➶。˚✩  𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄... ! ˎˊ˗
𝖺 𝙺𝙴𝙽𝙽𝚈 𝙾𝙼𝙴𝙶𝙰 𝖻𝗈𝗈𝗄.
002. C H A P T E R T W O.
✖️🪐☁️  ━   𝖺 𝖼𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲.

𝘪 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭'𝘴 𝘴𝘬𝘺
𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴

𝗂𝗍 𝖿𝗎𝖾𝗅𝗌 𝗆𝗒 𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖽𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗆𝗌
𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗆𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖾

︶︶︶.   ̥◌୭ ❀ • ❀ ୭ ̥◌  . ︶︶︶

THE three women laid in the ring restlessly, as Charlotte crawled around them in irritation. She had tried pinning the trio after she had performed her signature move, 'Natural Selection' on Sasha, whilst Becky and Candace had gone at each other both in attempt for a brutal clothesline only to end up on the apron clutching their chest and necks.

Charlotte grabbed Becky and tossed her out of the ring near the announce teams table.

She picked Candace up by her hair and tossed her into the ring post harshly, her body laid on the edge of the apron limply, watching through drowsy eyes as Charlotte lifted Sasha up into a power bomb position. The latter fought, sending blow after blow to the blonde's head.

Climbing up the turnbuckle tiredly, Candace awaited for the two to turn around.

Flying through the air, Candace's boots met with Charlotte's abdomen, a perfect missile drop kick executed by the blonde.

Candace crawled over Charlotte and pinned.

"One, two-" The referee counted as did the crowd who oh'd at the near pin fall.

Candace let out a shriek of frustration slamming the palms of her hands to the mat in pure frustration.

Shaking her head as a smile made its way to her lips, followed by a laugh of disbelief.

Standing to her feet she waited for her to get up as she crouched herself in the corner. The Houston's crowds grew louder by the second knowing what was to come.

A head of orange hair caught her attention to her right, looking from the blonde to the red head. Candace stood up and sprinted towards Becky, her knee colliding with Becky's head.

This was it. She thought.

Crawling over the red head's body she pinned Becky.

"One, two, th--"

The crowd stood up in disbelief, followed by mix reactions seeing Sasha Banks had broken up the pin.

She grabbed the blonde from behind, putting her into the Banks Statement.

Candace cried out clawing at Mercedes' hands who refused to budge. She began to claw her way towards the bottom ropes, though it wouldn't matter seeing as how there were no rope breaks that could help her. She figured she could roll herself out of the ring, only her idea had been diminished as Sasha pulled her back into the middle of the ring, pulling harshly at her head.

Charlotte rushed into the ring taking hold of Mercedes legs, putting her into the figure eight lock.

Candace rolled out of the ring opposite to Becky.

Candace clutched her neck, staggering to her feet seeing the predicament the colourful haired woman had been in.

Quickly she grabbed Sasha's hands and dragged her out of the ring breaking up the submission move.

She rolled herself into the ring.

The four women now sat on their knees as Charlotte began her father's famous chops. The crowd woo'd. The three began sending punches to the blonde viciously in return.

Candace used the ropes to stand to her feet and super kicked Sasha who fell through the second ropes out the ring near the announce tables.

Turning on her heel she was met with a spear by Charlotte.

Candace rolled out of the ring and clutched her more than likely bruised abdomen. The blonde held herself up curtesy of the edge of the ring, her crystal eyes watched the three women on the top turnbuckle. Gaining a slight boost of adrenaline she slid herself through the ropes and ran up the corner wrapping her arms around Sasha, who held onto Charlotte who was sat on the top.

The crowd watched at the edge of their seats with wide eyes.

Charlotte held onto Becky as if her life depended on it.

Candace let out a yell as she German Suplexed the three women onto the apron.

She laid on the mat limply.

Her breaths were staggered, her chest heaved slowly as she watched three lay on the mat in pure exhaustion.

'Yes' chants rung throughout the arena.

Crawling over to the nearest body to pin the blonde headed woman, only for her boot covered feet to be yanked out of the ring.

A shriek left her throat as she was held back by Ric Flair himself.

"No! Let me go!" She wailed kicking and screaming watching as Sasha had been met with a big boot by Charlotte knocking her out. "No!" She shrieked.

Charlotte put Becky into the figure eight lock.

It was like everything was in slow motion. The three women's dreams of becoming champion once more had been slowly ripped away from their grasp as Becky tapped.

Ric let go of the blonde who fell to her knees.

"Ladies and gentlemen, your winner by submission, and the new WWE Women's Champion; Charlotte Flair!" Lilian announced over her mic.

https://youtu.be/rpru-TykaFU

Candace laid her head against the steel steps biting down on her lip refusing to cry. She ran a hand through her tangled blonde locks starring at the floor in confusion and utter disbelief.

It wasn't supposed to end like this, she thought to herself.

Staggering to her feet she held onto the apron and hobbled to the ramp, her lapis eyes held nothing but anger. She glanced back to where Becky sat her hands running through her firey hair, then to Sasha who frowned looking down.

Shaking her head she began her trek up the ramp ignoring fans who assured her she'd get it next time, some chanting 'this is bullshit' around her.

She nodded. "Yeah, it is!" She called out to the crowd next to her.

Once she made it back stage her confusion was met with an answer. There stood Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey. She glared at the older man in a suit who spoke with the blonde's father.

"What was that?" Candace inquired Vince who let out a sigh.

"We know it was planned for you to win." Stephanie began.

"Yeah, that's an understatement." Candace bit back.

Stephanie glanced around seeing a small crowd of wrestlers had began to enter gorilla watching, as well as some crew members. "We understand your frustration but we've worked out a feud for Wrestlemania 35. It was supposed to be you but . . ."

"But?" Candace repeated with a scoff.

"Candace—" Allen Jones, AJ Styles, called out from next to his friends, Fergal Devitt, Andrew Hankinson, Chad Allegra; also known as, Finn Balor, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows.

Candace ignored the brunette and continued to glare at the woman before her, "Name value." Stephanie breathed out. The blonde parter her lips as she realized what this all meant all along.

"Of course it is." Candace nodded.

"You can still challenge Ronda for the title once she wins it."

"Yeah, and then lose it, right?" Candace inquired looking up at Stephanie then to Hunter, a man who remained silent knowing how hard she had worked to get to where she was, seeing as how she was his very own star down in NXT. Candace shook her head, "I guess it is true, you don't get anything without having a name around here."

"Now, Candace—" Vince began sternly.

"No, no, don't stress about it. Because I don't plan on resigning with this company next month." She answered. Inaudible gasps was heard around her. Shaking her head she looking to Ronda, "Good luck, see how long you last." She smiled sarcastically before storming out of gorilla ignoring the calls behind her.

Rounding the corner she was met with a hard chest, she looked up and was immediately hugged tightly. "Hey, where's the—"

"I might've just quit."

Colby breathed out, "What?"

"I was supposed to be the one to hold that title at the end of the match, and now I'm back at the bottom of the card because Ronda Rousey is here. I don't have enough name value around here." She scoffed.

"But, I thought you won?"

Candace squinted up at the man, "Did you not watch the fucking match?" She swore.

Colby licked his lips, "I did, but the last few minutes I didn't 'cause, um, my mom called about the gym. Something with the students. But, why did they do it last minute? Couldn't it wait a couple of months before they took it off you?"

"No. They wanna start the feud right away between Ronda and Charlotte." She shook her head ignoring his excuse.

"I'm sorry." He frowned.

Candace shook her head, "It's whatever. Should be used to it right? Since I've been called up the only title I had in this company was the NXT women's title, and barley the Divas for two months, and the only value I had with the NXT title was being the longest reining champion. Other than that, I've got nothing on the Fleur family. Or a UFC fighter."

"You can watch me interfere in tonight's main event." Colby smiled cheekily earning an eye roll from the blonde, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder as he walked her down to the women's locker room.

CANDACE let out a breath running her fingers through her damp hair. She had taken a much needed and deserved hot shower after her exhausting match. With a swift movement she tied her blonde locks in a low pony tail, cascading down her oversized sweatshirt. With a curt nod to herself she exited the women's locker to go meet her mother, boyfriend and older sister.

On her way out she as met with Colby once again.

"What's wrong?" Candace asked, "Last I remember, I'm the one who lost the match." She weakly joked.

Colby nodded, "Yeah, no it's about Bristol." Candace's brows furrowed as she stopped walking and looked up at him. "I don't think I can go."

"What, why?" She shook her head in confusion.

Colby shrugged, "I, uh, I have to go back home, we have a few more entries. And I also have to go see creative with my feud with Hunter leading up to SummerSlam . . ." Candace frowned, "Maybe we can go another time. You'll have the guys, I'm sure it won't be too bad without me."

"Yeah . . ." Candace trailed off, hurt evident in her eyes. "You don't know what you're missin' though." She falsely smiled. "It'll suck without you."

"Obviously." Colby said earning a shove from Candace, "Try not to have too much fun without me."

"You can watch it all on their Youtube channel." She said as he rolled his eyes, "Hey, it's entertaining."

"If you're twelve." Candace nudged him, "Kidding." He said quickly capturing her lips in a quick kiss. His eyes trailed her soft and makeup free features. Freckles decorated the bridge of her nose, her pink plump lips contrasted nicely with her tanned complexion. Her pale blonde hair light like her crystal blue eyes.

The familiar feeling of guilt nipped at him.

Noticing the man's dream like state, Candace cleared her throat. "Are you sure that's the only thing bothering you?"

Colby parted his lips, and swallowed down harshly, but before he could utter a word a voice was heard down the hall.

"There you two are!" The excited voice of Celeste Bonin called out from behind Colby Lopez and Candace Bonin.

Candace side stepped Colby and made her way to her sister.

"We going, or are you two gonna stare at each other like you're in some sappy movie?" Celeste asked, Candace nudged her sister who rolled her eyes. "Hurry up, Lopez."

Colby stifled an eye roll from the eldest sister, who clearly had a distate for him. He made his way down to the two. The three walked down to the arena's parking garage entrance where they were met with Maria Bonin, Reene Young, Galina Becker and Jonathan Good. All four awaiting the duo to leave for dinner.

Maria smiled brightly seeing the blonde and rushed forwards engulfing her in a hug, "Ugh, you did amazing out there as usual. Even though that blonde puta's padre put his old hands on you, he's lucky your father and I weren't there or else-"

"Mom!" Candace chuckle pulling away from her mother, "It's fine." Maria rose a brow at her words. "It is."

"Alright, we gonna go? Joe and your dad already got the cars, so let's go, a man's gotta eat after tonight." Jon impatiently looked at the blonde who rolled her eyes playfully and nodded at the group.

𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 !

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𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗲 Post Wrestlemania 34
with my favourites 🖤

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// 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐃: renneyoungwwe , celestebonin , wweromanreigns, thedeanambrose , themariabonin , wwerollins

𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴

theajmendez Um why wasn't I invited?? 😫😐
     ⤷thecandacemaye Mom you're in Chicago
     ⤷renneyoungwwe Yeah traitor
     ⤷celestebonin Next time come
     ⤷cmpunk We'd rather not
     ⤷thecandacemaye grump 😡
     ⤷theajmendez 🙁

wweromanreigns Making us wait whilst you make thedeanambrose take this 🤨

sashabankswwe I'm with AJ on this 😑
     ⤷thecandacemaye 🙈 i love you

thebrandirhodes So beautiful Candee 💜
     ⤷thecandacemaye ♡ ☺️

username1 Mom lookin like a real fine snack

username2 That match stole the fucking show. We stan women's wrestling 😍😍

charlottewwe 💙

wwerollins 💯
     ⤷username4 Supportive boyfriend, I love
     ⤷username5 Everyone gonna ignore how those sketchy tweets were deleted?
     ⤷username6 ^

mattjackson13 Saw that superkick #superkickparty
⤷nickjacksonyb One of us
⤷martyscurll Oi, come to Bristol now. We miss you blondie
⤷kennyomegamanx Leave the poor girl alone Marty
⤷nickjacksonyb  You were freaking out about her coming an hour ago, bud
⤷thebrandirhodes Why yall exposing him
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⤷thecandacemaye I miss you guys so much wow

𝗼𝗼𝗼. ┊𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 !
✎↷:　❪ 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁'𝚂 𝙽𝙾𝚃𝙴 ❫ ✩˚₊ ͙ ◛ ₊· 𑁤.

I love heel charlotte and becky. and her being portrayed as they don't give a fuck is the true definition of an evolution with what they're doing. and i can't wait to see bayley and sasha's turning point, though i hope it's over the fact with how they're being booked.

also i couldn't help but laugh that even ronda's hometown was cheering becky over her. it shows how the fans know the difference between them two. 1, got handed shit to her because of her name and where she came from (like Brock), where as the other has worked her ass off since they came up to the main roster.

also i love johnny as a heel and bryan.

tho nxt was obviously better but survivor series was 100% their best show of the year. don't even try and @ me.