Chapter 3: Open Range
Stephanie hailed a cab to the nearest car dealership, she picked out a simple yet nice looking sedan. She wrote the salesman a check and drove off, she was wanting to get away from it all, all the cheating, all the lying, and all the physical and emotional abuse. She didn't know exactly where she was going all she knew was she had to find Steve, he was the only one she could talk to right now.
She pulled into a truck stop Diner a few miles outside of Victoria, as she got out of the car she grabbed her mace, and tazer and put them into her coat pockets. Stephanie approached the diner nervously, she walked slowly and silently as if sneaking out of her window back in her teenage years. She approached the door, and opened it up. There was nothing going on beside a fight in the corner, country music, big muscley truckers, and fat greasy biker eating steak and drinking beer.
Stephanie walked up to the counter half scared, not knowing what to expect in this strange environment. The man at the bar looked at her suspiciously "What do you need?" The man said, staring at Stephanies chest. "Burger, and a beer." Stephanie said back. Even though her small size didn't show it, she actually had quite a taste for both burgers and beer, greasy foods and alcohol were her lifestyle in her teenage years. "Comin right up." The man replied back. "HEY HUN BRING ME A BUGER OUT HERE!" He said as he opened up a bottle of beer for her.
"So I take it you ain't from around her." The bartender said.
"No I am actually looking for somebody." Steph replied back to him.
"Well who is it?" He looked at her curiously.
"Steve Austin" She looked at him and replied.
"Well shoot, ain't seen ol Stone Cold round here in forever, what you doin lookin fer that feller?" He said to her in a joking manner.
"I need to talk to him."
"Well I reckon I can get him up here step into the back with me."
Stephanie walked into the backroom with him, she was suspicious of his intent, the man walked into the room, and held the door open for Steph. As she walked in the man slammed it behind him, and locked the door. He had her trapped, "Now you ain't lookin fer noone nowheres." He said as he unzipped his pants. "What are you doing?" Stephanie asked him with fear in her eyes, she knew what was coming. "A pretty girl like you shouldn't haved to leave Texas without meeting Little Ricky." The man said as he grabbed ahold of her. He grabbed her by her hair and threw her in the floor. "No please, don't." She begged to him, but he was too busy ignoring her pleas and undressing her.
He had her down to her underwear, and was about to strip them off, when someone came crashing in through the door. Ricky and Steph were both surprised to see none other than Stone Cold himself, pissed off as ever. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING RICKY?" Stone cold asked The Bartender. "Steve mind your damn business, unless you wanna get your ass handed to you again in the parking lot." Stone cold rushed at him and grabbedh im by the collar of his shirt, in one swift motion (CRASH) Ricky found himself tossed out the window. Austin soon followed him jumping out of the window and landing straight on Ricky's elbow.
Austin picked Ricky up, Ricky then tried to swing at Austin but Austin kept ducking the hits. Until finally a big left hand crashed right against Stone Cold's temple busting his head open. Austin soon shook it off as he started throwing left and right hooks at Ricky's face. Ricky couldn't take much more, he pulled out his pistol and took aim at Austin but before he could shoot Stephanie jumped on his back. Ricky knocked her off with ease but by the time she hit the floor, Austin wrestled the gun away from Ricky and threw it across the road. "Say goodnight." Stone Cold Steve Austin said right before he threw the hardest punch he ever threw in his life. Ricky laid there unconcious and totally still.
"Where were youi?" Steph shouted as she ran up to Austin and hugged him tightly.
"What the hell were you doing in there, didn't you notice there weren't many pretty woman in there that weren't married or packing?" Austin said half pissed half glad she is all right.
"I was looking for you, I need a place to stay. I left Hunter." Stephanie said sadly.
"Come on home with me tonight, We'll find you a good set of clothes before we leave here though."