CHAPTER THIRTY - KINGDOM HAS COME CRUMBLING DOWN
THE LIGHTS WERE BECOMING overwhelming to Logan who was getting positioned onto a stretcher due to the angle that her neck had hit when Sasha Banks hit her from behind- with her own title. Logan's eyes stirred and she blinked back rapidly to disappear from the white lights, but they never left her vision.
She could barely remember what happened in the time span when Emma had successfully made her tap out, and then Sasha begun to proceed to attack her. Her body was thrown around- hitting the barricade several times viciously. That's when the pain ignited inside her shoulder, the pop of her joint as it dislocated and torn from it's place. She could remember the people screaming and booing around her but the sounds were muffled in her head.
"Logan, we need you to stop moving," a man looked down at her distressed form. She tried to listen, she really did but her mind was completely else wear while her body begun to tremble due to the lost of adrenaline. "can you hear me?"
Her brown eyes had only opened for a mere second before she closed harshly, her lids scrunched together due to the shining lights. Her shoulder felt like it was lit on fire. Every nerve was set ablaze as the stretcher was lifted upwards, and the crowd of people were booing the woman standing in the ring- holding up the Women's championship while screaming back at The Queen.
"She's unresponsive." someone yelled out to her right while she was wheeled to the back and towards the medical room as an ambulance was called. "We have an ambulance on the way." Hunter said, trialing behind the stretcher quickly as they maneuvered through the backstage area.
"She could have injured her neck due to the impact."
Logan tried to move her neck to the side to look at the person on instinct but her movement was stopped from the neck brace that kept her weak bones in place. She wasn't even sure what was happening in the moment, all she could hear was muffled sounds of people panicking and the wheels of the stretcher moving in her ear drums.
"Logan, can you hear me?" she opened her eyes once again, but her vision was blurred by the lights flowing back into her brown eyes. She blinked again and tried to open her mouth, but she felt like she lost her power to speak.
Her whole body was coming back out of consciousness as the pain started to drum faster through her veins. She felt her heart beat against her chest in her throat as her body began to die down from the shock, but her mind still remained fuzzy. "I need.." her voice barely came out as a whisper, broken and small but she saw a head lean towards her line of vision.
It was only until she saw the familiar pair of brown eyes staring back at her- that the flash back of a familiar scene was beginning to re-collect behind her closed lids. "We just contacted Fergal, but he's about to go on stage, do you mind riding with her Seth?"
Seth stared back at his panicked voice. Hunter was becoming quite overwhelmed with the chaos that was taking place in the backstage area after clearing out the ring for the next match card to take place. He considered Logan a long time friend. He was there when he accepted her into NXT, and he was there when she won her championship and now to have it taken away again.
It seems like the Queen's kingdom has come crumbling down.
~
Seth has never liked hospitals- especially not now as he was speed-walking through the dull hallways with Bayley by his side. He has found himself in this position plenty of times- for his injury- for Dean's plenty of concussions. Bayley was tugged closely by his side as the two friends made their way to the room. The closer they got, the sooner he spotted Dean pacing back and forth in front of room two-fifteen.
Dean was biting down on his nails nervously whilst being lost in his own thoughts. When he heard footsteps coming down the hallway, his head shot up. Dean managed to shoot Bayley a weak smile over towards her, but pulled Seth into a hug- the two friends finding comfort in one another as they processed the severity of Logan's injuries.
"Is she alright?" Bayley whispered as her head turned towards the shut door, where she guessed Logan was being kept. Her eyes returned towards the two men who were still hugging, and the sight of Dean's shoulders shaking slightly- broke her heart.
"They've made sure she's sleeping right now. It's going to take awhile for the anesthesia to wear off, so it's going to take awhile before she's going to wake up. She needs to rest." Dean said. "She's got a torn Rotator cuff and a concussion..." he explained to everyone, but the last sentence he couldn't get out without choking on his own words.
Bayley's head turned towards the sound of movement behind the closed door, and then a voice mumbled something a second later but she couldn't quite pick it out. "I never thought it would be so serious, I saw the playbacks and her head just swung back- surprised she never broke her neck." Bayley said as she hugged her body with her arms.
Dean felt as if someone had wrapped a hand around his neck. He couldn't speak and he couldn't even let one vowel out of his mouth. He had been there when she was first put through a serious injury and Logan took it hard and even lost her job in the process of recovery. He hoped for her sanity that she wouldn't be put through this again.
A sound of a phone buzzing to his left, had Dean coming out of his thoughts as his tear stained ocean eyes left the floor and towards Bayley, who had reached for her phone.
"Ay, is everything okay?" the irish native sounded over the phone. Her bright orange hair was getting pulled out of the way to reveal Charlotte standing behind her. "da internet is going crazy right now."
Bayley's usual joyful expression was replaced with a frown and her expression was anything but joyful. "It's not good, Becks. Dean said she suffers with a torn rotator cuff- she just got out of surgery."
The orange haired woman's face has crestfallen when she heard the news. She never got to watch tonight's RAW due to being busy with Charlotte and holding a few meetings. Bayley's words had shocked her.
"-surgery?" Becky's shocked voice came through the phone and she looked behind towards Charlotte- who's own facial expression had fallen. "Where's Fergal?"
"He had some things to do at the arena, but should be arriving soon. Logan will want to see him when she awakes."
Becky nodded, "Yeah, she would- call me if you know anything. I have to go."
Bayley nodded and pressed the power button to her phone. Her attention was brought towards Seth, who was leaning forward in the chair with his elbows on his knees. As she walked closer to the waiting area, she saw how broken Seth had looked. She didn't know the terms of his and Logan's relationship at the moment, but she did know that they had a heavy past.
"Seth," she spoke which made him look up discreetly as he saw Bayley staring at him with a frown on her face. "you alright?"
"I don't know, Bayley." he sighed quite heavily while staring back at the wall. "I really have no fucking idea."
She came closer and took a seat on the chair next to him. Bayley placed a comforting hand on his back and moved it gently. "Dean told me the doctor just cleared the room, so if you want to visit her- you should do it now." she started, and he wanted to stand up and run to her room but he didn't know if he was welcome.
It was silly. She was half un-conscious still and he didn't want to invade her space like he had done a thousand times by now. He felt something towards her, that was clear but she was in love with someone else.
How could he go visit her right now?
"I don't think she'll want me there." He muttered.
Bayley opened her mouth but shut it to re-collect her words while she thought of the right words to say to him. "She's been through this before- and that was with the support of you." she spoke confidently. "she might dislike you right now, but I know she'll want you there Seth."
"What if-"
"Don't go there, Seth." she protested. "We can both sit here and think about the worst consequence about you going in there or you can go in there and be with her and give her the much needed support that she needs in this moment. I prefer the latter."
Seth stared back at her for a moment before his brown eyes returned towards the cream colored wall in-front of him. A heavy sigh escaped from his lips. "I'm afraid of losing her."
"She's not going to die, Seth." Bayley smiled slightly as she joked, trying to make this situation lighter than what it was. "She's going to be out for eight months, she needs you--everyone."
Seth nodded at her in understanding. Bayley was right and he was there in the past when she had fallen to the knee injury back in TNA. She needed his support now more than ever, especially when she was delivered the news of how long she was going to be out for.
Finn Bálor wasn't going to take away the fact that a woman he used to be in-love with needed him once again. And by the words coming out of Logan's mouth earlier- he wasn't being the best boyfriend right now.
"I'm going to go get some caffeine for us all- and pick up Finn while I'm at it." Bayley informed him while getting up from her seat. "Go" she gestured to the door where Logan laid inside.
Seth nodded back at her and forced himself up off the chair and started walking towards the room. He folded his arms against his chest- hugging his brand hoodie tighter to his body when he reached for the door knob and opened it.
beep... beep... beep...
The room was utterly quite expect for the sounds of the life support making sure to keep her blood pressure regular while she slept peacefully. He spotted Dean sitting on the chair, his chin leaning against his closed fist as he looked back at her body with tears coming down his cheeks- something Seth hadn't seen very often.
The thought of Logan loosing everything because of a friend who was driven by something he couldn't put his finger on- frustrated Dean till no end. He wasn't crying because he was afraid of loosing her- but what she was loosing by laying in the bed.
Dean's head snapped up when the door closed and he wiped away his tears. "Hey, she's all yours.. I need to get some air." he spoke hoarsely.
Seth nodded back at him but didn't make a sudden move until the door closed up behind him and he grabbed hold of the chair and moved it towards the bed. She had an oxygen mask on her face to help her breathe more comfortably.
It surprised him of how strange it was to sit down and look at her whilst she was like this. She was an easy person to recognize with her bubbly personality and her confident aura that surrounded her but seeing her so broken down- he felt like he was staring down at a total different person.
The fact that she was outrageously vulnerable made it almost unbearable to him to sit down and watch her without his brown eyes filling up with tears.
Seth breathed out while looking up at her strikingly pale face but her features were softened, made his hand shake while he lifted it and carefully touched her hand, weaving his fingers through hers.
His jaw clenched as he tried to keep his emotions at bay while studying her frame. Her left shoulder was covered by the hospital dress she was wearing, but he could see the sling that held the position tightly to make sure it didn't move. He moved his thumb against her hot skin delicately as his eyes moved from her shoulder and towards the marble flooring. He shook his head, still not believing that this would happen once again.
"I'm so sorry this happened to you, again." Seth let the words out barely above a whisper as his head leaned lower towards the chair. He wasn't sure what to really say to her, but he knew that being with her while her body recovered was crucial. "
He started to feel guilty of everything that he had put her through. All the things he had gone that caused a wedge between their friendship now weighed him down like a ton of bricks when he should've been there to support her. And even help her find happiness- and if that happened to be someone else- he should've been fine with that.
By sitting in this room with her small hand in his- brought back memories of the same night when she injured her knee. Tears were spilled there too because he knew just how much her career meant to her. And now that he was in the same position as last time, he knew that he hadn't been the friend he should've been.
As his soft brown eyes fell upon her sleeping frame, and the tears were building in his iris', he wanted to tell her so many things. Things that should've been said from the start when they had fought. He wanted her to heal, so that he could see her doing what she loved. He wanted to apologize about becoming possessive with her- tell her that he was scared because he was going to lose her.
He wanted to tell her that he might've met someone and spending time with her had been lovely. He knew he had to stay away from Logan, and make himself believe that they had nothing more for each-other. He was becoming selfish about his own happiness and now sitting her while holding her hand- had reminded him that it wasn't just about his happiness but hers too. And her happiness was with someone else.
Seth managed to crack a soft smile as he wiped some of the tears away. "Is she alright-" He had heard someone say in the distant. The voice was full of panic as the person opened the door in a hurry but upon opening the heavy door- they stopped. "what ta' hell are ya doin' here?"
Seth turned his head and quickly reached his hand back to his own body. Suddenly he felt like he was a deer that had been spotted by some headlights as his eyes set upon a boiling Irish man.
"Just visiting a friend in recovery." Seth spoke with a tone of voice that sounded tired and raspy, and it was clear to Finn that was congested due to the tears that fallen onto his cheeks.
Finn's eyes narrowed down towards Logan's peaceful body, and his hands worked on the door behind him- shutting it close.
He stopped moving and made sure that his attention was focused on someone he had hoped not to see here with her. "I think it's best for us to come to an agreement about ya not showing up at ta' hospital anymore."
"What?"
"I said-"
Seth raised his eyebrows and ran his fingers through his brown hair. "I heard what you said, I'm not deaf." He cut him off easily. "I knew you would start an argument if you'd see me here, but I won't listen to you because it's in your interest. If I want to be here and see how Logan is doing, I will." Seth stated seriously.
Finn slid his tongue out to lick at his lips as his blue eyes left Seth's frame for a moment, only to rest on his girlfriend's broken one- his eye catching onto her bandaged shoulder. "Look, be annoying to all ta' people in the hospital but don't ya dare pick a fight with me in here while my girlfriend is laying over there."
"Really, because I've been sitting in here for a half-hour with your girlfriend while you were where- spending your time with Cathy while your girlfriend is having surgery to repair her shoulder?" Seth spat out with much irritation bleeding through his voice.
He knew that this was going to happen if he had stayed at the hospital and now he was thinking that he should've left and came back later.
"I think ya should stay out of things that don't concern you, Rollins." Finn said as he started to get red in the face. His voice started ringing throughout the room, no longer caring that he had to lower his voice while he was in here.
Seth walked forward towards the Irish man, his own blood was starting to boil over while his brain fled through every single thing he could shoot back at Finn. "When Logan get's hurt- it becomes my business."
"She's not yours, Seth. She's an ex for a reason and she made it pretty clear that she wanted nothing to do with ya anymore.
"She was more than just another ex-girlfriend, Balor. She was my fiance." Seth spat towards him and everything had escalated from there. All of a sudden, punches were thrown across the room while yelling had Logan's eyes fluttering open.
To her, the voices were more distant even though the scene in-front of her was so much more closer than she thought it was. She felt like she was still in a dream state when her glossy brown eyes opened to two men fighting one another, pushing and shoving while yelling.
All of a sudden, it was like whatever was blocking her ears had popped- and her hearing turned to normal. Shouting blared through her ear drums which was making her extremely uncomfortable while her blood pressure was starting to climb.
"doctor.." her voice was barely above a whisper and couldn't even be heard over the shouting. Her eyes were still a bit blurry from waking up from anesthesia.
"We need security in room two-fifteen," a woman dressed in blue scrubs had entered the room and quite to her shock, saw two men going at it.
The metal door had opened while Finn had thrown another punch directly towards Seth's jaw, snapping his head to the left with the impact. Finn was about to throw another hand before he felt someone grab his bicep, and twisted his arm to his back, knocking his body towards the wall.
Another man entered the room, but he looked much more older than the others. He walked in with a stern expression and his body was clothed in a white coat. "There is a patient sitting in that bed right there, that just got out of surgery an hour ago and this is not what she needs right now!" The man yelled at the top of his lungs while pointing towards Logan, who was watching the scene with widened eyes.
"I need the two of you," he said while his pen pointed towards Finn and Seth, who were still staring at one another. Heated glances were shared between the two. "to get the hell out of this hospital right now."
Finn tried to move forward and towards the man dressed in his scrubs but the man behind him had tightened his grip, twisting his arm backwards into a painful position. "That's my girlfriend and I need to see her, doc."
The doctor looked towards the Irish man with a heated glance. "You should've thought about that before you started a dispute in here with a patient who just got out of a painful surgery." he answered him with a calm tone, trying to manage to stay professional but he was having a hard time with it.
Finn looked towards Logan who had her eyes closed once again, her face was scrunched up in discomfort. "That's not fair, I need to be here with her!"
"Wait doctor," a soft voice came from the opposite side of the room, and all heads turned towards Logan who's eyes had opened once again. "please, let him stay." she told him as her lips went to a thin line from moving her chest.
She couldn't feel any pain right now, but she could feel an intense amount of pressure coming from her chest and shoulder. She didn't hear anyone's voice after that, but perhaps it was because she fell back to sleep afterwards- the anesthesia was still strong.
It was only until she woke up once again, that she felt a hand holding hers carefully. The touch was delicate, almost like she was as fragile as a doll. She let a sigh escape from her lips before her tired brown eyes fluttered open.
Finn was hunched over in his chair while his left arm was extended to hold her fingers within his. His thumb ran across her soft skin of her hand as she slept. When she let out a sigh of pain- Finn opened his eyes and lifted his head up.
"Hey," Logan turned her head at the sound of a familiar voice, and she turned her own head to look at Finn, who was staring at her with a warm smile graced onto his features. "how are ya feeling, love?" he asked as her head rested comfortably against the pillow, but her eyes closed once more.
Logan's dry lips parted as her eyes opened once again to look up at Finn. "Tired." she answered back with her own smile; small and weak. Finn nodded his head while he let his lips go into a thin line.
"What happened?" she suddenly asked.
"Ya don't remember?" Finn questioned her as he straightened his back. He started to feel slightly scared that she couldn't remember what happened to her and why she was laying in the hospital bed, but her words calmed his thoughts from running wild.
"I remember bits and pieces of what happened, but I'm talking about you and Seth.." she explained to him, noticing that no one else was here but him. She could barely remember what had happened during the fight that they had.
The anesthesia was still strong in her veins at the time and everything was still coming back fuzzy. She could remember the yelling that sounded like murmurs in her own ears, but that was all. "did he leave?" she asked once again as Finn was left staring at her face, but his mind was else-wear.
Finn blinked back a couple times. "He got kicked out of the hospital, Lo. I don't think he will be coming back."
Logan shook her head and her brows furrowed as she took in what Finn was telling her. There was no way that Seth would not just be here for her- he would be whether she disliked him or not. "What do you mean, 'he's not coming back'?"
Finn shrugged his shoulders as he leaned back against the chair. "Exactly that. The doctor kicked him out of the hospital and I don't think he will be allowed in to see you."
Logan tried to make sense of the words he was telling her, but even though his words made sense- she couldn't make sense of them in her own drugged mind. Silence overtook the room while Finn laid against the chair on the side of the bed, his shoes sticking to the bars of Logan's hospital bed while his chin laid against his fist while he looked at her form.
She was staring back at the wall while her eyes went back and forth, her mind running gears of what to say next, but she didn't exactly know what to say. "How long?" she turned her head towards Finn- who raised his eyebrows at her question.
"I don't think that's the best 'ting to discuss right now, love." Finn replied with a concern look on his beautiful features, leaning up in the chair to put his hands on the bed.
Logan sucked her bottom lip back between her teeth as she sighed, her eyes leaving Finn for a moment before she spoke again. "Just.. tell me, please." she said breathless, slightly growing more afraid of his answer the more she waited for it.
"eight months." Finn sighed heavily upon saying the words and seeing how her features had fallen when the words left his lips- he couldn't take the sight of her.
She was completely broken and raw for him to see and the tiny sob that escaped from behind her lips tugged at his heart. Finn saw the tears that fell from her eyes and roll down her cheeks and he swallowed the lump in his throat. "I'm so so sorry.." Finn told her in a soft voice as her head rested to the opposite side of him so he couldn't see the tears that were falling from her eyes.
Finn put his hand in hers and intertwined their fingers strongly, squeezing them for some sort of comfort, but he knew that he couldn't fix this- not this time.
Her brown eyes were like a pool of melted chocolate, swirling as the tears fell upon her cheeks and ran down her face. "Please, go." her voice was barely a whisper.
Finn shook his head, "I don't want to leave you like this, love." He held her hand strongly when she tried to loosen his grip and take her hand back. He knew what she was doing- pushing him away but he needed to be here for her.
Logan turned her head towards him and his blue eyes searched her reddened face while his face relaxed at the sight of her. He knew this couldn't be easier for her and he knew better than anyone how long this process of healing could be. "I just need to be alone for a minute, Ferg.." she managed to let out a weak smile to assure him that she just needed a minute of isolation, to let the tears flow and come to realization that she was going to be out.
Finn hesitated but with a nod of his head, his lips lightly pressed against her forehead. "I love you." he breathed out and Logan felt her heart stop.
She blinked away from him and looked up into his eyes, her lips moved with the words she tried to say, but she couldn't get her voice to form out the words. "I love you too." she finally let the words pass her lips, and Finn felt a weight lift off his shoulders.
He wasn't sure if she would say it back to him, but she needed to know his exact feelings in this moment. He didn't say it just to give her reassurance that he loved her, especially since the argument with Seth earlier, but because his words were the utter truth.
He loved her and she loved him.
~
"I don't know If I want to go in," Logan's voice had gotten dull as the days went by, Finn had noticed.
Perhaps it was because this week, she wouldn't be returning to compete in a WWE ring. Instead, she would be leaving one for eight months and even though she had prepared for it for the week, she wasn't ready for that.
From the driver side of the vehicle, Finn was staring back at her with sorrow within his eyes. "This isn't permanent, Logan. When ya come back- and you will- you'll come back even stronger." He told her as his hand rested on her bare thigh and squeezed it.
She looked up at him and she knew that what he was saying was right. She was coming back. She knew that she would come back after this but she couldn't stop the thoughts that hung inside her head; telling her that maybe she wouldn't return. Maybe her injury doesn't heal like the doctors thought it would or maybe she was being completely insane for thinking so.
With a nod of her head, Finn shut off the engine and climbed out of the vehicle without saying another word to her. He too, was worried for her since he knew how depressing it would be coming back from an injury. She had just come back from one not that long ago- and now to face another one.
Finn opened the passenger door for Logan, noting that her injured arm was wrapped up in a purple sling- her favorite color. He grabbed hold of her waist as she maneuvered around her shoulder- careful not to bump it on anything knowing exactly what kind of pain she would endure if she did. She already got a taste of that when she was released from the hospital, and she felt like she almost died in that moment.
Logan grabbed hold of Finn's extended hand and carefully got out of the vehicle, her brown eyes searching around the crowded underground parking lot. Hunter had called her an hour before the show and told her that they could park down here to make things easier for her arrival- while he also wanted to talk to not just her- but Finn too.
There was also the matter of asking him to take time off to visit her parents in Mexico, but while she was recovering from surgery- her father had told her they were coming to their vacation house they owned in Orlando. So, this whole ordeal had worked out for her even though it wasn't suppose to end up like this. She just hoped that Hunter would give Finn some time off, even though it was unlikely right now since he was climbing his way back into the championship picture.
Finn walked to the trunk of the car to grab their luggage while Logan waited by the vehicle- her thoughts were completely else-wear and not in reality- he had noticed plenty of times since she had surgery to correct the damage done to her shoulder. He was sure that would pass with time since she just needed time to come to terms about what happened.
"You'll be fine, love." Finn told her as he closed the door to the back of the vehicle, moving their bags to each hand before leaning in to kiss her cheek. "I hope so." She answered him back while her eyes went down to look at her championship sitting pretty on-top of her suitcase. "ready?" she added. Her eyebrows rose on her forehead and they started walking towards the building.
She could already hear the shouts from the fans that were outside the building, those who were not allowed in yet since the doors haven't been opened for the public. Finn walked with her as they both walked down the hallways in search for the Women's locker room, his eyes caught hold of Cathy's frame a few feet down from the door. Luckily, she couldn't see him since her back was facing the both of them.
"I can take it from here," Logan stopped walking when they reached their destination. She reached forward for her suitcase but Finn rolled it backwards as he stared back at her with a playful glint in his eyes. Even though she had a frown on her face, he knew how to make her smile. Logan chuckled as she leaned in to capture his pouted lips, smiling as she kissed him softly before pulling away from him while her hand landed on-top of his on the suitcase. "Bayley will be here soon, so she'll help me get dressed alright?" she told him between kisses, "don't worry about me."
"You're my life, Logan."he told her as he leaned his forward against hers. "I'll always worry about you." he leaned in again while eyes watched the two with envy in her eyes.
When the couple had finally pulled away from each-other, Logan moved her things into the locker room and sat down onto the bench after telling Finn to drop his things off quickly so they could get through the meeting together quick as possible since her card was the third one. "How are you feeling?" Bayley asked as she entered the room with a smile on her face, rolling her suitcase behind her.
Logan looked up at her as she carefully slumped into the bench, her pink shorts riding up her thighs a little but she didn't care how unglamorous she looked at the moment. "Like life is over." she answered back with a humorous smile, trying to lift the air in the room.
Bayley nodded her head back at her while taking a seat next to her, turning her head she put her hand on top of hers while staring over. "Well if it makes you feel better, Sasha isn't here tonight and she won't be here for another thirty days."
Logan lifted her head up upon hearing the news. "She got suspended?" she questioned while her eyebrows furrowed.
"Yeah, the blind-side wasn't apart of the script and injuring you really angered Stephanie."
Logan's eyebrows rose on her forehead while she shook her head. Her brown eyes returned to stare down at her lap. "You wanna help me get dressed?" She asked her while hitting her suitcase with her boot.
Bayley helped her with her dressing her for the show, even though it took some of her time to get ready herself. As soon as Logan's white sequin jumpsuit was on her body, the worked on getting her arm through the sleeve of the jumper- which due to the pain medication she took before coming here- helped her tremendously and before she knew it she had her sling back on.
Logan bit down on her bottom lip as she took a seat back down, feeling slightly lightheaded due to moving her arm. She thanked Bayley for her help since she knew that she wouldn't of got dressed herself without Bayley's help.
When Logan stepped outside the locker room, she was quickly met with a backstage hand, calling her to inform her that Hunter needed her and Finn. She couldn't spot the Irish man while she made her way towards his office so hopefully Finn was already inside waiting for her.
"There's the woman I was waiting to see," Hunter called out when she opened the door and let herself in. She and Hunter were on quite good terms and she didn't feel the need to knock at his door since she knew him for so long. "how's the shoulder feeling?"
Logan walked further into the room and looked down at her shoulder upon stopping in front of the television monitor which showed the arena almost full of fans. "Sore, the painkillers I'm taking are a lifesaver." she explained and chuckled softly.
Hunter frowned when he could detect the sadness behind her forced chuckle. "Hey, if you need anything, you ask me, alright?"
Logan nodded her head, "actually, there might be something you can do for me, now that you've mentioned it." She said.
His eyebrows rose on his forehead with question. "Do you think you can give Fergal a few weeks off?" Logan asked her, and she heard a sigh escape from his lips which quickly had her eyes lowering to the floor.
"If you can convince the man to take some weeks off, I will for your support to get back home safely, but he needs to return for the third week." Hunter said before the door opened to reveal Finn entering the room with his usual grin on his face. "Good, now we can start talking about what's going on tonight for the both of you." Hunter nodded his head towards the Irish man, which made Logan turn her head when Finn placed a warm hand on the small of her back.
The couple stayed quite as Hunter started to explain what Logan's promo would go like and how Finn would fit into that equation. Which the both of them were pretty excited about the end result and now knowing that when Logan returned she would be entering a feud alongside her boyfriend.
She knew that allowing the fans to know some of her personal life, especially a glimpse into her love life opened up criticism from women who loved Finn. It was a risk she was willing to take.
It wasn't long until Logan was going over her lines for her promo that was going live in thirty minutes. Currently, she was sitting in the hair and makeup chair with Lindy perfecting her black curly hair. Lindy had provided a comfortable pillow to lay her shoulder on the hard arm rest of the chair, which she was thankful for.
When she lifted her eyes from the page of her finished script, her brown eyes followed the body of Seth Rollins as he made his way towards them with his top half of his suit in his hand- obviously coming to get baby oil rubbed on his torso. Their eyes connected for a brief moment and his lips turned up in a smile, "Nice seeing you here, Logan." He said as he sat down in the chair in-front of her, turning around to face her.
Logan's mind instantly went to question Finn's whereabouts since she knew that the last time he seen Seth- resulted him in getting kicked out from the hospital. Now seeing him up close without the drugs clouding her mind- she noticed what was left of the brown discoloration around his eye. "Can you give us a moment, Lindy?" Seth gestured with his head towards the older woman, who she eyed curiously. She didn't plan on moving unless Logan gave her the head gesture and when she did- she left the two alone.
Logan sighed out when he dragged the chair closer towards her and he sat down, leaning forward so his voice didn't catch everyone's attention around them. "I just want to say something before the Irish psychopath comes back and gives me another black eye." he quickly said while chuckling, noticing that instead of Logan laughing along with him- her eyes narrowed instead.
"You probably deserved it." Logan smirked over towards him while her eye studied the bruise decorating his face rather well. Seth shrugged his shoulders which obviously gave her his opinion on the matter and she let out a chuckle of her own.
"I miss you."
And here she thought she would be receiving an apology from what happened at the hospital but instead she received confessions from a man she once loved. With a shake of her head, she breathed out. "Seth, I have no more love left for you."
Seth nodded with his head. "I know, but that isn't what I meant." he shook his head once again, his brown eyes searching around the room before continuing his conversation. "I miss having you there as a friend, and I want you to be able to trust me again." He told her, his eyes getting more serious as he stared back at her.
"I've met someone and I'd like you and Finn to go on a double date with the two of us."
Logan let out a scoff, "You know Finn would never agree to meet up with you." She shook her head with disbelief that he was asking her to get Finn involved with a man whom she loved long ago. Logan knew that he would never agree after what had happened between them.
"I know he wouldn't." Seth replied while leaning back into his seat, noticing that Lindy had come back with two cups of water in her hands. "That's why I don't want you to tell him, I just want everything to go back to how things were, with us- and I want to make things better with him. We were friends once." He mentioned, remembering the time when Seth had injured Finn and they healed up together. He considered Finn a friend before he got involved with Logan and started seeing him as a threat.
Logan nodded her head slowly, complementing his words. It could work if she didn't tell him. "I'll think about it and text you when we can meet up, okay?" She put her free hand on Seth's shoulder, his wet hair causing water droplets to drip onto her hand which made her pull away when she got up from the chair with Dean's help- who joined them from behind.
Logan turned her head and thanked him. "I didn't know you'd be here." she said breathless and pulled him into a hug, feeling thankful that she had Dean with her here. "Of course I'd be here. I have to support my girl." Dean smiled back at her and kissed her hair.
Logan smiled back when she pulled away, and a crew member reminded her that her promo was coming up soon which caused a small frown to come on her features. Dean saw the way her face fell to the floor when she reached for her championship on the table- the one she wouldn't have at the end of this.
"Hey, look at me." Dean whispered and lifted her chin with his finger tips as they rested on her chin. If some didn't know them personally- you would think they would've been involved romantically. "this isn't your fault."
Logan nodded her head, tearing her face from his touch. "I know, but it sometimes feels like that." She told him as they said goodbye to Seth, and Dean helped her towards the Gorilla position.
She was greeted with Finn there, standing there alone with his back towards her and wearing a navy blue suit that she loved on him. Blue was her favorite color on him since it brought out his eyes and made him look beautiful. When he heard footsteps from behind and the sound of Logan's small laugh, his blue eyes left the screen.
"Hey, love." He greeted her and pulled her into his side as he nodded towards Dean. "thanks for bringing her here."
Dean nodded back. "It's nothing man, take care of her." he replied to which Finn smiled. When Dean left, he looked down at Logan who was staring up at the screen as it came back from commercial. She swallowed upon feeling the emotions start to bubble towards the surface.
This was real, and it was happening whether she wanted it too or not.
Hunter and Stephanie greeted her when they arrived together, which was a surprise since at-least one of them couldn't make it to live shows due to meetings. She continued to look at the screen as the power-couple walked out together, and Finn turned to her. "I'll be right behind you, okay?" he told her, placing his thumb on her trembling lips while her eyes watered. "I'm going to be there for you, every step of the way until you get back here in eight months." he said firmly and she nodded fiercely.
Finn cupped her cheeks and leaned in while her music had started to go through the arena and the memories of what happened last week were rolling through her mind- haunting her as she left the comfort of safety and home, and onto a stage of an audience that looked on with their own silent tears.
Logan licked her lips as she stared at the rest of the universe, the championship tugged into her right shoulder. The crowd roared for her louder than before and the amounts of posters throughout the audience had touched her heart in a way she couldn't explain. She started to slowly make her way down, and the audience screamed and reached for her as she placed a smile upon her red lips.
She needed to look strong, for all of them. She needed them to know that not even this- could break her spirits and bring her down. Even though it was quite the opposite.
Hunter stepped forward when she reached the steel steps, ready to open the ropes for her to get in easily and offer a hand. She took it with a soft smile and then faced the universe as they started cheering for her.
You Deserve It! You Deserve It!
Logan continued to look at the audience while holding her microphone tightly into her hand, she quickly took a glimpse at Stephanie who watched her with a smile of her own.
She lifted the microphone to her lips as the universe started to quite down once they knew she was ready to speak. "This title represents every hard working woman in that locker room and it represents the sacrifice to put your body on the line when you step foot in this ring."
"Last week I put my body on the line and this.." her voice broke as she looked down towards her shoulder. "this is the sacrifice that we as WWE Superstars have to take to keep doing what we love."
"I want to thank Triple H and Stephanie McMahon for letting me come back here to do what I love to do." Logan said as she turned to face the two with a small smile on her lips and they nodded back at her, and clapped. "I want to thank everyone in the back who I call as friends, but I also want to promise something to you." Logan turned her body towards the crowd after looking at the stage. "When I come back in eight months, and I will. I'm coming back for this and I'm coming to take you down, Sasha."
The camera panned into her face as she showed nothing but hatred for the woman with magenta hair that stole everything from her. She breathed through her nostrils which made them flare out in anger and she turned to face Stephanie and Hunter, who pulled her into a careful hug.
It was then that Finn's music had blasted through the arena, and the fans started screaming. Her eyes flickered up towards the stage, seeing him come out sent a jolt of electricity down her spine. How she got so lucky to have a man like him- she didn't know.
Finn walked down as Logan laid her championship down on the mat, remembering the way her plates looked before they were screwed off and replaced- forgotten for the eight months to come. She looked towards Finn who was waiting for her at the edge of the ring, behind the ropes to hold them open for her.
"The easy part is over," he mentioned when she got close and Logan nodded back at him, bending to go through the ropes that were held open for her. Finn grabbed her hand to help her down the steel steps and turned around with her to face the ring- her eyes going through the crowd who were screaming her name.
Finn grabbed hold of her hand and intertwined their fingers, feeling slightly nervous for this part of their promo- together. He lifted her arm to raise for the universe for the last time that they would see her for a long time. It was when the universe had finally caught on to what was in front of them- and the kiss they shared after confirmed that the two fan favorites were a couple- another power-couple within the universe that would take the company through a whirlwind.
They all saw him as either Finn- the man who stood behind everyone. It didn't matter who they were, gender or race- and now he stood behind her. Or maybe they saw him as the Demon King. The man who had everyone on the edge of their seats- the undefeated man that went just as crazy as her.
The same man who they called their worst nightmare, but to Logan- he was everyone else's worst nightmare but her daydream.
END OF BOOK ONE
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I hope everyone likes this chapter, because damn- it's been a ride with this book and I just can't believe how many people support this. I just want to thank you for voting and commenting- showing continuous support when I thought of discontinuing. I would've never thought that Madness would turn out as it has- and I have everyone of you to thank for that. I highly recommend listening to saturn by sleeping at last since this is what I listened to while writing this.
8099 words and I'm done for tonight. lol. This isn't edited- so if you do see a spelling mistake, please tell me. I'm too lazy to look through this right now.
I hope you guys find the hidden references in here-especially if you're a game of thrones fan. ;)
This book is not over- and I will be publishing the introduction to Dark Paradise pretty soon- so stay tuned for that. ANYWAYS,
Becky is champion and I couldn't be happier. bye.