A few minutes had passed between Linda and Shane before Linda said, "I'm going to check Steph's mail a minute to see if there's anything important there, I'll see you later Shane."

Shane nodded, "don't forget what I said Mom, we need to get Stephanie away from Paul as soon as possible before he does any damage to her or the baby, we don't know how he'll lash out at her."

Linda stopped in her tracks, "Shane what on earth are you talking about? Paul would never hurt Stephanie and you know it, especially now that she's pregnant."

He shook his head, Moum remember he doesn't want children and he wants a Divorce so what better way to get rid of the child than for Steph to lose it?"

"SHANE BRANDON MCMAHON SHUT UP! Don't you ever and I mean ever talk like that again. Losing a child is the most painful thing a couple can go through and I can't believe you'd insinuate that Paul would deliberately do that because in your opinion he doesn't want children now. For your information Shane I talked to Paul no more than half an hour ago and he was excited about the baby, very apprehensive but also very excited so I don't know what you are going on about but you have your facts completely and utterly wrong and if I hear that you've gone anywhere near Stephanie or Paul or even insinuated to Stephanie that Paul wants her to get rid of that child then you will not know what hit you, understand?"

Shane looked at the floor and very quietly said, "yes Mom"

"I didn't hear you Shane, what did you say?"

He looked up, "I said YES MOM, happy?"

She nodded, "thank you, now go home to your pregnant wife and do not get involved in this situation again."

Shane merely nodded as Linda walked out all the while he was plotting a little scheme to break the happy couple up.

Linda walked in to Stephanie's home in Greenwich turning the alarm off as she went and then going back to pick the mail up, seeing a huge pile Linda decided to sit down and go through it, as she was sorting the mail into piles of bills, junk and personal she came across a letter with the stamp 'Greenwich Hospital' on the top addressed to 'Mrs S McMahon – Levesque'. Knowing that Stephanie had not told her about he baby Linda decided this was the perfect opportunity to work things out between Stephanie and Paul so Linda picked up the letter and put it in her bag and put the alarm back on to head home.

When she got home she sat down on the couch and pulled out the letter turning it over in her hands contemplating whether she was doing the right thing or not and figuring that it would be for the best she went to open it then decided that Stephanie would get mad if she opened her mail without her permission so Linda picked up the phone and dialled Stephanie's number.

Back at the arena Vince had seen Stephanie looking rather pale so he gave her the night off producing segments so Stephanie was sat in a locker room watching the show with the guys when her phone rang, "Steph speaking."

Linda smiled, "hi Stephanie, how are you?"

Stephanie stood up and walked towards the door, "Mom, I'm good thanks, you?"

"Yeah I'm really well thanks. The reason I'm ringing is because I went over to check on your house and see if there was any urgent mail and there seemed to be one, I didn't want to open it though until I had spoken to you though."

"Oh, who's it from?"

"It has the logo of Greenwich Hospital on the front of it so I assume it was from them, I think I should open it if you don't mind."

Stephanie forgot they would be writing so she just said, "sure, it'll be good to know what they want."

Linda proceeded to open the envelope and pulled out the letter and skimmed through it.

Stephanie was anxious to find out what it was so she said, "what does it say?"

"It says that you have been booked in for a sonogram on Friday December 12th at 11:15am. Do you care to explain Stephanie?"

Stephanie sighed, "simple explanation really, I'm pregnant and that's my first scan appointment."

Linda knew she'd get the truth, "wow that's great news Steph, congratulations. How does Paul feel?"

"Why does everyone ask me that? I don't know how Paul feels he wouldn't talk to me when I told him and today he's finally decided to talk to me but I'm just too mad at him to talk to him."

"Steph you've got to talk to him, he's your husband and the father of your child."

Stephanie sighed, "I know, it's just too hard."

Linda could hear the nervousness in Stephanie's voice, "it's not really too hard is it Steph? You're just scared that he'll say he doesn't want the baby and you'll be doing it on your own aren't you?"

Stephanie sighed and mindlessly kicked at the floor, "yeah, I am actually. I want to talk to him, I miss talking to him but I'm just too scared that I'm going to lose him."

"Steph, listen to me, Paul loves you and he wouldn't intentionally hurt you I'm sure. Maybe he feels scared that it's all just happening rather fast and he didn't know what to think or feel when you told him so he wanted space to work his head out about it all before you talked properly about it? You two need to talk but you'll need an excuse to stay out that way after Smackdown tomorrow so how about I book a media appearance for you and then you can stay out there and you can talk to Paul, does that sound alright?"

"I don't know Mom, I don't want to be the one to make the first step and get knocked on my ass for it."

Linda sighed, "fine, how about I book the appearance and you can take it from there if you decide to see him or not, it'll give you time to think."

Stephanie sighed softly, "alright, I'll do it."

"That's great, I'll look into something now for you. I'll talk to you again and congrats on the baby, bye."

"Bye Mom."

Stephanie hung up the phone unsure of what she was going to do about Paul.