Paul was sat in his hotel room with the TV on a mindless programme which he wasn't watching anyway as he was staring at his cell phone willing it to ring as he had called Stephanie and it was engaged so he left a message on her voicemail.
Suddenly his phone rang so he quickly answered it, "Paul Levesque speaking."
"Paul its Vince."
Paul sighed and couldn't hide his disappointment, "oh, what do you want?"
Vince chuckled slightly, "thank you for the warm reception but I was wondering if you were going to be able to make Raw tomorrow night or not? I know you said you couldn't previously but movie schedules can change."
"I'm sorry Vince but my life is full of filming until Armageddon then I get a couple of weeks break over Christmas then I'm back at it."
Vince sighed, "alright then, we'll just write it in that Flair is keeping you from ringside or something so as it sounds like you're there when you're not, is that okay?"
"Yeah fine whatever. Vince I've got to go as I need to get some sleep as I have an early morning."
"Alright Paul, take care."
"I will thanks and can you just tell Steph when you see her tomorrow that I love her please?"
"Sure Paul, no problem, bye."
The next morning Stephanie arrived at the arena bright and early and the first person she saw was her Dad, "Dad, how are you?"
Vince smiled and hugged his daughter, "I'm good thanks, you? You look really pale and tired if I may say."
She laughed, "I am tired as I didn't sleep much last night and well I know why I'm pale too but that doesn't matter. I'm going to get things ready for later so I'll catch you soon."
Vince nodded, "Alright. . . oh yeah before you go, Paul said to tell you he loved you."
"When did you speak to him?"
"Last night to see if he'd be here today, why?"
"No reason."
"Stephanie Marie McMahon tell me the truth."
She huffed, "fine, we had an argument over something and I haven't seen or spoken to him since Saturday night, happy?"
Vince nodded happy to know the truth as Stephanie walked away from him.
On the set of Blade Paul was trying to call Stephanie for the tenth time that morning but it would ring and then it would be diverted to voicemail where she obviously didn't want to talk to him.
He had left her three voicemail messages before he'd surrendered leaving messages for her and he now decided he'd stop calling as she obviously wouldn't talk to him even though he just wanted to apologise to her.
Stephanie was feeling rather deflated at work and nobody was noticing more than her Father so he called her into his office, "sit down Stephanie."
She sat down, "Steph the reason I have asked you in here is to talk to you and see if you'll tell me what's wrong. It is obvious that there is something wrong but what is it?"
She sighed, "it's nothing really."
Vince shook his head, "I'm talking to you as your Father not your employer so please tell me."
Stephanie sighed and raked a hand through her hair, "Paul and I had a fight Saturday night and he walked out on me and I haven't heard from him until this morning when he's called me like ten times or something."
"What did you fight over?"
"Umm it's kind of delicate."
"Stephanie I'm your Father and I was young once so I'm sure it is not that delicate that you can't tell me."
"Okay, we fought because Paul thought I was cheating because of a misunderstanding over a phone call that he overheard but when I told him the real truth he stormed out."
"What's the real truth Steph?"
"You won't let up will you?"
Vince shook his head, "not when it's obviously hurting my baby girl I won't."
She took a sip of water, "the real truth is I'm pregnant, rant all you like I really couldn't care less right now."
Vince was shocked, "you're pregnant?!"
She nodded, "and Paul's not happy that you're pregnant?"
Stephanie shrugged, "your guess is as good as mine. He saw fit to walk out on me and not talk to me until this morning so I'm ignoring his phone calls as I'm working."
"I'm really happy for you Steph, congratulations but you're not ignoring his phone calls because you are working you're ignoring them because you're a McMahon and you are pigheaded and stubborn."
"And this coming from the most obstinate person ever."
Vince shook his head, "when it comes to affairs of the heart I'm not that stubborn, I know what I believe in and I follow it but you're just being pigheaded."
She stood up, "I'm not going to sit here and listen to you tell me how selfish I'm being, I've got work to do."
"Fine then. I'm going to be a Grandad for the second time soon."
Stephanie laughed, "I wish Paul had reacted the way you have, promise me you won't tell any of the guys."
He nodded, "I promise, that's yours and Paul choice when and how you tell them."
She nodded, "alright Dad, I'll catch you later, bye."
When Stephanie had walked out of the room he could see himself in her and the way she had acted and talked and the way she was treating Paul and he knew he had to do something before it was too late and she lost what he knew was the best thing she'd ever had and would ever have so he picked up the phone and dialled a familiar number, "it's me, we need to talk."