Hello, Again
TITLE:
Hello, Again
AUTHOR: Juliet3:16
EMAIL: Sweetvalley99@aol.com, FYouWWF@aol.com, Juliet_316_2000@yahoo.com
RATING: PG-13
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE
CATEGORY: ADULT, DRAMA, ANGST
SPOILERS: Up around WM XIX, but I'll also use bits and pieces from 2003/4 as
well. This is out of Character, which means I'll use most wrestlers real
names. Prologue takes place in June 2006.
SUMMARY: Three years after leaving, a Superstar returns.
DISCLAIMER, Vince owns all.
DISTRIBUTION: Fanfiction.Net, WWOMB, anybody else, please ask.
NOTES: This is in response to the quote challenge on KarenFic. However
with Karen's permission, I'm using Kurt/Stephanie as the main pairing instead
of the couples listed in the challenge. As thanks one of the secondary
pairings will be Lita/Edge.
Hello, Again
Prologue
June 2006
He hadn't seen her in three years, not
since he told her he loved her, than said good-bye.
That's what made coming back, walking down
the hallway towards her office both terrifying and exciting at the same time.
Certainly when he left after that fateful WrestleMania, neither of them
expected him to ever come back. Most of the doctors he'd spoken to had
said that his neck was too messed up, too badly damaged to even consider one
more match in the ring and that was before Kurt Angle decided to go ahead and
drop the SMACKDOWN title to Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XIX. Even after
he'd gotten the surgery from Dr. Jho and started feeling better than he'd had
in a long while he'd retired, figuring it was the best for his family and his
wife in particular, even though he still had that want and desire to get in the
ring and wrestle.
That want was probably what ultimately
spell the end of his marriage.
Kurt Angle paused in his strides and closed
his eyes. He told himself over and over that it wasn't anybody's fault
that he and Karen were divorcing. They would ultimately remain friends
and raise their daughter the best they could, despite living apart. They
just weren't meant to be married anymore.
Of course telling himself that never eased
the sting of failure Kurt felt at not being able to keep his family together.
He stepped in front of the door of the
woman who he hoped would be his boss again. When he called to see if the
WWF had any used for him getting back into the ring, he was half afraid that
she wouldn't take his call or hang up on him without letting him speak.
The fact that she agreed to meet with him was a good sign to him. He
knocked on the door and waited.
"Come in," her voice called out
from the otherside of the door. A voice he last heard whisper good-bye to
him as Kurt left to face Brock in what both thought would be Kurt Angle's final
match ever.
He opened the door to her office and took a
few seconds to gaze at her, before he spoke his first words to her in three
years.
"Hello, again, Stephanie," he
greeted Stephanie McMahon.
