Summer Fall Chapter 1

After moving on from his year old divorce with Marissa, Shane starts dating beautiful Courtney, who just gets a job doing backstage interviews things seem to be going pretty well. But what happens when Danielle Moinet (Summer Rae) tries to break that apart having feelings for Shane as well. What lengths will Danielle go through to get Shane? Will Shane and Courtney be able to keep everything together? Or will there just be too much damage?

Shane was walking in the back looking for his sister Stephanie after just returning on raw and causing a major stir. His heart was still pounding and was feeling overwhelmed by having the reception that he got. He couldn't believe how much the fans missed him. He was excited to be back and was looking to start a new adventure. He had been in a slump for the passed year trying to get things back in order after finalizing his divorce with Marissa. It was something that neither of them expected and they sure were worried how it was going to take it's toll on the boys. He walked into her office and she was just sitting down at her desk.

"Wow Shane that was incredible. Can you believe the fans tonight?" Her voice showed excitement.

"No I couldn't believe it at all. They were going nuts. I sure do miss getting in that ring." He was still pretty pumped up.

There was a knock on the door and Stephanie announce for the person to come in. The door opened and Shane caught a breath in his throat. She was gorgeous. She was probably around five feet eight, slender fit body, little curves and breast that were well proportioned to the rest of her body. She had medium length brown hair with blonde highlights and a beautiful smile. She was wearing bright red lipstick and light make-up otherwise. She was wearing a grey pencil skirt with a matching suit jacket over a red silk blouse. She approached Stephanie and shook her hand.

"Hello Mrs. Levesque, how are you doing?" The later thirties beauty asked.

"I'm doing wonderful Courtney, but please I've told you before to call me Stephanie. How was your flight?"

"Besides delayed which didn't help it was okay. I'm really sorry about that. I guess I should have just made an earlier flight so I wouldn't risk being late." She sounded bummed.

"That's okay, it was out of your hands. Um Courtney, I would like for you to meet my brother Shane."

Courtney looked at Shane and stuck her hand out and he his. "It's very nice to meet you Shane, I'm Courtney Lawson."

"Nice to meet you too Courtney, so did you just get hired here?"

"I did, backstage interviews mainly. It's pretty exciting to have you back though. I have to admit I watched years back when you were in your prime. Gosh, I think that was the late nineties?"

"It was a long time ago is what you mean."

"Don't feel too bad, you seemed to have kept yourself in pretty good shape. Most guys from back then who aren't wrestling anymore just sort of let themselves go."

"Well thank you Courtney I appreciate the compliment."

"No problem." She directed back to Stephanie. "So is there any work for me to do tonight? People I need to meet, that sort of thing?"

"Yes." Stephanie got out of her chair. "We should probably go meet with the tech team and some of the camera guys. People you'll mainly be working with. Shane, we still getting together later for a drink?"

"Yeah, that would be great. I'll meet you at the hotel. Just call me when you arrive. I'm going to go talk with dad."

"Perfect sounds good."

"Bye Courtney, it was very nice meeting you." Shane waved at Courtney as her and Stephanie were walking out of the office.

"Nice meeting you too!" She smiled at his walking out of the door.

Stephanie and Courtney walked along and met up with the guys in the tech truck and some of the camera guys. Everyone seemed to be pretty welcoming to Courtney. She was a more soft spoken person but friendly enough to hold a conversation. But Stephanie knew more about her and knew that he had the right skills to be working in the wwe and that she would be a good fit.

Shane arrived back at his hotel room and looked at the time. It was just after nine o'clock and he figured his boys were getting ready for bed. He dialed Marissa's number to say goodnight to them. It was nice for him that they could agree on the schedule for the boys and that they got along better over the past few months. They both decided to stay in New York but just to get their own places so the boys wouldn't have to change schools and go through those motions. It was hard enough not knowing what days of the week or weekend that they would be with either their mom or their dad.

"Hello?"

"Hey, it's me. Can I say goodnight to the boys?"

"Yeah of course, they just saw you on raw. You got quite the reception didn't you?"
"Yeah, it was amazing. Definitely not what I expected but it was great."

"That's good, I'll get the boys for you. They were just going to bed so..."

"Okay thanks."

Shane talked to all three boys and said goodnight. He had made plans to come get them on Wednesday and have them through Saturday before he had to fly back out for the next week of raw. But before he could shower and change into something more casual for his drink date with Stephanie, he started thinking of Courtney. She's the first woman he'd shown any interest in since before he got together with Marissa over twenty years ago. She seemed like a really nice person and she sure was easy on the eyes. But he hadn't been on a single date since divorcing Marissa. He wouldn't even know where to start or how to even ask her. He was afraid he would look stupid. He shook his thoughts loose as he got in the shower.

Stephanie got to her room and changed into less dressy clothing then dialed her brother's room. He answered and they made plans to just have a couple drinks at the lobby bar. They both made their way down and found a little table in the back trying not to be seen by many people.

"Did the rest of the show go well?"

"Without a hitch, Courtney had a lot of fun meeting everyone. I think she'll have fun working with us. She's very sweet."

"Yes she is." Shane not realizing the awkward tone in her voice and of course Stephanie wasn't going let that go unnoticed.

"Shane, what was that about?"

"What?" He tried to sound innocent.

"You like her don't you?" She picked on him.

"Well I don't really see much reason why not too."

"Shane seriously? She just started working for the company. Do you think it's a good idea to get involved with an employee?"

"Well what would you call Marissa?"

"A poor excuse for a wife. She's darn lucky she's a good mother." Stephanie purposefully failed to keep her true feelings back about Marissa.

"Stephanie, that's not completely fair. She made a mistake, but she gave me three beautiful sons and I wouldn't trade them for the world."

"Oh course Shane I understand that. I just wish that it didn't happen that way. I just want you to be happy."

"I know Stephanie, plus I figured you would be the one pushing for me to date again."

"Well I'm not against you dating Shane, I'm just concerned about you dating someone from the company. We've done plenty of that and even though there has been some success it sure does come with a lot of drama. I just want you to be careful. Plus, she's too cute for you anyway." She joked lightly whacking him in the arm.

"You know I do have to agree, she is way too cute for me. But you must've forgot how ambitious I am."

"I guess so, heck even Marissa was way to pretty for you."

"This is very true." They both laughed.

"Oh Shane, you might want to throw on some of those charming skills cause your girlfriend just walked in." She pointed to the bar.

Shane shot his head around and saw Courtney at the bar. She was wearing tight blue jeans and a white tank top looking way more casual than when he saw her earlier. Though she was just wearing what you would wear going to the grocery store she still stood out from the rest. She had her hair pulled back in a ponytail. Shane got up and kindly excused himself from the table and walked towards the bar. When he got up there he saw she was about to take a shot of what looked like whiskey and had a bottle of beer to follow it up. She took the shot and chased it with a drink of her beer before looking over and noticing Shane. She swallowed her beer and had a look of guilt on her face.

"Oh my goodness, I didn't even know you were standing there."

"That's okay, you looked like you needed to have that shot." He smiled.

"Trust me, I may have looked calm earlier when we met but my heart was pounding. This is such a big opportunity. Just need to take some after work stress away."

"Nothing like a shot of whiskey to help you with that. Didn't peg you for the whiskey shooting type."

"Oh honey, I'm from Texas that's how we do it down there." She threw out more of a thicker Texan accent. Shane was certain he fell for her right there.

"There is a lot more to you than meets the eye isn't there Courtney?"

"You just have to wait and see Shane McMahon."

"I guess I will." He smiled.

"So what about you? I know you have some spirit with all those crazy moves you make. You don't seem to be the settle type."

"You'll just have to see Courtney."

She looked at him and smiled at him as he made her laugh. She had watched him years ago and remembering how he was on the microphone in the ring, that was definitely more of his personality then she thought. The bartender approached her and asked if she wanted another shot. She looked at Shane and gave him a devious look. He knew exactly what she was up to.

"Bring it on."

She ordered two shots and a beer for Shane and the bartender complied. He placed the shots in front of him and Shane waited for the beer before they held the shots up next to each other.

"To your start here in the wwe."

"To your plans to make changes to the wwe."

They clinked their shot glasses together and shot them back chasing with their beer. Shane made a scrunchy face not being used to taking shots of whiskey and took another drink making Courtney smile.

"Welcome to the party Shane O' Mac." She laughed at him.

"You're a handful." He smiled.

"Oh you have no idea. Are you here by yourself? Or is Stephanie here?"

"Yeah, she's over there."

"Well invite her over here. She looks lonely all by herself." She insisted.

Shane waved at Stephanie and signaled for her to come over. She got up from her chair glass of wine in hand.

"Well hello kids, how is it going over here?" She gave Shane a look making him blush.

"Well I just got your brother to take a shot with me, you in boss?"

"Oh no thank you, that would not go well with red wine. Maybe next time though. Actually Paul just sent me a text and needed me for something. So I'll have to give you a rain check. Don't get Shane too drunk. It wouldn't be fun dragging him upstairs." Stephanie smiled setting her now empty glass of wine on the bar.

"I'll take care of the tab Steph, you have a good night."

"Night guys." She waved and walked out of the bar.

Shane looked over at Courtney. She was sipping on her beer. She noticed he was staring at her. She set the bottle down and looked self conscious. "What? Do I have something in my hair?"

"No, sorry you just aren't like most woman I know."

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

"It's very refreshing actually. I think the wwe could use someone like you. Bring a little flavor to the mix."

"Well isn't that what you're doing right now?"

"That's the plan."

She finished her beer. "Shane, it was really nice talking with you. I appreciate how welcoming you're whole family has been. I really feel like this is a big family. It's really nice to have being so far from home."

"Where in Texas are you from?"

"Well I was born in California and when my mom died dad and I moved to Dallas. I stayed in California up until about ten years ago. My dad was really happy to have me close to him. He was a wreck when my mom died. He didn't even want to be anywhere near California."

"Why didn't you go with him?"

"Oh I was in the middle of college."

"Oh, I assume journalism or something like that?"

"That's the one. You think I would have gone to New York but I didn't. I thought about it though. It's just hard to think about leaving Texas. But I think I need a change of pace. I got this new job and now I maybe need to try and new place. I guess I'll have to see how things go for a while."

"Yeah, you're going to be traveling a lot anyway. You're going to have to plan for something big like moving across the United States."

"Yeah I suppose so." She looked at the clock. It was well into one o'clock. "Oh wow, I need to go to bed. My flight isn't until noon but you know airports. Gotta get there like ten hours before."

"Believe me I know."

"Have a good night Shane."

"You too Courtney,"

Well I think that's a good stopping point. Got the introduction in. They got to get to know each other right. Thanks for taking the time to read my new little story. Let me know what you think. Will get the next chapter up soon.