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The song for this chapter is, "In My Daughter's Eyes," by Martina McBride.
And can I just say how fricking excited I am to see The Shield reunite last night on RAW! I called that outcome a year ago when Seth took his face turn, I can't wait till I get to write it in this story.
The next morning Tasha kissed Colby and her daughter goodbye as they dropped her off at the airport. Colby assured her that Kailynn would be fine like always, and he would make sure she had fun since it was her last week with them before she went back home to Nevada for school.
Tasha sighed as she sat on the plane, she was feeling guiltier by the day for not being around her daughter as much as felt that she should be. It was getting harder for her to be away from Kailynn, and as much as she loved her job, she was really thinking about giving it up.
The next three days were long, hot and rough for Tasha, two days on set with her SOA crew which was getting more emotional as the episodes passed. None of them were ready for the series to end, it had been an amazing seven years and it was hard to believe it was ending.
Wednesday Tasha got back to her hotel and turned on the WWE Network, she knew Colby had a promo on Main Event and she wanted to watch it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr. Money In the Bank, Seth Rollins." Renee said with a grimace as Seth stepped up beside her, his ever present smirk on his face.
"Seth, do you have any kind of an explanation for what you did to Dean Ambrose on Monday Night RAW?"
"Explanation? What are you—what are you talking about? Why are you asking me? I didn't choose that match, Renee. I didn't choose the stipulation falls count anywhere where anything goes. There are no rules. You know what? It's on the WWE Universe's head, the blood is on their hands. They did this to Dean Ambrose. And why are we all feeling so bad for Dean Ambrose anyway? He's actually in some pretty good company now that I think about it. Lately a lot of heroes here in the WWE have kind of fallen on tough times. I mean, John Cena got demolished at Summerslam by the beast, Brock Lesnar. Chris Jericho had his return party spoiled by Bray Wyatt. Oh, you know who the biggest loser is actually? Jack Swagger. I mean, he let an entire nation down when he lost to Rusev at Summerslam. Can you imagine the weight on the shoulders—"
Seth stopped mid sentence as he saw someone standing on the other side of Renee.
"Look who has his big boy pants on now." Jack Swagger said as he stared down Rollins. "Talking pretty tough without big daddy Kane around here."
"You know, you're talking pretty tough yourself without Grandpa Zeb Colter by your side. And you know—you know, Jack? If you'd been paying attention, I beat Dean Ambrose at Summerslam. Okay? It was my foot on the back of his head that put his face into those cinderblocks on RAW. And you would know that if you weren't too busy taking a map for your country."
"I'm wide awake right now and I'm done talking."
"You want to fight? I'll fight ya, but not tonight. Yeah, I'll see you Friday at Smackdown and after I'm done with you, you can go hang out with Dean Ambrose on the missing person's list."
"Coward."
Tasha shook her head, smiling, Colby played a bad guy so well it was scary. As much as she hated the way their storylines were going right now, she couldn't help but love the bad side of Seth Rollins, it was something she was strangely attracted to.
Thursday was a twelve hour day on set with her Teen Wolf co-stars, they were filming a large fight scene that day. Doing the romantic scenes with Tyler made her miss Colby, but Tyler made sure she was comfortable and laughing throughout them.
On Friday morning Tasha smiled as she walked out of the airport in Phoenix, Arizona and got into the rig, however she frowned when she found it empty. Looking up at Daryl as he climbed into the driver's seat, she asked him, "Where is everybody?"
"Waiting for you." He replied cryptically.
"Okay." She said with a smile as she sat down in the passenger seat beside him.
Daryl gave her a wink as he drove them to the destination that Colby had asked him to. He could see the perplexing look on Tasha's face as he pulled up to a stop at a local park.
Getting out of the rig Tasha was greeted by Colby, he took her hand and helped her down the stairs. He gave her a smile and kissed her lips, then lacing his fingers with hers he lead her across the grass. As they rounded the small building that housed the bathrooms, Tasha gasped as she saw the picnic that was set up under the gazebo.
"Momma!" Kailynn hollered running up and jumping into her mother's arms.
"Hey baby."
"Mommy come on." She followed her daughter over to the tables where Joe, Jon and Renee were all sitting down.
Taking a seat on the bench in between her daughter and Colby, Tasha looked around at her friends. "What's going on? What are we doing here?"
"Kailynn wanted to thank you for her summer, so we decided to have a picnic." Colby explained.
Kailynn nodded, glancing up to her mom, "Yeah, mommy and we made this too." She said pushing a book over to Tasha.
Tasha smiled at her daughter as she opened the book, she laughed as she flipped through the pages. In it were all of the pictures that Tasha had taken of her daughter that summer, and a lot more that she had no idea who had taken them. There were pictures of all of them together, of Kailynn with the divas and superstars. Nearly every day of the summer had been captured.
The best picture was on the very last page, it was from years ago when Siren had been Women's Champion. She was standing in the ring with the title held high above her head. Under the picture Kailynn had wrote in tiny scribbles, "My mommy, the champion."
"This is amazing." Tasha said, wiping the small tears that had escaped her eyes.
"Mommy can I go swing?" Kailynn asked after they had eaten lunch.
"Of course, baby, go ahead."
Tasha sat on one of the picnic tables watching her daughter swing with Renee. She felt Colby sit down beside her and wrap his arm around her waist.
"She wanted you to know that despite what you think, she's had the best time this summer. Not just with you, but with all of us. She is so proud of you, baby. No matter what you will always be her hero. She loves being able to spend time with not only you, but all of us on the roster. She's very smart for a four year old."
"Yes she is." Tasha chuckled looking over to see Kailynn waving to her. She waved back, then turned and placed a sweet kiss onto Colby's lips. "Thank you."
"You're welcome. I'd do anything for you and her. Anything." He admitted without an ounce of uncertainty.
After a fun day with them all running around the park playing, the group headed to the arena to get ready for Smackdown.
Siren changed into her ring gear for the night, thanking God once again that creative and the bosses had allowed her to choose her own clothes. Skintight black jeans, her motorcycle boots and a black lace bra. She laid out Roman's shirt on the bench so that she was ready for his match later.
"You are not walking out there like that, I will get fired."
She turned with a smirk to the bathroom where Seth had just walked out dressed in his ring gear. Laughing she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. "No worries baby, you're the only one that gets to see me like this."
He kissed her back, "Better be."
She let him go and picked up his case, handing it to him. "Be careful."
"Always." He kissed her once more before he headed out of the locker room for the ring.
Randy Orton was standing in the corner posing for the fans when his music was cut off by another's theme coming on. Seth Rollins walked out onto the stage carrying his briefcase, smirking as he saw the irritated look on Orton's face at being interrupted. However as Randy walked up the ramp the two shook hands before Seth walked down to the ring.
Seth handed his briefcase to the tech and took off his shirt, looking around he had to smile at a young girl who was holding a sign behind him. It said 'Seth has Rollin into my heart', he smirked at her giving her a wink. Oh, how upset people would be when they found out about him and Siren.
Swagger had given Rollins a run for his money for most of the match, but a well placed curb-stomp by Rollins had given him the victory via count-out.
After Seth had come back to the locker room to watch Kailynn play, Siren pulled on Roman's shirt and headed out to meet him at the promo area.
She smiled at Renee as she walked up, "Hey, pretty lady. How's the grump?"
"Grouchy." Renee laughed. "He hates being put on the shelf, even if it's for a good reason."
"Yeah I know, but once he finishes the movie and sees it play on the big screen, he'll be fine." Siren said with a smile as Roman walked up.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my guests at this time, Siren and Roman Reigns." Renee said as the two of them walked into frame, Siren standing between Roman and the interviewer. "Roman, tonight you're scheduled to face the Miz. However, we all just saw what Randy Orton did to RVD. And he says he's coming after you tonight."
She held the mic up for Roman who smirked, "Randy Orton's coming after me? I wish he would. And don't get me wrong, I know exactly what Randy and The Authority are capable of and now that I've seen what Seth Rollins and Kane did to our boy, Dean Ambrose, I promise you this, we're gonna have our revenge. And I saw what Randy did to RVD, so The Authority thinks they have everything under control now, but Randy also promised me before Summerslam that he was gonna methodically decimate me. So I guess he was methodically decimating me all the way up until that point that I speared his ass. And I beat him. So if the Legend Killer wants me to finish what we started at Summerslam, that's fine by me, because someone needs to kill the legend of Randy Orton and that someone is me. Believe that."
"We're gonna make Seth, crazy." Siren said walking up to the corridor with Roman to get ready for his match.
"Hey, The Authority started this, Seth just has to hang on for the ride until they get tired of screwing with us."
"Yeah, that may be a long time from now." Siren chuckled.
Siren lead Roman down the stairs through the crowd, jumping over the barricade she paused by the steps as Roman climbed over behind her. He gestured her into the ring first, following her up and climbing the turnbuckle to pose for the fans.
As Miz came down Siren knocked fists with Roman before climbing out of the ring and leaning on the apron. She and Roman chuckled as they replayed the footage of Roman knocking Miz out last week on RAW.
As Miz rubbed his jaw in reminder, Roman stood in the corner by Siren with his elbows up on the ropes, he pointed to Miz and gave him a little finger wave. Only Siren could hear Roman ask him, "How's your jaw? You alright?"
As the bell rang to start the match Siren heard the crowd boo loudly, she looked to the ramp where Randy was slowly walking towards the ring. In the ring Miz tried to take advantage of Roman's distraction, but Roman caught him and shoved him to the canvas.
Roman kept one eye on Randy as he slunk around the ring, Roman picked Miz up and hit him with a Samoan drop. As Roman stood up Randy slunk under the bottom rope, but stopped partway when he saw Roman turn towards him. Miz tried to again take advantage of Roman's distraction, but Roman hit him with a spear and the cover, for the win.
Roman stood in the ring beckoning Randy inside, which the Viper obliged as the two took the fight to one another. Randy knocked Roman out of the ring with a clothesline over the top rope. He then grabbed Roman and attempted to slam his face off of the steel steps, but Roman countered and bounced Randy's head off of them instead.
Siren stood by just watching as the two beat the hell out of one another ringside, she knew she had promised Roman that she wouldn't interfere. But after Randy hit Roman with a steel chair, her self preservation instinct went out the window. Just as Randy had set up the steel chair in the ring, Siren climbed in and grabbed it, folding it back up.
As Roman delivered a punch to Orton's face giving him some breathing room, Siren handed the chair to her brother, nodding to Orton. Roman took the chair and slammed it into Randy's stomach, then brought the chair down on his back. Roman then hit Randy with a superman punch knocking him to the canvas, Randy wisely rolled out of the ring to save himself.
Siren climbed up into the ring and stood tall beside Roman as Smackdown went off the air.
After changing into a regular shirt, Tasha gathered her things and walked out to the rig with her daughter. Since they had no house shows, nothing to do until RAW, Colby, Joe, Jon and Renee flew out to Georgia with Tasha and Kailynn to watch her film The Walking Dead.
It was cool for them all to stand behind the cameras and watch the episode being made before them. Colby rolled his eyes as Joe and Jon ribbed him about Tasha's on-camera kiss from Norman Reedus. But Norman was cool as he apologized to Colby, assuring him that while he loved Tasha a lot, it was strictly a friendship type of love.
The group smiled as Kailynn chased Norman around the set, growling like a zombie as he ran away yelling for someone to save him. Tasha ran up and grabbed her daughter, swinging her around, Kailynn's laughter causing them all to smile.
The weekend was over too quickly for all of them as they met Tasha's mom at the airport so she could fly Kailynn back home. While Tasha and Kailynn were saying goodbye, Teresa pulled Colby off to the side to talk.
"I'm very glad you two worked things out, she wasn't herself without you around."
"I wasn't myself either." Colby admitted.
"How is she doing, really?" Her mother asked, she was worried about her daughter.
"She's good. She's been worried about Kailynn resenting her for not being around enough."
"As her mother, I would tell her if I thought what she was doing with her life wasn't fair to her daughter. But that little girl adores her mother and loves what she does for a living. And what she's doing now, will benefit Kailynn for the rest of her life. She's showing her daughter that if you work hard enough, your dreams will come true. Nothing is out of your reach if you want it bad enough. Thank you, Colby."
"For what?"
"For loving her. She deserves a good man, and you are a good man." Teresa said before giving him a hug which he happily returned.
Tasha was trying not to cry as she kissed and hugged her daughter goodbye. "Mommy, loves you more than all the stars in the sky. You know that right?"
"Yes momma. I love you bunches too." Kailynn said smiling up at her. "I can't wait to tell all my friends at school who my mommy is."
Tasha smiled, "Okay sweetie. Mommy will call you tomorrow after school, alright?"
"Okay momma. I love you."
"I love you too." She said hugging her daughter once more.
Kailynn made her rounds saying goodbye to the whole group leaving Colby for last. She hugged him tight and kissed his lips, "By Cole. I love you."
Colby was taken aback, but he smiled bright. "I love you too, munchkin."
Tasha stood there holding Colby's hand as they waved to monkey until she was on the plane. As they walked to their own terminal to fly out Colby squeezed her hand. "You okay, baby?"
"Yeah, I'm okay. Just can't wait until it's summer again." She said chuckling.
"She'll be back before you know it." Colby said kissing the side of her head as they boarded their plane.