Chapter 7

Hunter got into his car and drove as fast as he could towards the address he was given. 'Why?' he wondered. 'Why did he take Steph and Vaughn? What did he have to gain?' Hunter kept trying to answer those questions in his head but he was to busy trying to go around everyone in his way. He made to the address in 20 minutes.

Hunter saw Stephanie's car in the driveway. Something kicked into him and he just ran into the house.

"Stephanie!" he yelled once he got inside,"Stephani-" He stopped when he saw a pair of feet sticking out of the corner to his left. He raced around the corner and saw a sight he did not want to see. Stephanie was lying on the ground with some blood around her. Hunter could see the blood coming from the gash on her head. He raced down beside her. He tried to shake her awake.

"Come one Steph, come on." he said as he tried to shake her awake.

After about the fifth time, Stephanie started to come around but when she started to move Hunter stopped her. He saw the pain in her eyes.

"Woah, woah honey don't move. T'm gonna get you and Vaughn out of her ok?"

"Mmmmhmmm." Stephanie answered. Hunter started to untie her hands and as he was about to release them, he heard a cry. He'd know that cry anywhere. He untied Stephanie's hands and helped her up.

"Are you ok?"

"Yes but can we please just get Vaughn and get out of here?" she asked in a pleading voice.

"Yeah come on."

They walked into the other room and found Vaughn. She was unharmed and never touched. Stephanie reached down and picked her up then pulled her close to her. Hunter just put his arms around them both.

"Come on. Let's go to the hospital and get you checked out." Hunter said.

"Okay." Stephanie said quietly.

They slowly made their was through the house and out to the car. They took Hunter's for right now and he would come and get the other car soon. But right now they drove towards the hospital.

Chapter 8

They arrived at the hospital and made their way towards the emergency room. They walked up to the nurse and told her what had happened. She called a doctor and picked up the phone informing them that she was going to call the police. Stephanie, Hunter, and Vaughn were brought to an exam room where they waited for a few minutes. When the door opened a doctor with long blonde hair an brown eyes came in followed by a woman in a police officer dressed in plain clothes. Her partner was outside the room watching from a distance.

"Hi Stephanie my name's Olivia Benson and I'm with the Special Victims Unit. This is Dr. Ward. She's just going to do a few exams on you and your daughter. Is that ok?" Olivia asked.

"Y-yeah." Stephanie said as she grabbed Hunter's hand for support and Hunter squeezed her hand to let her know he was there.

Olivia could tell that they were happily married because Stephanie did not flinch, shiver, or move away when he grabbed her hand, instead she moved her head and put it on his shoulder and grasped his hand tighter.

The doctor then asked," May I check over your daughter? I just wanna make sure she's not injured." Stephanie nodded her head.

Stephanie then handed Vaughn over to the doctor reluctantly and Olivia could tell that she did want to give Vaughn to her what so ever or if at all. Olivia decided to start talking with Stephanie to try and distract her from her daughter for a little bit.

"So what kind of work are you guys in?" Olivia asked.

"We run the WWE. I'm the C.O.O. and she's an owner of the company." Hunter said for his wife. Olivia wrote this down on her notepad.

"Ok so do you know who would do something like this? Anyone with a grudge or vendetta against you?"

"That s.o.b. Andrew Martin." Hunter said

"Do you know him?" Olivia asked

"Andrew and I were engaged once, back in '99," Stephanie finally spoke,"but it was a storyline. As we were supposed to get married Paul stopped it. He showed a video of me wasted and us getting married. Of course it was just for a storyline but Paul and I eventually got together and got married in reality. But Andrew never thought it was fake between us, and when Paul and I started dating he uh... he threatened me saying that if I stayed with Paul he would find a way to hurt my family ,if I ever had a child, the same way I hurt him. I guess he knew h-how to hur-hurt me without hurting m-me." Stephanie started to cry into the shoulder of her husband, Hunter, very hard but Stephanie did not care.

Olivia sat and listened to Stephanie's past and saw Hunter wrap his arms around Stephanie as she started to cry. Olivia waited until she was calmed down enough for her to ask Stephanie another question.

"Could tell me what happened?" Olivia asked

"I brought Vaughn with me to work because the daycare was closed so Paul took the girls to school." Stephanie started. "I got to the performance center and went to my office. I set Vaughn down on the ground with her toys while I went over some paperwork. Paul walked in and gave me a kiss then played with Vaughn until he had to go get the girls. After he left I was about to give Vaughn something else to play with on the desk because she was always lonely when her daddy leaves," Stephanie smiled up at Hunter," and I was about to give her another toy when there was a knock on the door. I-I thought it was Paul so I-I opened the door and-and," Stephanie started to stutter as the memories started to come back to her," and it was Andrew. I was confused as to why he was there but then I-I saw the gu-gun in his hand. It was under his jacket and I tried to run with Vaughn in my arms but he was in the way. I backed up as he came closer to me and I tried to hide Vaughn from him but he just told me to sit or he would hurt Vaughn." Stephanie had been talking very fast so she stopped to try and calm down. Hunter rubbed his hands up and down her arms trying to comfort her.

"What happened next?" Olivia asked quietly.

"After he told me to sit down he uh.. he wrote a note on my desk. I had no clue what because I was sitting on the couch on the other side of the room. I thought about running but I had to think of Vaughn first. I knew that if I ran he would really hurt her and I couldn't let that happen so I did as I was told." Hunter just listened to all of this for the first time so it made him even madder,"and after he was done he pointed the gun at me and told me we were leaving. So we got into my car and left. We drove for what felt like an eternity but it was only about half an hour. We ended up at this abandoned mansion and he told me to go inside. So we went inside and he pushed us down on the couch in the den," Stephanie hesitated for a minute," and he told me to shut Vaughn up because she was crying to loud but I couldn't for a while. After I did he uh.. he took out a video camera. I thought he was going to kill me or Vaughn and I couldn't let that happen so I tried to hide Vaughn or get her as far away from Andrew as I could."

"Did he say anything at all?" Olivia asked..

"When he took the camera out he said that he uh.. he was going to tape it live and put it on RAW. I was confused and when he said that but I soon realized what he meant when I saw myself on TV. Paul was in the ring and I didn't know what was going on. Then Andrew started talking and then he started walking towards us and as he went to touch me I moved away but he yanked me back," Stephanie tried not to cry," and I yelped and Andrew just laughed. He left the room for a few seconds and came back with the gun and some duct tape. I was afraid of what he would do next. He pointed the gun at me and said he'd shoot Vaughn if I didn't do as he said so I did and he put some duct tape on my mouth and then he tried to go for Vaughn. I stepped in his way and he just hit me across the face and took her anyways. I couldn't stop him." Stephanie said and started to cry.

"You did all you could honey." Hunter said.

"But it wasn't enough." Stephanie said.

"Yes it was. You were able to protect Vaughn and yourself. It was enough to get him to let you go. Now your safe and he can't hurt you anymore." Hunter said.

Stephanie looked at Olivia and said,"When you find him, please put him in jail. I don't ever want to see him again." Olivia knew she was talking about Andrew.

"I can't promise anything but I will try the best I can."

"Thank you." Stephanie said. She finished her recollection of her story and Olivia thanked them and got up to leave to give the family some time alone.