Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE superstars and this is purely a work of fiction meant for entertainment purposes.

Summary: It is three years after they pledged their love to one another. Trish is pregnant with their second child..when disaster takes place. Can their love withstand this much pain?

Additional Information: Book 5 in the Love United Series.

Authors Note: This is the much anticipated next chapter to this continuing saga that I have spent the last two years writing and enjoying every minute of. For those of you that have been waiting for this, please go back and read over chapter two again, because I did retool the very end of the chapter so that I could start the story and make sense of it. Now on with the show as they say. As always read and review and let me know what you think, its much appreciated.


After Jeff was sure that Stacy was no longer around them, having gone off on her own to comprehend why God would take Trish and Shawn's baby boy away from them, he tapped his brother on the arm, breaking Matt away from the place he had been, a million miles away.

"Now that she's not here to fully understand what you were getting at earlier, I want you to tell me just what the hell is going on here big brother. You know why they lost that baby, and why we need to save their relationship from falling apart and its more then just a normal act. So tell me what you know."

Matt looked at his brother, their eyes meeting and not even breaking for a seconds blink. Matt did indeed know what was going to play out, but was now the time to tell his little brother what he knew? Knowing how Jeff was beginning to feel and also how he felt inside about it, well he just wasn't sure telling them both was the smartest thing at the moment. But he also knew Jeff wouldn't give up without a fight. This really was a no win situation.

"Jeff their baby was taken so that Paul could get what he needs and wants."

"What does Shawn and Trish and their baby have to do with Paul?" Jeff asked but the minute the words came Matt saw the expression change on his face. He know understood what was going on and why God had taken that little baby away before its time. It had nothing to do with the couple and everything to do with creating order and love in someones life that had been seriously without it for a long period of time.

"He is sending Stacy back?"

Matt nodded his head, but knew that there was more to explain to his brother to make him understand just what was going to take place and when. Could Jeff really comprehend all of this and not lose his heart and soul in the process? He found he was having a hard enough time staying logical about it and he wasn't the emotional brother normally.

"There's more to it Jeff but yes, Stacy doesn't have much more time with us. She is only with us to make sure we keep Shawn and Trish together through this crisis, and if we succeed in that, then she is going back. The higher power believes that its time."

"She's dead Matt, how the hell is she going to go back and be able to be with Paul again?"

"If I knew all of the answers don't you think I would have told you both sooner then this? I don't get it all yet Jeff, I just know what I've been told, what I am supposed to handle and what I need to succeed in."

"And that is exactly what?" his younger brother asked, the tears that normally would have come playing at the corner of his eyes. Matt wasn't sure if it was because he was about to lose Stacy or because he knew the only way to keep her there with them was to break Trish and Shawn up for good.

"We have to, and I mean have to keep that couple together, despite losing this baby and despite the pain that is going to come after it. Even if Stacy wasn't going to be sent back to Earth, we would have to do it, because it is the right thing to do. The baby, because it was as far along as it was, can be used to give a sick woman in the hospital a chance at a real life, and that person will be Stacy, in spirit anyway because she is slated to be sent here to heaven."

"She is already in heaven you idiot, we want to keep her here."

Matt took a deep breath and held unto his brothers arm as tightly as he could, trying to keep him steady so he could explain everything to Jeff in a way that he might understand.

"What I am trying to tell you Jeff, is that Trish's baby is going to be used to heal the sick womans body, but not her heart. So the lady will pass on and join the rest of us here on the other side. Stacy will take over her body before they realize she has passed on. Are you following me now?"

Jeff nodded and Matt noticed the tear start to fall. They had been through this before, the way they both were starting to feel about Stacy, having finally given up on Amy and on Beth. They both understood they would never go back, and while they had accepted that fact willingly, it didn't stop either brother from caring any less that they were losing Stacy after coming to care for her through their time together on the other side.

"It hasn't happened yet, and we have a lot of time before it will, and in that time we will tell her what the plans are. But not yet, so please, while you know now, you cannot let on in any way that you do. Which is why we need to put our entire hearts and our entire focus into making Trish and Shawn stay together. This has to be as smooth as possible for everyone. Can you do that?"

It took awhile before Jeff could answer, but when he did, Matt knew it was with a heavy heart.

"I'll do it, but Matt, don't hold it against me that I won't help you take her away from us."