The Man (A Seth Rollins Story) (Reupload)

Chapter 1- Get to Know Me

~ April 24, 2017 ~

"Marci!"

I rushed down the stairs as I heard the intro music for RAW. The boys, of course, pushed me out of the way as they made their way to the couch. All the seats were taken and I looked at my brothers all smirking as I made my way to sit on the floor. I didn't really mind much. Closer to the television, I suppose. But they better be thankful that Dean Ambrose was kicking off RAW. Otherwise, I would have had them on the floor tapping out in seconds. The intro went off and Dean was standing in the ring and he didn't look happy. I smiled. I loved Dean Ambrose. The girls at my old high school used to think I was weird for not getting all flustered over a guy and not wanting to date. Some nice looking guy would walk in and they would pretend to faint. They would then pretend to not be as smart as they actually were. For example, my friend Trina was the smartest person in our entire grade. 4.0 GPA and taking at least 4 AP classes. But when her 'crush' Josh Sanders came around, it was like she couldn't even speak English. Let alone French or German that she had taken since middle school. I didn't understand it. It was just that, why would you dumb yourself down and look ridiculous for a guy? I just didn't see the point. But then there was Dean Ambrose. Sure, I wouldn't dumb down and have a heart attack or anything over him. But I had to hand it to him. That man was gorgeous. I remember first seeing him in FCW and though my heart didn't beat a thousand miles a minute, I did find him very attractive. He didn't look like the guys that lived around here. He was a beautiful man. He was honestly the only man that could make me smile. I watched as he put his hand through his hair.

"Oh man, Marci. He just pushed his hair back. Better go lick the screen."

I turned around and threw a pillow at my eldest brother, Pete.

"Shut up, Pete!"

I heard all three of them laugh. I had three brothers. Pete was the eldest. He was four years older than me. He had to stay with us for the next few weeks because he had a fight with his wife, Christina. Something about him flirting with a girl at a party. I didn't really know or cared. I was just proud of her for kicking out my idiot brother. Because he was in fact, an idiot. Then there was my other brother, Caleb. Caleb was the middle of three guys. He was three years older than me. He used to work at a really nice job until his buddies made him take the fall for a mistake they made. He was fired on the spot. He was very trustworthy of people and that was his greatest flaw. He now worked at a garage downtown. He made ok money but not enough to truly support himself. He had been saving up for the past year and he almost had enough for his own apartment. Then there was my youngest brother of the bunch. Jackson or as we liked to call him, J.J. J.J was one year older than me and probably the worst of all. He was lazy and stupid. He had been unemployed for the past two years. He tried to go to college and flunked every single class. And even though he was smart, he just never applied himself. That was why he was stupid. He could have had a nice job by now but no, he decides to live with his parents for two years. They were all idiots. All flawed and broken but I loved them anyways. I, on the other hand, had my own apartment and was just over here to visit on my day off from work. My parents seemed happy to have me home. Especially with three grown men living in their house.

"Leave your sister alone, please? So what? She thinks the guy is cute. I honestly hope she beats every one of you up for that."

I smiled. "Thanks, dad."

He ruffled my hair and sat down next to me on the floor. My dad was the best dad in the entire world. I meant it. He supported all four of us with whatever we wanted to do. My mom did support us too but my dad was just more involved in our lives. My mom wasn't around much. She had a job that took her away for most of the time and so that left our dad as our main guardian growing up. He supported us in our best times and worst. I could have never asked for a better dad than him. I leaned against his shoulder as I turned back to the tv screen. Seth had attacked Dean last week and he didn't seem too happy about it.

"Seth Rollins, you think you can attack me from behind and get away with it, huh? You can just get whatever you want because you used to be the champion? Let me put some emphasis on that, Rollins. You used to be the champion. You used to be 'The Man'. And you used to have The Authority. But they're not here to protect you anymore, Seth. No one is here to protect you, Seth. Now, I know you are too scared to come out here and fight me like a man but if you don't at least step out from behind those curtains and at least speak with me in the next ten seconds, well, you're not going to like what happens next."

He turned to the stage and I could see him counting. Ten seconds went by and he cracked his neck.

"Well, looks like I am going to have to come back there and find you then."

He dropped his mic and was about to get out of the ring when the titantron turned on. Seth's stupid face appeared on the screen.

"Dean, Dean. Please. Calm down. Look, I know what I did last week hurt your feelings and whatnot but that wasn't my intention." He looked remorseful and then he did his irritating throaty laugh. "My intention was to put you in the ground, Ambrose. I should have known better. You're too stupid to stay down."

Dean laughed and picked up his mic. "At least I'm not a coward."

"You think I'm a coward? No, I'm just calculated. An 'Architect' some would say. I think before I act which is why I was champion for as long as I was unlike you. Because you do things without thinking, Ambrose. Which is why you'll never be champion again and why I will be once again very soon."

Seth had a match against the newly crowned champion, Finn Bálor. Finn had taken the belt off of AJ Styles at Survivor Series last year. AJ had won the championship from Dean at Night of Champions last year. Everyone was devastated when he lost the title. Dean and AJ had a great rivalry with some amazing matches. Then Finn decided to go after the title and told AJ that he didn't deserve to be champion. AJ had used Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows to help him win the title. Finn said that a champion should win on his own. Then the two had a big rivalry that lead up to through TLC. People called it 'Rivalry of the Year'. People were expecting Seth's match against Finn in about two weeks at Payback to be a great fight.

"You won't be champion, Seth. You don't know how to win without someone there to help you."

Seth smirked. "Yeah, tell me that after I am holding that championship above my head."

Seth went off the titantron and the segment ended. I hoped Seth didn't win.