"I don't understand why we have to have Molly."

"Stephanie, are you scared about competing with another woman in the same group?" Hunter asked with a smirk.

"You actually think I'm jealous of her or something. I'm just saying that she is so obviously not up to par with the rest of you, and is certainly not up to par with me. She doesn't even look good half the time and Evolution is supposed to look good."

"I think you have enough good looks for all of us," Hunter said lecherously. "I especially like your outfit this evening."

Stephanie looked down at her black leather halter top and red mini-skirt. She felt uncomfortable in her get-up, but she had to play the part, for Trish and for Randy. "I knew you would like it baby, and I wanted to make sure that I looked good for you."

"You look good enough to eat," Hunter said, tugging at the strap on her top with his teeth. Stephanie giggled as she swatted him away. She heard the door open from her perch on Hunter's lap and saw Randy and Molly walk in, Randy with his arm around Molly.

"I hope we weren't interrupting anything," Randy asked with a raised eyebrow. If he didn't know any better, he would seriously think that Stephanie and Hunter were back together. Stephanie was playing her part amazingly and he had to give her major kudos for undertaking it. He might have to name his first child after her.

"You came just in time," Stephanie said, grinning at Hunter. "You caught us before it was about to get carried away. Molly, nice to see you again."

"You too," Molly said, an edge to her voice. She was not happy with the addition of Stephanie to the group, but what could she do, she was with Hunter and Hunter was the leader of this whole thing.

"You're looking…nice," Stephanie said, a catty tone in her voice. She smirked at her, making it pretty obvious that she thought Molly looked rather bad. But that was what Stephanie thought normally so this wasn't acting at all.

"Be nice," Hunter growled in her ear. "She's the Women's Champ."

Stephanie leaned her head in close to Hunter, "I could be the Women's Champ you know. Don't you want it on me Hunter baby? Just like old times. You with the World Title and me with the Women's Title. We were the golden couple. I miss that."

Stephanie gave him a pout and Hunter could hardly resist it. He didn't know what to do though, so he just kissed Stephanie roughly, taking her by surprise. Randy turned away, looking to where Molly was grabbing her gear for the show later. He sat down on one of the leather couches and propped his feet up on the table. The noise made Hunter look over at him, pulling away from Stephanie.

"Hey Molly, are you so sure that you're going to come away with the title tonight?" Stephanie said. "Who are you facing?"

"Nobody, I just want to be ready," Molly snapped.

"Oh, you're not facing anybody?" Stephanie asked. "I think that I'd like to challenge you to a match later."

"What!" Hunter asked, staring at her. "Stephanie!"

"What?" she protested. "I'm a female, I should have as much of an opportunity as any woman here to go out there and try to win the title."

"Not in that outfit," Hunter said, gesturing to her outfit. "Come on, be sensible Stephanie. Molly is part of Evolution and we can't go against each other, that's the number one rule. We're a group."

"No fair," Stephanie said, petulantly, crossing her arms underneath her breasts. "I should get a shot if I want one!"

"Steph, come on, we're a group."

"Fine, I'm going to go get a drink or something," Stephanie said, getting off of his lap. "We'll discuss this later."

"Stephanie…" Hunter warned.

She just glared at him before storming out of the room. That one did have a temper, and she wasn't afraid to use it whenever she felt it necessary. And it was definitely necessary when she was dealing with Molly. She just had to understand that Molly was part of Evolution now. And you don't go against the group. Randy had learned that lesson.

"I'll go see if she's ok," Randy said, standing up.

"Don't worry about it," Hunter waved him off.

"No, its cool, don't want her to go off and do something stupid and make us look stupid in the process."

"Good idea," Hunter nodded, sitting back in his chair.

Randy left the room and started walking in the direction he had seen Stephanie walk in before the door had closed. He had a good feeling as to where she was going, or sneaking off to rather. He saw her walking slowly up ahead and then saw her dart into a room. Nobody seemed to have noticed except him, but he was specifically looking at Stephanie. He nonchalantly walked by the room and saw that it was Chris's locker room. He leaned against the wall for a moment before darting inside himself, hoping that nobody saw him.

"Oh hey Randy," Stephanie said as Randy practically bumped into her. "Does Hunter know you're gone?"

"Yeah, he knows, he thinks that I'm going after you to knock some sense into you. I have to ask what you're doing, going after Molly."

"Oh come on, she hardly ever defends her belt. I'll get Hunter to wear down eventually and then I'll have him help me take that title from Molly. I've got everything under control. Once Hunter sees that Molly is not needed, he'll kick her to the curb."

"You're really brilliant," he nodded, thinking that was a good plan. "Are you sure that you're ok with all of this, with Hunter and everything. I mean, we're asking you to kiss him and stuff and I don't want you to do anything that you don't want to do."

"Don't' worry about it, I've been with Hunter before, this isn't new territory."

"What about Chris? Is he alright with all of this? I mean, it must be hard of him to see you guys together."

"No, he doesn't like it, but he loves Trish, and I love Trish and we know that this is a necessary evil if we want that Hunter the Horrible to go down. He'll live with it. We'll all live with it and it'll be worth it."

"Speaking of Chris, where is he?" Randy asked, looking at the empty locker room.

"No idea, but he'll be here soon I'm sure," she said, taking a seat on Chris's couch. "I've got the time. Hunter thinks I'm mad and Hunter's number one tactic was always to leave me alone whenever I got mad. This time won't be different."

"You're really just cool about all of this," Randy said rather than asked as he sat down next to her.

"I'm not scared if that's what you're getting at."

"No, it's just you seem so…in control, like you've done this a million times."

"I have," Stephanie laughed. "I'm no stranger to scheming and planning. I was with Hunter for so goddamn long that this is nothing. And it's about time someone wanted to take Hunter out. I mean, he's been controlling and manipulating people for so long its time for him to get the same treatment. I believe that whatever you put out there into the universe is going to come back at you, and Hunter has put so much bad out there, it's time for him to get what he's given."

"I think I can see why Chris is in love with you," Randy told her. "You're a pretty amazing chick."

"Just you wait and see," Stephanie said and as if sensing Chris's presence she stood up just as Chris and Trish walked into the room. Trish was happy to see Randy as she jumped into his arms. Randy kissed her lightly, but Trish was having none of that as she deepened the kiss.

"Hey you!" Trish said, letting her arms drop and lash around his waist.

"Hey," Randy returned, "I've missed you."

"I've missed you too," Trish said, referring to their forced separation from the plan. "What are you doing in here?"

"I followed Stephanie."

"I got mad and made sure that Hunter knew it so I could come visit you," Stephanie said, kissing Chris lightly.

"How's everything going?" Trish asked, looking between the two.

"Great," Randy exposited. "Stephanie is doing an amazing job with Hunter. The man is head over heels in love with her and he's like willing to do whatever she wants. I think Stephanie came up with a great plan for ousting Molly out on her ass."

"Yeah, I'm going to win the title off of her, and then get her kicked out of Evolution," Stephanie said proudly. "Then when all this is over, we can simply have a match between Trish and I and you can be the champion."

"Wow, that seems too easy," Trish said, giving Randy a look. "I hope everything works though, I'd hate to go through all of this and have Hunter figure out what we're doing."

"Trust me," Stephanie told her, "he's not going to find out anything. I've got him wrapped around my finger. He sees me as a coup. Like he got the biggest prize besides the title. He's so blinded by his own good luck that he won't see me sneaking around trying to destroy him."

"Have I thanked you for doing this yet Stephanie?" Trish asked, giving her friend a hug. "I mean, this is like above and beyond anything else."

"It's ok, you don't have to make it up to me," Stephanie said, hugging her back. "Chris and I will cut out of here, separately of course so you and Randy can have a moment together."

"Hey! Who said I'd agree to that?" Chris asked and Stephanie slapped him on the chest. "Ok, geez."

"We see each other every night, Trish and Randy don't, now get your ass outside and tell me if the coast is clear."

After Stephanie and Chris left the room, separately of course, Randy turned to Trish and really gathered her up in his arms. He was glad that she saw the real him and had not thought that what Evolution was, was him too. He was his own person and unlike Molly and Ric, he was not under Hunter's spell. He kissed Trish for a long moment before she started giggling.

"What?" he asked her.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about how fun it'll be when we really take Evolution down," Trish said, grinning up at him. He realized just how much he loved that grin, how much he was falling in love with everything about her. He just loved being around her so much that he was starting to miss her even when he was with her because he didn't want to leave her.

"It'll be great, and then I won't have to worry about what anyone thinks of us. I shouldn't have thought it would matter before, but you kind of hated me."

"Kind of? I would say I hated you a lot," she teased.

"That too," he laughed. "But this is better isn't it?"

"Yeah, definitely, I finally don't feel like the 5th wheel when I'm around my friends. It was always Lita and Christian, and most of the time Stephanie and Chris and then there was little 'ol me, with nobody."

"Glad I could help you out there," he said, leaning down to kiss her.

"Me too. Now I think you have to go back to your locker room before Hunter finds you here and our entire plan is for nothing."

"I don't want to go."

"I know, but you have to," Trish said, gently pushing him towards the door.

He reluctantly left her, giving her one, last, lingering kiss. She would have to keep that for now. He snuck out of the room quietly before going back to Evolution's locker room. He caught Stephanie making out with Hunter and she laughed as they were caught, wiping her mouth, although Randy was the only one to notice how vigorously she was doing that.

"Hunter said I could have the match," Stephanie said, gazing at Hunter longingly. "It's because he only wants what I want, right Hunter, sweetie?"

"You got it," Hunter told her. "Whatever you want."

"Yeah, so I can be the Women's Champ," Stephanie said, grinning like a little girl.

Only Randy knew how deadly that grin was going to be.