A/N: Wow! First off, thank you so so much, DCFanatic4life and TakerTakeMe! Your reviews made my day! I was worried that no one else was still reading this story. Thank you for still reading and taking the time out to let me know! Secondly, this chapter would have been posted sooner, but I was having login issues so it had to wait until now. Thanks for the patience - hopefully I'm back in it for the long haul this time! So now, without further ado, I present the next chapter of Gone...

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6:00 Bret smiled with satisfaction at the reaction on Shawn's face. He wanted Shawn to know that there was nowhere to go this time – no Vince McMahon to hide behind, no fans to tell him that he was in the right. But more than that, he wanted Shawn to know that he was in complete control of this situation and he wanted Shawn to pay for everything he had ever done to him, not just Survivor Series '97. Bret turned back to Randy.

"Excellent work, Randy." He said to him. Randy nodded. Without warning, Bret pulled a gun out of his coat and turned to shoot Snitsky.

"Hey!" Randy shouted as Snitsky fell to the ground with a bullet hole in his head. "What do you think you're doing?!" He screamed. Bret ignored him and turned the opposite direction, shooting Paul Heyman in the back as he was running from the room. Randy looked at Bret, appalled.

"What in the hell is wrong with you?" Randy asked him through gritted teeth. "Those two were my men. I need them!" Bret shook his head at him as he holstered his gun.

"No you don't." He said calmly. "Those two were lying to you. I have it on good authority that they were leaking information to someone on the outside. They were making plans to have us all arrested." Randy took a step back, looking back over to Paul's body.

"You don't seem as surprised as I thought you might be." Bret commented. Randy looked at him again.

"When you're working with a bunch of people who already have a reputation for screwing people over, it's not very surprising to find out that they were planning to do the same to you." He said.

"You two." Bret said, pointing at Ted and Cody. "You better make sure you're on the right side, because if I hear even a whisper that something is wrong, I'll kill both of you without so much as a second thought, just like I did to these two." He said. Ted and Cody nodded slowly. "Now, get these bodies out of here and put them somewhere where they're not going to be discovered easily." Ted and Cody each walked over to get Snitsky and Heyman and drag them from the room. Bret turned back to Randy. "We need to get moving."

"What are you talking about? I haven't even started on Irvine yet!" Randy yelled.

"If you don't listen to what I'm telling you, you won't get the chance to." Bret said. "Paul and Gene were working against you. The police know the location of this building and they are ready to raid this place by seven. So, if you want even a snowball's chance in hell of keeping your freedom and getting your revenge, I think it's time you start listening to me." Bret turned back to Shawn for a second, who hadn't moved since the whole situation had begun.

"What was Stephanie's role in all of this?" Bret asked Randy, not taking his eyes off of Shawn. Shawn looked at him.

"Paul wanted the company. We made her a deal to let Ash and her go if she signed the company over to us." Randy explained. Bret nodded.

"That deal is off." He said. "I think we need to make that clear to her." He turned to Randy. "I'm sorry Randy, but even though you brought Shawn to me, you're a little bit sloppy for my taste. Besides that, I can't just let her go." He said, looking at Shawn. "She's far too valuable for that." Randy had to bite his tongue to keep from making a remark. This man had been here barely fifteen minutes and he had already killed two of his people and undermined his plan for revenge.

"You're a son of a bitch, you know that, Bret?" Shawn asked him. Bret smiled.

"Not half as much as you are." Bret said. "Now, where's Stephanie?" He asked.

6:09 Kurt watched as all of the men exited the room, with Shawn in between Randy and Bret. He focused solely on getting the grate off - his mind was too jumbled to think of much else. When he couldn't find a way to loosen it, he kicked the thing out of his way, hoping that no one else was close enough to hear it. He crawled out of the vent and put the grate back on halfway, before turning to find his way out of the main room.

What the hell was Shawn thinking, making a deal with Randy to get rid of Chris? Did Stephanie know anything about this? It was obvious that she was the reason for the deceit. Kurt started to sneak his way through different hallways, peeking in doors to try and find Chris and Stephanie and warn them about the mess that they were in, all the while wondering what the hell he was doing. He wasn't trained for anything like this – hell he didn't even have an escape plan, he just knew that he had to get his friends out of here.

6:14 Chris was sitting with his head in his hands, simply waiting for the time to pass. He had nothing else to do. Stephanie and Ash had just been taken away by Kennedy, no doubt to talk to Randy about their deal – which he hoped that she was going to accept for their son's sake.

When the door opened and closed again, Chris didn't even raise his head, but when someone started shaking his shoulders, he looked up into the very flushed face of Kurt Angle. Chris did a double take.

"Kurt?" Chris asked him incredulously. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"It's a long story. Look, I'm here to get you out of here. Where's Stephanie?" Kurt asked him. Chris shrugged.

"They just took her somewhere." He said. "Kurt, how the hell did you find us?"

"I followed Ash and Randy." He told him, helping Chris to his feet.

"You've been here that long?" Chris asked him, shaking his head. "You're insane, you know that?" He smiled.

"Not half as insane as Shawn." Kurt said. Chris wrinkled his brow at him as his smiled faded.

"What are you talking about?" Chris asked. Kurt looked timid for a moment, wondering if he should say anything to Chris about this. He'd meant to mention it to Stephanie before anyone else, but sometimes his mouth had a mind of its own.

"Shawn's been involved in what's going on today." He said. "He planned with Randy to have you killed." Kurt said. Chris's face was unreadable to Kurt at the moment, and he was glad for it. He didn't quite know how to handle the situation, since he knew that there was already bad blood between Shawn and Chris because of Stephanie. He didn't want to be the reason that it escalated.

"Should have punched that son of a bitch in the face when I had him here." Chris mumbled to himself. He turned to look at Kurt again. "Kurt, I need you to do me a favor."

"Sure, Chris, anything." He said.

"I need you to find Stephanie and Ash and get them the hell out of here." Chris said. "I think that they're going to talk to Randy to put the finishing touches on her deal with Heyman and be released." He said. He looked at Kurt's face and could tell that something wasn't right.

"What's wrong?" Chris asked him.

"Um, I don't think that they're going to be making a deal." Kurt said.

"And why not?" Chris asked him.

"Because Heyman's dead. And Bret doesn't want to let her go. He wants to use her for leverage against Shawn." Kurt said. Chris looked like he had gotten the wind knocked out of him.

"Bret?" Chris asked him quietly. "Bret Hart? Bret Hart is here?!" He asked Kurt. Kurt nodded.

"Yeah, apparently he's the one who wants Shawn for some reason or another." He said. Chris shook his head.

"It's not possible." Chris said.

"Why not?" Kurt asked him.

"Because Bret Hart is dead!" Chris nearly shouted. "I went to the man's funeral! Jesus Christ…." He trailed off. He looked Kurt dead in the eyes.

"Are you sure that you saw what you saw?" He asked him. Kurt nodded.

"I'm positive, Chris." Chris nodded slowly.

"Okay." He said. "I need you to get Stephanie and Ash out of here."

"But, Chris-"

"No buts, Kurt!" Chris interrupted him. "I need you to get her out of here. There's no telling what Bret will do to her if he knows that she and Shawn are together. Not to mention the fact that she's Vince McMahon's daughter and we know how things ended with Bret and Vince." Kurt nodded.

"I don't care how you do it, Kurt, I want you to get them out of here." He told him.

"What about you?" Kurt asked, as he stood by the door.

"I'm gonna be your diversion." He said. "Now, go!" Kurt pulled the door open quickly and poked his head out before finally sneaking back out into the hallway. Chris immediately started looking around the room, trying to figure out a way to cause a scene and get them to come in the room just long enough for Kurt to get Ash and Stephanie out.

6:23 "What the hell is he doing here?" Stephanie asked Randy as she stepped into the room. Bret Hart was already sitting down in the chair that had previously been occupied by Paul Heyman.

"He is my third associate." Randy said to her, as Bret stood up to walk over to them. He stopped in front of her and they simply stared at one another for a moment.

"You have your father's glare." He said to her calmly. "I was sorry to hear about what happened to him." Stephanie scoffed.

"I'm sure you were. Especially considering how close you were." She said to him sarcastically. Bret smirked.

"You sure love to screw those wrestlers, don't you Stephanie?" He asked her. "Especially Irvine. You can't keep away from him, and for some reason he continues to take you back. Hell, I bet that if you would ask him to take you back even now, he would because he's just that pathetic."

"What's your point, Bret?" She asked him.

"My point is that you'd better get comfortable, because you're not going anywhere." He said to her. "Your little deal here? It's off." He said. Stephanie turned to Randy who was avoiding her gaze, and then back to Bret.

"Who put you in charge?" She asked him.

"He did." Bret said, motioning to Randy. "The moment that he let me pay for his way out of prison. Young Randy here knows that he owes me more than he could ever hope to repay in a dozen lifetimes." He leaned in to Stephanie's face. "Which means that I am in charge, and I say that you're not going anywhere, and neither is your son."

At that moment, Kennedy started screaming for someone to come down and help him. Randy wrinkled his brow and opened the door to the room that they were currently in.

"What the hell is going on?" Randy shouted at him as Ted and Cody rushed past.

"Fucking Irvine!" Kennedy shouted at him. Clearly not enough to get a full picture of what was going on, but enough to know that Chris was causing problems. Randy turned back to Bret for a second and then flung the door open and started down the hallway.

"What's going on?" Stephanie shouted. "What's wrong with him?" Bret looked at her for a second before following Randy out, locking the door behind him to keep her from walking out. He walked briskly down the hallway to where Randy, Ted and Cody were now standing.

"What's the problem?" Bret asked them as Randy shoved Kennedy aside. Randy started performing CPR on Chris.

"There was a loud crash from inside the room and when I went in to check on him, he was dangling from the pipe in the ceiling." Kennedy said as Randy started to pound on Chris's chest.

"Damn it, Irvine, you don't get to go your way!" He screamed at him, pounding his fist on Chris's chest. After what felt like an eternity, Chris started to cough. Randy pulled him into a sitting position. Chris tried to push him away, but Randy held him in place.

"You listen to me you son of a bitch." Randy growled at him. "I have sacrificed too much to let you go without seeing you off myself." He paused, taking a deep breath. "Besides, the party's about to get started, you don't want to miss out on that, do you?" He asked him as Chris continued to cough. Randy slapped him on the back and then pointed to Ted.

"You stay in here with him. When he seems like he's done coughing, you tie his hands behind his back and bring Shawn in here with him." He ordered. Bret shook his head.

"Keep Shawn in his own room, we're going to be moving them all here in a moment." Bret said. "Just make sure that he's secure." He said. Ted looked back to Randy, who paused for a moment before finally nodding. Bret turned around and started to walk back down the hallway to Stephanie when he realized that the door that he had locked to keep Stephanie from following was now wide open. He set his jaw as he walked up to it. He walked into the room to find it completely empty and he knew instantly what had just happened.

He turned back around and walked back to the room with Chris. Randy was standing outside the door talking to Kennedy as Bret kicked it in. Ted backed away from Chris as Bret grabbed Chris by the throat and slammed him up against the nearest wall.

"Bret, what the fuck are you doing?" Randy screamed at him.

"Where is Stephanie?" Bret shouted at Chris. Randy looked to Chris, who had a smile growing on his face.

"Don't play games with me, Irvine." Bret warned. "Where is she?"

"Hello Bret." Chris said. Bret turned to Randy.

"Go and get Ash. Bring him to me." Randy turned and motioned for Kennedy to go and find him as Chris continued to smile.

"If your son is still in this building, Chris, there won't be much of a reason for you to still be smiling." Bret warned him.

"Lucky for both of us, he's not." Chris said to him. Kennedy returned to the room empty handed.

"He's right. They're both gone." Kennedy said and Chris's smile widened. Bret clenched Chris's throat tighter and slammed his head against the wall again. Chris's smile faded momentarily, but he regained it again when he focused on Bret once more.

"You can do that all you want, but that's not going to change the fact that they're gone." Chris said to him. Bret punched him square in the face and held him up as he stumbled.

"Maybe not." Bret said to him. "But I can make you tell me where they are and where they're going." Chris matched his gaze.

"I can't tell you what I don't know." Chris said to him simply.

"Somehow I highly doubt that." Bret said, before throwing him back to Ted. "Tie his hands behind his back as tight as you can get them. Get everything packed up, we're leaving in 10 minutes." He ordered before storming out of the room. Randy was left there standing in the doorway, staring at Chris with disbelief.

"You better hope to God that they got away from here." Randy said to him. "Because if he finds them before someone else does, he's going to kill them both and make you watch." Chris looked up at him for a moment and knew that he wasn't trying to bluff. Bret Hart was ruthless in his quest – always had been. Chris just hoped that Kurt had gotten his family as far away from here as he could.

6:54 Kurt was holding on to both Ash and Stephanie's hands as they ran through the forest surrounding the warehouse. He paused for a moment to let them catch their breath.

"Do you think that they know we're missing yet?" Stephanie asked him. Kurt shrugged.

"If they don't they will soon." He said.

"How did you know where to find us?" She asked him.

"I was following you when you went to meet Shawn." He said, shrugging. Stephanie smiled and shook her head at him.

"You were worried about me." She marveled.

"You're my best friend, Stephanie. What else was I supposed to do?" He asked her. She laughed a little at that. "Stephanie, I need to tell you something, though." He said.

"What's that?" She asked him.

"Shawn…" He started. She looked at him.

"Is he okay?" She asked, concerned. Kurt nodded.

"Yeah, he's uh, he's fine." Kurt said. "Look Stephanie, Shawn…well…he was involved in what's happening." Stephanie gave him a look.

"What are you talking about?" She asked him.

"Well, I only know what I heard between him and Randy from the vent." Kurt said, holding his hands up in defense.

"What do you know, Kurt?" She asked him.

"Well…" He said, suddenly unsure if he wanted to tell Stephanie about this.

"Kurt…" She warned.

"He made a deal with Randy to have Chris killed." Kurt blurted. "He wanted Chris out of your life so that he could have you to himself." Stephanie took a step back from him.

"No." She whispered.

"Yes, Stephanie, it's true." He said.

"No." She repeated. "You're lying." Kurt shook his head.

"I promise you, I'm not." Kurt said to her. "I'm sorry Stephanie, but it's true. It came straight out of Shawn's mouth." Stephanie closed her eyes and felt the world start to spin.

"Oh my God," She muttered. "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God." Kurt tried to pull her to him to comfort her. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes.

"What have I done?" She asked him. "God, Kurt, what have I done?" Kurt didn't know how to respond to that, he only knew that they needed to keep moving soon if they were going to remain hidden and away from Bret and Randy.

6:58 "You made a mistake, Stephanie." Kurt said to her. "You're only human." She looked up at him.

"I have to make this one right." She said to him. "I have to make this right before it's too late." She said, trying to pull away from him.

"What are you doing?" He asked her. She looked at him and then to Ash, who was sitting on a log not too far from them.

"Back to the warehouse."

"What?" Kurt asked her. "Why?"

"Because Chris needs to know that he was never in this alone." She said to him. "I need to make this right, Kurt, before I lose him. Randy's not going to wait around." As that sentence left her mouth, they were thrown to the ground by the shock wave of an explosion.

Kurt glanced over his shoulder in the direction that they had just come from to see what was left of the warehouse in flames.

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