HOW TO SAVE A FRIEND
Disclaimer: I do not own GH or any characters you recognize
A/N: this story starts in 2003
CHAPTER ONE
Robin hurries down the hall. She was indeed in a hurry. She wanted to know rather she was going to be going home to Port Charles. She had finished medical school and she had gotten offers from hospitals to do her residency in Paris, but she was waiting. She was waiting for Alan's offer to come. She had talked to Alan and knew an offer was coming from General Hospital and that was what she was waiting for. She wanted to go home, she wanted to be with her family, she missed them. Mac, Maxie and Georgie. Maxie and Georgie were growing up. They were in their teens and since Felicia had abandoned them and left them with Mac to raise, he needed help so she wanted to go home. She hoped Alan's offer came through soon. She was packed and ready to go.
Robin was going to her adviser's office. He had called and told her that she had gotten another offer. She hoped it was from Alan. She walked into her adviser's office and walked up to the receptionist and asked to see her adviser and she was told to go right on in, that she was expected. She walked to the door and opened it and walked in. Byron, her adviser looked up and saw Robin and smiled, she asked, "You have an offer for me?"
"I do. It's from Dr. Alan Quartermaine of General Hospital, Port Charles, New York." He hands her the offer and knew she would take it. He was going to miss her, but he knew from the start of their secret relationship that she was going back there. He loved her. He was in love with her, he knew that she was in love with a man named Jason Morgan who was back home in Port Charles. While Byron was thinking about her she was reading the offer and cannot believe what Alan was offering. It was more than she thought they would offer. She figured she would have to work her way up the ladder and he was offering a job in the lab and she would have surgical duties. The offer from them money wise was better than she expected. Yes she was going home. An excited Robin looks at Byron and she knows that he loves her, but she didn't love him. She still loved Jason. She wanted him back and she intended to get him back no matter what she had to do. She wasn't the weak shy girl with HIV anymore. She had grown up and taken control of her life. She wasn't timed anymore. Byron had helped her with her sexuality.
Robin told Byron, "I'm taking the offer."
"I know." Byron said, sadly.
"I'm going to miss you."
"I will too, miss you that is."
"You knew I was going to go back to the states, Byron that I wasn't staying. I'm going home and finishing packing."
"Is Brenda going back with you?"
"Yes, she is going back with me."
"I'm glad. You may need the moral support, especially with dealing with Jason. If you need me just call."
"Thank you." Robin said. She didn't want to tell him she was going to go home and get Jason back and that is one of the reasons that she was going home. She had always wanted Jason back, she also always wanted to work at G.H. She cared for Byron but she didn't love him and she wasn't going to pretend otherwise, especially not now. They had never had a sexual relationship, they had never been lovers. She knew Byron loved her, but for her he was her adviser and friend and only that.
She left his office with him being sad and trying to figure out how to live without her. Robin had never led him on or told him that he was more than a friend, a secret friend. The Sorbonne University frowned at personal friendships or more between their faculty and students. So no one knew or pretended to know of the relationship between Byron and Robin. For Robin, Byron was a friend that she could talk to and for Byron, Robin was everything he ever wanted in a woman. Now he was losing her and he never had her, she was going home to this guy that was unworthy of her.
He kept thinking about her with him, this Jason and the more he thought about him the more upset he got and by night time when he left the university he didn't head home he went to see Robin knowing Brenda wasn't there that night. She was at her job and boy was Byron glad of that.
Byron arrived at Robin's and knocked on her door and she was surprised to see him but let him in, not thinking anything of it or of him being there. Byron was intent on talking her out of leaving and going back to Port Charles and Jason. He tried to convince her to stay and she refused to even consider it and Byron got mad and kept getting madder and madder.
Robin after fighting with Byron for an hour trying to get him to understand that she wasn't going to stay for him or for anyone, that she was going home where she belonged said finally to him, "I am going home to be with my family and to try to get Jason back. I love him and only him. He is the only one my heart knows how to love. I could never love you, Byron, because I already love someone and I love him with my whole heart and I can't and won't love you or stay here in Paris with you while I have a chance of getting Jason back. Now I have had enough, you need to leave before I forget that you are my friend."
"Robin, you love me, not him. You just don't know it. I will show you since my words seem to not have the desired effect." He grabs her and kisses her and she fights him and she slaps him, he hits her and knocks her down and he is shocked at how much this turned him on so he continues and he rapes her. After he is finished he leaves her in the living room where he raped her and goes out to get pizza to bring back to her, thinking now that he was sure she felt the same way as he did now that he had her that she called the movers and told them to bring her stuff back to the house that she would be staying. When he left leaving her alone her mind was fuzzy, she hurt everywhere.
Brenda walked in and takes a look around after seeing Robin on the floor, Brenda dropped her things and ran to Robin. Robin finally is able to focus and she looks at Brenda scared. "Robin, who did this to you? Do you know?"
Brenda picks up her phone and starts to dial Byron when Robin says "Byron, he did this. He raped me."
A shocked Brenda hangs up the phone and Robin realizes that he will be back here soon says "We need to get out of here. He will be coming back and god I don't want to be here when he comes back."
"Honey, we need to call police. We need to take you to the hospital."
"No, I want out of here. I want to go home to Port Charles. I want to just leave. Please? I need to go home to Port Charles. I want to see my family." Robin says starting to get hysterical.
"Alright let's get out of here. Where is our bags? Where are they?" Robin points and Brenda helps Robin up from the floor. There was no furniture they had been ready to leave when Alan's offer came in earlier that day, they were going to spend tonight on the floor in sleeping bags and rent a hotel room in Paris for the next few nights. Byron now knew about this and so they couldn't do that. Brenda picked up the phone and called Jason and asked him if he could get a private plane there fast that something had happened to Robin but not what and that they needed out of there fast as possible. Jason sent Sonny's plane and until then Jason would have guards on Brenda and Robin. Jason arranges for that and calls Brenda and tells her where to go.
Jason wonders what is going on and he knows something bad to have happened and so he waits for word of what is going on. Not knowing that what happened to Robin was going to affect everyone around him and that it would change the direction of his own life.
Back in Paris a scared Robin and Brenda keep out of places that they knew Byron would look for them. Brenda drove around for a couple hours and when she was sure that Byron wasn't going to find them, they checked into a hotel. Jason called telling Brenda that the plane was there Brenda went to where they were to meet the limo that would take them to the airstrip and onto Sonny's plane and out of Paris. Ten hours after Robin had been raped they finally board Sonny's plane so they can go home to Port Charles. No one knew that what happened in Paris would follow them home and would change everyone's life, for better or for worse.
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