Chapter 6

"Steph I'm back!" Chris shouts as he pulls his boots off and runs down to the basement looking for her, he looks around and can't see her anywhere "Steph.?" Chris starts to panic, he was only gone a few minutes! He should have never left her on her own, what if they've found her. Where else could she be?. Chris rushes up the stairs nearly knocking his dad over as he searches the house.

"Chris, slow down! What's going on" Ted asks shouting up the main stairs as Chris searches every room for Steph.

"It's Steph, she's gone. I can't find her anywhere, what if they've got her dad. I let her down!" Chris yells, he runs down the stairs again still searching for her. He walks into the kitchen and slumps down into a chair and puts his head in his hands "I shouldn't have left her on her own" Ted grabs a note off the fridge and puts it down on the table in front of Chris. Chris reads it and lets out a huge sigh of relief.

I've taken Stephanie with me. We've gone shopping for some clothes for her so she doesn't have to wear your old things. We'll be home later once we've spent all that nice Mr. McMahon's money, see you later boys love mom and Steph.

"Ok now? Your mom will look after her don't you worry about them" Ted says, he opens the fridge and hands Chris a beer. "I'm going out for a bit, I'll see you later" he says heading for the door. Chris knew his dad was probably off to play pool with his friends or off to watch a hockey match somewhere.

"Yeah ok see you later" Chris gets up and walks into the lounge switching on the TV and jumping onto the couch, he lays out putting his feet up on the armrest. Blaze jumps up and lays on his chest as he drinks his beer and tries to find something good on TV. Chris reaches for the phone as it starts to ring and picks up.

"Hello, Chris here...Vince? How did you know we were here!?...She's fine, we both are..hang on, before you start all your thanking and praising of me, how did you get my parents number.. Oh right...You sure that's a good idea?..what if they follow you here?...ok yeah, she would love to see you..there's a lot I have to explain to you too...see you in a couple of days then...cheers, bye" Chris hangs up the phone looking a bit confused, Vince was coming to see them. Chris couldn't help but feel worried, what if he was followed here. That would put his parents at risk too. He couldn't do that to them, Vince wouldn't do that unless he knew it was safe. Chris was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the door slam and the laugh of Steph and his mom.

"Now that's what I call shopping," Steph giggles as they walk through the door with arms full of bags "Chris!" Steph says putting her bags down and walking over to him, he sits up and pulls her down onto his lap. "Did you miss me?" Steph asks looking into his clear blue eyes.

"You scared me to death! I nearly had a heart attack when I got back and you weren't here" Chris laughs as she lies in his arms. His mom smiles at them and carries the bags into the other room leaving them on their own.

"We left a note for you" Steph says innocently smiling at him.

"Yeah dad found that after I turned the whole place upside down and nearly died" Chris says "I have some good news for you, well I think it's good" Chris laughs.

"What's that then?" Steph asks sitting up and looking at him.

"Well I got a call a while ago from your dad, he got this number from Dwayne because apparently he knows It somehow and.he's coming here in a couple of days" Chris says waiting for her reaction.

"Is it all sorted? Can I go home?" Steph asks excitedly, it hurt to think that she wanted to leave and go home away from Chris. In his heart he knew that it probably wouldn't be like this once they got back to work, they'd been so used to hating each other at work and in this business as soon as they got back Steph would probably forget everything that had happened in Canada with him, she'd forget all about them.

"It's not sorted baby but there hasn't been anything for a few days and he has arranged so he can get here to see you, I think he's checking up to make sure I'm looking after you ok" Chris says trying not to think about when she'd leave him.

"Ok.Chris what's wrong?" Steph asks noticing the look on his face; she cuddles into him making him sigh. He holds onto her tightly.

"It's nothing don't worry.. I was just thinking about what's going to happen when you go back, when we get back to work," Chris mumbles.

"What do you mean when we go back to work?" Steph didn't understand what he meant.

"Your going to forget about me when we get back, will there still be 'us' or is this just because your stuck with me" Chris asks trying to speak even though a lump is forming in his throat. He didn't want to loose her, he'd wanted this more than anything in the world and he couldn't loose her.

"Of course I'm not going to forget about you Chris, this isn't because I'm stuck with you. This Is because I love you and want there to be an 'us'" Steph replies, she turns so she is facing him and puts her arms around his neck and kisses him deeply. "I love you," she whispers before kissing him softly on the lips.

"I love you too, I don't want to loose you Steph. You mean everything to me" Chris wraps his arms around her again as she puts her head on his shoulder, she holds onto his shoulder as he leans in and kisses her forhead.

"Do you want to see what I bought?" Steph asks sitting up, she climbs off of him and takes his hand pulling him up. They walk into the kitchen; Steph looks for the bags which are hers.

"We had a lovely time Crissy, I think we spent most of Mr. McMahon's money though didn't we sweetie" his mom laughs "I got some great things too, this girl certainly knows how to shop!"

"Yeah we had a great time! We'll have to do that again!" Steph laughs, she takes her bags and heads out of the room.

"Chris" His mom whispers to him just as he's about to leave the room, he turns back and walks over to her "She's a lovely girl Chris, don't let her escape. I like her a lot and hope that you'll be asking her to join the family sometime" she giggles watching as Chris turns bright red.

"Mom.stop it, I really don't think we're ready for anything like getting married!" Chris laughs "You haven't met her dad, I think he'd rather die than let her be with me" Chris sighs, he knew it was true. Him and Vince got on ok, or as well as an employee could get on with his boss but that was what Chris was, just an employee and definitely not suitable for his little girl. Only a man of a well known family and Greenwich type upbringing would be good enough for his daughter in his eyes.

"Don't talk such rubbish, you're a lovely, kind gentleman. No father wouldn't want you to marry his daughter Chris. You remember that, you might not be from a fancy family or anything but you are from a good family and you were brought up as you should have been" his mom says, she was so proud of her son and anyone that said anything bad about him would be in trouble.

"Thanks mom" Chris smiles and hugs her before going off to see what Steph had bought, he walks down the stairs to the basement. Steph was standing in front of the mirror trying on some of her new clothes; she was wearing a pair of tight jeans and a new halter neck top.

"Wow." Chris grins as he sees her; she turned to face him and smiled.

"I take it you like it then?" Steph laughs as he walks over and stands behind her. He puts one arm around her waist and brushes the hair from her neck with the other and kisses her lightly giving her goose bumps.

"Mmm you look amazing" Chris whispers in her ear, he'd never really seen her dressed like this before in 'normal' clothes. When they were at work she would be dressed in all short skirts and almost slutty outfits for on camera. She looked beautiful Chris thought, he still couldn't help worry about what Vince would say though. He wouldn't fire him for something like this would he? Chris wasn't that bad a person was he?