Authors note: Ronan Keating sings the song "I Will Miss You."
Chapter 11
She hung her coat quietly upon the coat rack and put her briefcase down, she stood quietly in the hall for a couple of seconds, contemplating how she was going to tell him. Linda already knew where he'd be as she set off towards the den and sure enough she was right, a wry smile crossed her face as she wondered if he ever spent any time in the rest of the house.
She gave a small cough to announce her presence in his den and Vince looked startled as he looked up at her. "I didn't realize you were here." Vince said as he sat back in his chair and removed his glasses.
"Yeah, I noticed, that work must be really fascinating." Linda grinned.
"Well it keeps me out of mischief." He replied.
"The reason I'm in here Vince, is uhh, well, I have something to tell you."
Vince leant forward and looked her in the eyes. "I'm all ears."
She looked at him and just came straight out with it. "I've found an apartment to live in, it's in Stamford, right near work, comes with a garage and it's in a nice area." She came out with it quickly and looked around the den, avoiding Vince's gaze.
Vince leant back in his chair again and started twiddling his thumbs. "Oh well, that's uhh, that's, that's good I guess." He swallowed down the lump that was in his throat. "When do you plan on moving? You know there's no rush."
Linda nodded. "Yeah, it'll probably be in a couple of weeks. I need time to get the decorator's in and buy some furniture and stuff like that."
Vince smiled at her and tried to be happy for her. His gut ached at the thought of letting her move out but he knew the damage had already been done and there was no repairing it.
"If you need any help or anything, you know I'm always here." Vince offered.
Linda smiled at him; he had taken it much better than she had expected him too. "Yeah, I do and thanks."
"For what?" Vince said absent mindedly as Linda stood up, ready to go.
"For the offer of help."
"Oh right," Vine laughed. "Yeah sure, the offer is always there."
"Well, I'll go get dinner on then." Linda smiled as she walked out. Although, they no longer shared a bedroom, Linda still did everything she used too like making dinner and a part of her realized that after she moved out it was going to be very strange looking after just herself.
Vince heard her footsteps die away as he sat there. Obviously he had expected this kind of announcement but perhaps he didn't think it would happen quite so soon. A song suddenly came into his head as he gently hummed to himself.
I thought that I was like an island
Guess I was wrong
Guess I was wrong
I see your face
And then it hits me
That I will miss you
Oh when you're gone
He slowly turned around as the organist began to play and gasped silently as her caught his first glimpse of her. He thought he'd never seen her look so beautiful as she did then, she looked absolutely radiant as she walked slowly up the aisle towards her soon to be husband.
Their eyes met for the first time and they both had the biggest smiles on their faces that either had ever seen the other wear.
This was it, it didn't get better than this, Vince thought as she stood by his side as the vicar began to speak. But he was wrong, there were hundreds more moments like this that awaited them in their future life, but at that moment a young Vincent K McMahon didn't realize it.
My heart will sleep
Until you wake it
I hope and pray
It won't be long
This house is home
And when you leave it
Then I will miss you
Oh when you're gone
"I can't do it anymore, I'm so tired!" An exhausted Linda cried in the delivery room.
"Yeah you can honey, I know you can. Our little baby's in there," he said resting a hand on her swollen stomach "and you've been wanting to hold him or her since the day you found out you were pregnant. You can do this Lin, a few pushes and it'll all be over and the baby will be here!!" An excited Vince encouraged her.
She had been in labour for nearly twenty hours now and Vince was concerned, she was growing tired and he was desperately worried about her. He didn't want to lose either her or his first baby.
"I want a really big push when the next contraction comes Linda." Said the doctor, who was going to be delivering the baby.
Linda cried as the next contraction came and gave it every bit of her strength that she could muster.
"The heads out Linda." Said the doctor, "another big push at the next contraction and that's it, your baby will be here."
"Did you hear that Lin? The head's out!" Vince yelled as he had a look, he went back to Linda, put his arm around her and held her hand. "I'm here babe," he said quietly to her, "I'm here for you, squeeze my hand as hard as you want." He said as he kissed her cheek.
"Here it comes!" Linda panted as the next contraction build up. She screamed as she pushed as hard as she could and gripped her husband's hand and a couple of seconds later the sounds of a baby crying filled the air.
"It's here!" Vince said as he kissed her, "I knew you could do it honey." The tears were building up in Vince's eyes.
"Congratulation's you have a healthy baby son!" The doctor announced proudly as he handed Linda her newborn son.
Linda smiled through her tears as she looked at Vince.
"A boy, honey did you hear that, we've got a boy!" Vince said as he stroked his son's cheek and watched him in Linda's arms.
Linda looked at Vince and Vince caught her gaze and kissed her softly on the lips. "Thank you for my beautiful son." He said as his tears came falling down, he had never felt so proud of anything in his life.
"Hold him," Linda said gently as she put the baby in Vince's arms.
"My son," Vince said proudly. "My beautiful first born son!"
I've been taking it
All for granted
It was there in
Front of my face
I couldn't see
Into understanding
And how could I know
How could I lose my way
I've been taking it
All for granted
I got no excuses for that
I couldn't see
Into understanding
But how could I know
I wonder when you look back
He laughed as he came into his office and saw her standing there with a bottle of the most ridiculously over priced champagne she could find and two glasses. He put his briefcase down on the floor and walked over to her.
"What's this about?"
"What's this about?" she repeated as she handed him the glasses. "This my darling," she said as the cork from the champagne popped out, "is to celebrate the fact" she began to fill up the glasses 'that we have just put on the biggest wrestling extravaganza ever!" she said as she kissed him and took her glass. She raised her glass and Vince followed suit "here's to us, an unbreakable team, that never gave up when everyone around us said we would fail and our amazing mind's for business."
Vince laughed even more.
"Wait! I'm not finished!" Linda said as a smile played around her lips. "And here's to WrestleMania 2!!"
"What??" Vince asked, the smile falling off his face. "What do you mean WrestleMania 2, here's to WrestleMania 102!!"
They both laughed and clinked their glasses together.
"I will drink to that!" Linda laughed.
Vince took a sip of champagne. "This is really nice!" Vince said surprised, he didn't normally like champagne.
Linda looked at him "It bloody well should be for eight hundred dollars a bottle!" Linda said indignantly.
They laughed together and celebrated their biggest ever business accomplishment - the beginning of the yearly wrestling extravaganza known simply as – WrestleMania!.
Will you remember
Our road is straight
Our road is long
My heart is with you
And I will miss you
Oh I will miss you
I know I will miss you
Oh when you're gone
Vince's mind wandered back into the present and he smiled as he recalled some of their most happy memories over the years, he would never ever forgive himself for messing this up, never. He had let the best thing in his life slip away and there was no going back, he caused her nothing but unhappiness over the past few years and he hated himself for it. He loved her so much and wanted her to be happy and that's why he knew he had to let her go.