Love at First Fight
"I propose that we end the whole Test / Stephanie angle." Paul LeVesque (HHH) starts, " Everybody knows that that's what's bringing the ratings down." The superstars and crew were in an emergency production meeting in W.W.F.'s headquarters in Toronto, Canada where the wwf was holding that nights Raw and was taping tomorrows Smackdown!. Vince had called the meeting earlier today because the ratings have been extremely low these past few weeks and he wanted to spice things up a bit. " Well Paul that's a good idea, but, what do you suggest we do to end it?" "Well I'm not exactly sure" he shrugs. "Okay then, well Stephanie, do you have any ideas?" he asks his daughter. " I suggest we don't end it" she seethed, all the while staring down a smirking Paul. Ever since what happened between them in '96, things had never been the same. Each one trying to out-do the other or just make the others life a living hell. "Okay well I think that's enough for tonight" said an un-easy Vince McMahon. " But Steph, will you stay a minute please?" " Looks like Miss Princess is in trouble" a cocky Paul whispers into her ear as he leaves. "Stephanie what do you think you were doing embarrassing Paul like that? And you cannot change my mind, you and Andrew will be over. I can promise you that. And if you don't like that then you can kiss your job goodbye." And with that, the boss leaves the production room. After digesting what she just heard, she too left and was on her way to the hotel.
Already at their hotel, Jonie (Chyna) and Paul are on the bed sucking each other's heads off. Paul wasn't really into what they were doing at the moment, his thoughts were elsewhere, like how to ruin Steph's life, he was just doing the motions.
Knock, Knock After about 6 or so more knocks, Joan finally screams "Paul get the damn door!" " I was gonna Joan! You don't always haveta fucking yell!" "What do you want?!" he screams as he jerks open the door, obviously annoyed. "Fine don't say hi to your best friend! I'll leave!!" Mike (Shawn Michaels) joked and stepped in the hotel. The two friends hadn't seen each other since Mike go hurt in '98. As they got reacquainted, Joan was sitting on the bed waiting for her boy friend to acknowledge her presents. " Eh Hem" she loudly clears her throat. " Oh no Paul" "What?" " We must not forget about The Lovely, Gorgeous and Talented Joan now can we?" " Oh, of course not." Michael goes over to the bed and gives Jonie a big hug and peck on the cheek. " Hey you, stay off my woman!" Paul laughs as he goes to kiss his girl.
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Stephanie has just arrived at her hotel room and is about to take a bath when her cell phone rings. She checks the caller ID and it reveals that it is her father calling her. She decides that if its important enough he'll call back later. She starts to take off her clothes and her phone rings again. She ignores it yet again. Now she is just about to plop into the tub when it rings again. This time she answers it hoping that once he knows that she is Ok that he will just let her be. "Yea. Oh, sorry Daddy, what's up?" she asks trying to sound as polite as possible " Oh, um I don't think I could make it tomorrow, maybe on Wednesday.okay yup Thursday is perfect..... Okay see you then...love you too.bye." Then she hangs up the phone and goes back to taking her bubble bath.
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Thursday
Vince has called 5 wwf superstars to the Stamford offices claiming that he has something important to tell them. The superstars are in their own little groups talking with there friends. On the couch are Mark (Undertaker) and Paul discussing how one of Marks matches went. Glen (Kane) and Andrew are talking amongst themselves and Stephanie is with her boyfriend Jayson and they are going through a jewelry magazine trying to pick out what ring Steph wants for their 5 yr anniversary. Just as Paul and Mark are finishing up there conversation, Mr. McMahon walks into the office lobby. As soon as they all saw him, they got quiet and waited. " Good Afternoon everybody. Now I'm sure that you are all wondering why exactly I brought you here today. Well the fact is that we have come up with whole new angles for the 5 of you. Glenn and Mark you 2 will be working more closely together in the near future. And we hope that that will work out..... Now you men may go," he said after going into more elaborate detail. Glenn and Mark say their good byes and are on their way back to the airport so that they can go home. "Now Paul, Stephanie and Andrew, wait, first off, Jay will you please go to my office and get the manila folder off my desk?" Jay nods and leaves. " Okay now you three, I feel that Paul had a very good idea the other day. Because Steph you have to admit, your angle is getting pretty boring" " but daddy" Stephanie whined " no but's Steph, I'm very sorry" " Well the what will we do to replace that storyline daddy?" " Well Stephie, that's what you and Paul get to decide. All I know is that I want the two of you working together. It will be perfect." And with that in mind and his manila folder under his arm, he steps out the door and leaves.
Later that day Stephanie is now in her New York apartment with Jayson. She is freaking out because she has to work with that scumbag Paul LeVesque. She has always hated him and she always will. Finally Jay is able to snap her out of her trance like stage and gets her to sit on the couch and brainstorm with him. For the next hour or so they come up with the goofiest, silliest and most unbelievable things that she and Paul could do in a storyline. But then Jay comes up with a really good idea, the kind of idea that could end a relationship. Stephanie and HHH could get married. " No No NO!!! I AM NOT going to marry that, that asshole!!! Jay how could you even think of an idea like that???" " Baby, it's a good idea. You could be the savor who always rescues HHH from losing." He starts as he wraps his arms around her waist. " And you could dress sexy, and wear lots of make-up" he then moves his lips to her ear, whispering on it, " It would be Puuurrrfect" those are the last words heard all night except for them calling each others' names.
Paul is at his hotel room trying to think of a storyline that both him and Steph would actually be happy doing together, even though he hated her, he still didn't want a McMahon biting his head off that the angle was to lame or dull or boring. " Paul, Paul?" Jonie is waving her hand in his face. " Oh, sorry, what were you saying baby?" he questions as he pulls her into his lap. " Well I was just wondering if you see 'us' going anywhere?" " You mean besides under the sheets?" he laughs " Paul, you know what I mean." " Babe, honestly, I don't know if I really ever wanna get married. I'm sorry." He makes an attempt to suck her neck but she moves away and gets up. " Sweetie, where ya going?" " Out, I'll be back in a bit." " Well be careful" " I will" and now she is gone and Paul resumes racking his brain for angles. He never could have thought that he would have to think this hard for one measly storyline. After what seemed like days but in reality was only about 45min, he finally came up with something. Stephanie McMahon would become Stephanie Helmsley. Satisfied with his ideas, he climbs into the hotel bed and tries to fall asleep. Keyword, tries. He ends up staying up all night worrying about Joan and her safety.
Meanwhile Joan is outside in Paul's hummer, waiting for him to come and find her. " Man he can be such an ass sometimes." She decides that she would rather be warm inside and lose then be cold outside in the hummer and win. In she walks to see her boyfriend pacing in a circle on the floor saying that he was sorry over and over again. The 9th wonder of the world walks over to 'the game', grabs his arm looks into his eyes and pushes him on the bed. The rest is history.
"I propose that we end the whole Test / Stephanie angle." Paul LeVesque (HHH) starts, " Everybody knows that that's what's bringing the ratings down." The superstars and crew were in an emergency production meeting in W.W.F.'s headquarters in Toronto, Canada where the wwf was holding that nights Raw and was taping tomorrows Smackdown!. Vince had called the meeting earlier today because the ratings have been extremely low these past few weeks and he wanted to spice things up a bit. " Well Paul that's a good idea, but, what do you suggest we do to end it?" "Well I'm not exactly sure" he shrugs. "Okay then, well Stephanie, do you have any ideas?" he asks his daughter. " I suggest we don't end it" she seethed, all the while staring down a smirking Paul. Ever since what happened between them in '96, things had never been the same. Each one trying to out-do the other or just make the others life a living hell. "Okay well I think that's enough for tonight" said an un-easy Vince McMahon. " But Steph, will you stay a minute please?" " Looks like Miss Princess is in trouble" a cocky Paul whispers into her ear as he leaves. "Stephanie what do you think you were doing embarrassing Paul like that? And you cannot change my mind, you and Andrew will be over. I can promise you that. And if you don't like that then you can kiss your job goodbye." And with that, the boss leaves the production room. After digesting what she just heard, she too left and was on her way to the hotel.
Already at their hotel, Jonie (Chyna) and Paul are on the bed sucking each other's heads off. Paul wasn't really into what they were doing at the moment, his thoughts were elsewhere, like how to ruin Steph's life, he was just doing the motions.
Knock, Knock After about 6 or so more knocks, Joan finally screams "Paul get the damn door!" " I was gonna Joan! You don't always haveta fucking yell!" "What do you want?!" he screams as he jerks open the door, obviously annoyed. "Fine don't say hi to your best friend! I'll leave!!" Mike (Shawn Michaels) joked and stepped in the hotel. The two friends hadn't seen each other since Mike go hurt in '98. As they got reacquainted, Joan was sitting on the bed waiting for her boy friend to acknowledge her presents. " Eh Hem" she loudly clears her throat. " Oh no Paul" "What?" " We must not forget about The Lovely, Gorgeous and Talented Joan now can we?" " Oh, of course not." Michael goes over to the bed and gives Jonie a big hug and peck on the cheek. " Hey you, stay off my woman!" Paul laughs as he goes to kiss his girl.
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Stephanie has just arrived at her hotel room and is about to take a bath when her cell phone rings. She checks the caller ID and it reveals that it is her father calling her. She decides that if its important enough he'll call back later. She starts to take off her clothes and her phone rings again. She ignores it yet again. Now she is just about to plop into the tub when it rings again. This time she answers it hoping that once he knows that she is Ok that he will just let her be. "Yea. Oh, sorry Daddy, what's up?" she asks trying to sound as polite as possible " Oh, um I don't think I could make it tomorrow, maybe on Wednesday.okay yup Thursday is perfect..... Okay see you then...love you too.bye." Then she hangs up the phone and goes back to taking her bubble bath.
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Thursday
Vince has called 5 wwf superstars to the Stamford offices claiming that he has something important to tell them. The superstars are in their own little groups talking with there friends. On the couch are Mark (Undertaker) and Paul discussing how one of Marks matches went. Glen (Kane) and Andrew are talking amongst themselves and Stephanie is with her boyfriend Jayson and they are going through a jewelry magazine trying to pick out what ring Steph wants for their 5 yr anniversary. Just as Paul and Mark are finishing up there conversation, Mr. McMahon walks into the office lobby. As soon as they all saw him, they got quiet and waited. " Good Afternoon everybody. Now I'm sure that you are all wondering why exactly I brought you here today. Well the fact is that we have come up with whole new angles for the 5 of you. Glenn and Mark you 2 will be working more closely together in the near future. And we hope that that will work out..... Now you men may go," he said after going into more elaborate detail. Glenn and Mark say their good byes and are on their way back to the airport so that they can go home. "Now Paul, Stephanie and Andrew, wait, first off, Jay will you please go to my office and get the manila folder off my desk?" Jay nods and leaves. " Okay now you three, I feel that Paul had a very good idea the other day. Because Steph you have to admit, your angle is getting pretty boring" " but daddy" Stephanie whined " no but's Steph, I'm very sorry" " Well the what will we do to replace that storyline daddy?" " Well Stephie, that's what you and Paul get to decide. All I know is that I want the two of you working together. It will be perfect." And with that in mind and his manila folder under his arm, he steps out the door and leaves.
Later that day Stephanie is now in her New York apartment with Jayson. She is freaking out because she has to work with that scumbag Paul LeVesque. She has always hated him and she always will. Finally Jay is able to snap her out of her trance like stage and gets her to sit on the couch and brainstorm with him. For the next hour or so they come up with the goofiest, silliest and most unbelievable things that she and Paul could do in a storyline. But then Jay comes up with a really good idea, the kind of idea that could end a relationship. Stephanie and HHH could get married. " No No NO!!! I AM NOT going to marry that, that asshole!!! Jay how could you even think of an idea like that???" " Baby, it's a good idea. You could be the savor who always rescues HHH from losing." He starts as he wraps his arms around her waist. " And you could dress sexy, and wear lots of make-up" he then moves his lips to her ear, whispering on it, " It would be Puuurrrfect" those are the last words heard all night except for them calling each others' names.
Paul is at his hotel room trying to think of a storyline that both him and Steph would actually be happy doing together, even though he hated her, he still didn't want a McMahon biting his head off that the angle was to lame or dull or boring. " Paul, Paul?" Jonie is waving her hand in his face. " Oh, sorry, what were you saying baby?" he questions as he pulls her into his lap. " Well I was just wondering if you see 'us' going anywhere?" " You mean besides under the sheets?" he laughs " Paul, you know what I mean." " Babe, honestly, I don't know if I really ever wanna get married. I'm sorry." He makes an attempt to suck her neck but she moves away and gets up. " Sweetie, where ya going?" " Out, I'll be back in a bit." " Well be careful" " I will" and now she is gone and Paul resumes racking his brain for angles. He never could have thought that he would have to think this hard for one measly storyline. After what seemed like days but in reality was only about 45min, he finally came up with something. Stephanie McMahon would become Stephanie Helmsley. Satisfied with his ideas, he climbs into the hotel bed and tries to fall asleep. Keyword, tries. He ends up staying up all night worrying about Joan and her safety.
Meanwhile Joan is outside in Paul's hummer, waiting for him to come and find her. " Man he can be such an ass sometimes." She decides that she would rather be warm inside and lose then be cold outside in the hummer and win. In she walks to see her boyfriend pacing in a circle on the floor saying that he was sorry over and over again. The 9th wonder of the world walks over to 'the game', grabs his arm looks into his eyes and pushes him on the bed. The rest is history.
