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*A Few Days Later*
Amy entered the office tentatively, her teeth biting down gently on her lower lip. She'd gotten word at the women's locker room that Stephanie McMahon wanted to see her, and she wondered what this could all be about.
The brunette looked up, concern in her eyes as she spotted the redhead. Then, standing up from the chair behind her desk, she smiled and beckoned to the other woman.
"Amy, hello... Thanks for coming to see me."
"No problem, Stephanie," the redhead replied, giving the youngest McMahon a smile of her own.
"Please," the brunette stated with a wave of her right hand, "sit."
Amy did exactly that and folded her hands primly in her lap, her legs crossed gracefully.
"I heard about your fainting spell a few nights ago," Stephanie began. Her brow creased with worry as she looked the other woman over. "Are you all right?"
The redhead let out a slight sigh of relife at the question. Why had she been so fearful that, somehow, she'd gotten into trouble? She raised a hand to her forehead, brushing away some stray strands of her hair from her eyes.
"I'm fine, Stephanie," she answered gratefully. "Thanks for asking. It was just stress," she explained.
"So, the baby is all right?"
"Perfectly fine." The redhead smiled, and for the first time since she'd stepped in to see the brunette, she actually *felt* it. She went on to elaborate, telling Stephanie how she'd been so worried, and so she'd gone to see her doctor after the episode - just to ensure that the EMT had been right in her assessment that she'd passed out solely from stress.
"Thank God," Stephanie said. She too breathed a sigh of relief, then reached across the desk to pat Amy's arm. "I can understand your stress... And let me just say that I personally don't blame Adam one bit for what's been going on between him and Matt. Matt Hardy has really gotten to be quite the ass." She made a face full of distaste.
Amy's expression darkened at the mention of her loathed ex-boyfriend. Why did he have to behave that way? Why couldn't he just grow up? She'd known he would be upset, but he'd really taken things to an extreme, and for far too long as well. It was high time he moved on.
"Anyway..." Stephanie continued. "... My brother is supposed to be meeting with our dad to discuss that situation."
Amy perked up a bit as the young woman went on.
"As soon as Shane gets an answer from him, he'll be calling Adam and Matt in for another meeting." Her blue eyes somehow seemed full of sympathy - and that made the redhead's stomach clench up in knots. Could Stephanie know something? Was there something she wasn't telling her?
Amy couldn't speak. Somehow, she was struck with a loss for words, and damn it, she was beginning to feel sick. She made a small sound of displeasure and raised a hand to her mouth.
Before the brunette had a chance to speak and ask if she was okay, Amy bolted up from the chair. She was feeling more queasy by the second.
"Excuse me," she managed, then hurried out and to the nearest restroom - which, thankfully, wasn't far at all.
She wasn't sure it was the morning sickness, her horrid fear of Adam being fired, or a combination
of both, that made her so ill.