Chapter Two

TITLE: Timeless Love Forever Chapter Two? R
AUTHOR: Juliet3:16
EMAIL: RATING: R
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE, CHARACTER DEATH, Implied RAPE/NON - CONSENSUAL SEX, Religious/Spiritual themes.
CATEGORY: ADULT, DRAMA, ANGST
SPOILERS: SURVIVOR SERIES 2000, with some things taken up to about shortly after ARMAGEDDON 2000.
SUMMARY: SURVIVOR SERIES 2000 changed Stephanie's life forever. Twenty years
later Stephanie's life is turned upside down again.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the World Wrestling Federation and it's superstars. Therefore I make no money off of this, so please don't sue me. And NO I did not deliberately name my male lead after the Spiderman actor! I came up with the name and only found out it was the same as the actor who plays Spider - Man AFTER the movie came out. I don't owe him royalties John! Ahem, on with the show.
DISTRIBUTION: anyplace else please ask.

Timeless Love Forever

Chapter Two

A Quiet Reflection

Chyna leaned back her chair an hour after her meeting with Toby McGuire. The meeting had gone well. Beyond her expectations, as a matter of fact. They talked for a while and at the end Chyna was so impressed with him, she offered him a WWF contract. He would have to prove himself in OVW of course, but she knew that Billy, her husband would give her a better idea of whether or not she ad made a good decision in signing the young man when Toby began training in the next week or so.

It wasn't the conversation itself that bothered the former Ninth Wonder of the World. It was the tone of it. The familiarity of it; almost as if she'd talked to him before, despite having never met him before that conversation.

She shook her head. Her feelings of déjà vu were probably a by - product of getting old. She glanced at the calendar as she broke herself out of her reverie only to find herself in a darker one. The date said August 15. The anniversary was three months away. Perhaps that was the root of her feelings this morning. As the time crept closer, she found herself thinking about that night more and more.

'Twenty years . . . '

She shook herself out of her thoughts again. She would start acting like her Lieutenant commissioner if she wasn't careful.

Speaking of anniversaries . . . today was her wedding anniversary.

Just as Chyna was immersing herself in that happy thought, she felt strong arms wrap around her. Normally she'd have tried to flip the person over for sneaking up on her; however she knew who it was and instead leaned her head back onto a chest that was still broad after all those years.

"You know, you shouldn't sneak up on people like that," she murmured happily against her husband, "someday somebody's gonna flip you over their shoulder and leave that pretty little ass of yours hurting."

Billy Gunn grinned. "What's life without a few risks?" he asked, leaning in for a kiss on the cheek. Noticing the tension in his wife's almost equally broad shoulders, he turned her chair around so that she was fully facing him.

"What's wrong?" Billy asked his wife.

"Nothing," she stated, trying to dismiss her husband's concern. When he continued his intense gaze, she said, "I feel silly."

"Anything that causes my wife to be so tense, is cause for concern, at least to me. Come on, Chy," Billy pressed, "tell me what's bothering you? Did you have a run - in with our little Napoleon?"

Chyna snorted. "Please, the only reason, he thinks he runs the place is because of whom he's married to and the state she's been in, and no I didn't run into him today."

"Then what's wrong?" Billy asked again, confused as to what could have gotten his wife worked up the way she was.

Chyna looked away from Billy to one of the pictures, their wedding picture, on their desk, then sighed, knowing she couldn't get out of explaining what she was feeling to Billy.

"It really is nothing," she reiterated, "it's just that I had a meeting with that new guy, Toby. The one that Tazz recommended last week."

"Uh - oh," Billy interrupted, "the kid do anything I'm going to have to kick his ass for?"

Chyna smiled ruefully at Billy's protectiveness. It could at once be the most endearing, and on occasion his most annoying quality. After fifteen years of marriage, she wouldn't have it any other way.

"If he had, I'd be calling out for a body bag for him," she said, "it went fine, and I ended up signing him like Tazz said I would. I don't know, it felt like I'd known him from somewhere before - "

Billy couldn't completely bite back the groan that somehow managed to partially escape from his throat. "My wife isn't turning into Lita is she?" he pleaded half - jokingly.

Chyna gave a small smirk. "No, I'm not turning into Lita. She maybe a good Lieutenant commissioner, but you know I don't believe in the type of spiritual crap that she does. I'm the cynic of the family, remember? But in regards to Toby, I chalk it up to melancholy, or some shit like that."

"The anniversary is coming up soon," Billy said quietly.

"You see? It's probably nothing more than that," she said placing a hand on her husband's cheek, "no supernatural voodoo or any of that. Now what is it that you came in here about?"

"Well, I thought that if my wife had nothing else on her plate today, then I'd sweep her off her feet and we'd celebrate our own, happier anniversary."

"Nope, Toby was it," Chyna had made certain that with the exception of the new signee, that her calendar was cleared for the day and Billy always made to have somebody take over for him at OVW on their anniversary.

"I'll go clean up. I was just finishing up my calistenthics when Toby came knocking," she said pushing her chair away from her desk. As she stood up, Billy saw her grimace slightly.

"Chy, how bad is it?" he asked concerned.

She waved it off with her free hand.

"Just a minor flare - up," she said, still rubbing her neck in a circular motion, "I know I said earlier that I don't believe in all that supernatural crap, but Matt Hardy has it right about Karma. At least Val got what he deserved in the end; even if I do wish I had gotten the chance to do it myself."

Billy silently agreed. He had never forgiven RTC and Val Venis in particular for that devastating piledriver that ended his wife's in - ring career. The aftereffects tended to leave the former Intercontential Champion in, at times, debilitating pain. Billy would often plead with his wife to get her neck rechecked, but she refused. In her mind, it was bad enough the injury ended her wrestling career; anything further to be done to it that would force her to take time away from her current job as Federation commissioner was unacceptable for the time being.

Billy was a bit more spiritually inclined than his wife, and though he often wished that he had been the one to end Val's career, he believed Karma had done it's job: The equipment accident that caused Venis' own career - ending injury was apropos justice.

His thoughts were broken by a kiss from his wife. As she broke it off, he pulled her into a passionate kiss of his own.

"Mmm," she muttered throatily when it ended, "fifteen years. Seems like yesterday."

She went to clean up in the bathroom adjacent to her office, leaving Billy with a goofy grin on his face.