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Adam was completely mortified the day of RAW, after a night that received a threat and some shocking news. He had no idea how to tell Chris, if he even was for that matter. He knew that the news of Stephanie's pregnancy would probably kill him, so maybe keeping his own mouth shut might make the whole ordeal good.
But that wasn't the only problem, the last words that came from Stephanie's mouth in his hotel room sent shivers up his spine.
"No, please Adam, I don't want him hurting me."
Now, on top of everything, Paul hurt Stephanie. All throughout the day he thought of just killing Paul when seeing him, but thought otherwise because he knew the consequences.
He decided to go for a drink from catering to get his mind off the topic momentarily. While going to the catering room, he saw Paul going into Vince's office.
"Hey Paul, I heard you wanted to talk, take a seat." Vince said from his desk, brushing off all the hard feelings that had come from the pay per view the day before.
"Hey Vince." Paul stuttered as he took a seat. "I wanted to come in to say... I'm sorry." He let out shakily.
"Is that all?" Vince asked.
"Um, not really, have you seen Stephanie?" Paul asked in a quiet tone.
"I heard she is in the arena, or at least checked in. But, I haven't seen her at all." He said.
"Oh, alright, that's all I wanted to know." Paul said, getting up from his chair and leaving the office.
"So, what were you saying last night about me being a suck-up?" Adam asked as he leaned against the wall, a smirk on his lips.
Paul shot a glare at him. "Stay the hell out of my business, Copeland." He said and shoved his way past the Canadian.
"Sorry bud, but it's now my business, too." Adam said, loud enough for Paul to hear.
Paul, surely enough, did hear the comment, and turned around. "What did you say?"
"You heard, it is now my business, too." Adam repeated.
"What business?"
Adam just grinned, which led Paul to stare at him.
"Paul!" Stephanie yelled as she ran to him. She heard the whole confrontation. "I've been looking all over for you."
"Stephanie." He looked to her, his expression changing into fake happiness. "Where have you been?"
"I've just been with the divas for awhile, I'm sorry for not telling you." She said, covering up pretty good. She looked to Adam who sent her a confused look. She sent him a pleading one, not wanting Paul to know about anything that was talked the night before.
"Come on Steph, let's go." Paul said as he grabbed her hand, getting out of the hall.
Chris waited at the Gorilla position with Glenn Jacobs and Amy Dumas, watching the match that was going on. The Highlight Reel segment would come on, and involve the three.
"So, Chris, what's up man?" Glenn asked as he sat in one of the chairs.
"Just regular crap." Chris said while looking another direction, lowering his head.
"You okay?" Amy asked, putting her hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, I just wish I could kill Paul." He said with a short laugh.
"We all want to; especially what he did to Benoit last night." Glenn said, missing Chris's point.
"Well..." Chris said, but stopped, not wanting his emotions for Stephanie to come out. "You're right."
Chris got back from his match that he had after the Highlight Reel, heading back to his locker room. He went in seeing Adam staring a hole in him, which made Chris feel insanely uncomfortable.
"Erm, what's up, Adam?" He asked while looking away from his friend.
Adam lifted his gaze to look away from Chris, letting out a deep sigh. He didn't know what to do, and it drove him nuts. Telling his fellow Canadian would send him off the deep end, thus ending with Paul getting hurt, or that and Chris getting fired. He cringed at that thought.
"Good match and stuff out there." He said while getting up, patting his friend on the back and leaving the locker room.
Chris raised an eyebrow as Adam left the room, he was guessing for some odd reason, and wanted to figure out. He went outside the locker room, and chased down Adam, who seemed to go to catering in a hurry.
"Adam!"
Adam froze, now he was screwed. He turned around to see a confused expression on Chris's face. "Yeah, what's up?" He asked.
"Um, I need to ask, what in the hell was with you in that locker room. Your mind had to be on something, and I really want to know what it is." Chris begged.
Adam bit his lip, and signaled for Chris to come with him into catering, to find a deserted table. They found one quickly, taking a seat.
"Look, you can't get upset over this." Adam said, and thought about what he just said. "Well, um, uh, not too upset. Just, please, don't go off the deep end."
"Okay, whatever, but just get to it, please." Chris pleaded; he was just not in the mood and wanted to get to the main part.
Adam sighed. "Fine, but don't kill me." This comment had Chris giving him a hard stare: he gulped. "You know I talked with Paul last night, right?"
"Yeah." Chris said nonchalantly.
"Well, that wasn't all of it. You see, Paul doesn't give two shits about Stephanie, all he is using her is for the title, and for his spot in the business. And...and..." Adam stopped, unable to continue.
"And? I already know about that stuff." Chris said, let down if that was the only thing on Adam's mind.
"And she's...Kind of, um...Pregnant." Adam mumbled out.
Chris's eyes shot open. "SHE'S PREGNANT!?!? WITH THAT NO GOOD SON OF A BITCH?!"
"Calm down." Adam warned, but he read the expression on Chris's face. "Because that isn't it."
Chris turned his head sideways. "What do you mean that isn't it?"
"Well, she also stayed in my room last night, after waking me up at about.."
"Now YOU slept with her?!" Chris exclaimed, and he was just about to die from everything that was shot his way.
"No, no, no! Chris, I did NOT sleep with her. It was actually when I woke up, and she told me that Paul had abused her." Adam let out, it felt to him like a huge weight was off his shoulders, but he knew that anyone or Chris himself was screwed.
Chris's eyes widened once again, his eyes burning with hatred. He didn't even speak one word to Adam, and left the catering room in search of the man who hurt the woman he liked. Thoughts in the back of his head were telling him that it might not be true, but he wouldn't believe it even if it came from God himself.
He found his target in the hallway, back turned and looking over a paper. He seethed at the man, and got a running start, wanting to kill him right then and there.
But Glenn came in and stopped Chris, just as Paul went into a locker room.
"Glenn, what the fuck?" Chris yelled as he tried to get free from the larger man's grip.
"Look, we all want to get our hands on Paul because of what he did to Benoit, but you NEED to let it go!" Glenn said, completely missing Chris's point of the attack.
Chris simply stared at him. He had no idea what was going on, and if he did, he would probably Chris free access to pummel Paul to death and join in himself. "Look, it's not about that."
"Oh." Glenn sighed, letting the smaller man go. "Sorry."
"Just make sure I never see that piece of shit again." Chris scoffed as he walked away, going to his locker room to take out some frustrations on the wall, door, or whatever was there.