AN: Sorry that I haven't been able to update but I have been really sick and my computer has been messed up. Try and keep up from now on.

Chapter 10

Hunter took a deep breath as he held a terrified Stephanie in his arms. He stroked her hair away from her face and looked at the men standing at the top of the ramp. He glanced over at Shane who was holding onto his mother and could tell that he was just as shocked as he was.

" Are you okay?" Hunter asked Stephanie as the men went behind the curtain, leaving everyone alone in the ring.

" Yeah." Stephanie nodded slowly, feeling intense pain. Her battered body had taken way to many beatings in the short amount of time. It needed to recover and soon because she was afraid she was going to have permanent damage. " Are you okay?" Stephanie asked seeing the dark circles under his eyes.

" I will be as soon as we get you to a hospital and find a doctor not on your fathers payroll. I am gonna keep you safe Steph, I swear it." Hunter said as he kissed her temple.

" I believe you." Stephanie said trying to smile but failing miserably.

Vince stared at his new team that had been assembled and he grinned happily. This was exactly what he had wanted from the start and now he had it. He looked at the monitor that showed Hunter cradling Stephanie in his arms as if he were afraid to let her go. Well that was just fine with him, as long as he realized what he was getting himself into. Smirking he looked at Sable who was filing her nails and glancing occasionally at the monitor, he could tell her focus was on Shane and Linda. Vince knew Sable hated Linda with a passion and he was trying to think of a way that he could help her get over that hatred and please her at the same time.

" You want to wrestle her don't you?" Vince asked softly.

" Yup." Sable said nodding her head fast.

" Well Linda has just as much power as I do so it might be impossible for me to get her into a match with you." Vince said sighing as he looked back at the monitor to see Shane lifting his mother up gently.

" Well you can figure it out. You have always found a way to get what you want so why would now be any different?" Sable asked with a grin.

" It wont be. I am just warning you it might be next to impossible to get her to agree to a match." Vince said shrugging his shoulders and then looking down, trying to think of a way he could get his wife to wrestle Sable.

Stephanie sat in the hospital bed with an angry look. She hated hospitals almost as much as she hated her father at this moment. She looked over and saw Paul sitting there looking at her with a worried look. " Paul I'm not gonna sneak out of this hospital as much as I want to. I promised you I would stay here so you could go be Triple H without worrying about me." She said with a sigh as she rolled her eyes at him.

" It's not like I want to go and be Triple H, Stephanie." Paul said crossing his arms in front of him. " It's just I don't have much of a choice on the matter."

" I know that and I'm sorry if I offended you a few minutes ago." Stephanie said with a sigh. "I'm just tired of everyone thinking I can't take care of myself."

" I know but look at your condition Steph. We just wanna make sure that nothing really bad happens. Look I need to go and deal with this whole betrayal situation and stuff and I want to check on Brock and see how he's doing." Paul said getting to his feet. " Try not to give the doctors anymore grief all right?"

" Yeah whatever." Stephanie muttered as she watched him leave the room. She didn't mean to be rude to him it was just that she was tired of being hurt and she was feeling really bad for what happened to her mom. She leaned into the pillows behind her and looked at the blank television screen. She hated the fact that Paul had been betrayed by someone he felt so close to and she felt it was all her fault. She heard the door open and figured it was probably her brother. She turned her head towards the door and her eyes widened. " What do you want?"

" Well I came to see how you were doing." He said as he walked over to the bed and sat in the chair next to it.

" You better get out of here before Paul gets back and sees you." Stephanie said not sure at all whether Paul was coming back tonight or not.

" Nice try Steph but I think visiting hours are almost over and he is spending the last of them with Brock." The man said rolling his eyes.

" How could you do this to him? You were his best friend." Stephanie said shaking her head in disgust. " He trusted you with everything."

" Yeah well he never asked me what I wanted Stephanie. Never once in our entire friendship was he there for me." The man snarled angrily.

Stephanie realized she needed to keep him calm otherwise he might attack her and she would be helpless against him. " Look I'm sure he didn't mean to dismiss you if that's what he did. I don't think he realized how you felt."

" Nice try but you can't make me believe that anymore. I used to think that he would one day see the light but he didn't. Not even after I told him I wanted a chance to be with you. He laughed in my face and told me that was a good joke. Said he fell in love with you and that he had better have been a joke." The man said remembering their conversation. " I couldn't believe he would be that stupid, to fall in love with a bitch like you but apparently he did."

" Look you should just leave now while you can." Stephanie said taking a deep breath.

" Well maybe I don't feel like leaving just yet. I'll leave when I want to." The man said as he reached out to grab Stephanie.

She saw the hand come out of nowhere to slam into the man as he fell on top of her and then she promptly passed out from fear.

AN: Who is the mystery man and who betrayed Triple H.. .Find out next chapter.