Seth Rollins was excited. Finally after so many long months of rehab he was going back to work. His knee was back to 100% and he could get back to doing the thing he loved, wrestling. He missed his friends at work, the screaming crowds, the adrenaline rush from working a match, he even missed the travelling, but the thing he missed the most was his former tag team partner and current best friend, Roman Reigns.

Everyone thought that both of them were closer to Dean than each other but that wasn't really true. Seth and Dean may have a similar background and knew each other longer, but everything was different with Roman. They were opposites in many ways, but they just clicked; they had amazing in-ring chemistry, were supportive and non-judgmental with each other, rarely fought and just felt comfortable together.

He got out of the cab he had taken to the arena, paid the driver, grabbed his bags and practically ran into the building. He looked around at all the familiar sights and sounds of people preparing for Raw and smiled, his excitement growing by the minute. He smiled and nodded at fellow Superstars and Divas as he made his way to the dressing room that was shared by many of his former NXT friends. He paused outside the door, his heart beating faster, took a deep breath, opened the door and walked in.

Roman was the only one in the room so Seth took a moment to drink in the welcome sight of Roman with his back to him, going through his duffle bag. He was wearing simple blue jeans and a black muscle shirt and and his long, beautiful hair was in a ponytail. Seth grinned and put his bags down quietly.

Creeping up behind Roman, he threw his arms around him and yelled out. "Rome!"

Roman smiled and pried Seth's arms off him, turned around and gave him a proper warm hug. "Hey man. Welcome back."

Seth beamed at Roman in happiness. God how he had missed Roman's hugs, they were so warm and strong and always made him feel good. "Thanks, Ro. I'm so freakin' happy to be back." he said as they broke apart.

Roman sat down on the bench next to his bag and looked up at a still grinning Seth. "So, are you wrestling tonight or just appearing?"

"A little of both I guess." he said, too excited to sit down. "I'm supposed to break up Styles' match and challenge him for the IC Belt."

"Really?" Roman asked, genuinely surprised. "I thought you'd be coming for mine."

Seth grabbed his bags and put them next to Roman's before finally sitting down next to him. "Creative wants me to feud with Styles or maybe Owens before I go for it." he said, bumping his shoulder into Roman. "Besides, it's still technically my belt since I never lost it."

Roman grabbed Seth playfully in a headlock and messed up Seth's dark hair while Seth just laughed. The door opened and Cesaro, Dean, The New Day and Bo Dallas walked in.

"Looks like today is the Architect's triumphant return." Cesaro said as Seth got up and went over to the group.

"Yep." Seth said as he high-fived, fist-bumped and man hugged the various wrestlers.

Seth was dressed in his ring gear ready to go out after Roman's match. He was watching the match backstage on the monitor. He always watched Roman's matches and gave him suggestions for improvement. He loved watching Roman working hard and constantly improving. Roman and Dean were in another tag match, this time against Randy and Del Rio and Seth chuckled at Dean's twitchy-crazy faces. It was a solid match with Randy hitting an RKO on Dean and pinning him while Roman and Del Rio brawled outside the ring. He got up and went to meet Roman and Dean as they made their way back.

He fell in step with Roman and patted him on the shoulder. "Good match."

Roman looked over at him with a smirk. "Glad you liked what you saw."

Seth felt a flutter in his stomach and didn't know what to say.

"Everyone wants to take you out for a drink to celebrate your return after Smackdown." Roman said as they got to the locker room. "You cool with that?"

"Sounds good." Seth said as he turned to walk back and make his entrance.

Seth couldn't stop smiling as he walked back to the locker room. His return got a huge pop from the crowd and he cut a kick-ass promo. It felt so good to be back in the ring again, it felt like home. He walked into the locker room and saw Roman standing there wearing only his underwear. He stood there for a second too long looking at Roman and his stomach fluttered with butterflies and his mouth suddenly went dry.

Roman smiled. "Great job out there, it looks like you never left."

Seth swallowed nervously. "Thanks. It felt amazing being back out there."

Roman nodded and bent to slide his boxer briefs off.

Seth suddenly didn't know what to do with his eyes. 'What the hell was wrong with him today? He's seen Roman naked before and it never bothered him. Why now?'

"You gonna stand there all day or shower so we can go to the hotel?" Roman asked as he leaned over to grab his towel, not knowing that Seth's eyes were following his every movement.

Seth mentally shook himself. "Yeah." he said turning around and pulling his shirt off. "I'm kinda tired. I was too excited to sleep much last night."

Roman nodded and walked towards the showers. "Okay. Hurry up though, I'm really hungry."

Seth took a deep breath hearing Roman walk away and hurried out of his year. 'Yeah, it must be because he's tired. His brain needed sleep so bad that it's confused. That's all it is.'

He kept repeating it to himself as he joined Roman and Dean in the showers, hoping that if he said it enough, he would believe it.

Roman drove them all back to the hotel, talking and joking. Seth was in the backseat laughing at a story about Dean, relieved that everything was back to normal, the previous awkwardness all but forgotten.

When they got to the hotel, they dropped Dean off at his room and continued on to the room he would share with Roman. When they got to the room, Seth flopped down on his back on the nearest bed with a large sigh. Roman chuckled at him and started unpacking some of his things.

"Order us a pizza Rome." he said as he rolled onto his side to look at Roman. "Whatever you want is fine."

Roman turned to him with a smile. "Why? You usually want to argue for 20 minutes over the toppings."

"Today's a good day." he said shrugging. "I don't want to fight."

Roman ordered the pizza while Seth looked for something to watch on TV while they wailed for the food. He glanced over at Roman on the other bed, watching his expression.

"Is everything okay?" he asked in concern. "You've been quiet and distant all day?"

Roman looked over at him. "Everything's good. Maybe I'm just stressed."

"Being the champ can be stressful." he said skeptically. "If you ever need to talk or anything, you know where to find me."

"Thanks, man." Roman said as he turned back to the TV.

A few minutes later, the pizza came and they spent the next hour catching up and stuffing their faces. They got ready to go to sleep and turned out the lights.

"I'm really happy that you're back." Roman said in the dark. "I missed you."

Seth smiled to himself. "I missed you too."