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Title: What Now

Pairings: HBK/HHH or HHH/Stephanie HBK/Shane

Summary: Triple H is engaged to Stephanie McMahon but he is slowly gaining feelings for the Heartbreak kid Shawn Michaels and he is torn between the man he loves and the woman he has to learn to love.

Chapter 35

As they saw Doctor Jesse beginning to walk over to them they al stood up, and looked at him dead in the eyes. He had a depressed and sad look on his face. They all knew that couldn't be good.

"Is he alive?" Triple h asked.

"Yes, but we had to transport him into an emergency surgery. He went into Cardiac arrest again, that's why the heart monitor stopped the way it did, but there's a chance that if he survives the surgery he won't wake up if we have to put him in a coma…"

"So, you have to put Shawn in a coma?" Stephanie asked.

"Only if he does survive the surgery, he might still die." Doctor Jesse said.

"Don't we have some kind of say in this?" Shane asked.

"Well usually that would go to the parent's or a family member, but since none seem to be here, then it's going to have to be up to all of you." Doctor Jesse said as he looked into Shawn's charts.

They had no idea what to do, why did they have to make that decision? It didn't seem right.

"You don't have to make the decision now, he might not even make it through the surgery, and he might not even have to be put in a coma, he might wake up and get better, but that's a very small possibility." Doctor Jesse said.

"So, we don't have to make that decision now?" Triple h asked.

"Nope," Doctor Jesse said.

"How long do we have before we have to make that decision?" John asked.

"Well, first he has to survive the surgery, if he survives then we'll have to determine whether or not he will have to be put into the coma, and then if so, then maybe 4 days, that's how long he'll be able to survive without the coma, or he'll die."

"Can you just get back to us on that? We all need some time, we can't just make a decision like this." Vince said.

"You might not have to." Doctor Jesses said sadly, he then walked away sadly.

Everyone sat back down on the seats in the waiting room, and they waited for about an hour before Shawn's doctor came out again, he had Shawn's chart still in his hands.

"He survived the surgery, but he will have to be put into the coma…" Doctor Jesse said, when no one said another word, he began to walk away. "…you have four days."

They all looked at each other and could clearly see that not one person in that room knew what to do, putting him in a coma would just be dumb. They'll just be making him cling to the planet for longer than he needs to, and if they do put him in the coma and he never wakes up, then they'll have to pull the plug and let him die. That would be on their conscious forever.

After spending another half an hour talking to some of the nurses about Shawn's condition, they all left the hospital, all of them splitting them selves up, knowing that they all pretty much had a say in this whole decision. Stephanie went back home to go spend time with her daughter and her newborn son. Vince decided to try and focus on the show, even though he knew it wouldn't work to take his mind off Shawn; he was willing to do anything. Big Show and John left together, they went back on the road with everyone else, and they decided they were going to ask everyone what they thought, As for Shane and triple H, well they went home.

Triple H arrived home a couple of hours after they had left the hospital, and he had been home for about two days, time was winding down and still no one knew what they were going to do. He knew that they only had a day to decide, whether he was going to die, or if they were going to stick him in a coma and hope that he wakes up.

Triple H wished Shawn would just wake up; he wished he had one more day with him. To hold him close and kiss him and hug him, make him feel like the most beautiful person in the world, making his life better. He knew he had so many chances to tell Shawn how he felt, but he never did because he was a coward. He had a huge chance to make Shawn's last days meaningful, but he didn't, he just made them sad for him.

Triple H walked into his room, looking around. He knew that Shawn had slept in this room many times. Usually he didn't want to go home, to his brothers and sisters, so he stayed with Triple H a lot and some how managed to kick him out of his room each and every time. Triple H loved how resilient his best friend was, and he loved him to death for it.

Triple H pulled open a small drawer that resided in his room, in it were 3 pictures, one was of Shawn and Triple H when they were celebrating both of their birthdays at the same time, since they were only born like 5 days apart, it was Triple H's 35th birthday and Shawn's 39th. They had so much fun on that day; they decided to celebrate their birthdays together, with absolutely no other person there. The next picture was of Shawn and Triple H's daughter, when he first met her. Triple h loved this one the most because he loved Shawn and his daughter more than anything in the whole wide world. The last one was of Shawn by himself; Triple H had left this one at the very bottom, he didn't want anyone but himself looking at it. Shawn looked like so lovely in that picture, his hair was darker in it because it was moist; he had just gotten out of the shower, he had clothes on though, but his hair was moist. He was wearing a light blue shirt and you couldn't see the pants that he was wearing because it was only an upper body shot. He had one of his big innocent smiles on his face. Hs eyes curved down, like they always did when Shawn smiled, it made him look lazy eyes, but it was a really cute lazy eyed. Triple H had written on it In cursive writing that Shawn was the love of his life and he loved him more than he loved anyone in the whole wide world. How was he able to write down all of his feeling for Shawn, but never worked up the courage to tell him.

Triple H was three seconds from breaking down into a big heap of tears, when he heard a knock on the door. He wiped his eyes, and then he walked down to the stairs of his house. Before he opened the door he took a deep breath, trying to contain his tears. Then he opened the door, seeing that it was Shane, he knew that Shane didn't want to argue with him, and he knew he didn't want to argue with Shane. Shane looked like he was about to cry, just like Triple h was. Triple H stepped away from the entrance to house and allowed Shane to walk in. Shane walked inside with a sad smile on his face. He sat down on Triple H's couch, Triple H sat down beside.

"Did you come up with a decision yet?" Shane asked.

Triple H shook his head. "Nope, how about you?" Triple H asked.

"I don't know either, but I do want to see Shawn one more time… The doctors called me and told me that we have to make the decision today, they said their were complications and if we don't decided by today then he will surely die but tomorrow morning, this time there are no might's, he will die." Shane said sadly.

Triple H was shocked at first, but he didn't show it. He only looked at Shane with a sad look on his face. He decided to refrain from the conversation for a while, maybe they could come up with some kind of decision together.

"Want to know what's really weird about Shawn?" Triple H asked, as he chuckled softly.

Shane looked at Triple H, at first confused, but then he drifted into the conversation as well. "What?"

"Umm… every single year, as he grows, he becomes more beautiful and at the same time more and more innocent. It's really strange, I've never asked Shawn about it because I was afraid that he would take it the wrong way and cry or something like that." Triple H said, as he laughed a little to himself.

"I've noticed that too, maybe, it was because he had to grow up so fast in his twenties and teenage years. Now that he's gotten older, all of those feelings have just caught up with him and he acts like a little vulnerable teenager again." Shane said, as he clenched his hands together.

"I feel so bad for him, his innocence was taken away from him, and after that, for years he was getting his heart broken over and over. He's had such a screwed up life, it can't just end now, not like this. He should be allowed more years of happiness than he ever got." Triple H said.

"Hey, I carry these pictures around with me of Shawn, he had insisted, so I was forced, you want to see my favorite one?" Shane asked, as he pulled out his wallet.

Triple H nodded with a big smile on his face. "Yeah, totally…"

Shane smiled and then he pulled out a picture. And Triple H had to admit, he instantly fell in love with that picture. In this one, his hair was a little bushy, but a cute bushy. He was sleeping; Shane must have taken this picture without Shawn knowledge. His lips were close together, in a pout, and he was wearing silk-like pajamas. He had taken his pillow from hid head and held it close to his body, his entire body curled up in a ball. He looked so perfectly beautiful.

"Doesn't he look great?" Shane asked with a genuine happy smile on his face.

"Yeah, he really does, you want to see one of my favorites?" Triple H asked.

Shane nodded almost excitingly. Triple H got up and ran up stairs to his room, bringing down the same picture that he was looking at earlier in the day. When Shane saw it, his eyes lit up instantly. "Wow, he looks so great! I really want a copy of this picture."

"I'll give you a copy of this if you give me a copy of the one you just showed me…" Tipple H said, a small chuckle escaping his lips.

"Deal…" Shane said as he held out his hand for Triple H to shake.

"Deal." Triple H said simply, shaking Shane's hand.

"… I remember the first time I came to this house, Shawn brought me." Shane said as he looked around the entire living room of the house.

"Yeah, I remember that, it had been Shawn and my tradition to bring all of his boyfriends to my house so that I can thoroughly check them out. We'd go up on the roof and just sit up there in our little beach chairs. It was a whole bunch of fun, even though you and I argued most of the time, Shawn thought of it as amusement." Triple H said as he laughed to himself softly.

"Do you still have that thing set up?" Shane asked.

"Yeah, you want to go see it again?" Triple H asked as he stood up.

Shane nodded, getting up as well. Then they both commenced to the roof of Triple H's house, it was still set up the same way. Shane took his seat on the end of the beach chairs, Triple H sat at the other end, this seat brought back many different memories.

FLASHBACK

Triple H, Shane and Shawn all sat at the beach chairs, they were enjoying burgers and hotdogs, Shane and Triple H also had vodka, and Shawn on the other hand was enjoying a non-alcoholic one. This was about 1 month into Shawn and Shane's relationship.

"So, you see Shane, whenever I start dating someone Hunter always insists that I bring them here so that he can make sure they're the right person for me." Shawn explained.

"Okay, is he trying to scare off all of your boyfriends?" Shane asked.

"That's not my intention; I'm just trying to make sure that Shawn would be as happy as humanly possible. And if I don't think that you're the right guy for that, you're damn right I'll try to sabotage the whole thing." Triple h said, as he took another sip of his vodka.

"But, how would you know if Shawn is happy with anyone or not, he might be happy and you just don't know it." Shane said sarcastically.

Triple H gave Shane a dirty stare, this, mind you, was about 4 weeks after they had first made their bet, so tensions were very high. "I know Shawn better than you know him for sure Shane, and I would know whether he would be happy with someone in the long run or not." Triple H said angrily.

"You guys…" Shawn said in his sweet little innocent voice, they both looked at him. "Shut it!" Shawn said in a harshly evil voice.

"But Shawn, he's acting so condescending to me. He's acting like I don't make you happy…" Shane said, pointing toward Triple H as if he was a little child.

"No I wasn't Shawn, I was only voicing my opinion, you know me… he was trying to basically say that I wasn't a good friend to you." Triple H said, pointing to Shane just as Shane was pointing to him.

"You guys are such kids…" Shawn said with a sigh, and then he turned to Triple H. "Hunter, you're my best friend okay, and a very good one." Shawn said, and then he turned to Shane. "And Shane, you're a great boyfriend and I really like you, and you make me very happy."

"But Shawn…" Triple h was about to whine.

Shawn put his finger up in Hunter's direction as to shut him up.

"Zip it!" Shawn said angrily.

Neither of them said anything for a little while.

Shawn had to break the silence. "Hey you guys, can one of you get me something to eat from downstairs?" Shawn asked.

They both got up almost immediately, running down the stairs in order to get Shawn something to eat, Triple H grabbed a bag of cookies and Shane grabbed a coconut cake. After they both grabbed something from the cabinet, racing back up the stairs to the roof. Both handing him the food items that they had gotten; Shawn smiled at the both of them. Then he sighed.

"Shane… I'm sorry but…. I'm allergic to coconut…" Shawn said sadly.

Shane frowned slightly, and then he looked up at Triple H, who had been silently laughing at him the whole time. Shane then looked back down at Shawn and smiled a little at him, stroking his hair a little, making Triple H very jealous.

"I'm sorry Shawn… I had no idea…" Shane said, as he lightly stroked his hair.

Shawn smiled slightly at him.

"It's okay, at least you know now for future references…" Shawn said, giggling slightly, and then he began to shift a little in the seat. He frowned, as he continued to shift around a little.

"What's wrong?" Triple H asked.

"This chair is uncomfortable…" Shawn said as he continued to shift in it. "Gosh, I wish I had a pillow or something, this thing is really hurting my back for some reason today…" Shawn said with a long sigh.

Both Triple H and Shane looked at each other. Triple H ran down from the roof again while
Shane went into his bag, grabbing a pillow. When Triple H came back up with a pillow for Shawn, he frowned when he saw Shawn and Shane. Shawn had already had a pillow on his lower back and Shane was massaging Shawn's shoulders.

"Oh, thanks for that Hunter, but Shane already got me a pillow…" Shawn said in between moans.

Triple H rolled his eyes, and went and sat down on his chair. About an hour later, they were packing up so that they could all catch the next flight out of Connecticut and get to the city that the next show was going to be in.

"Hey you guys…" Shawn said quietly. Triple H and Shane both turned toward Shawn, with little smiles on their faces, raising their eye brows to him. "Um... I just want to thank you…" Shawn said nervously.

They both looked at him confusingly, and then chuckled. "Thanks? For what?"

Shawn smiled and then began to walk; he walked past the both of them. "I'll tell you later…" Shawn said as he giggled lightly to himself.

Shane and Triple H followed him. "C'mon tell us!"

"No…" Shawn said, still giggling.

"Please Shawn!"

"Sorry you guys!" Shawn said, continuing to laugh at them.

END FLASHBACK

"Wow, we used to compete for Shawn a lot back in the day…" Shane said chuckling lightly.

"Yeah, we did, I'm sure Shawn was never really liked all of our bickering." Triple H said sadly.

".. Do you ever wonder what he was thanking us for?" Shane asked.

"Yeah, I've been planning to ask him the second I remembered that day, but now…" Triple H said with a long sigh.

Neither of them said anything for a while, they were caught up in their thoughts. Then Shane decided to break the silence. "I think we should put Shawn in the coma, even if he doesn't wake up, I can't lose him yet…"

"I can't lose him either… but what would Shawn want us to do if he had any say in this decision?" Triple H asked.

"I don't know…" Shane said distantly.

Eventually they had decided on the coma, even though they still had their doubts. About their decision to place Shawn in his "coma- tic state", they had decided that they wouldn't leave him like that for a long time. They decided on two weeks, or at least Shane and Triple H decided, they hadn't told anyone about it because they knew that no one else, other than probably Vince, knew Shawn well enough to know that he probably wouldn't want to have to cling onto life for too long just for him to die anyways. Anyways, the next couple of weeks were very stressful, for everyone. They were in and out of towns, having to go to RAW and on some occasions ECW, not to mention house show, it made it difficult for them to go and talk to Shawn. The nurses said that talking to him could probably help him out a little, if he knew he had people to come back to. So every time they got the opportunity they would fly out to the hospital he was in and talk to him and laughing with him as if he was actually conscious.

One day, they all sat around in an hotel room, when I say all of them I mean Triple H, Shane, John, Big show, Edge and Shelton Benjamin. They all sat there with a slump, waiting by their cell phones for the hospital to call with some kind of news on Shawn, this was there usual thing since they had stuck Shawn in that coma.

John sighed, bored out of his mind. "Who is the hospital going to call if there's any change with Shawn anyways, I don't remember giving them my number." John said.

"You make a good point Cena…" Edge commented.

"Shut up, we weren't even there." Shelton said.

"Whatever…" Edge said. Then he turned over to Triple H and Shane, who were silently talking to each other. "What are you guys talking about?"

They turned to them with frowns on their faces. "We've been talking about maybe taking Shawn out of the coma." Shane said.

"What?" John asked, confusion in his voice.

"We can't leave him like he is; you know Shawn wouldn't want that." Triple H said.

"But it's keeping him alive, isn't it?" Edge asked.

"Yes, but… I don't know, if he doesn't wake up soon we're going to have to kill him--"Triple H said. Just the Shane's phone rang, he looked down at it and saw that it was the hospital in Denver calling.

Shane looked up at everyone. "It's the hospital." Shane said.

"Hurry up and answer it!" Big Show yelled.

HEY GUYS

Sorry for being so slow with this, I haven't been feeling great at all.

But, there aren't many chapters left to this story, I wanted you guys to know that.