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"I'm not ready to watch this!"

Stephanie buried her face in Chris's shoulder as they sat down on the couch after dinner. They were going to watch the first two episodes of the show, and Stephanie was waffling on that. She lived it so she didn't know why she was going to watch it, but she guessed it was because she should at least see how she was portrayed. Still, these cameras invaded her life, and she almost didn't want to see what they cut and what they didn't. Amy was a great producer and extremely nice, but she was also trying to tell a story.

"We don't have to watch it tonight, we can always wait for a later time," Chris reminded her. "Nobody said we had to watch the night it airs."

"I know, but I just know that tomorrow, hell, maybe even tonight, people are going to start asking about it or talking to us about it. You have interviews lined up for Fozzy, they're going to ask about your reality show, you should at least watch it, you know," Stephanie said, biting her lip. "Maybe you can just watch and tell me later how it went?"

"I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to watch it without you," he told her, shaking his head. "Where's the fun in that?"

"Um, the fact I won't have to watch myself at all."

"But you watch youself when you're on the show."

"That's completely different and you know it," she reminded him. "When I'm on the show, I'm this exaggerated persona, this is supposed to be me, well, at least as me as I can get when there are cameras around."

"Well, we're in the same boat there because I didn't feel totally like myself either. I knew the cameras were there, and I felt like I had to be on all the time, is that how you felt too?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I don't know, I just don't want people to judge me, you know, like this is me, and I don't want to be judged. Judging is what led to me getting implants, I mean, I know you know that, you've been my friend forever, but still, yeah, it gets to me."

"We just won't look at anything afterwards," he kissed her temple. She was a little surprised by the gesture, but this was trying things out. There were going to be kisses when they tried things out. They were sort of dating right now, and with dating came kisses, it was natural progression after all, and it wasn't like they hadn't kissed before. They'd done much more than kissing, but this was a tender, reassuring peck on the temple, not a fiery kiss that led to sex.

"We'll be tempted though," she joked.

"I won't be tempted, I'll just stay away from the internet, that's all," Chris told her, "we'll keep each other honest."

"Keep each other honest?"

"If I catch you looking at something, I'll stop you, and you'll do the same for me," he told her and she laughed at the suggestion. "What? I'm telling you this'll work. We'll shield each other from whatever happens."

"There's no way that's going to work, you know."

"Of course I know, but we can try, can't we?" he asked her, giving her a boyish grin. "Whatever happens, it doesn't matter, what people think of us, it doesn't matter. They don't know us, they're always going to judge us, so we'll just be ourselves. For all we know, nobody even watched it anyways, right?"

"Oh, I think people watched," Stephanie told him.

"Well, I'm sure some people watched, but we're really not that interesting, so I'm sure they were only half-paying attention," he joked, and she laughed. She decided to just go with whatever happened and snuggled into his side. His hand came around her shoulders and pulled her as close as she could get with her stomach being as large as it was. He reached out and gave it a soft pat with his other hand before grabbing the remote and turning on the television.

"They're moving around in there, they felt your hand."

"I was just saying hello, hope they weren't sleeping."

"I think they can tell I'm nervous," Stephanie said, "they're both wide awake, or so I think, it's hard to keep track of all the arms and legs in there. You'd think I was giving birth to an octopus with all the places I'm being poked and prodded."

"Lia, Brant, would you cut it out, your mom is getting annoyed," he leaned in towards her stomach to say. He glanced up at Stephanie, locking eyes with her, "Anything?"

"Yeah, no, now they're just moving around more, they recognize your voice," Stephanie smiled. "They tend to move around a lot when you're talking, I think they know you best, but then, they don't really listen when you say to stop, so they're already rebellious."

"Stop being rebels, you're fetuses," Chris told them sternly. "God, we're in for a handful when they're born."

Stephanie rubbed her stomach, "Yeah, but I can't wait until they're out of there. My body was not meant for sharing, I know this now. At least we're getting a boy and a girl, and all in one shot, it's like, oh, perfect family right there, two kids, one boy, one girl, we don't need to have any more kids."

"You're thinking about having more kids with me?" Chris raised his eyebrow as he looked at her, her eyes widening as she thought over her words. "And we're not even done cooking these two and you're already thinking about the next one. Hope that next time you're not super fertile again and we get another set of twins."

"I didn't mean it like that!" she buried her face into his shirt as he laughed and ran his hand through her hair. "I mean, I'm definitely not thinking of more kids right now, maybe once these are done or something, but then we'd have to wait a fair amount of time, you know, because twins aren't going to be easy."

He was surprised she was still talking about them having more children. He knew he was probably into this idea of being together more than she was, but the naturalness to which she said they would have more children was startling. Maybe there was really was something here they could build upon. He liked Stephanie, a lot, loved her as a friend, and most importantly, she was the mother of his children. That counted for a lot of foundation to which a relationship could be built upon. And if the foundation was there, it would be a shame not to see what they could build.

"Yeah, definitely want at least a few years, but who knows, we may decide two is enough."

"Definitely, ask me again a couple months after their born and we'll see," she looked to the television. "Well, I guess we should watch this, huh?"

"We've been stalling," Chris nodded.

"So hey, I just wanted to say that I say things in the interviews, and I just wanted you to know that I do talk about you, I mean, I know I do, but that was in the past, and I don't know where we are now, and I just know that I'm here with you now, and I don't know how it's going to come across, but it is what it is."

"I feel the same way," Chris said, "I'm sure we both said things, and I didn't insult you or anything like that, if that's what you may be thinking. I talk about how much I care about you, and obviously, the caring has taken a bit of a turn lately, but it's always been there."

Chris and Stephanie both nodded and started the show. It wasn't as bad as they thought it would be, but it was the first episode. It was mostly to establish what was going on in their lives and how they were coping with it. The interviews they gave individually were nothing they didn't already know about each other, and when the episode ended with them saying they were having twins, they are actually pretty please with how they came across.

"We only looked mildly crazy," Chris shrugged. "I feel like we should twee that we're actually kind of together now."

"And rob them of watching it all unfold?" Stephanie laughed, "how could we spoil our lives for them?"

"I just want to give them hope, if they want us together that is. I'm sure there are people who are saying they never would have figured we'd have sex and have kids together. I mean, I don't know why, you're smoking hot, but…do you want to look and see if anyone is saying anything?"

Stephanie nodded, "I can't help it, I want to look and see!"

She couldn't help the curiosity of seeing what people thought of the first episode. They decided to check Chris's twitter account first and Stephanie leaned a little more onto his shoulder so she could look at his phone screen. Chris went to his mentions and saw a couple for upcoming Fozzy stuff first until they finally got to around the time the show ended. They both looked at a couple that said the show looked great and there were lots of congratulations on the twins. Everyone knew Stephanie was pregnant (it was obvious), but they didn't think many knew she was pregnant with twins.

"Good job on tapping that ass," Chris read aloud. "I'd have to agree with this guy, I did do a good job tapping that ass."

"Hey, I'm that ass you tapped," she pinched him in the side, "well, not technically, but still. Okay, next one, congratulations on the twins, do you guys know what they are? Well, they'll just have to wait and see that."

"Very special episode right there," Chris scrolled down a little more. "Stephanie is gorgeous, how come you haven't married her yet?"

"Well, that's pretty straight-forward, isn't it?" Stephanie said, "Did you ever think about marrying me? I mean, not out of love because I wouldn't necessarily say we're in love right now or not, but because I was pregnant, I mean, I know we took the chance and said if I did, things would work out, but did you ever…?"

"Yeah, of course," he confessed, "I mean, at the very beginning I thought nobody would understand what happened, and maybe I should just propose to you to make it look like we were together. That was when I thought that other people still defined who we wanted to be together, but I got over that. I care about you, I may love you, hell I could love you right this second and I'm being an idiot and mistaking it for friendship, but if I marry you, it's not because of Lia and Brant."

"I probably would have said no then anyways," she said, looking back to his phone and reaching he hand up to scroll a little bit more. "You know you can do better than Stephanie McMahon, right? And then there's that. I suppose you could."

"Don't want to," he said immediately. "I'm happy, Steph. I'm happy we're exploring whatever this thing between us is. I'm glad we're together right now. I don't think I could do better than you right now."

"You're sweet."

"You're much more than just the woman who's having my children. I kind of think this was inevitable in a way. There was always something there between us, I guess it just took two children to really make us see it."

"Are you two together yet because you're having babies, be together!" Stephanie read another one. Chris leaned over and gently kissed her. Stephanie let herself fall into the kiss a little bit, tasting Chris's lips and getting used to this being the norm from now on. He pulled away and leaned his forehead on hers.

"Finally, something I can totally comply with."