Title: Shane's Story

Author: Dana (Just me no one else). Rating: Hard to say. Safe bet would be PG

Warnings: It's mild. Most of the stuff takes place out of fic.

Summary: He was the most protected in his family, and it would cost him. Join Shane's journey from Survivor Series 2003 onward in a His Father's Son companion.

Author's note: It's not necessary to read His Father's Son, however this fic probably wouldn't make sense without it since it skips around a lot. There are heavy spoilers in the prologue for One Thing but nothing said outright.

Second Author's Note: First chapter has a part written by Juilet.

Disclaimer: I do not own all of the characters you've seen on TV. They belong to the companies that created them or themselves.

"Vince would never do anything to Shane and Linda. He made sure we all knew that. No one could touch them and he made double sure they stayed clueless. "

Shawn Michaels in His Father's Son

Shane walked into the cabin that he had called home for ten years. He had lived in the cabin with his wife, children, Chris Benoit, Owen Hart, and Michael and Tammy Erichson. He wondered how much longer they would have lived in that cabin if Daniel Benoit and Athena Hart hadn't stumbled onto the secret. Or in Danny's case, helped along to this by Eric Bischoff.

Eric...

Shane stopped that train of thought as he watched his nine-year-old daughter Andi and his seven-year-old son Wes ran into the cabin. It was their first time back in the cabin in over two years when they packed up and headed down to Atlanta for the trial.

Marissa came in and put a hand on Shane's left shoulder. "Feels weird to be back doesn't it?" She asked.

"Yeah." He walked over to the table and saw a piece of paper on it. He thought perhaps Chris and Danny had forgotten it when they were up there a few days ago. Shane went and picked it up. He read it and then balled it up. It was a copy of Danny's medical report. He didn't need to read it to know what it said. He and Danny had a long talk about what it meant and Shane told him to take as much time off as he needed before he decided what to do. He knew his brother-in-law, Paul Levesque, was probably glad to hear about that.

Had it only been two months ago that it had happened? The things that happened to Eric, Danny, Cassidy Austin, and himself would be hard to forget. Cassidy and he would be fine. Eric...he still couldn't bring himself to think about that. The scars Danny received not to mention a dream crushed by a group of hateful people.

A group his own father and sister had been a part of. His father had died in prison but his sister and brother-in-law had orchestrated everything from behind bars. It still made him sick.

Shane took the letter out of his pocket that the warden had sent him. He said the psychologist that Vince had been seeing said Vince wanted him to have it. Why it took him over a year to give it to Shane, he'd never know.

"I'm going outside to read this." Shane said to Marissa.

"Of course." She said. "I'm going to check up on the kids." Marissa said and walked further into the cabin.

Shane went outside and opened the letter.

Dear Shane,

Dr. Grunberg asked me to write a letter to you and your mother. He said it would be good therapy and that you wouldn't see the letter until after I had died.

You once asked me why I did it and I said revenge. You never asked me why I didn't do it to you. The reason is I loved you. I would never let anything happen to you or your mother. It's the reason I couldn't do it.

It's the reason I never allowed you or your mother to know what we were doing. Stephanie, Paul, Shawn, they are all like me. They could see the necessity to do what we did. Am I sorry? No.

That's why I kept pushing you out of the company after Bad Blood. Do you remember the day you came back after that RAW? You looked like you were going to fall apart. I told you to take time off. I then decided to get you out of the company by restarting WCW. You did a great job son and I'm proud.

Vince

Shane tucked the letter away and sat there looking at the woods. His mind started going back to memories of time past.

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Notes: Okay the next chapter starts at Survivor Series 2003. I just wanted to give a feel of the fic. I hope to one-day work on One Thing again, and if you couldn't tell, something bad happened to Danny Eric in it. I just haven't gotten that far. Darn muses.