camera man.

"Where do you think you're going?" Renee reached out and grabbed Angel's arm, stopping her. "Are you part of this team?"

"I…"

"Get back there." Renee told her as she pushed her back so that she was standing between Roman and Seth.

"We're a go in ten seconds." Renee's camera man called out as he got really close to Roman's face. "Five…Four…three…two…"

Looking down at the ground, Dean started to drum his fingers on the metal face of the title. Since they were talking about the Royal Rumble, he had a feeling that his 'betrayal' was going to come up and he didn't want anything to do with it. It was every man for himself and everyone just needed to get over it.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the camera man quickly moved back from Roman's face and turn towards Renee, giving her the go ahead. "Roman, we just saw highlights from your historic night at the Royal Rumble, but now you, Seth, and Dean, face perhaps your biggest challenge in the Wyatt Family in the six men tag match at the Elimination Chamber."

Dean actually felt a bit of relief as the topic was quickly changed away from the Royal Rumble to their match at Elimination Chamber. Never before was he so happy to have to talk about the Wyatts.

"And the Wyatt Family actually had some pretty harsh words for you guys lately, do you have a response to that?" Renee finished.

"Babygirl. Actions always speak louder than words, remember that." Roman answered her.

"The Wyatt's love to speak in riddles….Renee we don't." Seth took his turn to speak. "We speak in absolutes."

"As in." Dean quickly chimed in with a smirk as he played on Seth's words. "We will absolutely destroy the Wyatt Family at the Elimination Chamber." His eyes snapped up to see his brothers nodding their heads at him.

Though as he noticed a fourth person standing on their side of the camera, it took him a second to register that it was Angel and why she was standing with them. Once he remembered, he quickly realized just how short she was. The woman was shorter then Renee, who he already thought was really small.

"Dean on another topic…" Renee's voice made him look back up at she continued the interview. There was a part of him that started to sweat when he heard Renee call him out.

On another topic? He had no idea what she was about to say, though there were a few things that came to mind. In his head the list seemed to go on and on from; what happened at the Royal Rumble, the pin stealing, his Championship, and then there was also the chance that she was going to bring up him and Angel. He wouldn't put anything past the reporter.

"…there had actually been some talk lately…" He didn't like the way she wouldn't look up at him as she spoke. It was making him antsy. He ran his hand over his left peck trying to get rid of the 'cornered' feeling that was going through him. "…about the fact that haven't defended your United States Championship in quite some time. Do you have a comment on that?"

He almost thought he hadn't heard her right when she started to talk about the Championship. Just by the way she was looking at him, he would have placed money down on the fact that she was going to say something about him sneaking out of Angel's hotel room.

A.A.A

Angel watched as Dean just stood there for a moment blinking at Renee as he seemed to be thinking about her questions.

"So, am I supposed to just uh…pull uh…Untied State Championship matches and contenders out of thin air?" He asked while made as slight grabbing motion over Renee's head, like he was trying to do just that. "Is that what I'm supposed to do? You know how this works?" He dropped his arm and cocked his head. "Do you have any idea how much paper work…"

"Dean…" Roman interrupted him "Dean…" Dean's head slowly lifted to look at the powerhouse that stood across the way from him and Renee quickly moved the mic to pick up what Roman was saying.

"What are you talking about man?" He chuckled. "What kind of kind of champion do you want to be?" He said with a smile on his face.

Angel's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open as she looked around and what was happening around her. Seth and Roman were both smiling like they were enjoying what was happening, like they enjoyed calling Dean out at a bad champ.

"I resent that." Dean said as he pointed as Roman. "Bottom line is there is no one in this company with the guts to try to step up and take this from me." He gave the belt a nice little pat. "I'll prove it tonight; I'll put out an open challenge. Tonight, U.S. title on the line. Anyone that wants to step up. I will remind the world that I am the champion." He marched off, not taking his eyes off of Roman.

What just happened? Angel looked around to see Roman and Seth look proud of themselves they watched as Dean swung his arms around and bounced on his feet in the nearest corner.

"Angel." She jumped at Renee's voice. "This is the first time we've gotten to talk to you since you became the Shield's valet slash manager-in-training. I think I speak for the whole WWE Universe when I say we want to know, is this what it's like working with them every day?" All of the sudden a mic was in her face.

Surprised at the sudden question, she turned from Renee towards the camera that was focused on her. "Uh…I wouldn't say every day." She tried to answer honestly. "They do butt heads a bunch, but when you have three dominating alpha 'dogs' together and there's bound to be some fighting."

"Sounds like you've got your hands full." Renee slyly winked.

"You could say that." She sighed.

"And out." The camera guy said as he slowly dropped the camera down from his shoulder.

"Thank you, you did wonderful." Renee turned off her mic.

Angel spun on her heels and looked right at the woman. "You could have warned me last night that you were going to ask me something." She gave her a smack on the arm.

Last night while watching whatever late-night drama was on the hotel's TV, Renee had gone over what she wanted to talk to the Shield about. Making sure to mention the Wyatts, and Dean's Championship, but she never once said anything about pulling her into the interview or wanting to ask her a question.

"But if I did, I wouldn't have gotten such a cute reaction from you." Renee smirked.

"I sounded stupid." She rebutted as she felt her face grow warm.

"No, you didn't." Renee shook her head as she gave her a smack on the shoulder. "You sounded just fine."

"Renee, we have to go set up for Byron's interview." The camera told her.

"Oh yeah, let's go." Renee nodded as she waved goodbye. "You see later."

At least the interview was done and over with, meaning now all she had to do was go and talk to Stephanie about Dean's outburst of an open challenge for the U.S. title. She hoped that Stephanie wasn't going to be too upset about this.

She looked over at the corner were Dean had sat himself, to see Roman and Seth trying once again to calm the man down; which was starting to become a normal sight to her. She realized that Seth and Roman loved to wind Dean up but would always make sure to settle him down afterwards. Truly like brothers.

Realizing that they seemed to have everything taken care of, she decided that now was a good time as any to go and see the boss and started for Stephanie's makeshift office for the second time tonight.

However, this time she found herself nervous about what Stephanie was going to say about Dean's open challenge. She knew that Superstars made open challenges all the time, but she didn't know how they worked. Did the Superstar have to ask before calling it out? Or did they just go it?

Taking a deep breath, she walked up to the door that had Stephanie's name on it and gave a knock.

"Come in." Stephanie's voice came through the door. Readying herself for the screaming that was about to come, she opened the door. "Angel?"

"Hi…" She tried her hardest to put on a smile on her face or at least look like she wasn't scared out of her mine right now. However, as her eyes bounced around the room, she noticed a TV in the corner of the room and knew right away that Stephanie knew what happened. She was surly watching the show like a hawk.

"I'm sure you already know why I'm here."

"Dean's open challenge for the United States Championship?" She nodded her head. "I'm already looking over the schedule to see if we have time to fit it in."

Angel's eyes widened as she stared as her boss. This wasn't what she thought was going to happen. Stephanie didn't even seem the slightest bit angry, but who really knew with Stephanie McMahon.

"Depending on how long a few of these matches go, I say we throw the match in after the Usos verses RybAxel, to give us another singles match." Stephanie said looking up from her computer. "Can you make sure that he's ready for the match by then?"

"Yes ma'am." Angel nodded her head in awe.

"Good." Stephanie said as she went back to work without another word.

And boy did Angel take the hint and quickly made her way out of the office. She felt as if she stayed in the office moment longer, Stephanie would have changed her mind. She was a McMahon after all, and they weren't the most level-headed people.

Once in the hallway, she tired to comprehend what just happened. She was almost ninety percent sure that she was going to be yelled at for letting her Superstar blurt out an open challenge on air, but instead Stephanie almost looked happy about it. Which after the way they had been talking about having a 'full show' was not something she was expecting.

Don't have time to worry about what didn't happen. She told herself. Got to make sure that Dean's good to go. She said as she raced towards the locker room.

However, she was quickly stopped in her place as she heard a voice come from behind her. "Well, well, if it isn't Angel Miles." Without even looking back, she knew whose voice that was. It was the voice that was stuck in her head, ever since she first heard it. "We really need to stop running into each other like this."

"Hello Bray." She turned around with a forced smiled on her face.

"Hello, little lamb." He smiled down at her.

"How's are you today?" She asked as she watched Luke Harper and Erick Rowan walk up beside their leader, with those creepy, vacant looks on their faces.

"We're good, thanks for asking." Bray said with a almost touched tone in his voice.

"She's so sweet." Luke cocked his head. Angel shivered as she looked into the man's blank eyes, there was something wrong with him.

"Well, that's good to hear." She took a step back trying to separate herself from the men staring at her. "I-I hate to be rude, but I really must be getting back to the locker room." She pointed behind her. Though as she went to turn around, she felt a something thump onto her shoulder, stopping her.

Glancing down, she saw it was Bray's hand.

"You know something…" He started to speak as if she didn't just say that she needed to leave. "You remind me of my Abigail." Her eyes went wide as she watched an almost endearing smile appear on Bray's face. "So soft and sweet…" His words dropped to almost a whisper. "But I can see that fire in your eyes. Just like I saw in hers."

"Oh." She almost gaged as she swallowed the lump in her throat. There was something off with Bray… Not that there wasn't always something off with him. This went deeper than the creepiness that normally came with him; his blue eyes seemed almost empty as he talked, like he wasn't seeing through them.

"I can tell that there's something more to you." He went on as the hand on her shoulder clenched tightly on her.

"Ouch, Bray that hurts." She winced as she looked down at the hand on her shoulder.

"Just like her."

"Wyatt!" She almost fell to the floor as she heard the strong voice come from behind her. "You think you can step off my friend." Building up the courage to look away from Bray and turned to see Nikki Bella making her way towards them.

Thank God!

Bray's eyes seemed to flash as that emptiness went away. "We were just talking."

Angel suddenly had no doubts that Nikki was the 'Fearless one' as she stopped next to her and glared at Bray without backing down. "Doesn't look like you were only talking." She raised an eyebrow at the hand that was on Angel's shoulder.

With a smirk, Bray removed his hand and it was like the weight of the world was removed.

Feeling like she could breath, again, Angel quickly stepped back so that she was more than an arm's length away. Though that relief instantly drained from her as she watched Luke and Erick step even closer.

When Bray looked back at the two men, Nikki pushed Angel behind her before stepping up like she was prepared to fight. But Bray just shook his head, his eyes fixated as if he was looking through Nikki to her. "Until next time." He said spinning around and started away from them.

Even as Angel let her shoulders sag, Nikki didn't move an inch until both Harper and Rowan turned around to follow their leader.

"What the hell was that?" She asked put her hands on her hip.

Angel shrugged; she wasn't sure what Bray was up to herself. This was the first time that he had ever down more than just say 'hello' to her. Frist time that he had touched her. She swallowed the lump in her throat as she prayed it would be the last as well.

"Shit…" Nikki took a deep breath and turned towards her. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine." Angel answered as she tried to get ahold of herself.

Nikki's frowned. "Are you sure? I mean having a run in with Bray Wyatt isn't something that most people are 'ok' after."

She agreed. "I've kind of gotten used to it." As least as used to as one could be when it came to Bray Wyatt.

"Used to?" She cocked her head. "You mean this has happened before?"

"Kind of…."

Nikki's eyes widened as her mouth almost hit the floor. "And the Shield just lets it happen?" She could hear the anger in the Fearless One's voice. "I thought they said they were going to protect you?"

Angel quickly shook her head. "They don't know."

"What!"

"I haven't told them…"

Nikki's eyes closed as she leaned herself against the wall. "You haven't told them that someone like Bray Wyatt keeps harassing you?" Her eyes snapped open. "Are you stupid?" She was starting to feel like it. "You need to tell them. Like now."

"Dean has an open challenge for his title tonight; I don't want to distract him with something like this." She would feel bad if she took his mind off the fight… that as of right now he knew nothing about.

"Something like this?" She shook her head. "Bray is dangerous, you need to tell them."

"And I will. After his fight."

Nikki took a deep breath as she tossed her arm over her shoulder. "Promise me that as soon as Dean's match is done, you will tell them about this."

"I promise."

"Good."

Labinnacslove: Well she new and worried that she's messing up. But don't worry very soon we're going to see Angel letting loose.

Skovko: They could and if it wasn't for Dean's open challenge I'm sure they would have!