Langford caught Robyn before she hit the ground, his sudden movement jolting her back into a state of consciousness. He held onto her as she regained her footing but even when she appeared balanced he refused to let her go. Her family came to stand by her side, her friends close behind them and he could see her deflecting them in the same way she had him.

This time he wasn't going to let it stand.

"What are you doing?" Robyn questioned as Langford suddenly started to pull her towards his car.

Langford ignored Robyn's attempts to try and pull away from him as he carried on walking with her, "Taking you to the hospital and getting you looked at."

"I'm fine. I told you I haven't had anything to eat today and I had a bad night!" Her protests fell on deaf ears.

"And I told you bollocks. This is the second time today you've flaked out on me. Something's going on and I think we should find out what."

"You can't make me go!" Robyn shouted, finally managing to wrench herself from Langford's grasp and stood in a defiant posture.

Intensely aware that if he pushed the matter and took Robyn anyway he could be seen to be abducting her in the eyes of the SIU, Langford didn't know quite what to do next. He couldn't stand by and do nothing but at the same time he couldn't make his position any more untenable. She wouldn't listen to him, that much was clear but relief filled him when someone she would listen to approached her.

Robbie placed himself in front of Robyn, breaking her line of sight with Langford. Well aware that everyone was watching them he placed a hand gently on her shoulder and bent down to whisper in her ear before moving his hand from her shoulder, cupping her arm and leading her back to the house. He smiled at Yuliya who was still in the living room, trying to mop up Olaf's blood from the wall. She seemed to take a silent cue from him and walked into the kitchen, putting the cloth she was using in the sink and washing her hands before planting a kiss on Robyn's head and leaving the house.

Taking one of Robyn's hands in both of his, he tentatively said, "You know you said this morning when I found you on the floor you were looking for something you'd dropped and you thought it might have rolled under the wardrobe? I hate to say it kiddo but Sportacus and Nine had the wardrobe out and they couldn't find anything." He took note of Robyn's face falling visibly at being rumbled and he squeezed her hand, "What's going on, kiddo? What's wrong? It's not that you dropped something or didn't have anything to eat or enough sleep. Something's wrong and I need you to tell me what it is."

"I..." Robyn bit her lip as she stopped herself trying to tell him she was ok.

It was time to be honest.

When Robbie and Robyn had disappeared into their house, Langford rallied his men to try and tidy up the mess they'd made around the town. Looking among them he could see there weren't many that weren't sporting an injury of one description or another and by the looks of the civilians they hadn't fared much better in the skirmish. Ziggy was nursing a black eye and split lip while Stingy was over by his car wailing at the big dent left in the side of it. Both of the women, Trixie and Bessie, were otherwise unharmed though from how Bessie held her arm he imagined she'd strained it in swinging her handbag at the men entangled in her laundry. Both Sportacus' sported bruises on their arms and Langford imagined that beneath their clothes there were many more.

Looking over at the Town Hall, he noticed that Mayor Meanswell was walking towards him. Despite much of the town having been damaged in one way or another in the fighting the Mayor seemed strangely calm as he walked along humming. He was almost floored when the Mayor greeted him with a warm smile.

Unsure about whether the Mayor had actually noticed the disruption around him, Langford hinted, "I'm sorry about the mess Mr Mayor. As you can see the lads are on to getting it fixed."

"There's no hurry, Mr Langford. After all, the town doesn't look all that different to how it did when Stephanie first came here. It's brought back some memories. Oh yes, I remember the day like it was yesterday. She had her bags and she came to stay with me for the summer. At first she wasn't sure she liked it here but she turned things around with Sportacus' help. I'm sure your men will do a good job and put things back how they were. Speaking of your men, I called Doctor Cole while all the fighting was going on and he's told me that he and Doctor Malone are on their way to come and check everyone over."

"Thank you, Mr Mayor. I'll make sure they look at Bessie, Ziggy, Stingy and Trixie before they worry about the Sportacus' and the lads. They're a tough lot."

"I think I'll get them to look at you as well." Mayor Meanswell said looking at Langford and noticing that he was standing slightly hunched over and holding his arm across his chest.

Langford waved his hand dismissively, "I'll be alright. A hot bath and a couple of pain pills combined with a good night's sleep and you'll never know I was hurt at all. If anything I owe you an apology. We've all acted outside of our professional standards and allowed tensions to boil over. This should never have happened."

"But these things do, Mr Langford. They can't always be helped. Besides which, Olaf was here when he was ordered not to be and he hurt Robyn again. He started this and you did what your jobs tell you to do. I would just like to know how he got into town."

"Oh I'll find out and when I do I'll make sure it never happens again." Langford promised, trying to work out himself how Olaf had done it and he wondered if it had something to do with Robbie.

Patiently waiting for Robyn to continue, Robbie could see how hard it was for her speak. He could see tears welling in her eyes and the words staying unspoken on the tip of her tongue. She looked as though for all the world she wanted to confide in him but the fear of upsetting him was holding her back. Standing on a knife's edge between her opening up to him completely and shutting him down he took one of his hands from hers and brushed her hair back from her face, hooking the strands between his fingers and tucking them behind her ears. When she flinched and inhaled sharply as his fingers touched the back of her right ear he frowned. Moving his hand he brought it to her cheek and gently pushed her head to the side, lifting her hair away from the area he gasped at the sight of a dark bruise colouring the skin behind her ear. As she moved her head back and looked at him he could see a tear rolling down her cheek.

Now more than ever he needed to know what was going on. He urged her, "Tell me what happened."

She broke her silence.

"When Lily threw Boris into me I fell backwards and hit my head on the ground."

Robbie's eyes and mouth opened wide as he took in what Robyn had said, "Oh kiddo! Why didn't you say anything?"

"Everyone was so worried about Boris. He needed help more than I did and I didn't want them to stop them helping him to help me."

Struggling to hold in his emotions, Robbie pulled Robyn into a hug and held her tightly.