It was first thing Monday morning and Stephanie was the second person to arrive at the arena for Raw, only behind her Father so she went straight in and to his office to catch up on everything. Once she reached her Father's office she knocked on the door jumping slightly when he bellowed, 'come in' at her from behind the closed door. Stephanie slowly opened the door and walked in.

As soon as Vince heard the door open he looked up to see his daughter walk in and immediately got up and started to walk around his desk to give her a big hug, "Steph, you're here."

Stephanie quickly returned the hug, "yes Dad I am, I came in here now so you could catch me up before the meeting so I am up to speed on everything."

Vince sat back down, "sure, don't you want to catch up with Paul first? I assume he's come in early to see you."

She shook her head, "he doesn't know I'm here or going to be here, don't ask Dad as I'm not going to tell you. So are you going to catch me up or not?"

He nodded his head, "whatever you say Steph, now let's get down to it."

Vince pulled out some papers and started getting Stephanie up to speed on everything.

In the parking lot Paul was just arriving with Kevin Nash, "I wonder what Vince has in store for me tonight? I hope it's good."

Kevin laughed, "it's always good for you, you're going to be his son in law soon so he's got to keep his daughter on side."

Paul glared at Kevin, "jeez thanks for the help in trying to keep my mind off of her Kev. Let's get in before I kill you or you dig yourself a deeper hole."

Kevin just laughed and walked into the arena.

Once Vince had caught Stephanie up on everything that had gone down they went to the Conference Room to get ready for the first Production meeting of the day, as soon as the writers started arriving everybody was welcoming Stephanie back and anybody else that walked in was also.

Paul and Kevin arrived at the door of the Production meeting but before they went in Paul said, "I've got a funny feeling about going in there but I don't know why."

Kevin just looked at him like he'd lost his mind, "it is a Conference room, what harm could it do you?"

Paul just shook his head, "I didn't mean that . . . never mind."

Paul walked towards the door but as he walked through it he saw Stephanie and stopped which meant Kevin who wasn't expecting that crashed into the back of him, "Paul what the hell are you doing? Don't you know to give someone some warning before you stop suddenly like that?"

Paul just turned to him from where he had been staring at Stephanie talking to Brian Gerwertz, "huh?"

"Paul what is up with you?"

Paul shook his head, "she's here."

Kevin was just confused, "who is here?"

Rolling his eyes Paul shook his head, "Stephanie's here, which is either good or bad."

As Paul hadn't explained everything to Kevin he didn't understand why, "how? Isn't her being back good and good only?"

Paul shook his head, "she told me when I went to see her that she needed some time to decide whether she wanted to be with me or not and she'd come and find me when she had. She's obviously decided what she wants but it's just where that leaves me."

Suddenly Vince who had been watching them stand in the doorway for the last five minutes got sick of it and shouted at them, "Paul and Kevin either get your ass' in here now or get them out of here now, I want to start this meeting."

Paul and Kevin quickly turned around and walked into the room and sat down almost opposite Stephanie.

Throughout the meeting Stephanie could feel Paul's eyes on her, watching her and she knew that soon enough it was going to be time to tell him her decision but she wasn't sure that she was ready.

All too soon the meeting was over and everybody got up to leave but luckily for her so she could avoid Paul her Dad called her over while Paul and Kevin left.

When she reached her Dad he said, "so Steph how is it being back again?"

She smiled, "it's great, as much as I needed the time off it's even better to be back at work."

Vince laughed, "that's my girl. It seems a certain male wrestler missed you a lot too."

"What Kevin missed me? Aww that's cute."

Vince shook his head, "Stephanie Marie McMahon don't play games with me, you know full well I was talking about Paul. Now what happened between you two? I had reports over the weekend that Paul wasn't himself."

Stephanie shook her head, "Dad it's none of your business, it's between myself and Paul and only us."

He shrugged, "fine, whatever. Now go and get something to eat, you look like you could do with it."

Stephanie nodded her head and walked out of the room to follow her Father's instructions.

As soon as Paul and Kevin had left the meeting Kevin dragged Paul to his locker room. As soon as they were inside Kevin said, "right spill, tell me everything, leaving out no details on what went down between the two of you last week."

Paul shook his head, "no chance, it's between me and her and I'm not telling you, although I have a feeling I might need you later on of that's alright with you?"

Kevin just nodded his head, "you know I'm here for you man whatever."

Later on in the afternoon Paul and Chris were working out in the ring when Stephanie walked down to talk to Chris so Paul and Chris put their workout on hold for a bit so Chris could talk to Stephanie and then he needed to go and find Rob so they called the workout to an end. Paul figured seeing as he was there and Stephanie was there she'd talk to him but she didn't even acknowledge him she just walked off talking some more to Chris making it seem like she was busy so Paul decided to take a shower.

Stephanie had finished all the little errands she had to run and knew she couldn't put off talking to Paul any longer so she went to his locker room and knocked on the door as there was no answer she walked in and saw Kevin sat on the couch, "Kev why didn't you answer the door?"

Kevin looked up and pulled his headphones off, "what did you say?"

Stephanie laughed, "never mind, where's Paul at?"

He just shouted "PAUL, VISITOR."

Paul was busy so shouted back, "TWO MINUTES, I'M IN THE SHOWER."

Kevin knew they needed to talk in peace so he said, "take a seat, he won't be long. I need to get a drink so tell him where I'm gone please."

She nodded her head, "sure thing."

Kevin walked off and Stephanie took his place on the couch.

A couple of minutes later Paul walked out of the shower only to see Stephanie sat on the couch, "Stephanie, what can I do for you?"

She got up from her seat on the couch and said, "we need to talk."