Arriving at her office Stephanie dropped the luggage in the corner of the room and collapsed into her seat as she looked at her Dad sat on the couch as he watched Mikey rifle through the suitcase with all of his toys in throwing them all around him as he looked for something specific, "Mikey can you not throw all of the toys all over the room please?"
Mikey stopped what he was doing and turned around to face his Mom not knowing why he was being told off, "I's looking for somefing."
Shaking her head that was no excuse to make a mess to her, "you can look but it doesn't involve throwing things all over the room."
Vince shook his head at his daughter, "cut him some slack please. I will happily help him pack the suitcase again afterwards."
Sighing she rolled her eyes, "I will hold you to that."
A second later Mikey squealed with delight as he found the toy he was looking for and held it up in the air triumphantly before he turned to his Grandpa and held it out to him, "we play?"
Vince nodded his head taking the toy from his Grandson as he climbed onto the couch beside him so they could start playing which would keep Mikey out of trouble.
Opening her laptop Stephanie focussed her attention on finalising some of the details for the show later when the door flew open and Hunter came bursting inside.
Hunter dropped his luggage outside of the office and pushed the door open bursting inside, "what the he . . ." He stopped dead when he saw Stephanie sat at her desk and Vince sat on the couch with Mikey.
Everyone turned their attention to the door when it flew open and Stephanie sat there with a raised eyebrow, Vince sat there staring at him and Mikey immediately jumped off the couch and ran over to him, "Hunner! You's play wiv me?" Holding his arms out to him he waited to be picked up.
Smiling down at him Hunter picked the little boy up and held him close, "I have to go and put my gear in the locker room now but I'm sure I can find time for you a little bit later if you want?"
Nodding his head Mikey rested his head on his shoulder, "I's like dat."
Rubbing the little boys back he smiled softly, "well I will make sure that I come back later. What would you like to do huh? I bet I could never guess."
Stephanie laughed softly, "oh yeah, you will never guess what he would like to do."
Hunter pretended to think about it for a minute, "hmm, well I'm thinking that you want to go outside and play soccer."
Mikey lifted his head and frowned, "no's, I wants to go in da ring."
Smiling softly Hunter knew that, "well in my defence that would have been my second choice."
Giggling Mikey lay his head back down, "I likes you."
Hunter couldn't stop himself and he kissed the top of the little boy's head, "I like you too. I'd better go for the minute though so why don't you go back and play with your Grandpa and I'll be back soon okay?"
Frowning Mikey reluctantly let Hunter put him back on the floor before he ran back to his Grandpa and climbed back on the couch, "come on Poppy."
With Mikey back on the couch with Vince Hunter turned his attention to Stephanie and smiled softly at her before he quietly turned around and walked back out of the room not wanting to be too obvious about anything.
Once Hunter had left Vince looked at his daughter and saw a weird look on her face, "you okay?"
Turning to look at her Dad she shrugged her shoulders, "just thinking."
"About?"
Motioning around she had no idea what to say, "everything?"
Hearing her say that and after everything he had witnessed he knew exactly what was going on in her head and he had a feeling that he knew exactly what had caused Hunter's behaviour too and soon he would get to the bottom of it all.
Stephanie sighed and went back to her work to try and rid herself of all of the images in her mind of Hunter holding and kissing Mikey as if he was his Father. Briefly hitting her head on the desk when her plan to just ignore them failed to work she pushed her chair back and stood up, "I am going to get a coffee, I will be back in a minute."
Getting no response from either her Father or her son she shook her head as she walked out of the room and nearly ran straight into Trish who was heading towards her, "hey."
Trish smiled at her, "no shadow today?"
Chuckling Stephanie shook her head, "he's sat on the couch playing a game with my Dad."
"Vince is here?"
Nodding her head she smiled, "he is, just visiting though. The Doctor said he could come for the day but he's not back at work yet and I have him under strict orders to not lift a finger and he is actually doing what he is told for once."
Trish smiled, "well that makes a nice change. If your Dad is watching Mikey then that means you are free which means we can grab a coffee together right?"
Thinking about it briefly Stephanie was going to get a coffee anyway and was looking for an excuse to get out of the office and take her mind off of Hunter for a longer period of time so she nodded her head, "that would be great, I'd really like that so let's go."
Motioning to the door Trish was confused, "don't you need to tell them where you are going?"
Stephanie laughed, "I told them I was going to get a coffee anyway but they have no idea I am even there so they won't miss me if I take half an hour over five minutes."
Chuckling Trish looped her arm through Stephanie's and led her towards the catering area so she could sit her down and have a good chat with her and find out what was going on because she didn't have to be Einstein to know that Stephanie was keeping something from her and it kind of felt like whatever she was keeping from her was huge.
