A/N:The chapter is based aroundthe song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Peter, Paul, and Mary.

To read the original version with song lyrics go to: bitter-solemnity. com /fics /Moments.php (just get rid of the spaces).

I'm not really sure if I like this chapter, it seems rushed or something, but still I hope you enjoy it. And if you want to be brutal with me, be brutal. :)

The past five months had quite possibly been the best five months of Chris Jericho's life. Being with Stephanie seemed to bring out the best him, and he had never felt as happy as he had these past months. It was like he was a new person, and she was the one who had brought it all out, she was his reason for happiness.

At first everyone had been pretty much shocked by the news that they had decided to see each other. Everyone knew they had been friends, but no one had seen the depth of their feelings, not even them. Their friends were happy that they had found such happiness. Even Vince was happy for them, but mostly because he loved Stephanie and wanted her to be happy.

Stephanie smiled as she got ready for the show; she seemed to smile a lot nowadays. She owed a lot of that to Jericho, he meant so much to her now. She didn't even know what she had been missing when she wasn't with him. He made every single one of her days brighter.

She had thought they wouldn't work at first, and she had felt a little awkward going out on their first date. They had been friends for so long and to be on a date with him was weird. But after a while that feeling faded, and it turned into a lingering contentment that she felt every single day.

Jericho and Stephanie walked into the arena for SmackDown holding hands, and just enjoying being with each other. As soon as their relationship had come out, they had written a storyline where Jericho was able to go back to SmackDown to be closer to Stephanie. It made it easier on them to be on the same show.

They weren't together on screen, but Jericho felt it was better that way. Frankly, he didn't want to be with Stephanie on screen, he didn't want to exploit his relationship with Stephanie on television. And he feared after a while it would be more difficult to distinguish between character and real life if they were to become an on screen couple. He told her this often, making sure she didn't have the writers write a romance in their future. She did oversee everything after all.

Jericho had a match with Eddy Guerrero, and were a few minutes into the match when Jericho noticed Stephanie walking briskly down the ramp, a determined look on her face. Jericho didn't have enough time to really think about what she was doing down there, he had to concentrate on his match. He would send her quick glances every now and then, a questioning look in his eyes, but she refused to look at him.

Earl informed them that they had a 2 minutes left in the match, so Jericho turned up the heat, wanting to make the finish really great. Before he got a chance, Stephanie grabbed the ring bell and smacked Eddy in the face with it when he had fallen off the apron. She pushed him back in the ring, and told Jericho to pin him. Jericho, with confusion written all over his face, unconsciously did what she asked.

After Jericho had pinned Eddy, Stephanie stepped into the ring, microphone in hand. Jericho stood up, and looked at her, unsure of what she was going to say. He hadn't read about any of this going down.

"I'm sure you're all wondering why I just did what I did," Stephanie began, "Well, I decided playing nice was getting me nowhere. And I hate being little Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, so the bitch is back, and allying herself with her old business partner, Chris Jericho," Stephanie said as she raised Jericho's hand in victory. Jericho looked at her, trying to contain the anger he suddenly felt towards her.

They walked backstage in silence, Jericho's jaw set tight, trying to keep himself from losing his temper right then and there. Stephanie had been smiling as she left, pleased that her character was back with Jericho's, but as she noticed Jericho's mood, she stopped smiling. They walked into their dressing room, and Jericho shut the door before turning to her.

"What the hell was that?" Jericho said, finally letting all his anger out.

"I thought that we could it would be nice to have a storyline together," Stephanie said with a tentative smile on her face, she didn't understand why Jericho was so angry about this.

"Stephanie, I thought I told you I didn't want a storyline together!"

"But I thought it would be a good idea."

"A good idea, Stephanie I specifically asked you time and time again not put us together, do you remember that?" Jericho said his voice raising.

"Yeah, but-"

"There's no buts Stephanie, did you lobby for this, were you the one who came up with this!"

"Yeah-"

"I knew it, I knew you would do this," Jericho said cutting her off again. Stephanie was starting to get angry.

"Do what Chris, what are you talking about?"

"I knew you would try to use our relationship for personal gains. I bet you had this planned all along, I should've known!"

"How dare you say that to me, how dare you make me out to be a bad person!" Stephanie said yelling at him.

"Oh, don't give me that Stephanie, it's all about you coming out on top, always having to be the best, I should've known it would come to this," Jericho said, not even thinking clearly anymore, blinded by the anger that he felt.

"Fine, if that's the way you feel, just leave, ok, just get the hell out of here! Cause it obviously doesn't matter that I love you and just wanted to be with you, so just get out of my sight!" Stephanie screamed, reaching new levels of screechy-ness. Jericho's eyes grew wide.

"Did you just say you loved me?" Jericho asked surprised, they had yet to say those three little words to each other.

"What, what do you mean?" Stephanie said, not fully realizing what she had just screamed at him.

"You just said you love me," Jericho said, the haze of anger fading away, leaving only the fact that she loved him.

"Well, I do," Stephanie said quietly, her eyes fixed on the carpet.

"Yeah?" A smile crept its way on to Jericho's face.

"Yeah," she said gathering enough courage to look up at him.

She didn't know what his reaction would be to her outburst. She hadn't meant to tell him she loved him. After what had happened with HHH, she had been wary of loving anyone else. She didn't know if she wanted to fall in love again, to risk her heart by loving someone. Yet, once she had started dating Jericho she couldn't help but fall in love with him.

She looked at his face, and saw that a smile was on his lips. It surprised her somewhat. She almost expected him to laugh at her. He didn't seem the type who really liked all the mushy stuff that went with a relationship. She looked into his eyes and was even more surprised by the open look of love she saw in them.

Jericho couldn't get over the fact that she actually loved him. Their relationship had been fun for the past several months, and he had been truly happy. Yet, the depth of their feelings had never really been explored. And now he was suddenly with someone who loved him, and he had never felt more genuinely pleased.

"I love you too," he replied looking at her.

"Really?" she said in astonishment.

"Really."

Stephanie ran to him as they embraced each other, their previous argument forgotten about. He leaned his head down and kissed her passionately on the lips. He pulled away and smiled at her, his gaze filled with love. She smiled back at him. For this moment, everything was perfect.