This is for AdeebaLovesHHH because she would not stop bugging me for this chapter. Let this be a lesson to everyone else, if you bug me enough eventually I will cave and give you what you want lol

Arriving home just after 3am Stephanie put Mikey to bed and just crawled into bed herself leaving the suitcases in the foyer where the taxi driver had dropped them for her, tomorrow was another day and she would deal with them then.

Having had no more than three hours sleep she was rudely awoken just after 6am by Mikey pulling on her arm, "can we go to the arena again?"

Lifting her head from the pillow she frowned, "not today. Today is supposed to be an office day for Mommy but she's staying home and sleeping instead."

"No sleep, Mikey wants to play."

Sighing heavily with the realisation that that was all of the sleep she was going to get today she reluctantly sat up in bed, "okay fine, Mommy won't sleep but instead she will play with you."

Mikey jumped up and down on the spot, "yaaaay. Come on Mommy."

Rolling her eyes she threw back the covers before she got out of bed grabbing her robe as she went and pulling it on as she followed him out of the door and down the stairs.

Having convinced Mikey that at 6am the best idea for toys to play with would be to complete a puzzle she helped him complete it before she attempted to coax him into getting dressed and watching TV so she could have a quick shower. As the last piece of the puzzle was slotted into place she sat back a little, "how about we go and get you dressed and then you can watch some cartoons whilst Mommy has a shower and gets dressed so we can eat breakfast?"

Lifting his head he looked at her thoughtfully, "pancakes?"

Laughing softly she shook her head, "no pancakes today."

"No dressed."

Shaking her head she stood up from her position on the floor, "this isn't up for discussion, you are going to get dressed right now and I am going to shower and then we will eat breakfast and it won't be pancakes."

Frowning Mikey stomped his feet on the floor as he sat there but he did get up from his seat on the floor and followed his Mom upstairs.

A couple of hours later and finally Stephanie had Mikey dressed and fed and she was also showered, dressed and had eaten breakfast so now she just had to tidy up the kitchen and then she was going to sit down for a couple of hours to do some work whilst Mikey watched a movie or two and then she'd take him to the park.

Putting the last dish in the cupboard she walked into the lounge and picked up her laptop before she placed it on the coffee table and started it loading, "so what movie do you want to watch?"

Turning to face his Mom Mikey held up two, "Cars and Peter Pan."

Laughing softly she shook her head, "two huh? Well how about we start with Peter Pan and then you can watch Cars?"

Nodding his head eagerly he held out the movies for Stephanie and as soon as she took them from him he went and climbed onto the couch.

Putting the movie in the DVD player Stephanie started it up before she went and picked up the cordless house phone and her cell phone and placed them on the couch beside her so she wouldn't have to move if either of them rang. Once she had done that she took a seat picking up her laptop and putting her feet on the coffee table as she sat back ready to get some work done and out of the way and hopefully find somebody to run the shows for her.

As she went through the fifty e-mails in her inbox Stephanie sighed heavily, she now knew why her Dad had had a heart attack because he was clearly working too hard and had taken on too much. She was down to just five e-mails to go through when the phone started ringing.

Blindly reaching to the side she picked up the phone, "Stephanie McMahon speaking."

Linda had stewed over the texts she had received from her daughter the day before and waited for a response to the text she had sent her but gotten nothing back in return so she was going to have to tackle the problem head on. With half an hour before she was due to leave for her first engagement of the day she decided to give her daughter a call to see if she had slept on it and realised how silly she was being.

Dialling Stephanie's number she put the phone to her ear and listened and waited as the phone rang until the ringing stopped and her daughter came on the line, "Steph it's me."

Hearing it was her Mom on the phone Stephanie reluctantly stopped reading her e-mails and rested her head on the back of the couch, "sorry I didn't reply to your text, I've been busy."

"That's not entirely why I'm ringing. How did the show go last night after? How is Mikey feeling about not going back to the arenas again?"

Immediately Stephanie's defences went up, "what right do you have to ask how he took things?"

Linda gulped realising Stephanie was apparently in a confrontational mood, "he's my Grandson, I love him and care about his happiness."

Glancing over at Mikey to make sure he was engrossed in his movie Stephanie shook her head angrily, "stop it with the doting Grandmother routine, all you care about is me telling you know who about you know what."

Unable to stop herself Linda rolled her eyes but prevented herself from saying what was really on her mind, "I care about you telling Hunter what exactly? I care about the WWE being run to a satisfactory standard whilst your Father is off sick and you are the only person he trusts to do that. I also care about your happiness and right now Steph you can't lie to me and tell me you're happy because you're not, I see it in your eyes."

Laughing dryly Stephanie really didn't get why her Mom had to bring this up, "happy? I am happy, I have Mikey and he is all I need."

"Oh bullshit Stephanie, you and I know that you still love Hunter but you're afraid and that is why you're running away again like you do every time something gets hard. I love you but you need to stand up and face this like an adult, tell Hunter the truth that he is Mikey's father and admit that you still love the man. Maybe if you did both of those things you could both move on as adults and Mikey could have both parents and you may just have the family you have always wanted."

Refusing to listen to any more of her Mom's crazy theories she just ended the call and tossed the phone back on the couch beside her. Just as she was about to dive head first back into her work her attention was drawn to Mikey, "I wants to speak to Grandma. I wants to tell her how much fun I had."

Sighing softly she raked her fingers through her hair, "I'm sure she'll ring back later, she was just really busy."

Although she thought her Mom would ring back later to give her another lecture she wasn't expecting the phone to ring so quickly again but in her annoyance with her Mom she failed to register that it was now her cell phone ringing and not her home phone as she picked it up and accepted the call, "for fucks sake, if I've told you once I've told you a hundred times. I'm never telling him, no matter how much I may still love him I simply cannot put myself or my son through the rejection. There, are you happy now?"