Vince was busy working in his office with his door wide open because his Secretary had gone to the Dentist and he wasn't in the mood to get up and down all morning so he left it open.

Vince was working hard on prospective storylines when there was a knock at the door and he looked up to see Stephanie at the door, Vince smiled at his daughter, "Stephanie, hi, come in."

Stephanie smiled and shut the door, "hi Dad, I hope I'm not interrupting anything important."

Vince shook his head, "what could be more important than my daughter? So what's on your mind?"

She sighed, "where do I start? It's a terribly long story."

Vince looked sympathetically at Stephanie and motioned her over to sit at the table, "why don't you start from the beginning? I have as long as you need."

Stephanie nodded, "alright then."

Vince had given Stephanie the all clear to tell him everything yet she still wasn't sure how to handle it, "Dad this is a delicate situation and I'm really not sure how to tell you about it but it has got to the stage where myself, Paul and Mom can't deal with it anymore and I think we need your input."

Vince sat back in his chair,"I have a feeling that I'm not going to like this but do go on."

She nodded, "alright, well it all started when I told Paul I was pregnant and Paul walked out on me and I blamed Marissa and Shane kind of got in on everything. Anyway as you know Paul and I had a rough patch when he found out I was pregnant and then we made it up when I went on Wayne Brady but then when we came back home after we were all like distant together."

Vince nodded, "I remember it well, Paul was so worried over what he had done wrong."

Stephanie nodded, "I know, only it wasn't what he had said or done it was what Shane had said. Anyway I invited Shane to the scan yesterday but Paul turned up and I wanted Paul to go in instead of Shane and Shane then started taking cheap digs at Paul and we went in and when we came out Shane continued and got Paul really mad and Paul ended up punching him only he then went to Mom and said it was an unprovoked attack, which it wasn't. Then this morning he was harassing my Secretary because I was late and when I told him why I was late and I asked why he was harassing my Secretary he said that he was worried I was hurt and that Paul was off sleeping with some hooker last night."

Vince was looking slightly bemused, "I'm still trying to work out the problem, what exactly is it that Shane has been saying?"

Stephanie sighed, "that Paul doesn't want the baby and he'll go to any lengths so that I lose it."

Vince's eyes widened as far as possible and his mouth hit the floor, "are you sure that's what he means?"

She nodded, "one hundred percent."

Vince rubbed his chin, "have you tried convincing him otherwise?"

She nodded, "myself, Paul and Mom have all tried telling him he is wrong but he won't listen and that is where you come in."

"What do you want me to do Steph?"

Stephanie shrugged, "anything you can to help please. I really can't keep dealing with this, my blood pressure is going to go shooting through the roof soon if I'm not careful and I need to put this baby first and I don't need to be dealing with Shane. Why can't he just understand that Paul got scared?"

Vince shrugged, "I don't know, he should be focussing on Marissa though, she needs him most at the moment."

Stephanie nodded, "I know."

"Why don't you go and get back to work and leave this with me, I'll see if I can come up with an ingenious plan to stop Shane, either that or I'll kick his butt."

Stephanie laughed and hugged her Dad, "thanks Dad, I knew I could count on you."

Vince nodded, "always."

As soon as Stephanie left Vince left too and went to Linda's office.

As Vince arrived at Linda's he went straight in, he was the Chairman and Linda's Husband after all.

When Vince walked in Linda looked up to see him looking very stern, "Vince, what's wrong?"

"Why didn't you tell me about Shane?"

Linda set her glasses down on her desk, "how do you know?"

"Stephanie came and told me. Apparently she was late this morning and Shane was harassing Jennifer because he thought Paul had hurt her and he was off sleeping with some hooker."

Linda sighed, "I thought I'd got through to him last night and he'd stop with this stupid vendetta against Paul."

Vince sighed, "obviously he hasn't and now Stephanie is worried that all this stress will damage the baby and that is the last thing she needs to be worrying about right now."

Linda nodded, "I know but I'm at a total loss as to what to do with him anymore."

Vince nodded, "that's what Stephanie said and that's where I come in."

Linda looked at him suspiciously, "what are you going to do?"

Vince sighed, "I'm not entirely sure but I have an idea, well actually it's a couple of ideas but I'm not sure which one would be better. I'm going to go and think some more, I'll catch you later."

Vince turned around and walked out of the door leaving Linda confused and worried as to what her Husband was planning.