Madison, WI

Rayna's Dressing Room

Rayna leaned into Deacon's arms, wrapping her arms around her as his hands wondered around her waist. She whispered "hey" before he smiled against her neck.

His hands ventured lowered to rest on her ass, pulling her closer. She took his cue and let her arms run up his shoulders. He leaned in close against her lips, whispering "hi" before letting his lips slide over hers.

Deacon asked where the girls were against her lips.

"With Sarah backstage. They wanted to see the show." Deacon smirked against her lips and went back to kissing her. Rayna sighed against him as one hand tussled in her hair and the other began playing with the button of her jeans. Rayna pulled back and looked down at Deacon's hands. She wiped his mouth, trying to get hersmeared lipstick off of him.

"Buck is waiting outside and my hairdresser will be here in any minute now. Hell, you go on stage in like fifteen."

Deacon cocked an eyebrow, giving her a sexy smile. "As much as I have missed you, fifteen minutes could probably be arranged."

Rayna gave a relaxed giggle, "How romantic."

He gave her another quick kiss before excusing himself and throwing open the door. Rayna watched him walk away, cocking her head to the side, admiring the view.

The Dairy-O

12: 15 am

Rayna tried to steal a spoonful of Deacon's plain chocolate to mix with her own, but Deacon clanked his spoon on hers. "You keep your spoon to your own bowl."

Daphne added a "yeah. That mint ice cream she eats is yucky."

Deacon cut the little girl a look and nodded, "way yucky."

Rayna reached over to tuck Daphne's blonde hair behind her ears, "Honey how are you not falling asleep?"

Danphne shrugged, "Adrenaline."

Rayna's eyes got big and Deacon just let out a bark of laughter. Daphne asked if she could go play a video game with Maddie. Rayna dug into her purse and gave her a couple of quarters. "One more game, and then we are going back across the street to the hotel and you are going to bed."

Daphne ran off to the far end of the restaurant as Rayna shifted her chair closer to Deacon. Instinctively, he put his arm around the back of her chair.

He added what was wrong with Maddie and Rayna shrugged. "She's been moody since last night. I don't get it. She wanted to come on tour. She seemed so excited about it. Now that she is here, she just pouts."

"Do you think it's me? Like she knows we are back together?"

"No. I mean I don't think so. She's almost a teenager now. You know how they are."

"I hope for your sake that she isn't like you as a teenager."

She knocked him in the knee with her fist. "Excuse you. You met me when I was 19. You hardly knew me during my teenage years."

Deacon cocked an eyebrow. "Yeah well you and I were together in those last six months of your teens. You were pretty damn wild then. Of course most of your twenties weren't exactly tame."

Rayna blushed as the girls began walking toward the table. "Hey babies. Okay it's time to get y'all to bed."

10:15 AM

Rayna waved goodbye to both girls and told to have fun. "Do whatever Sarah tells you to do."

She closed the door and ran back to the bathroom. She sprayed her perfume, put her lipstick on, and fluffed her hair. She and Deacon had agreed he'd keep his separate room and there would be no overnight stays while she had the girls on tour; but they'd figure out a way for some time during the day.

She scolded herself, 'Rayna quit acting like a horny teenager.' But it has been well over a week. And she'd just gotten him back. And before she and Deacon had gotten back together, she hasn't had sex in months. And it was Deacon. And it'd been over week.

She grabbed her key card and cell phone and headed to the front door. She saw her cell phone buzz and smiled when she saw it was Deacon. She headed into the hallway, answering with "I'm getting the elevator now."

He didn't respond for a minute causing Rayna to stand up straight. She knew his silence was not a good thing. "Please tell me you are in your hotel room. Preferably naked."

Deacon let out a sigh, "Its Juliette's mom. She's relapsed last night and she is weighing her options."

Rayna let out a frustrated groan. "And let me guess, you can't leave her…"

"You know I can't. She's been sleeping it off but she's awake now and I've been there before so I know she needs someone. Rayna signed deeply. I've been there before too.

"Okay, just call me when you can. And Deacon, just…just take care of yourself too okay."

"K. I'll call ya."

Rayna bit her lip hard and picked up her phone, quickly calling Sarah to see how far she and the girls had walked.

On Stage

"Thank you so much Wisconsin! Y'all are awesome." As Liam strummed the first few cords of the next song she smiled. It was one of the new songs they'd written, back when she and Teddy were still together.

She could how nervous Bucky was on the side as she sang the first line,

"I can't even think of one good reason, Why I'm always thinkin 'bout leaving."

After she began the second verse, she looked over to smirk at Liam.

"Sometimes I wish you cheated on me, then leavin' here would be so easy."

Rayna could sense the crowd was with her, swaying and nodding to the music. As she sang the last chorus, she could feel the crowd began to sing along and cheer. She smiled brightly. God, I missed this feeling.

Juliette's Dressing Room

Deacon clinched his jaw as he watched the live feed of the show. What in the hell is this? Ray had sung three new songs. All of them clearly had Liam's influence. The songs were good, but a little more risqué than what she normally did. But that didn't bother him so much as much as everything else.

Liam was all over Ray. The stupid ass high-kicks were annoying. Liam getting on the floor playing at Rayna's feet was aggravating as hell as where the back-to-back shit. But when he leaned in to kiss her check at the end of the last song, Deacon had to count backwards in his head.

Juliette interrupted his thoughts. "I said…can you stay with me tonight?"

Deacon turned his attention away from the monitor, "What?"

Juliette smiled shyly. "Look I know you aren't having sleepovers with the great-Rayna James while her kids are on tour. Mama and I got into another fight after sound check and I just want someone else there to keep things calm." Deacon looked at her for a moment before she continued.

"Please…look I have three guest rooms and it would mean so much to me."

Deacon swallowed. Rayna is going to kill me. "Sure."

"And maybe we can write some more. You've been kinda distracted lately."

Deacon's thoughts were interrupted by the Stage hand telling them they had "five" before Wrong Song would start.

The Next Morning-10 AM

Deacon walked into the hotel lobby exhausted and irritated. First Rayna had about fifty people in her dressing room after the show, all wanting interviews and scoops on the new songs. Her new songs with the brilliant Liam. He hadn't got to talk to her at all and then Juliette wanted to leave almost immediately to go check on her mom. So he'd left.

The fighting between Juliette and Jolene had started the second they'd walked through the door. That led to doors slamming and crying on both sides. Then while he was comforting Jolene, she'd tried to kiss him. He tried to turn her down gently but obviously he hadn't been too clear, 'cause around 2:00 he awoke to Jolene in his bed . After kicking her out of bed and locking the door, he'd realized his cell phone had been on silent.

There were multiple texts from Rayna, most were worried about him. But the last two said the girls were asleep and the babysitter was going to stay with them for a few hours.

Then this morning happened. Originally he was going to ride jump on Rayna's tour bus for the drive today in order to spend time with her. But another fight between Juliette and Jolene had made them all late. Rayna's bus left an hour ago and now he was stuck for four hours still not seeing Rayna.

Rayna's Tour Bus

Rayna looked down at her phone again, wondering where in the hell Deacon was. He didn't see me after the show. Just sent one text saying he'd see me later. Then after everything fell into place with the girls going to bed early and the babysitter being able to stay…he hadn't even responded back. She'd even gone down to his room only to find nobody there.

Bucky came from the back of the bus, with a look on his face that Rayna knew meant trouble.

"What is it?"

"The ABC affiliate out of Nashville just aired a promo for their lead-in story tonight."

"About?" Rayna asked. Bucky took Rayna's hand and led her down the aisle of the bus towards the back.

"Peggy's husband or ex-husband did a sit-down. He says that Teddy and Peggy have been having an affair for months. He also says that Teddy and Peggy stole money from that real estate deal that went belly up."

Rayna bit her lip and Bucky's eyes got wide. "You knew?"

"About the money, yes. The affair, I just had my suspicions on that one. It was one of the reasons Teddy and I started having problems."

Rayna looked back towards the couches at the front of the bus, wishing she could stop another set of problems from piling up on her daughters. Bucky interrupted her thoughts. "Rayna there is one more thing."

"The guy also insinuates you and Deacon have been having a long term affair. According to Bess, he used the phrase, 'they never stopped'."

Rayna rolled her eyes again. "Well this day keeps getting better and better." She felt her phone vibrate and looked down. "Oh right on time. Teddy."

Juliette's Bus

Deacon heard his phone ring and hoped it was Rayna, only to be slightly disappointed it was Coleman. He picked up the phone and listened as Coleman described a news story that was supposedly airing tonight about Teddy and the mistress.

"Deacon just a heads up. They insinuate that you and Rayna have been having an affair this whole time."

Deacon rolled his eyes, "Yeah whatever."

"Deacon I just got off the phone with a reporter from one the papers. They are getting really carried away. He said he had an unnamed source who claimed you were the father to both of her daughters."

Deacon scoffed, "Seriously. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

Coleman agreed. "Look, I know you are headed to Chicago now. Be careful. You and Rayna both. The media smells blood in the water and if they find out you two are back together…."

Deacon sighed, "Yeah I know. It's gonna look like all the bullshit is true too."