Chapter One
Um, yeah beware of that cliff at the end of this one.
It's steep.
TITLE: Saving Forever Chapter One/?
AUTHOR: Juliet3:16
EMAIL: Sweetvalley99@aol.com, FYouWWF@aol.com, Juliet_316_2000@yahoo.com
RATING: R
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE, CHARACTER DEATH, implied torture.
CATEGORY: ADULT, DRAMA, and ANGST
SPOILERS: Survivor Series 2000 then after that more or less my own continuity.
SUMMARY: Stephanie stumbles across something that a certain group didn't want
her stumbling onto.
DISCLAIMER: Any currently contracted WWF wrestler that appears in this story
belongs to Vince. Anybody that has left the company that appears in this
story own their own likenesses. I make no money off this story.
DISTRIBUTION: Fanfiction.net, Peja. Anybody else please ask.
NOTES: This just came to me. Don't kill me!
Saving Forever
Chapter One
A Harmless Errand
**JULY 2003**
Stephanie McMahon - Helmsley looked up at her
paperwork and sighed. She was tired and it seemed like she was tired a
lot lately. Of course she always seemed to get that way when she started
to think about all the birthdays and anniversaries that would be mourned, not
celebrated from here on out. Especially when it came to her husband's
birthday.
It was almost three years since Survivor Series
2000 and that fateful night in Florida. Hunter had been fighting Stone Cold
Steve Austin in a vicious match - up and Hunter had dived into a limo, that
also had her father, Vince, her brother, Shane, the Radicals: Chris Benoit,
Eddy Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, and DX: Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, Chyna
and Shawn Michaels. X - Pac had been recovering from an injury and was
not at the PPV. Stephanie was still at the arena with her client, Kurt
Angle, everybody figuring that would be the safest place for her until the PPV
ended. Stone Cold got onto the hood of the limo, and whether he was
trying to break through the top of it or doing something else would never been
known.
Because the next instant the limo blew up.
The fire department had determined that whatever
blew up the limo had vaporized everything. There was nothing left of
anybody that had been either in or on the limousine. Stephanie McMahon -
Helmsley had lost two-thirds of her family and became a widow the same night.
She alone was left to inherit the family business and carry on alone as she and
her mother had still been estranged.
It'd been hard after that night to even get out
of bed sometimes, she was so paralyzed with grief. But with the few
friends she had and slowly healing the rift between her and her mother, she
eventually was able to carry on and take command of the company her parents
built. But she still mourned everyday what she lost. It was in the
way she still wore her wedding ring almost three years after the fact, and the
way she still got a faraway look in her eyes at times.
She signed off on the contract and put it away to
process later. It was obvious to her that she was not going to get any
more work done at the moment. She caught sight of a tall figure with
shortish blonde hair passing by her office. "Tori!" the
brunette called out.
"Yeah boss?" Tori Powers called back,
backtracking a few steps back to the door of the office her boss and friend was
using for the show that day. "What's up?"
"Give me a ride to the bank they have in
town? I wanna deposit this check before the show tonight." Stephanie
still wasn't allowed to drive due to the fact that she was still taking
painkillers for a broken arm given to her by the Undertaker two weeks prior.
"Sure," Tori said entering the office
completely and grabbing the purse that was on her boss' couch. Stephanie
grabbed her own purse and the check in question and the two headed off for the
taller of the two women's rental car.
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Stephanie
McMahon - Helmsley was not a patient person.
She always knew that, but situations like waiting
in a long line at a bank tended to especially tax her nerves and exacerbate her
lack of patience.
"This isn't fair, my family's been valuable
customers to this bank and they make me wait in line?" Although
Stephanie had changed over the last three years in many of her attitudes and
behaviors over the years, time's like that tended to bring some of the old,
arrogant Stephanie. The broken arm only seemed to exacerbate things
further.
Tori gave a tight smile, used to her friend's
mood swings and occasional lapses in behavior. Nobody was perfect.
"It'll only be a short time to wait and then we'll be out of here in
no time." Tori said, trying to placate her boss.
"Yeah well, it's taking too long and I have
to get back before the show starts," The tall brunette explained,
impatiently tapping her foot in the line. Seeing a door that obviously
belonged to one of the bank managers she turned to her blonde friend, "But
I know just how to expedite things," with that, she made a beeline for the
door she'd seen.
"Stephanie," Tori hissed out, and
frustratingly gave up figuring it was typically no use to try and change
Steph's mind and decided it was only best to stay and keep their place in line
for if and when Stephanie's efforts failed.
Stephanie, not heeding Tori's hushed plea, zeroed
in on the office she spotted, figuring that her power position as owner of the
World Wrestling Federation would help her get her deposit done faster in a one
on one meeting. There was a window in beside the door of the office and
as Stephanie peered in, she saw and short - haired man working on paperwork.
It was obvious beneath the suit that he worked out. Stephanie gave a
mental shrug. She had no problem with shorthaired guys. Matter of fact
before Andrew, she'd dated almost exclusively shorthaired guys growing up.
But she could see how some girls loved only the long - haired guys,
especially the long haired's in the WWF, although she didn't see why a few
would turn on those guys just because they decided to cut their hair off.
Stephanie steeled herself, calling up all of the
arrogance her father taught her and Shane growing up and, seeing the door was
unlocked, decided to barge in on the suit. That would prove to be her
downfall as she opened the door.
"Excuse me," Mrs. Helmsley said as she
entered the room, deciding not the shut the door.
"Yes," the man in the suit answered her
back, locking his hazel eyes with Stephanie's blue - green ones, freezing
Stephanie in shock.
No, Stephanie thought, it can't be!
"Ma'am?" the man answered back in a
voice and a look so very familiar to Stephanie.
'No nonononononono, it's impossible!
"Hunter?" she whispered, the last
thing she heard was Tori's cry of alarm as the ground rushed to meet her and
everything went black.
Don't kill me!