Hey guys! After some years, I am finally getting back to my writing on here and I am excited! I wanted to write something with Dean Ambrose for a while now and finally sat down to type up notes/ideas for this story. I can't wait to continue on with this story and hopefully you all enjoy it. College kept me busy for sure, but since I graduated in May, I'm hoping to have some more free time to write some more. Also, thank you in advance to ThatGirl54 for helping me with this story. You're the best! For this story, I'm going to use their wrestler names instead of real ones. That might change a bit if I let their real names slip in here and there, but I'll let you know so that it does not confuse anyone. Anyway, enough rambling. Enjoy!

October 2012

WWE Performance Center

She was watching some old matches on her phone, while putting her brunette hair up into a ponytail. Cringing as she saw Lita jump through the ropes and onto Trish on the outside, almost breaking her neck again. It was a match she watched constantly, but would forever cringe at that particular spot. Allison quickly glanced over at the clock and then gasped when she realized she was running late. She quickly exited out of the YouTube app on her phone and then collected her gym bag and keys, heading out of her apartment. Lucky for her, the WWE Performance Center wasn't too far of a walk. She quickened her pace and texted Paige to let her know she was on her way, hoping that none of the higher ups were there today. She was never late for training, but as the saying always goes, there's always a first time for everything.

Allison James had been signed to the WWE for a year now, but has been wrestling for three years in general. Prior to being signed, she worked for different promotions such as Shimmer and ROH. While she hadn't been wrestling for long, she was given the chance to work with huge indy stars and definitely had the fans' attention throughout her career. Her main goal was to make it to the WWE but she truly thought WWE would never want her, especially now since she was still new to wrestling, but when they showed interest in her and offered her the contract; she couldn't refuse. Throughout the year, she had learned so much from everybody and even became friends with most of the roster. Paige, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Summer Rae, Emma and Sasha Banks being her closest friends. Allison felt very blessed to have such a great career so far and to share it with the amazing people she now considered her family.

"I can't believe I'm late." Allison muttered to herself as she finally made it to the front doors and pulled one of the doors open, walking in.

"Ohhhhh, you're in trouble." teased Seth as he spotted her walking in.

"Shut it, Goldilocks." she smirked as she slapped him upside the head, walking past him.

Once she gave quick hellos to the other talent that were there, she walked into the women's locker room to drop off her belongings.

"Are you sick?" Paige asked as she finished lacing up her sneakers, watching Allison quickly put her things away in her locker.

"No, why?"

"You're never late. You're always the one getting on my case." Paige smirked.

"Yeah, yeah. I was watching matches and lost track of time. None of the trainers are here yet?" she asked.

Paige nodded. "They've been in a meeting for the past hour, so you're good."

Ally let out a sigh of relief, thankful that they had no idea she was late. "Thank God."

"You're welcome, muffin." Paige smirked as she stood up. "Now let's go so we can show those boys we're better than them and I can show that it's easy to kick your ass."

"Psh, whatever." Ally laughed as she closed her locker and linked arms with Paige, heading out of the locker room to head to the ring.

"I'm….dying…." Paige panted as she laid on the mat, staring up at the ceiling.

Ally was looking down at her in amusement, offering her hand to Paige. "What happened to kicking my ass?" she teased as Paige grabbed a hold of her hand and pulled herself up.

"I'll prove it another day." she laughed as Ally shook her head in amusement. "Oh, there's grumpy." Paige said as she nodded over at the superstar she was talking about.

Allison looked over and saw just who Paige was talking about. Dean Ambrose was about six feet tall, had sandy blonde hair, the bluest eyes she had ever seen and a small smirk on his face as he talked to Dusty, Roman and Seth.

"He doesn't look grumpy to me."

"Oh believe me, he is." Paige said as she grabbed her water bottle and took a sip. "Dean's frustrated that they have no plans for him to debut on NXT yet. I've been hearing rumors though that he might get called up."

"I thought they were calling up Seth? Isn't that who everybody is expecting on Raw soon?"

Paige shrugged. "No idea. You know plans are never one hundred percent set in stone here. They're just rumors. Who knows though? Maybe they'll bring them both up."

Ally shrugged as she looked over at Dean again. She had seen him around in the past and recently as well; she just never really spoke to him. Then again, he wasn't exactly a social butterfly and was usually doing his own thing. He made eye contact with her and when she noticed, she quickly looked away. "We should get ready for Dream's promo class." she told Paige as she went under the rope and made her way out of the ring. "It starts in an hour, so we have plenty of time to shower and get ready."

"I guess you don't want to be late this time?" Paige teased as she walked with Ally.

Ally answered by punching her on the arm. "Fucking ow." Paige snorted as she rubbed her arm. Ally laughed and looked back over again at Dean, watching as he waved slightly at her with his fingers. She shook her head and carried on to the locker room.

"Hello everyone and welcome to Shooting the Breeze with Tyler…..Breeze."

As Tyler started his promo off, most of the talent chuckled and laughed among themselves at how entertaining he was. However, there was one person who wasn't really paying much attention to what was going on and focused on one person in the room. "Who's that?" Dean asked quietly to Seth as he nodded over towards Ally's direction.

"That's Allison James." Seth told him. "She's been here for about a year. You'd think you would know this by now." He snorted.

"I don't really spend my time socializing with the roster like you." Dean snorted. "She any good in the ring?"

Seth nodded in response. "I saw her perform at an ROH show once and saw some of her Shimmer stuff. She's really good. We were training one day and she gave me a run for my money, that's for sure."

"Hm."

"Why?"

"Just wondering." Dean said. "She kind of looked my way earlier and just seemed….lost?"

"She's a little space cadet at times, but she's real cool. It's a shame she hasn't been called up yet. She has everything it takes to become one of the biggest divas on the main roster."

"Ladies, you should shut up and pay attention. Regal looks like he wants our head on a stick." Roman said as he nodded over at Regal.

Dean smirked. "That or he's still bitter over my last match with him." he said as he heard everybody start clapping after Tyler's promo was finished.

"Ally baby, you're up next." Dusty said.

Allison nodded and stood up from her seat and Dusty went back to standing over where William Regal was, critiquing the promos with him.

"Watch this man." Seth told him as Dean focused on Allison again. "Watch how she talks and gets people emotionally invested in her."

Dusty counted down from three to one and Ally began. She scratched the back of her head a bit and then rubbed the back of her neck.

"People always ask me, who do you want to be in this business?" she said as she looked off in thought and rubbed her hands together. She started to sway slightly as she continued. "I want to be the best. I want to be the best wrestler." Ally said taking a deep breath. "I want to be the best performer. I want to be the best at everything Dusty talks about in promo class. I want to connect with people the way I felt ten years ago when I went to my first WWE event." She continued as she started to feel herself get choked up. "And I don't just want to be the best in the ring. I want to be the best in the locker room, for the girls that come after me, the girls that have questions and that need help. I don't want to be the best to say that I'm better than you or that I'm better than any other diva. I want be the best that I can be because this is the only place I've ever wanted to be." Some tears had slipped out and went down her cheeks. She let out a breath and wiped her tears away to finish. "I want to one day make everyone feel what I felt all those years ago." she said and then wiped her face again, then smiled and tilted her head to the side. "That's who I want to be." Ally finished and then went to her seat when her time was up and they clapped for her.

Dean nodded and clapped slowly, impressed with her. Sometimes the girls weren't always the best when it came to promos, but she definitely had kept him interested.

"Good right?" Seth asked.

Dean looked over at Seth and shrugged a bit, playing it off. "She was alright, a little psycho at the end, but alright." He said as he looked over at her, while she chatted with Summer and Paige.

After the promo class ended, everybody went their separate ways for the night. The only ones to stay behind were Dusty, William Regal, Seth, Dean and Roman. They were just chatting with one another about the day in general and also about who would be called up to the main roster.

"Boys, after careful consideration, the higher ups have decided that they want three men to become a stable and sort of become the "insurance policy" for WWE Champion, CM Punk."

"Pretty much doing his dirty work?" Roman asked.

Dusty nodded. "In a way. They'd be helping him from time to time but won't directly be too involved with him."

"I guess that works." Dean shrugged.

"Have they figured out who yet?" Seth asked.

Regal looked over at Dusty and then nodded. "They wanted you, Kassius Ohno and Dean." He replied. "However since Ohno was released and they were torn between him and another superstar anyway, they finally decided they want Roman called up as well."

"…wait. So this means we're being…." Roman started.

Dusty nodded. "That's right baby, you're all going to the main roster."

All three men were ecstatic at the opportunity and couldn't wait to make an impact on the main roster.

"You'll be known as The Shield." Regal said. "There will be a meeting at the end of the week to finalize everything and give you more details, but we wanted to inform you that it would be you three. Now, this doesn't get out to anybody. We want it to be a surprise."

They all nodded and shook hands with Regal and Dusty before they went off on their own and spoke about the upcoming plans for them.

Regal watched them walk away and sighed a bit. "Those three don't even know how much of an impact they're going to make. They're exquisite talent."

"They sure are." Dusty nodded. "I would have liked to see them bring in a diva as well though. We have so many talented ladies and they need to be put up there for the world to see.''

"It definitely would have to be somebody who is a good talker. Those three are good on the mic, Roman just needs some improvement but with a diva in there, she could balance it out. It has to be a woman who is equally as good though."

Regal and Dusty both remained silent for a moment until Dusty spoke up again.

"You know who would be perfect for it?"

William nodded and smirked a bit. "Allison."

a/n: annnnnnd that's the first chapter! The promo she did was Bayley's from a presentation skills class, I tweaked it a bit to not get in trouble or anything, lol. Review please and let me know what you think. Hopefully I can get the next chapter up next week or so. No promises though! Thanks in advance! :)