"Wow! I love your music!" They all chirped. 
"Thanks! Enjoy the show" he said politely. As he nodded for Delaney to go back to the dressing room with Cole. They were under strict instructions to keep her out the way as best they could. 
"Can we get pictures with you! Please" they asked him, he sighed, he didn't want to be rude to fans. 
"Sure, quickly though I gotta get ready for my set" he replied as they all smiled. "My wife can take 'em, she's a photographer" he said as a girl handed Delaney her phone. She made sure Cole held onto her jacket pocket and stood slightly behind her. 
They were in the middle of a photo shoot when Morgan came off stage. "Daddy!" Cole shouted running to him. He frowned picking her up as the girls around them turned and started full on screaming. 
He fixed Cole's hat as he held her close hoping to cover her face just in case. "Morgan can we get photos!" A girl squeeked as he held his free arm out to stop them coming any closer, 
"Hay! Look I'd be more than happy too but can I just put my daughter in my dressin room first?" He asked as they all agreed. Ern and Delaney took her back stage as they girls all took photos. 
He tried his best to smile but he was pissed, these girls weren't supposed to be here but he couldn't be rude to them. He would have to talk to his security team. 
"Thanks so much! We love you" one girl said excitedly, 
"Thanks! I love you guys too!" he said smiling as he excused himself. He headed to the private room. 
"Man I had no idea that those girls..." Ern said worriedly as Morgan hushed him, 
"Bubba you don't have to explain its cool, you couldn't have known" Morgan said punching Erns arm playfully. He picked up his guitar playing around as Cole sat on the floor in front of him. 
"Song me a song dad" she demanded. 
"Any requests?" he asked as she smiled wide, 
"The one you played this morning on the bus" she said clapping her hands. She loved watching Morgan play. It was the cutest thing. 
"Alright but you have to help me" he said, pulling her up on the sofa. "can you remember it?"
"More than my home town!" She shouted as he smiled and nodded. 
"Girl our mamas are best friends and so are we, whole towns rooting for us like the home team" he sang lightly as he played. 
"Most like my to settle down, plant a few roots deep and let em go!" She sang with Morgan as Ern and Delaney watched them. 
###
Cole woke up in her cot and felt her stomach turn as she felt her stomach rench. She opened the curtains but it wasn't quick enough as she threw up, she coughed before throwing up again. 
Morgan shot up at the noise and bounced out of his bunk as Cole cried.  "Shit! You okay?" He said as he avoided the puddle of sick on the floor and held his breath so he didn't throw up too. 
"My tummy hurts" she cried as he helped her into the toilet of the bus, she threw up again. This time over his shoulder. He put her over the toilet as he threw up in the sink. The smell making his nose sting. At this stage A few of the guys had woke up and went to see what was going on. 
Before Morgan knew it he had a bus full of grown men throwing up at the side of the road. Hardy getting it the worst as he slid in her sick and almost fell off the bus. 
"I'm sorry daddy" his kid cried as he threw up one last time. 
"It's not your fault baby" he said as he turned putting the shower on. He got in wearing his boxers. 
"If you need to throw up just tell me baby, it's okay" he said feeling her burn up. He stripped her down to her pants and kept her pantys on as he washed the sick from her hair. 
"You guys okay in here?" Ern asked laughing. Having a child of his own he was used to the smell of sick. 
"Can you grab her a change of clothes, and see if we have any Calpol?" He asked his friend as he sat on the floor of the shower cleaning Cole off. 
"You got it boss" he said disappearing. He came back as Morgan wrapped Cole in a towel,  she shivered, held her close to him for warmth as he grabbed another towel for himself. 
Ern handed Morgan two sets of clothes. Morgan stepped over the puke on the floor. "You okay baby" he asked as she shook her head and whimpered. He quickly dried her hair and put her clean pajamas on. 
He wrapped her in a large quilt on the couch as he helped the guys that had recovered clean up the mess. Cole sat crying. 
"Man we got it, go make sure she's okay" Hardy said as Morgan nodded going to the couch. 
"How you feeling?" He asked her as she lay her head in his lap. 
"Tired" she yawned as she shivered. 
"Go to sleep baby" he said as he rubbed her back. 
### 
Cole had seen a doctor, she had a stomach bug, nothing to worry about, Morgan never knew fright like it. He felt awful for throwing up, and not being able to take care of her like he should have. He lay with her on the sofa as she shivered, he pushed her hair out of her face as she slept soundly. 
"She doing alright?" Ern asked as he came in and sat down, opening a beer. 
"Yeah but I think I'm gonna cancel tonight's show, I don't want to leave her" he said sighing as he sat up, joining his friend with a beer. 
"Man do what you gotta do" he said clinking cans with Morgan. "I know what it's like to see your kid sick man" 
"Yeah, I'm just sucks that I never knew her for a whole 7 years man, I should have been with her" Morgan sighed as he shook his head. 
"You're with her now, that's all that you need to be worrying about, you can't blame yourself for not being there when you didn't even know she existed" Ern said as the guys came in from practice. 
"That was pointless" Ern chuckled. "He's cancelling the show tonight, we can drive right up to Pensilvania" 
"For real? That's cool" Hardy said smiling as he joined them with a beer. 
"You know we got another two months of this shit, a night off don't sound too bad" Joey laughed as he headed to the back of the bus. 
"I'm gone call Brian, let him know" Morgan said slipping out the booth. 
"That man, is honestly head over heals for this kid" Ern smiled looking over at his niece. 
"I ain't ever seen him so happy and... grown since he got this kid, He makes me wanna be a dad" Hardy agreed as Ern smiled. 
"Yeah dude, you'd be a kick ass dad" Ern chuckled. "I could imagine it now, little mini hardy, fishing by the river and sipping on a whiskey neet" 
"Fuck you" Hardy laughed at his friend. 
"Im being serious man. He just always has a fishing rod on him" Ern laughed harder. Hardy couldn't help but laugh too. 
"Some of us are trying to sleep!" Cole coughed as she looked over at her uncles with a stern look. Micheal and Ern looked at her then eachother and burst into more laughter as Hardy slipped out to go check on her.