Welcome to Chapter Forty! I hope you enjoy it! This chapter was hard to write so let me know what you think about it.

Main Event: March 10, 2014

Edited: 8/18/19

Chapter Forty

Dean started to wonder how he talked himself into watching Elimination Chamber with Angel. For some reason when she changed the video, he didn't move. However, now he was regretting it as he watched Seth and Rowan beating the shit out of each other.

He had already lived through this and watching it was only making his anger and hatred for the Wyatt's grow. In fact, his body was starting to twitch like he was back on the apron waiting to get into the match. The need to punch Bray in the face started to build as he thought about what was coming up.

Taking a deep breath, he gave his neck and rolled his shoulder trying to release some of the tension. When something then slumped against his side, looking over he saw Angel was laying against him with her eyes closed.

"Hey." He gave her a little nudge, but all she did was snuggle into his arm even more.

He chuckled slightly as he looked down at her. She was out, though he wasn't surprised, she looked exhausted since after Seth and Roman's match and now it was…. He looked at the small clock in the corner of the computer screen and his eyes widened. Shit. It was one in the morning. How did it get that late? He asked himself as he rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand.

Sighing, he turned his attention back to the sleeping girl on his arm and try to figure out a game plan on how to weasel his way out of this mess. The longer he thought of a plan the more he realized that this was the first time that he didn't mind something laying on him like this. He wasn't known to be one for cuddling. He didn't like to get that close to people and yet here he was sitting in a bed next to a girl that he's only known for a little over a month who was now sleeping against him.

As if on cue, his body seemed to realize what was going on and suddenly that claustrophobic feeling hit him. Here we go. He sighed as he quickly, but gently maneuvered himself around so that he was able to pull his arm out from under her, trying not to bother her too much.

One step at a time. He breathed as he finally got his arm out and was able to get to his feet. Trying to get rid of the sudden need to move, he gave his arm a couple of swings. Once he was stratified or at least the crawling sensation was gone, he turned back towards the bed to see that Angel had buried her face into the bit of pillow that she managed to land on.

A small smirk worked its way onto his face as he turned off the video that was still playing. Within the time that he had shut the computer and placed it on the small table in the corner of the room, she had gone from laying awkwardly to being rolled up in a ball.

She had brought her knees up so high that there was about an inch between them and her nose. How she managed to make herself look even smaller was amazing. How she managed to be cute even when she was asleep was…

Giving his head a shake, he stepped away from the bed patting his pockets to make sure that he had his things before he started out of the room. Slowly and as quietly as he possibly could he let the door close behind him and let out a huge breath of relief.

"Another late-night shoulder massage?"

His heart sunk as he turned down the hallway to see Renee walking towards him with a telling smirk on her face. "You're coming back quite late?" he tried to change the subject.

She nodded her head. "And you're coming out of Angel's room quite late."

He should have known better then try to switch the subject with Renee. She was a reporter; it was her job to get the information that she wanted and not let the subject change unless she wanted it to. "I was helping her get ready for her interview with Michael Cole."

Renee cocked her head slightly as she stopped in front of him. "Oh yeah, I heard that Michael wanted to have an interview with her." She nodded her head. "Though what does that have to do with visiting Angel late at night?"

"She was freaking out about the interview, so I came up to help her prepare." He told her.

"Just you?" She asked. "Where's Seth and Roman? They didn't want to help?"

This was the problem with reporters, they always liked to ask questions to try and back people into a corner. "I'm sure they would have, but I was the only around when she started to freak out, so I offered…"

"You offered?" She made a face like she didn't believe him.

"Yes, I offered to help, that way…"

"What was she freaking out about?" He inhaled sharply as Renee interrupted him again, he knew that he wasn't going anywhere until she got what she was looking for.

"This is her first one on one interview so she's nervous about what Michael is going to ask, not only that but she's worried that either what happened with Randy or something about the Elimination Chamber is going to come up."

It was Renee's turn to let out a sigh as she leaned up against the wall. "Yeah… I can tell you those two topics are certainly going to come up in her interview, Michael wants to know where she was during the Elimination Chamber and he wants to hear her side of what happened with Randy."

"She knows that and it's making her freak out. She thought that if we watched the video of Randy hitting her and our match at Elimination Chamber it would help, but she fell asleep during it…"

Renee's face softened as she left out a sigh. "I wish she would just take a deep breath. She prone to working herself up with things like this. If she could just relax and just be herself, she would be…"

"Amazing." The word poured from his lips before he could even think to take it back. Trying not to register his stupidity on his face, he watched as a huge smile reappeared on Renee's.

"Well." Her clapped. "It's getting really late and I really need to hit the sack." Without letting him get another word in edgewise, she disappeared into her and Angel's room.

He let out a groan as the door shut behind her. "One step at a time."

A.A.A.

Angel let out a whine as a blaring noise echoed through the room. It can't be eight already. She groaned as she fumbled around to find her phone.

"Morning, sleepy head." She opened her eyes as she grabbed her phone to see Renee hanging out of the bathroom with her hair curler in hand.

"Morning." She yawned as she turned off her alarm.

"Aw, is someone still tired?" Renee let out a laugh.

She tossed her phone back on the bed somewhere and nodded her head. "A bit."

"Well I would be tired too if I had a secret late-night rendezvous with a certain Dean Ambrose."

Nodding her head, Angel stretched her arms out. She went to relax back into her blankets when her brain started to shoot up red flags. "NO!" Her eyes snapped towards Renee who see her standing there with an almost wicked smile on her face. "No! No. No." She shook her head quick enough that it made her slightly dizzy. "It's not like that."

"Not like what?" Renee asked as she disappeared back into the bathroom.

"Not like what you're thinking." At least she didn't think it was. It was kind of like a late-night rendezvous. Just the two of them. NO! She gave her head a hard shake. "He was just helping me get ready for my interview."

"Huh uh." Renee said as she came out of bathroom.

"I'm serious." Angel rolled off the bed so that her feet hit the floor and made her way over to her things to get out her clothes for the day. "Weren't you the one who said that you should have known better then think someone like me would spend the night with someone like Dean."

Renee laughed. "I did say that, but that was before I realized how much Dean has changed since you came around."

"Changed?" Angel glanced over her shoulder.

"Yeah, the Dean I knew wasn't the type of guy that would take the time to stop every show and help someone over the barricade. Nor would he leave his teammates, the men he calls his brothers alone in the ring because he's worried about someone else. But yet here he is going out of his way to help you with preparing for you interview."

Angel's face felt like it caught on fire as she bundled up her clothes. Hearing Dean say that it was weird for him to have this sudden attachment and attraction to someone was one thing but to have Renee point out the same thing…. It just seemed to make it all the more real.

"I think it's just because I'm part of his team." She said as she quickly made her way over to the bathroom trying her best to hide the blush from Renee

"Say what you will but I think Dean likes you and if I were you, I would watch out because he might make a move here soon."

"Yeah right." She swallowed the lump in her throat. All she needed to do was make it to the bathroom and she was home free. At least for a little bit.

"Wait a minute." Renee gasped making Angel stop dead in her tracks. "Don't tell me he already has."

"What, no! Of course not." She quickly made her way into the bathroom.

"Oh my god!" She heard Renee scramble around the room and making it to the bathroom door just as she was about to shut the door. "You have to tell me."

"N-nothing happened." She trying to shut the door away.

"If you don't tell me then I'll go right to the source himself and I won't be nice about it."

Angel pouted as she let out a huge sigh. It probably wasn't a good thing if Renee went running to Dean demanding to know what happened. "Fine."

Renee's face lit up as she pushed her way into the small bathroom and hopped up onto the sink. Angel shook her head at the woman, she looked like a child waiting for story time; she was kicking her feet and everything.

Sorry Dean. "Well, last week after Raw, Dean was still very upset about what happened with Seth…and I was trying to calm him down…" She paused when she saw the eager look on Renee's face. "…we sort of kind of…kissed."

"What?!" Renee's jaw dropped to the ground. "I thought he was going to make a move but I never…You and Dean? Holy shit!" Angel could do nothing but nod her head as Renee freaked out. "You two kiss and you didn't tell me?"

"We were kind of keeping it a secret." She shifted in her spot.

"But this is huge!" Renee jumped off the sink and grabbed her shoulders. "Oh my god, you have to tell me if anything else happens."

"Renee…"

She gave a little pout. "Please."

"Alright, if you stop making such a huge deal out of this."

A cheesy smile came onto the woman's face as stumbled out of the bathroom. "I still can't believe that you and Dean kissed."

Relief washed over her as she watched Renee almost dance around the room. It was like a huge weight has lifted from her chest now that someone else knew about them. And she couldn't help but be a little happy about having someone to talk to about it.

Shaking her head, she gave one last look at the woman who was humming to herself with a huge smile on her face and an interesting thought popped into her head.

"Oh, since you already know about us kissing, I guess I should also tell you about the Raw after Elimination Chamber, Dean drunkenly kissed me in an elevator." She said shutting the bathroom door just in time for Renee to spin around.

D.D.D

Dean felt antsy as he stood there with Seth and Roman, watching as the production crew set up for Angel's interview. This whole morning had been one giant panic attack for Angel followed by the three of them trying to settle her down. And I'm the one with the title match. He sighed as he locked eyes with Angel who was sitting totally still while the crew member fixed her lavalier mic.

"We're starting soon." A crew member called as Michael Cole sat down in his chair next to her. She nodded her head as she started to fiddle with the bottom of her shirt.

After the crew member walked away to go work on something else, she turned her attention towards them with a look that was borderline horrified.

"Breathe." Seth took a huge overexaggerated breath, while Roman gave her two thumbs up.

After doing what Seth told her to do, her eyes landed on Dean and it took him back for a moment. "You got this." He mouthed to her, which made her smile slightly.

"Quiet on set!" A production member yelled. "Camera."

"Rolling."

"Slate."

"Rolling interview with Angel Miles."

"Action."

"This week I get to sit down with the manager of the Shield, Angel Miles for her first ever interview here at WWE." Michael Cole said looking right into the camera before turning towards Angel. "Angel."

Dean held his breath as he waited for Angel to answer the man. "Hello Michael Cole." She smiled at the man with no signs of the nervousness that just had her shaking like a leaf. Letting out the breath, he nodded his head. She's going to be just fine.

"I wanna say thank you for joining me today."

"Well thank you for having me, it's a true honor to sit down with the Michael Cole."

Michael shook his head. "The honor is mine. You've been the talk of the town for a while now, everyone wants to know more about you." Angel paused and blinked at him.

"Oh? Well there's not much to know." She let out a snicker.

"Let's talk about your career here at WWE, you haven't been with us that long."

She shook her head. "Just a couple of months."

"And yet your journey has been a busy one."

"Oh yeah." She sighed. "Lots of twist and turns.

Michael nodded his head again as he glanced down at the small note pad on his lap. "Do you care to share your experience?"

"She's doing well." Seth leaned over and whispered in his ear.

Dean nodded but didn't talk his eyes off Angel. He was making sure that he didn't miss a single hint that she needed them to help as she told Michael Cole about how she was originally hired for the production crew and how Renee was the one that put her name in for the after show reporter.

"And every k-knows the rest." He grimaced at the small stutter she let out at the end. He hoped that it didn't throw her off.

Michael Cole shook his head. "I still can't believe what Randy Orton did, it was sickening. And I'm very sorry that it happened."

Angel nodded as her eyes flickered towards the three of them. He could see the slight twinkle of fear that danced in them.

"You got this." He mouthed to her, while at the same time he prepared to run in and interrupt the interview.

She took a deep breath and turned back towards Michael Cole. "You know something Michael, I would never want anything like what happened to me happen to anyone else nor do I wanna relive it."

"I'm sure."

"But if it wasn't for what Randy did, I wouldn't have become the Shield's manager." Her eyes flicked back towards them, this time the fear seemed to be gone.

"It just goes to show that not everyone's WWE journey is the same." Michael looked into the camera. "Now since you have an inside scoop on the Shield I want to ask you, are they really one the same page again after what happened."

Her brows drew together for a moment. "Absolutely. They might bicker and fight but there's a reason they call each other brothers because that's what they are. And brothers fight sometimes."

"My last question for you, as his manager, do you believe that Dean has a chance tonight against Mark Henry."

"Yes." Dean was surprised that she didn't even pause before answering.

"He didn't fair to well last time."

"That was last time." She pointed out. "This is now, and I have not a doubt in my mind that Dean can and will win tonight. He's going to walk out of Main Event with that United States Championship still around his waist."

His eyes widened as Angel's words hit him. The tone of her voice was dead serious, like she hundred percent believed in what she said.

"Hey man." Seth gave him a smack on the back. "Wanna have some fun?"

A.A.A

"I want to thank you again." Michael smiled at her as he wrapped up the interview. Thank god.

"Thank…"

"Hey!" Dean's voice echoed through the area that they set up for the interview. Making her glanced over to see him, Seth and Roman heading over towards her not looking very happy. What on Earth?

All of a sudden, she was surrounded by the Shield, Roman to her right, Seth to her left and Dean stood behind her.

"Is this guy bothering you?" Seth leaned down and asked. She went to shake her head but Seth step forwards and got into Michael Coles face. "Are you bothering out manager."

"What? I um." Michael was as thrown for a loop, just like she was. As Seth and Roman yelled at Michael Cole, she felt someone grab her arm and pull her from her chair.

She glanced back to see Dean behind her with a half smirk half pout on his face. "What's going on?"

"Just go with it." He mumbled as he pulled her behind him.

Go with what?!

"Let's go." Seth ordered as the four of them left Michael Cole in a daze.

After they got down the hallway a bit the frowns and angry attitude disappeared and turned into almost giddy smirks.

"Did you see the look on his face?" Seth clapped his hands.

"Scared shitless." Roman nodded.

"I can't blame him." She sighed.

"Awe come one, we were just having a little fun." Dean threw his arm around her shoulders. "You did great." He leaned down and whispered into her ear before pulling away and moving to catch up with Seth and Roman.

She shook her head at the three men as they made their way to the locked room. They were like children who just got away with a prank.

As she went to join up with them, she caught a certain blond-haired woman out of her corner of her eye. Angel's face instantly warmed up as she turned towards Renee who was standing there getting a mic put on her with a huge smile on her face.

As soon as their eyes met, Renee blew a kiss and winked.

"Oh, of course she would see that."

…

Letting out a sigh, Angel walked down the hallway with her arms full of waters from catering. She felt like she weighed ten pounds lighter now that the interview was over. And now she could focus on what was truly important; Dean's match against mark Henry.

Speak of the devil. She smiled as her eyes landed on Dean who was starting to pump himself up for his match. He was stretching his back in a downward facing dog yoga pose.

Making her way slowly up to him, she held out one of the waters in her arms as he practically dragging his face against the floor, he pushed himself up into the seal pose.

"Water?" She asked as soon as his eyes landed on her.

"Yeah," he grunted. "Go ahead and put it down over there." He nodded to a spot a little bit away from him before going back into the downward dog.

"Getting all loose?" She set the water down where told her too.

"Getting there." He hopped up onto his feet and gave a shake of all his limbs. She watched as he started to jump up and down while throwing punches in the air.

"What?" He rolled his neck.

"Nothing." She shook her head as she placed the other waters next to where she placed his. "Where's Seth and Roman?"

"Probably down at catering."

"Must have just missed them." She leant against the wall. She crossed her arms as she watched him start to do jumping jacks. "You nervous?"

"Nervous? Why the hell would I be nervous?"

"Because you have a title match in less than…" She looked down at her phone and shrugged her shoulders. "…twenty minutes."

Dean let out another groan as he lowered himself down to the pushup position. "I've had shit ton of title matches in my life." He snickered. "I'm fine."

"Even though it's against Mark Henry?"

He let out a heavy sigh as he pushed himself off the ground. "Again, why should I be nervous? My manager herself said that I was going to win." He smirked.

"Using my words against me."

"I'm serious." He walked over and took one of the waters off the floor. "There's no reason to be nervous."

"Any normal person would be." She told him.

He let out a hearty chuckle. "They don't call me the Lunatic Fringe for nothing sweetheart."

Her breath was caught in her throat as her heart fluttered in her chest. Bringing a hand up she placed on her chest and took a deep breath. Never had she thought that one word could make her heart jump, make butterflies fill her stomach and make her head feel like it was spinning; but here she was. Sweetheart.

"There you are."

She jumped as Roman's voice came down the hallway. Quickly, she gave herself a mental shake as she looked towards the two men who were walking towards them. "Hey, I was about to come get you guys." She hoped that they wouldn't notice the blush that she was trying fight back.

"We were down in catering." Seth said as he held up a half-eaten apple.

"Told you." Dean smirked.

Before Seth and Roman got to the end of the hallway, a crew member rushed over to them. "The Shield's needed." He called.

"Alright, we'll be right there." She called back as she pushed herself off the wall. "You ready?" She turned towards Dean.

"Oh course." He smirked jumping up and down. "Let's do this."

Labinnacslove: He is such a sweetheart, though I don't think that he realizes it and Angel rooming with the boys would be interesting lol.

Skovko: Hopefully he gets his moment soon

Brookeworm3: She did face one of her biggest demons. I don't think it's a fear of touching her, its more like he's not use to getting close to people and he doesn't like change.

canadice: Am I a tease? Oh and happy late birthday! Here's your update. I'm so glad that you're enjoying the story.