When Ste woke up 9 hours later he didn't know where he was all he knew was the bed had the most comfortable mattress he had ever slept on.

He turned his head to the left and saw a night stand on the night stand was a bottle of Tylenol and a cup of water and a note.

Ste

I hope you slept alright

Brendan

'That's right' thought Ste as the memories of the past 14 hours came flooding back but the last thing he remembered was falling asleep on the couch so how did he end up in a bed.

Ste smelt coffee and bacon and he sat up in bed and took the pain pills and drank all the water and walked slowly out of the room realizing he wasn't dizzy any more. When he finally made it out of the room he tried looking for Brendan.

"Brendan" said Ste

"In the kitchen"

"I can't fine you" said Ste walking around.

"Wait, I'll come over to you" said Brendan

In 3 seconds it felt like Ste, Brendan was at Ste's side

"How did you Sleep?" asked Brendan

"Good, how did I get into bed?"

"I lifted ye off the couch and put ye in one of the guestrooms I hope you don't mind. I didn't want your head to hurt more in the morning"

"Thanks, my head feels a lot better"

"Good. Breakfast is almost ready" said Brendan walking into the kitchen.

"Smells good"

"I see you're not dizzy anymore"

"Yeah, that's all gone"

"Your phone fell out of your pocket last night. I hope you don't mind but I called Amy for you so she and the kids wouldn't worry about you"

"Thanks"

Ste kept staring at Brendan thinking the he wasn't the same Brendan Brady that hurt him almost a year ago.

Ste sat down on a chair at the kitchen table and Brendan served him a plate of bacon, eggs, potatoes, and toast, he also gave him a large mug of coffee.

"This looks good"

"Eat up. You used to make me the best breakfasts now it's my turn."

Ste's phone began to ring and Brendan handed it to him before sitting down and begin to eat.

"Amy" said Ste when he answered the phone.

"It's Leah daddy"

"Leah, how's me little girl" said Ste smiling.

"When you coming back"

"I was in the middle of eating breakfast can I come back as soon as I'm done"

"Yeah" said a happy Leah

"Love you Leah, tell Lucas I tell him too"

"Love you daddy, Lucas does too"

Ste smiled and hung up. He placed his phone on the table.

"I take it ye have to go back to the hotel after"

Ste nodded slowly.

Ste took a bite of food.

"This is really good" said Ste with a mouthful of food

Brendan just nodded his head neither one of them said anything else to each other while eating.

After breakfast Brendan got dressed and he and Ste went on their way back into town not much said along the way.

"You know that Doug has my shares of Chez Chez "

Ste nodded his head.

"Would you like Cheryl's shares of the club?"

"Even if I wanted it I can't afford it" said Ste

"I left a message telling her you were back in town and she called back this morning and asked me to ask you if you wanted her shares as a birthday present"

"Are you serious?" asked Ste excitedly

"You want it, last time I'm offering"

"Yes I want it, this is so awesome. Rae could work there as a DJ on the weekend when not at the deli, her first love is DJing, she's amazing"

Ste took his phone and called up Rae.

"What's going on?" asked Rae

"I just got Cheryl's shares to the club and if you want on the weekends you can DJ there."

"Are you serious?" asked Rae so excited

"Sure am"

"I love ya Ste"

"Love ya too girl" said Ste laughingly

"Where are you?" asked Rae when she calmed down.

"On me way back to the hotel, Leah called me today wanting me to come back"

"Come back from where?" asked Rae

"Oh I passed out at Brendan's place last night"

"Oh" said Rae teasingly

"Stop it Rae"

"Why were you there to begin with?"

"Brendan gave me pain pills for my headache and I fell asleep on his couch."

"Alright"

"I better go, getting a headache" said Ste putting his hand on his head

"Love ya sweets" said Rae

"Love ya too"

Ste hung up.

Ste put his phone back into his pocket and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When Brendan and Ste got to the hotel Brendan honked the car horn and Amy ran outside with her kids beside her.

"Thanks Brendan for your help" said Amy

"That's the bad man, mummy" said Leah

Brendan didn't say anything to that.

"Here are Ste's papers from the hospital"

Amy took them from Brendan's hands and walked over to Ste to help him out of the car.

When Amy closed the car door Brendan took off.

A few days had past and no sign of Brendan anywhere; not at Chez Chez, when Rae and Ste worked on reopening it, not at the deli when Doug and Ste had someone to fix the hole in the wall. Not even to see if Ste was alright, not even in the park when he went there on the weekends with his children.

Ste kept thinking about him all over again but this time he thought Brendan had changed, had opened up more, had some feelings for him for what was the point of saving his life, if he was just going to leave. Maybe Ste never loved him to begin with; maybe he thought even back then Brendan had some kind of feelings for him when he almost kissed him in the basement, maybe that's why Ste said what he said since he thought Brendan had felt the same way about him. How stupid could he have been? Ste shook his head.

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Brendan stayed at home to avoid Ste, but he didn't know why , they weren't anything to each other, heck he drove him away to America with the crazy shit he pulled so why the hell should he give a shit if Ste's little girl thought he was a bad man, he was a bad man. Ste probably told Leah that he was the enemy, but when he saw Ste being held up by a gun did he wish it was him instead. Why did it scare him so much to lose something that wasn't his, to fight back the tears that wanted to escape from his eyes and fall down his cheeks when he thought Ste had died, to hold him in his arms and never let go, to have the urge to see him every day and now that he is busy with looking at a handful of scripts to avoid seeing him why did he miss him so damn much.

Maybe it was the same reason why he almost kissed in the basement almost 4 years ago he was in love with him.