Vince McMahon waited impatiently for his daughter to answer her phone. Surely she should be back at the hotel by now? Eventually the call was answered, "Hi dad! Sorry, I've only just gotten off the phone to Paul and the girls."

Vince smiled, "Hi Steph, just wanted to check in and see if everything went okay tonight?"

"Yes dad everything was fine, at least business wise."

Vince grimaced, "What does that mean?"

"I just had to put Brie Bella in her place dad that's all."

Vince sighed, "Why?"

His daughter sounded irritated by the memory of what had happened, "She's just always in Nikki's ear trying to tell her I'm teaching her wrongly or whatever. She's really pissing me off to be honest. She also had the nerve to come at me in the hallway and threaten me. Can you believe that?"

Vince put his head in one hand, "Can't you ever just get along with people Stephanie, for god's sake."

Her voice raised, "Me? What did I just tell you? She tried to threaten me."

Vince sighed again, "Stephanie I'm your dad, I've known you for thirty seven years so trust me you don't fool me for a second."

"Daddy..."

Vince began to get annoyed and but her off, "And don't daddy me either. I already talked to Nikki and she's upset about what's going on with her sister. I'm telling you now to stop making it worse. If Nikki calls me upset about this again I'm holding you responsible for it."

Stephanie whined, "I'm not trying to upset Nikki dad, don't be stupid. I'm trying to teach her and I don't need that little shrew of a sister of hers going behind my back and..."

"Well you've made your point to Brie, I've already heard all about it. Now leave her alone. That's an order."

Stephanie pouted, "I can't believe you thought I'd try to upset Nikki on purpose. I'm trying really hard and this is what I get from you?"

Vince felt a little guilty now, "Sorry Steph, just please make sure Nikki isn't unhappy at work. That's what I'm worried about. Do it for me, please?"

"Okay dad."

"Goodnight Steph."

He ended the call and Stephanie threw her phone angrily onto the bed and mumbled to herself, "God damn it, maybe he's right. Why can't I help myself?"

She stood there for a minute trying to calm down until she saw that her phone was flashing again. She picked it up to see who was calling and saw that it was Nikki. She left it for a few seconds whilst trying to decide if answering was a good idea. Eventually she decided to answer, "Hi Nikki."

Nikki sounded upset, "Steph, I'm sorry. I talked with Vince and told him what happened tonight and uh... he seemed to blame you. I didn't mean it to be like that."

Stephanie cut her off, "No Nikki, I'm sorry. I only made things worse by tearing into Brie in the hallway. Her attitude irritates me but as long as she doesn't try to get involved in your work I promise it won't happen again."

Nikki sounded relieved, "Thank you Steph, I really want to do well at this but I don't want it to be this hard with Brie."

Stephanie considered for a few seconds what to say next, eventually deciding to go with her instincts, "What are your plans tonight Nikki?"

"Uh... I don't have any."

"Why don't you come up to my room, there's a conversation we need to have, about before."

Nikki thought for a moment, "Yes, we do need to talk about a few things. I'll come up."

Stephanie smiled, "Room eight twenty, I'll get room service up here with a bottle of wine."

"Great, see you soon."