Cuts Heal In Time (CM Punk)

Chapter 40: No Way Out

No Way Out 2012

Bella had a divas' championship match against AJ Lee. She didn't dislike the girl, but the incident with Punk still didn't sit right with her. Aj was already in the ring when Bella's music began to play. Everyone in the crowd was up on their feet. Bella walked down the ramp confidently, with the title perched on her shoulder. She stopped at the barricade when she saw Colt and Jade, giving them both a hug before getting in the ring. 

The bell rang as the two locked up. Bella overpowered the smaller diva, flipping her over her hip and holding her in a headlock. Since Aj was smaller, she could out muscle her. 

Aj stomped her feet trying to get out of her grip. With her flailing around and picking at Bella's grip around her throat, she was able to break the grip. Once she broke it, she tried to Irish whip Bella into the corner, but Bella countered by jumping up and locking in a cross arm-bar out of nowhere.

"Ahh!" Aj screamed as the crowd cheered. Luckily for her, they were close enough to the ropes that she could get a leg up.

"Alright, she's on the ropes Bella, back up."

Bella kept the hold locked in for the full four count before getting up with a kip-up. 

"Come on!" she hit her chest. Aj ran towards her, but Bella took her down with an arm drag. When Aj got up, she hit her with another arm drag. She covered her for two-count.

Wanting to stay on the offensive, Bella quickly flipped Aj over into a hammerlock on the same arm. She stood her up, still in the lock, and hit a hammerlock suplex variation.

Aj held onto her arm, trying to protect it.

Bella wasted no time, locking in a Fujiwara armbar. Aj screamed as Bella continued pulling her arm toward her. She could tell Aj was about to tap, but she still had fight left in her. She pivoted her body so that she was on her back and then turned the move into a rollup.

Bella kicked out before two. 

Aj stayed on the offensive, now locking Bella in a headlock. After a bit of time had gone by, Bella used her strength to power out of the headlock.

She rolled out the ring to gain composure, and Aj slid out right behind her trying to sneak up on her, but Bella hit her with a back kick that caught her stumbling, then a step up enziguri.

Bella grabbed Aj by her hair and threw her into the barricade. 

"Back in the ring Bella!"

"Shut up!" she yelled before throwing her into the steel steps. She picked Aj up by her hair and hit a DDT on the floor of the arena.

Then she threw a limp Aj back into the ring and got on the apron to hit a springboard stomp on Aj's abdomen. Then she pulled her into the center of the ring and locked in her submission.

"The Grand Crossing! She's got it!"

Aj tapped quickly as Bella applied pressure to the arm she had been targetting. 

Bella applied a little more pressure before letting go. 

"Let's go!" She yelled ripping off her tanktop, leaving her in her red sports bra. She swung her shirt around in the air before throwing it into the crowd. 

The ref held up her hand and handed her the title. She celebrated in the ring before rolling out of it and holding up her title in front of Colt and Jade. 

"I'm the champ!" she yelled, holding it up one more time before giving Colt and Jade another hug and heading backstage.

She had a big smile on her face when she got to the back, immediately being greeted by Punk and Kofi. 

She erupted in a fit of giggles, adrenaline still rushing, as she pulled them in for a hug. 

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It was now time for Punk's triple threat match against Daniel Bryan and Kane. Before the match, Aj had gone up to Bella and hugged her, saying, "I had so much fun fighting you."

Bella looked at her like she was crazy, before saying, "Yeah that was fun."

Aj waved at her and skipped away.

That girl was weird. 

Bella planned to watch the match in catering by herself, but she was interrupted by none other than Randy Orton, "The viper," she grinned.

"Hey Bella," he smiled pulling up a seat. 

The two of them sat there and watched the match start. Bella tensed up when Punk received a "good-luck" kiss on the cheek from AJ, to which The Straight Edge Superstar replied, "Luck is for losers."

Bella smirked when he said that. She loved his attitude and also how he kind of put Aj in her place.

Aj's presence was felt before the match officially began, when she planted a kiss on Daniel's cheek and admitted she still wasn't over him, and later shared a passionate kiss with Kane. But as the Triple Threat Match began, AJ was nowhere to be found.

Kane looked to silence the crowd, punishing both Punk and Bryan before attempting a double chokeslam. But Bryan and Punk opted to team up to escape punishment and took Kane's legs out from under him.

There was some high flying and risk-taking before Kane went to work on Punk's ribs. Bella cringed as he screamed in pain.

The match was back and forth the whole time when Kane was about to finish off Punk with a tombstone piledriver, when Aj came running down the ramp.

"No way," Randy chuckled.

Her interference was perfectly timed as Punk escaped out of Kane's grip and shoved him into the ropes just as AJ was waiting on the apron. 

The collision sent her flying to the arena floor and left Kane visibly distraught, so for some reason, he rushed to AJ's side and lifted the seemingly injured Diva into his arms, gripping her tightly as he walked up the entranceway.

 When he got to the top of the stage, however, AJ opened her eyes and let out a sly smile as she flashed a glance back at Punk, who was celebrating his huge win in the ring.

"Yes!" Bella jumped up, "I gotta go congratulate him."

She kissed Randy's cheek before saying goodbye and heading to the gorilla. On her way, she saw Aj, who was still in Kane's arms. She winked at Bella as they passed each other in the hall.

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Bella, Colt, Punk, and Jade were all on Punk's bus after the match. Jade was laying on one of his couches with her feet up on Colt, and Bella was seated on Punk's lap, with her head on his shoulder.

"Guys, you should've seen Bella the other day. She got so jealous."

"I did not," she said lifting her head up from his shoulder.

"She got jealous of Aj and me which is why she gave Aj the match tonight."

"Okay first of all, that is not at all what happened," Bella chuckled rolling her eyes, "And even if it was, I crushed her anyways."

"That you did," he smirked, "You make me proud."

"Doesn't she," Jade beamed, as a yawn escaped her, "I'm tired."

"Me too," Bella yawned, putting her head back on Punk's shoulder with a smile on her face. She was so happy to be around her best friends.