Jack and Jessica walked back into the room and their conversation was
interrupted by a loud knock at the door.
"I'll get it," said Jack.
"Be careful." Shane said as Jack rushed out of the room.
"Who could that be?" Vince wondered. "We're not expecting anyone else are we?" He asked Linda. Linda shook her head.
"Dad." Jack called.
Shane got up and walked out of the room to the front door where Jack was holding the door open and a woman, who he had never seen in his life stood on the doorstep.
"Hi," said Shane. "What can we do for you?" He said to the woman who looked to be in her late thirties.
The woman nervously said, "Umm, my names Rachel. I'm looking for Linda McMahon?"
"Ok, any particular reason? It's just that we're having a private family get-together and......"
Rachel cut him off. "Look I'm really sorry to interrupt but it's very urgent."
"Alright, come in." Rachel walked in at looked around the big mansion.
"This is a nice place."
"Yeah, its my Mom's, Linda's and Dad's."
"Yeah, I know your Mom's Linda and your Dad's Vince. I happen to be a big fan of the WWF."
"Oh, wait your not a fan are you. Look we don't mind...."
"No, no. I'm not here for that. It's kinda personal business."
"Ok, you better come through then."
Rachel followed Shane and Jack into the living room. Everybody looked up as she walked in.
"Mom, this is Rachel. She said she's got some personal business with you." Shane said.
Linda got up and went over to Rachel. "Hi," she said.
"Jack, take Jess to the playroom will you? Grandad and I brought you both some new toys to play with. I know you're gonna like them."
"Yeah. Ok Nana," Jack replied as he got up and led his sister out of the room.
"Do I know you? You look quite familiar." Linda turned her attention back to Rachel
Rachel said nervously, "No, no you don't but maybe you should."
"Sorry?" Linda said questioningly.
"I'm your daughter."
Marissa, Paul, and Steph gasped in shock, while Shane stood there with his mouth hanging open and Vince looked like he was about to explode. Linda's face turned white and all colour that was there, drained.
Vince marched over to her and took her by the arm. "Look, I don't know who you think you are, or what sort of sick joke your trying to play but get out of my house now!" Ordered Vince as he took her to the door.
Rachel protested. "No, let go of me, it's true. She's my mother, let me go!" She yelled as she broke free of Vince and ran over to face Linda. "Tell them, go on tell them. You know it's true!"
Linda looked at Vince, then turned to look at everyone else, not knowing what to say.
"Linda?" Vince said. Linda looked at him. "Well?"
"It's true," Linda whispered.
"What?" Vince said.
"I'm so sorry Vince."
Vince stood there in shock, as did everybody else.
"How did you find me?" Linda asked Rachel.
"Your name was on my birth certificate, and the adoption agency helped too."
"When I gave you up they said they wouldn't help unless we both wanted to contact each other." Linda avoided the gaze of her family and Rachel and looked around the room.
"Lets just say I know some people in the right places."
Linda nodded. "Oh, I see. Why did you want to find me?"
"Well, I always knew I was adopted and my parents, the people who raised me, gave me their blessing to find you. I thought I deserved to know where I came from. And what your excuse was for giving me up."
Linda nodded her head. "Of course you did."
"I'm really sorry to have ruined your birthday," she said to Vince. "But I think you can understand that this is pretty important."
"Bit late for that now, but yes I understand. I don't understand how my wife of thirty five years has managed to keep this from me for so long though." Vince replied staring at Linda, she still mnaged to avoid his stare. "How old are you?" Vince asked, turning his attention back to Rachel.
"Thirty-eight. Why?"
"No wonder your so quiet." Vince said turning to Linda. "She's thirty- eight, that means you were what? Fifteen, sixteen when you had her? We were together then Linda, is she my daughter too? We had a child you never even told me about?!" Vince shouted.
Linda shook her head. "No, no, she isn't yours I swear. I would have kept her if she was."
"What? You went with someone else, while you were going out with me?"
"No!" Linda shouted. "It wasn't like that," she said as she started to cry.
"Well, how was it like then Lin? Come on, explain it to me! Did you get a little seed, pop it in, then bam, nine months later a little baby popped out? Come on, tell me!" Vince angrily said as he backed Linda into a corner.
"Vince, don't please." Linda begged.
"Dad, back off her." Shane said as he pulled his Dad back. "She must have a good explanantion."
"Well, maybe she'd care to tell it to me. Who's the Dad?"
"I can't tell you Vince."
"The Dad is named as Andrew Chambers on my birth certificate," Rachel said.
Linda looked at Rachel and shook her head.
"What?!" Vince shouted as his wife. "Andrew Chambers? Lin, tell me this isn't true please."
"I can't Vince, I wish it wasn't, but it is. It's not like you think though, I swear."
"What do mean it's not like I think!?" yelled Vince. "Maybe you'd like to tell me how it was then. Andrew? He was my best friend, you little slut."
"Dad, don't call her that. Isn't it obvious she's upset about this. You're just making it worse, you're upsetting her even more." Stephanie said.
"Maybe she deserves to be upset. She's been lying to me for all these years, she never even told me. She slept with my best friend behind my back."
"Vince, please. Please don't, you don't understand. It wasn't like that." Linda sobbed.
"Tell me how it was then Lin!" Vince demanded coldly.
"Mom, come on. You can't keep this from us any more. I think Rachel deserves to know who her Dad is and where he is. We deserved to know that we had a sister and Dad deserves to know how you came to have a daughter you never even told him about." Shane said, trying to control the anger in his voice as to not upset his Mom any more than she was.
"Alright." Linda said quietly as she walked over and sat on the couch. "Fine I will. Maybe when I tell you, you'll all understand why I didn't want anyone to know and why I didn't want you to find me," Linda said coldly to Rachel. "It was 1963, Vince, you'd been sent to military school. It was when we didn't see each other for a whole year, when we just kept in touch by phonecalls and letters. Before you went, you told Andrew to take care of me. Well, he did a whole lot more than that."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Vince shouted at her. "It seems to me you took pretty good care of each other!"
Linda looked at Vince and shook her head. "It wasn't like that. One night, after you'd been gone about a month, he took me out to dinner because I was really miserable and I hadn't gone out since you went. Anyway, he took me out to dinner and afterwards walked me home, I invited him in. Just to talk, nothing else. We uhh..." Linda began to get choked up and let out a sob. "We were sitting on the........, on the couch, when umm, he uhh....., he made a pass at me and kissed me. I told him he should back off and leave but he wouldn't. Mom and Dad were out so I couldn't scream for help or anything." Linda paused and took a deep breath. "Anyway he, he started to get really angry, shouting at me that I'd been leading him on, giving him all the signs, but I hadn't been, I swear to you Vince. Or if I did I didn't realise it. He came over, shoved me on the couch and got on top of me. I screamed at him to get off but he wouldn't. He said I deserved it after what I'd done to him. I tried to fight him off Vince, I swear," she sobbed. "But he was just to strong for me, and he held me down and.......and, he raped me." Linda cried.
Everyone looked at her in stunned silence while Linda sobbed quietly with her head in her hands.
"I'll get it," said Jack.
"Be careful." Shane said as Jack rushed out of the room.
"Who could that be?" Vince wondered. "We're not expecting anyone else are we?" He asked Linda. Linda shook her head.
"Dad." Jack called.
Shane got up and walked out of the room to the front door where Jack was holding the door open and a woman, who he had never seen in his life stood on the doorstep.
"Hi," said Shane. "What can we do for you?" He said to the woman who looked to be in her late thirties.
The woman nervously said, "Umm, my names Rachel. I'm looking for Linda McMahon?"
"Ok, any particular reason? It's just that we're having a private family get-together and......"
Rachel cut him off. "Look I'm really sorry to interrupt but it's very urgent."
"Alright, come in." Rachel walked in at looked around the big mansion.
"This is a nice place."
"Yeah, its my Mom's, Linda's and Dad's."
"Yeah, I know your Mom's Linda and your Dad's Vince. I happen to be a big fan of the WWF."
"Oh, wait your not a fan are you. Look we don't mind...."
"No, no. I'm not here for that. It's kinda personal business."
"Ok, you better come through then."
Rachel followed Shane and Jack into the living room. Everybody looked up as she walked in.
"Mom, this is Rachel. She said she's got some personal business with you." Shane said.
Linda got up and went over to Rachel. "Hi," she said.
"Jack, take Jess to the playroom will you? Grandad and I brought you both some new toys to play with. I know you're gonna like them."
"Yeah. Ok Nana," Jack replied as he got up and led his sister out of the room.
"Do I know you? You look quite familiar." Linda turned her attention back to Rachel
Rachel said nervously, "No, no you don't but maybe you should."
"Sorry?" Linda said questioningly.
"I'm your daughter."
Marissa, Paul, and Steph gasped in shock, while Shane stood there with his mouth hanging open and Vince looked like he was about to explode. Linda's face turned white and all colour that was there, drained.
Vince marched over to her and took her by the arm. "Look, I don't know who you think you are, or what sort of sick joke your trying to play but get out of my house now!" Ordered Vince as he took her to the door.
Rachel protested. "No, let go of me, it's true. She's my mother, let me go!" She yelled as she broke free of Vince and ran over to face Linda. "Tell them, go on tell them. You know it's true!"
Linda looked at Vince, then turned to look at everyone else, not knowing what to say.
"Linda?" Vince said. Linda looked at him. "Well?"
"It's true," Linda whispered.
"What?" Vince said.
"I'm so sorry Vince."
Vince stood there in shock, as did everybody else.
"How did you find me?" Linda asked Rachel.
"Your name was on my birth certificate, and the adoption agency helped too."
"When I gave you up they said they wouldn't help unless we both wanted to contact each other." Linda avoided the gaze of her family and Rachel and looked around the room.
"Lets just say I know some people in the right places."
Linda nodded. "Oh, I see. Why did you want to find me?"
"Well, I always knew I was adopted and my parents, the people who raised me, gave me their blessing to find you. I thought I deserved to know where I came from. And what your excuse was for giving me up."
Linda nodded her head. "Of course you did."
"I'm really sorry to have ruined your birthday," she said to Vince. "But I think you can understand that this is pretty important."
"Bit late for that now, but yes I understand. I don't understand how my wife of thirty five years has managed to keep this from me for so long though." Vince replied staring at Linda, she still mnaged to avoid his stare. "How old are you?" Vince asked, turning his attention back to Rachel.
"Thirty-eight. Why?"
"No wonder your so quiet." Vince said turning to Linda. "She's thirty- eight, that means you were what? Fifteen, sixteen when you had her? We were together then Linda, is she my daughter too? We had a child you never even told me about?!" Vince shouted.
Linda shook her head. "No, no, she isn't yours I swear. I would have kept her if she was."
"What? You went with someone else, while you were going out with me?"
"No!" Linda shouted. "It wasn't like that," she said as she started to cry.
"Well, how was it like then Lin? Come on, explain it to me! Did you get a little seed, pop it in, then bam, nine months later a little baby popped out? Come on, tell me!" Vince angrily said as he backed Linda into a corner.
"Vince, don't please." Linda begged.
"Dad, back off her." Shane said as he pulled his Dad back. "She must have a good explanantion."
"Well, maybe she'd care to tell it to me. Who's the Dad?"
"I can't tell you Vince."
"The Dad is named as Andrew Chambers on my birth certificate," Rachel said.
Linda looked at Rachel and shook her head.
"What?!" Vince shouted as his wife. "Andrew Chambers? Lin, tell me this isn't true please."
"I can't Vince, I wish it wasn't, but it is. It's not like you think though, I swear."
"What do mean it's not like I think!?" yelled Vince. "Maybe you'd like to tell me how it was then. Andrew? He was my best friend, you little slut."
"Dad, don't call her that. Isn't it obvious she's upset about this. You're just making it worse, you're upsetting her even more." Stephanie said.
"Maybe she deserves to be upset. She's been lying to me for all these years, she never even told me. She slept with my best friend behind my back."
"Vince, please. Please don't, you don't understand. It wasn't like that." Linda sobbed.
"Tell me how it was then Lin!" Vince demanded coldly.
"Mom, come on. You can't keep this from us any more. I think Rachel deserves to know who her Dad is and where he is. We deserved to know that we had a sister and Dad deserves to know how you came to have a daughter you never even told him about." Shane said, trying to control the anger in his voice as to not upset his Mom any more than she was.
"Alright." Linda said quietly as she walked over and sat on the couch. "Fine I will. Maybe when I tell you, you'll all understand why I didn't want anyone to know and why I didn't want you to find me," Linda said coldly to Rachel. "It was 1963, Vince, you'd been sent to military school. It was when we didn't see each other for a whole year, when we just kept in touch by phonecalls and letters. Before you went, you told Andrew to take care of me. Well, he did a whole lot more than that."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Vince shouted at her. "It seems to me you took pretty good care of each other!"
Linda looked at Vince and shook her head. "It wasn't like that. One night, after you'd been gone about a month, he took me out to dinner because I was really miserable and I hadn't gone out since you went. Anyway, he took me out to dinner and afterwards walked me home, I invited him in. Just to talk, nothing else. We uhh..." Linda began to get choked up and let out a sob. "We were sitting on the........, on the couch, when umm, he uhh....., he made a pass at me and kissed me. I told him he should back off and leave but he wouldn't. Mom and Dad were out so I couldn't scream for help or anything." Linda paused and took a deep breath. "Anyway he, he started to get really angry, shouting at me that I'd been leading him on, giving him all the signs, but I hadn't been, I swear to you Vince. Or if I did I didn't realise it. He came over, shoved me on the couch and got on top of me. I screamed at him to get off but he wouldn't. He said I deserved it after what I'd done to him. I tried to fight him off Vince, I swear," she sobbed. "But he was just to strong for me, and he held me down and.......and, he raped me." Linda cried.
Everyone looked at her in stunned silence while Linda sobbed quietly with her head in her hands.