This is series 7 episode 17 when Greg the new 'teacher' arrives. In this episode we see Linda looking through Michael's emails but there is one she didn't look at. The anonymous one. Inside the footage of Wayne getting run over. What if she did look at that email? What would happen then? (Yes, It has got some real conversation from the show...but it has a twist as well)

Disclaimer: I do not own Waterloo Road. I just love it so much that I had to make fanfiction. I'm just borrowing the characters.

He would have to tell her as much as they were best friends and knew EVERYTHING about each other that she shouldn't have looked in his emails. They were personal and private and they should be kept private, but how would he tell her? He thought to himself. He would go and speak to her at the end of the day.

He walked in to her classroom expecting her to be there but she wasn't. He knew there was only one other place to be, the staffroom. While making his way there...slowly, he was going over in his head what he would say. How could he tell Linda that as much as they were best friends and knew EVERYTHIING about each other that he should at least have some private life and something's that he should keep to himself that she couldn't know about?

She heard someone entering and looked up to see who it was. It was Michael. She could tell this was coming every since he found out she looked at his emails. She had been trying to prepare herself for this moment but she couldn't. She felt sick and lightheaded. "There are something's we need to talk about, come to my place tonight?" He asked her. "Ok, why not." She replied smiling. "Em..did you watch the footage?" She asked him trying not to show her worry. "I did...we'll talk about that later." From then on she knew she was in trouble.

She was now parked up outside Michael's house thinking about how she would tell him that she looked at his emails but by now he probably already knew. She now opened her car door and stepped onto the pavement, put her umbrella up and made her way up Michaels drive. She rang the doorbell and a couple of seconds later he answered. . "Hey Linda." He said greeting her. "Hi Michael." Linda said smiling at him. "Come in, come in. Let's get you out of the rain." He could hear the rain pelting down just a couple of feet away from her. She entered and walked into the living room. "Sit down and make yourself comfortable." "Do you want a whiskey?" He asked her. "Yes, please. That would be lovely." She replied.

He sat down and passed a whiskey glass over to Linda. "Thank you. It's been a hectic day hasn't it." "Yeah, definitely." He replied. "Linda, I need to ask you something." She turned around to face him knowing what he was going to say. "What were you doing in my office today?" 8 words that threatened to ruin everything. Their friendship, their working career. Everything threatened to crumble down due to those 8 words. Her reply, "I just went in to leave some papers and I knocked over the coffee and panicked." "Right...so you didn't look at my emails." He asked her. "Not really, well...curiosity might have got the better of me." She admitted. "Linda, that's private. There's confidential information in some of those messages and they were sent to me." He told her. "I didn't read anything...well actually that's a lie, I did see something." She told him. "Yeah, what did you see?" Michael asked pretending he didn't know. Linda looked down and then up into Michael's eyes as if she was trying to drag the truth. The truth that he also knew what was in that email. "It was footage of you threatening Wayne Johnston with a metal pole." Linda said to Michael. "Linda, he threatened me first. What was I supposed to do? Call the police, that would make me seem weak." He told her. "It wouldn't make you seem weak, Michael. Everybody needs help sometimes' you just need to ask for it. The police are there to help." She told him with all honesty. "How have the police ever helped me." He asked her. "Well they did lock him up." She told him. "Well yeah, but..." "So what did happen then?" Linda asked him.

"Well..." Michael started off. "I was going to my car after a hard day working and he was just standing there threatening me saying 'Oh come at me.' So I told him to get off school property but he was like 'Make me.' So I chased after him and he ran away, or that's what I thought." Michael then sighed. The Images of the attack flying around in his mind. "Go on." Linda said while rubbing his back in a comforting manner. Michael then turned to face Linda and continued on with his story. "But then he shouted, 'you're asking for it...again.' So I shouted 'what did you say.' He then ran and I ran after him. I couldn't find him but I could tell he was there so I turned around and he was running towards me with a pipe. I was struggling to get the pipe off him but it fell and to get him away from the pipe I had to push him. So I did. I picked the pipe up and he was like 'what are you going to do. Eh...eh.'

I was walking towards him but he was walking backwards onto the main road shouting 'Me and you are going to see a lot more of each other' and that's when he got run over. I was shocked and that's when I threw the pipe down and ran. Linda, I was so scared." Michael said with honesty. "Hey, come here." Linda said while cuddling him. She then pulled away and looked into his eyes. "Everything's going to be ok." "Yeah how?" He asked her. "I don't know," She told him "But I promise it will." She stood up and made her way to the door. He grabbed her arm and turned her around. "Please don't go...I need you here." He said to her welling up. She kneeled down and looked him in his eyes. "Hey, it'll be ok." She said while brushing his cheek. "I'll stay tonight if you need me. You always know I'm here for you."