Chapter Three: That's not good.

By: Brittzers

Shawn woke up early in the morning on his own. He remembered last night clearly especially with Edge lying there; unconsciously twirling his fingers threw Shawn's hair. Shawn allowed himself to lie there for a few moment and then he grabbed Edge's fingers and pulled them from his golden locks. Shawn sat up slowly and he scooted himself off of the bed and stood up. He didn't want to wake Edge up from his light slumber. He began to walk towards the door and he pulled it open, exiting quietly.

Shawn stood on the outside of the door and let out a breath, finally remembering the kiss that Edge gave to him in the night during his 'sleeping'. He brought his fingers to his lips and rubbed them softly then sighed, beginning to walk to Cena's hotel room as he had previously planned. He was still tired so as soon as he got in to the hotel room he threw himself onto the bed.

After nearly seconds of sleep, a knocking was sounded at the door. It was faint since Cena had been in the shower all morning. Shawn groaned and pealed himself off of the bed to open the door, coming face to face with Hunter. Even though all he wanted to do was throw his arms around him and kiss him forever, he decided against it and put on a mean face.

"What do you want?"

Shawn asked Hunter, Hunter looked down, Shawn could hear Hunter's soft and uneasy breathing then he noticed Hunter's hazel eyes looking up slowly at him. Every time Hunter's eyes connected with his own he felt a sudden shock of - some strange feeling. He can tell that Hunter was beginning to talk since he had ran his fingers threw his hair and looked up at him with the most sympathetic of faces.

"C-can I come in?"

Hunter asks in a low but guilt filled voice. Shawn folds his arms over his chest and leans against the door way, seeming to block the door, not wanting Hunter to come in…he knew something would happen if he let him in. Shawn was too weak to even try to resist Hunter's cunning attitude - it was very difficult to get past those big hazel eyes, those plump long lips and that tight embrace that hypnotizes Shawn into doing any and every thing for him. Shawn unfolds his arms from his chest and leans against the doorway, trying to seem strong and resistant even though he was far from it.

"What do you want?"

He repeats and wrinkles his brows, Hunter stepped closer, and guilt was easily read on his paled face. He kept his eyes down, only taking seconds to look up at Shawn then looked back down after a few seconds. It was hard to look him in the eyes because he knew the wrong that he had done, he can tell by the hurt in Shawn's face last night. Shawn was all he could think about all night, his mind was on no other, every now and then, however, Stephanie would come into his mind and he'd think about her, but soon his mind would drift off to Shawn again. It was tough not having him lying there beside him.

"I just…wanted to apologize, Shawn, I was a jerk…I—"

"Don't want to hear it"

Shawn responded quickly, shaking his head and looking down at his shoes,

"I can't take this anymore, Hunter! You always do this, it's a routine, I can't keep getting my heart broken I –"

Shawn was immediately cut off by the soft and tender kiss of Hunter; it was as if it was from one of those common 'I love you so much' romantic movies - that kiss. Of course, Shawn just melted into that kiss of his, that warm embrace, that soft touch and hazel eyes, he just melted. Some people would call it 'stupid' or 'needy' if you keep going back to 'that person' but Shawn just sees it as the true love that he has for Hunter…he can't help himself. It only took seconds for Shawn to kiss Hunter back deeply, his hands rising into Hunter's hair, tangling in it and using it to push Hunter more into the kiss. Hunter pulled Shawn closer and then pulled his mouth away, keeping his eyes shut and resting his forehead against Shawn's.

"I'm so sorry, Shawn…"

Hunter whispered, giving him little pecks on his cheeks underneath his eye and then rubbing his cheek against the spot he kissed. Shawn breathed softly and wrapped his arms around Hunter's neck,

"I thought I was going to lose you forever"

Hunter continued, causing Shawn to giggle softly and he kissed his nose softly, shaking his head,

"It wasn't that serious, Hunter"

Shawn said, smiling and holding him, still. Hunter nodded his head gently, even bringing himself to slight tears as he held Shawn in his arms once again. It felt beautiful, this moment, and he loved it.

"It was…it was…one little mistake can ruin everything. I'm sorry. I love you."

Hunter said, and then he continued on to say,

"Lets never fight again, Shawn, I don't want us to ever be apart. I-I…"

"Shhh…"

Shawn said, Hushing Hunter with another kiss on his mouth, a gentle and softly before he pulled away again. Hunter took in a breath and pulled Shawn into another hug, his head resting onto Shawn's shoulder and he closed his eyes gently. His nose buried it's self into Shawn's neck seconds later and his arms wrapped around his hips.

"I don't understand this spell you have over me…"

Hunter whispered, smiling,

"I've held you like this so many times…but, every new one feels better than the last."

It took Shawn only seconds to answer when he began to laugh,

"Very corny"

Shawn's laugh was contagious, fersure because soon Hunter began to laugh and then he shook his head gently, his nose gently tickling Shawn's neck. As Shawn began to think, his laughter ended and his smile faded. Hunter's laughter had too disappeared when Shawn's did, something was up with him and he needed to know.

"What?"

Hunter whispers,

"D-does this mean we'd go back to the way we were? Before the argument?"

Shawn asks, Hunter smiled a bit then he nods, thinking this was what Shawn wanted to hear,

"If you'll have me"

Hunter responded, Shawn pouted slightly and rolled his eyes, looking to the floor silently.

"I-Is that bad?"

hunter asks, Shawn nods his head slowly,

"It's not you, Hunter, you're perfect…It's just -"

"- Stephanie?"

"Yeah…"

"Shawn – "

"- Please don't argue with me about this. I can't be the third wheel anymore! I can't be the 'other man', Hunter, I won't be your maid, your whore, your prostitute, none of that… I refuse."

"Shawn…I –"

"No, I don't want to hear excuses, I'm sick of this – "

"Shawn!"

"What?!"

"I'm breaking it off with Stephanie"

He whispered, Shawn paused and his eyes widened.

"What? Why? Don't do that!"

Shawn said, contradicting himself and confusing the fuck out of Hunter.

"What? I thought you wanted –"

He was cut off,

"I mean…I do but – I – Stephanie…"

Shawn took a deep breath and continued what he was saying without stammering.

"You can't hurt her for me, Hunter…"

Shawn said, looking down for a second and then back up at Hunter. He wanted to be with Hunter and he wanted Hunter with him and no one else…but he just couldn't have Stephanie hurt…Shawn would have major guilt for that.

"But I've been hurting you all this time, Shawn…I want to end your pain. I want to treat you the way I should've"

Hunter said, then continued,

"I'm going to divorce Stephanie…and then we'll go public…we wont have to hide this again."

"Really?"

Shawn asked, a small smile growing onto his face,

"Yeah, really…If you'll have me"

Shawn didn't even answer, he just smiled big and threw his arms around Hunter's neck and surprised him with a deep and passionate kiss. The powerful kiss caused Hunter to step back in order to keep his balance. Hunter felt the power in the kiss and he lifted Shawn up by grabbing his thighs and placing them onto his hips then he held him there. He stepped into the hotel room, forgetting this was Cena's hotel room and not their own, they continued to kiss, getting lost in the relief and the pleasure of the kiss. Relief comes from the feeling Hunter felt now that he has Shawn back while pleasure…well, is that hard to figure out?

The shower water had shut off as Hunter slammed Shawn fervently against the door, which caused Shawn to moan out in pleasure, loudly at the feel of Hunter's body pressed hard against his pelvic area in that one second. In response to the moan, Hunter replied by pressing his body harder against him, causing Shawn to hiss loudly. It was so loud that when the bathroom door opened and closed Shawn or Hunter couldn't hear it. So, when Cena stepped out of the bathroom, Shawn and Hunter had absolutely no clue. Cena stood there for a second and had to figure out if he were seeing what he thought he was seeing by pinching himself hard on the arm. Finally he looked back at them and wrinkled his brows – confused and then he spoke,

"Am I uh…interrupting something?"

Cena raised his one eyebrow after speaking, a smirk slowly growing on his knowing lips. Almost as if it were reflex, Shawn pulled his body away from Hunters and Hunter quickly turned his body away to look at the door then he waved slightly at Shawn,

"See you later?"

Shawn nodded to Hunter's whisper as his blue eyes turned to look back at the still smirking Cena. Hunter left the room slowly and Shawn leaned against the door, Cena stayed where he stood and crossed his arms over his chest - Surely Shawn had some explaining to do.

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In the hallway, Hunter began to walk toward his hotel room, cell phone in his hand; he opened it up and dialed his wife's phone number. It rung until she answered, with a small and sleepy 'Hello?', the sound of her voice caused his heart to bead quickly. He knew what he was prepared to do was just going to break her little heart.

"Hello?"

Stephanie spoke again, a little irritation in her voice before Hunter cleared his voice slightly and spoke up,

"Hey – Hey…Uh…Stephanie? We…uh…we need to talk"

Hunter hardly called her Stephanie when talking to her; He always called her Stephie, baby, honey, sweetie, lovely, gorgeous and princess. It never really Stephanie…Whenever he called her Stephanie something was always up…and Stephanie knew it.

"What's wrong?"

"Uh…"

He couldn't even get it out, then he sighed,

"Are you okay?"

Stephanie asked, worried into the phone.

"No…this – this is about you and I…We need to –"

From behind, a voice called Hunter's name, a very important voice…one he knew very well.

"Ah, Mr. Helmsley"

"Dad?"

Stephanie spoke from the other end of the phone line,

"Vince?"

Hunter said, turning around to face Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

"I gotta call you back…"

He spoke into the phone, and with out saying goodbye, Hunter closed the cellular phone and put it into his pocket. Hunter turned around as Vince began to walk forward, his arm wrapped around Hunter's shoulders,

"Uh, Heya boss…"

"Hey, hey, hey, Hunter – You know you can call me Dad, now"

Vince chuckles. Hunter looked down at Vince and at his proud face, then he looked forward again, slightly nervous. Vince smiled a bit,

"I wanted to take the time out to talk to you, Hunter"

"About…?"

"Well…about the most important thing in the world to me…my beautiful daughter, Stephanie"

Even that made Hunter's heart beat faster, little balls of sweat began to bead up underneath the blonde locks of Hunter, his hair already all over the place.

"Uh, okay"

Hunter said, lifting his big hand and wiping the sweat from his forehead and pushing his hair back gently. He continued to walk as Vince removed his hand and began to do his manly strut down the hotel hallway,

"My daughter, as I've said, means the world to me…I love her with all my heart. She's my first daughter…and my favorite child – She's my princess. Of course you knew that."

Vince said, Hunter sighed slightly and nodded then he bit his lower lip,

"Uh, Vince…it's late…I'm tired I –"

"Wait, Wait, wait…I'll make this short."

Vince stopped in the hallway in front of Hunter and Shawn's hotel room and Hunter stopped as well, looking at Hunter square in the eyes.

"I've told you this on the wedding day…and I'm going to tell you again. You break my daughters heart…look forward to your ending career as well as me, snapping your neck"

Sure, Hunter could take him…but Vince was a tough guy…and scary…Vince smiled, feeling accomplished, his weekly threatening was over and he was going to wait for the next week to do some more threatening. Hunter let out a breath when Vince began to walk away,

"See ya boss…I-I mean, Dad"

Vince just waved and continued to walk away, Hunter walked towards the door and looked down, as his phone rang. He answered the phone and held it to his ear and he entered the hotel room.

"Hello?"

Hunter asked, and then Stephanie spoke up quickly,

"What did my daddy want?"

She asked, Hunter shook his head slightly and shut the door,

"Nothing"

"Well…what about you? Why were you so fidgety when you called earlier?"

He paused for a second then shrugged as he sat onto the phone, letting out a breath,

"No reason."

"Seriously, baby, what did you want to tell me"

"I uh…I just wanted to say…"

He took a breath; he was trying to prepare himself to tell her. He was going to do it. He has to break it off with her, he loves Shawn – He does! Sure, Stephanie is his wife, he loves her too…but Shawn…fuck. This was confusing; Hunter took in a breath and let it out once again, chewing on his lip, 'here goes…' he thought.

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"Ohhh, so that's what's been going on"

Cena said, a big smile on his face, sitting on the bed next to Shawn who seemed a bit uneasy about telling him this.

"Yeah."

"So…uh…what about Stephanie? How'd she take it?"

Cena asked. Cena, being close friends with Stephanie at the time didn't like to hear that bad things have happened to her. Shawn didn't necessarily know about how close Cena and Stephanie was, so he continued,

"Uh…she didn't take it…like…at all. Hunter never told her…N-not yet. He will. He promised"

Shawn said, nodding his head,

"That's not good"

Cena said softly, Shawn looked up at Cena for a second and sighed,

"I know…I know…"

Shawn said, Cena shook his head slightly,

"Just be careful a'ight? If Hunter would do Stephanie like dat…I'ono what he would do to you. Chances are, he'd do da same"

Shawn nodded and didn't say anything, biting his lower lip.

"Just wanted to say what?"

Stephanie asked with a slight laugh,

"I just wanted to say…"

He sighed again, he's been sighing for two minutes now,

"I love you."

Stephanie giggled,

"I love you, too. Look, I've got to go Aurora needs me. Talk to you tomorrow?"

Stephanie said, Hunter nodded slightly,

"Okay…give her a kiss for me, 'kay? Bye, baby…"

He said. 'What a failure' Hunter thought to himself - He was supposed to break up with Stephanie…but he didn't…He couldn't lose his job. He refuses…how was he going to tell Shawn? Shit. What a mess.