Three days earlier…

The screaming and yelling wasn't hard to identify… standing up, Amanda headed out of the locker room and over to where the fighting was from.

"Hey, enough! Enough already!" Amanda yelled, Alicia and Wade turning and seeing her.

"You stay outta this! So much for your idea for us to talk things out!" Alicia screeched.

"Well all my other ideas fell on deaf ears so I thought this would've-" Amanda started to say, Wade spinning around and grabbing her right wrist. "Wade, let go of me."

"Or what, your Demon King's gonna beat the hell outta me?! All the ideas fell on deaf ears because your focus is in the wrong place and on the wrong man instead of actually trying to-" Wade threatened.

Wade was cut off by a kendo stick being slammed into the side of his head, looking and seeing Finn stood in front of Amanda and that Alicia was long gone.

"I don't care what your anger is coming from, you don't ever put your hands on her again!" Finn growled, taking Amanda back to the locker room.

Closing the door after getting Amanda to sit down, Finn grabbed a gel pack from the mini fridge and pressed it to Amanda's bruising wrist.

"He's a real asshole at times…" Finn muttered.

"Wade has a hell of a temper." Amanda said quietly as the two hugged…

Present time...

She never woke up like that… but there was a first time for everything.

It was the weekend of the NXT: TakeOver: Respect and Summerslam 2015 pay per views. Amanda could've imagined countless ways of waking up.

But seeing NXT Champion Finn Balor on top of her like he was straddling her was unexpected.

"This is not funny! Get that look off your face!" Amanda said even though she couldn't help but laugh when he smiled at seeing that she was awake… Finn had taken to unusual methods to waking her up at times, sometimes jumping onto the bed but never onto her.

"I made you laugh so yes, it is a bit funny… much like this!" Finn said, quickly tickling Amanda and making her laugh again.

The tickling stopped after a few minutes and Finn climbed off of Amanda and stretched back out next to her as the rain outside lightly hit the windows… but Finn could see it when Amanda turned onto her right side to face him.

"It's not your fault that it didn't work, Mandy." Finn said.

"It was a last ditch effort to try to get Alicia and Wade back together… now both are pissed at me and they won't even talk to each other anymore." Amanda responded, Finn reaching over and brushing Amanda's side swept bangs out of her face. "I feel like I lost two of my friends… and all I did was try to help them."

"If they try again, that's up to them… I know you were just trying to help them but sometimes it just doesn't work, love." Finn said as he and Amanda hugged.

Downstairs in the lobby, Genesis had been wandering around and stopped for a few seconds… she had only seen Wade Barrett and Cody Rhodes before on Tv but that was in her time point.

"Well your first screw up was going to her in the first place for advice…" Cody said.

"You're still bitter towards Mandy, aren't you?" Wade asked.

"I don't see how that's any of your business!" Cody snapped.

"It screws up your judgement!" Wade said angrily.

"He's got a point." Both heard, turned and saw Genesis. "Yeah, we pay attention more than you think. And she really was trying to help two of her friends, there was no reason to bruise her wrist." Genesis said.

"How the hell did you know about that?" Wade asked.

"I'll put it as… I read a lot of books." Genesis answered, sitting down nearby and the two a bit confused again about what she meant, and now noticing the clothing she had, dark blue, slightly hugging fit robes almost like something out of a movie about the ancient ninjas of Japan.

Downstairs in the lobby later, Wade carefully approached Amanda when she was by herself… but the second he touched her, she looked at him and he lowered his hand to his side.

"It's gonna take a damn long time before I can trust you to touch me again. What do you want?" Amanda said in a low tone as she fixed her cup of coffee.

"To say I'm sorry… and inform you about the woman that Cody and I ran into." Wade answered, Amanda looking at him.

"What woman?" Amanda asked, putting a lid on the coffee cup and pulling the tab back.

"This woman appeared here earlier, dressed like something out of a ninja movie or something, blue robes like some pre-technology Power Ranger. And she said she knew all that was happening here, in a way that… almost sounded like she'd studied it like we'd study the Civil War or something historic like that." Wade explained.

"Maybe she'll tell us in her own time." Amanda said, slowly sipping her coffee and Wade seeing a Balor Club wristband hiding the bruise before Amanda headed off.

When she reached the table and sat down, Finn could see that what Wade had said was weighing on her mind though Finn was a distance away to not have heard it.

"I don't know her name, the woman they ran into or why she's here but she's studied us carefully." Amanda said after Finn had asked her what had happened.

"She knows what's happened without anyone even voicing it yet? That's… almost a touch disturbing." Finn replied.

"A bit… but I don't think we should be scared of her. Something's telling me not to." Amanda said as Finn rested his right hand on her left wrist… and noticed her lightly tugging at her right ear when a dull ache shot through it. "I think being near that pyro last night was a bad idea." She said quietly.

"It's like standing near a firework, neither one does the ear any good." Finn replied, his hand rested on her left shoulder now before his fingers ran through and twirled with strands of her hair.

Genesis watched them for a few seconds and smiled.

'Everything's just taking its time.' She thought.