Hi Guys! A quick update as this is an important chapter, it's the Wrestlemania 23 Chapter! Feels like it was forever but we're finally here. Oh and look out for another update in a couple of days, the next chapter after this will be a big chapter with big plot revelations. Hint: Someone will be getting hooked up with Stephanie. But who? Dave or Chris? You might wanna read this chapter before you start to speculate! Enjoy!

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After several knocks at Stephanie's door Stacy began to get a little worried. She went to find Kennedy, who she knew had been granted a dummy key that allowed him access to all the wrestler's rooms. The WWE crew had some-what of a wild reputation, it was Kennedy's sole responsibility to keep an eye on everyone and punish those who played up whilst on the road. Within a few minutes, Kennedy was turning the key of Steph's room. He and Stacy walked in to see Steph asleep on the floor of the bathroom. Stacy immediately ran over to her to check on her.

"Steph? Steph! Are you ok?"

Stacy gently shook Steph to wake her up.

"Hmm? Stacy, I'm sorry…am I late? I must have dozed off," she mumbled.

Stacy gagged slightly from the sick smell that lingered in the bathroom. Stacy gathered together the bits of tissue paper Steph had used to dry her tears and wipe her mouth, she flushed them down the toilet.

"Are you ill? Kennedy, she's been sick and she looks very pale."

"Steffie?" Kennedy muttered, overwhelmed with fear for his friend's health.

Steph regained her strength and managed to pull herself off of the floor without their help, relieving the pair slightly.

"I'm not sick, I just had a bit of a nightmare. Well…not a bit, more like a full-blown epic of a nightmare!" she smiled at them and the pair smiled back.

"I'll leave you two to sort yourselves out. Don't forget to be at the arena at two."

As Kennedy left and shut the door, Steph looked puzzled. "Two?"

"Our run through got moved back a couple of hours, means two more hours to clean you up in! Now you get in the shower and then you can tell me a little more about what's going on."

Stacy spent the rest of the day by Steph's side. The last thing Steph needed was to be alone. The pair decided to share a changing room at MSG. As they entered they room a bunch of white roses lay on a table in the room. Stacy picked them up with a grin on her face.

"Ooo they're so pretty!" she said.

Stacy smelt them and sighed with a grin on her face. She held them under Steph's nose and the sweet smell calmed Steph.

"Who are they from and who are they for? You know white roses are my favourite flowers."

Stacy looked at the card and then frowned and pretended to cry, she then smiled and passed them over to Steph. Steph read the card:

'Dear Stephanie, I wanted to wish you all of the best tonight. The past two weeks have been great seeing you again. I hope that you blossom in the ring tonight, just like these roses are blossoming for you. I'll see you later.'

Steph didn't even think through her next reaction. She put the roses down on the table and pulled out her phone and dialled a number.

"Hello?"

"Hi Chris! I just wanted to thank you."

"Thank me? Well, last night was no problem. I had lots of fun."

"Yeah me too. But I wanted to thank you for the roses."

"Roses? Oh yeah…the roses!" Chris was puzzled but decided to take the credit for someone else's gift to her. If they were stupid enough to leave the card anonymous, why the hell shouldn't he take advantage? But what also disturbed him in that moment was that someone else had given her flowers…someone else was interested in his Stephanie!

"How did you know that white roses were my favourite?"

"Just a lucky coincidence. Look Steph I got to go. I'll catch you later."

"Ok. Bye."

Chris hung up, the pressed another button on his phone and held it to his ear. "I'm sorry Jess to put you on hold but it's just gonna be a bit of a hectic day."

"It's OK, I understand."

"Look Jess, what I was saying before…I still love you but things have got to change between us. I don't want us to carrying on heading the way we're going. I was thinking, maybe we should have a trial separation and see how things go? I'm not ready to give up the ghost yet, but I just need a break from the constant rows…"

"Me too Chris, I understand."


Stephanie was very nervous, but not for the same reasons her body was used to. This time she was nervous about her match. She and Stacy were stood watching the match before them. It was Wrestlemania 23 and it was Kane/Undertaker in a Casket Match. It was to be their last ever match and both wrestlers would be retiring. No-one knew what was in store. The whole of the backstage crew were emotional about the whole thing, Kane and the Undertaker had become backstage veterans and saying goodbye to them would be difficult.

Steph and Stacy watched as Kane chokeslammed the Undertaker from the ringside into a casket. Kane grinned as he slammed the casket shut.

"Oh my God! The Undertaker has finally been defeated at Wrestlemania! I don't believe it! I don't believe it!" JR was shouting.

Kane took the casket and wheeled it towards a dirt pile where he planned on finally burying The Undertaker once and for all. Kane put the casket in the hole and ordered his pregnant wife Lita to start filling it with dirt. Suddenly the lights went black and a film clip started playing. Steph wasn't sure what it was playing, the backstage TVs were only showing certain cameras views. She found out later the screen had said 'The dead may rise one last time…The time has finally come…Time for us to go back where we belong…A darker dimension…Where we will…REST…IN…PEACE'. The lights came back on and the Undertaker was out of the casket and stood by the grave choking Kane. The Undertaker took Kane and chokeslammed him into the grave. The Undertaker stood and stared at Lita as if hypnotising her, he then looked out to the crowds one last time…the crowds were cheering like crazy and chanting his name. He raised his fists into the air one last time before jumping into the grave, just as Lita pulled the lever for tons of dirt to crash down and bury them both alive. Lita shook her head and snapped out of it, then she rushed to the grave and knelt over it crying for her husband and brother-in-law. Wrestlemania cut into commercials as the ring was cleared ready for Stacy and Steph.

Stacy was the one shaking this time. "How the hell are we supposed to follow that?"

She was scared that their carefully planned match would be thrown away due to it's positioning in the show. Steph threw her arms around her friend.

"Look, it's our job…you know this. They go out there and provide an emotional draining match. We're here to give the fans their breather, without us the show would just tire the fans out. We can do this Stacy, we may not be Kane and the Undertaker, but we can do this!"

Steph joined Stacy in a prayer just before they went on.

"Picture before the match?" A photographer photographed the pair together seconds before Stacy's music started playing.

"Ladies and Gentleman, the following match is a chair match for the WWE Woman's Championship. Making her way to the ring, she is the WWE Woman's Champion, Stacy Keibler."

Stacy came out wearing her 'bad girl' baby tee and hot pants, with the belt on her shoulder. She walked down to the ring and did her usual ring entrance. Stacy was getting a pop from the crowd, despite her recent role as a heel.

But Stephanie was overwhelmed by her reaction. The fans were going crazy for her. She wondered if this was just a temporary reaction due to her only just returning. Steph always sold herself short, for a WWE Diva her skills in the ring were one of the best…she was almost as good as Trish.

Steph was wearing baggy pants and a matching colour tight top revealing her cleavage. She carried a steal chair on her shoulder and her hair was scraped back into a tight plait. She walked to the ring with a completely serious look on her face, barely acknowledging the crowd. Her face showed lots of anger towards Stacy. As she went into the ring she walked straight up to Stacy nose-to-nose. The referee separated them. Steph turned her back to drop the chair in the corner and Stacy attacked her from behind.

Their matched carried on for 7 minutes. There were some great moments in the match, including a spinning head kick to Steph as she went to hit Stacy with the chair causing Steph to get hit directly in the face with the chair. It had cut her lip open and the rest of the match Steph was wrestling with blood running down her chest. It didn't hurt, but looked really effective! Steph got her own back though, when she slammed Stacy onto a chair.

'Looks like it'll be rubbing the oil on Stacy tonight! Will make a nice change!' Steph thought at the time.

After the slam onto the chair, Steph did her handspring back somersault onto Stacy. She then dragged her to the corner and got up on the turnbuckle, hitting Stacy with the 450 splash. Steph went for the pin…1…2…3.

"The winner of the match and new WWE Women's Champion, Stephanie McMahon!"

Steph stood on the corner with the belt high above her head. Despite the Undertaker match before, the fans were making it worthwhile. She had only been back two weeks and she was the two-time Women's Champion. Then it suddenly dawned on her.

'Oh God, I'm the bosses sister and I've come in and won the title! Everyone's gonna hate me, but be nice to me at the same time. What have I gotten myself into?'


Steph celebrated her victory then waited behind the curtains for Stacy to appear stretchered out of the ring. As Stacy was unbuckled from the stretcher Steph tried to clean up some of the blood on her body.

"Are you OK?" they both asked simultaneously, then they smiled at each other.

"I was so scared when I saw your lip got cut open, I thought I was going to faint from the queasiness!" Stacy said.

"Really? Well when you landed on the chair my first thought was I'd be the one rubbing the cream on your back this time!"

They both laughed before Stacy held the Women's Championship in her hands one last time.

"Well, hopefully this is the beginning of something good between us. You better keep my title warm for me," she joked.

Steph helped Stacy stumble to the medical bay where they could clean each other up. On the way they walked past Dave Batista, who was doing his usual pacing up and down with nerves before his World Title match. Steph left Stacy to go back to him, she really wanted to see him and wish him good luck. She hadn't seen Dave since he gave her his number almost a week ago and he was becoming a good friend to her.

"Dave? Good luck with your match."

He smiled at her. Why had she never noticed how attractive his smile was before…or his eyes? They were deep and intense as they stared at her, any other person might have found them intimidating…but Steph knew what Dave was like.

"Thank you so much. Congratulations on your match, you were incredible. Must have been tough to follow Undertaker and Kane?"

"Well yeah, but it's all over now…"

Dave interrupted her by approaching her, his stroke the edge of her lips. "That was a nasty cut you got there."

"I'll be fine." Dave sent a shiver inside her. He was such a gentleman towards her.

"So…did you like your flowers?"

"Huh?"

"You know the white roses, remember at the Charity Party? You told me they were your favourite."

"Oh Yeah."

Steph felt a knot in her stomach. She knew that Dave was telling the truth, how else would be know that she was given white roses? Why would Chris have lied about them like that? Dave always seemed to take notice of the little things that Steph told him.

Steph's stare was distant. "Is everything OK?" Dave asked, snapping her back to reality.

"Oh yeah, I'm just a bit…you know…being it's Wrestlemania and all, it's a bit distracting. The roses were beautiful. Thank you."

He smiled down at her melting her heart. "I'm glad I could make you happy."

He lent forward to give her a kiss on her forehead, but Steph's head was filled with thoughts. Why was she so caught up over Chris? If he had lied to her once, had he lied to her more times? Chris had a wife, Dave had no baggage…and was completely infatuated with her. Just before he kissed her forehead, Steph tilted her head upwards so that Dave's lips met hers, both of them a little surprised. After a second both lent naturally into the kiss, Steph's lips cold and Dave's hot, the heat travelling between them. Dave, not wanting the kiss to end, cupped her face in his palms and stroke the side of her face. Her lips were slightly swollen and tasted of sweat and blood. Both of them waited for the other to break the kiss, but neither did. It was Michelle, Kennedy's business partner that shocked them into breaking apart.

"Err…Batista? We need to get you into position. You're match is next."

Dave looked at her and nodded. She raised an eyebrow at Steph then walked off to find Edge, Dave's opponent and the current World Champion. Dave turned back to stare into Steph's eyes, his fingers stroking underneath her chin as he moved away from her.

"Will I see you later at the after party?" he asked her.

She didn't know what to say, so instead she told him what he wanted to hear. "Of course you will."

He smiled and walked away as Steph turned to enter the medical room, but was surprised to see Stacy hiding behind the door.

"You kissed him! You kissed him!" she said excitedly.

Steph grinned. "Yeah I did!"

"What was it like?"

"It was nice."

"But…what about Chris Jericho? I thought you were into him. But Dave gave you those flowers, not Chris? I'm so confused Steph! Why can't you just be happy with one man?"

Steph laughed and decided not to reply. Her head was a mess of thoughts. She had feelings for Dave but they weren't as strong as her feelings for Chris. Why couldn't she have picked the easier man?


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