Welcome to chapter one hundred seventeen! This one is like half just random fun, and half show time. I hope you enjoy it. This one is a long one.
Wednesday: July 23, 2014/ Smackdown: July 25, 2014
"We're going to the zoo!" JoJo exclaimed as they pulled into the parking lot for the Miami Zoo. Angel laughed as the girl in the car next to her almost started to vibrate with excitement. "Really?"
"Really, really." Roman said looking back at his daughter. "You ready to see some animals?"
"Yes!"
Piling out of the car, she heard Dean snicker at Roman. "The zoo?"
"Yeah." He nodded. "What's wrong, I thought you liked animals."
"I do." He nodded. "But a zoo? Isn't that something is more for families."
"Yes, and as you said yesterday, you are my brother, which makes you family."
Shaking his head, Dean shoved his hands into his pockets.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked bouncing up to him. "Don't like zoos?"
"I do, I just feel like its more of a children thing."
"What no, they're for everyone." She said grabbing onto his arm. "I mean we went to the aviary."
"That's different."
"How?"
"Well, that was a date, and…"
"And?"
"It just different."
"Uh huh."
"It just."
Because one is an aviary and one is a zoo?"
"Precisely."
Making their way towards the entrance of the zoo, she could hear two things, one was JoJo asking her parents about what animals they thought would be in the zoo, and the other was Dean grumbling to himself.
"Come on, it might be fun." She told him as Roman showed his tickets to the crew member who then let them into, the zoo.
Taking a map from the little kiosk, Roman asked. "Were too first?" He looked down at the map. "Oh wait, there's a set path to go." He pointed towards the right. "It says to go to the Children's Zoo first. There are meerkats and Something called a Wacky Barn."
"That sounds like it would be right up Dean's alley." Galina said earning an annoyed tongue click from him.
"Alright then, let's go."
Keeping the right, they followed Roman into the Children's Zoo, which looked just as the label said, a place for the kids to have fun.
"Oh look, It's the meerkats!" JoJo said pointing to the enclosure with the large sign in front of it talking all about the meerkats. Almost pulling everyone along, she made her way up to the glass. "Aw, they're so cute."
Leaning closer to the glass, Angel saw a handful of meerkats racing about the area. "They are super cute." She smiled. "They're always so curious and playful looking." She said as one climbed up on the top of what was supposed to be a termite mounted and peered around. "You know the zoo in Pittsburgh has these tubs that you can climb in, so that you can come up right inside of the exhibit. To this day it's one of my favorite things to do at the zoo."
"Of course, it is." Dean rolled his eyes.
"You were the one who went into the penguin tunnel at the aviary first." She said before leaning into him and asking quietly. "Why are you so grumpy today?"
"I'm not grumpy." He said leaning an arm on her head.
"Did you really go into the tunnel, Uncle Dean." JoJo asked.
"I did." He told her.
"It must have been a pretty big tunnel."
Angel shook her head. "It was not. Dean almost got us stuck in it."
Roman laughed. "Please take a picture next time."
After view the meerkats for a bit more, they made their way towards the Wacky Barn which was the petting zoo area and was named for the strangely built barn that served as its entrance.
While they were waiting in line to go in, Angel nudged Dean and said. "You are being grumpy, by the way?"
"Am not."
"Are to."
"Am not."
"Are to."
"Children!" Roman ended the 'argument'. "Dean is just annoyed that I bought the tickets to the zoo before he could."
"Sorry, that I didn't have this whole fucking thing planned like a month in advanced and wanted to treat everyone to something as well." Dean huffed.
She could help but laugh. It was so sweet that Dean was upset that he wasn't the one who bought he tickets for everyone. "Don't let that ruin your day." She told him while rubbing his arm.
"Oh I won't." He said with a half-smile. "Just let me be butt-hurt for a bit longer and I'll be fine."
Once they were inside of the Wacky Barn, they saw a bunch of different animals, there were; alpacas, pigs, goats, a Shetland pony, and a mini horse. All of which, everyone petted and loved for a bit, they then left, washed their hand and started over to where the camel rides were. They weren't open at the time, but they did get to see the camels getting ready for the day.
Roman then took the role of tour guide. "Alright up next it's the Asian elephants, whose ready for that?"
"I am!" JoJo answered.
One they got up to the view area for the exhibit, they saw four different elephants rooming lazily around their space, one of them was playing with a rock while the others looked to be just hanging out.
"High Mr. Elephant!" JoJo waved at the one that was closest to then.
"Are you sure it's a mr?"
"No." She shook her head.
Everyone laughed.
"Wanna know a fun fact, Asian elephants have smaller ears then the ones from Africa?" Dean rattled off.
"How on earth did you know that?"
"It's on the sign." He smirked and pointed down to the informational sign next to them.
Roman sighed. "I thought it was just one of your useless facts that you know."
"It is now."
Keeping on the trail they saw some black-necked storks, and then an African lion.
"I found the me of the animal world." He said pointing to the male lion that was in the shade, taking a nap.
"I think you're wrong with that." Galina told him. "I've never seen you nap before, and every time I go to a zoo the lions are asleep."
"Well, when I do nap, it looks a lot like that."
"With your foot up and everything?" JoJo asked.
"Sometimes." He nodded. "The only difference is that I don't have a luscious mane." He ruffled his own hair.
"I like your mane." Angel told him with a smile.
"Thanks, I like yours too."
A couple more exhibits and they came up to the Somali wild ass, which incited giggles from both Dean and JoJo who thought it was funny that they put a 'bad word' on the sign. "Why not just say donkey?"
"Because the technical term for a donkey is an ass." Roman tired to explain. "The bad word came from the animal, and then it changed into a word that means someone's butt."
"So can I say it if I mean a donkey?" JoJo asked.
"No, ass is still a bad word, so you can't say it."
"Fine."
Feeling slightly awkward from the family chat here, Angel tried to find something to redirect the conversation. "Oh look, the Asian River Life!" She ooed as she read the sign that was surrounded by different type of vegetation. "That sounds neat."
"Do you have any idea what that means?"
"Yeah, it's an Asian river full of live."
"Yep, certain is."
She wasn't just excited to see the area just because it got them off the parent, daughter lesson, but because it was pretty neat. It had Asian small-clawed otters, which had a cute exhibit where you got to look down at them swimming and playing, as well as an underwater view down the stairs. There was also a Komodo dragon, monitor lizards, and a clouded leopard, who had a two-story exhibit.
After that, they went to the African wild dog, sloth bears, more camels, and some sable antelope. Then came up to spotted hyenas which Dean tried to get to laugh, which just turned into an embarrassing solo comedy show.
"Tough crowd." He sighed as they walked away.
"Maybe you should have showed them your 'crazy' face, that would have gotten it to laugh." Roman picked as he mimicked the look.
"I'm surprised they weren't laughing from just seeing your face." Dean fired back.
Keeping on the path, they saw everything from a Prevost's squirrel to the lesser spot-nosed guenon. At the end of this path they came to the middle of the zoo that was a big rest spot, with playgrounds, a splash zone, a restaurant and more.
"Anyone hungry."
"Not horribly, but I could go for a water."
"Same." Angel agreed.
Roman nodded. "Five waters, coming right up."
"Can I go play for a little?" JoJo asked her eyes locked on the jungle-gym.
Galina and Roman looked at each other and nodded. "Just say where we can see you."
Without another word, the little girl went running for a slide that was shaped like an elephant. After Roman took off to get the waters, they found a picnic table that they could relax and enjoy the waters, but still keep an eye on JoJo.
"This zoo is huge." Angel said as she flopped down in her seat over dramatically.
Galina agreed with her. "They also have a lot of different animals that I haven't really seen before at a zoo."
"That sloth bear was certainly new to me." Roman laughed. "And I have to say, that thing didn't look like a sloth or a bear. It was a thing of nightmares."
"Hey!" Angel gasped. "He was cute."
"We must have been looking at different bears, because cute is not what I would describe that thing as."
"Well, I would."
"I don't really trust your opinion on this, you also thing that Dean is cute."
"I am cute." Dean said not missing a beat.
Roman patted him on the shoulder. "Keep telling yourself that, man."
"The internet thinks I'm cute." He smirked. "In case you haven't seen all the signs saying 'I am an Ambrose girl'."
"Yeah, your right, they love but I'm guessing it's like in that scrappy old dog way, where he's not the pretty thing you've ever seen but he's still a dog, and if you get past the snagel tooth and the bald patches, there's something there."
"You just had to go there."
After a bit, JoJo came over from playing, saying that she wanted to keep going.
"Looks like rest time is over." Roman said handing her a water bottle, which she almost chugged.
Next in the zoo was the African exhibits, where there were things like Lowland gorillas, African porcupines, and the Samburu Station, which was a big exhibit with giraffes, zebras, and Ostriches. They stopped there for a bit because JoJo wanted to cheer on the smaller giraffe that was trying to eat leaves from a branch that was a bit too high from them.
When the giraffe finally got a few leaves from the branch, they started back down the path to see a giant golden elephant statue hiding among the trees and brush.
"What on earth?" Dean walked over to the thing and looked down at the sign in front of it. He then made a noise that was a mix of disbelieve and laugher. "This thing is valued at a hundred thousand dollars, shit."
JoJo gasped. "And they leave it out like this?"
"Well do you know anyone who can lift something around two thousand pounds."
"Two thousand, no…"
"Well then I think it's pretty safe."
They took a couple of pictures in from of the statue, then carried on towards the African elephants.
At some point in the path turned into more of a nature walk, with the lake on one side, while their Amazon and Beyond area was on the other side. The Amazon and Beyond area was pretty cool, it had a few different sub-areas inside, all with their own type of animals and things to look at. There was even a reptile house and an aquarium in this area. Finishing up all that, they started towards the exit, making sure to stop at everything they could, even the parrot feeding where Roman and Dean were the table of the town as all the parrots wanted to sit on them.
"They really like tall people." The keeper told them. "We think it has to do with the fact that they mistake you for being trees."
JoJo laughed as the parrot on Roman's arm that was trying to climb up to his shoulder.
"Man, you look petrified."
"Do you see that beak?" Roman told him. "They can chomp through fingers, I don't wanna know what they can do to my ears or nose."
"What you would really have to worry about it your hair." The keeper told them. "They like to go for ponytails."
"Great."
"Calm down, you got enough hair to spare." Dean laughed.
When the keeper took the bird off of him, roman stepped quickly back and hid behind Galina and JoJo. "Girls' turn."
"That's my big bad, wrestler." Galina sighed, stepping forwards to take the same bird that was just climbing all over him.
After the keeper had the parrot in place, they turned and helped JoJo hold on of the small conures to feed. Which was really cute, and Angel made sure to take a few pictures for her parents.
"Wow there, pal." Dean said making her turn to see the bird was messing with the tape on his shoulder. "I've been told that I need to keep that on."
Angel laughed, as she held up what was left in the small cup of feed, trying to draw the birds attention. "Hey pretty thing." She cooed. "How are you?"
"Seeing that he's been dancing on my arm for like ten minutes, I think he's fine." Dean said lowing his arm down to so that she could see the bird better. "Wanna hold him?"
"He looks too happy to take away."
However as if to prove her wrong, the bird 'flew' onto her head.
"Oh shit." Dean laughed even as he tried to get him off of her. "She doesn't like when people mess up her hair." He told the bird.
"I'll get him," The keeper came over to help out the situation.
"Just imagine if he would have pooped while he was up there."
"It's happens."
"Yeah, I'm sure it does. Just glad it wasn't me."
When their turn was done, they said thank you to the keepers and the birds before heading out of the area and finishing up their long walk by finally getting back to the front of the zoo.
"Can we go again!"
"Honey, we've been here for hours." Roman pointed out. "It's time to go."
JoJo pouted. "Then can I get something at the gift shop?"
"We can look."
Excitement filled the girl's face as they quickly made their way over to the giftshop. "I want a shirt, no a stuff animal, no two stuff animals."
"Wow there." Roman said chasing after his daughter.
Realizing they were going to be there for a while, Angel and Dean started to walk around the building, looking at all the stuff that they had to buy, hats, shirts, sweaters, some niknack type things like snow globes, puppets, and more. Cute things but nothing that caught her eye, until they got to the wall of stuffed animals. The first thing she saw was a cute little furry otter, that looked to be laying on it's back.
"Look. Look how cute it is." She said picking it up. "Oh and it's so soft."
Dean raised a brow at her. "Do you want it?"
"I mean it's really cute, but I don't know." She said looking into those beady eyes. She had always been a sucker for stuffed animals, there was just something about them that made her heart swell, especially ones of realistic looking animals.
Dean sighed. "You are such a child." He snatched the thing from her.
"Hey!" She called as he tucked it under his arm. "Dean."
The rest of the time they were in the gift shop, Dean carried the thing around, before heading up to the register, where he put it down and paid for it without a word.
"You didn't have to do that." She said when Dean handed the otter to her.
"Oh I did." He said putting away his wallet. "It would have been legal if I didn't."
"What?"
"You were too cute." He ruffled her hair.
…
"Hey, are you coming to bed?" Dean asked as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "You know, tomorrow is a travel day. I know how much to hate when you don't get any rest before hand."
She sighed and rubbed her eyes. "I know, but I have to get these done."
"I thought you were pretty much finished."
"I thought so as well, but I just, these merch designs are nagging me in back of my mind and I still can't figure out what kind of slogan I want to put on Roman's shirt."
She could hear Dean sighing above her. Ever since they got back from the zoo, she had pulled up her laptop and got to work on a bunch of things, future travel plans, interviews. Really anything and everything, and then after dinner she started to work on the merch and she hadn't stopped since.
"Take a break then baby. Step away, get some sleep and come back to it tomorrow."
She knew he was right, but she still said. "I'm going to work on it for a little longer."
Another sigh came from behind her. "Ok,"
"I'll be in bed soon."
D.D.D.
Dean groaned as woke up to the sounds of his alarm going off. Not opening his eyes, he smacked at the end table until he felt his phone and then be picked it up and dismissed the alarm. Rolling over to see if Angel had been woken up by the alarm, he cocked his head when he saw that she wasn't there.
Sleep still fogging up his brain, he looked around the room in search of her, but found no trace. Sitting up, he threw his legs over the side of the bed, and his eyes locked onto the sliding door to their room. He knew where she was.
Pursing his lips together, he stood up and walked to the door. Opening it, the first thing he saw as a laptop open up on the table with a dark screen. Sighing, he stepped forward and looked down over the couch to see Angel all curled up, holding the stuffed otter he had gotten for her.
"That girl is going to work herself to death one of these days."
The voice made him look up to see Renee was in the kitchen, holding a cup of coffee in her hand. "I told her not to worry so much about the fucking shirts, but you know her. She wants them to be prefect."
Renee nodded. "She showed me the designs that she had, they're pretty good. Why is she worried about them?"
"I don't know. I think it's driving her nuts that she can figure out what slogan to put on Roman's shirt."
Renee looked taken back by that. "Why not just use, 'believe that'? Isn't that his catchphrase?"
Dean shrugged. "Ask her, not me."
"I would hate to wake her."
"True." He glanced back down at Angel. "So, what are you doing awake this early?"
"Jon has to take an early flight out of here, he has a meeting at work."
"Ah."
'What about you, early morning workout a I'm guessing."
He nodded. "You know if Rome is up?"
"He hasn't come out of his room if he is."
"Alright. What time is Jon heading out?"
"He's taking a shower right now, and then we're heading out for some breakfast." She said.
"Hopefully I can catch him to say goodbye."
"I'll let him know that you wanna see him off."
"Thanks."
With another glance to Angel, he turned back into their room, and got ready for his workout. Just as he finished up, there was a knock on the door.
Turning around, Dean saw Jon standing there. "Hey man, heard you were heading out."
"Yeah, duty calls. And though I enjoyed this little vacation, it's time to head out."
"I got you." He said going over to give him a goodbye handshake-hug. "I'm glad that you got to come down, it was nice to see you."
"It was nice to see you guys too." Jon said clapping him on the shoulder. "Keep an eye on that girl of yours."
Dean blinked at him. "Normally it's people telling her to keep an eye on me, not the other way around."
"Eh, it's a given that she has to watch you, so no need to remind her." He said. "Also she's sleeping on the couch, cuddling an otter, so there's that."
"Yeah." Dean sighed.
"You good? Did you two have a fight or something?"
"Nah, she just stayed up who knows how long working on stuff."
"See what I mean, you need to keep an eye on her."
"I guess you're right."
The two men laughed and said their goodbyes before Jon headed out with Renee, and Dean started out for the gym.
A.A.A.
"Tonight's show is very important, Hunter and Stephanie are out, due to the incident that happened on Monday." Hank said reading from his clipboard.
"Is that what we're calling, Stephanie getting arrested, the incident." Renee leaned over and whispered into Angel's ear.
Angel tried to hide her chuckle as she listened to Hank talk about tonight schedule.
"We're starting off the show with a video package about Brock coming back. Then, we're going to have a match between the Usos and RybAxel. We also have Miz TV session, which who knows how long that's going to go, so be ready for anything." He paused to flip through some paper works. "And then after whatever happens on Miz TV, the higher ups have an interview spot listened." He looked up to the woman on her right. "Renee, what you got?"
Renee stood up from her seat. "I was thinking and interview with Roman." She answered. "He's hot right now, and he has the Main Event match tonight against Alberto Del Rio, it's a perfect fit."
"Good, I like it." Hank nodded. "Oh ah, Angel, speaking of one of your boys, it looks like Cesaro wants a rematch tonight."
"Oh?" She said leaning forward in her chair. She had figured that he was going to want some sort of retribution for what happened on Monday.
"He's asking for a no DQ match against Dean tonight, which if you say yes to would fit very nicely between Roman's interview and our Diva segment."
She cringed internally at the 'no DQ' part of the match. Who knows what could happen with that stipulation, but her job was to do what was best for her client and seeing that Dean didn't have anything to do tonight and that he wouldn't say no about it she nodded, and said. "I think he'll be down for it."
She pulled out her phone to relay the information to him.
"Alright, then we have said Diva segment…." Hank continued.
Focus shifting from Hank to her phone, she sent the message. Got you a match.
"Oh?" He sent back.
"A rematch against Cesaro."
He didn't have enough on Monday, I totally fucked up his arm."
"He wants a no DQ match."
"Shit, he didn't have enough. Well, I'm game."
"Thought you would be."
"How long do I got?"
"As of right now, it's the second match on the card."
Dean sent back "Cool." And then quickly sent another message. "Check to see if you can hang out on commentary, it'll be the safest place for you."
Letting out a sigh that she hoped no one else in the room heard, she typed back "Fine. Oh by the way I'm going to run down to talk to Racheal after the meeting."
"Sounds good"
By the time she brought herself back to the meeting, they were already done talking about tonight's show, and was onto numbers and house-show stuff. Which she just tuned out again, because she already knew what was on Dean's and Roman's docket for this round of house shows. They would be on the A team this week, where Roman would-be facing Randy, while Dean would fight Seth all weekend. The only knew thing about that was trying to figure out in what way the Authority was going to screw Dean out of winning. Maybe Kane would run in, or maybe Seth would hit him with his Money in the Back briefcase, that was a classic.
The words Monday Night Raw brought her back to the conversation, where they talked about the 'plan' that they had. Which was pretty, just that they had a spot in the show set side for the Authority to talk about what happened to Stephanie, and that they were planning on using Monday to get things set up for Summerslam.
When the meeting was finally wrapped up, Angel said see you later to Renee and walked up to Hank. "Hey."
"Hey." He said with a smile.
"Can I ask a favor?"
"A favor? Both your boys have matches tonight, what else can I do for you tonight?"
"Dean wants me to ask if I can be a guest on commentary for his match."
"You call that a favor? That is an easy favor, any time you want to be on commentary just ask."
"Good to know."
"I'll let the commentary team know, you'll be joining them."
"That's one thing off my list tonight."
"Wanna trade lists?" Hank asked.
"I have to go talk to Racheal about the new merch coming out, you wanna do that?"
"Can't be worse then having to have like ten meeting, getting everything set up for the show, and making sure that I keep updating Hunter on what's going on."
"Oh, I'm surprised he's not watching the show." She laughed.
"I'm sure he'll have it on, somehow."
"Good luck with that." She said. "Gotta blast."
"See you."
As she walked out of the meeting room, she practically ran to find Racheal. The sooner she can get these plans over with, the sooner her brain can just shut off for a moment.
"Racheal!" She called as she saw the woman leaning over her current job.
"Angel!" She said back, not looking up.
"Did you get the emails I sent this morning?"
"I did." She said. "Are you still not sure about what to put on Roman's shirt."
"Yeah." She sighed.
"Well, sadly we don't have much more time to thinking about it, but I think the shirts look amazing, so why don't we do this," She finally looked up. "Why don't we put 'believe that' as a placeholder, and if you think of something by the end of the show, we can change it, but this way we can still have then done in time."
"Ok."
"Good, now stop your worrying, and get over here and help me choose a font."
Making their way over to the workstation, Racheal pulled up the files for the shirts and they started to play around with fonts, until finding the perfect one that matched Roman's symbol.
"Do you know, you're a lifesaver?"
"I get told that a lot." Racheal snickered. "But this time, you're the one saving me. All I did was pick some fonts, you designs this."
Angel shook her head, knowing that the woman did much more then that for her, but she also knew that Racheal wouldn't take anymore credit then that. "Well, thank you anyways." She said glancing at her phone. "I have to go make sure these two man children are ready for the show, but I'll be in touch if I think of anything for Roman's shirt."
"Sounds good to me." Racheal said going back to whatever she was working on before. "Oh," He peeked her head up. by the way, what color did you want Dean's shirt to be?"
"Black, of courses." She almost baffled about the fact that anyone would pick anything else for wrestling merch. Most of the merch she had was black. Though there was the occasional colored shirt that would make it in the bunch, like she had a purple Hardy Boys shirt, but that was the Hardys. Dean Ambrose didn't strike her as someone who would have a fancy-colored shirt. Black, black all the way.
"Thought so, but I just thought I would ask."
Saying goodbye, she walked off to meet up with Dean, who she found sitting on a chair taping up his hands.
"So, how was the meeting."
She sighed. "The same as they always were. I almost preferred it when I was banned from going to them."
He snickered at that. "No you don't. You hated being out of the loop."
"I know but god it's so boring." She flopped down on the travel case next to him.
"Did you get the merch designs in?"
"I did."
"Does that mean, you finally figured out what to put on Roman's shirt?"
"No, not really. Racheal recommended using 'believe that' as a place holder and if I can think of anything by the end of the show, that we could still change it."
"You know I'm not sure why you didn't just go with 'believe that' to begin with. I mean, he's been saying that since like the start of the Shield."
She shrugged and played with the peeling paint on the side of the case. "I don't know, I just felt like it was a cop out."
"Well at least you got it all sorted out, right?"
"Right."
"Honey, I'm home!" Roman's voice hit them as they turned to see the big man pulling his suitcase with him.
"Finally." Dean said. "Do you know how worried sick I was?"
"Shut up." Roman told him as he walked past, making sure to kick Dean's boot when he did.
"Did everything get worked out with the girls' flight."
"Yeah, apparently they spelt JoJo's name wrong, so I had to jump through hoops to prove that she was indeed the right person and that you was my kid, but just shy of calling up the doctor that delivered her, we got it sorted."
"Well at least everything's good now."
"Yep." He nodded as he threw his bag on top of the pile. "So, did I miss anything."
"Yeah, Renee wants to have an interview with you tonight."
"Ok, anything else."
"Cesaro asked for a rematch."
"Anything else that I didn't see coming a million miles away."
"Angel finally got your merch design done!" Dean pipped up.
"Did you?" Roman smiled. "What did you end up going with?"
Angel glared at Dean before saying. "Right now we're going with 'believe that' and before you ask, I don't know why I didn't just go with that, I must be dumb."
"You're not dumb." Roman laughed at her. "And I can't wait to see it printed out and ready to go."
…
"Three. Two. One." The camera man pointed at Renee.
"Ladies and gentlemen please welcome my guest at this time, Roman Reigns." From where they were standing, they could hear the fans out in the arena cheer as Roman stepped up next to Renee. "Roman this past week on Monday night Raw, you stopped the Authorities 'plan a', Randy Orton, from accepting his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at Summerslam."
"Of course, Randy Orton is 'plan a', he's the Authority's spoil little baby, and his daddy Triple H, he's always got a plan. Oooo, who cares if he had a plan because when you get hit with this, right in the mouth," Roman put up his fist. "There aint a plan that matters anymore. And that makes me a wanted man around here. That's all good for me. One verses all."
Fireworks went off in Angel's head as Roman's last couple of words echoed in her head. One verses all! That's it! Grabbing her phone quickly, she texted Racheal the words 'One Verses All'.
And all she got back was 'Prefect."
Filling giddy about finally finding the words to put on Roman's shirt, she forgot that Roman was doing an interview and started to do a little dancing in the corner.
"Someone's happy." Dean leant down.
"One verses all." Was all she said back.
"Ok?"
As soon as Roman's interview was done, the camera man turned towards Dean. "Just got word that they want me to get a shot of you walking to the ring for your match."
"When?"
"Right now."
Dean nodded and pushed himself off the wall, where they were 'watching' Roman's interview. "Alright then. Let's do this this."
"Go." He said quickly.
Taking a moment to turn into the serious version of Dean, he started down the hallways towards the gorilla. Paying no attention to the camera man in front of him, he threw a few punches into the air, all while twitching and cracking his neck.
She on the other hand, had a bit harder of a time trying to forget about the camera, as she walked slightly behind Dean. She had a feeling that she spiked the lens a few times.
"Thanks." The camera man said as he suddenly just wondered off.
"Guess they got what they needed." She said as they turned into the gorilla.
"Guess so." Dean agreed before stopping dead in front of her.
Looking around him, she saw Cearo was standing there cracking his own neck.
"Dean." He said as soon as he noticed them.
"Cesaro." Dean nodded. "How the arm?"
"Fine, how's yours."
Dean looked down at his left arm that was all taped up and said. "Never better."
"Once given the ok, we're going to be sending Ambrose and Miles out first." Someone yelled.
"See you out there." Dean said as he walked past the man and up to the curtains to the stage.
They barely reached their mark, and his music started up.
As they walked out onto the stage, Angel looked around at all the different signs that she could see. There were the typical ones; 'I'm crazy for Ambrose', 'I am a Dean Ambrose kind of girl', and then her favorite was one that read, 'Angel Miles can beat up the Miz'.
"What's your weight in on that one?" She asked him as she nodded to it.
Dean looked over and said,, "Once you master the art of the Dirty Deeds, then yeah, you could put that pompous ass on his back."
"Pompous? That's big word for you."
Snapping his head over to her, Dean smirked. "Get. Your. Ass. In. The. Ring."
Laughing, she walked around him and climbed up the steps. When she met him on the apron, where he was holding open the ropes for her, she smiled and said. "Hey, I'm just saying." Before ducking through. "I never heard you say that one before."
"That because you've never really heard me talk about the Miz before."
"Ok, you got me there." She said. "Hey, Lilan!" She waved at the woman.
"Hey!" She smiled back when Cesaro's music started up. Quickly, Lilan brought the mic up to her face so that she could announce the man who was walking to the ring with what seemed like old air-raid sirens going off.
"Off you go." Dean said leaning down towards her.
Rolling her eyes at him. She waved him off. "Yeah, yeah I'm going." She ducked under the ropes, and dropped to the floor just as Cesaro made his way into the ring. Smiling at a few of the fans that were in the floor seats, she walked over to the commentary table, where Michael Cole was already holding out a headset for her.
"Hey guys." She said putting it on.
"Welcome, Angel. How are you doing today?" Cole asked.
"I'm pretty good. You?"
"I'm well thank you for asking."
"You're welcome." She said turning back to JBL. "How are you, JBL?"
"I'm fine." He said snippy. Classic JBL.
"That's good."
Sitting down so that she could see the small screen that hid on the table, she saw Dean and Cearo staring at each other. When the bell rang, they both went after each other.
"It has begun and Ambrose bad shoulder and all, is going right after Cesaro." Cole started his play by play. "This is a rematch from Monday night, where Ambrose snapped, used a steel chair and went right after Cesaro, causing the disqualification Cesaro from what we understand is looking for retribution. And we can Angel Miles here joining us for the match."
"Hello!" She said cheerfully.
Only to interrupted by JBL. "Ambrose snapped? When was he ever normal?"
"He's pretty normal to me." She said.
"Well, you're just as crazy as he is." JBL asked.
"Or are we the normal ones and you are the crazy one."
"Don't start with that."
Cole then spoke up. "You have to admit Angel, that after Battlegrounds, there's been something up with Dean."
"Yeah, I do admit that. He's angry, very angry. I mean, wouldn't you be angry too if you lost a match because you weren't allowed in the building?"
JBL sighed. "What happened at Battleground was a hundred percent Dean's fault. He could have had a match and win by a pinfall but instead he goes over the top and turns into a lunatic and attacks Seth backstage. Which robbed the fans, us and everybody else of a match."
"Eh." She shook her head. "So now attacking someone backstage is enough to kick them out?"
"Yes!" JBL answered.
"Then why did Seth, Kane, and Randy get kicked out when they attacked Dean backstage before the three on three match with Cena and Roman?"
"I…I don't know I'm not the Authority."
"No, you're not, but you're saying that Dean deserved to be thrown at Battleground but not the three of them. I mean at least with Dean it was fair, one on one, not a three on one beatdown."
"I-I I'm saying anything of that sort, just that Dean could have had a match and it's his fault that he did."
"I agree with Angel on this one." Cole said.
"Of course you do. Both are you are bleeding hearts for the lunatic."
"Well, he did get kicked, and then Rollins came down to the ring and was declared the winner, via forfeit. Ambrose would then attack Rollins again in the parking lot."
"Yeah, and I bet you both thing that that was perfectly find to do." JBL complained. "Who gets into a trunk of a car just to stalk someone."
Angel laughed. "I wasn't really prepared for that one either, but it was effective."
"Effective! The only thing it did effective, was to effectively show just how crazy he is."
She went to answer JBL with another witty comment, but the screen in front of her caught her attention just as Dean got Cesaro into a corner. "COME ON, WHO SENT YOU OUT HERE!" Dean yelled as she stamped Cesaro down into the mat.
Dumb question, Dean. We all know who sent him out here. We all saw Hunter tell him to deal with you. She shook her head.
"Look at Ambrose go." Cole said. "So Angel, do you think he's going to hunt Rollins for the rest of his career?"
"Hard to say, but I don't see them being friends again, do you?"
"No, not after what Rollins has done."
"Listen to you two, he should be thanking him."
"Not this again."
"Welcome to my world." Cole snickered.
As they turned their attention to talking about Cesaro, Angel focused on the match. To her it seemed as if Dean was picking on Cesaro. Like he suplex the man, before hitting him and an elbow-drop, but then he just stopped.
He then looked up at the crowd, and nodded to himself. Probably agreeing with whatever idea had just popped in his head before slipping from the ring. He started to look under the ring for something. When he pulled out a kendo stick, she figured that it was time for the no DQ part of the match, but then he just tossed it away. He then walked around the ring to the spot right in front of them.
"I guess he didn't like those toys" JBL said as Dean reached under the ring to find chairs. "maybe he'll like these."
"You gotta have the right tools, you know." Angel said clenching her fists under the table. She gave a silent prayer that nothing too extreme was going to happen, but she knew it was for not because this was Dean she was talking about.
With a chair in hands, he jumped back up on the apron, only to be met with a boot right to the face.
"Oh god!" She gasped.
"What a hit!"
After smashing Dean's head off the apron, it was Cesaro's turn to find a toy, and he decided to pick a kendo stick, and made no hesitation to swing it at Dean who was resting against one of the steel post.
At the absolute last second, Dean ducked the hit, which gave her a heart attack. While she tired to get her heartbeat to settle down, she watched as Dean stepped back so that he could knock Cesaro over the barricade, with a clothesline. He then jumped over the thing himself and landed right on top of Cearo.
"The thing about Dean Ambrose that makes him so dangerous, is that he doesn't care what he does to his own body." Cole said as Dean picked up one of the wheely desk chairs and tossed it out to ring side.
"What makes him so dangerous is he's a lunatic."
"Why do you think he's a lunatic?" Angel said finally getting fed up with JBL.
"What do you mean, look at him."
"I am." She said even as Dean grabbed the ring bell, and turned around with is tongue out like a happy dog. He then stepped up on the barricade, and jumped at Cesaro, smashing him in the head with the bell. "He might be a bit weird, but lunatic is too far."
"Angel, for once I agree with JBL." Cole sighed.
"Why?" After punching Cesaro in the face one more to keep him on the floor, Dean grabbed a kendo stick and walked over towards the announced table. Raising a brow, she looked up at him.
"Move." He said simply, looking right at Cole as he picked up his foot and set it on top of the table. As Cole leaned back, Dean looked over at her. "Enjoying the match, darlin'?"
"I always enjoy your matches."
He smirked as he hopped up onto the table.
"Did he just ask if you were enjoying the match?"
"He did. Wasn't that sweet." She said with a fake gushing voice. "He wants to make sure I'm having a good time."
"Gross."
Rolling her eyes at JBL, she turned towards Dean to see him holding both hands on the kendo stick, aiming himself right at Cesaro, he leaped into the air. Before he could connect, Cesaro hit him right across the stomach with another kendo stick Angel hissed at the hit.
"Did you hear that!" Cole asked as he signaled for the commercial break.
How could I not. She cringed.
Even as the show itself went to commercial, they two men didn't stop fighting Cearo picked Dean up and threw him into the ring. Grabbing the kendo stick that was in the ring, he started to wail on Dean's bad shoulder. Which started them talking about his arm, and how he injured it.
"So Angel, can you inform us how bad his arm really is."
"I mean, it's pretty banged up but nothing that Dean can't handle."
"Those bandages, made him a big target."
"Yeah, but do you really wanted to poke the beast?"
"She has a point."
"No, she doesn't."
In the ring, Cearo set up a chair, wedging it between the top and middle turnbuckle of the corner across the way from her. Please no. Her hands clenched again as watched Cesaro turn Dean towards the chair. With Dean's head in his grip, Cesaro tried to slam his head into the chair, but Dean stopped it with an elbow to the stomach.
After ducking a swing, Dean raced over and bounced off the ropes and hit Cesaro with a Crossbody before laying into him with wild swings.
"Ambrose, unloading!" Cole called as Dean pushed himself off of Cesaro to grab a kendo stick. However, the moment that Dean did that, Cesaro took the moment get a chair which he stabbed into Dean's gut. He then grabbed Dean around the middle and picked him up like an oversize bag and threw him shoulder first onto the chair that was now laying on the mat.
Angel's eyes widened as the camera zoomed in on the pained look on Dean's face, before Cesaro went for a pin. Both JBL and Cole got over excited about the pin until Dean kicked out.
"Yes, good kick out." She cheered as Cesaro went for another pin, this time he used the kendo stick to try and keep him down, but it didn't work. Since pinning wasn't working, Cearo seemed to change tactics and was now determined to get him to tap out, as he used the kendo stick to wrap Dean left arm around and yank it a sickening angle.
"Are you going to give up?" She heard the ref said.
"NO!" Dean screamed.
Cole started up once again about how 'crazy' Dean was by saying; "You know how they say the 'it factor', well Dean has the crazy factor."
Dean reached up and grabbed Cearo's face, making him let go.
"Cue coming back to the show." She heard though her headset.
"We'll be heading over to Sify." Cole said instantly after the order was made. He then started in on welcoming back the viewers to the show. He told them about how Cesaro had been dominating Dean during the commercial and how they could watch it on the app. "Look at Cesaro holding that kendo stick against Dean's face. God that must hurt."
On the screen, Angel could see the irritation on Dean's face as Cesaro forced his head to the side with the kendo stick. She could see the wheels a turning, he then grabbed Cesaro's hand and pulled it towards his mouth.
"Look, Dean's biting the fingers of Cesaro."
"Well, why not it's legal."
"And efficient." Angel added. "No one wants to hold onto a man who's willing to bite your fingers."
"That's true."
JBL then sighed. "And yet, you don't seem to mind."
Annoyed by the question, Angel decided to pick on him. "JBL, are you saying that Dean bites me? That's kind of personal."
"T-that's not what I mean…I didn't, you know what I mean." She wasn't expecting the fluttered tone but she was most certainly happy that she achieved it.
"Can you believe that he just asked if Dean bites me?"
"I didn't!"
Smirking to herself, she turned back to the match and saw Cesaro picking Dean up for a body slam that was aimed to two steal chairs that were standing up seat to seat.
"Cesaro just drove Ambrose through the chairs."
'Drove', was the word that Angel would have used but it described the hit perfectly. "Ouch." She grimaced as Cesaro went for the pin.
Using, what seemed like everything that he had, Dean kicked out so hard that he flipped himself onto his stomach. Cesaro just did something that she thought was both cleaver and very horrible. He took one of the chairs, and placed it on top of Dean, so that he was trapped between the legs. He then grabbed the kendo stick and sat down on the chair, before placing the stick in Dean's mouth and wrenching him back.
Dean's back arched back against the steal chair that Cesaro was sitting on, and all she could imagine was the bad bruise that was going to be there later.
"Give up!" Cesaro's voice said loud and clear through the headphones.
"NO!" Dean barked back.
Even through the headset, she heard the chants starting. It was soft at first but quickly grew so loud that it sounded like the whole arena was chanting; "Let's go Ambrose!"
Either Cesaro had figured out that Dean wasn't going to tap, or he grew too annoyed by the crowd, because he suddenly stood up and removed the chair from Dean's back. At first she was puzzled about the move, but then he pointed the kendo stick down at Dean's face and taunted him before smashing the stick right into his left shoulder.
Dean's body jumped from the hit, almost sending him into the chair that was standing in the ring.
Cesaro taunted Dean again, to which Dean answered him with his jaw cleaned. "I can do this all night, Cesaro."
Cesaro hit him again.
"Cesaro is just toying with him." Cole said.
"Which isn't a smart move." Angel shook her head. "Dean is someone you don't want to toy with, because all that going to happen, is that's going to come right back at you and Dean's a very imagination guy."
"Why don't I like the sound of that?"
"I don't know, JBL." She said. "Where is your head tonight?"
"You keep twisting what I'm saying."
"Am I?"
"Yes, you are."
Dean was on his stomach, Cesaro walked over and pulled Dean up by the athletic tap that was around his shoulder. Then he was up on his knees, they locked eyes and Dean smirked.
Cesaro frowned and yelled. "This is going to be the end of you!" He then wound up for a big hit, but this one didn't go the way that he had planned, as Dean got his left arm up in time. Dean caught the kendo stick under it. Shaking his head, he latched down on the stick, as he rose to his feet, fighting for the weapon.
Though before he could get it, Cesaro kicked him in the gut, sending him back towards the ropes, where Dean bounced off an hit him with a clothesline.
"What a clothesline that was, almost took Cesaro out of his boots." JBL laughed.
"Was that a compliment for Dean?" She picked again. "Wow."
She was too into her jesting, she didn't notice that there was another chant for Dean until Cole pointed it out.
She smiled. "Of course, they're cheering for Dean, everyone loves him."
"I don't." JBL said quickly. "And I'm sure that Seth and the rest of the Authority doesn't."
"Fine, everyone who has tastes like him."
"Taste? Dean is a lunatic, you would have to be as crazy as he is to like him, and even crazier to love him."
She shrugged even though no one would see it. Turning back to the match, she saw that it was now Dean's turn with the kendo stick, he slammed hits into Cesaro a few times with it before doing a leg sweep with the stick under his neck.
Dean covered, but Cesaro kicked out.
"That shoulder's still bothering Ambrose." JBL said while the camera stayed on Dean who rolling his shoulder.
"It might be, but he just keeps going. He keeps going and going."
"Like the Energizer bunny."
"Exactly."
"I never said he gave up." JBL said in his whiny voice. "No body said he gives up; he doesn't have enough sense to give up."
"Ambrose is a guy who's comfortable backed into a corner. He likes to scratch and claw his way out."
"No ,he doesn't, he just doesn't know his way out."
"JBL, are you calling Dean stupid?" Angel asked.
"He's certainly not a genius, I mean look at him."
"Don't underestimate him, because you might just regret it." She told him.
"It must be fun to have an inside look at Dean Ambrose." Cole said.
"It can be." She answered honestly. "It's like a roller-coaster, pretty fun but sometimes you just have to hang on for the ride."
"I can see that." Cole gestured to the screen, where the camera had zoomed onto Dean's intense face as he set up the two chairs once again. However, apparently facing each other wasn't good enough for him, because he turned around them so that the chairs were back to back. He then grabbed Cesaro, he set him up for a suplex but Cesaro kept blocking until he was able to spin them around so that it was now Dean in trouble. He was able to get Dean's feet off the mat, his legs flailing in the air like crazy, until Cesaro set him back down.
It literally took Dean using his head, to escape.
Once free, he grabbed ne of the chairs, and jabbed Cesaro in the stomach with it, so that he could come in and suplex him onto the remaining chair.
"Oh god!" Angel cringed as she watched Cesaro's back hit right into the back of the metal chair.
"Cesaro just went through the chair!" Cole called. "Oh my, look at the chair, you have to see this chair, it's been completely broken and bent in half." He tired to direct the camera to show off said chair.
Since production team that was listening in, didn't seem to want to listen, Angel pushed herself up into her chair so that she could see over the table and into the ring itself. Her eyes widened as she saw the mangled metal chair. She was so glad that, that wasn't Dean's back that went through that thing.
After Cesaro kicked out of a pin, Dean grabbed the chair that wasn't bent to hell and back and made his way to the corner. He hopped up onto the second rope and laughed to catch his breath, before leaping for Cesaro, chair first, landing right on him.
Another pin, and another kick out.
Suddenly the screen that she was watching, split in half so that they could show the replay Dean suplexing Cesaro onto the chair. However, it was the live feed that she was paying attention as Dean raced towards Cesaro. That's when she realized that Cesaro was in the corner that still had the chair stuck between the turnbuckles.
"Uh-oh." Cole said as Cesaro stepped out of the way and pushed Dean into said chair.
"Ouch." She cringed.
"Maybe that knocked some sense into him." JBL taunted as Cesaro pinned Dean.
"Come on, Dean!" She cheered. "Kick out!"
Just as she yelled, Dean did kick out.
"Ambrose went shoulder first into a steel chair and was still able to kick out." Cole said baffled.
"We got ourselves a real fight."
She jumped as Cearo let out a battle cry. He grabbed Dean, and tossed him into the same corner as before, though since the chair was no longer there, he just went sailing through and right into the steel post. As soon as she heard the sound of the impact, Angel rose from her seat, so that she could see the whole picture of what was going on. Her eyes went from Dean to Cesaro who had grabbed another chair off the floor. He was trying to do Dean, what he did to him.
"Angel!" Cole called as she threw down her headset and started towards the fight.
Before she could get there Cesaro, swung the chair at Dean but, Dean was able to dodge the hit. The chair smashed into the steel pole, knocking it from Cesaro's hand and sending it flying towards the ramp.
Relief flooded her as she looked back towards the ring to see Dean stumbling back towards the far ropes. And he leaned on the ropes, an idea clicked in her head. It wasn't a good idea, but she knew that Dean would understand what she was going for.
Looking at Cesaro who was shaking out his hands from the hit, she called. "Hey! Leave him along!"
Cesaro turned towards him, with a raised brow, she could see the frustration in his eyes, and he took a step towards her. Stepping back, she glanced at Dean out of the corner of her eye. She was trying to measure how much room had to give him.
"Why are you even out here?" Cesaro asked.
"I'm here to stop you."
"To stop me?" He laughed as he stood up straight, showing off how much he towered over her. "That's a laugh. You can't do anything to me? I would crush you."
Looking towards Dean once more, she smirked. "I know, but it's not me you have to worry about."
When she took another step away from the man in front of her, Dean came flying through the ropes, aimed right at Cesaro.
The crowed cheered for the move, as the two men fell to the floor, groaning and holding onto their bodies. Holding his arm, Dean rolled onto his knees, before pushing himself up from the floor. As he stretched out his back, his eyes landed on her, and she prepared herself for him to lecture her, but instead, he sauntered over, kissed the top of her head, and walked off.
Taking back by his reaction, she stood there for a moment, trying to figure it out before following Dean around the side of the ring. Through she was stopped by the sound of metal clanking in the ring. Shaking her head, she saw Dean throwing a bunch of chairs into the ring, like loads of them, more then she was comfortable with. "What are you doing?"
"Improvising."
"With a pile of chairs?"
"Yep." He said throwing more into the ring.
After he was happy with the number of chairs that were in the ring, Dean walked over to Cesaro to pick him up. Though as he threw him into the ring, something caught her attention. She cocked her head, until she realized that it was someone towards Dean.
"Watch out!" She called even before she realized that it was Seth.
She only realized that after he plowed into Dean. As they two of them brawled around on the floor, she sighed. Now that Seth was out here, Dean's mind was far away from the match. He was now fully locked on Seth.
Seth dragged Dean to his feet and aimed him right at the barricade that protected the timekeeper's area, but Dean was able to spin the move around and threw Seth into the barricade before knocking him over with a very stiff clothesline.
When Dean looked down at Seth who was laid out on the floor among the wires and such, she expected him to jump over to keep on the attack, but much to her surprise, he turned back towards the ring.
Stumbling toward the ring, Dean climbed up to the top rope, again there was a part of her that through Dean was going to throw himself at Seth, especially as he turned to looked back at Seth.
Though again much to her surprise he didn't just leap across the world to jump on to top of Seth, instead turned back to the ring. However, before he could do anything, Cesaro ran over and hit against the ropes, knocking Dean's feet off the ropes and, low blowing him with the ropes.
Dean slowly slide down onto the apron before being punch in the face by Cesaro. The hit nearly knocked Dean off, but he held on tight. Angel kind of wished that he would have fallen, because Cesaro grabbed him and set him up for a superplex. Something she had seen many times before, but now there was a massive pile of metal folding chairs under him instead of just the mat.
"No. No. No. Please, no!" She cringed when Deans feet lifted up into the air. Even though she didn't want to see what happened, she couldn't stop watching as both men toppled into the chairs with a sickening noise.
Worried about both men, she stepped up closer to the apron, just as Cesaro tried to crawl his way towards Dean, probably for a cover.
Of course. Seth had stolen yet another match from Dean. Her eyes flickered towards Cesaro's long legs. Or maybe not. Before she could even process the thought that went through her head, Angel reached out and grabbed onto Cesaro's boots, trying to stop him. Or at least give Dean any extra time that she could.
Which was only a few seconds because Cesaro was able to kick her off with ease. Glaring back at her, he quickened his pace over to Dean for the pin.
Holding her breath, she watched as the ref counted to two and then Dean kicked out.
Exhaling, she started to slap on the apron. "Come one Dean, get him!"
Visually annoyed, Cesaro started to throw the chairs around, luckily non eof them hit Dean. He then grabbed Dean and picked him up to hit him with another move. At the last second, Dean came to life and rolled Cesaro up.
"One. Two. Three."
A wave of disbelief hit her as the ref called the match. Dean had won! "Yes!" She cheered as she reached up to get into the ring. However, before she could even make it to onto the apron, Seth was in the ring and on Dean with flying fits. Knowing what this could turn into, Angel quickly got into the ring and tried to pull Seth away from Dean, only to be grabbed by the ref and held back.
"You'll get hurt."
"Does it look like I care?" She said as Seth and Cesaro ganged up on Dean. "Let me go!" As Dean smashed into the mat face first, from Cesaro's Neutralizer finisher.
Seth sauntered over to Dean, like he was proud of what just happened, as if he was the hero who just vanquished the villain. "When will you learn to stay down?" He asked as he pulled Dean's head up by his hair. "When will you learn to die?" He forced Dean up onto his hands and knees, which seemed to stir live in him, but that life was instantly stomped out by a Curb Stomp.
A burning anger rushed through her as she looked at Dean laying down on the mat, not moving, his chest heaving with each breath. She ripped out of the ref's grasp, she slowly walked over to the pile of chairs that were still in the ring. With her eyes locked on Seth, she bent down and grabbed one of them. The metal felt cold against her staking hand, the weight felt foreign. Glancing from the chair to Seth, she knew what she had to do.
Slowly, she walked around the back of him and raised the chair up into the chair took a deep breath and closed her eyes as she swung as hard as she could. She felt the chair hit him, felt the sick vibrations of the metal in her hands, and her Seth grunt in pain.
Opening her eyes, the bright lights blinded her for a moment as she looked around the ring. Seth was now over against the ropes near the ramp, looking at her with total disbelief as he held onto his back. They locked eye for but a moment, but it was enough as Seth quickly got out of the ring.
Everything seemed to come back to her in a rush, and she instantly dropped the chair as if it was on fire before turning towards Dean. Seeing him down on the ground, Her anger washed away, replaced with worry.
"Medic!" She called as she fell to the mat next to him. "Can I get a medic over here!"
Katara Melody Cullen: I'm so glad that you liked the chicken scene, I like that one too. Uncle Dean is best uncle, isn't he? Also thank you as always.
Katmoonchild: Jon is a smarty isn't he. I'm glad you liked the chapter!
BrookeWorm3: Lol, so much to unpack in that one. I loved the beach scene it was fun to right just people being people.
HugKnuckels: I love Dean and JoJo moments, I watched and interview from Roman that said he was worried about the first time Dean meet her, but like with in five minutes of them meeting, she had him wrapped around her finger and he was as sweet as can be.
Sonia: I'm so glad you liked the chapter! Thanks for the reivew!