Author's Notes: My stories are acting all screwy with how they are posted in my account. So, to fix them, I'm having to post new chapters to each. And since I can't just post author's notes, I've written an epilogue of sorts.

Extended Epilogue

Therese heard her family coming long before she saw them. Stephanie was still asleep in the hospital bed and the blonde did not want her woken up if possible. She set her book aside and rose from the seat just as she saw her youngest daughter teeter by the door on unsteady feet. To have little balance and have only been walking for three months, the child was moving on very fast. Therese hurried out the door to scoop Lily up and give her husband a piece of her mind. He shouldn't have let her get away.

"I'm so glad you were there, Rese," Kevin said with a sigh, still attempting to peel his five year old daughter off his leg.

"I know she's walking, honey, but you can't just let her run away," she replied, switching Lily in her arms as the girl continuously wriggled to get down.

"Yeah, well," he gestured at Dinah, "I can't chase her with this one stuck on my left."

Therese shot him a 'see what I go through look' and he apologetically looked down but caught the little brunette untying his shoes while she sat on his foot, her legs clenched tightly around his ankle. "Dinah," her mother snapped and the little girl jerked her head up in surprise and it was just enough for Kevin to catch her off guard and pull her up in his arms.

"Behave," he whispered, "or you won't be able to see your new cousin."

"No, no, no, daddy," she whispered in response, placing her tiny hands on her father's cheeks.

"Rese," the woman in the room called out. "Is that the girls?"

"Yeah, Steph," Therese replied, carrying in her squirming fifteen-month-old. "They came to see the baby." She then turned back to her husband. "Did you call Evan?"

He resisted the urge to sarcastically reply, 'of course,' but then answered, "Yeah, I called. He'll be on a flight later this evening." Therese scowled at Kevin for allowing the boy to skip classes. "You know he'd do it anyhow whether or not I gave him permission." Therese muttered her agreement as Dinah somehow managed to wiggle out of Kevin's arms and was bouncing up on the bed before anyone could stop her.

"He's not in there anymore?" she asked, poking at Stephanie's stomach.

"Don't do that, baby," Therese chided and then looked over at her husband with a stern glance that said, 'Get her!'

"She's okay," Stephanie replied and hugged the little girl close. "You want to see him?" Dinah nodded vigorously and the new mother laughed as she pushed the button to call the nurses' station.

"Where's Shawn?" Kevin whispered.

"Finally getting something to eat," Therese replied. Linda, Shane, and Marissa McMahon had finally hauled him off to make him have breakfast. "It's been a long night. I wouldn't be surprised if he fell asleep in the cafeteria."

It had indeed been a long night…actually, it had been a very long week. Despite the fact that Triple H was still in power as GM of RAW, Stephanie had control of the television aspect of the business and she had granted both Shawn and Kevin the week off, Shawn because he was a week away from being a new father and Kevin because somebody had to watch the Nash children while Therese was staying with her. Actually, Kevin had brought the girls to Stamford halfway through the week and kept them out of the way, finding new ways to entertain his children by himself while in Connecticut.

The mom-to-be was in a panic over the coming baby and she didn't exactly want her mother there 24-7. The woman would drive her crazy. Plus, there was something weird about talking about private issues with her mother. She wanted Therese there, especially since it hadn't even been a year and a half since she went through childbirth. Her mother would probably tell her to suck it up while the blonde would knowingly understand.

Therese put up with all her aches and pains and all of the whining but she was also firm with her when it came to dealing with it. Shawn just wanted to give in and baby the woman but he just couldn't keep everything straight. Therese had been the one to pack the overnightbag for the hospital and even walk her through the first of the contractions. When her water broke, the wrestler panicked despite the fact that he had attended childbirth classes with her. Therese knew exactly what to do and calmed the first time parents-to-be and realized that it really was a good idea that she was there as a third person to take care of all the little things that nobody else thought of.

Once at the hospital, Therese left Shawn to call everyone on the list of those who needed to know now. There was a secondary list for when the baby was actually born. She then returned to Stephanie's room to find that there hadn't been any progress. After several hours, there was some concern that the doctor would have to perform a Caesarean but then she finally starting dilating like they wanted. Stephanie turned into an ultimate bitch by then and Therese was trying to placate her and soothe Shawn's hurt feelings. She really needed Kevin there to set the new father straight because his wife had said some very ugly things to her husband while in labor. When Linda arrived after breaking off a business meeting on the west coast and flying in immediately, Therese pulled Shawn out the hospital room to give him a breather.

By early morning, Sebastian Scott Michaels was brought into the world with a healthy set of lungs. With Linda and Shawn holding Stephanie's hands, Therese filmed the birth. She couldn't help but be jealous that the brunette had had a much easier time of things than she had had. Still, she had tears streaming down her face as Shawn cradled the tiny boy for the first time and then carefully laid the baby on his wife's breast.

It wasn't long past eight in the morning when Kevin brought his daughters in to see their mother and their "aunt," along with their new "cousin." Therese was still joking about how their children were going to be so screwed up over their relationship with their parents' best friends.

One of maternity nurses pushed Sebastian in and Dinah stared wide-eyed as if she had forgotten that she had seen her little sister that small not that long ago. The woman lifted the baby from the plastic cradle and carefully situated him at Stephanie's breast. Within seconds, the little boy was ready to eat—no surprise given his father's appetite. Dinah stared and carefully touched Sebastian's soft hand. Lily couldn't have cared less as she continued to wriggle around, wanting down in the floor. Considering how clean hospitals were, Therese gave up and set her down. She started making a beeline for the door on her hands and knees but got nowhere as Shawn swept her up in a hug.

"There's my favorite niece," he said, tossing her up in the air and eliciting a loud giggle. He always said that to provoke Dinah but she was too enthralled with the new baby. Linda, Shane, and Marissa were behind him, all three staring at the mother and child as well. Lily was too busy playing with Shawn's necklace to give a rip. One day, she would. Stephanie looked at all of them and grinned widely, afraid that if she spoke, it would ruin the moment.

Hardly did any of them think that they would all be gathered together twenty five years and two months to the day, staring enthralled at the man that Sebastian had grown into as he and Lily Nash pledged their undying love to each other. Only two years before that the same family had gathered in the same church to watch two more of their children marry—that time Stephen, Shane and Marissa's son, and Dinah exchanged vows. Their family relations were growing even more and more complicated, especially when Hunter Hearst Helmsly entered the picture. Two weeks after Stephen and Dinah's wedding, the Nashes and Michaels learned that Sarah, Shawn and Stephanie's twenty year old daughter, and the twenty-six year old Nathaniel Helmsley, the son Hunter didn't know about until the boy was thirteen, had eloped. As heart-wrenching as it had been, the marriage had healed a twenty-five year old rift that no one thought could be mended.

FINI!