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Reunited



May 2001


Joanie knew she should be thinking about her match that night with Amy but she couldn't concentrate until she found if she was pregnant or not. That's why she was still in her hotel room instead of at the Arco Arena awaiting the results of the home pregnancy test that she had just taken. After what felt like an eternity, but was in actual fact only five minutes Joanie went into the bathroom to get the results. As she looked at the little stick, she was stunned to see two blue lines. "Oh gawd no." She quietly said to herself. Please don't let this be happening known. It's not the right time for me to be pregnant she thought. Needing to sit down Joanie walked from the bathroom into the bedroom and sat down on the bed still holding the pregnancy test in her hand. She didn't know how she was going to tell Paul. Sure they had discussed having children together but that was always some time in the future and certainly not now. Now was definitely not the best time to be pregnant because it seemed like everything in her life was falling apart around her. Paul had been pulling away from her and spending a lot more time with his onscreen "wife" Stephanie McMahon, not that she really thought anything could be going on between them, because Paul always said that he hated spoiled, self-centered woman like her, but they were still getting way to close for her piece of mind. And secondly she was in contract negotiations with Vince for a bigger and better contract but it just wasn't working out. Vince refused to give her the pay raise that she deserved and also wanted her in the woman's division instead of wrestling the men anymore because he said that she had done all there was to do in the men's division by winning the IC title 3 times and was never gonna be a world champion. Joanie was so lost in her thoughts that she lost complete track of time and in wasn't until her cell phone rang that she remembered about her match that night.


"Hello," Joanie said as she answered her cell without bothering to look who was calling.

"Joanie, where the hell you at? You were supposed to be here over an hour ago to get ready for your match with Amy. Stephanie is getting very mad. You know how important the woman's division is to her and she wants this match to be perfect." Joanie heard Paul saying to her. "I wasn't feeling to well Paul but I'm on my way now. And, I don't care how mad the little princess is it isn't my concern." Said Joanie. She then hung up on Paul and turned off her cell phone because she didn't feel like dealing with him now; especially if he was going to be more worried about Stephanie being upset than why she was late to a show. Throwing the pregnancy test into the trash can in the bathroom Joanie grabbed her gear and also her suitcases and left to go checkout even though she was still supposed to stay one more night.


Meanwhile across town at the Arco Arena Paul still couldn't believe that Joanie had hung up on him. He tried her cell phone again but it was turned off. What the hell's wrong with her he thought to himself. I wonder if she knows about me and Steph. Just then the door to his locker room swung open and in walked Stephanie. "Hey, Paul," Stephanie said as she walked over and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. "Hey, baby," He responded back. "What's wrong? You look worried about something."

"It's Joanie, and she just hung up on me and when I tried to call her back her cell phone is off." "Well, so long as she gets her ass here, I don't give a damn what is wrong with her," Stephanie growled angrily.

"Whoa, calm down Steph. You know how stressed Joanie's been lately. What with her contract negotiations and all not going well" "Well, I'm also stressed Paul. I'm tired of hiding our relationship from the world. We couldn't help it that we fell in love. We need to tell Joanie about us and I want to do it tonite," demanded Stephanie. "Calm, down Stephanie. I know that this hasn't been easy for you. I agree that we need to tell Joanie but do you really think that today is the best day to tell her. I know how much you want the women's division to be taken seriously and if we tell Joanie about us today it will definitely ruin the match between Amy and Joanie. So let's hold off in telling her tonite and do it another day."

"Okay, Paul you're right. I don't want to ruin tonight's match so we won't tell her about us today; but Paul I am going to tell her tomorrow with or without you." "Fine, we'll do it tomorrow before Raw," Paul said rather tiredly. Paul didn't know how things had gotten so complicated in his life. A few months ago he and Joanie had gotten into a huge fight and he had left to go cool off. He had ended up going to a local bar and drowning his sorrows, because he hated when he and Joanie argued. After a couple hours at the bar he decided to go back to the hotel and patch things up with Jo, but when he left he forgot to take his room key with him. When he knocked on the door and Jo didn't answer he got really pissed and assumed that she was making him pay by not letting him in. Only what he didn't know was that Jo wasn't in the room, she had left shortly after him and went to spend the night in Nora and Trish's room. Not wanting to spend the night on the couch in the lobby Paul decided to go to Stephanie's room to talk. When he got there, she opened the door wearing a skimpy little nightgown and already being drunk and mad at Joanie for not letting him in the room one thing led to another and they ended up sleeping together. The next morning when he woke up he instantly regretted what he had done and apoligized profusely to Stephanie and then left. Before he went to the room he went down to reception and got another key to the room. When he entered the room, he noticed that neither bed had been slept in, just then the door opened and in walked Jo. Feeling really guilty about what he had done the night before he said that he was sorry for fighting with her last night and they made up. He never told her about sleeping with Stephanie because he told himself it would never happen again but over the next few weeks Joanie and him were still having problems and Stephanie had started to tell him how much she had fallen in love with him. Since he was spending so much time with Steph it seemed only natural that they started a relationship, but a part of him still loved Jo so he put off telling her even though he knew that it wasn't fair to either woman. As his relationship with Stephanie grew he became more distant with Joanie, kind of hoping she would grow tired of him and initiate the break up. But, she never did and so he went on seeing both women knowing it was wrong and that he would have to make a decision some day. Well it seemed that that some day had now come.