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A day turned into a night, a night into a week and as the weeks multiplied into months nothing had changed. He'd been busier than ever, keeping himself busier than ever in order to really avoid this moment. He'd only been home once since the break up and the thought of spending another weekend in that quiet empty house had kept him on the road longer than usual. Pretty much as long as they'd let him until someone had mentioned it and he'd been sent home for the weekend.

The plane began its decent into Florida and the twinkling lights below grew bigger and bigger. The flight had been a long and restless one, he'd tried to sleep more than once but sleep continued to evade him so eventually he'd just spent the flight starring aimlessly out the window.

Once the plane touched down it took him less than an hour to manoeuvre through customs, luggage claim and into a cab; sitting in the back of the cab he took a deep breath. He'd been running on fumes for the last few weeks; the weeks post Wrestlemania and pre Extreme Rules had kept him busier than ever and just getting this minute to sit back and relax was good. Reaching into his bag he pulled out his cellphone, 7 missed calls, 1 voice mail and 11 text messages. Not an unusual number of any; he slid his finger across the screen unlocking it and dialled into his answering machine. After pressing in his password and listening to the robotic voice tell him about a missed call the message began to play.

"Stephen its Caroline; shit… fuck! I really need you to pick up. It's Sophie, God she's been in an accident and they won't tell me what's going on… We're at Tampa General. I didn't know who else to call… Call me; call me when you get this…"

It took him a minute to register the call, what had actually happen and another to get the driver to turn in that direction. He prayed she was okay, couldn't think of a world where that wasn't true and as he redialled the phone his hands shook. It took one ring before Caroline answered the phone and he didn't let her get a word in before he began.

"Caroline, what is going on? How is she?"

He had a million questions and his heart was racing a mile a minute.

"She's fine; I just talked to the doctor."

Relief washed over him as she continued to explain.

"Her foot is broken, they set it and now I think they are just putting a cast on it but beyond that she got pretty lucky."

"Then what?"

"Then I can take her home, he said she'd be okay to go home later on tonight as long as nothing went wrong."

That was good; she was going to be fine. He contemplated having the cab turn around again but he needed to see her first. He just needed to see that she was really okay.

"There's just one small problem…"

What problem, he was so relieved she was going to be okay what else could be wrong?

"Someone needs to watch her, he says she can't really walk for the next couple of days and you know how she is."

Oh he knew exactly how she was, and how she was going to take that.

"And Joe and I are leaving for London tomorrow…"

So there would be no one to watch her, except…

"Ah'll help if Ah can but yeh know she won't let me."

She wasn't going to want to spend any more time with him, he'd made sure of that, but what other choice did he have? She needed help and he'd always been the one to do it.

"Can you take her? I know you guys broke up and I really shouldn't be asking you to do this…" Caroline began to backpedal. "You know what forget it, I'm sorry I asked, I shouldn't even have called…"

"Caroline Ah don't mind, and Ah'm glad yeh called…"

But she'd never agree to come with him.

"If yeh can get her to agree Ah'll gladly take care o' her."

He had three days to help out, he'd try and get more if he could, if she agreed to coming with him.

"You still love her."

It was more of a statement then a question so he felt no need to actually answer it.

"Ah'm gonna be there in about 10 minutes, meet me outside and we'll take care o' this."

He hung up before she said anymore or asked anymore questions. Running his hands down his face he thanked God that she was okay, that was the closest to fear he'd come in a long time and he didn't care for it one bit and as of right now his plan was to go and see her. He'd extend his offer to help take care of her and if she didn't accept it he'd head home. If she agreed to it, well that would definitely be interesting too.