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Chapter Twenty-Eight

Andrew let out a loud and long whine while pulling on his father's shirt. Kurt was pacing around backstage at the Mellon arena in his old hometown of Pittsburgh. Angle's cell phone was to his good ear. His son, Angle had sitting on his hip. The diaper bag and his gym bag were at his feet where he had carelessly dropped it before making the call to his ex. Baby Andy could feel his father's anger and hurt and it was making him fussy.

"Karen, what the hell is going on? I stop by your house today and I see a sold sign in the front yard and the house is empty! Where the hell are my kids? Where do you get the balls to move them somewhere else without telling me first? I'm calling my lawyer because this is bullshit! I expect you to call me back!" Angle screamed in anger before forcefully mashing the end button on his phone.

Kurt was so upset. He didn't know what to do with himself. If he didn't have his obligations to the show, he would have been right on the phone to his lawyer on his way back to Connecticut. There was no possible explanation for Karen to have. What could she say to justify her moving his children without speaking to him first? It was bad enough that he hadn't seen Kyra and Kody in months. He had been laid back and let Karen call the shots when it came to visitation, and now he was paying the price for it.

"Are you okay, Kurt? Vince was asking everyone where you were. You've got a lot of pre-taping to do for the show." Candice Michelle told Angle as she approached. She was already in her skimpy WWE diva attire even though it wasn't even close to show time.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just taking care of some personal stuff. I'm sorry if you heard any of that." Angle explained looking a little embarrassed as he put his cell phone away in his back pocket. Andy was still whining, so Kurt shifted him to his other hip. He wondered how much of the voice message for his ex she had heard.

"Is the little one all right? I take it Mommy didn't come? You look like your cluelessly flying solo tonight with a lot on your mind. Let me take this little one off your hands for the night." Candice offered with a sweet smile as she sashayed over to Kurt and placed a hand on his firm arm.

"Thanks but, I wouldn't want to-"

"I insist, besides what are you going to do with him while you are doing your pre-taped promos and when you are in your match? You know Vince is too busy tonight to watch him. Let me take him. I have a great maternal instinct." She told him with an eyebrow raise as she then held out her arms for his son who was still fussing. She had completely cut him off before he could make up an excuse why not to hand over his baby to one of the divas.

If Stephanie were there, Kurt knew there would be no way Candice would be watching their child during RAW. The mother of two and queen of multitasking would be able to care for her three year old and soon to be one year old while doing her job backstage like it was nothing. Kurt, however, was not that skilled. He had a lot to do to prepare for the show. And if he didn't need more stress, Karen taking his kids was putting his mind in a haze. He really did need help tonight. What would be the harm in letting her watch the baby while he took care of business?

"Okay well, here he is. Everything he'll need is right here in his diaper bag. If anything happens don't hesitate to come and get me. I don't care what it is. Thanks for this." Kurt finally said as he slowly handed her his cranky baby.

"It's my pleasure. It's not every day I have the privilege of taking care of the baby son of the best shooter in the business." Candice replied rocking the baby in her arms instinctively without taking her eyes off of Angle.

Kurt fidgeted a little in place noticing that Candice was really giving him a through look over with her eyes. Her piercing brown eyes scanned him up and down before settling on his lower half. She looked like she was trying to imagine what he was packing underneath his pair of shorts. While he was watching her, he noticed that she caught his gaze. He looked away, avoiding eye contact with the scantily clad diva.

"Yeah, here's the diaper bag. I'm going to go meet up with Vince and get the pre-taping over with. Thanks again." Kurt said quickly picking up the blue diaper bag and handing it to her before leaving the room.

"Say, bye, bye Daddy." Candice told baby Andrew as he just stared at her while Angle walked out. He was taking in her appearance. While she had managed to calm the baby down, he was still a little unsure of the diva. He knew she wasn't his mother.

"You are just the sweetest little one. Are you going to be hanging out with me tonight, Andy? Aw, look at the shy baby!" Candice Michelle gushed as Andrew smiled and then hid his face in her skimpy top.

Stephanie sat silently on her living room sofa as she observed her ex-husband interacting with their daughter. Steph was relieved to have finalized the RAW script for the show that night. She was now free to enjoy little Aurora's time with her father. Stephanie had decided that she would just hang out nearby so the three year old would know she was there. She liked seeing how her little girl interacted with Paul, and the fact that Paul's focus was finally off of her and on his child.

Poor Paul seemed a bit lost when it came to keeping his rambunctious three year old entertained. Aurora really craved stimulation at all times, as Steph knew. Him sitting on the sofa and hoping she would sit still next to him and watch television wasn't going to work. So Steph had the idea to pull out Aurora's new memory card game that featured The Backyardigans. It had been one of the many birthday present from Vince and Linda to their granddaughter. Paul had set it up on the coffee table in the living room. He was on the ground sitting at the table so that he as at the same level as his child while they played.

"Aurora, you can't pick them all up. You are just suppose to show two of the pictures and see if they match." Paul corrected his daughter when he saw her begin to turn over and collect each one of the square cards he had laid out.

"I think she just likes picking up the cards." Steph said aloud with a smile as she watched her little girl bring each one of the cardboard square pictures close to her chest after smiling at the colorful pictures on the one side of each.

"She should learn how to play. This game is for ages three to six. It will be a good skill building activity for her. Give Daddy the cards, sweetheart." Levesque replied reaching over to his daughter in an attempt to remove the cards from her tight grasp.

"No, my cards! Mine! No!" Aurora let out shrieking whine when her father began to pull on the cards.

Stephanie's gut reaction would have been to intervene before her child became more upset than she already was. She decided not to get involved though because it was Paul's time into interact and shoulder the responsibility of being with their three year old. Steph had the three year old everyday and knew full well about the little tantrums that Aurora could throw at the drop of a hat. She was ready to see how her ex-husband would handle it without her input.

"If you are not going to be a big girl and play the game the way it's meant to be played, then it has to go back in the box." Paul explained calmly as if he was speaking to an older child that could comprehend why the game was being put away.

With a hard yank he had snatched the cards from his little girl's hands and began putting them in the box. With her cards out of her hands, Aurora let out a angry scream that caused her face to become a deep shade of red that reminded her mother of Vince. And then, before either of her parents could do anything; she gave her father a good smack on the side of his face with her right hand.

"Aurora, you know we don't hit!" Steph hollered gesturing with a pointed finger at her little girl.

Her eyes were wide with shock as she sat on the couch in disbelief at what had just transpired. It was quite out of the ordinary for Aurora to be hitting adults. She had only hit Steph and had been giving a stern lecture about why putting your hands on people was wrong. If Steph didn't know any better, she would have thought that her daughter had seen her Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley gimmick as was imitating her.

"You do not hit your daddy!" Paul hollered in his deep voice while his cupped hand gave the three year old's little backside a good smack.

The combination of Levesque's loud booming voice and the smack on the bottom caused Aurora to jump before her eyes welled up with tears and she ran over to her mother for comfort. Steph looked on speechless as she took her baby girl into her arms. The way he had just handled his little girl's misbehavior made her want to get up and smack him too.

"That's really great, Paul. You scream at her not to hit and then you hit her. Is this really how you want your little girl to remember her visits with you?" Stephanie lectured her ex-husband while Aurora Rose hid her eyes in her mommy's shirt.

"No, I didn't mean to scare her but I was just shocked that she would hit me. When did she become such a whining little brat?" Levesque asked his former wife touching his hand to his cheek. For a little girl, she already had her mommy's powerful slap.

"I don't think she's feeling well. Her little brother just got over being sick. Did she take a nap at all when I was working the study?" Steph asked trying to come up with a possible explanation for her daughter's acting out. She ignored the fact that Paul had called his own child a brat.

"No, she was busy coloring and watching television. She didn't start acting up until you came in. I'll be right back, I just have to use the bathroom." Paul said quietly as he got to his feet.

"Do you need me to show you where it is?" Steph offered still consoling her baby girl in her arms.

"No, I know my way." He muttered back before leaving the living room.

Steph let out a long sigh while resting her eyes on her little girl. The three year old was still sniffling and crying into her shirt that was now stained with tears. Lovingly, she ran her hand through her little girls brown locks of hair. She could only imagine how awkward these visits were for little Aurora. The poor baby had no memory of when Paul was fully in her life.

"I want my Daddy to come home, Mommy. Where's my Daddy and brother? I want him. Get him." Aurora whispered after lifting her head to expose her tear stained face. Her little hands she placed on her mother's face. She was serious in request for Angle to return.

"Kurt and your bother will be home soon. Right now, we are having a nice visit with your daddy. He loves you very much. Now let's wipe off your beautiful angel face and when Daddy comes back in, we will start fresh." Steph said in an optimistic voice before reaching for a nearby tissue which she used to wipe away her baby girl's tears.

A clean face and a few hugs and kisses were all Aurora needed to go back to her happy state of being. She had gone over to her play corner and picked up both her stuffed puppy dog and teddy bear. Aurora then ran back to sit with her mommy with a stuffed animal in each arm.

"Is there going to be room for me to sit down?" Paul asked walking back into the room with something in his right hand. He noticed that Aurora had sat the stuffed animals in place of where he had planned to sit.

"Say sure, Daddy." Steph said with a smile as she moved some sofa pillows out of the way to open up a spot for Paul to sit next to his child.

"I brought something over to show the two of you." Levesque announced holding up a CD case that had no front booklet. From where Steph sat, she could see that there was some black writing on the disk itself.

"What is it?" Steph asked cocking her head to the side giving him an inquisitive look. She had no idea what he was planning to show them. Where had he even gotten the CD from? Had he gone out to his Hummer?

"You'll see. Can you set up the DVD player to work on the TV?" He asked as he turned and walked up to the entertainment center on the other side of the spacious living room. Steph gave a nod and reached for the universal remote that was sitting on the glass side table.

"What happened over here? One of my pictures was knocked over." Steph mentioned aloud as she sat the picture of her and her husband back up in its place and then grabbed the universal remote.

Paul ignored her as he pressed the eject button on the DVD player causing the tray to open. He then dropped the recordable DVD onto the tray and then closed it. During this, Steph was hitting a few function buttons on her touch remote, setting the television up to play the DVD. With the DVD in the player, Paul took his seat next to his daughter on the sofa and waited for it to load up.

A blue logo screen was followed by the start of a home movie that was promptly dated: Dec 25 2006 in white letters at the bottom right of the screen. Stephanie knew exactly what the DVD was of. She didn't need the recorded date to remind her. It was of their daughter's first Christmas.

"Merry Christmas Daddy! It's baby Aurora's first Christmas! Look at all the great toys that Santa Clause brought her!" A few years younger Stephanie exclaimed in the recording as the camera focused on her and the five month old baby as she sat on the carpet floor in front of their huge Christmas tree.

"Steph, the Santa hat is covering her eyes." Paul told his wife from behind the camera causing Steph to adjust the oversized hat so it uncovered baby Aurora's eyes. She then gave the baby a kiss on her chubby little cheeks causing her to coo.

"That's a baby, Mommy?" Aurora asked turning to her mother before looking back at the image of her baby self on the screen. She was mesmerized by the footage.

"That's you when you were a little baby, sweetie. See, Mommy and Daddy were together. We loved our baby Aurora very much and still do." Steph replied with a smile as she grinned from ear to ear because of how enthralled her daughter was with seeing herself as an infant.

"Paul, put the camera on the tripod and come sit with us while we open presents." Steph said motioning for her husband to come sit with her and their little baby.

Stephanie began to feel her chest tighten as she watched a younger version of herself on her plasma television smiling and giving her baby kisses. This was before it all went wrong. Back when they were a happy couple and a new family. Back then, she would have never believed that what she had with Paul wouldn't last. She had been so blindly devoted to him. He was after all, the first real love of her life. The home movie's purpose was to mark the beginning of their happy married life with children. But now, after everything that she had been through in the past two years, it symbolized the beginning of the end of what she had Paul had together.

"I'm the baby!" Aurora laughed as she got off the couch and walked up to the plasma TV as the video camera zoomed in on the five month old version of her.

"Give your two best girls some Christmas kisses!" Stephanie told Paul the moment he was in the shot sitting down next to her and Aurora.

"Well I don't see any mistletoe but what the hell?" Paul said with a laugh before leaning over and giving Steph a quick smooch that she lovingly received after he gave his baby a kiss on her chubby cheek.

Stephanie watched herself kissing her former husband. She could tell how much she had been in love with him. And what wasn't to love then? He had been her best friend and lover. The man she had known she wanted to be married to in the first year they started dating. Nothing could have prepared her for what he had in store for her in the future.

Steph's thoughts were suddenly interrupted as she felt Levesque's hand on her thigh right above her knee. She looked over at him and he smiled. He obviously was feeling nostalgic of old times when he saw them kissing in their home movie. Before Steph could even react to his advances, she was distracted by the conversation that was now taking place in the home movie between them.

"Do you really have to leave next week for that photo shoot? I don't understand why it was booked so close to the holidays. You should call Dad and see about having it rescheduled." The thirty year old asked rocking baby Aurora in her arms.

"It's the photo shoot for the new year. It's after the holidays and it's not even an hour away. Tell you what, I'll bring you home a nice piece of jewelry from New York's Tiffany. The two days will be over before you know it." Paul replied on camera while putting his arm around Steph and giving her a kiss on the side of her face.

"I don't want a piece of jewelry, Paul. I want you to be with us. We're a family now. Aurora and I should come before a two day photo shoot." She replied in a soft voice that was barely audible from the video footage.

"Steph, come on now. You're on camera nagging me about this. Let's make the holidays nice for Aurora."

Steph quickly pushed Paul's hand off of her thigh and shot him a look of disgusted. She was finally starting to get fed up with his obvious sexual advances. And now, he was trying to play on her emotions about their failed marriage.

Stephanie felt sick as she watched the conversation transpire. Now, looking back on it all, she knew the exact reason behind that New Years photo shoot in New York. It wasn't until she actually saw that Christmas that she remembered him leaving for the two days at the beginning of the New Year. He had been seeing Michelle North even back then. She had been so blind to it all. Even on camera in their family home movies, Paul was a liar and a cheater.

"Shit, I didn't know that was on there. I didn't watch it all the way through. I'm sorry about that." Paul muttered as he quickly grabbed the universal remote from Steph's relaxed hand and tapped the stop button on its screen that caused the plasma TV to go blue.

"Where did baby go?" Aurora asked pointing to the screen. The family video from her babyhood had disappeared because of her father.