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"Yeah, Kate. Did you like me?" Shane asked grinning intentionally using her old nickname.
"You, cocky self-made son of a bitch" is what she wanted to reply but Brandon would hear, and that would be setting a bad example.
"Of course, I did. Who didn't like you, back then?" Kathleen replied stressing the last two words.
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Vince coughed to disguise his chuckle. Linda glared unladylike at her husband. Both Shane and Kathleen jumped for they had not noticed that the door had opened or his parents at the door. Brandon's eyes lit up and he started reaching for Vince. Unlike Shane had earlier, Kathleen quickly handed the child over.
"Good morning, Katie, Shane." Vince stepped back
"Good morning, Vince." Kathleen replied.
"Dad"
"Kathleen. Shane, where is Marissa?"
"Mrs. McMahon." Kathleen greeted.
"Mom." Shane greeted her but with a hint of a warning in his tone. Vince acknowledged the warning by getting both Brandon and Kathleen away from the upcoming argument.
"Kathleen, I have a few comments on where the tag team division is going. If you wouldn't mind."
"No, no, not at all. I have some comments as well." Kathleen replied following Vince and Brandon up the curved staircase. Shane closed the door before turning to face his mother.
"Mom, why must you bait her?" Shane quietly said watching Kathleen follow his father and son upstairs to his father's study.
"I have no clue on to who your talking about." Linda replied cooly.
"Kate."
"Kate?" Linda raised a thin pale eyebrow in interest. "So, it's true." Linda turned and started to walk across the foyer to the door which would lead to the kitchen.
"What's true?" He asked. She paused. He walked to her side. She did not turn but kept her gaze on the door mere yards away.
"That you're still sleeping with darling Kate."
"Don't talk about her like that. And no I'm not sleeping with Kate, as if it is any of your business." He said bluntly. She turned her head to look at him.
"I think it is my business. You're married to my best friend's daughter."
"You've conveniently forgotten that Ms. Laura, Kathleen's mother is your best friend. Not to mention that Kathleen is your goddaughter."
"No, I haven't forgotten. Laura shares the same opinion as me about Kate. I'm not the one that has forgotten that Kathleen is my goddaughter. You have."
"What's your and her mother's opinion of Kate?"
"You need to stay away from each other because if you don't your marriages will crumble, if they aren't already."
"Do you know something that I don't?"
"You, my son, know something that I'm not suppose to. When was the last time you saw Jess Marie. She's growing into such a pretty little girl. She asks about you every time she's here."
"Last Monday."
"Monday? She's traveling with Kathleen?"
"Yes. It's that or leave her with Jason."
"As she has today?"
"I don't know. It's none of my business."
"But that doesn't stop you from knowing. Now does it?" Linda asked. Shane bit his tongue out of respect for her. She was getting to nosey for his sanity. Linda slightly shook her head before continuing to her destination; the kitchen.
Shane stood there glaring at the door his mother went through for a few minutes before he heard a familiar voice calling him from the stair case.
"Shane?" Shane turned around and watched Kathleen walk down the staircase. "What's wrong?" She asked stepping down from the last step.
"My–" He stopped in mid sentence when he noticed his father walking down the stairs, as well. "We'll talk later."
"Shane you didn't need to wait on me." Vince said successfully hiding that he wanted to grin but his eyes gave him away.
"I wasn't. I was waiting on," Shane hesitated very briefly before continuing. "Brandon. Where is he?"
"He fell asleep while we were talking so I laid him down to sleep in your old room. Is that okay?" Kathleen replied as she looked from Shane to Vince and back.
"He was up when I got home this morning. So yeah, it's fine."
"Excuse me." Kathleen said as she walked away to the door that Linda had exited through minutes before. Shane followed her every step with his eyes. The door closed. Vince clasped a hand on Shane's shoulder. Shane looked at him inquisitively.
"So, how's your jaw?" Vince asked letting his grin slightly show on his facial features.
"My jaw?" Shane asked confused.
"Nothing. Where is Marissa?" Vince asked genuinely curious. Marissa hadn't missed a family gathering since Brandon was born.
"Visiting her cousin." Shane replied.
"Lets not let the ladies waiting."
"Paul's not here?"
"He's here." Vince smiled at his own joke. Shane shook his head in disbelief.
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Brunch was uneventful other than Brandon throwing a quarter of a biscuit at Shane. Vince and Shane walked in to the kitchen as Stephanie was kneading cookie dough. Linda was taking an urgent phone call from Sacred Heart University in her study. Paul sat at the mini bar. Vince sat on one side of him and Shane on the other. Kathleen was no where to be seen; she had recieved a call from her mother. Brandon was sitting on the floor playing with a Fisher Price truck; every once and a while making a noise.
"Have either of you noticed any thing off about Kathleen?" Paul asked Shane and Vince. Stephanie briefly stopped kneading the cookie dough as she looked pointedly at Shane warning him not to say a cross word. She then went back to kneading the dough as if she didn't stop.
"No, well, she's distant but she's stressed out about the tag team division." Vince replied. "Why? Is she okay?"
Stephanie rolled the cookie dough into small balls as she placed them on a cookie sheet.
"She's been acting strange for a while now. Before there was any decision to try to expand the division."
"It's Jason." Shane spoke as he popped a mint in his mouth. Stephanie looked up curious to how much Shane knew. As far as she knew, he and Kathleen hadn't been on good terms for at least a year.
"Jason?" Paul said taken aback. He had been braced for almost anything but that. His sister loved Jason deeply and Jason loved her. They had the perfect marriage other than the fact that Jason was hesitant when it came to being a father.
"Paul don't listen to him. He hates Jason. If I got a paper cut then he would blame it on Jason. And for now on if you have any questions about me kindly direct them to me." Kathleen spoke as she entered the kitchen she had taken a call from her mother. "Vince, Linda would like to talk to you." Vince stood up and exited the kitchen. "Steph, would like some help?"
"Sure. Is Jessica okay?"
"As okay as she's going to be with my mother."
"You two still haven't reconciled?" Paul asked somewhat amazed that she would let someone that she didn't trust keep his niece for a night let alone a weekend.
"Sort of. We'll never have the same relationship we had but I understand why she chose him but that doesn't mean that I have to accept it. She taught me that a woman has to do what ever it takes to survive in a man's world but I will never choose a man over my children."
"Children?" Paul choked on the sip of water that he had just taken before she said children.
"Yes. Children." She did not look up as she continued to roll the cookie dough into a ball before placing it on a cookie sheet. Paul and Shane stared at her. Stephanie dropped the ball of cookie dough that she had just made onto the counter.
"Are you pregnant?" Stephanie asked shocked.
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I only own the Original Character Kathleen, Jason Devereau, Kathleen's mother, and Kathleen's stepfathers (s). The original character Jessica is partly owned by Kentuckygirl4039 and me; I've tweaked the little girl's personality a little bit.
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