Linda was sat in her office when her phone rang, "Linda McMahon speaking."
On the other end of the phone was her husband Vince, "it's me, we need to talk."
Linda could tell by the tone of his voice that something was bothering him, "what's wrong? Is everything okay?"
He sighed, "kind of, our daughter is being rather pigheaded and that's why I'm calling."
Linda laughed, "and this is coming from you?"
"Now's not the time Linda, we need to sort this out now."
She scratched her head, "okay, tell me everything from the beginning."
Vince started to explain everything to her.
When Linda had the full details she needed to clarify to make sure she had heard it all correctly, "so Steph's pregnant and Paul knows but as soon as she told him he walked out on her and she hadn't heard from him until earlier when he's rung this morning?"
"Exactly."
"So how exactly does this involve me?"
Vince sighed, "Steph is being pigheaded and from what I heard of Paul last night he's depressed so they're both unhappy and they need some gentle persuasion to smooth things over."
Linda laughed, "so basically you want me to stick my nose in and tell them to get their act together?"
"Yes, just not quite like that though."
She nodded, "okay, leave it to me and I'll get back to you."
"Thanks Linda, bye."
Vince hung up the phone rather pleased with himself.
Paul had been given an early finish from Blade so he was back at the hotel waiting for Raw to come on when his cell phone rang, he decided to check the caller id to see if it was Steph but he saw Linda McMahon's name so he picked up, "hey Linda, how are things?"
"Hey Paul, things are good here, what about there? Did you and Steph enjoy your time together?"
He scoffed, "things were great until Saturday and since then I haven't seen her."
"How come? I thought the plan was that she stayed with you until late Sunday night and then she was going to go down to Raw."
Paul rubbed his forehead, "you probably already know so I guess there's no harm in telling you but we had a fight over her being pregnant, I got the wrong end of the stick and ended up blowing up and walking out on her when she didn't deserve it and now she won't talk to me."
Linda decided to tell a small lie to hide her true intentions, "actually I didn't know any of that, I haven't heard from Stephanie since she flew out and I didn't even know she was pregnant . . . wow, congratulations. How do you feel about that?"
He sighed, "honestly I don't know, it all seems so surreal and I can't take it in but I've always wanted children, especially with Steph so it should be good."
"If Stephanie is pregnant then it's not going to be easy on her doing it on her own and I know how much she loves and adores you so she's going to want you there with her so how about I see what I can do about smoothing things over between you?"
"Would you Linda? That'd be really great if you would please. I honestly do love her and I don't want to fight with her especially now when we should be together celebrating this great news so if you wouldn't mind helping to sort things out that'd be great."
"Alright Paul, I'll see what I can do but no promises."
"That's cool Linda, it's good of you to try."
"You're welcome. I'm going to go and try and get hold of Steph now so I'll speak to you again, bye Paul."
"Bye Linda."
Linda knew that if she was to play peacemaker she was going to need something to confront Stephanie with, something that wouldn't give away the fact that she knew anything about the baby or the argument when there was a knock at the door and in walked Shane, "Shane, what are you doing here?"
"It's about Steph, she needs our help."
Linda raised her eyebrow, "she does? What's wrong with her?"
"She's pregnant Mom and Paul hates her for it, he wants a Divorce because he doesn't want children now."
Linda was taken aback by that statement as Paul had said nothing of the kind, "hold up, Stephanie is pregnant so Paul wants a Divorce as it isn't the right time for him to have children?"
Shane nodded which didn't help Linda's confusion, "are you sure about this Shane? You haven't got your wires crossed somewhere?"
He shook his head vigorously, "I'm telling you the truth Mom, he really wants a Divorce. I knew he was no good for her."
She shook her head, "I don't believe this."
"Well its true Mom, what are we going to do?"
She shrugged and got up, "I have no idea, we need to do what's best for Steph though."
"I agree wholeheartedly, I think we should keep them as far away from each other as possible as who knows what Paul will do to her."
Linda wasn't really listening to Shane she was thinking of something entirely different so she didn't really hear what he said just gave the answer she thought would be right, "yeah you're right I guess."
Hearing his Mother say that Shane smirked to himself and whispered quietly, "I can't believe she bought that hook, line and sinker. Finally I'm going to be able to save Stephanie from him, something I should have done a long time ago."