Stephanie had enjoyed the rest of the day. Paul had insisted that he would drive her home and she had agreed, as much to make sure he took a break from work as to avoid having to take another cab.

She had been a little uncomfortable at first after he went back to the office as this was the first time she had been home alone since she left the hospital. She had called Marissa and thanked her for everything she had done for her and her family in the past few weeks and to say that she would collect the girls from school herself.

She had a couple of hours free before then so she decided to workout. It had been so long since the last time that it was really tough going to get through her usual routine, but the pain felt good.

The two hours she spent with the girls before Paul got home were the happiest she had been for months. They were so happy to see their mom at least something like her usual self.

But now was going to be the difficult time. Shane and Marissa had just arrived and her dad was already sitting in the living room. Once everyone was settled in and had their drink of choice at hand Paul spoke, "Okay guys. The reason I asked everyone to come over tonight is that Stephanie would like to talk to us, right honey?"

Paul and Vince sat on one couch and Shane and Marissa on another. Stephanie had asked Paul to make sure she sat alone. She sat down in a comfortable chair, "Uh... this is going to be difficult for me, for all of us actually. I'm going to tell you what's really been going on with me these past few months. As you know I've been to therapy five days a week for a while now and we've made a lot of progress."

Vince spoke, "We're very proud of you Steph..."

Stephanie raised a hand slightly to cut him off, "Thank you dad but please, I was just going to ask that if possible could no one interrupt? It's much harder to do this if I lose my train of thought. There are things you are not going to enjoy hearing but I need this from you."

They all nodded and Paul said, "Just remember you can stop any time honey, don't feel like you have to continue if it gets too hard."

After taking a moment to compose herself Stephanie began. She told them the story from receiving the phone call about her mom all the way through what happened with John in the back of the limo. Even though it was incredibly tough for Paul to listen to that and it made angry to say the least to imagine it he managed not to interrupt or lose his cool. He had already known deep down that Cena's version of events was true.

Stephanie continued through the night in Miami when she had screwed John out of the WWE title and caused him to walk out on the company and when she met Rocky in the hotel. She went through the conversation she had had with Nikki Bella which also caused her to leave the company.

She was talking through what happened when John had abducted her and how she was tied up in the trunk of the car when Shane couldn't keep his emotions under control any longer. He jumped up and yelled, "I'll pull his fucking spine through his mouth, the bastard! I'll..."

Paul had jumped up at the same time and grabbed Shane. He lifted him off the floor and carried him towards the doorway, "Shane no. This isn't helping. Get out here, let's go to the kitchen."

Stephanie could here Shane's shouts receding as Paul carried him away down the hallway, "That's my sister! That's my baby sister!" She was clearly shaken so Marissa and Vince went over to her to try and comfort her.

In the kitchen Paul put Shane down and closed the door, "Shane! Stop shouting! Please, this isn't helping."

Shane lowered his voice but he was so angry that he was shaking, "That's my sister man!"

"I know Shane, she's also my wife. We've all got to suffer this okay? We need to be strong for her or she's not going to recover. We can't lose control like that around her. Please sit down."

Shane tried to regain control of himself and managed to sit down at the table. Paul grabbed them both a beer from the refrigerator and sat down opposite Shane. "Shane I've felt what you are feeling. I felt it for a very long time but I spoke to Steph's doctor about it okay? He said that this kind of thing must be avoided around her. You need to realise that she had a serious psychological episode that was triggered by your mom's death, what with it being so sudden and all. For a long time her mind wasn't functioning properly at all, she was thinking things which happened were not real and convincing herself that things which hadn't happened were real."

He paused to drink some of his beer, "You heard what she was saying in there. She thought John was going around trying to sexually harass her all of the time but that's not true. Show came to me a few weeks ago," he said referring to WWE wrestler Big Show, "he saw that encounter she was talking about in the hallway with John, when she said he pinched her ass? It never happened man, Show didn't think anything of it at the time as all John did was speak to her and pat her on the shoulder as he left."

He finished his beer before continuing, "Her mind was gone Shane. None of us saw it but she had completely lost it. You heard about all the texts she sent to John, she just kept pushing him and pushing him. He was probably only trying to meet her to beg for his job or to beg for money for his dad or whatever..."

Shane jumped up again, "You're making excuses for the fucking prick?"

"No Shane I'm not. If I got the chance I'd do as much damage to him as you would, trust me on that. The reality is though that Steph forced him out of the company and did everything she could to make him suffer. Put that on top of what was going on with his dad, he must have been thinking that his dad wouldn't be able to get the right treatment or whatever and that it was Steph's fault if he died. You can see how he lost it."

Shane sat back down, "Maybe you're right but even so I hope he gets life for what he did."

Paul shook his head sadly, "That's not going to happen. I don't think you even can get life for kidnapping. Once this mess all comes out at the trial who knows what's going to happen."

Shane sighed and finished his beer, "We better get back in there."