Secrets and Lies



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Summary : What if Joanie and Paul met again after a couple of years and realized they still had feelings for each other and what if Joanie had a big secret she should have told Paul about 2 years ago......

A/N : I know Triple H tears his quadriceps muscle the day after Judgement Day but for the sake of this story that injury will happen a few weeks later and now on to the story...


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"Why the hell did you ask Deborah to check on Joanie?" Stephanie asked.

"Because she's had quite a shock and shouldn't be alone, and because I can't go and check on her myself since I still have to work. You know this isn't the way I wanted her to find out about us. I never wanted to hurt her," Paul said while pacing his dressing room.

"Whatever, I'm just glad that she knows now. I need to go and check in with my father, see if he needs help with anything, I'll talk to you later," with that said Steph left the dressing room feeling really happy with herself. As usual she was too wrapped up in her own world that she didn't even notice the fact that Paul didn't even respond when she said she would see him later let alone even kiss her goodbye.

God, I hope Deborah will be able to catch up with Joanie, she really shouldn't be by herself right now, Paul thought to himself.


Meanwhile, Deborah went to Joanie's dressing room to check on her. When she got there, the door was shut and she didn't want to just barge in so she knocked and waited for a response.

"Joanie, honey, it's me Deborah. I just wanted to come check on you and make sure you were all right," she said when she got no response from her knock. "Joanie, you in there hun?" she asked again, and still no response. Getting really concerned Deborah decided to just go inside, to hell with manners. When she entered the dressing room, she noticed that it was empty and all of Joanie's things were missing. Needing to know that she was all right Deborah tried Joanie's cell phone but only got her voice mail. She left a message for her to call her and let her know she was okay. Next she tried Joanie's hotel room but once again got know response. She again left the same message. "Damn it to hell," Deborah yelled because she was so frustrated with not being able to get a hold of Joanie.

Hearing the yell as they were walking by Matt and Amy went into the room to see what the problem was. "Deborah, what's wrong? Why are you yelling?" they both ask at the same time.

"I'm yelling because Joanie's not here and she really shouldn't be alone right now, not after what just happened."

"What do ya mean she shouldn't be alone right now after what happen?" Amy asked quizzically. "You mean you don't know." "Don't know what?" "Joanie walked in on Paul and Stephanie kissing and it turns out that he's been cheating on her with the billion-dollar skank for a while know." "Oh my god, what a prick. Poor Joanie, she must be devastated." "I know, that's why I was coming to see if she was okay, but she wasn't here and she's not answering her cell." "She probably just went back to the hotel to be alone." "Maybe, but when I tried calling her room no one answered." "She might think it's Paul trying to call and doesn't want to talk to that prick." "That's true. Look I gotta go Steve's match is getting ready to start and I have to make nice with the bitch and pretend like were friends when I want to do nothing more that rip all her hair out for hurting Joanie. If you hear anything let me know." "We will."


After he did his run-in and the main event was over Paul went in search of Deborah to make sure that Joanie was okay. He finally found her in catering getting a cup of coffee. As he was approaching her Deborah turned around and gave him a dirty look.

"What the hell do want?" She spat.

"I just wanted to make sure that Joanie was okay. I never meant to hurt her."

"Well, you did a really great job of that. And I don't know how she's doing because she was already gone when I got to her dressing room and her cells off so I haven't had a chance to talk to her yet."

"So no ones heard from her then?"

"Weren't you listening, not that it's any concern of yours anymore, after the way you and Slutephanie humiliated her tonight, but she's probably back at the hotel crying her eyes out and not answering the phone because she doesn't want to talk to anyone, especially your sorry ass."

"Shit, I gotta go," Paul said as he raced out of catering leaving a bewildered Deborah behind.

As he raced to his dressing room to get changed Paul had only one thought on his mind and that was Joanie. He didn't think she would intentionally do anything to harm herself, but he remembered how upset she was when she ran out of the dressing room earlier and the hurt look in her eyes, and he didn't want to take any chances. That's why he had to make sure she was all right. When Paul was done changing and just getting ready to leave Stephanie came into his locker room.

"Paul, I went ahead and booked you a different room at the hotel," she trailed off when she noticed he was about to leave. "Where the hell do you think you're going?"

"Not know Steph. I don't have time for this. No ones heard from Joanie since she left here earlier and I'm going to the hotel to make sure she's okay."

"Well you better make time for this. You and Joanie are broken up now, and anything she does from now on is no longer any of your concern. If you're so worried about her get one of her friends to check on her."

"Listen to me Stephanie, you don't tell me what to do or who to be concerned about. We may have broken up to day I still care about what happens to Joanie and I am going to make sure that she is okay," with that said Paul grabbed his bag and left the dressing room leaving a stunned Stephanie staring at him with her mouth wide opened.


Meanwhile at the airport Joanie finally decided to buy a ticket to Iowa, she figured that no one would think to look for her there. She paid for the ticket with cash that way she wouldn't have to give her name and their would be no record of where she went, so that way it would make it harder for anyone to find her if they tried to look for her. She would stay there for a couple of weeks until she could decide what to do with the rest of her life. The only things she did know now were that her wrestling career in the WWE was over as of now and that she didn't want to have anything to do with Paul ever again. Before Joanie was due to board the plane she found someone that could deliver the women's title belt and the note that she wrote to Vince letting him know that she was stopping contract negotiations and that tonight was her last official night as a WWE diva. She also phoned her sister, using a pay phone, to let her know that she was going away for a couple of weeks and not to be alarmed if anyone called looking for her. Her sister demanded to know what was wrong, so Joanie told her about how she caught Paul and Stephanie together, the break up, her leaving the WWE, but not the baby. She didn't want to share that with anybody right now. Joanie then asked her sister to wire her some money because she didn't want to have to use her credit or atm cards later on. Luckily Joanie had about $1500 on her, and the $4,000 her sister was going to wire her, so she shouldn't have to worry about using them for a couple of weeks and by then she should have a plan on what she was going to do.


As Paul pulled into the hotel parking garage, he was really frustrated. Joanie's cell phone was still off and there was still no answer on the hotel room phone. He parked his car, went inside the hotel and sprinted for the elevators, noticing quite a few people waiting he decided to forgo them and took the stairs instead. When he reached the fifth floor, he made his way to his and Joanie's hotel room praying that she was inside. But when he unlocked the door and walked inside the room was empty.

"Damn it," he yelled. "Where is she?" Not noticing at first that his things were the only stuff still in the room. After thinking for about five minutes on where she could be he finally noticed that all her clothes and toiletries were gone. Getting really worried now, Paul decided to call the front desk.

"Front desk, how can I help you?" A voice asked.

"This is Paul Levesque in room 525, I was wondering if you could tell me if the woman staying with me, Joanie Laurer, has been by tonight."

"Sir, she checked out of the hotel this afternoon."

"What? Are you sure? There has to be some kind of mistake."

"Sorry, sir, no mistake. I was the one who checked her out personally."

"Did she say why she was checking out?"

"No, she didn't, and I didn't ask. That's personal. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"No, you've done enough," with that said he hung up the phone and sat down on the bed. Why did she check out this afternoon before the pay-per-view, before she even found out about Steph and me, Paul wondered? By this time a lot of the wrestlers had started arriving back at the hotel and Paul decided to check with them hoping that someone had heard from Joanie. After talking with everyone he could no one knew where Joanie was and everyone was starting to get really concerned. He even called the Police, but they said that there was nothing they could do because Joanie was an adult and could leave if she wanted to and besides she had to be missing for 48 hours before they would even consider making a report. Deborah and Amy were so worried they even checked the hospitals just to make sure that Joanie wasn't there. She wasn't thankfully. Not knowing where she was or what to do Paul went to talk with Vince.

Knocking on Vince's door he waited for permission to enter. "Come in," a voice yelled from inside. Turning the handle he pushed the door open and walked in. "Hey, Paul, how's it going?" Vince asked.

"Not so good."

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know if you've heard yet, but Joanie found out today that Steph and I have been seeing each other and she left the arena really upset. That was at about 7:10 and no one has seen or heard from her since. Her cell phone is turned off and I just found out that she checked out this afternoon before she even came to the arena."

As Vince was listening to Paul talk he kept getting more and more worried, it was now 12:45, and that meant that no one had heard from Joanie in more than 5 ½ hours. That was really out of character for her. "Has anyone called the police yet or checked with the rental company to see if she's turned in her car? How bout the hospitals?"

"Deborah and Amy checked with the hospitals, and thankfully she wasn't there. As for the police they said she had to be missing for at least 48 hours before they would even consider filing a report, but even then they said they probably wouldn't because it wasn't a criminal matter, but a civil one. As for the car rental company, I didn't think of that. That's a good idea. Wait we had separate cars this time and I don't know who she rented from."

"Not a problem, JR's the one who set's up all the travel arrangements. Let me call him and get that information." As Vince went over to the phone to call JR there was a knock at the door. "Could you please get that Paul?" Vince asked. When Paul opened the door he found a messenger standing on the other side.

"I have a message for a Mr. Vince McMahon," the messenger stated.

"He's on the phone right now, I'll take it for him," stated Paul.

"Okay, just sign right here please." When Paul finished signing, the messenger handed him a heavy package and a note.

"Who was at the door Paul?" Vince asked once he got off the phone with JR.

"It was a messenger, delivering something for you. Does JR have the information on which rental company Joanie got her car from?"

"Unfortunately, no. All that info got left back at the office in Stanford and no one will be able to get it until the morning."

"Fuck."

"Don't worry, I'm sure Joanie is okay. She probably just checked into another hotel for the night so that she wouldn't have to face anyone, especially you or Steph."

"Yeah, your right. I'm just concerned about her. She hasn't been feeling well lately, and she really wanted to talk to me about something today, but I kept blowing her off. Gawd, I wonder what she wanted to talk to me about."

Completely forgetting about the package that had just been delivered Vince told Paul to go back to his room to try and get some rest because there was nothing that they could do until the office opened up in the morning. Doubting that he would even be able to sleep Paul went back to the room that he had shared with Joanie. When he got there he noticed that he had a voice mail on his cell. Hoping it was from Joanie or at least from someone that had heard from her, he was disappointed to hear Stephanie's voice wanting to know if he would be staying in her room tonight. Deleting the message he laid down on the bed and started to wonder again what it was that Joanie had wanted to talk to him about today. Eventually he fell into a fitful sleep and when he woke up it was 7:30 in the morning. Knowing that the office would be getting ready to open in about 30 minutes Paul decided to take a shower and get dressed so that he could be there when Vince got the car rental information and place a call to the company to see if Joanie had turned her car in yet. After Paul finished showering, he was shaving at the sink when he dropped his razor in the trash can. When he bent down to retrieve it, he pulled out the home pregnancy test instead. "What the hell is this?" He asked himself as he stared at it blankly for a few seconds. Finally, realization of what it was dawned on him. He had seen one of these at his sisters house when she had been trying to have a baby. "Oh my god," he said in shock as he sat down on the toilet. "This is why Joanie hasn't been feeling good and why she was so desperate to talk to me yesterday."




A/N 2 : Sorry this chapter took so long to post...........I hope you like it so please review and let me know if there's anything you think needs tweaking.........next chapter should be up in a day or two.........really I promise this time ; )