A couple of hours after her run in with her Father Stephanie was stood in catering getting herself a coffee and some food to take back to her locker room to continue with her work when Lita appeared beside her, "Amy if you are here to say anything about the shit going on today then I would save your breath or your face will end up in this food."

Gulping she took a step away from her, "I wasn't technically. I was just coming by to say that I don't what the men are on but the women are on your side and have your back. We are aware that none of us are your favourite people right now because of what is going on with Paul but despite it all we know the men are out of line and that it is not the kind of thing that you would do."

Turning to look at her she thought it was a joke but when she saw the sincerity on her face she realised that had somewhere else she needed to be. Silently abandoning her food and coffee on the table she turned around and walked out of catering with a purpose.

Arriving at Vince's office she didn't bother knocking and just walked inside swinging the door shut behind her, "Why were you so quick to believe that I was late because I was sleeping with somebody? Why didn't you ask me where I was and not assume I was sleeping with somebody?"

Surprised by his daughter bursting into his room he stared at her blankly for a minute before he was able to respond, "I thought I had reliable information as to where you were. Are you telling me that information was wrong?"

"How can you think the daughter you have known her entire life would do something like that?"

Shrugging his shoulders he didn't know what she wanted him to say, "You haven't been yourself recently, what I did know about you has changed and isn't what I know any more and I just assumed that you were trying to get over Paul."

Taking a few deep breaths she was going to remain in complete control of herself this time, she was not going to let him win, "Why would I want to get over Paul? He is the only man I have ever truly loved."

"You are likely never going to be back with him so you need to move past him."

She felt her blood pressure spike but she was not going to let him win, "Whatever you want to think and say, I'm not going to listen to you though. If you really want to know where your slut of a daughter was this morning and why she was late then may I suggest you check your emails, specifically the one dated roughly 10:13 this morning."

Turning around she walked out of the door as quickly as she had walked in.

It was Wednesday morning and Stephanie was up to her eyes with laundry at home whilst Paul was at his own house and they both had flights later in the day and planned to meet at the beach house.

Whilst one load was in the washer and another was in the dryer she was sat on the couch doing some urgent work when the doorbell rang, she didn't know who was going to be on the other side but she hoped they weren't going to take up too much of her time.

Placing the laptop on the couch she got up and jogged to the door opening it surprised to see her Mom on the other side, "Mom? Shouldn't you be at work?"

Arriving at her daughter's with an expectation of her being angry when she opened the door Linda was surprised to see her in a not so angry mood, "Yes I should be but I figured you aren't going to be in town much so I will work later and take some time out to check up on you after this week."

Rolling her eyes Stephanie motioned for her Mom to enter, "Dad told you about it huh?"

Watching her daughter shut the door behind her she couldn't quite figure out what was going on, "Yes he did and I must admit that I was surprised to hear that you nearly got violent with your Father and it was only thanks to Paul you didn't."

Spinning back around to face her Mom she leant on the door, "Wait, you're on his side? I can't believe you would condone him saying that to me."

Now Linda was confused, "I don't understand. Can we sit down and you tell me your side of the story please?"

Walking into the lounge silently Stephanie took a seat moving her laptop from the couch to the coffee table.

Sitting down Linda wanted the whole truth and not apparently Vince's truth, "I have a feeling I don't know the whole story so please fill me in."

"Early Monday morning I had had to attend to a matter quickly so had pulled on the first clothes I could get my hands on and I will admit that it was sexier than it should be for a Monday morning. On my way back to my room to shower and change I bumped into Chris Irvine and he made some wise crack about me doing the walk of shame, I set him straight but told him to keep his mouth shut as I know what the locker room is like. It just so happened that I was ready to leave early so I thought I would kill time by doing some work for twenty minutes, an hour later I finally realised the time and raced across town to Raw. When I arrived at the production meeting Vince said he wanted to talk to me after and to wait around so I did but Paul wanted to talk Raw with me so he was sat with me when Vince told me that he didn't appreciate me being late, he said he would forgive it if it was because I overslept but not when it was because I was too busy sleeping with some guy I picked up off the street and that it wasn't the look of a McMahon. I will admit that I was pissed and Paul had to hold me back from launching at Vince because I couldn't believe he would say that about me. I did calm down and attempt to talk to him rationally like an adult but wherever he got his information from, probably Chris, meant more to him than what I had to say or the email I sent him when I was working before Raw."

Shaking her head at her husband Linda had sensed that he hadn't been telling her the entire truth and she was right, "Ah I see, that explains things. Are you going to talk to your Dad again now the dust has settled and he has hopefully read that email so knows you were actually working?"

Sighing heavily she truthfully didn't have the energy to keep going around in circles with him, he would never give her what she wanted so a big part of her was thinking that it would be best to just plain ignore him unless it was about work, "Probably not no, he tried telling me that I just needed to move past Paul. I'm so happy for him that he has never been in the position where he has been forced apart from the one person that he has ever truly loved and wants to spend the rest of his life with but it just isn't that easy for me and I certainly won't be doing it to any sort of time scale that he sets."

She hated lying to her Mom but she couldn't tell her the truth about Paul as she didn't want it getting back to Vince or anybody else.

Everything that was going on at the minute between her husband and her daughter broke her heart and she wished that she could fix it, "I really hope the two of you can sort this out eventually but I am glad that you told me the whole story because I didn't think what your Dad was telling me was the whole truth. Are you okay though?"

Nodding her head she would be a lot happier if people would leave her alone, "I am fine, I am going out of town so I would like you to watch my house please."

"I will of course do that for you but for now I have to go to work. Please call me if your Dad does anything stupid like that again, I will personally fly down there and slap some sense into him."

Shaking her head she couldn't help but say, "That will be every week then."

Standing up Linda hugged her daughter before she left the house to go back to work.

As soon as her Mom had left Stephanie turned her attention back to work and the laundry so she could catch her flight later.