"Great show tonight Chris!" One of the stage hands spoke up as Chris was heading out.

"Yeah thanks…hey you haven't happened to see Stephanie around have you?"

"Last I knew she was in her office down the hall there, 4th door to the left. I haven't seen her since earlier when Hunter went screaming out of there before the show began."

"Yeah I heard about that, figured I'd check in on an old friend, this divorce thing is a nasty business especially when you work together. I'm just glad her girls weren't around to see that. Thanks for your help. See ya next week." Chris said before heading down the hall towards the office of one Stephanie McMahon.

When it came to the friendship of Chris and Stephanie there were always whispers, of things that might have possibly been going on behind closed doors. But that was no one's business but their own, the feelings of love and cherishment were something that would not be passed around. Let them talk, what did he care…

Chris finally came up to the door and knocked three times…

"Come in…" a soft voice spoke from the other side.

He took a deep breath and slowly turned the door knob and walked in, and sure as always Stephanie sat behind her desk, her nose buried in some form of paperwork like always, routine…that was Steph to a 'T'.

"Steph"

"Oh hey Chris, come on it, have a seat…I am almost finished…"

"I heard what happened between you and Paul, are you ok?" Chris said just casually walking up to her desk. Steph looked up from over top her glasses with a smile on her face.

"Same shit different week…his routine never changes, he's still convinced that I'm going to let him see the girls, but after his little outburst a few weeks back and this week, he'll be lucky to see them at the shows…besides…"

"They aren't his to see."

"Exactly."

Chris let out a laugh and went over to the other side of her desk and pulled her up from her seat and sat down pulling her onto his lap.

"So where are my girls?"

"Mom has them tonight, using them as a political ploy probably, but it's alright they enjoy helping Grandma Linda"

"Oh so that means that I've got you all to myself, and with the divorce finally finalized between you and the Big Schnauzer, that means no strings attached and everything will finally start falling into place…for you…for me…for the girls" Chris said with a smirk on his face place kisses just under Steph's jaw line. Steph though was still trying to work with all this going on "Stephanie, don't make me do it…"

"So what dad can yell at me again for once again not having my work complete…Christopher Keith Irvine, you know I have a job to do" She said while playfully trying to push him away from her, but she couldn't help but laugh a bit, Chris brought out this side of her.

"Oh we are using all three names now are we…well Ms. Stephanie Marie McMahon, I as the father of your beautiful children and your future husband will go up to one Vincent Kennedy McMahon and tell him that even though we aren't getting married for another two weeks, that you desperately need some serious time off so I can have my way with you over and over until you can't stand it anymore and probably get sick of me and throw me aside…"

That caught Steph's attention, she finally put her pen down and curled up in Chris' lap and gives him a kiss. "Chris I will never ever get sick of you, I just wish we did things differently, first with Jessica and now with Hunter…I'm amazed she didn't rat us out sooner…"

"Jessica is just bitter that I realized after all these years that all those whispers about us were more than just that, you and I Steph…we belong together…It's no longer careless whispers, it's cold hard fact…and in two weeks when you become Mrs. Stephanie Irvine…"

"McMahon-Irvine"

"I don't care if you hyphenate it or not, as long as we are finally together and can walk into this place with our girls and look every single person dead in the eyes and tell them they don't need to speak at a whisper anymore. I love you and nothing that happened in the past is ever going to change that. Neither one of our former significant others were exactly angels either, but Ash is going to be coming around to play with his sisters a lot and I'm good with what we've got and I'll be even happier with what is ahead of us."

Stephanie had a tear in her eye from the words that just flowed with such ease, "Mr. Jericho you have a lyrical way of cutting through the bullshit"

"And you have a unique way with the English language, Miss McMahon. Can we get out of here and get back to the hotel and celebrate the proper way?"

Stephanie got a mischievous smile on her face just then and readjusted herself in the seat so she would straddle her fiancé's hips, this of course caught Chris a bit off guard but then again this is what he loved most about Steph, she was an impetuous woman that kept him on his toes.

"I love you Chris and I can't wait for 2 more weeks to be your wife, I can't take the whispers anymore…Let's take the private jet…"

"But Steph you hate flying…" He got out before she covered his lips with a kiss.

"Let me finish…Let's take the jet to Lake Tahoe, I'll call my mom, we'll get the girls and we'll have our own private ceremony. Then I will be Mrs. Stephanie Irvine."

"What happened to McMahon-Irvine?"

"I've been McMahon-dash-something long enough. I'll always be a McMahon but I want to be yours, truly completely and forever."

Chris sat back and pondered for a little while, "Tahoe…seriously?"

Steph nodded with a large smile on her face, Chris then knew it was impossible to say no to that beautiful face.

"It's insane but if that is what you want…"

"It is"

"Let's do it then."

Steph squealed in delight and gave Chris a rather heated kiss which he gladly returned, all he wanted was to see Stephanie happy and if he can do this for her…this one little thing…then so be it. After all they were still going to have the huge ceremony for all their friends and family in two weeks anyways.

Things were starting to really heat up when a knock came to the door and it opened before they could answer it. They both looked back in surprise to see Vince standing there.

"Steph, Chris…sorry to barge in when…well…"

"Daddy…"

"I just wanted to see if we had an answer on the plane situation?"

Chris almost choked when Vince said this…he was in on this the whole time???

"Chris are you ok?"

"Yeah, uhh, I just didn't know your dad knew about us."

"Chris, I may be old, but I'm not stupid. I'm happy for you both…now am I going to have to call your mother Steph and your father Chris and get them to Lake Tahoe?" That's Vince, straight to the point.

"Make the call Vince"

"You got it and Chris, call me dad…son. Be there in 2 hours…."

And with that Vince left closing the door behind them and Steph seemed to be in a fit of laughter and Chris just sat there shocked.

"You planned this all out didn't you?"

"Well, kinda…you know me I never do anything on a whim, most of the time. Come on we got a plane to catch"

Steph got up off his lap and started gathering up her paperwork but before she got too deep Chris got up and picked Steph up and started walking over to the leather couch.

"Chris! What are you doing?"

"Well dad said we got two hours…I'm going to make the best of it"