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Chapter Thirty-Seven

Four months later…

"Steph, you're going to have to cut your thorough cleaning spree of our master bathroom short. We only have thirty minutes to get to the OBGYN appointment and we still have to drop Aurora off at your parents' house." Paul told his wife after walking into the bathroom where Steph was wiping down the bathroom counter space.

Ever since Levesque had found out about his wife's pregnancy at Christmas, he had made it a point to be a helpful and caring husband. Despite the fact that he was still on the outs with the rest of the McMahon family, he was doing his best to be there for his wife and enjoy the happy time of impending fatherhood for the second time. During the past month or so of her pregnancy, Stephanie had taken to doing routine household chores that would normally be done by their housekeeper. While he found it unnecessary, Paul wasn't about to object to his wife doing work around the house if it made her feel better.

"Is Aurora all ready to go? I'm just about finished in here if you want to get her in the Hummer." Steph replied with a smile. The hand that she wasn't using to clean was holding her extended abdomen.

"All right, honey. Hey babe, you don't have to mess with any of my stuff. It's all neat and organized the way I have it." Levesque said pointing to his shaving kit and hairbrush on the side of his bathroom sink. He had his own order to things and liked it that way.

"I'm not going move anything from its place. I'll be right in the car behind you and Aurora."

Aurora was already dressed and ready to make the trip to Granny and Pop's. Paul had opted to keep the dressing of his twenty-one month old as simple as possible so he had chose to put her in a pink sweat suit. While in the month of April, it was a bit of a chilly morning.

"Aurora, are you sure that you want to bring teddy to Granny and Pop's house?" Levesque asked his small child while walking toward the front door with her holding her hand.

Little Aurora had been holding the pink teddy bear by one of its plush arms but quickly brought it in for a hug when her father mentioned it. Perhaps it was her way of telling her father that she really did want to bring her favorite toy with her. He smiled and shook his head. Paul had finally accepted his daughter's attachment to the stuffed animal. Kids would be kids and there was no sense of him thinking anymore about it. The fact that he was going to be welcoming another child into the family in only four months drove away any of the old insecure feelings he used to have.

Once they were outside, Paul picked his daughter up and walked to the car to save time.

"It's a little sunny out today, why don't you wear these. They go with your outfit." Paul told his little girl and he pulled her small pink sunglasses out of his pocket and put them on her with his free hand.

"Is she all buckled into her car seat?" Stephanie asked meeting her husband in the driveway by his red Hummer. She had her purse hanging from her shoulder while both her hands were instinctively on her baby belly. Touching her ever growing tummy was something she did all the time even without realizing it.

"Yeah she's all set. Is the baby being active today?" Levesque asked with a smile as he approached his wife. Gently he placed his hand on her tummy to try and feel any movement from within. He liked touching her stomach just as much as she did.

"Oh yeah, I can't wait to see the little one on the ultrasound screen." Steph replied as she carefully climbed into the passenger seat of the Hummer. This five month check up with her OBGYN was significant because of the fact that an amniocentesis was being done to verify the unborn baby's health. Despite Stephanie's young age, her doctor had explained to her the need to make sure there were no complications with the forming baby because of Steph's past pregnancy with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Steph was lucky enough to not experience any of the symptoms of the illness with this pregnancy still, her doctor just wanted to be cautious.

Paul decided to wait in the Hummer while Stephanie dropped their child off with her parents. With Steph having such an important obstetrics appointment that morning, it would be best for everyone if he stirred clear of her parents. The last thing that his wife needed was stress because of the obvious tension between her husband and father.

Even though Vince thought very little of Paul these days, he still seemed to be thrilled with his daughter's pregnancy just like his wife. Levesque could be thankful for that at least. It gave him hope that one day he would work himself back into his in-laws good graces. Maybe with his and Stephanie's baby's birth in August, the event would bring the family back together.

"How were your parents doing today?" Paul asked his wife when she got back into the front passenger seat of the Hummer.

"They're fine, happy to see Aurora. Sorry I took so long, Mom wouldn't let me leave without letting her feel the baby kick. She's so excited about the pregnancy."

"Too bad she's not as high on your unborn baby's father." Levesque muttered taking the Hummer out of park. Steph raised her eyebrows and shrugged before turning to look out her window while the Hummer began to back up.

There wasn't much conversation while driving to Stephanie's OBGYN appointment. It had worked out that SmackDown was being taped right in Connecticut so Paul wouldn't have far to travel later that day. He enjoyed attending all of Steph's checkups. Those doctor visits were one of the only times Paul really felt like he and Steph were a couple again.

"Okay, here we go, there's your baby." The doctor said with a smile as she used her free hand to point at the ultrasound screen. The obstetrician was holding the transducer steady to Stephanie's slippery abdomen to give a nice clear picture of the unborn baby.

"Aw my tiny baby, look at it moving its little hands." Steph commented as she watched the screen with a smile.

"Would you and your husband like me to record the ultrasound on a DVD for you?" The doctor asked.

"Yes please." Paul replied not taking his eyes off of the ultrasound monitor. This brought him back to when Steph had been pregnant with Aurora. It seemed like just yesterday they had her and now their little girl was going to be two in July.

Once the ultrasound footage was recorded, the doctor began prepping to do the amniocentesis. While she was setting up, the OBGYN explained to Stephanie and Paul again why it was necessary to go ahead with the procedure do to Stephanie's past pregnancy. Eliminating the unknown would be best for the unborn child's health.

"The baby's healthy though, right? All ten fingers and ten toes?" Paul asked with a slight chuckle which showed his uneasiness.

"Everything looks fine, but the amniocentesis is needed. We just want to make sure that there isn't anything wrong with your child that we can't tell via ultrasound. Now, would you like to know the sex?"

"Yes, we would." Paul quickly replied with a smile as he looked down at his wife. Steph shrugged with a smile and agreed with her husband. It was clear that he really wanted to know if the unborn baby was a boy or a girl.

"Well I can't be positive until the results from the amniocentesis come back but I think you're looking at your baby boy." The doctor said with a smile as she manipulated the transducer so that she could pinpoint exactly where the amniotic sac was located in relationship to Stephanie's abdomen.

"A baby boy…I have son." Paul whispered with a proud smile plastered across his face. He felt a rush of excitement overcome him after hearing that the child his wife was carrying was a son…His son. Finally he had a son to carry on his name and wrestling legacy.

"All right Stephanie, I'm going to need you to stay very still. I'm going to be putting a long needle into your abdomen to collect a sample of the amniotic fluid that's surrounding your baby. So you're going to have to be very still for me even if you feel a little discomfort, okay?" The obstetrician explained while she rubbed an alcohol and iodine solution on Steph's decent sized abdomen.

"Do you want to hold my hand, honey?" Paul offered wanting to support his pregnant wife.

"No I'm okay." Steph replied quickly as she smiled politely at the doctor as she watched the needle come into play.

"Okay, good, stay perfectly still just like you are….Good." The doctor said in a soft soothing voice as the needle punctured Stephanie's abdomen. The OBGYN was using the ultrasound for guidance and the needle went further into Stephanie.

"Oh wow, you need that whole syringe?" Levesque asked watching the syringe fill up with amniotic fluid.

"Yes we do, and you are all done." The doctor said as she slowly and carefully removed the long needle from Stephanie's abdomen. It was clear that the obstetrician had done many of these procedures before because it was completed in mere minutes with very little discomfort which Stephanie appreciated.

"When will we get the results from this?" Steph asked.

"Well normally we would have the results back for you in 7-14 days but because you are one of my preferred patients, Stephanie, I can run it through the lab personally and will have the results for you by tonight."

"That's great, thank you." Stephanie replied with a smile as she placed her hands on the sides of her stomach.

"What I need you to do is have your husband drive you home and then take it easy the rest of the night. I don't want you doing any kind of heavy lifting what so ever, okay?"

"Okay, I understand. Hey Paul, can you go pull the car around to the main entrance while I set up my next appointment and get the ultrasound DVD?" Steph asked looking over at her husband who was still standing by her.

"Sure honey, do you want me to take your purse?" Levesque offered with his arm outstretched.

"No, I'll keep my purse with me. I'll want to get the appointment date in my PDA." Stephanie quickly replied as her eyes shifted to her designer purse that was sitting on a nearby chair.

Paul was quick to leave the doctor's office and walk to where his Hummer was parked in the parking lot. He pulled up to the front entrance of the medical building and waited. As he sat there Levesque couldn't help but remember back to when he had left Stephanie stranded in that very parking lot. Despite all of Stephanie's reasoning, he had refused to accept their unborn baby as his. He had been hell bent on believing his own paranoid theory of the child being Kurt Angle's only to find out that he had been wrong. But it had been too late. Paul didn't believe Steph until after she miscarried. It took the loss of his unborn child for him to accept the truth of being the baby's father. Levesque wasn't going to make that mistake again.

"Okay, I'm all set." Steph told him after she got into the passenger seat and put her purse at her side. It only took her a few minutes to exit the medical building and enter the Hummer.

"Hey Steph, do you want me to stay home tonight? I'm sure Vince would let me miss SmackDown to take care of Aurora while you take it easy." Paul explained as he put the Hummer into drive so that he could pull away from the building's front entrance.

"No it's okay, I already called my mom and she said that she would more than happy to watch Aurora for the night. I'll be fine by myself today. You go ahead to SmackDown. You'll be back later tonight anyway since the show is in Hartford." She replied looking out her window while Paul pulled the Hummer out onto the road.

After taking Stephanie home, Paul was quick to pack his wrestling gear into his black duffle bag like usual. He decided that it would be easiest to just drive his Hummer to Hartford because it was only an hour and a half away from his home in Greenwich. He was thankful that the show was in Connecticut that week so that he could come right home to be with Stephanie when she found out the news about their baby.

"MVP and Matt Hardy over Triple H and Robbie McCallister...." Paul read off the white board which was written in its usual match card format with the winner circled. Of course it was MVP's name that was circled. That left one question, who was going to be jobbing to him? It was probably McCallister. The guy had gotten into hot water by showing up on a TNA Impact show during WrestleMania weekend last month. Obviously, Robbie was the one who was going to do the jobbing for the match.

"Hey McCallister, you're jobbing tonight, right?" Paul asked his scheduled tag team partner who was standing only a few feet away at one of the set up snack tables.

"No you are." He replied walking away from the table and toward Levesque.

"What?"

"Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. I thought I was number one on the WWE shit list but I guess you are. Who knows how long I'm going to have to pay for going to an Impact show. I already lost my five thousand dollar paycheck for WrestleMania and I was drafted to SmackDown. What did you do?" Robbie asked looking confused at the former main eventer as he tugged at his long beard.

He was likely confused as to why the son-in-law of Vince McMahon was being jobbed out on the opening match of SmackDown. Because of McCallister's midcard status within the company, it was obvious that he wasn't hip to the rumors about Paul that were swirling around the locker room.

Levesque brushed it off. He was preoccupied with thinking about Stephanie's pregnancy and the almost certain news of the new baby being a boy. Nothing that happened to Triple H was going to ruin Paul's night. The important thing was that he had his home life in check. His wrestling career would surely fall back into place after. He had been assuring himself this for months but he still had faith. There had been a few wins here and there over course of the past four months. This kept Paul optimistic about working his way back up to his top spot in the company. It was going to happen eventually.

So Triple H took and sold every wrestling move like he was supposed to before laying down for the pin on the canvas. It was clear to him that his job for the last few months, and the next few, was to make build his opponents up and make them look good. This was something he would have never done voluntarily. He had always been very selective of who he was going to put over. He would put over Batista because he was a very charismatic and had the physique but wasn't the best wrestler. He also put over the late Chris Benoit because he had the wrestling skill but not the charisma. In the past, he had the leverage to do this. Surely with time, he would get that privilege back again. He was after all, Stephanie's husband and the King of Kings.

"Hey Shawn, I just wanted to call and tell you the good news. Stephanie's having a boy. I'm having a son!" Paul exclaimed as he held his cell phone to his ear while driving his hummer down the highway homeward bound.

"That's great, buddy, congratulations."

"It is great. A son will guarantee my main event spot again not to mention firm up my legacy by having a son to carry on my name." Paul replied further expounding on his joy and excitement.

"Awe, don't get all hung up on all that. Having a son is no different than having a daughter. Aurora being born was just as important and wonderful. Each child is a blessing." Michaels reminded his friend.

"Well that might be true, Shawn, but trust me, a son is even more of one. Damn, I'm almost in awe of myself. I mean, think of where I was with Stephanie months ago. I had a blatant affair with a hot leggy blonde photographer and I was still able to convince Stephanie that we could still stay together. I revived my marriage and impregnated Steph with a son. And if that wasn't great enough, the word backstage is that Kurt Angle rejected Vince's offer to come back to WWE." Paul said into his cell phone with a huge smile across his face as he listed off the sequence of events from the past half year.

"Well Paul, God forgives those who are truly sorry for their sins. You have a lot to be thankful for."

"Yeah I do, hey I'm going to go. I'm pulling up to the house. Talk to you later, Shawn, bye."

Levesque wasted no time parking the Hummer so that he could enter his house. A fair amount of lights were on in the home including the front porch light which signaled that Steph was expecting and waiting for him to return. There was Stephanie standing at one of the islands in the kitchen. The look on her face told the story. The doctor had called with the results. Paul could tell that she had weighing news on her mind that she was going to share with him. He couldn't wait.

"Well, did you get the test results?" Paul asked anxiously as he let his duffle bag fall to the kitchen for before he moved farther into the kitchen to be closer to his pregnant wife.

"Yes I did. The doctor was right in her assessment. The test concluded that it's a boy." Stephanie said with a hint of a smile forming on her face.

"Yes, that's terrific, honey! I can't wait! I'm so happy! I love you!" Paul replied back with zeal causing all of his words to run together like it was one big run on sentence. It was when Stephanie's small smile faded and she looked away from his loving gaze that his excitement began to dampen.

The sudden disconnected look on his wife's face concerned Paul. His thoughts suddenly turned to the reason for the testing in the first place. The possibility of his unborn child having some kind of a medical abnormality began to set into his thoughts. What if there was something wrong with his son that hadn't shown up on the ultrasounds? What if his baby boy wasn't the perfect offspring he had always wanted? Would he and Stephanie be able to deal with a special needs child? Could their marriage survive that? All these questions began pop into Paul's head before he asked his wife the question that he so feared the answer to.

"Is there something wrong with him?"