I know this one isn't very long but…the story has finally come to an end. I hope you enjoy and I am so sorry it has taken so so long to finish this one.

3 months later

Paul sat at the edge of his bed looking down at his hands. Today was the trial and he wasn't sure how he was going to get through the day. Staring down at his hands nervously picking at his nails he allowed his mind to wonder back to what had happened three months prior.

Paul ran into the emergency room carrying Stephanie in his arms both covered in blood. He ran over to the nurse behind the desk and stammered. "I need a doctor, my girlfriend she's. She's been jumped."

"We can help you sir," An older man in blue scrubs said seeing Paul with Stephanie in his arms. "Follow me,"

"Thanks," Paul said following the man. "It's okay baby, we're going to take care of you." Paul whispered to Stephanie as she groaned in pain as he lay her down on the stretcher that the doctor had pointed at.

"We'll take it from here," The doctor said calling a couple of nurses over as they wheeled her into a room shoving him back as he tried to follow.

"But I…I need to be with her."

"You have to wait out here sir." A blonde haired nurse replied sternly shutting the door in his face.

Paul fell into a chair beside the door and put his face in his hands. He didn't know what he should do, but he could barely breathe right now thinking about Stephanie and how she was doing. He couldn't believe that Brit would do something like this. He knew that she had had a jealousy problem but he never thought she would stoop to this level.

His thoughts were interrupted as a young nurse walked up to him. "How is she?" He asked standing up and getting right in her face.

"We're doing all we can, she might have some internal injuries. We need to get some information from you to find out what happened, and her emergency contact information, are you her husband?"

"No, she's my girlfriend; I can call her parents myself."

"Do you know what happened to her?"

"She was jumped, by my ex-girlfriend I think, I got a call from her telling me she had a surprise for me outside and when I got out there I found Steph lying in the backseat of her car all bloody and…" Paul stopped his voice breaking as his eyes filled with tears.

"Okay, well we'll let you know if anything changes sir, you probably want to contact her family because I'm really not allowed to share anything with you."

"What you mean you can't share anything with me? She's my everything, I love her."

"I realize that sir, but it's the law so please call her parents." She replied before walking back through the door and leaving him on his own once again.

Half an hour later Vince and Linda ran into the emergency room and over to Paul who stood as he spotted them. Linda took in the blood on his t-shirt and her eyes filled with tears, her hand going to her mouth as she let out a moan. "Where is she?"

"They took her back, they won't let me see her or tell me anything I…"

"What in the hell happened?" Vince bellowed shoving Paul back into the wall. "What did you do to my daughter?! I knew this would be a mistake I never should of allowed you two to…this is all your fault!"

"Vince Stop!" Linda exclaimed stepping between the two men. "This isn't helping our daughter, our little girl is in the hospital and I can't find out why with you trying to kill Paul,"

"Fine," Vince bellowed stepping back.

"I got a call from Brit, my ex, telling me to look outside because she left me a little surprise. When I got out there Steph was in the backseat of her car covered in blood and all beat up…"

"Mr. and Mrs. McMahon?" The doctor asked as he walked over.

"Yes," Vince replied turning to the man. "How is my daughter?"

"Well her injuries are pretty severe and she has some internal bleeding. She's stable for now but we need to do surgery as soon as possible so we need your consent for that. Her nose was broken, and she might have some damage to her right eye as well as a broken wrist."

"Surgery?" Linda cried wrapping an arm around her husband.

"Yes ma'am," The older man said gently placing a hand on her shoulder. "We need you to sign this form giving us permission to go ahead with the surgery."

Vince numbly reached out and signed as the doctor turned and walked away. He fell into a chair beside his wife not believing what was happening to his daughter, his baby was going into surgery and for once he couldn't fix this.

A few hours later the doctor walked back over to them. "How is she?" Linda asked.

"There was a complication and we did everything we could…"

"Oh my god!" Linda cried collapsing against her husband as Paul dropped to his knees his face in his hands as his tears fell. Vince just stood there holding his wife.

Paul stood up from the bed sighing deeply. He hated thinking back to that day and the days that followed. "Are you ready to go babe?"

"Yeah I guess, I'm just not really looking forward to today." She replied coming over to stand in front of him.

He wrapped his arm around her, pulling her into his body. "Everything is going to be just fine,"

"How do you know?"

"Because those girls are going to get exactly what is coming to them for what they did. You are the strongest person I know, you know that right?" He whispered into her ear.

"No, I'm not." Stephanie mumbled into his chest.

"Yes you are Steph," he replied running his hand slowly up and down her back thanking god that she was still here to hold. "You survived what those girls did and you went through hours of surgery and days in the hospital."

"Yeah but…"

"Steph, baby you are and always will be one of the strongest people I know, and not just because of what happened a few months ago," He told her firmly pulling away and looking into her eyes.

"Fine, you win."

"Finally a victory." He yelled throwing his arms in the air.

Stephanie giggled as she turned to walk out of the room and get started on the day ahead; if they didn't leave soon they would be late. Paul grabbed her hand causing her to spin back around and face him. "What are you doing? We have to leave. My parents are…"

"Will you marry me?" He asked dropping to one knee and holding out a ring.

"What?"

"Steph, you're the most important thing…woman in my life and nothing would make me happier. I know I'm going to love you for the rest of my life, hell I fell in love with you the first time I saw you I think, I just couldn't get you out of my head."

"Paul.." Stephanie whispered a tear falling from her eye.

"Please Steph, make me the happiest son of a bitch in the world and marry me?"

"Yes!" She cried throwing her arms around him and knocking the two of them to the floor as she papered his face with kisses, missing his lips until he grabbed her face and pulled her in so that her lips landed on his.

"Oh my god, are we really going to get married?"

Paul laughed as she got off of him and held her hand out to help him to his feet. "Yeah that was the idea Steph,"

"I can't wait to tell my mom and Trish and everyone." Stephanie exclaimed her eyes widening in excitement.

"Don't you want the ring first babe?" Paul chuckled holding the small box in his hand still.

"I forgot about that, when did you get that?"

"When you were at your last doctor appointment, remember I told you I had a meeting and I couldn't go."

"You sneaky, sneaky boy." Stephanie laughed wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing his lips softly.

He laughed as he pulled away and slipped the ring on her finger. Then pulled her back into his arms and kissed her forehead. "I hope those are happy tears."

"You know they are," She sniffled into his chest.

"I can't wait to spend every day of the rest of my life with you Steph," He said rubbing her back and kissing the top of her head before pulling away and grabbing her hand. "You ready to do this?"

"As ready as I'll ever be I guess." She sighed as they made their way out of the bedroom and to the front door.

Three Hours Later

"I am so happy to finally put all of that behind me." Stephanie sighed as she and Paul stepped out of the courthouse and made their way back toward his car.

"I know you are, I am too. They got exactly what they deserved.

"I just can't believe that Beth would help her with something like that. I mean I know we never got along but to allow someone to do that to another human being right in front of you, and then let them basically force you to participate…I know she apologized but…"

"She didn't get as long as Brit and I think that's deserved. She is still young she can grow from this so don't start feeling bad for her or anything." Paul replied stopping her beside his car before she could climb into it.

"I know babe, I just…" She sighed looking down at her hand and smiling a little as she saw the ring. "I don't want to talk about it."

"What do you want to talk about?" Paul smiled noting where her eyes were.

"The rest of our lives."