Welcome to Chapter Fifty Three!

Tuesday: April 1, 2014

Edited: 11/14/19

Chapter Fifty Three

Angel yawned as she walked through the lobby doors of the hotel. After Monday night Raw last night, she couldn't fall asleep due to worrying about everything she still had to do for WrestleMania. When she finally did manage to sleep, she only got about two hours due to the fact that they had a really early flight.

Then there was the flight; three hours smashed up between Roman and Dean who both took up basically one and a half seats themselves on a plane.

Letting out a sigh, she pulled her suitcase that had both her purse and her duffle strapped to it and made her way over to the front desk. All there was left to do today was check in, unpack, get dressed and then go to the Mercedes-Benz Superdrome and have their interview with Michael Cole. That was it. Then she could sleep the rest of the day away.

"Welcome." The lady behind the front desk smiled sweetly at her.

"Hi there." Angel said giving the best tired smile she could. "I'm here to check in."

"Name?"

"It should be under Angel Miles."

The lady clicked around on the computer a bit and nodded her head. "May I see ID and a card to hold the charge." Angel nodded and did what the lady asked. "Alright here we have two adjoining rooms. Both on the tenth floor. How many keys will you be needing?"

"Two for one and three or the other if possible." She always tried to have an extra key for both rooms even though they were adjoining, if one of them lost their key or if she had to desperately get into one of the rooms she would have a key on hand.

"Does it matter which room gets the three?"

"Not at all."

After a small bit of time, the lady handed her the five keys. "Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Angel shook her head and went to walk away from the counter when she realized something. "Oh um…There should be one more room under my name. A single."

She had gotten a single room because Renee was rooming with her boyfriend Jon who was spending WrestleMania week with her.

"Um… I'm sorry but I don't see another room under your name." The lady said looking apologetic. "Is there another name it might be under?"

"Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, or Roman Reigns." She said knowing that she added the boy's names to the listing just in case as well.

"Nope, sorry."

Angel's heart sank as she heads the words come from the lady's mouth. "I'm guessing since its WrestleMania week you don't have any rooms that I could last minute book?" The lady just shook her head. "Well, thank you anyway." She said turning away from the front desk.

It wasn't a huge problem that there wasn't a room for her. The guys did get two double rooms meaning there was a bed for her. Only problem is she knew what was going to happen as soon as she told them about the situation. She could practically see the smirks on Seth and Roman's faces as they insisted that she rooms with Dean.

Her eyes landed on the man who was leading against the back of the couch that sat in the lobby, he still had his earbuds in from the ride over from the airport. If it wasn't for the fact that he was wearing jeans, she would have thought the man had just woken up. He was wearing a black T-shirt and his Shield hoodie under his leather jacket, while his hair was wilder than normal and had a very calm look on his face. A look that she was sure was going to change.

"So, I've got our room keys." She said when she stopped in front of them. Seth and Roman nodded and grabbed their stuff, while Dean pulled out one side of his headphones. "Though, I got some bad news."

"What's up?" Roman looked down at her.

"Apparently my room didn't get booked." She mumbled looking down at the ground. Here it comes.

"Your room didn't get booked?" Seth repeated what she said. She could hear the smirk that was working its way onto her face. "Well that's ok, you can just room with Dean. I'm sure he won't mind. Huh Dean?"

Hesitantly, Angel looked at the man through her bangs. "I don't mind." He said with pursed lips.

"There we go, problem solved." Seth clapped his hands.

She nodded her head as she handed out the keys. Don't panic. She told herself as the beetterflies started up in her stomach. Hello old friends.

They quickly made their way into the elevator and piled in. She knew that it was going to be a tight ride due to being in a small elevator with three large men, but this time it was almost suffocating.

Trying not to look at anyone, Angel dropped to her eyes to the floor. By the time they reached the tenth floor she had realized that if she turned her head just right, she could make the carpet pattern into a flower.

The elevator doors opened and the four of them pushed out of lift and walked down to the hallway until they found their rooms side by side. Roman and Seth stopped at the first door and Dean and her at the second.

As she watched Dean put his key up to the door, her heart started to race. Don't panic. You're an adult. What's wrong with sharing a room…Dean pushed the door open wide and stepped aside to let her go through.

"Thanks." She mumbled as she quickly made her way into the room.

She didn't want him to see her face. She knew it was a red as red could be and she knew as soon as he saw it, he would call her out on it; Seth and Roman weren't the only one who liked to pick on her.

Her eyes danced around the room as if she was expecting something different, though it was just another hotel room. Two beds in the middle of the room. A small table at one corner. On the front wall was a tv and tv stand. Then there were three doors in the room, one was the one that attached their room to Roman and Seth and the other she knew was the bathroom.

Giving her head a shake, she scolded herself. What was she expecting? The honeymoon suite with the heart bed and flowers everywhere?

"Which side do you want?"

Practically jumping out of her sink she turned and faced Dean who was standing right behind her. "It…It doesn't matter."

"Then I'll take the left." He sighed as he rolled his stuff over and threw his bag onto the bed.

I'm so stupid. She groaned as she did the same to the right side. She quickly unzipped her suitcase. He must think that she was so immature now.

A knock came from the door the connected the door room and she heard a grunt come from Dean as he walked over and unlocked their side. "Hey, are we getting fully suited up for the interview or what?" Seth asked as he appeared in the doorway.

"No." Angel shook her head. "They said you can just wear something Shield related, like your hoodies or if you have a shirt that's fine."

"Alright cool." He said disappearing in their room. She heard him relying the information to Roman.

"Do you need something to wear?" Dean asked as he let the door shut but didn't lock it.

"Nope." She said as she looked down into the suitcase. "They gave me a hoodie yesterday!" She said happily pulling out said hoodie to show off.

A small snicker came from the man as he nodded his head. "Then once idiot one and two get ready, we can head out."

"Yep." She agreed. "Though I think you should brush your hair."

Dean looked up like he was trying to see his hair on the top of his head. "What's wrong with my hair."

"It looks like you have bedhead."

"That's probably because I didn't brush it when I got up." He sighed running his fingers through his curly locks. "There that's as good as it's going to get."

She couldn't help but smile as she rolled her eyes at him. "Fine, if you want to look like that on tv be my guest." She told him as she took her toiletry bag into the bathroom. For the first time in a long while, she was actually unpacking her bag. They were going to in one spot for almost a whole week. For once.

"I've looked worse, Darling."

Her heart skipped a beat at the pet name. Swallowing the lump that was in her throat she tried to push back the blush that was on her face as she made her way back out of the bathroom. "I'm…I'm sure you have." She gave a nervous laugh.

D.D.D

Dean let out a sigh of relief when they finally left the hotel and got into the car to make their way to the superdome. God, he had just had the most awkward twenty minutes he had ever had in his life. And he had had a lot of them.

After Seth had volunteered him to share a room with Angel, his body had been so tense that he was now hurting all over. He wasn't upset that he had to share the room with her, no it was just the opposite. It's just now he had to control himself and that was easier said than done. God help him….and her.

They arrived at the superdome and were quickly rushed into a small room at the far end of the place. Apparently, they weren't allowed to see the arena yet, that way there was no chance for them to leak what it looks like on the internet. Well they didn't have to worry about him at least, he wasn't on the internet.

"Alright." The Tom Phillips cam came over to greet them. "Are we ready to begin?" He asked as he gestured over to the three chairs that sat in the middle of all the cameras and lights.

"We're missing a chair." Roman pointed out.

"Huh?" Tom questioned.

"Tom." Seth shook his head at the man as he reached out and put a hand on his shoulder. "How many people who do you see?"

Tom's eyes bounced from each of them back to Seth. "Four."

"Then why are there only three chairs?"

Dean could hear the man swallow as he turned around and yelled for one more chair. "I'll get this fixed." He said quickly walking away.

"You didn't need to do that." Angel sighed.

"Yeah we did." Dean turned and looked at her. "There's four of us, so we need four chairs. Unless you were planning on sitting on someone's lap?"

Her eyes widened and that pink tone filled her cheeks. "I…um.." She stuttered.

"We're ready!" Tom called over from in front of the place that now sat four chairs.

"Shall we." Seth said as he made his way over toward the man.

"Go…Go ahead and have a seat." Tom said looking like he was about to wet his pants.

"Tom." Seth snickered. "Relax. We don't bite." He took the farthest right chair. "I mean Dean does, but he had all his shots."

Dean smirked as he turned towards Tom and gave the man a wink, before taking the farthest left seat, leaving the middle two for Roman and Angel. Not even hesitating Angel jumped up on the seat closest to him while Roman took the one next to Seth.

When he heard Angel taking a deep breath and tell herself that she 'got this' he had to stop himself from smiling as the camera crew said they were good to go.

"Alright," Tom said as he looked down at his notes. "Let's talk about your debut?"

"Whose ours or Angel's?" Roman laughed as he started. "Our debut in WWE, I mean…" He paused. "Hands down it was awesome."

Dean nodded his head as he agreed with the big guy. "It was like oh ok… get it...we're here. Even if we uh…if we got hit by a bus or something…you know… going out of the arena that night you can't ever take it away..." He said making everyone laugh. "We made it to the WWE for at least one night."

"We were with one job to do and I think we got it down pretty well, if I do say so myself." Seth finished.

"God, I remember watching your debut." Angel spoke up. "It was jaw dropping. No one knew was happening, all they knew was here were these three men, that if you never watched NXT or FCW you wouldn't know who they were, and they just took over the entire show." She whistled and shook her head.

"There was only one problem." Roman said as he looked from Seth to Dean. "Turtlenecks."

Oh no. Dean had to stop himself from groaning as Roman mentioned the turtlenecks. "I think if we really committed to that, then we could have really popularized turtlenecks."

"What?" Angel laughed. "No way."

"We looked good." Seth added.

Both Angel and Roman started laughing.

"Like an urban assault kind of way."

"Yeah we looked good. We made those turtlenecks work, for two days."

Dean couldn't stop the smirk on his face as he looked at Angel. "What you didn't like the turtlenecks?" He asked her.

"I mean…" She bit her lip. "Honestly…no."

"Atta girl." Roman cackled as she twisted up her face in disgust.

Tom nodded his head as he looked down at his notes again. "What do you think about your entrance?"

"I think the entrance has helped to create our identity a little bit." Seth answered. "The first time we came out, we came out throw the crowd and you could just see the sea of humanity around you and feel electricity like you never felt in your life."

"Yeah." Roman smacked Seth's leg. "And I feel like it's the crowd's entrance too. It's a chance for people to get up close and be with us."

"And I think we carry that into the ring with us. I really think it's like part of the mystic, part of the Shield." Seth added.

"Oh, yeah it's part of the Shield." Angel said. "I mean your voices are the first thing that everyone hears, letting them know what about to happen. And once they hear it, it really gets them going. God it's a rush."

Dean nodded his head. "No matter how tired you are you're in the middle of…." He tried to find the word he was looking for. "…thousands of people. It's on." He raised his eyebrows as he looked down at Angel, making her giggle.

"Behave." Roman whispered over Angel's head. Dean locked eyes with the man and gave a pop of his gum.

"What is the Shield?" Tom asked.

Seth inhaled sharply as he turned and looked at them. "Man, what is the Shield? That's really hard to answer." A small smile appeared on his face. "You could say that it is, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Angel Miles and Dean Ambrose. And you can say that it's an organization design to protect from injustice but it's like so much more than that." When he finished, he turned his head and looked at Roman.

"I feel like it's a pact to be better than everybody else and that what we live by. This is an organization to push the level." He said rising his hand up. "You know, to raise the bar."

What is the Shield? Dean asked himself as he looked at his two brothers that were looking back at him. "Call it whatever you want. It's for justice or it's for this or for that and try to put a label on it. But it's the people that is involved. We're all of the opinion that this is ours for the taking and some stuff needs to change, and some guys need to get…" He started to act like he was kick something. "..shoved over a little bit and kicked out of their spots. We're one hundred percent in this together and screw everybody and we're taking over this business. Because somebody got to" The words started to pour out of him before he could stop them, and he didn't know where they were coming from. "And uh…together we are so much stronger."

"That is justice, I mean that is WWE Universe Justice right there." Roman added.

"What do you think Angel?" Tom asked once everyone was done.

"Oh!" Angel gasped as she looked up at Tom. "I'm sorry. I was just so into their answers I forgot I was supposed to answer." She readjusted her spot in her chair. "The Shield to me…It's a family." Dean smiled as he listened to her. "These three men here are my family and I hope I'm theirs…"

"Yep."

"Of course." Roman and Seth answered her verbally and all Dean could do was nod his head. Family. She hit the nail on the head. That's what the Shield was.

"So, we talked about it as a whole, but let's go one by one and talk about each person in the Shield. Starting with Seth." Ton said scribbling something on his notes.

"Oh, we have to say something about each other?" Roman said looking up in the air. "Can we think about it first."

"Sure."

A.A.A

"Seth always, he like a master chess player…" Dean was the first one to speak up. "…we may not be looking past point b he's already looking at c, d, e, f, and g."

"He really is the architect of the Shield." Roman nodded.

So true. "He always has something up his sleeve." Angel laughed. "And though he doesn't always tell you what it is, you can trust that he's got everyone's back."

"You really can't blink when Seth's in the ring." Dean smirked. "If you're looking at the back of Seth's head and somehow his toe will come up over his head and is hitting you in the face." Everyone laughed again. "He's like a ninja." A ninja? Angel laughed as he looked up at Dean. "Pretty much Seth Rollins is a ninja."

"I'm cool with that." Seth laughed.

"Alright. Now let's talk about Dean."

Angel's heart seemed to skip a beat when she realized she was going to have to talk about Dean. God, what am I going to say? She didn't want to say anything that would make people realize that there may be something more going on between the two of them. But at the same time, she wanted everyone to know how much she respected him.

"Dean Ambrose…" Seth beat her to the punch. "…I think brings a…unpredictability to the Shield. He's got that element of chaos at all times." He's not wrong. "How are you going to game plan against a dude who's winning to claw your eyes out… you just can't game plan for that." Angel turned and looked Dean to see that he had almost a proud look on his face as Seth talked.

Taking a deep breath, she turned back to Tom. "People think that he's crazy, that he doesn't even know what he's doing. But none of that is truth." She felt her face starting to heat up. "Dean is smart, he's courageous, and he's willing to go farther and do things that others wouldn't even dare…"

"You know he's the corner stone of the Shield, if there's no Dean Ambrose there's no Shield."

She was so glad that Roman took over. She could have just rambled on forever if she really wanted to and she was scared of what she would say without realizing it. She was already worry about what she had said and just hoped that Dean liked it at least. Though She would have to wait to find out because there was no way she was going to look up at him right now. Nope.

"Roman's turn."

"Roman Reigns brings, aside from the chiseled jaw line and dashing leading man good looks and all that." Seth started making Roman blush and smirk at the same time. "He brings a good bit, a good bit of power. He's our cleanup hitter."

"There are few athletes, that are built, freak raw, explosive athletes." Dean stepped in next. "You know, he's Mariano Rivera, he's the closer."

"Though he's not just the closer." Angel added. "He's our support, our defense, or offense. He's everything wrapped into one. Roman is a man who can put on whatever hat he wants to wear that day and wear is better than anyone."

"Aw thank you." Roman smiled at her.

"Alright and what about Angel?"

Angel's eyes widened, and her heart started to raise. Some part of her didn't think that they were going to have to talk about her. Well now she was nervous.

"Angel Miles." Roman was the one who started this time. "Angel is a surprise that we didn't know we needed. It's been the three of use for so long that when we added Angel, we weren't sure what was going to happen but now I don't think any of us could see the Shield without her."

Can you say awkward. She sighed as she bit her lip and looked down at her feet.

"Yeah, Angel has only been with us for a few months and yet she's become part of the team really faster than we did."

There was a pause and then she heard Dean clear his throat. "Angel…Angel." He paused again. "There is just something about Angel that make you feel at ease. When you get hit of the apron and she come over and checks on you it's almost like the pain goes away. And not matter what you need she's always there to help. The Shield might have fallen apart way back when if it wasn't for her."

She couldn't stop her eyes from going wide as her head snapped up to Dean who was picking at something on his pants. She couldn't believe that the man just said all those sweet things about her in an interview. She was so embarrassed that it was overwhelming. The urge to put her face in her hands was so great that she decided to sit on them.

"But for all of us. There isn't loose a guy, add a guy. This is the Shield. That's how the situation works."

"Yeah I mean, Angel was just a once in a lifetime thing." Seth laughed. "No one else is allowed in the Shield."

"We're really good and we're a team."

"Is their someone in WWE history that you would compare yourselves to?" Tom asked.

Seth shook his head. "We never went we want to be like those guys, we want to do what they did. We were like Nah we're going to break new ground, we're going to break the mold, we're going to do out thing. But if I had to liken us to anyone it would be the Four Horsemen, I hope that's a fair comparison."

"We're picking up where they left off." Dean added. "Just…blowing everyone out of the water and that's the Four Horsemen work ethic. This..." Dean held up for fingers like the Four Horsemen use to do. "Was the symbol of excellence. And now this…" He put up his fist. "Is the symbol of excellence."

"This group is going to bust our ass every single day; we're going to work hard; we're going to get better."

As the boys talked about the Shield as a whole, it was like she couldn't get a word in edge wise and she was ok with that. Angel loved hearing how passionate they talked about the Shield and what they were going to do.

"There is a lot left to do. And we're doing it every single night, every single town. I mean we're just going upward."

"Ten years from now, I think when people look back and look at the Shield; the whole industry the whole company with be thankful that we left this place better than we found it." Roman finished.

"Now let's talk about WrestleMania."

"Last years, WrestleMania, our first WrestleMania. How many times as a kid do you dreamed of being a WrestleMania?" Dean asked.

"It's all I ever wanted to do." Seth looked almost as if he was going to cry. "To say that we were underdogs in that match is quite the understatement."

"It was our first WrestleMania and you only get one chance, so it could be your last WrestleMania."

"To capture a huge win like that in front of so many people it gives you a change to kind of immortalize yourself. To capture something that is timeless."

"Last year we were like the night eighty U.S. Olympic hockey team, a bunch of nobodies, going in sticking together, teamwork, trying to get a goal and that's what we did." Dean said making her laugh. "This year we're like the Yankees, Lakers, we're the Shield."

"Angel this is your first time going to WrestleMania, how does that make you feel." Tom asked.

"This is my first time going to WrestleMania." She nodded her head as she felt the beetterflies starting up at just thought of it. "I'm really excited. It's like a dream come true."

"Oh, that's right this is your first time." Seth smirked. "She's a baby."

"Hey!" She blushed as she leaned over Roman too look at the man.

"Can we talk about your match this year."

"Yeah," Seth started this time. "We got ambushed that not something that happens very often. Kane had some uh…tricks up his sleeve and we paid the price for not being any of the wiser. " She could feel the shift in the air as the boys started to think about what happened to them. It was almost like someone opened a window and let the cool winter air in. "But at the end of the day he didn't get the job done. So, we're still sitting here and we're talking about it and WrestleMania is coming up and we're still walking. So, the boys are in trouble."

"I was fan of the New Age Outlaws." Dean took his turn. "You know when I was a kid. It would be great to set them out to pasture in New Orleans, it's warm there all year round."

"We came in here, one goal in mind. Knock down door, kick everyone out of the way and run the show. They want to stand in our way. I don't care who they are, I don't care what kind of legacy they got. They got to go. Kane the New Age Outlaws…."

"You're done." Roman finished Seth's sentence. "You just made the biggest mistake Kane. You can't break us, we will bend but we'll never break."

"I think that we're good." Tom nodded his head.

"We're done?" Dean asked as he practically jumped up off his chair.

"You're done."
"Thank god." He sighed as he quickly moved out of the lights. "I was about to combust under those lights."

Angel shook her head as she slowly got up out of her chair. "Thank you, Tom." She said as she shook the man's hand.

"Thank you." He smiled back at her before he got up and walked away.

"Well we can check that off our list." She turned towards the boys who were gulping down water the production crew gave them. "Thanks." Angel said as she took the one that she was being handed.

"What's next?" Roman asked as he dumped some of the water over his head.

"Nothing else today. Tomorrow, Roman you have a meet and greet."

"That means we can chill and enjoy our time." Seth said almost sounding like a kid in a toy store.

"Yeah, but don't get too crazy." She warned him.

"I say first we head back to the hotel, then we go paint the town red?" Roman purposed.

"Yeah, what did you have in mind?" Dean smirked.

"Oh, you know raise some hell and what not."

"So, the usual."

Angel let out a sigh as she went to follow the boys out of the arena. Just as they were about to get to the door to the garage, someone called her name. "Angel!"

She turned around to Racheal Hanson, a member of the costuming team. "They Racheal what's up?"

"I was told to ask you if there was anything special you had for the Shield to wear on Sunday?"

Racheal cocked her head. "I'm sure you've watched WrestleMania before."

"Yeah, I have." Since I was little.

"And you didn't realize how people normally wore something different to their normal ring gear?"

She nodded her head. "Yeah, but the Shield always wears their tactical vest and what not?"

"Yeah but maybe, we could add something special to them." Racheal sighed. "Like a helmet or a mask or something."

Her shoulders sagged and she gave a nod. "Yeah…I'll look around for something."

"Ok, let us know." She waved as she bounced off.

Great. She never even thought about getting the Shield something special to wear, why would she. They always wore the same things; how could you add to a tactical vest and black cargo pants? A mask? She sighed as she made her way out into the garage where the boys were already in the car waiting for her.

"What, on earth took you so long?" Seth asked as she got in the backseat with Roman.

"Costuming wanted to talk to me about something."

"Oh?" Roman raised a brow. "Are you getting another new vest?"

"No, I was apparently supposed to get you guys something special to wear for the show."

"Something special?" Dean questioned. "What the hell does that mean?"

"I asked the same thing." She told him. "Looks like while you guys paint the town red I have to go shopping."

"Want us to come with?" Seth asked as he pulled out of the arena.

"Nah." She said pulling out her phone. "You guys go and have fun." She said as she flipped through her messages until she found Renee's number. "I'll meet up with you guys later."

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