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Chapter Five

"Aurora, do you remember when Mommy talked to you about how you and Andrew each have your own Daddy?" Stephanie asked her three year old daughter as she tucked her into her little bed on the luxury bus. She thought that bedtime would be a perfect opportunity to have a talk with her little girl about her parental confusion. Aurora shook her head as a silent response to her mother's question.

"Well, you do have your own Daddy. Andrew's daddy is Kurt. Your daddy is Paul. Your daddy loves you very much and it hurts his feelings when you call Kurt your daddy." Steph explained slowly hoping her daughter would grasp the concept she was trying to explain to her.

"Andrew is my baby brother and his daddy is my daddy too. He shares Daddy with me and I share Daddy with him." The little girl explained making her pink teddy bear dance over her covers.

"Aurora, Andrew's daddy is your stepfather. I married Kurt after your daddy and I divorced. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"No…Where's Daddy, I need a hug from him before I can go to sleep. Get Daddy, Mommy." The three year old replied completely missing what her mother was trying so hard to explain to her.

"Paul Levesque, the man who visited you today when you were coloring, he's your daddy, sweetheart. He went home to Greenwich but you'll see him soon. He loves you very much and would like you to call him 'Daddy' next time you see him. Okay?"

"Daddy, I want a hug." Aurora said as soon as she saw Kurt move into the small doorway to her little section of the bus. He was holding his son who was sound asleep in his arms. Angle was once again dressed in his suit for he had changed back into it after his match in the main event.

"I thought you talked to her." Angle said to his wife as he slowly moved into the room. It had been decided that Stephanie was going to try again to explain to her daughter that Kurt wasn't her father like he was Andrew's.

"I did, she just isn't getting it. Maybe we should try again when Paul's actually here too." Steph suggested as she got up from where she was seated on the edge of the small bed.

"Here, you put the little guy down and I'll finish tucking in Princess Aurora." Kurt said in a much quieter voice and she leaned into his wife so that she could take their son from him.

Steph smiled quickly accepting the baby into her arms. As soon as she was holding him, she could tell that he needed a diaper change. Her smile slowly faded and was replaced with a look that told her husband that she was wise to him.

"You're handing him over to me because you know he needs a diaper change." Stephanie told her husband as she felt her baby's diapered bottom while he slept in her arms.

"It's late and you can change him quicker than I ever could. So while you're changing him, I'll finish tucking in Aurora. Is that okay, honey?" Kurt asked raising his eyebrows as he awaited his wife's approval of his logic. He was a bit surprised by her assuming that he only gave her their child because he wanted to shirk his responsibilities as a father and not change a diaper.

"Yeah, you're right. Aurora was just asking for you to tuck her in so it works out well." Steph replied allowing her smile to return to her face. With that said, Steph left Aurora's small courters and took the baby into the part of the bus that her and Kurt slept in.

"Okay little girl, it's sleepy time now. Do you have everything you need for bedtime? You've got your bear and you're nice and warm in your bed." Kurt pointed out as he tucked the covers around Aurora after the child put her teddy bear under the covers and next to her on her pillow.

"Good night sweetie." Kurt whispered giving Aurora a quick peck on her forehead before getting up to leave.

"You forgot to give Baby Bear a kiss too." Aurora quickly said causing her stepfather to stop before he left her.

Angle smiled, letting out a chuckle after he shook his head and walked back to the bed. He leaned back down and gave the stuffed animal a kiss to make his stepdaughter happy. She let out a little laugh before reaching her arms out to hug Kurt around his broad neck.

"Okay, night-night, princess." Kurt replied after Aurora let go of him and he was able to stand back up and leave the room.

"Night-night, Daddy." Aurora replied before closing her eyes. Her referring to him as her father caused Kurt to pause right outside of her small room for a moment before he joined Stephanie in their bedroom on the luxury bus.

"She's still calling me her daddy." Kurt reported to Stephanie as soon as he entered the bedroom where Steph had Andrew lying on their bed and was finishing up changing him.

"I know, she doesn't understand when I try to explain it to her." Steph told him while she kept her eyes on her eleven month old who now seemed wide awake from the diaper change and was now sucking on a pacifier while he looked up at his mother with his beautiful blue eyes.

"I know it's wrong for her to call me her father but I can't help but feel good that she thinks of me as her parent. I love her like she's my own flesh and blood." Kurt confessed as he sat down on the bed

"I know you do. And Aurora loves you. But it is still not right for her to be calling you her father." Steph answered back as she finished putting the baby's pajamas back on him.

"You're right. I wouldn't want Kyra and Kody calling another man their daddy." Angle said honestly as he watched Andrew sit up and then crawl further up the bed toward the pillows.

"Yeah but you are also more involved in your children's lives. I'm so frustrated with Paul. He's such a narcissist, there's no getting through to him."

"Let's stop talking about him. What did you think of the match tonight?" Kurt asked changing the subject quickly from his wife's ex husband. The man had already gotten her upset earlier in the day, there was no sense in her bringing him back up to only get upset again.

"I still don't like the idea of you working with Jeff Hardy. I know you want to give him a rub but with his drug history and his dangerous style of wrestling, I'm worried about you." Stephanie explained moving further onto the bed to stay by her child who was now moving the pillows from the bed as he let out a few strings of babbling out from around his pacifier.

Kurt let out a sigh as he too moved onto the bed but on the other side. This wasn't the first time he had heard of her objections to giving Jeff Hardy a push of any kind. Angle knew that she didn't have any use for him after he no showed because he was found to be under the influence at an airport. She didn't feel that Hardy belonged in the ring with him.

"Steph, I'll be fine." Angle said acting like what she continued to harp about was really no big deal and she was over reacting.

"I know you say that but I know you. You're going to give it your all to make Hardy look good at the expense of your body. I don't want you doing that anymore."

Kurt listened quietly with a smile as he watched his baby pick up each one of the decorative pillows and throw it off the bed letting out a playful laugh. Perhaps the extended nap Andrew took earlier accounted for him being unusually more active at this hour.

"I don't want you doing that to your body anymore. Ever since, you started your pro wrestling career in 1999 you've always fired on all cylinders and I even worried about you then but now it's different." Steph continued watching Kurt take the baby and sit him on his chest as he laid on his pillow next to his wife. He began to elevate his child over him making airplane noises that made Andrew laugh and kick out. Still Stephanie continued to express what she had to say despite her husband's attention being focused on their eleven month old.

"You're my husband and the father of our son. And Kurt, you're getting older." She said placing her hand on his face, making her look over at him. When he finally did, she gave him a look that told him that she was being completely serious and was genuinely concerned about that pay-per-view match coming up.

Angle let out a long sigh as he closed his eyes after he brought the baby back down to his chest. He didn't like it when his age was brought up as something that would hold him back. It never when he was in TNA and it wouldn't now.

"Steph, I know what you're saying, okay? I'm sorry, baby, but I don't know any other way to perform without giving it my all. That's who I am. That's why Dad puts so much stock in me. He knows I will go out there and make him money…make us money." Kurt replied taking her hand in his as the baby got off his chest and crawled over between them and laid down on his stomach.

"Money is not what's most important here, you are. I want you to promise me that you'll be careful when you are working with Jeff Hardy; no unnecessary risks." Steph whispered with intensity as she leaned toward her husband locking eyes with him. He shifted closer to her, so that where their baby laid was the only space between them.

"I swear to you that I won't do anything that I can't handle." Angle whispered back bringing his hand to her face. They had clearly been reduced to whispering because the baby was well on his way to settling down for the night.

Steph had to wonder what exactly Kurt thought he could handle. She knew how confident he was in his ability to put on five star matches. Her husband was the best shoot wrestler in the business. However, he was going to be in the ring with a man who Stephanie considered to be a bit of a loose cannon. Kurt didn't see that in Jeff though. Angle had known Hardy from his development days at the Dory Funk Jr. Dojo camp where they along with others trained. Steph knew that Kurt had it in his mind that he was going to work the match, but at least he was promising her that he would take care.

Stephanie closed her eyes bringing her forehead to her husband's. Their noses touched before Angle flashed a smirk and pressed his lips firmly against hers. Steph let out a sigh, bringing her right hand up to her husband's face as she kissed him back, matching his passion. Slowly, Angle shifted on the bed, carefully moving over to Steph's side without disturbing their sleeping baby that had been between them. Their kiss continued while Kurt lied down in between his wife's legs as she loosened his tie before removing it from around his large neck and throwing it to the floor. Her fingers then fiddled with his dress shirt buttons while he unzipped the side zipper of her dress pants.

"Wait, let's put the baby in the crib before we start." Steph said placing a hand on her husband's bare chest holding him back from getting right down to business. They had now shed all their clothing and were just about to make love.

Angle nodded and moved off of her so that she could pick up the sleeping baby and place him gently in the crib right by the bed. Andy only stirred slightly when his mother placed him in the crib. Kurt got to his feet at approached his wife watching her cover the baby with a light blanket. He was somewhat impatient and was ready for her to lay down with him. Steph smiled when she turned around to meet him, taking Kurt into her arms as they showered each other with kisses before getting back into bed together.

Paul sat on top of one of the lighting box carts backstage at the SmackDown tapings. He was still stewing over what had happened yesterday. Levesque didn't even bother telling his best friend, Shawn, about the latest developments in his battle with the McMahon-Angle family. Sure his best friend would be there to support him, but Paul was tired of getting the Christian take on everything that said he had to turn the other cheek and only see the good in them. That was the last thing he wanted to hear right now. There was nothing wrong with Shawn's strong faith in God but Paul didn't want to see the makeshift sunny side in the shitty situation he was now in with his ex-wife and child.

He was still trying to wrap his mind around the fact that his own daughter was calling another man her daddy. And if that wasn't enough to trouble his thoughts, he still had the mental picture of Stephanie sucking face with Kurt Angle backstage at the RAW arena. She had never kissed him with such fervor in public as she had kissed Angle. Seeing her in his arms, holding him tight, only made the fact that he had lost her all the more real to him.

It had been a year since the divorce was finalized. What an agonizing year it was for him. While Steph had easily moved on with the Olympic Gold medalist as if nothing had been lost, Levesque was still morning the loss of their marriage and the life that they once had together. Sure, to Stephanie, being his wife was the past and she didn't choose to dwell on it since she now had a new child and a new husband. Paul, however, was left alone, having to go on with his same life but without her. Paul had remembered the very hallway he was sitting in. He remembered standing in it with Stephanie one night before a show. It had been before they were even married. They were still dating but already knew they were in love. Levesque could recall making stupid jokes while Stephanie was performing her backstage duties. He used to be able to make her smile and laugh. There had been a time where it was so easy to please her. It had been the events of the last year of their marriage that had turned her heart to stone against him. Paul could only hope that it wasn't forever.

"Paul?"

"What?" Levesque snapped back instinctively after hearing his name called out of nowhere. The voice had brought him back to reality from his daydream state of thinking about the past. He was annoyed by the interruption.

The moment Paul looked up to see from where the voice was coming from, his demeanor changed. Right in front of him was a beautiful blonde that he had come to know quite well over the past years since WWE's acquisition of WCW.

"Oh, hey Torrie, what are you doing here? I thought you retired from wrestling?" Paul asked in a much softer and kinder voice. He was somewhat embarrassed that he had snapped out at her.

"John Laurinaitis called me up and told me that the creative team had come up with a non-wrestling on screen role for me on SmackDown. It's some role as general manager assistant or something. With the divorce from Peter, I just jumped at the chance to get some steady work besides the clothing line I started." Miss Wilson explained with a smile before focusing the subject back on Paul.

"Are you okay? You look so sad sitting here by yourself." Wilson pointed out. She had been talking by when she had seen Levesque sitting there alone like he was in some sort of a grief stricken trance. The look on his face showed that he was hurting about something.

"I'll live. Stephanie's just making my life really difficult."

"Yeah, I heard about your divorce last year. I'm really sorry that it didn't work out between you two. I haven't spoken to Steph in such a long time." Torrie replied showing that she was genuinely sorry about the end of the Levesques' marriage.

"Stephanie is doing just fine now. She got pregnant, divorced me, and married Kurt Angle; in that order too. She took Aurora and moved on with her life like I was nothing to her." Paul said looking away from Torrie as she spoke about his hardship.

"Aw, poor Aurora, I'm sure she misses you very much. I know firsthand how hard a divorce can be. I can't imagine having children and going through it. I'm going to be on SmackDown for at least the next few months. I just want you to know that if you need anyone to talk to, I'm here." Torrie told Levesque as she placed her hand on his arm to show the sincerity of her offer.

"Thanks for the offer. I'll keep that in mind." Paul said giving Torrie Wilson a weak smile after his eyes glanced at her hand that was still on his arm. His smile stayed on his face as they said their goodbyes and Torrie disappeared down the hall.

She had been the first superstar, other than Shawn of course, to reach out to him since the divorce. It was well known that Paul wasn't exactly the most well liked, even before his marriage ended to Stephanie, but with the dissolve of the marriage it seemed that any put on respect the boys in the back had for him had also disappeared. As if he was a nameless jobber before he got involved with Vince McMahon's daughter.

Levesque could not help but wonder if Torrie was just being polite because she had been such a good friend of him and Stephanie when they were married. She was more of Stephanie's friend than his yet she seemed concerned about him.

Paul's cell phone began to ring causing him to remove it from his the back pocket of his jeans and look at its display. Surprisingly, it was his ex-wife, Stephanie. Why was she calling him? How strange was it that he had just finished talking with her friend before she called?

"Hey." He said right after opening the phone and bringing it to his ear.

"Hi Paul, it's Stephanie."

"Yeah, I know. What do you want?" Paul asked wanting to get right down to the reason she was calling him.

"Listen, Kurt is going to Pittsburgh to pick up his kids tomorrow so he can have them until Friday. I thought you could come over then and visit with Aurora. I think it's important that she spends some time with you away from Kurt but with me there too. Having her just go off with you hasn't been working out well. So, can you come over to see her tomorrow around noon?" Steph asked putting her offer out there.

"Yeah sure, I'm flying back to Connecticut tomorrow morning."

"Okay good. So I'll see you tomorrow then. Take care."

"Thanks, you too, bye." Paul replied before ending the call.

It had been the first time in a long time that Paul remembered having an entire conversation that was completely civil between him and Stephanie. He was somewhat surprised that Steph was inviting him to her home after their confrontation the day before. Why all of a sudden was she now being so civil to him? Well whatever the reason was, Levesque was quick to accept her offer. She was giving him the opportunity to visit his daughter at her home and best of all, Kurt Angle was going to be no where around to interfere in his time with his daughter. It was going to be him, Steph, and Aurora; Just the three of them, like when they were a family.