Linda came breezing through the front door after spending a successful morning campaigning and now she was going to make Vince lunch and then head over to Stephanie's to talk some sense into her.

As she shut the door the flowers on top of a box caught her eye, confused but intrigued she walked over to them picking them up and smelling them before her eyes settled on the card in the middle with Stephanie's name scrawled on it. Setting the flowers back down her eyes caught the label on the cardboard box, frowning when she saw Mikey's name scrawled on the 'To' label she shook her head.

Walking into the lounge she stood in the doorway and looked disapprovingly at her husband, "why are you buying things for Stephanie and Mikey?"

Turning his head to the side Vince looked at her quizzically, "what are you talking about woman?"

Motioning to the hall she stepped inside the room, "the flowers, the big box with Mikey's name on it, what are you doing?"

Realising that his wife thought it was him he opened his mouth to argue but then quickly shut it again because he didn't want her to not take the stuff to Stephanie's.

Linda raised her eyebrow as she looked at her husband, what exactly was he playing at? Something was going on and he wasn't sure he liked it, "what are you up to Vince? You didn't buy him a gun or something did you?"

He was starting to think all of this campaigning was making his wife crazy, "don't be stupid, of course I didn't." Deciding to change the subject he opted to get his wife's opinion on their daughter's love life, "can you please explain to me why Stephanie doesn't have a man in her life? Mikey needs a Father figure and before I die I want to see my daughter happy."

Linda laughed softly, "you know why, she's still hung up on Hunter and despite everything she just can't let him go. Please don't freak out when I tell you this but she kind of is saying she won't go back and run the shows."

His eyes widened and his pulse quickened slightly but he took a few deep breaths to calm down because he didn't want to end up back in the hospital, "why?"

"It begins with 'h' and ends with 'r'. She still loves him Vince and she can't bear to be around him especially because of Mikey, she doesn't want to let herself get hurt again or to allow Mikey to get hurt."

Deciding to take his life in his hands and broach the subject with his wife Vince asked the one question he didn't know he wanted the answer to, "what do you think she'd do if he still loved her?"

Linda looked at her husband oddly, "what do you know?"

Not actually knowing anything Vince could speak with a clear conscience, "nothing. I was just wondering out loud because as much as he and I haven't seen eye to eye he was always good to her and she was the happiest she has ever been when she was with him. As a Father who has looked death square in the eyes I can't help but just want her to be settled and happy again."

Sighing heavily she threw her purse down onto the chair, "you and me both but we will see. I am going to attempt to convince her that she shouldn't run away from the WWE and more importantly from him so hopefully, if he really does still love her, he can convince her of that and she will tell him the truth about Mikey. So what would you like for lunch?"

Vince shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, "don't really care to be honest, just do whatever."

Smiling softly at her husband Linda nodded her head, she could feel his frustration and felt the same as he did. Sometimes she just wanted to shake her daughter and tell her not to be as stubborn as her Father was.

Pushing open the front door Stephanie opened her mouth to tell Mikey to wash his hands when he went running off, "Mikey! Stop right there. Where do you think you are going young man?"

Mikey pointed towards the back of the house, "play room."

Shaking her head she pointed to the downstairs bathroom, "no playing right now. It is lunchtime so Mommy needs you to wash your hands for lunch please."

Pouting he reluctantly dropped Bubbles onto the couch and went to wash his hands whilst Stephanie went to start dinner.

Forty five minutes later and she was just finishing off her sandwich when the doorbell rang. Popping the last piece into her mouth she walked to the door swinging it open to reveal her Mom laden down with things, "what on Earth do you have there?"

Linda walked through the door and carefully placed the box on the floor, "these were waiting for you when I got home so I told your Dad I would drop them over here."

Picking up the flowers she went to hand them off to Stephanie when Mikey came flying out of kitchen, "Gramma!"

Chuckling she put the flowers back down and bent down to hug her Grandson, "hello Mikey. Did you miss me?"

Nodding his head eagerly as he hugged her tightly, "lots."

Smiling Linda stood back up and picked up the flowers again, "well I have a surprise for you. See this box? It's all yours."

Before Mikey had a chance to get excited Stephanie shook her head, "Mom! You shouldn't be spoiling him."

Smiling innocently she shrugged, "I didn't do anything." Holding the flowers out to Stephanie she handed them over, "these are for you so you go and put them in water whilst I help Mikey open this box."

Not wanting to argue with her Mom as the flowers were gorgeous she took them from her and headed towards the kitchen to put them in water.

As soon as Stephanie left Linda got onto the floor with Mikey, "come on then little man, let's open this box so we can see what goodies are inside."

Mikey was already picking at the tape trying to unstick it getting thoroughly frustrated by it.

Linda was quickly able to pull it away from the box enough to be able to unstick one side to peel away.

As soon as the flaps of the box were free Mikey was pulling them open and dived inside immediately pulling out a stuffed monkey and the piece of paper, "Bubbles' bwuver."

Linda smiled softly as she looked at him holding the monkey tightly, "what's the paper Mikey?"

Mikey shrugged and silently thrust it towards her so she could read it to him.

Meanwhile in the kitchen Stephanie had just put the flowers in water placing them in the middle of the worktop for the minute as she pulled open the envelope and took the card out to read. As she looked at the card she felt her blood boil, "I am going to kill him."

Storming out of the kitchen she headed for the hall again, "Mom!"

Linda was scanning the note when she heard her name being called, lifting her head her eyes widened when she saw the way Stephanie was walking towards her, "yes?"

Thrusting the card at her Mom she frowned, "read this."

Taking the card from her daughter Linda read it over before she looked at her daughter, "well that was nice of him to send you flowers."

"Nice?! You are seriously telling me that it's nice that he's grown a conscience about five years too late."

Linda sighed heavily, "Steph please don't be like this, it's not needed. He says he is sorry, he says he just wants five minutes of your time and at the end it even looks like he is going to say something else but he changed his mind."

Crossing her arms over her chest she glared at her Mom, "I don't care, it's too little too late. So what did Dad buy Mikey?"

Before Linda had chance to reply Mikey was tugging on her skirt, "Gramma, what's it say?"

Deciding that her daughter needed to be given a polite smack of reality to the face she decided to just read it out to them both, "Dear Mikey, please accept these gifts as my way of apologising for being mean to you and saying those bad words in front of you on Monday. Hopefully one day we can be friends. This is from Hunter."

Stephanie frowned, "gifts? As in more than one?"

Mikey heard his Mom say more than one and immediately went back to the box and pulled out some tissue paper and threw it onto the floor before picking up more toys, "more Mommy, more."

Glaring at her Mom Stephanie shook her head, "how could you be so irresponsible to bring this stuff over so Hunter can buy Mikey's love?"

Frowning at her daughter Linda shook his head, "now you are talking silly. It doesn't sound like he's buying his love, it sounds like he is sorry for being rude and scaring him so just wants to say sorry and he knows you're mad at him still so to be on the safe side he bought him some things and sent them to us so he would get them. Reading the card that was with your flowers he obvious . . ."

Stephanie cut her Mom off, "let's just see what he bought first before we go and sing his praises shall we?"

Not willing to argue with her daughter over this she just stood back and watched Stephanie get on her knees with Mikey and empty the box of all of the things Hunter had bought and sent to him.