WWE HQ:

Later that Morning:

Vince and Stephanie had both been hard at work in his Office going over all the last minute proposals and changes for the first big PPV of the year. The Royal Rumble set off the entire year for them both story-line wise and economically. They always tried to stay in touch with their audience to know what was hot and what wasn't at any given point. Of course they weren't always successful, but with their shareholders sharpening their pitchforks and with the increase in leaks, there wasn't a lot of room for mistakes. The PPV had to be a success and every single paying fan whether in the Arena or at home; had to have a smile on their face at the end of the night.

"What do you think?" Vince asked, with a small satisfied smile on his face.

Stephanie nodded in agreement as she went over the sheets of paper in front of her on the desk, "Yeah Dad, it all looks good." She replied

happily.

"Bring on the Rumble!" Vince laughed and reclined in his chair. "So now we have finished that, everything in motion for next week? She comes in on Tuesday correct?"

"Yes. She arrived last night and checked into the Hotel." Stephanie smiled.

"Excellent. I will admit I wasn't sure at first but it's a good plan and I'm proud with all of your hard work. You should feel good."

Stephanie smiled at her Dad's kind words. "Thanks Dad. I want this to all work out, we need to bring in some fresh eyes to help and we also absolutely need someone to help to stop those leaks. "

Vince nodded his head and leaned back in his seat. "Well judging by her articles she's tenacious I have to give her that, But Stephanie remember that this can't blow back on us at all. Nor your Mother she's worked to hard for her position and I won't tolerate anything interfering with that. "

Stephanie looked at her Dad as the memory of their meetings played in her head. She didn't want anything to jeopordise all of her Mother's hard work either, but they needed to do this or it wouldn't just be Linda's career and reputation ruined, their entire family would be destroyed.

Flashback...

Stephanie quietly entered her Father's Office and took a seat opposite him. She remained silent as he finished up his phone call and tried to gather her thoughts. She bit the inside of her lip something she only did when was nervous and unsure of what was going to happen.

Vince smiled and turned away to gather a file behind him and went through some of the hidden contents. Stephanie took a deep calming breath and re-straightened her blouse and pulled the hem of her skirt down further.

"So, what was so urgent that you needed all my full attention Sweetheart?" Vince asked and turned back to face her.

"It's about the leaks I found some interesting details about the site they were left on."

Vince looked at his daughter and raised an eyebrow. "You have my full attention."

For the next thirty or so minutes Stephanie relayed all of the information and showed her Father the file that she had shown Paul. She sat examining her his face but it was like playing Poker with a Cobra no indication of when but you knew the bite was coming and that it was going to be painful. After a few more minutes, Vince finally looked up and removed his reading glasses from his face and placed the file down on his desk. He looked at Stephanie dead in the eye; "Who else knows about this?"

"Apart from myself only JJ and Paul. I had JJ work on this by himself and everything was verified by well trusted sources." She replied with a nod.

"And how exactly is this Woman going to help us?" Vince questioned.

"I'm still trying to digest everything." She lied, and hoped her Poker face was up to scratch. "I wanted to bring all of this to your attention and thought we could work on this together."

Vince contemplated her words but remained silent. He searched her face; she was good but she wasn't quite at his level yet. "Have you thought about the ramifications for all of us if you go ahead and make contact? She's gone to extreme lengths to hide her identity and stay out of sight."

"I have and it's certainly a sticking point yes." She admitted.

"Stephanie, we need to approach this very carefully we can't afford for anything to blow up in our faces. We can't have any reason for the mainstream media to hate us even more, especially given your Mother's role in the current administration." Vince stated as he tapped his fingers on his desk. "Tell me more about this blog."

"It started of as a normal entertainment blog gossip and Hollywood news, but since our last visit to Melbourne news items started to pop up about us and certain couples. Nothing too serious except for the photos of John and Nicole, but we handled all of that. And then as you know parts of the scripts started to leak online and a few pages were posted to the message board section of her blog." Stephanie explained. "And then backstage notes and photos also started to appear of sensitive information and that's when I tried to find out what I could. As you know I got nowhere fast and got JJ onto the case and it's taken him awhile to find out everything he put in the report."

Vince listened to his daughter and tried to formulate a plan. If they could somehow bring this blog person in and keep it under the radar but also unearth the leaker, then the risk would have been worth it. But that's the question, how were they going to bring her in and would she even agree to it? The measures this young woman had gone to to basically erase her former self was simply impressive, so they certainly had their work cut out for them in order to make this work. "Do you know if anyone in the Company would recognise her? That family stole a lot of money from a lot of people. I don't want someone from the Office seeing her walk around the halls and post it online." Vince said and shook his head.

Stephanie looked slightly taken aback. Of course she had thought of that what was she a rookie? "The report should be in there." She said and pointed towards the file."JJ and I both cross checked all of the names of our current and recently released staff with the names that we found through the online court papers. We couldn't find anything. Some Company names appeared but they also came back clean. "

Vince checked the contents again and didn't find anything. "The report isn't in here, I would be very interested in making sure that everything has been thoroughly checked and I would also like to go over it." He replied.

"I must have left it with Paul accidentally. I apologise. Once JJ and I have gone over everything again, it will be back on your desk."

"I trust you, I would just like to go over it myself as well. One more thing, do you remember her photo being in the news at all? I vaguely remember a couple after the arrest, but not afterward. Do you think that she's changed her physical appearance at all? I didn't notice any current photographs in here. Perhaps she's changed her look as well as her identity?"

Stephanie shook her head. "No. As you said there were only a few from years ago but nothing substantial since. I guess she wouldn't have made such a great investigative journalist and had gotten all of the scoops for her articles if her face had been published all over the place. And JJ wasn't even able to get any recent photos." She sighed. "She's REALLY gone off the grid Dad, we're lucky that he could find all of this."

"Whilst I appreciate everything so far, there are still questions that need to be answered before we even think about organising a meeting. Triple check on all your findings in regards to if the Firm had any dealings with any Staff here and in New York and get back to me."

Steph nodded and stood up eager to get to work. "We'll also extend it to include the roster as well. We did the main roster but I wouldn't mind if we extended it out a little further."

"Good thinking yes, we can't afford any surprises. Leave the file with me and we can talk again later." Vince advised.

Over the next two days, Stephanie and JJ worked day and night on what Vince had asked and completed another rigorous search into everything that he had mentioned and included the developmental rosters. They extended the original search they did out by five years just to be sure and anyone that was on the road with them backstage. They really had destroyed so many lives with their lies and criminal activities, it was hard to even comprehend the totality of it all.

So, one could only begin to imagine the immense sense of relief JJ and Steph felt when they discovered zero links between the Firm and the WWE.

"Bastards." JJ huffed, after they were finished.

"So many innocent lives ruined, what a nightmare." Stephanie replied sadly. "So much destruction and people call my family monsters."

"Steph, you and your family aren't monsters, ruthless yes but that's just business. These people were a major criminal enterprise, there's absolutely no comparison." JJ reassured her.

The next week Stephanie was called up to her Fathers' office to discuss everything that she had sent to him through internal post. Vince had taken his time re-examining absolutely every document and note. It had taken him a little while but after much thought he had come up with what he hoped would be the best solution for all involved.

"Hi Steph, thank you for coming up so quickly Sweetheart. I have gone over it all and I believe that what I've come up with will be the right step forward." He said, as she sat down. "We're really looking at two different things here aren't we? We need to control and stop the leaks, but we also need to be in control of what happens with that blog, certainly the posts pertaining to us."

Stephanie smiled and agreed with Vince. "Of course, if we can do that then it's a win win."

"Indeed it is. So let's make her an offer she couldn't possibly refuse."

"What did you have in mind?"

"She needs to believe that the offer is legitimate which of course it will be, but I don't think we need to divulge everything to her in the beginning. You said that there's a lot of interest in her blog backstage and on the Internet, so let's use that to our advantage. Hire her as a backstage employee whilst having her still write her blog but we get to feed her more of what we want instead of what others pass along." Vince explained. "I miss the days where the audience didn't know what was real and what wasn't. These days everything is torn apart by morons who have convinced themselves that they're insiders when they have no idea at all about what goes on behind the curtain. We need to take back charge of the narrative and bring more realism back into the business."

Stephanie continued to listen to her Dad, whilst trying to drown out the annoying sound of her Husbands' gloating. "Babe, this is all going to plan. We're brilliant! Told you, what did I tell you? HE has to believe it's his idea..."

"You can tell her that we are intrigued by her blog and everything that I just said, and that her cover could be as your new assistant. You've mentioned a few times that you're in need of another extra set of hands, so why not offer her the job?"

"Shh..." Stephanie said in her head. "Yeah I think that could work. We would have to keep her off camera which is fine and I could just give her some of the more mundane tasks to make it look good, but as she's "working" for me backstage she could also find out some information or gossip and we could use that to our advantage."

"Great idea. And when it comes to the leaker, I believe she can be our salvation." Vince smirked.

"Go on..."

"We can ease her into the new position and even have her do a few days in the Office. I thought we could have her in both but I don't think it will work out if she found out that she would have to go back to New York. We can't run the risk of her running into anyone from the past."

"No absolutely not. But I like the idea of her being here in the Office. Her natural instincts of hunting down a good story will want to make her stay and find out who it is and why."

Vince laughed. "It scares me how alike we are! So let's get all the finer details down and then we can reach out to her."

"I understand Dad and I don't want to ruin anything for Mom either. We will navigate these waters as gently as we can whilst working every lead we get until we find out who is trying to sabotage us." Stephanie replied coldly. "By the time we're through this person will regret the day they ever stepped foot in our business."

Vince grinned, he loved that his daughter was so passionate about the Company. It made loosening his grip bit by bit a little easier. "Oh, I almost forgot to mention to you; we've had to move the photo shoot for the Rumble to downstairs in the studio. The place we had booked have had to shutdown for a small period. It seems a water valve burst overnight and has caused some considerable damage." He said and shook his head. "It's more cost effective to do it in-house anyway. So that is also scheduled for Tuesday morning. How long do you think your interview will take?"

"Not long. I've set aside a couple of hours so I can come down afterwards and make an appearance if I'm needed." Stephanie replied and made a note in her diary about all of the changes. "Okay, I need to head back to my Office, was there anything else?" She asked and gathered her belongings.

"No that's all. I will get Beth to make some copies and send them to the relevant names on the list. Thanks again Sweetheart for your help."

"My pleasure Dad, I'll see you next week." Stephanie said and kissed her Father on the cheek and quietly left. She said a quick goodbye to Beth who was seated out at her desk and made her way down the long hall to her corner of the Executive Suite. She shot a quick message off to Diandra about the changes for Tuesday and entered her Office.

"Hey D, can you please move around anything that I have after my meeting on Tuesday, and black it out. The photo-shoot has been moved to here and I need to make an appearance - Thanks Steph.

With that done she made her way over to her desk and sat down, a small sigh escaped her lips. She had so many things left to do and little time to get them done, she just needed to take a minute or two to close her eyes and re-charge. She reveled in the peace until a small ding came from her phone. "Please let it be something good..."

Hotel:

Belle woke up feeling considerably better after her medication had kicked in and managed to have a couple of dream free peaceful hours of rest. She rolled over to check the time and was happy that she was still going to be able to order a nice cooked breakfast. She picked up the menu and scrolled through and ordered; Scrambled eggs with no milk on sourdough toast no butter, with a side of spinach and mushrooms with an almond milk latte.

After placing her order and being told it would be delivered within the next twenty minutes, Belle eased herself out of bed and into the bathroom for a shower. She turned the water on and waited for the perfect temperature before she hopped in and turned her back to the spray and relaxed. The water felt amazing as it fell over her shoulders - it was exactly what she needed to put her back in a somewhat happier frame of mind.

Belle finished her shower and wrapped herself up in the supplied fluffy robe, and sat back down on the bed with her phone in hand, She once again scrolled through her messages and brought up a rough draft of her newest blog that she had started the previous evening. Lost in thought when the custom "ping" rang out, Belle's eyes snapped to the top of her screen as an alert appeared "new comment added to gossip diva."

"Let's see what my little sleuths are talking about." She clicked the alert and waited for the blog to load before moving down to the comment section. "Oh come on not again."

"Anonymous" was back with more script drafts and a few photos of sketches about potential stage layouts pertaining to the first PPV of the year; the Royal Rumble.

"No more buddy, can't have this, at least not this week." Belle clicked on the profile and deleted the newest message. Usually, she was all for people posting good or bad, but this was getting beyond a joke. The comments were infrequent at the beginning but had begun to escalate to at least three leaks per week and photos. "The last thing I need is to be sued by my potential new employer." Belle mumbled to herself and hit ctl - alt - del. She searched for all of the posts did a quick screen grab and hit the "delete all" option.

After completing her task and banning the user and their I.P address she sent off a quick message to her team back in Australia and asked for the I.T Dept. to keep an eye out for the user. She also asked them to put safety measures in place so that no further photos of anything pertaining to WWE scripts and such made it onto the blog without going through her.

A small knock on the door drew her attention away and Belle walked over to answer.

"Good Morning, Miss Westlake, here is your breakfast." A nice young man said holding a tray with her food and coffee.

"Good Morning, can you put it over near the window please, thank you." She smiled, and stepped back to let him in.

Belle nodded her head and gave him a small tip as he quietly left.

Her stomach rumbled as she sat down and lifted the tray lid up. "Beautiful." She smiled as the smell wafted through the air and greedily tucked into her delicious meal. After a few more bites, she returned her focus back onto the blog and happily lost herself in work. No more bad thoughts about the past, nothing but good times ahead.

"Trust yourself, focus on the future don't let the ghosts from the past get in the way anymore. Nothing but blue skies ahead."