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Summary: As he goes from his old persona into a new one at the head offices bidding, Shane Helms reflects on the one that got away and just what in the world he can do to get her back.

Distribution List: WWE Fan Fiction Library – Open and Selected Archive, Fan Fiction (DOT) Net, and my own personal site when I get around to updating the damn thing.

All I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

"Do you have a second?" Trish said, popping her head into the locker room and seeing Shane lacing up the tale end of his boots, almost ready for action. She had taken a chance coming here, but she knew that the tabloids surely had been seen by Stacy and that Shane had probably gotten an earful. At the very least Trish was certain no one else knew about the baby but she also knew that it was time that one certain person should.

"For you anything." Shane commented, not bothering to look up from the task at hand and just figuring that Trish would say what she was there to say regardless of if he watched her or not.

"I saw the magazine Shane, I know what you said about Stacy. I guess I felt the need to talk to you because I want to know why you said it."

He looked up then, looking the Diva directly in the eyes. Sometimes he loved this woman, he thought she was one of the best women around, but right now, he didn't really want to hear what an ass he was for saying what he said about Stacy, all he wanted to do was forget that he had said it.

"Why do you think I said it?" he snapped angrily.

"Because she hurt you when she walked away. I know all of that already Shane but there is something more going on with her then what she is telling you."

Shane watched the young woman before him now and the light bulb went off in his head. There was a reason none of the other women knew what was going on with Stacy and that was because she didn't trust any of them. The only person on the entire roster the entire time they had been together that Stacy had talked about was Trish. So maybe she did know what Stacy was doing and just what she hoped to accomplish by doing it.

"What is she hiding?"

Trish felt an attack of nerves come over her. She hadn't even talked to her husband about this, taking Stacy's request to heart but she just didn't know how much longer she could go on lying to everyone around her about what was going on with Stacy. It was time that Shane knew that there was a baby involved. No one knew that better then Trish as she was pregnant as well and knew how happy Jeff was about it.

She also knew that she just couldn't come right out and tell him what was going on, not without a hell of a lot of questions that at the moment she did not have the answers too. She wanted him to figure it out for himself and she only hoped that he could do it and do it fast. Before she smacked him over the head with the news of his being a father.

"Why do you think she would run from you Shane? What indication has she given you?"

He thought about it for a mere second and shot the answer back to Trish without a blink of an eye.

"She said to me that we were on two different paths and that what I wanted was different from what she wanted. Apparently she can get that elsewhere in Hollywood."

"Why do you think she would say that Shane? I mean tell me why you think you two would be on different paths."

He shrugged his shoulders then, letting Trish know that for all the brain racking he had done, he hadn't come up with a reason for that to be the reason they broke it off.

"I told her you wanted to marry her, so she now knows that for that you were on the same page but there is more to this Shane, a lot more and it involves more then the two of you."

He thought about what Trish was telling him for a few minutes, letting it all sink in and take its affect. She then saw the change come over his face, and the light that normally filled his eyes grew dim. He finally knew the real reason she had run from him.

"She was pregnant wasn't she?"

Trish just nodded, almost not trusting herself to say the words because if she did, then the confidence that Stacy had given her would be broken, never to be repaired again. She knew she shouldn't be here, getting involved this way but there were just some things you didn't hide from the people you loved. A baby was a pretty damn big one not too.

"How long have you known?"

"Two weeks and she told me not to tell you, or Jeff for that matter. I don't know what possessed me to come here and do just that but Shane I know you love her, and I know what you said in that rag meant nothing and she knows it deep down too. She also knows deep down that she left you for the wrong reasons but her pride won't let her admit it. She still believes that you are better off not knowing you have a child."

He looked at the clock and then back to Trish. He had a match to get prepped for in mere minutes but he found himself wanting to run out of the arena and right back to Stacy's arms, to let her know that she had made a mistake, that he had made one too and that he wouldn't let her leave him ever again. So much for being mentally ready for the wrestling match.

"What do I do here Trish?"

"Get her to admit to it, and then go from there. Make her see that what you want and what she wants are the same things. It worked with me and Jeff and I know with some time and a lot of talking it can work for you too."