"Relax, Shane. I didn't say I was going too. I was stating that its very VERY unlikely, but possible." Stephanie said. "Now about his more fair match, I say, a hardcore match against RVD."
"No, you can't be serious. I am glad that you guys are getting along, but no title. Remember Business is business and whatever Jericho and you talked about in there, is personal." Shane said.
"Hey, Shane, RVD, he's in ECW, right?" Stephanie asked.
"Yeah..."
"Okay, so I say he has a match against Y2J. He will wrestle tonight." Steph said leaving. Shane thought and knew that she could be so stubborn sometimes, but fighting was not the answer. That would be the downfall of the WWF, the uneasiness between Vince and Linda. Or what was left of it.
"Jericho?" Stephanie said lightly knocking on the door and letting herself in. "I fixed your match. In about a half an hour you will wrestle RVD for the hardcore title." He was at her feet, stretching.
His head jerked up. "Your kidding right?" He got up and looked at her. "You really gave me a title shot?" He gave her the biggest and most unexpected bear hug ever.
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Hunter, calm down, he didn't win anyway." Stephanie said. She was visiting her husband, like she did every week.
"No, Steph, you don't understand. Its not the shot that I was worried about. It was my wife suddenly being nice to a man she has hated for years that is making me freak out! 'Maybe more'? and the hug? Come on Steph, what did you expect e to think?" Hunter screamed.
"You saw that?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah, and so did millions of people watching TV and the thousands at the show." Hunter said. "Just to let you know, your history in men isn't helping either. Okay, you were in love with Test. That ended with me marrying you. Kurt. Okay you were married and kissing him. Now Y2J?"
"So your saying I'm a slut and our marriage was a mistake?" She had tears streaming down her face and she was holding more back.
"Sometimes, I think so, on both occasions." Hunter said, with a low heartless tone.
Stephanie had it. She backhanded him so hard, he almost lost his balance. "I want a divorce as soon as possible." She said as she stormed up stairs, to the bedroom, and locked Hunter out. He ran after her and tried pleading with her through the door.
"Come on Steph, people say things that they don't mean when they are angry, and I was very angry." He continued to plead, though she wasn't listening.
Within an hour she had everything she needed packed and she walked out the door past Hunter, not even looking at him. More pleas came from him as he followed her.
She opened the door, with her baggage and car keys. "Hunter I pity you." She simply said, tears never stopping. "I'll send someone for my other things."
She looked down at her hand at her ring. She took it off and handed it to him as calmly as she could. She realized it would have made no difference if she threw it at him or handed it to him. She suddenly realized that the marriage was a mistake. He has to make her pass out before she would marry him. She looked at the ring in Hunters open palm. It was a plain wedding band. Some symbol of love.
She turned and left him. For good.
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She grabbed her cell phone out of her purse and called her Mom. No answer. Well, she would have to find a place to stay after the show. She left toward the arena.
When she got there, she noticed how many Superstars were staring at her. After all, she was making a scene. She couldn't stop herself form crying and she had suitcases full of her stuff, where they used to be at Hunter's house. Most of the superstars guess what had happened. None dared to talk to her though.
Until Kurt came along. "Steph, let me help you with those." He carried almost all her bags willingly. She managed a mere smile.
"Thanks Kurt." She said sniffing.
"What happened?" he asked with the utmost concern.
"Look Kurt, of all these superstars, you are the only one who has the guts to ask me that. Even between the whole WWF and Alliance thing, and really appreciate it, but I don't want to talk about this now." She said walking in her dressing room.
She looked at the door. It read, 'Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley'. She pulled out another locker room name tag and it read 'Stephanie McMahon'. She replaced that with the old one. She knew Kurt got the idea of what was wrong. "Would you excuse me Kurt, I have a show to plan."
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Authors note: As you noticed, I added more. By popular demand of course. Grueling work this is. I went to go save it, and it said, Illegal operation, then shut down. I had to write the whole damn thing twice. The second one was more brilliant than the first though. After that, you must agree with me when I say, the least I deserve is a review. So REVIEW!!!!
