I've decided to steal Dean Ambrose's rope rebound clothesline for Stephanie's finishing move in this story for the simple reason that I like it so much. As for ring attire just picture what she wore at Summerslam this year. Also as this is slightly AU I can go ahead and make the show TV14 not this PG crap that we have to endure in reality :)

Twenty two year old Stephanie McMahon was nervous as she finished changing into her leather ring gear, very nervous in fact. Tonight was her first night on Raw and not only that she was scheduled to wrestle the current Divas champion Paige. In fact she was scheduled to beat Paige. It was not for the title but even so this was crazy. She had briefly been the NXT Women's Champion but she had been made to drop it in order to start on the Raw roster full time. She was being pushed hard and she had to honestly admit that she was not sure why. There was no doubt that she was talented and she was in great shape physically. She worked out two hours per day minimum and she was more muscular than most the other Divas. She was also the tallest of them. Even taking this into account she was being pushed a lot faster than anyone else that had made it onto the main roster through NXT had been.

"Don't look nervous Steph, you'll be fine," Paige said pleasantly as she walked over to Stephanie.

Stephanie smiled but she still looked nervous, "Thanks Paige."

Paige laughed, "You still look nervous. I'll see you out there."

Stephanie made sure that her boots were fastened securely and took a deep breath, it was time to put her nerves aside and go do this. She walked out of the locker room and along the hallway towards the gorilla position. As she approached she saw her boss, WWE's top star and current COO 'Triple H' Paul Levesque. She knew that he ran things around here but she had never met or even spoken to him before. Stephanie found it strange that he was so high up in the company as she guessed that Paul was not much older than herself. She would have guessed at maybe twenty five or twenty six. Maybe it was not a case of what he knew but who he knew?

Next to him was his wife, recently retired Diva Trish Stratus who was now one of the senior members of the creative department. Stephanie had always looked up to Trish as some kind of role model but again had never actually had the chance to meet her. Hopefully that would change soon, meeting Trish in person would be amazing. They were both talking to some crew member or production team member, Stephanie had no idea who the guy was. As she walked past them, towards the curtain she heard the boss say, "Hey, Stephanie."

Stephanie turned around and faced Paul as he approached her but she was unsure how to correctly address him. Figuring it would be best to be too cautious rather not cautious enough she went with, "Yes sir?"

Paul laughed, "You can call me Paul," he held out his hand for Stephanie to shake which of course she did. "It's an honor to meet you Paul."

Paul smiled, "I've been watching you in NXT and I'm very impressed."

"Thank you, that means a lot to me." That was a massive understatement but it was what had flowed out of her mouth before she could consider it. Paul continued, "Keep impressing me in the next couple of weeks and I might have a big opportunity for you."

"Really? What opportunity?" Stephanie's eagerness was plainly obvious.

"Impress me tonight and next week and we'll talk again."

"I'll do that sir... Paul," Stephanie told him determinedly. Paul turned and walked back over to Trish who was still involved in her conversation. He spoke as much to himself as to Trish, "Polite girl."

Trish replied without paying attention, "Hmmmm."

Stephanie waited behind the curtain as Paige made her entrance and her mind raced. Holy shit! The boss was taking a personal interest in her. It was now no surprise that she was being pushed this hard. It had been a shame not to get the chance to chat to Trish but she was sure that there would be another time for that. She imagined that right now Michael Cole would talking about her.

As Paige completed her entrance Michael Cole was indeed talking about Stephanie, "We've got something different lined up tonight King, we've got Stephanie McMahon about to wrestle Paige and I know that you've been very impressed with her performances on NXT as of late."

"That's right Michael. My advice to Paige is don't take Stephanie McMahon lightly, she's been running through NXT like no one has before."

JBL countered, "But Paige is the Divas Champion, she should have no real problem winning this one."

Stephanie's generic low budget entrance music played and she walked confidently to the ring even though inside she felt like her stomach was in knots. She drew a fairly quiet but noticable cheer from the crowd, clearly some of them had seen her tearing it up on NXT and sensed what may be in store for Paige. Stephanie rolled into the ring and as she did so Paige began talking to her. Her words were inaudible to the auidence but she held out her hand for Stephanie to shake. Stephanie naively fell for the sporting gesture and Paige started the match by catching Stephanie unaware with a kick to the stomach.

Playing her heel character well Paige drew heat from the crowd as she dominated the opening couple of minutes of the match due to the unfair advantage she had gained at the start. She arrogantly slapped and taunted Stephanie as she tried to get up from the canvas and JBL said, "Paige has this under control guys. Maybe it was unfair to throw Stephanie in there with the champion straight away?"

"Don't count Stephanie out yet John," Cole warned, "She hasn't had a chance to mount any offence yet. She's devastatingly powerful when she gets on a roll from what I've seen." As if on cue Paige whipped Stephanie off the ropes and tried to take her down with a shoulder block but instead she bounced clean off Stephanie's own shoulder block and went down. The crowd cheered but Paige was up quickly and as Stephanie was still trying to recover Paige grabbed her in a headlock. Stephanie leant into Paige and was able to power her off and sent her flying nearly half way across the ring. The crowd cheered at this impressive feat of strength but again Paige was up quickly and she ran at Stephanie but she ran right into a roundhouse kick that caught her right on the chin and left her crumpled on the floor near the corner. King squealed before yelling, "That could be it Cole! Paige could be out!"

Stephanie dragged Paige away from the ropes and covered her but it was only good for a two count.

Stephanie held one of Paige's arms as she waited for her to stand and then whipped her hard across the ring, chest first into the corner and as she bounced out Stephanie caught her in a perfectly executed inverted headlock backbreaker.

Cole took up the commentary, "I told you John, Paige can't stand much more of this. One, two, oh that was close. I thought Stephanie had it."

"It takes more than that to beat the Divas Champion Michael," JBL replied with satisfaction. The resilient Paige was on her feet again almost as fast as Stephanie but Stephanie caught her with another pair of powerful martial arts kicks and then a big forearm which sent Paige to the corner again.

Cole's voice rose once more, "Paige is reeling." But as Stephanie ran into the corner Paige moved aside and it was Stephanie's turn to crash into it chest first. As Stephanie turned around holding her chest in pain Paige quickly grabbed her and went for the Paige Turner as King exclaimed, "That's it, Paige hits this and it's over." But Stephanie was able to escape Paige's grasp. Paige turned around and caught Stephanie with a right hand which sent her sprawling onto the middle rope. As she did so the noise rose in the crowd from those who knew what would come next. Stephanie righted herself from the middle rope and used the momentum she had as she came off to catch Paige with a vicious clothesline that made an audible crack as it impacted Paige's chin and nearly sent her for a backflip.

As this happened Cole groaned loudly, "Ohhh, no one's getting up from that," and JBL simultaneously yelled, "Ball game!" He was right, Stephanie rolled Paige over as she had landed face down and hooked a leg as she pinned her and the crowd counted along with the referee, "One! Two! Three!" They cheered as Stephanie made a good job of looking shocked at what she had just achieved, wide eyed and holding one hand over her mouth as the referee raised her hand and she was announced as the winner.

Cole yelled, "She did it King, Stephanie McMahon beat the Divas Champion."

JBL laughed, "Not only that Michael, I think she knocked Paige clean out. Stephanie hits that clothesline and it's all over, I don't care who she's in there with. Trust me, a clothesline is something that I know about."

King laughed, "Right." The segment ended with Stephanie shown leaving the ring and then Paige still lying flat on her back, apparently unconscious with a doctor crouching over her.