After a week at home, Punk and AJ returned to their everyday lives which consisted of working. Jessica had gone back to school and Jo went from staying with one of AJ's mom friends or with Seth and Cami on the farm.

"This still needs fixed." AJ walked into the bathroom with a towel around her body whilst Punk stood trimming his beard, "How did it even… come off?" She rolled her eyes, "Things just always magically break in this house." She said, tossing the handle back on the ledge before grabbing some face cream from the cabinet under the sink.

"It's called two children with no concepts." Punk answered.

"Very funny." AJ said, "They're tough but I doubt they have the strength to pull a handle off a window." AJ shook her head.

"It was probably loose from when we fixed the house up." Punk said.

"Oh, so it's your terrible handy man skills?" AJ asked him, rubbing her cream over her face.

"Oh, what's that? Is that some new cream?" Punk noticed.

"Yeah, for women." AJ nodded.

"Yeah, that's fine." Punk waved his hand, dropping his razor and taking the cream from her as she shook her head, "Smells nice." He nodded.

"Smells feminine." AJ nodded.

"And what about it?" Punk shrugged, handing the cream back to her as she put it away, "Who is taking Jessica?" He asked.

"I'll take her. You take Jo, you drive that way anyway." AJ said as Punk nodded.

"And picking up?" Punk asked.

"I won't be home until late. Well… later. So… you, I guess." She smiled sweetly to him as he nodded.

"You're lucky I got a flexible job." He said as AJ just nodded.

"I know." AJ said, it did make things a lot easier, "Ok, hurry up with the shaving." She waved her hand along.

"I'm done." Punk said as AJ looked at him.

"You… you barely did anything." AJ noticed.

"I had to touch up the stache." Punk pointed, "It was getting messy."

"Yeah, it was." AJ agreed.

"Can someone come make me breakfast." Jo called from the top of the stairs.

"You go. I still need to get ready." AJ nudged Punk out of the bathroom as Jo spotted him.

"Daddy!" Jo gasped, "Come on. Come make breakfast." She said impatiently as Punk just nodded.

"Ok, let me go put a t-shirt on." Punk said as he headed off to go attend early morning dad duties.

Later that night, AJ had to stay later at work to catch up on some things from taking time off. She had her own office which she was never used to before. She was used to working from home and going out and meeting her clients but it was all a very different scene for her.

Staying late sometimes meant she couldn't tuck her babies into bed and she hated that. She always made sure she could see them before work and a little bit after, because she refused to be a mom who barely got to see her kids. She didn't think it was fair.

But she knew she had a lot of work to catch up on and couldn't fall behind so she stuck it out and got her head down. She wasn't to all the paper work, it wasn't really where she operated, and she missed being in the actual court room, but she knew it was a good decision to join a firm and work on a more lowkey level.

By 8pm, she knew she was one of the only people in the building. She'd given Punk a call and got to speak to the girls before they went to bed. She knew they were never happy about not seeing her before bed, but it only ever happened once a week, sometimes not even once a week.

She was in the middle of printing some things out in her office when she had to quickly answer the phone. The reception downstairs told her about a man looking to talk with her, so she casually told the lady at reception to send him up. If it meant she had to refer him to someone else then she normally did it in a few minutes.

She continued to collect her things from the printer, her back to the door of her office which she heard open up.

"Just give me a second." AJ called.

"Oh, no. Take all the time you need." Jamie waved his hand as AJ paused, shivers running up her spine at the sound of that voice again.

It was like everything in her world came crashing down when she heard that voice. Like the three years that they worked so hard to build and create, all just meant nothing.

She slowly turned around, swallowing the lump in her throat as she looked across at Jamie. A man so blinded by jealousy, hatred and control that he wanted to tear apart everything in her world just to get what he wanted. A man she thought she knew so well. A man she thought she'd never see again…

"What-What are you doing here?" AJ shook her head, staying in the corner of the room and not daring to come out.

"Why do you look so surprised?" Jamie laughed a little, "I know you thought your little plan… transferring me, would wipe me off the face of the earth but… I put in for a transfer back." Jamie nodded, "They gave me it, of course."

"Of course." AJ whispered, "That doesn't explain why you're here." AJ said.

"I can't come visit?" Jamie asked her.

"Well I wouldn't say there's a reason to." AJ shook her head, "Me and you aren't friends." She said, "That's very clear."

"Oh, of course. Because you cheated on me." Jamie said, "You used me for three years to keep your bed warm and your head busy, and then… off you went back to Phil." Jamie said, "So it's funny that you look at me like I… like I have no reason to be mad with you."

"Jamie, that was… that was a long time ago now." AJ said, "And I'm sorry, I still am, for what I did, but then you went and you… you hurt Phil, you made us leave-"

"Wrong. I wanted him to leave. You didn't have to go anywhere. I wanted him to leave so we could find our way back to each other. Because I'm sure we would have." Jamie nodded, "And we still can."

"No." AJ shook her head, "No I… I have a life here. You showed your true colours when we broke up. You wanted to… to make me unhappy by making Phil leave or putting him in prison. You never thought about my feelings and that showed what you wanted out of this." She nodded, "You… you preach Phil was a criminal yet you… you were working with Jason. You wanted to bring that man into my life. Into my children's life."

"Children?" Jamie looked at her, taken off guard as AJ gulped.

Silence filled the room as they stared at one another, until Jamie spotted the frame on AJ's desk, picking it up to look at it. It was a picture from Christmas last year of Punk and the girls.

"You had another baby." Jamie nodded as AJ looked across at him, "She looks kinda old." He said suspiciously.

"She's just three." AJ shook her head.

"We broke up three years ago." Jamie said.

"Stop it. She is… she's not yours." AJ said, "I was with Phil a few months before I found out I was pregnant." She made clear.

"You'd say that anyway." Jamie said, sitting the frame down, "Just to get me out of your life."

"I do want you out of my life." AJ nodded, "That's the first decent thing you've said to me." She said, "There's no need for this anymore. Move on. Just like I have." She said.

"No, I'm having way too much trouble with that." Jamie shook his head, "This time I'm not… I'm not gonna play games or give you the choice. I thought that was me being kind last time." He nodded, "No, this time… you can watch as Phil as handcuffed and taken away from your home. From your little girls." He nodded as AJ looked across at him, "And then we can… we can pick things up… where we left them." He smiled.

"No." AJ shook her head, "You're not gonna get what you want." AJ said.

"I am. It's pretty simple. Phil is a murderer. I find it a telling story that you… you still stuck by him, even when you knew that, you had another baby with him-"

"It was self-defence. He was in prison. There was a lot going on." AJ said, "Any judge and jury would see that, clear as day."

"No, I think they'll see a man with a previous conviction, with violent tendencies, who should serve time for what he did." Jamie said, "And me and you… we can just rekindle." He shrugged.

"Where is Jason?" AJ asked worriedly, she figured if Jamie was here, Jason also had to be somewhere around, and it worried her when she thought about Punk at home with the girls. She didn't know if this was a set up. Her head was spinning.

"Don't worry. He's stayed put for now." Jamie said, "He's like my… hound dog. I only send him in when… people make things tough for me." Jamie nodded, "And of course he'll be there to testify against Phil." He nodded as AJ shook her head.

"Why can't you just let me live my life?" AJ asked, "You-You say you love me, right?" She wondered, "Then if you love me why do you want to hurt me?"

"No… I… I don't wanna hurt you. I want to enlighten you. Make you see sense." Jamie said.

"I see sense." AJ shook her head, "I'm happy with my family. You should move on and drop this obsession."

"Obsession?" Jamie laughed, "It's not an obsession."

"Well it's been three years. I'd say it's an obsession." AJ nodded, "Yes, I cheated on you and I apologise, I am sorry for that but… I won't be apologising for… for living my life and being with my family who I love. I will never apologise for that."

"Will you apologise for you using me?" Jamie asked, slowly walking towards her as AJ began to get nervous.

"I never used you." AJ shook her head.

"Well it felt like it. We had a life, April. A good one. I… I was like Jessica's father-"

"But you weren't." AJ made clear, "She knew it, I knew it, you knew it… you didn't love her like a daughter. She was just my baggage to you." She said.

"Well that's not true." Jamie said, "And what about the little one, you're sure she isn't mine?" He asked.

"Oh, I'm positive." AJ nodded, "Why can't you just leave us alone?" AJ asked, "Let us live our life. You don't have control over anything just because you're a cop" She said, jumping as she felt him grab her by the shoulders and push her against the wall.

"I think you'll find I have control over your entire life now. April." Jamie hissed as AJ gulped and looked up at him, "I hold your life in the palm of my hands. I get to choose whether your daughter's grow up with a father now." He nodded, "Now Phil is going back to prison, there's no doubt about that. And then you and me… we're gonna settle things and we're gonna get back to the way we were." He nodded, loosening his grip on her shoulders as AJ looked up at him, "You're not scared, are you?" He smiled softly, stroking her cheek as she slapped his hand away.

"No." AJ spat, even though deep down she was terrified.

"Well you should be." Jamie nodded, backing away from her, "I'll be in touch." He nodded as AJ shook her head.

"What-What does that mean?" AJ shook her head.

"It means… I'll be in touch." Jamie smirked, walking towards the door, "Oh and April…" He turned around as AJ looked over at him, "You tell Phil about any of this and Jason, he'll just kill him." He shrugged casually as AJ shook her head.

"You." She spat angrily, "You tell me Phil is a criminal, you look down on him, you look down on me… but what you're doing right now is even worse than anything he has done. He had reasons, pressure, you… you're doing this because you're jealous."

"No, I'm doing it because it's the right thing." Jamie nodded calmly, "Like I said, if you tell him, which… I'll know if you have, I got eyes and ears everywhere… you'll have a dead boyfriend instead of an imprisoned one." He said as AJ shook her head, "We'll speak spoon." He winked to her, leaving the office as AJ gasped for air that she felt had been sucked from her, placing her hand on her desk to steady her up right as she ran her hand over her hair.