After Shine [despues de brillar]

Danika -- She shot Martinez a look, she knew he knew English, probably more than he let on, she responded in kind, "Mi familia is coming to the show tonight, and I'm going home for a while afterward." The man lowered his sunglasses to look her over, he shot her a toothy grin, it both unsettled her and made her want to vibrate out of her skin, "I might even miss you." She admitted, after a long moment.

Dominik -- Summer Slam in 2020 might have been the proverbial start to Dominik Mysterio's career in the WWE, but it had also been the end of his semi-normal private life. His high school sweetheart had left him shortly after because his time on the road was 'too much' too hard for her, and for a brief stint he'd fallen into sleeping with his best friend, Danika. He and Danika shared a set of twins, but they'd kept that largely underwraps for his career. For the first time in months Danika was at a show tonight, with both almost eighteen month olds.

This is a slowbuild, but it's a goth-poly-cule found family fic.

This is a mildly Kayfabe supportive - really I just need Aalyah and Murphy to be a couple, after a series of missteps. Anything else and everything else is a complete work of fiction. I own literally no one, except the OC's, which are all based on people I know in the real world, but whatever. Enjoy. Alright, Mildly Kayfabe was an outright lie, the plot bunnies made it more Kayfabe supported than I intended, but... here we are. Enjoy (II). It's all fiction - we devolved so quickly there. IRL Congratulations to Dominik on his engagement and Rhea looks so happy with Buddy, it's literally the most adorable thing I've ever seen.

I am the cowriter for this fic and you can find the original posting on ao3 under the same name.