Stephanie McMahon wondered around the spacious lobby of WWE Titian Towers. Every employee was meeting today because her father, Vince McMahon, had made a major announcement last week. Everyone could now choose where they wanted to work, whether that be at Raw, Smackdown, or if you were capable, Corporate.
Since the announcement, everyone was running around, asking others where they were considering going. Even brand managers where trying to persuade superstars to pick their brand over their competitors.
The only time Stephanie had heard from anybody over this whole ordeal, was when people were calling to asking her husband where he was going. Did no one care where she was going to go? To her, this was just another opportunity to make it back on TV. Stephanie had had mixed feelings about going back to that, though. On one hand, returning to TV was something that she loved and was good at. On the other hand, she would have to leave her family for extended periods of time. Did she really want to do that? Was she strong even to?
Stephanie was knocked out of her thoughts by her father and the board of directors calling for the start of the meeting.
"Good afternoon, everyone. Today, we are going to start this "draft" with current Raw superstars, then move onto current Smackdown superstars, behind the scenes employees, and finish with brand managers." announced Vince at a podium gesturing to a table with three documents laid upon them.
Stephanie was to sign with the brand managers because of her years as the general manager of Smackdown. Likewise, her husband, Paul, would be signing with current Raw superstars.
Since signing was done by seniority, Paul was one of the first current Raw superstars to sign. Stephanie looked on as she watched Paul walk up to the table when his name was called and sign his name on one of the three papers. When he was down he looked up and scanned the room for her. When his eyes met her, he smiled and made his way over to her.
Stephanie smiled back, "Hey, where did you sign?"
"Impatient much?" Paul replied with a laugh.
Stephanie just shrugged.
"Well if you must know, I want with corporate. I want to be home more, you know. I want to spend some more quality with my girls." He said as he pulled his wife close to him.
Hours passed and the brand managers were up next. Stephanie still had no clue what she was going to do. Before she even had time to sort through where she might end up, her name was called.
She walked slowly up to the table going through the pro's and con's of each option. Even as she approached the table and picked up the pen, Stephanie still hesitated as she looked over each sheet of paper. In an instant, one of the board members shoved the corporate paper at her and pointed to it.
"Sign it!" the man said with authority.
Stephanie looked at him like he was crazy. Who did he think he was talking to her like that. Every one in the room was silent as they waited for her to respond. She just continued to stare down the man in front of her. Picking the corporate paper up and looking in over, Stephanie retorted, "You know, I spent all day thinking what I was going to do. I could go to corporate and resume what I do now. I could kick Vickie Guerrero off of Raw and become general manager. I could go to Smackdown and do the same thing to Booker T."
The board member just looked at her with anger in his eyes.
Stephanie turned around to face the crowd as she continued, "Even as I walked up here, I had no idea of what to do. Not one person came to me and asked me where I was going to go or try to persuade me to go somewhere. Am I not good enough for any of you? Didn't I work hard enough?"
She glanced around at the expressionless faces in front of her. When no one answered her, she turned back to the board members.
"I didn't want to screw anyone over by taking a brand and I was going to sign with corporate. But that was until you shoved that paper in my face and demanded that I sign it. That's when I decided I didn't care about anyone else but me when it came to my decision!" Stephanie yelled as she got in the man's face.
Pushing the corporate paper aside, she signed her name on the paper. Stephanie looked up at the man who shoved the paper at her and said "I don't take orders very well." And with that, she walked right out of the building, leaving everyone at a loss of words.
Gaining their composer, the board of directors looked down at the paper Stephanie had signed. There was a short silence and then loud gasps. Everyone rushed to the table to get a look at when had caused such a reaction. Everyone was either totally shocked or majorly excited.
Stephanie McMahon was now the new General Manager of Monday Night Raw.
Not sure if I could make this a one-shot or expand on it. As always, let me know what you think. Please R&R! :)
