Chapter 10 "The Count Down to Christmas"
December 24
Soon After Trish was arrested, Stephanie got her memory back. She filed charges aginst Trish Strtaus and Robert Ewing.
Triple H fianly beat Cactus Jack 1,2,3 in a hell in a cell, and both of the men agreed that after hell in a cell no matter what happens, their fued would be over.
The Court Date for Trish was scheduled for December 26th the day after Christmas.
Elizabeth had a small bruise around her tiny foot, but other than that, she was ok.
After Stephanie and Hunter took her home, they had to go on with their lives and get ready for the huge Christmas Eve Party they were having.
Early That Next Morning
Since Ms.Green was still in the hospital, Hunter and Stephanie had to take Elizabeth home by them selves, and also get ready for the party.
So Tori and X-Pac came over to help them.
Everybody was coming, all of Stephanie's family, and all Hunter's family, plus The Helmsley's friends, and DX.
But Vince Mcmahon was not coming.
Hunter saw it in Stephanie's eyes, that she wanted Vince to be there, so he decided to take matters in his own hands.
Before everybody arrived he called Vince.
"Hello?" Vince said.
"Vince it's Hunter." Hunter said.
"Oh well if it isn't my son-in-law, what do I owe your call?" Vince said in a sarcastic tone.
"Listen...what ever happened last year is history as far as I am concerned...Steph misses you and she wants you to come here for Christmas eve." said Hunter.
"Well here's the problem, Helmsley...you're the one who convinced my daughter to tell me that she hated me!" Vince yelled.
"Look, I didn't tell Stephanie to say that...but I'd hate you too." Hunter said in a low tone.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Vince sneered.
"Stephanie knows, that you are the one that had hr kidnapped by The Undertaker." Hunter said.
"You bastard how could you tell her that so that is the reason my wife divorced me!" Vince demanded.
"I didn't tell her!She read it in a paper, your wife divorced you, because you slept with a stripper, no matter how many years ago it was...nice marriage." Hunter said.
"Nice marriage? Nice marriage, you degenerte, let me tell you something about your marriage, you will never be able to give my daughter the happiness that she deserves!" Vince yelled.
Hunter laughed, which drove Vince crazy.
Hunter could tell, too which made him laugh harder, he loved getting under the old man's skin.
"Well Vince at this rate, untill you apoligize to your daughter, my wife, since you refuse to come Christmas Eve, don't expect ever seeing Elizabeth, again." Hunter said.
"You'll be sorry." Vince said.
"Bye Bye now." Hunter said in a sing sing voice, sa he hung up the phone.
He smiled to himself.
"Oh God what was going to happen now?" Hunter thought.
The mansion, was lavishly decorated with balls, garlin, bells, and angels everywhere.
The Christmas Tree was beautifly lit, with gold lights, and gold ornamemnts.
Even outside, Hunter and Steph, had decorated the entire yard, with lights.
They're Christmas freaks.
But really This Christmas was a chance to redeem their selves, for all that had happened, in the last 11 months. To finaly relax for once, before they took off with the WWF again, in four days. This was also a time, to ensure that the next year, would be sort of the first day of the rest of theri lives, without pain and drama, but how far would they get?
"So Steph where do you want this second Christmas Tree?" Hunter asked, as he, X-Pac, and Roaddogg, carried the live tree into the house.
"Um, in the den, were having two this year." Stephanie explained to Tori.
"Wow, Steph, you really went over board." said Tori.
"Yeah, well I love Chrismas." Stephanie remined her, as she played with her christmas hat.
"Hey Steph, want to know a secret..." Tori whispered.
"What?" Stephanie said.
"I got Sean that vintage leather jacket he's always wanted." Tori said.
"No way, that's awesome, I got Hunter a work out system in our 3rd gest room, so that he wouldn't have to go off some where all the time." Stephanie said.
"Great idea." said Tori.
"OMG...you know I can not even go out to the pool anymore...I mean really, I know that i won't be swimming for months anyway, but it's like sometimes, I used to just look go out and look out at the sea, behind our fence...I can't do it anymore." Stephanie said, as her long chesnut hair, fell over her shoulders.
"Are you serious?" asked Tori.
"Yeah." Stephanie said.
"I'm so sorry." said Tori.
"Thanks but It's like I don't just see Kurt...I see Trish...can you imagine what she would have done to my baby!" Stephanie whispered.
Tori picked Elizabeth up, and kissed her ann Sean's God daughter.
"No I can't imagine...but now she's in jail." said Tori.
"You're right...for everything that she has done for the past 11 months." Stephanie said.
"Especially framing me." Tori said, as the two of them, went into the kithchen, and started to bake cookies for the party that night.
"Mom finaly filed for divorce from my dad." Stephanie said, as she took out the roast that was done cooking.
Tori noticed, that Stephanie was tring to sound happy that her parents were getting divorced, after he had her kidnapped, but she sounded less than thrilled.
There was just some part of Stephanie that could never get really mad at her father, even though they presently we're not speaking to each other.
"Well that's good, I'm glad, I can't beleive your Dad would do all those things." Tori said.
"Yeah...and personaly, I don't think Shane will leave, I mean, since they're going to be divorced." Stephanie said, not looking up from the cookie dough, she wasn't happy, like she envisioned, she would be when her mother dumped her Daddy, she was...sad.
"I hope he doesn't leave...it's nice here with him." Tori said, as she fed the baby.
"Oh how's Ms. Green?" Tori asked.
"Well the hospital said she was dehydrated, and she had a small concussion, and that she would be out of the hospital soon, and just needed to rest." Stephanie said, finaly cheering up a bit.
"See everythings going to get better, we really don't live in a cursed world, like you said." Tori said.
Stephanie laughed.
"I think we did live in a cursed world for a while." Stephanie said.
"Me too." Tori admitted.
"Hey girls, the new christmas tree is up, and the guests are almost here." Hunter said as he picked up Elizabeth, and kissed her.
The baby cooed.
"Alright, well we're going to decorate the upstairs christams tree, and everything is going so well." Stephanie said as she ran up the stairs, with Tori.
"Don't speak too soon, Steph." Hunter thought, as the doorbell rang.
He wanted so badly, for his wife to just be happy. She had been through so much, and seen so much, she deserved all the happiness, but he knew that as long as Vince was hurting her, she would never be happy.
Hunter opened the door.
It was Billy.
After about half an hour, Stephanie and Tori had finished decorating the Christmas Tree, and changed into their Christmas Outfits, that they wore every year.
It was a plain red tube top red dress, with white fur around the neck, and a santa hat.
The roast was done cooking, and the cookies turned out fabulous.
And everybody was arriving.
Linda and Shane were there, Hunter's mother, and his cousins came, Shawn Michaels, Al Snow, Stephanie's cousins, and their kids, and various other of The Helmsley's friends came.
Everybody was mingaling, talking, putting gifts under the tree, and kissing Elizabeth.
Finaly The food was served, and everybody ate, then after the dinner, there were desserts, like chocolote souflee, strawberry shortcake, and plus the cookies, and some more cakes, the Helmsley's chef had a really good time.
Then it was time, for theri tradition for Everybody to sit in a huge circle, and tell what theri Christmas wish.
"Everyone is here, this is great." Stephanie thought.
"Execpt Daddy"
"Well, I'm Tori, and my Christmas wish is simple, I wish that Finaly, all my friends, who are my family, have a great Christmas, and have it without any stress." Tori said.
Everybody clapped.
"My name is Sean, or X-Pac, and my wish is for my wife Tori to have exactly what she has always wanted, and that we sometime have the great honeymoon, that we have always wanted"
Everybody clapped.
"I'm Billy, and my wish is that I find a new apartment." Billy said, as everybody roared in laughter.
"I'm Roadogg, and I wish that my wife and i someday have a baby as pretty as Elizabeth." he said, as Stephanie smiled, and thanked him.
Then it was Hunter and Stephanie's turn.
"Well, we're Hunter, and Stephanie." Hunter started. "And we just wish that our lives will go back to normal..." Stephanie said, "And that Trish Stratus, and her hitman, get life in prison." Hunter said, as everybody clapped.
"Ok...I'm Shane...And I only have one wish, for my family to understand why I AM still leaving, " Shane started.
"God, Shane can you stop saying that." Stephanie said annoyed.
"Well Mom, Stephanie, Hunter I've made up my mind, and I still want to leave Connetciut...I will love you all." Shane said, but there was a knock at the door.
Hunter got up, ad answered the door.
A Police Squad walked through the house.
"Oh God, not again." Stephanie thought, as she ran over to the door.
"What's going on?" Hunter said.
"The McMahon Family I presume?" said the first officer.
"Yeah." Stephanie said.
"I have some very bad news." said the police.
Linda's heart sanked, as X-Pac also rushed to the door.
"IS there something, wrong?" asked Shane, as everybody in the room, worridly murrmered.
"We are very sad to report, that your father, and husband, Vince McMahon, was killed in an car accident." said the officer.
"No there must be some mistake." Stephanie shrieked, as she started to cry, Hunter held her close to him.
"My husband is dead!" Linda cried.
"I am very sorry..." the officer started.
"No, my dad, can not be dead, there must be some mistake!" Stephanie yelled.
"Steph..." Hunter said, as she cried in his shoulder.
"Oh My God." said Shane, as Tori, came up, and hugged X-Pac.
"I'm very sorry." the officer said, as he walked out.
DX ushered everybody out of the house, and then said that they would call later.
The officers had said that his body had already been indentified, and that the only thing they had to do, was wait untill his funeral, and guess what day irt was sceduled for December 26.
It was official Christmas awas ruined.
Hunter had insisted, that there had to be another time, since their court date was that same date, and for God's sakes, it was the day after christmas, but the hearsts, insisted, that they were backed up, and booked, solid, with funerals, and weddings, that it was impossible to do it any othr day, unless, they waited, 2 weeks, and Hunter knew his wife couldn't bare to know that her father's dead body was just occuping space for 14 days, it would kill her.
After DX Left, Hunter could not get Stephanie to calm down.
She had always been the one most close to Vince and now all that was gone.
What was she supposed to do?
She never even got to say goodbye.
She didn't even get to say she was sorry.
What if Vince dided thinking she hated him?
"Hunter, what if Daddy died thinking that I hated him?" Stephanie shrieked, hystericly, as she laid in their bed.
Hunter rubbed his hand through her hair.
"Baby he knew that you loved him, ok, you too had a special connection." Hunter said.
Stephanie tried , to listen to her husband, but she remembered the last thing she had said to Vince McMahon...'I hate you!' that's what it was.
Even though she didn't really mean it, that's what she said, that's what he would remember, and that is what she would have to live with for the rest of her life.
Stephanie tried to smile, and think about the good times, she had with her father, like all therapists give advice, like anybody reading this would give advice, but there is always a differance when it happens to you. It's never the same when it happens to you. Imagine if this happened to you.
Stephanie eventually cried herself to sleep in Hunter's arms, that night.
He looked at her as she slept, she didn't deserve all she was being put through.
He thought about if he really had just told Stephanie the truth about the abduction, in the first place, that she would have confronted him about it, and by now she would have forgiven him, and he would at least died, knowing that his daughter loved him.
"Maybe this was is my fault." Hunter thought.
"And maybe Vince McMahon was right, about what he said, when we first got married.
Maybe I can't give Stephanie all the happiness she deserved." Hunter thought.
"Maybe I am the reason, that all this stuff had been happenning to her in the last 11 months, because she was married to me.
Kurt would have never had anybody to fight with, and there for he would still be alive.
Trish Stratus wouldn't be so intent in getting back at Stephanie, because she was married to me.
She would have never been kidnapped...God this is my fault." Hunter thought.
He felt so guilty.
He felt so responsible.
He felt so terrible.
He felt so bad.
"I'm sorry, Stephanie." He whispered, as he closed his eyes, and tried to fall asleep.
End of Chapter 10
What will happen when Christmas arrives?
What will happen when the court date arrives?
What will happen when the funeral arrives?
Stay tuned to.
Chapter 11
of Love Conquers All II: The Velvet Teddy Bear
In The Next LCA: "OH MY GOD!" Stephanie said.
"Trish Stratus is found guily of all charges."