Scott walked through the front door of his home and dropped his luggage. Straight away his eyes were searching ahead into the lounge.

"Where is she?" he asked.

Randi, who had been sitting on the couch turned and got up. She had Holly in her arms.

"She's right here. She's perfectly fine."

"Thank you!" exclaimed Scott, hurrying to his daughter. "Thank you for watching her."

"It was my pleasure." said Randi as she passed the contented little girl into her father's arms. She had enjoyed taking care of the little baby over the last couple of days. "I have actually taken a whole week's holiday so if there is anything else you need?"

"I have all I need right here for the moment." he said as he collapsed onto the couch still smiling down at his daughter. "That's right Holly, your daddy's home..." Holly stared back up at him showing off her gummy smile as she reached up to grab his nose.

"Well almost all…" he amended, "Madison has been committed to Oak Haven. They told me to hold off visiting for at least a week, until she's settled."

Randi took a seat back beside him.

"I could go and visit if you want." she offered. "What ever will help."

"I think they want to hold off all visitors for a week." said Scott. He looked down at his daughter. "But what are we going to do, hey?" he asked playfully pulling a face to make his daughter grin again. "What are we going to do without your mommy?"

"Are you going to stay home with her now?" Randi asked.

"I'm not sure I can afford to. Things are pretty critical at work at the moment so as much as I want to I can't just drop everything… Her future is on the line just as much as the companies…"

"Well, like I said, I'm here if you need me." said Randi.

Scott turned and gave her a smile, finally pulling all his focus away from his precious little girl.

"Thank you. She wasn't any trouble?"

Randi reached across to tickle Holly under the chin.

"She's too little to be trouble."

"Were you a little angel for aunty Randi? Were you... were you?" he cooed to his daughter

Randi sat back smiling at Scott's affectionate display to his daughter, but as she looked harder she could see how tired he looked as well.

" But how are you feeling?" she asked. "It can't have been nice these last few days."

"I got off quite lightly actually." said Scott. "Marissa was in a serious condition. She very nearly died… I just don't know why Madison would do that. Where did she even get the idea that I would cheat on her?"

Randi looked down guiltily.

"I knew I should have said something. I didn't know what to think when she told me you were having an affair."

Scott looked to Randi in shock.

"You thought me capable of an affair?" he asked, but he couldn't quite stop the surge of guilt that followed. Because he was capable. Under the influence of the drugs he would have quite readily cheated with Marissa. He would have kissed her if she hadn't pulled away and sometimes he had found himself thinking about what things would have been like between him and Marissa if JR hadn't gotten in the way. It wasn't because he didn't love Madison, it was just that his relationship with Marissa was closer in some ways.

Randi, not realising Scott was wallowing in his own guilty conscious, shook her head.

"Of course not! But I'd seen the way you were keeping things from her. I guess it was just work but in Madison's mental state clearly she looking for the worst. Especially when she believed her daughter was dead."

Scott looked sadly down to Holly who was watching him with wide blue eyes, so like her mothers.

"I just don't know how we came to this." he said sadly.

Randi put a hand on his knee.

"It's not your fault and it's not Madison's fault. She was sick…"

"But I didn't see it!" said Scott crossly. "Why didn't I see it?"

"Maybe you didn't want to… Maybe none of us wanted to see just how ill she was."

Scott sighed.

"But what do we do now?" he asked, bouncing Holly in his arms.

"You'll get through this. You'll get Madison through this. It's going to be alright Scott. You're going to be alright. Believe me!"

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