Chapter52

Stephanie knew she had to be imagining things, there was no way that was Paul talking to her, there was no way her husband was in the room touching her, holding her hand. He couldn't be there because he was dead! He was dead and she was the reason that he was dead! She loved him and she had brought him back into their life, as he had learned about everything, about the truth of all that had happened between her father and herself back when she and Paul had first gotten married. He had learned about the loss of their first child, the baby that no one really knew about and everyone had thought she had been lying about and that had nearly cost her everything. Now she was lying in a hospital, a tube down her throat and someone trying to convince her that her husband had not been killed when she knew he was dead! She hated when people tried to con her into believing something. It didn't matter though, she knew she still needed to wake up, she still had a little girl that needed her mommy, even if her mommy was the reasons he would never have her daddy.


Paul could tell that his wife was battling with herself in her mind. He could always tell when there was some sort of inner war going on inside of Stephanie and this time it was no different. He let his gaze drift down to her baby bump and let his hand go there to slightly rub where their little one was growing, he couldn't believe they were having a second child and that baby was all right, that baby was safe despite what Sable had managed to have done and what had nearly happened to them. The thought that they could have lost that child, that he could have lost Stephanie, it was killing him because there was no guarantee he was going to get his wife back, because at the moment she was refusing to face reality, she couldn't face reality and she didn't believe that everything was going to be all right, if she just opened her eyes and saw that.

"Baby listen to me, you need to open your eyes so that you can see that everything is going to be just fine." Paul murmured as he let his lips stay close to her ear. "Baby, open your eyes." He murmured again.


Shane was leaning against the wall just outside but near the door, he needed to be close in case his brother in law needed him or Stephanie woke up. He could hear the pain and the pleading in Paul's voice and it was killing him to know that the superstar wrestler was not going to be able to handle it if Stephanie was unable to open her eyes, ever again. There was a possibility that Stephanie would remain unconscious for a very long time, possibly years, because of the mental block she had placed on everything. His little sister had been through way too much in her life and the strain that had been on her marriage with the threat to her life and the life of their children, that was causing more pain inside his sister than she let on to anyone else. Now she was unable to open her eyes, because she believed she had gotten her husband and possibly her unborn child killed and there was nothing anyone could do or say that would reassure her.

"Come on little sister, you can beat this, you always beat everything." Shane murmured as he glanced into the hospital room again, just in time to see Paul lean back in his wheelchair. He could tell Paul was lost and didn't know what to do for his wife, he didn't know how to bring her out of this one.


Stephanie was struggling to open her eyes but something was still holding her back and refusing to allow her to open her eyes. She wanted to confront the man that thought he could pretend to be her husband and she wanted to push his hand off her stomach, only Paul was allowed to touch her belly like that and only while she was carrying their child, she didn't think there was a baby in there anymore, and that was hurting her as well. But she knew she had to fight back, she was a McMahon, well a Levesque now as well, and that meant she was a fighter, so why couldn't she sight back from this thing? Why did it seem like her mind was stuck and there was nothing she could do to bring it back from this?


Paul was glad that he could see the inner war still raging inside his wife, that meant she was trying to come back to them, it meant she hadn't given up. He just didn't know what he could do to help her in this. He needed to find a way to help her fight back, a way to bring her back from wherever she was mentally stuck at. He knew there was a reason she couldn't break whatever barrier she and built up when she had thought he had been killed in their kitchen, there was a big reason, her heart couldn't bear the pain of having her officially hear he was dead and that was the reason her mind was being held back from allowing her out of the dark space she had built in her own mind.

"Steph, I don't know what I need to do to bring you back to me baby." Paul murmured as he felt tears enter his eyes. "I haven't seen our little princess yet, I know she is probably scared out of her mind, but I wanted us to see her together. I won't wait much longer though, she misses us too much and I can't keep her away from me much longer my love."


Stephanie wanted to yell at this man that he wasn't her daughters father! Paul was Aurora's father and whoever this man was he wasn't going to replace him in her daughter's life. Stephanie refused to allow anyone to replace Paul in her life or their daughter's life. She was ready to find a way through this darkness, she had to, she had to stop this man from attempting to steal their daughter, she couldn't let anyone else near their daughter. If Paul was gone, she was the only one left to protect Aurora, and that meant she really needed to fight back on this one.


"Stephanie, I am right here." Paul murmured again, he leaned over and suddenly the alarms in the room started blaring, something was seriously wrong and as doctors and nurses rushed in, he was scared out of his mind that he was losing his wife, the woman he loved more than anything in this world. "Fight baby, you fight!" Paul shouted as they wheeled him out of the room and he waited with everyone else to hear what was happening now to the woman they all loved and the child she was carrying in her womb.