Chapter 50

Stephanie was nervous as she sat up and stared out the window of the kitchen. She was sipping some tea and she knew she should be in bed, trying to get some sleep, but she couldn't. She glanced at the clock and saw she had been up for three hours now and it was 2AM. She turned back out and she noticed that there was a car that was sitting there and it looked like someone was sitting inside of it. She noted the license plate to memory and she watched as the person turned and met her eyes and she gasped, dropping the mug into the sink and the smug look the man sent to her had her placing a hand on her abdomen to protect her unborn child and another hand going to her chest, trying to still her racing heart. She heard Paul running through the house and into the kitchen, probably reacting to the broken glass she had dropped but she didn't turn her gaze away.

"Babe, what's the matter?" Paul asked, still half out of it.

"That man…" She said, her voice was shaking as she continued staring at the man who suddenly lifted something from the seat. She saw the glint and when she saw the barrel of the gun, she realized Paul had seen it as well.

"Steph, get down!" Paul shouted as the man fired and the bullet flew into the kitchen.


Shane was pacing back and forth in the lobby of the hospital, not sure who he was more worried about, his little sister or his friend, her husband. He looked over where his mother was sitting, playing with Aurora and his father was pacing in anger. He couldn't believe that Sable would go this far. Stephanie had been conscious when cops had gotten there, after a neighbor had called police. After begging them to protect her little girl, and begging them to call her mother to be with her baby girl, she had told them a license plate and described the shooter to the police who picked him up trying to cross the border into another county. He confessed, singing like a songbird when he learned that the woman he shot was pregnant and he had also shot the man, he knew he was in deep trouble, especially with her still being alive and describing him and his car and license plate right away.

When they had learned Sable had hired him right away, the police had been shocked but Shane had known that, that woman had been capable of doing anything, and now both Stephanie and Paul were fighting to survive after suffering major gunshot wounds, and not only did they have that wound, but the exploding glass had done damage and the major fall to the ground had done it's own damage. No one would know just how bad their injuries would be until after their surgeries and they were stabilized. They had one of their larger, private VIP rooms ready to put the two of them in, together, since they were husband and wife and they figured it would allow them to heal so much faster. They were also aware that the family wanted to be able to keep their daughter in the room with her parents, hoping it would give them the reason to fight and recover much faster.

"What if she lost that baby? Oh they had been through way too much, if she loses that little baby she will never be all right again." Linda said as she stroked some of Aurora's curls behind her ears.

"Stephanie is a fighter, and she lost her first baby, she knows how to fight back from it, but it did nearly destroy her the first time, it might do some damage this time." Shane said with a wince, knowing how it had destroyed Stephanie when Vince had managed to cause the first miscarriage and at that time she had also lost Paul, so hopefully having their daughter and having Paul at her side, it might help her through it if she did end up losing this new baby.

"She always has to be the target of something, why can't they just let them be happy?" Linda asked, wanting to scream and cry for her little girl but knowing it would do them no good.


Shawn was sitting in the room with all of the DX members. He wasn't sure how he was going to tell them that Sable had finally managed to find a way to take out Stephanie, and it was in a really bad way. He bit his lip and studied the laughter and smiles on the faces all around him and finally realized he couldn't put it off for much longer.

"Hey everyone, I need you to listen up." Shawn said and he waited for everyone to shut up before he took a deep breath and got ready to deliver the news that he was still having trouble excepting. "Early this morning Sable had a hired man sit outside Paul and Stephanie's place, he opened fire with a gun and shot them through their kitchen window, both of them are in surgery at their local hospital and the gun man is in custody and gave up Sable without any problems. From everything else I heard, there is also another person who is more than willing to help the cops nail her for all of her plans against Stephanie and Paul but they still don't know if the two of them are going to both pull through. When they are out of surgery they are going to be put into the same room, I plan to sit on it to make sure nothing else happens." Shawn announced.

"What about the baby?" Jillian asked softly.

"No one knows about the baby or anything else right now. We have no idea how bad this is or how bad their injuries or the damage is, they won't know until they regain consciousness." Shawn informed them.

"Then we all sit on that hospital, we all protect them. We should have the baby staying in that room too, to keep her safe and because you know the two of them will need her nearby to get through this." Cena spoke up as he leaned against the wall.

"Yeah!" Everyone shouted together.


Shane looked up as the main surgeon started walking towards him, and all he could think of was that he could be getting really bad news, real soon. He may lose his sister and if he lost both his sister and Paul he didn't know what he would tell his little niece, because there was no doubt she would need to know the truth about everything, and he would need to make sure she knew about the parents that loved her more than anything in this world.