Baby, please try to forgive me
Stay here don't put out the glow
Hold me now don't bother
If every minute it makes me weaker
You can save me from the man that I've become
Oh yeah

Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
Played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart

Sadness is beautiful
Loneliness is tragical
So help me I can't win this war
Oh no
Touch me now don't bother
If every second it makes me weaker
You can save me from the man I've become

Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
Played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart

I'm here with my confession
Got nothing to hide no more
I don't know where to start
But to show you the shape of my heart
I'm looking back on things I've done
I never wanna play the same old part
Keep you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart

Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
Played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart
Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
Played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart
Show you the shape of my heart

Disclaimer: Song, 'Shape of my Heart', by Backstreet Boys. Don't know who wrote it though, sorry!

Author's note: I started writing this about a couple of weeks before WrestleMania X-Seven, so the Triple H/Austin alliance never happened.

Prologue

09 April 2005

Hunter Helmsley stared at the woman standing silently before him, utterly stunned. He hadn't seen her in nearly four years, but the changes in her appearance did not hinder him from having recognised her straight away. Long, straight brown hair to short, wavy blonde. Light blue eyes to dark green. Healthy, rosy complexion to sickly pale.

'Stephanie?'

'Hunter.'

'My god…I can't believe it's really you.'

She smiled, a ghost of the smiles he was used to. 'It's me. I need…I need your help.'