nv TITLE: Second Chances

AUTHOR: Dannette [ UniqueFandoms@aol.com ]

RATING: PG-13

SUMMARY: On Christmas Eve, Stephanie gets a glimpse of what her life could have been if she had made different choices in her life. Inspired by 'The Family Man'. AU story.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Stephanie McMahon, Andrew Martin (Test) or whoever decides to pop up in this story; They belong to the WWF and Vince McMahon ---- Unfortunately in my case, I do not own Shane McMahon (Sad I know.)

SPECIAL DEDICATIONS: To Grace, who seems to be the only Andrew/Stephanie fan out there, besides me of course :-D, miss ya! I can't wait for you to get back from your trip.

{Working on a C/J fic, but I couldn't get this idea out of my head, I watched 'The Family Man' last night and it resulted to this.}

SPECIAL NOTES: I haven't watched or seen InVasion yet, this story was written before InVasion so I don't know what team wins the match, but let's just say Team WECW won, it will be more fitting for this story, because in this story WECW has their own company, their own building, staff and everything.

~*~

Stephanie fluttered her blue eyes open, she let out a content sigh as she pushed herself up from the huge queen sized bed she was sleeping in, alone. Despite everything, her and Hunter had gotten a divorce after her and Shane had decided to bring back ECW and put their two companies together to make WECW, Hunter had decided to stay loyal to the WWF and Stephanie had decided to stay loyal to Shane and her company which led to the divorce.

Who needs Hunter Hearst-Helmlsey anyways? Was what Stephanie had told Shane the day of the divorce, it wasn't like she really loved Hunter anyways, he was just the man she had stayed with, she had never really loved him, he was just the consolation prize since she couldn't have the one man she really wanted, since they hated each other ever since the day Stephanie turned her back on him.

"Time to get up." Stephanie said to herself smiling; She danced her way over to her closet while humming a song. "What to wear ... "

Stephanie pulled out a pink tanktop that had the words 'I have issues' on the front and then pulled out a pair of black pants, usually she would go for something a little more fancy, maybe even a suit but today was just her telling the new staff of WECW what to do, and god forbid she would go out of her way to look good for them, they were just the staff, it wasn't like they were Tazz, Rhyno or any other of her and Shane's wrestlers.

Stephanie pulled the shirt over her head and then slipped out of her fancy red silk pajama bottoms and put on the black pants, she then slipped on her shoes and walked into the bathroom and started to style her hair. After she got done with styling her hair, she put on her makeup, and grabbed a black beaded necklace and walked out of the bathroom. She grabbed her jacket and put it on over her tanktop and walked out of the penthouse hotel room, which by the way cost a fortune and was also being billed to her father's credit card without his knowledge; Stephanie smirked thinking about the day her and Shane decided to move out of their homey feeling houses in Greenwich and get penthouse hotel rooms, Shane had been in the worst mood because he had just gotten the divorce papers from Marissa, so he decided to make their dad pay even more, so he put his and Stephanie's very expensive hotel rooms on Vince's platinum gold visa card which had a unlimited spending limit.

"Morning Stephanie." Shane said, locking his hotel room door and walking over to Stephanie; Shane was wearing his 'Shane-O-Mac-' jersey with baggy black pants and white tennis shoes. "Wonderful morning huh?"

Stephanie nodded and pushed the elevator button and waited for the elevator doors to slide open. "Ah, just the best. So you think the new staff is going to complain on having to work Christmas Eve?"

Shane shrugged, walking into the elevator once the doors slid open, he pushed the 1st floor button and turned to Stephanie. "They just might, being new and all. But hey, we'll just have to tell them that it takes working on Christmas Eve to get to the top."

Stephanie smiled. "Oh here we are." Stephanie said as the elevator doors opened up. "Your car or mine?"

Shane pointed to Stephanie. "We'll take your car today? So what color did you get painted in?"

"Silver, bye Tony." Stephanie said to the door man.

"Silver is always good for Ferraris." Shane replied walking over to Stephanie silver Ferrari. "Looks great sis."

Stephanie smiled. "It better, the paint job took forever." Stephanie got in the car, waited for Shane to get in, and then she sped off, turing on the radio.

~*~

"Morning, Mr. and Ms. McMahon." Evelyn Rose, the secretary to WECW greeted her two bosses as Shane and Stephanie walked into the building.

Shane waved and walked into the conference room.

Stephanie smiled at Evelyn. "Well good morning Evelyn, you're looking nice today."

Evelyn smiled back. "Why thank you, your new staff is waiting for you in the conference room and Mr. Andrew Martin called you."

Stephanie made a face. "Andrew? Well I'll make a note not to call him back, thanks Evelyn." Stephanie smiled once more and walked away from Evelyn and into the conference room.

~*~

"Okay everybody even though we did win at InVasion, we still need to watch our backs, the WWF are still a threat, especially with Triple H on their sides, and considering that the 'old' Stone Cold Steve Austin is back we need to be very, very careful which is our next step. Now all you new staff members need to watch out as well, the WWF might try to trick us into befriending them, which is way bad, so as of now we are your only friends." Stephanie continued pacing around in the conference room.

"Your only friends." Shane said. "Actually we're more like family to you and the WWF, is your mortal enemy, you don't talk to them ... you don't even take the time to insult them ... leave that to us."

Stephanie nodded, she opened her mouth to say something but then looked over to see Alan Mintz, one of their old workers doodling. "Alan, am I boring you?" Stephanie asked walking over to Alan.

Alan straightened his body up. "Oh no not at all Stephanie, it's just that it's Christmas Eve and I promised the wife and kids that I would be home like 45 minutes ago, can't we just leave early this one time?" Andrew asked hopefully.

Stephanie shook her head. "Alan, I know it's Christmas Eve and you want to be with your family, but we got to put our all in this, because once we conquer this little problem every day is going to be Christmas, I want our present to be the first one you open up and once we get this done, you can take off every day you want, but today is not that day, okay?"

Alan nodded. "Of course Stephanie, please go on." Alan took out his notebook and started making notes.

"Thank you." Stephanie said and continued her speech.

~*~

Stephanie walked out of the conference room with Shane by her side, she watched all the workers practically run out especially Alan Mintz. Stephanie rolled her eyes and turned to Shane. "Have fun, I'm going to the store, get some egg nog, try to get into the Christmas spirit."

Shane smirked. "Yeah, I'll order some room service, bet that will be a wonderful Christmas present for dear old dad. I might even order something on Marrisa's old credit card." Shane smiled and walked off.

Stephanie laughed and walked out of the building, she walked outside and stopped when she felt the first few snowflakes fall down on her head, she looked up and smiled as the icy snowflakes came in contact with her skin. Stephanie zipped up her jacket and got in her ferrari and drove to the closest store.

~*~

Stephanie picked up the carton of egg nog, but stopped looking at the expiration date once she saw a young woman around her age, her clothes were torn, Stephanie shook her head; Homeless woman, Stephanie thought to herself as she watched the young woman go up to the counter.

"Excuse me, how much is your milk?" The young woman asked.

The guy at the counter, a middle aged chinese man, shook his head. "2 dollars."

The young woman walked past Stephanie and grabbed a carton of milk and walked back over to the counter and put out all of the money she had.

"You seem to be short by a dollar." The guy at the counter replied, with disgust in his eyes.

The young woman looked at the money, the array of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters she had put on the counter, she frowned. "Is there anyway I could owe you a dollar? Please?"

The guy at the counter shook his head, and grabbed the carton of milk. "No, get out."

The young girl grabbed his hand. "Oh please, I have no more money and I am so thirsty, it's Christmas Eve."

The guy at the counter shook his head. "Don't care, leave before I call the cops --- "

"Wait!" Stephanie said walking up. "Here." Stephanie put a dollar on the counter and also paid for her own purchase. "Come on." Stephanie said to the young woman.

~*~

"Thank you very much." The young woman said once her and Stephanie walked outside of the store. "I'm Lisa."

"Hi Lisa, I'm Stephanie." Stephanie stared at Lisa's torn clothes. "You know, there are shelters you can stay at, you don't have to live on the streets."

Lisa shook her head. "I don't live on the streets, I live in a small apartment up the road, nothing was clean to wear so I had to wear some old torn clothes of my brothers."

Stephanie shook her head. "Yeah sure, just thought you needed to know ... "

"I don't need to be saved." Lisa said, smiling.

"Everybody needs something." Stephanie replied.

Lisa stared at Stephanie. "What about you?" Lisa asked Stephanie, quietly.

"Huh? Stephanie asked, confusion lacing her words.

"You said everybody needs something, what do you need?" Lisa asked again.

Stephanie shook her head. "I don't need anything, I have everything I need."

Lisa looked Stephanie in the eyes. "Are you so sure about that?"

Stephanie nodded. "Yep, I have everything I have ever needed."

Lisa shook her head. "Remember you brought this upon yourself Stephanie."

Stephanie shook her head as she watched Lisa walk away, with the carton of milk in her hands, once Lisa was out of her view Stephanie sighed. "Weirdo." Stephanie rolled her eyes and walked over to her Ferrari and drove home.

~*~

Brrriiinng Brriiinng Brrriiinng ...

Stephanie groaned at the loud and annoying sound of an alarm clock going off; When did I get a alarm clock? Stephanie asked herself, her eyes still shut tightly, not wanting to open.

"Turn that off will you?" A male voice asked, wrapping his arms around Stephanie's waist.

Stephanie's blue eyes shot open the minute she heard a voice and then a pair of arms hold on to her; Stephanie wiggled out of the grasp and tried to find a face under the blonde hair, Stephanie widened her eyes when she saw it was Andrew, before she could say or do a thing the high-pitched screams of two children entered her eyes.

"Daddy! Mommy!"

Stephanie flew off the bed once one little girl around the age of 5 came jumping on the bed, her brown hair whipping across her face. Stephanie then looked over at the baby crawling on the floor, the baby looked around 4 months, the baby had the greenest eyes and a jungle of curly blonde hair. "What the --- "

"Guys, I told you to let mommy sleep." Andrew jumped up on the bed and grabbed the little girl by the waist and threw her down to the bed and began to tickle her.

"Daddy no!" The little girl said in between her giggles.

"What did ya say Megan? Can't hear you!" Andrew said still tickling her.

Stephanie threw on her jacket and put on her tennis shoes and went to run out of the room but was grabbed by Andrew. "Sweetie, can you put on the coffee?"

Stephanie nodded absentmindedly and ran down the stairs and went to run out the front door but stopped when Vince, Shane and Linda walked in. "Mom, dad, Shane?" Stephanie asked in confusion.

Shane walked over to Stephanie. "Megan and Chris wake you up?"

"Merry Christmas baby!" Vince said kissing Stephanie on the cheek.

"I'll put the coffee on for you." Linda replied, smiling at her daughter.

Stephanie flew against the door as Megan came running down, Megan then grabbed Shane's legs, she was then picked up by Shane and twirled around in the air.

"Don't do that, you'll make her puke." Andrew said walking down the stairs. "Sorry they woke you up, but we had to get up anyways." Andrew replied, he then kissed Stephanie on the cheek, holding Chris in his arms.

"Are we married?" Stephanie asked, confused.

Andrew laughed. "You are too cute Steph, of course we're married, have been for two years, oh coffee... thank god!" Andrew walked over to the coffee machine and poured himself a cup of coffee.