Welcome to Chapter 43! I hope you like this chapter.

Smackdown: March 14, 2014

Edited: 8/18/19

Chapter Forty Three

Angel followed behind the boys as they walked backstage. They were jumping around and still going on about Seth's match. She still wasn't sure how she felt about it. Before the match Dean had explained everything to her and she tried to act as if it was just another fight and not something that Hunter ordered. And it worked for a bit but then came what was after the match. Dean, Seth, and Roman stood there over top of Sandow ready to finish the match off with their signature fist bump. When Dean stopped, and her heart fell.

She watched in almost horror as they pulled Sandow into the ring for a beat down. Every hit, every punch she couldn't help but feel bad. Dean had told her that the Shield didn't give out unwarranted beat downs and know she was trying to figure out what Sandow did to deserve one.

"Hey." She glanced up to see that Dean was now standing beside her. Their eyes locked and she took a deep breath.

"Wasn't the Triple Powerbomb a little much?" She asked knowing that he was going to ask her what was wrong.

He shook his head. "No, he deserved everything that he got."

"How?" She asked almost baffled. "We talked about this, what was he…"

"You didn't hear him during the match?" Roman asked turning around.

"Huh?" She raised an eyebrow.

"He called you a bitch."

"He did?" She questioned looking back at Dean.

He nodded his head. "Yeah, he told us to get 'our bitch' away, when you were helping Seth."

She tried to think back to the moment but all she remembered was worrying about Seth's leg.

"The moment the word bitch dripped from his lips, he earned the powerbomb." Dean snarled. "If he would have just watched his mouth, it would have been pin and done."

Angel pursed her lips together as she listened to Dean talked. It made it feel better that at least the boys had a reason to attack Sandow, that they weren't just doing it because Hunter told them to.

Letting out a sigh of relief, she looked up and saw that all three of them were looking at her. Crossing her arms, she threw up her nose and smirked. "Well then… fuck him."

They all laughed.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." Dean said as he draped an arm over her shoulders.

The celebration seemed to start back up where it left off, that was until Hunter came into view.

The COO was standing in the middle of the hallway with his arm crossed and a pleasant smile on his face. "There you are." Hunter uncrossed his arms and put them out almost like he was expecting a hug. "Good job out there, boys." He gave a chuckle.

"Thanks Hunter." Seth was the one to answer.

"I knew I could trust you with this task." He clapped Seth on the shoulder.

Seth nodded his head. "The Shield always comes through."

"That's what I like to hear." Hunter chuckled. "Ah, Kane was looking for you." He said pointing at each of them. "He said something about having a job for you?"

Angel nodded her head. She had been wondering how long it was going to take for Kane to reach out to them. He had put the boys through a 'test' to see if they were still an asset and they passed with flying colors. If I do say so myself. So, it was just a matter of time before Kane gave them another job.

"Well, we shouldn't keep the demon waiting." Seth said as Hunter walked away.

"I'm curious to see what he wants."

"You and me both." Roman sighed.

Quickly turned around to head to Kane's office, Roman and Seth stopped off at catering to grab waters and snakes. Which took longer than she would have hoped.

When they finally got to the man's office, Angel took a deep breath and gave a knock on the door. "Kane?" She called out as the door slowly creaked open. When no one answered, her turned back to the three men behind her and shrugged.

Dean let out a groan and pushed his way to the front of the group. "Kane, we here…." He said storming through the doorway, a few steps in, he heard him let out a sigh. Quickly Roman and Seth made their way into the room after him.

"Great." Seth sighed making her peek in out of curiosity. All three men were starting across the room at a small production crew that was setting up a camera.

"Oh, hey guys; Kane just stepped out. He'll be right back." One of the crew members said.

A resounding grumble echoed through the room as the boys made themselves at him. "Well whatever he wants it had to do with the show." She said as she pointed at the camera.

Dean gave a lick of his lips as he crossed his arms. "Looks like it."

...

After they stood there and waited for ten minutes, Kane finally walked into the room. Completely ignoring them, he made his way over to the crew members who were finishing their set up.

Taking a deep breath, she turned and looked at Dean who had already been boiling over the fact that they had to wait all this time to see him. And now he was fuming.

"What exactly do you need us in here for then?" He snapped, making everyone turn towards him, even Kane.

"Dean." She gave him a little kick to the boot.

She could hear the exhale that pushed out of him as he gave a nod of his head and glanced back towards Roman and Seth. "…because we got a lot going on."

Surprisingly Kane smirked and turned towards them. "Well I'm just glad that you took my advice for naught. I hate to say I told you so, but congratulations Roman and Seth on your victory over the Rhodes brothers Monday night on Raw. And congratulations Dean…." Kane placed a hand on Dean's shoulder.

Angel bit her lip as she saw Dean instantly tense up and eyed up the hand on his shoulder. "...on your successful defense against Mark Henry, Tuesday on Main Event."

Dean took a breath as he rolled his shoulder to get Kane's hand off of him. "Oh ok." He gave a patronizing smirk as he nodded his head. "Thank you. Did you expect anything different?" He raised a brow, though he didn't let the Director of Operations answer. "and why are you even worried about us right now, shouldn't you uh...shouldn't you be focused on your match tonight against the Big Show? You know seven foot, five hundred pounds. Knocked you out last week."

Angel shook her head but couldn't help but let a little snicker out as Dean played with Kane. She knew she should stop him from pushing the man's buttons, but at the same time Dean was just saying what they were thinking.

Kane scoffed as he leaned in so that he was towering over them. Which made her step back; Dean already towered over her at six foot four and the thought that someone could tower over him…she didn't like it.

"You still have a lot to learn about this business…" Kane glared at Dean, who didn't back down. The two of them shared a moment before Kane turned so he was looking at the other two. "…but tonight, I'm going to teach by example. I'm going to destroy the Big Show and I'm ordering the three of you to be at ring side. So, you can get a close up look, to see how to properly handle a situation. Who knows I might even leave you some scraps of the Big Show for you."

Oh boy.

"So that…that's why you want us out there?" Seth asked barely able to stop himself from laughing. "to pick up the scraps?" He broke and let out a small chuckle. "Nice try Kane. We know why you want us out there, to protect you when the Big Show ties to knock you out again because he's gonna."

"You just don't get it." Roman stepped up to Kane. "We don't take orders from you but we are looking forward to seeing how you handle the situation with the Big Show."

Seth stepped in and pushed Kane and Roman apart as it seemed to be getting a little heated between the two of them. "Alright, alright. Settle down. Kane, don't worry. You saw what happened out there with Damien Sandow, when it comes down to it; push comes to shove the Shield always does what's best for business."

"Believe that."

As they left the room, Ange felt a huge weight lifted from her shoulders. The entire time they had been in there, her hair was standing on end as she suffocated on the tense air.

"Angel!" Her heart felt as she heard Kane call her back into the room.

Taking a deep breath, she slowly turned to see Kane standing there fixing his suit jacket. "Yes?" She tried to act like she was scared of the man. Something that wasn't easy.

"I want to make sure you understand that I meant what I said. I want them out there for my match." She nodded her head as he spoke. "So there better not be any funny business, this isn't one of those times the Shield can just go and do what they want for the sheer hell of it." He stepped forward driving her back slightly.

"It's your job to make sure that they do as they are told." Another step forward. "and if they don't…." One last step forward.

She swallowed the lump in her throat as she wretched her head up to look at Kane. She knew why he was called a demon now; the look in his eyes was so dark that it wasn't human… "…if they aren't out there, it's on your head."

"Wow!" She jumped as she heard Dean's voice come from behind her. "Are you threatening our manager?" She felt the man walk up behind her, but she couldn't look at him. She couldn't get her eyes look away from Kane.

Almost instantly, the dark look that held her trapped there, drained from Kane's eyes as he stepped backwards and straightened his stance. "I was just telling Angel here that it's her job to make sure that you three are down at the ring for my match. And if you're not down there then it's on her head, being that she's you're manager."

She let out a small gasp as she was suddenly yanked back behind Dean. "Like Seth said, you don't gotta worry about the Shield." Dean snarled. "We'll be out there."

A smirk appeared on Kane's face. "You'd better be."

When she saw Dean's jaw tighten and his body tense like he was about to attack, Angel quickly grabbed his arm and tried to stop whatever was going to happen. Easier said than done. However, the man did let out a sigh as he glanced back at her

"We'll be there." He said as he gritted his teeth and turned away from the Director of Operations.

Angel let Dean pull her out into the hallway, where Seth and Roman were leaning against the wall down the hall a ways.

"What took you so long? Did you get lost?" Seth chuckled.

Dean gave a hard shake of his head. "No. Kane thought it was smart to threaten our manager."

"Oh?" Roman pushed himself off the wall, with his hands in his belt loops lone ranger style.

She could see Dean run his tongue on the inside of his mouth as he started to sway back and forth. "He tired to tell her that if we didn't do what he says then it's on her head."

"Kane, Kane, Kane." Seth shook his head.

Angel glanced around Dean and her eyes widened. She was expecting to see frowns and drawn eyebrows, but instead she found smirks. A chill went down her spin. She didn't know what was running through the boys' heads but she knew it wasn't good.

D.D.D.

Dean popped his gum as he leaned back in the metal chair that he had taken out of the hallway and brought into the locker room. His eyes glanced over at his teammates and sighed. They were all trying to figure out what to do with Kane. The man was trying to be their boss and was trying to use Angel to do that. The Shield wasn't just going to sit back and let that happened.

"There you go!" A voice called as Jey Uso came barreling through the room with his brother tailing behind him.

Dean shook his head as he glanced up at the two brothers roughhousing. And as much as his head was elsewhere, he couldn't help but snicker at the two of them. They were excited about their match, and he couldn't blame them.

That was until Jimmy slammed into the table that Angel was sitting at and knocked over her drink, sending the contents spilling all over her.

In shock, Angel stood up so fast, making her chair fall back. "Crap!"

"Shit, I'm sorry Angel." Jey apologized while Jimmy ran to get paper towels from the bathroom.

She shook her head. "It's fine." She sighed as she took the paper towels and started to blot her shirt. "I should have known better than to bring an open drink in here."

Which was true. A lot of things happen in the locker room and having an open drink was just a call to disaster.

"I regret the lemonade." She peeled her shirt away from her own skin. "It's all sticky."

"Don't you have a spare shirt?" Roman asked.

She shook her head. "No, the only other shirt that I grabbed this morning was what I was planning on changing into for our drive, and it's bright green."

Everyone sighed. Bright green wasn't a Shield color.

"Well I have the tactical vest that you wore at the photoshoot if you want." Seth said already digging through his bag.

"Oh, um." Her face grew more and more red as she started to chew on her bottom lip. She was obviously not enjoying the thought about going out to the ring in the vest.

Dean couldn't stop himself as he said. "I have an extra shirt if you want. It's one of my tank tops and it will be a little big on you but if you feel more comfortable wearing it over the vest, then it's all yours." He got up and made his way over to the locker that had both his and Roman's stuff shove in.

"I'll give it a shot." She exhaled "and if it doesn't work, I'll wear the vest."

He nodded his head as he pulled out the extra top and gave it a quick shakeout. "There you go." He said handing it to her.

After giving the shirt a quick look over, she quickly headed into the bathroom that was connect to the locker room and into one of the stalls. Something that surprised everyone, normally she was one to head down to the women' s locker room to change. Though when she came back out of the bathroom, he realized why she had done it.

"This is more than a little big." She chuckled as she stepped into the middle of the open locker room and held her arms out wide.

Dean didn't know whether to laugh or groan. She was indeed wearing his top and like she said it was a little large on her. In fact, the neck hole was so large that it draped down and showed off most of her bra.

"It's a dress."

"Yeah, that's not going to work." Roman laughed as Angel did a little twirl that made the tank top fall off her even more.

"I don't think so either." She sighed. "I guess I'll that the vest." She said to Seth who was already holding the thing out for her.

Angel took the thing and then seemingly without care, pulled off his tank top and put on the tactical vest.

"Wow, someone certain gotten brave." Roman coughed. "We thought she was innocent, but here she is trying to seduce the whole locker room."

"What?" She batted those big hazel eyes as she snapped the buckle on the vest. "What do you mean?"

"Getting changed out here, without a care in the world." Seth smirked. "That doesn't seem like you."

She shook her head. "Did it really matter if I went into the stall. You could see my entire bra through Dean's shirt just a few minutes ago. Not to mention that this vest doesn't hide much." She said defending herself as she glanced down.

Her face turned bright red and she started to fiddle around with the vest trying to pull it around to try and get it to cover more, which only seemed to expose more.

It was his turned to cough as he noticed that while she readjusted, she had accidentally pulled down of her bar as well, exposing a small bit of pale skin that was normally hidden.

What the hell is wrong with you. Dean yelled at himself, even as he moved his body to hide hers from anyone of the Superstars still in the room.

Why the hell was he getting excited about a bit of paler skin. A small bit of side boob was what got him going? It was nothing to get excited about. Then why the fuck am I getting worked up!

Angel cleared her throat. "I'm starving. I'm going to get a snack." She said as she quickly made her way out of the room.

As soon as the door shut. Roman and Seth let out a small chuckle. "She's so easy to get going."

"Yeah." He sighed. Apparently so am I.

Giving his neck a roll and cracking his knuckles, he tried to get his head back in order. Though it didn't seem to work. His mind was locked on that pale fleshed that had him licking his lips. Stop it Ambrose!

Without saying anything to Seth or Roman he walked out of the locker room, hoping the fresh air would clear his head.

"Oh, come on Angel." Renee's voice echoed through the hallway.

A groan forced its way out of him as he looked up to see Renee holding out her phone towards Angel, who looked like she was trying to knock the thing out of her head.

"It's not every day I get to see you in something like this."

Angel let out a giggle. "I'm sure, but does that mean that everyone on your Twitter has to see it as well?"

"What does it matter? You're about to go on life TV." Dean's heart dropped as he realized what Renee had said.

He's eyes instantly went to Angel, his vest clung to her small body, giving hints of what was underneath as she twisted and moved. And the rest of the WWE Universe was about to see it too. So much for getting fresh air.

A.A.A

"Stop Renee." She put her hand up again blocking the picture that she was trying to get.

"Just one picture." Renee pouted.

Angel let out a sigh as she danced around with Renee. She knew that she wouldn't stop until she agreed to the picture. However, when shew as about to let her guard down, a crew member called for Renee.

"We have to go set up for an interview."

Renee pout turned into a look of defeat as she let out a deep breath. "Be right there." She said already walking backwards towards the man. "This isn't over. I will get a picture of you in that before the nights over."

"We'll see." She laughed as she waved at the woman.

As Renee disappeared down the hallway, she gave a little shake of her head. That woman. As she was about to turn around and head back to the locker room, something grabbed her wrist.

Her body froze as her head snapped to see a taped-up hand against her wrist. "Dean?" She prayed that it was him as she slowly looked up. Relief hit her as he stepped in front of her and started down the hallway, pulling her with him.

"Don't make a scene." He said quickly as they made their way through the busy hall. Trying to keep pace with him, she glanced up at him and tried to read the look on his face, but she would have better luck interpreting a dead language.

As Dean pulled her into one of the side loading docks that was full of equipment, she drew her brows together and glanced around the dark area. "Dean..."

Before she could say another word, she was pushed up behind one of the large travel cases that were parked there. Her back hit the case and something rough but soft was on her lips in an instant.

Her heart skipped a beat as her brain comprehend that it was Dean. Dean was kissing her! And God how he was. Slowly with every movement of his lips, his body grew closer until she was engulfed in that six-foot four frame.

Then almost like flipping a switch the heat that she dreamed of filled her. Starting from those hard-working lips before traveling down towards where his chest pressed against her. That when she realized that even through the thick vest, she could feel his chest rise and fall in sync with hers.

A sudden rush of heat hit her sides. Not able to look down to fissure out where the heat was coming from, she tried her hardest to focus on the feeling. But that became impossible as Dean pressed against her harder and deepened the kiss.

The sudden roughness made her gasp but that only invited a sensation that she had never experienced before. A tingling wetness against her lips hit her before her mouth was invaded with a taste of something she could only decried as heaven and mint.

A little noise that she couldn't place came from her throat as he was forced to lean backwards so far that her head was now against the wall behind her.

The feeling of the cold wall against her head made the heat that filled the rest of her even more intense. No, heat wasn't a word that she could use to describe this. Fire, lava, the temperature of the sun. Those were the thoughts that came to her mind as her body grew so hot that breathing became labored. In fact, she wasn't sure if she was breathing.

As she grew lightheaded, the heat disappeared.

"Shit." Dean's normally gravelly voice sounded as if it was dragging along stones as he pulled away from the kiss. "Well that just made things worse." He sighed under his own heavy breathing.

Trying to catch her breath, she opened her eyes. The world was burly but she could make out Dean's face next to hers. His long bangs covered his eyes, not letting her get a good look at him.

D.D.D.

Letting out a groan, Dean shifted in his spot. How on earth did he think that grabbing Angel for a world-shattering kiss was going to solve anything. It just makes it worse. He gave one more attempt to discreetly make some room in his cargo pants.

Smart move Deano, get turned on by the girl that you're testing the waters with right before going out on live TV and what do you do? You kiss her, making everything worse.

Even as he berated himself, he couldn't help denying that he was happy he had done it. He glanced down to Angel who was still clinging to his shoulders and a smirk came to his face. Her lips were bright red and slightly open as she tried to catch her breath. Her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were hooded as slowly look up at him through those long lashes that he had never noticed before.

Quickly the room in his pants that he had made before was gone. But he didn't care, a sense of pride filled him as he realized this was what he wanted. This look, this half dazed flustered look. The kiss was just a perk to get this look. Not that he didn't want to kiss her, his main goal was this look.

"Damn, I'm turning into a sap." He said as he ran a hand through his bangs.

"What?" Angel's asked clearing her throat.

"Nothing." He shook his head. "Don't worry about it."

He could tell just by the glint in her eyes and the way she bit her lip that she wasn't listening to him.

"Angel it's nothing, really." He tried to get her mind off of it, but the more that he tried the more she seemed to worry. Biting his tongue, he gave himself a mental shake.

He hadn't turned into that much of a sap that he was about to tell Angel that he was jealous over the fact that the whole WWE Universe was as about to see her in his vest, or that to ease the jealousy he kissed her trying to get a look that only he got to see….hell no.

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