Disclaimer: I only own the idea. Story layout stolen from 24.

A/N: This chapter has been re-vamped. Notice anything?

10:00-11:00AM

10:00 Stephanie slowly opened her eyes and looked around her again. She was still in the car…that was amazing. She thought for sure that she would have been tossed from it on the way down, or possibly killed.

Stephanie looked over in the seat next to her, and saw that Goldberg was still sitting next to her, simply bleeding from the nose. She began to fidget with the seat belt that held her into place.

"Oh, come on, you piece of shit!!" She hissed at it. She glanced at Goldberg again. A small line of blood began to trickle down the side of his face. She sighed exasperatedly and returned her full attention to her seat belt problem. She continued to try and unhook herself when all of a sudden a certain smell became very distinct. She stopped and sniffed the air for a moment. One thought echoed through her mind as she registered the smell.

Shit.

The smell was gasoline.

Stephanie looked through the back window of the car to see that the rear end was on fire.

"Oh, God." She whined.

10:06 The fire began to roar louder behind her. She turned back to the front and began to yank at the buckle of the seat belt without much luck. It was pointless to yell out, there wasn't going to be anyone around to hear her anyways. That was the problem with living so far out of the city-no one else around when you need them. In the city, it doesn't matter if you need the people or not, they always seem to be there. She clicked the button to unbuckle it again, but nothing happened. Finally, she pressed the button down, and yanked the belt out with her other hand. She quickly forced open the door, and stumbled out and away from the car, heading for the trees she saw in the distance as thunder began to roll.

10:10 Shawn pulled his door shut rather roughly as he climbed back inside of the rental car. Cameron was already in the passenger seat and buckled in. Shawn quickly buckled himself in and then tried to start the car. The first attempt was a failure; the engine simply did not want to run, but he got it to start on the second try. He smiled a little and put the car in reverse and looked at the steep hill he was about to attempt to back up from his rearview mirror. He turned and looked behind him and slammed on the gas. The wheels spun a little at first, but then found traction and sailed up the hill and back onto the driveway. Shawn shifted the car into drive, and headed down to the end of the driveway.

"Cam, are you sure that you saw a man who looked like Stone Cold with Stephanie? You're absolutely positive that is what you saw?" Shawn asked as he got ready to turn on the highway to go to the hospital to check on Chris.

"Yup, I'm sure Dad." Cameron said. Shawn checked for traffic before pulling out. He grabbed his cell phone.

"Can you do Daddy a favor?"

"What?" Cameron asked.

"Will you stay with Uncle Jay and Aunt Torrie until I get your Uncle Chris and Aunt Steph back home?" Shawn asked his son. Cameron nodded.

"Why can I stay with Uncle Kevin?"

"Because he's in Texas, son, it would take him too long to get here from Texas."

"Oh, OK." Cameron said as Shawn began to dial Jay's number.

10:17 Stephanie wandered in and out of the tree line, while trying to find a way to the highway or to any part of civilization. Clouds covered the sky and the sound of thunder threatened rain was on its way.

"Chris was right, I never should have tried to sign Goldberg," She thought to herself. So many things were already going wrong. She and Chris just needed to become hermits and hide somewhere that no one else knew where they were.

Yet, even then, they might not be safe.

10:21 "Yeah, thanks a lot, Jay, I owe you one. I'll see you in a few. Yeah. OK." Shawn said, before hanging up his cell phone. He glanced over at his son as the first drops of rain started to fall against the windshield, soon yielding to a full-blown downpour.

"You doing okay, Cam?" He asked. Cameron looked over at him.

"I guess so." He said. The car passed on in a few more moments of silence. "Dad?" Cameron asked.

"Yeah, Cam?"

"Today…Today's not going to be like that other day, is it?" he asked. Shawn looked from his son to the road and the drops of rain on the window.

"I honestly don't know, Cam. I hope not."

10:26 Goldberg stumbled out of the burning car, only to be welcomed with the rain from a downpour. Blood was pouring down his face as he crawled away from the car.

"That bitch is going to pay." He promised himself. "She is going to pay with her life!!"

10:33 Stephanie walked a little faster as the rain kept pouring down. She wished that she had dressed differently for today. She was not in the right clothes for a hike in the woods.

But, nothing is ever the way you need it to be.

A clap of thunder sounded through the sky suddenly, startling her. She almost walked right into an animal trap, but luckily noticed it before getting trapped in it. Another clap of thunder sounded as a hand closed over Stephanie's mouth.

"Shh…" the person behind her said. "I'm not going to hurt you, just don't scream. You'll scare her away." Stephanie wanted to ask what she would scare away, but then her eyes caught sight of it.

A cougar was standing on a small hill not any more than 20 feet away from them. The person let go of her and Stephanie tried to turn around and see who was talking to her. The voice sounded so familiar…

"Look at her. I've been tracking this particular one for a few weeks now. Using my extended vacation time with WWE from my injury and all." Stephanie's mind began to wander. Extended vacation. Out on injury…worked for the WWE.

"Adam?" she asked. The cougar took off. He let her turn around.

"The one and only." Stephanie's eyes lit up. "What's a lady as pregnant as you doing out here all alone like this?" he asked.

"It's a long story, but I don't have time to tell you right now." She said. "I need to get to a phone as soon as I can. Do you live around here, or have one with you?" Adam nodded.

"I live about a mile back that way." He said; gesturing back the direction from which she had just came. "My truck's not that far away though, I'll give you a ride." He offered.

"Great."

10:40 Shawn got out of the car and jogged up the front door, trying to keep up with Cameron. Jay and Torrie already had the door open and were waiting for him.

"So, what's the story with Chris and Stephanie today?" Jay asked as Shawn stood on the rug in the living room. Torrie had already taken Cameron deeper into the house to dry him off from the rain.

"I don't know. I think Goldberg might be the one behind it this time, though. Cameron said that he saw him with Stephanie, who was knocked out."

"What?"

"Something happened between Goldberg, Steph, and Chris earlier today, and whatever it was, pissed off Goldberg so much that he tried to kill Chris and kidnapped Stephanie." Shawn said.

"Why would Chris allow Goldberg in his house?" Jay asked.

"Maybe they wanted to sign him?"

"Yeah, with Chris hating Goldberg and vice-versa, I don't know how that business relationship was going to work." Jay said. Shawn lost himself in his thoughts for a moment when the answer suddenly popped into his head. He looked at Jay and knew that they were both thinking the same thing.

"Stephanie." They said in unison.

10:47 Stephanie climbed out of the truck and followed Adam as quickly as she could inside the cabin. He tossed his keys on a counter and patted his dog as he walked in.

"The phone is in the kitchen, down the hall, first door to your left." He said. Stephanie nodded.

"Thanks." She quickly found it and dialed to the house.

Ring.

"I'm sorry, but the number that you are trying to reach is currently unavailable. Please hang up and try again. If you need help hang up and dial your operator." A robotic female voice instructed her. Stephanie wrinkled her forehead and began to dial Chris' cell phone.

Ring.

Ring.

Ring.

"I'm sorry, but the wireless customer that you're trying to reach is currently unavailable." Another female robot-like voice told her. She hung up again, then picked up the phone and dialed Shawn's cell phone.

10:52 "I just don't understand why Chris would set aside his hatred for a man and give him a job. I mean, Stephanie obviously has some influence over him, but I didn't think that it was that big of an influence." Jay said.

"Well, let me put it this way, when your wife is pregnant, you'd do anything to keep her happy. Shawn said as his cell phone began to ring. He leaned back against the chair he was sitting in and fished through his pocket to get it.

"Hello?" he asked.

"Shawn?" Stephanie's voice sounded from the other end.

"Stephanie, where are you? Are you okay?" Shawn asked, suddenly sitting up straight, and exchanging a look with Jay.

"I'm fine. My head's a little banged up from the car accident-"

"Car accident?!" Shawn nearly screamed.

"I was trying to get away from Goldberg. Look, is Chris with you?" She asked. Adam walked into the kitchen and began to listen to her side of the conversation.

"No, he's on his way to the hospital-" Shawn started.

"The hospital?!" Stephanie nearly screamed. "What the hell happened to him-is he alright?" she asked.

"He's going to be okay. It seems like Goldberg choked him until he passed out and then set the house on fire to cover his tracks." Shawn told her.

"I never should've tried to sign him…" Stephanie muttered.

"Uh, that's not our only problem, I'm afraid." Shawn said.

"What else could go wrong?" she moaned.

"Well…I wasn't going to say anything, because I knew that Chris already had a lot on his plate, but…well…Rebecca escaped from the mental institution she was in."

"How in the hell did she do that?" Steph asked.

"I have no clue, but I know that we need to be on the lookout. God only knows what she wants or who she's after." Shawn said.

10:59 A woman with short black hair walked out from the airport terminal and quickly headed over to her rental car. She unlocked it and climbed in. She simply sat there for a few moments, with her hands gripped tight around the steering wheel.

"I'll teach you to lock me up, Shawn Hickenbottom. You'll pay. You and that stupid brat that you love so much." She thought.

11:00

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