I Don't Care Anymore!

Chapter 1

A/N: This story takes place in an existing world, following on from my stories The New Authority and The Hugger's Return. However, I will be writing it in such a way that new readers can pick the series up with this story without necessarily needing to read the other two stories first. Having said that, new readers need to be aware that there is an established relation between Seth Rollins and Bayley, and that they are engaged to be married.

As my regular readers will know, I've been looking to return to writing in this world for some time now. My problem was that I didn't have the spark of inspiration needed to get me going. That spark came this week with Bayley's beat down of Sasha Banks. I'm fairly confident that WWE will go on to make a mess of what promises to be something great, so what we're going to do is take the start they gave us and make sure something great does come from it. Enjoy!

"You ain't shit," Bayley snarled at Sasha Banks, leaning down over her with her fingers clenched tight around her chin.

The use of the non-PG language was the culmination of a beat down that was in itself a culmination of months of lacklustre build work by WWE towards a Bayley heel turn. It would be her second heel run; the first being her stint as commissioner of Raw. When that role had ended, Bayley had taken some time off before returning as her previous hugger character. Unfortunately, the second coming of the hugger just hadn't been the same. It had not been possible to put the genie back in the bottle. Rather than a resurgence in popularity, the change of character had simply seen Bayley go stale, achieving essentially nothing in her career for several months. It had reached the point where she got pretty much no reaction from the audience when she came out to wrestle.

At one time, Bayley could never have imagined a scenario where she would request a heel turn. Indeed, when she had been told about her first turn, she had been literally heartbroken. This time, however, she had been the one to go to Vince McMahon and request to be allowed to become a heel once more. After some reluctance and dithering, the trigger had finally been pulled on the idea, at least in a sense.

A program had been started where Bayley and Sasha Banks, friends for so long, had started to have differences with each other. Heel turns had been teased multiple times for both women, in a run that had gone on for way too long in most people's opinions. But now, finally, the turn had actually happened, and it had been Bayley who had turned on Sasha.

Already there was a problem, however. Rather than booing her, the fans were cheering and chanting her name. Apparently they had waited so long to see her kick Banks's ass that they were delighted to see it, rather than shocked by it. They had lapped up every moment of the ass kicking, even chanting "one more time" to encourage her to continue.

Standing back up, Bayley backed away, still glaring at Sasha. She knew that the commentators would be talking up what had just happened, trying to put over her turn as best they could.

Once she was safe in the knowledge that the segment was at an end and the show had gone to a break, she made her way up the entrance ramp, ignoring the fans who stretched their hands out to her.

Bayley walked back through the curtain to Gorilla and found Hunter Helmsley standing there waiting for her. "Well done, Bay," he said as a form of greeting, giving her a pleasant smile to go with the praise.

"Thanks, Hunter. Although I'm not sure me being cheered was the reaction we were after."

"Don't worry about that," Hunter said without concern, putting a hand on her shoulder to usher her out of Gorilla so that they could chat out of the way of the production team and the wrestlers who would be appearing in Raw's next segment. "Tonight was just the start for the new Bayley. Rome wasn't built in a day. We'll be seeing the next incarnation of Bayley for the first time next week, and I think we're going to surprise some people. We've seen Bayley the businesswoman who ran Raw with an iron fist, but this time it's going to be a different heel Bayley. We have ambitious plans for you, and we think we can make you the most hated woman on Raw."

Bayley managed a smile. "I never thought I'd find myself saying this, but that sounds good to me. What exactly is it that you have planned?"

As she was asking the question, they had reached the door to Hunter's office. He pushed it open and gestured for her to enter before him out of politeness. "Why don't we have a sit down for a few minutes and I'll tell you all about it?"