Title: Alone

Author: Dana

Rating: G

Warnings: HANKY ALERT! You have been warned

Summary: It was the worst year in all of their lives and Roman's announcement is the final straw.

Author's note: This is a complete AU. I got tired of reading people's complaints about Dean's promo and I don't know, this story came out of it. Check out warning again.

Disclaimer: I own no one in this fanfic.

Seth Rollins watched as everyone swarmed Roman Reigns in the Gorilla Position. He took some deep breaths trying to compose himself after breaking down in front of cameras and thousands of fans that were in the arena.

"Seth," Bayley called after she hugged Roman. Seth didn't want a hug from the woman. So, he just walked away quickly. He didn't turn around to see if anyone was following him. He wanted, no needed, to be alone.

"Seth!" Bayley said not seeming to give up. Seth always considered her one of his best friends but right now he didn't want her around. "Where are you going?"

"I need some air." He said as he ran a hand through his hair.

"Roman's leaving…"

"Yeah," he said, "I'll call him after the show. Look Bayley I just want to be alone." He said and walked away quickly.

"Seth," another voice called. He looked up to see Charley walking up to him with a microphone and cameraman. "Can I get a word with you?"

Seth was tempted to tell the interviewer off when he caught a glimpse of Renee Young standing there talking to Nikki and Brie Bella. He was surprised. Shouldn't she be out doing commentary? She looked distraught.

Of course, she was. Seth thought before turning to Charley. "What Charley?" he asked.

She seemed a bit taken aback. "The WWE Universe wants to know how you're doing. Dean…"

"Don't bring him up." Seth said with fire in his eyes.

"But Seth…"

"Look Charley. I don't want to talk about this. All I know is one of my closest friends has leukemia. I don't have time to talk about Dean Ambrose." He tried not to look at Renee. If he looked at her, he knew he'd lose it. "I've got a match with Dolph Ziggler." He said changing the subject. "Ask me about that."

"Sure Seth," she said. "How are you planning to contend with possible interference from Drew McIntyre?"

"Same way I've been doing it. By myself. Look Dolph is a coward. He can't beat me without the Scottish psychopath. Nothing I can do about it."

He brushed past her having enough with this conversation. He found a door that led outside and stepped through it. He had to calm down. he thought as he looked down at his shaking hands. He sat down on the steps. He closed his eyes. Roman's announcement was more than he could take. He only looked up when the door opened and a figure stepped outside.

Renee. One of the last people he wanted to see right now.

"Seth," she said walking up to him.

"I want to be alone Renee." He said.

"Dean would have wanted me to talk to you."

He snorted. "I don't think Dean cares about anything right now, do you?"

She moved back as if he had slapped her.

Seth immediately felt bad. "I'm sorry Renee. I just can't believe it. it was only six months ago Dean died from the MRSA infection. Now Roman's got leukemia again? It's…it's just too much to take." Seth said running a hand through his hair. "After we found out Dean was in the hospital during WrestleMania weekend, and died, we made each other promise that we wouldn't keep any secrets." He looked at her and she looked away as she was the one who, at Dean's request, didn't say he was in the hospital. He had made her go to the show and she had rushed back on a red eye to be there on Monday.

"Seth, I didn't want to keep that from you. He didn't want you guys to worry as he knew you guys had big matches."

"And Monday?" Seth demanded. "We had to find out from a tweet! A tweet from some dirt sheet because even WWE didn't know!" Actually, Seth wasn't telling the truth. He found out from Roman who got a phone call from his wife Galina who said she read it on Twitter.

"I wasn't thinking straight Seth! My husband just died." This was a conversation that they had had several times. She was tired of explaining herself or defending Dean's decision. "Look I'm going to go back inside. Good luck tonight." She said and walked back through the door.

Seth sat on the steps and cried.

DDDD

Notes: I'm probably going to write one more chapter of this showing the reaction to Dean's death announcement. This was a tough story to write but the idea was bouncing around in my head after Dean said karma got him and Roman now it was Seth's turn.