What's Wrong With You?

-45-

Roman, Dean and Seth sat inside the ring hugging each other tight until the paramedics got into the ring. Dean let go of the two quickly and tried holding back his tears. The paramedics started to check on Roman and Seth. Seth wasn't able to even stand up as his knee hurt real bad. Two stretchers arrived right then and the paramedics divided into two groups in order to carry both Roman and Seth out of the ring.

Dean quickly got down the ring as he watched Roman and Seth getting stretchered out of the arena. Tears filled up in his eyes again, this was all the outcome of their past rivalries and misunderstandings. Back then, when The Shield existed, Dean had never imagined that the three of them would go against each other one day and would end up injuring each other this bad. Dean was lucky he did not get the worst of it but the other two definitely did. Seth has a bad knee again and Roman's nose never stopped bleeding. "Don't cry, Dean!" he heard a voice from the crowd next to him. Dean then turned to his side to find the people in the front row of the audience cheering him on.

"You did great today! You're the dude!!" one of them shouted out, cupping their hands over their mouth.

"Man up, Ambrose. You're amazing! Don't cry, your brothers need you!" said another man beside them.

"Hounds of Justice!!" someone from the audience shouted out right then. Dean smiled back at them whereas the group of people in the front row cheered for him louder. He quickly wiped his tears and rushed towards the officials who stretchered Roman and Seth out of the arena. Roman was loaded into an ambulance whereas Seth was taken into a room at the building.

"Is everything alright with his knee?" asked Dean as he sat down on the bed Seth was laying on. The paramedic applied ice to the swelling over Seth's knee as they said, "We can't really say that. We'd have to run tests on him."

Dean sighed and then looked at Seth to find Seth staring back at Dean already. "It... It hurts but... I'll be fine." said Seth in a very raspy voice. A smile formed on his lips. This brought tears to Dean's eyes and his hand slipped towards Seth's right then. He clasped Seth's hands in his and said, "Yes, you'll be all good." said Dean with a smile, as his eyes brimmed with tears. Seth smiled back at Dean and then with a faint voice he said, "How is Roman? Where is he?"

"He's been taken to the hospital. He'll be fine" said Dean in a rushed manner as he saw tears forming in Seth's eyes again. "Look it was all an accident, you didn't mean to injure him. It's not your fault. Okay?"

"It's because of me that he's hurt. Its because of all our rivalries that we hit each other this bad! But firstly... Its because of me that we split up." said Seth, as his voice went weaker and a drop of tear fell down his eye. Dean massaged Seth's hand gently for a while before he said, "We did not split up. We were just disoriented. If we had split up, you'd never have sacrificed yourself for me and also Roman wouldn't have sacrificed himself for you. So don't cry anymore and let's just hope Roman is fine."

"But you're crying too..." said Seth, laughing between his cries.

"Hey, I'm not!" whined Dean as he wiped the tear off his eye with his finger. "That's just..."

"You were sweating through your eyes?"

"You can say that."

Both let out a chuckle and then Dean leaned down embracing Seth carefully. Seth immediately put an arm around Dean. The two of them then continued to cry as they shared a long hug.

Seth had to leave the stadium and walk towards the parking lot with the help of crutches. Dean and the manager were close behind him, checking on him as he walked. "You could've accompanied Roman to the hospital, Dean. I was here to look after  him." said the manager right after they were off to the nearest hospital by car. Dean, who was sitting alongside Seth at the back seat replied, "Yes, I could have. But I didn't really know you were Seth's manager."