Chapter 25

By mid afternoon, John and Tomoko still lay under the sheets, holding each other, making love, giggling, living at the moment without a care in the world.

When the pager on John's jean shorts, now laying on the floor next to the bed, went off, John just ignored it.

"Aren't you going to see who that is?" Tomoko asked.

John rolled his eyes.

"I suppose so. Damn thing."

As he slowly rose from the bed, bending over to look at the pager, Tomoko smiled to herself as she noticed how cute John's butt looked.

Coming back to the bed, John gave Tomoko a quick kiss.

"Gotta call my publicist. This can't be good." John said as he gathered his things and headed for the bathroom to take a shower.

Tomoko lay on the bed, not wanting to move. The fact that John had agreed to stay with her even though she was carrying another man's baby made her think that the slightest movement would ruin the dream. She imagined that she would at some point wake up and John would still be gone.

"Come on Tomoko stop with the negative thoughts" she said to herself.

As she got up from the bed, she decided to join John in the shower. That was probably one of her favorite things to do with John. That way she could trace every curve on his body, water running off of him and detailing every muscle.

As Tomoko snuck up behind him, she wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head on his back.

"Hey babe." He said turning to her and then taking her face in his hands and washing her with kisses.

When the both of them had finished in the shower, John got dressed and told Tomoko he had to attend a last minute autograph session.

"A limo will be here for me any second. And you've got a plane to catch don't you?" He asked.

"I suppose so. It will be nice to get home I admit." She said with a smile.

He leaned in to kiss her.

"Yea, I know." He replied.

Just as John was about to place another long kiss on Tomoko, he heard the horn of the limo waiting for him blaring outside.

"Damn it. Gotta go. I'll be catching a later flight so I'll see you tonight."

Before John closed the door behind him, Tomoko called out.

"John. Let me know when you get in, I'll wait up for you. And thank you!"

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When Tomoko arrived back home to NYC, there was a driver waiting for her at the airport. At first she was quite surprised, since normally after a flight back home, the wrestlers would just drive their own cars to wherever they were going. But, Tomoko had remembered that John and she drove together in John's car. She just assumed he arranged for the pickup since she had no other way of transportation.

"54th and Sycamore." Tomoko told the driver who made no real acknowledgment of her instructions.

In the back seat of the car, Tomoko thought about a myriad of things going on in her life, especially the baby she was carrying. It was hard to ignore the fact that the baby was Shane's, but just knowing that John would be there to support her made things seem just a little bit better. As far as she was concerned the baby had nothing to do with, and will never have anything to do with Shane McMahon.

Lost deep in her thoughts, it wasn't until the driver pulled into the WWE headquarters guest lot did she realize that she was not being taken back to her apartment as requested.

"Excuse me sir, what are we doing here?" Tomoko asked.

"You have an appointment with a Mr. McMahon. He requested I drop you off here." The driver replied.

Tomoko started to get a little nervous. "Mr. McMahon, could that be Shane or Vince? Either way, Tomoko didn't appreciate the fact that she was never told about any "meeting". She just wanted to get home.

As the driver pulled up to the valet parking, he raced around to the side and opened the door for Tomoko. With the treatment she was getting, Tomoko assumed more that Vince was requesting to see her, not Shane. Shane would never spend that much money on someone like her.

Tomoko entered the building and was greeted by the same snotty receptionist she had seen the first time she met with Shane to tell him she was in town and needed his help. It was almost like dejavu, except no John. Oh how she wished John was there with her to make sure everything would be okay.

"I have an appointment with Mr. McMahon." Tomoko said.

"Oh of course Tomoko, I'll let him know you're here." The receptionist was one hundred times more pleasant to her than she had ever been in the past. It must be the fact that now Tomoko was one of the WWE's rising Diva's. Not for long, she thought to herself.

Within minutes, a sharply dressed young woman escorted Tomoko upstairs. All the McMahons had offices on the same floor, so it wasn't until they reached his office that Tomoko realized she was there to meet Shane.

God how she wanted to just run. As far a she was concerned there wasn't anything that Shane had to say that she would be interested in. If he was going to try and threaten her with her career, well, having a baby would pretty much end any chance of a career now. At least for the short term.

Once the secretary opened the door and notified Shane that Tomoko was there, she turned and closed the door behind her. The sound of the door closing was no comfort to Tomoko's ears. The last time she was in Shane's office, door closed and alone, he decided to take liberties she was not prepared for, and the result of course was the fact that she was now carrying his child.

Tomoko stayed as close to the door as possible, especially when Shane got up from behind his desk and walked toward her.

He seemed quite relaxed, wearing a button down designer shirt and jeans. When he walked toward Tomoko he didn't smile, but yet there was no trace of anger in his face. He looked more like someone who had strictly business on their mind.

"Hey Tomoko, glad you could make it. Sorry John couldn't be here. Those autograph signings can come out of no where." Shane said nonchalantly.

It was at this moment that Tomoko realized the autograph signing was set up by Shane, just so he could get her alone. Tomoko backed up and placed her hand on the door handle. There was no way in hell Shane would take advantage of her again.

"Why so tense Tomoko?" Shane asked. "Must be all the lies you've been telling." He said and got right in her face. His cold, dark eyes staring down at her.

With a finger pointed directly in her face he continued.

"You stop telling people I raped you. You know as much as I do that everything we've done together was consensual. Money talks and you've gotten plenty of mine already. The way I see it, you owe me bitch."

Tomoko at this point was now starting to tremble. Shane was so close to her that she could feel his breath.

"Shane, I never…"

Before she could finish, Shane slammed his hand only inches from her face, hitting the wall instead.

"You know what, my father always told me never hit a woman, but a lying whore like yourself, well, that's a different story entirely."

Tomoko could tell that Shane was serious with every word. Every threat that he suggested made her want to scream for help, but she knew better. Shane hadn't actually done anything yet. She prayed that he wasn't completely crazy.

After staring at her for a good hard second, Shane stepped away allowing Tomoko room to breath. He stared into his hands as he rubbed his palms together.

"Now that we've got that straight, I also want to clarify one more thing. You will never get a penny from me by claiming you're carrying my baby."

Tomoko raised an eyebrow. "How did he know?" she thought to herself. She continued to listen as Shane went on.

"That fucking baby is not mine, or are you just too stupid to realize I was wearing a rubber the last time we made love."

Tomoko wanted to throw up when Shane referred to him raping her as "making love", but more importantly he was right, she did not notice. Fear apparently will have that affect on you.

"I don't know what kind of game you're playing?" Shane continued. "But you will never get away with this." Then suddenly Shane laughed to himself. "Here you are going around claiming I raped you and then you make up some kind of bullshit about carrying my baby. Sounds to me like you wanted me to fuck you then and you still want it now."

Once again Shane moves closer to Tomoko. This time, a slight smirk on his face. After practically pinning her to the door, Shane grabs Tomoko by the arm.

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A/N: Okay y'all, next chapter is the AUTHOR CHALLENGE chapter, so get your entries in (for a refresher of the author challenge please refer to A/N at the bottom of chapter 24.

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