Shane McMahon looked in the mirror for what must have been the 50th time. He ran his fingers through his grey hair and sighed heavily. Things were so different, he was different. It had been close to 7 years since he had been anywhere near an arena for a WWE event. Now here he was stuck in this tour bus for the last hour waiting for the signal to head out. His sister had told him to stay at the hotel and she would send the bus for him that would take him to the parking lot behind the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. She could not stress enough how important it was that no one saw him or knew he was even in the city. His return was supposed to be the biggest thing to happen in a very long time for the WWE. 'Sure no pressure' Shane thought to himself. He turned to glance at his reflection again and tried his hardest to get his nerves under control. His appearance had certainly changed over the years, sure he was physically in the best shape of his life but tiny wrinkles were starting to appear and his dark brown hair was now a thing of the past, replaced by his grey hair that constantly got brought up whenever a rare sighting of him did pop up in the media. Shane McMahon had done many things in his life that got his blood pumping but if he were to be honest with himself, this may be one of the most nerve wracking things he could possibly think of doing. 'Would people even remember me? Worse what if they remember me but don't even care that I'm back?' Shane silently thought. He talked to Steph earlier and right after she was through threatening his life if anyone saw him, she assured him that people would freak over this. Since he had been gone, his name was brought up quite frequently and it seemed that the audience missed him. He just tried to keep reminding himself of that.

Shane felt his phone buzz in his pocket and pulled it out.

Marissa: Boys are missing you, I told them you had business in Boston. You said you were going on first right? Trying to keep Rogan up but he's fading pretty fast.

Shane's gut dropped a bit when he read the text. It said the boys missed him, didn't say anything about Marissa missing him. He sighed heavily, another thing in his life that was totally upside down. September would be 20 years that they had been married and as far as both of them were concerned, they wouldn't be making that milestone anniversary. They both had been feeling the distance for some time and planned on telling the boys they would be splitting up. Then Vince had called Shane and he decided to come back for Wrestlemania and since the boys had never really gotten the chance to experience it before, Marissa and Shane didn't want it ruined by the news of a divorce so it was decided to hold off until after Wrestlemania then they would break the news to everyone. It was certainly very weird sharing a bed with someone that he used to be very much in love with and now considered more of a friend. He would always love her, they had shared so many memories and happy times together and she did give him the three most beautiful sons in the world and for that he would always be grateful but as far as their marriage was concerned it was on borrowed time.

Shane: Yes, our segment is first. I should be out about 10 minutes into the show. Don't forget to switch the camera on, dying to see their reactions.

Marissa: It's charged and ready to go. Good luck out there tonight, don't be nervous. This is what you were born to do :-)

Shane: Thanks, I'll call right when I'm done. Tell the boys I love them.

Marissa: I will.

Shane slipped his phone back into his pocket. He glanced at the TV on the wall of the tour bus and watched his father make his way down the ramp. This was it, his sister should be out there in another minute and once her music hit, that was the que to head into the building. He took a giant sip from his water bottle then grabbed his jacket to put on. Once Steph's music began he took another giant breath and stepped out of the bus. "Here we go." Shane said outloud to himself.

'This is insane' Shane thought to himself as he jogged down the ramp. This crowd would not stop. The second his music hit, the place just exploded. Everyone was completely into seeing him return and it was taking everything Shane had in him to not show more emotion than he was meant to. He didn't know if he wanted to laugh or cry or maybe a little of both, but one thing was for sure this reaction was nothing he would have ever expected. Shane climbed up the stairs and grabbed hold of the top rope before stepping in. 'This is it, one more step.' He told himself. He had not been in a WWE ring in almost 7 years, this just felt right, this is where he belonged. All the bullshit between him and his father over the years; the fighting, the disagreements, the frustration, none of that mattered anymore. He was home.

Their segment was a pretty long one and went on for close to 20 minutes and the crowd was eating up every single word. After thanking the crowd one last time while the show was on a commercial break, he stepped through that curtain and was greeted by a round of applause from everyone that was in the gorilla position. He looked over to his left and saw his sister and father standing side by side. Steph ran up to her brother with tears in her eyes, "See! I told you. I told you it would amazing!" She said wrapping her arms around her brother for a hug. Shane knew how tough him leaving was on his baby sister. He remembered when he told her he would be resigning and how upset she was. People like to think there was this big sibling rivalry between the two of them but the true was, they were each other's biggest cheerleaders. After a quick hug from his father and welcome backs from his old friends, Shane quietly slipped away to an empty room to call home.

Marissa answered on the first ring and he could hear his sons going insane in the background. "Hello?!" she had to yell over the commotion going on behind her.

"Hi!" Shane said laughing, "Everything alright?" he said with a giant smile plastered to his face.

"Boys!" Marissa barked away from the phone, "Cool it, I can barely hear your dad. Settle down!" Shane heard his sons do as their mother said and the room got much quieter. "Shane I'm gonna put you on speaker, hold on."

Once Shane was on speaker, it took about half a second for the three McMahon boys to lose it again, "Dad! That was unbelievable, so cool! Pop looked so mad!" His oldest, Declan, exclaimed. "Dad everyone was going crazy, I can't believe you're gonna fight the Undertaker at Wrestlemania!" His second son, Kenyon, added. "Daddy, you were on TV!" His littlest one, Rogan, said stating the obvious but having just turned 6 it was pretty cute. All three kids kept going trying to talk over one another and Shane could not understand anything that any of them were saying.

"Woah Woah, hold on. One at a time, please" Shane said into the phone trying to settle down his super excited yet very hyper sons. After Shane was able to get control, he took the time to speak to each one individually and then ordered them off to bed since they still had school in the morning, even though both parents knew they wouldn't be sleeping at all from all the excitement. With a quick goodbye to Marissa, Shane hung up and sat down on one of the locker room benches. He smiled at how excited his kids were and so happy that he was able to surprise them. He was doing this all for them; Shane had grown up in such an awesome unusual way with his dad taking him to shows since he was two. Even though his future after Wrestlemania was still unclear he wanted to give his boys a look into what growing up a McMahon in the WWE is really like.

After taking some time to reflect on what just happened, Shane set out to find his dad and see if he had anything else planned for him this evening. When he found him he was running the show from the gorilla positon, as he usually does, and told him to hang back a bit because there was some things he wanted to discuss later. Shane decided to take the opportunity to walk around and familiarize himself with the backstage area again. He hadn't been to a WWE event since before he left, sure he was invited numerous times but Shane always felt that if he wasn't apart of WWE than it would just be too weird and somewhat painful to attend as just a fan. Suddenly he felt his stomach grumble with hunger, he remembered he really hadn't eaten much today with his nerves off the charts, so he made his way to catering to grab a quick bite. As he was walking he kept feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket. He had only officially been back for less than an hour and already his phone was going insane with calls and texts from so many different people wanting to congratulate him; he would take the time on the flight back home in the morning to answer everyone.

Shane followed a couple signs to catering and was pleased to see some familiar faces. Being gone for so long, there were many superstars that he had never even met so it was nice to see ones that he did know. Once everyone became aware, every superstar and diva that was in the room stood up and clapped for him. It was a warming and humbling feeling that everyone was so happy to see him return even after all these years. "Alright, Alright. Settle down, I'm still me. No need to make a fuss. But thank you!" he said beaming with such happiness. Old time wrestlers like the Dudleys and Chris Jericho, who Shane was very good friends with, rushed over and were dying to catch up with him. Shane picked an empty table deciding to eat in a little bit. He was eager to catch up with so many different people.

All throughout the night, people were in and out of catering and many of the new people were excited to finally meet the famous Shane O Mac. He was somewhat of a legend in the locker rooms and every now and then one of the older guys would tell a story of either having a match with Shane, going out after a show with Shane, or getting pranked by Shane. He was always known as the ultimate jokester, even though Vince would constantly yell at him for not acting professional. Shane looked around after awhile and noticed that the catering room was starting to empty out so he thought this would be a good time to finally grab something to eat, at this point he would eat anything he was so hungry.

"Shane! Over here." A women's voice came interrupting him from his quest for food. He turned towards the voice and saw Nattie Neidhart sitting at a table with two other girls. Shane quietly grumbled to himself, "I'm never gonna eat today, am I?" he thought to himself as he made his way over to the table he was being called over to.

"Hey Nat!" he responded pulling her into a hug. He had known Nattie for years and being from such a popular wrestling family herself, they had a lot on common. He was happy to see that she was finally being given a chance in the WWE and put into some good storylines.

"I can't believe you're back!" she said brightly. "This is so great, we've really missed you around here."

"Awe, well thanks Nat, it's really good to be back." He said returning her smile.

"How are the boys? You had one more after you left right? Stephanie showed me a picture awhile back. Gorgeous kids." She said.

"Thanks, yeah three all together now. Rogan was the last one, he was born right after I left." He answered.

"And how's Marissa?" she asked.

"Marissa's good, started her own production company few years back. It's going really good for her." He said still feeling awkward that she was soon going to be his ex-wife.

"That's awesome, please tell her I said hi. You remember Nikki?" Nattie said turning to the table she was sitting at, pointing over to Nikki Bella. Nikki and her twin sister Brie had just started out when Shane was heading out the door so he knew her but not very well.

"Yeah, hey how you doing? Nice to see you again." Shane greeted politely shaking her hand.

"You too. Welcome back!" Nikki responded warmly.

Shane heard someone else call his name from across the room and waved to them as they walked by.

"And this is Ashlee Taylor." Nattie said introducing the other girl at the table. Ashlee was 26 years old and had started with the company about 3 years ago. She was petite at only five foot four with light brown hair and very beautiful stone grey eyes with just a touch of blue to them. She tried out for WWE on a whim and never thought in a million years she would ever make the cut but she did and now 3 years later she was one of their most popular divas having won the championship twice already. She was your typical girl next door who got along with everyone but deep down Ashlee had some secrets that she kept to herself in fear that it would make people look at her very differently.

Shane didn't want to be rude and quickly directed his attention back to the conversation and once he looked over at the woman that Nattie was introducing him to, he stopped dead in his tracks. "Umm.. hi." He said trying to compose himself. 'Wow, this girl is beautiful.' Shane thought to himself as he stuck out his hand to shake hers. "Shane McMahon, nice to meet you."

Ashlee smiled the most gorgeous smile Shane was convinced he had ever seen in his life. "Please the pleasure is all mine. It is so nice to meet you, Shane." She said a little star struck.

Shane couldn't help but smile and get a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach when he heard his name come out of her mouth. 'Cut it out McMahon, pull yourself together. She's just a girl.' Shane yelled at himself silently trying to make sure he didn't stare too much but a part of him just couldn't help it. She was dressed in her ring gear which was white and gold shorts that highlighting her curves perfectly and a matching cut up top that showed the perfect amount of cleavage that Shane was trying his hardest to hide the fact that he was staring at. The one thing he was completely memorized with though were her eyes, Shane was positive that on his 46 years of life on this planet he had never seen eyes like that, they were simply gorgeous and Shane couldn't help but feel that she was looking right into him. He realized that he really needed to get out of here, this feeling he suddenly got was way too intense at the moment.

"Well ladies, I'll let you get back to your dinner. Nattie, Nikki it was great seeing you and umm.. Ashlee it was nice meeting you." And with that Shane scurried off to look for his dad who he was positive was probably looking for him by now. As he was walking through the halls though he couldn't get this Ashlee Taylor girl out of his mind but he didn't have a choice, he had to.

Hi Everyone, I was dying to start this story all weekend. Please let me know what you think, I love Shane McMahon stories and don't' feel there are enough on here. Please review!