STARTING OVER
Disclaimer: I don't own General Hospital or the characters you recognize
A/N: Story takes place in 2003 before the marriage of Jason and Courtney
CHAPTER ONE
She lifted her head off the floor and wondered if it was over. Just then she heard the front door slam and knew he would be going out and finding him a whore to screw. She wished she was dead and she wished she could get away from him. He was powerful in France and she couldn't leave without him knowing about it and he had told her he would punish her if she tried to leave again and his punishments were severe and unless she knew she could get away she couldn't take the chance of angering him again, it was horrible his punishments. He also said that he would probably go after Georgie and Maxie if she left him. So she stayed.
She had enough she got up and cleaned herself up and then she cleaned up the kitchen and she decided to go for a walk. She grabbed a light sweater, her purse and her keys and walked down toward the bridge the one place she felt safe, he didn't know that she went here so he couldn't find her.
She stood at the bridge wishing that she could end it all. All the pain and loss she had suffered in her life, losing Stone to AIDS, losing Jason to Carly, and now getting with him and suffering more.
In another part of town Brenda who had flown in to Paris after learning this was where Jason was, she needed his help. She found him at the hotel bar with Sonny. They both were surprised to see her.
"Jason, I need to talk to you it is urgent. I went to Port Charles and they told me you were here. I need to talk to you privately, NOW!"
"I'll be right back, Sonny." Jason said as Sonny who was staring at Brenda with longing.
Jason walks off with Brenda wondering what this was about. Brenda leads them to a secluded corner of the hotel next to the stairs.
"What do you need Brenda? What is so urgent that it couldn't wait and you swore you were never going back to Port Charles?"
"I need you to listen to me, I need help, or more specific Robin does she lives with someone who is beating her up and hurting her and punishing her. She is scared that he will hurt Georgie and Maxie if she leaves which she has tried to do and he brings her back every time with threats then he punishes her for leaving. He's mob, Jason. He is as high up as you and they won't let her leave any more than he will. Please come with me and see what I mean, please. She will probably be at the bridge now and when she shows up later he will hurt her again for not being there when he does come home."
"Robin is being abused? I can't imagine her putting up with that."
"Come with me and see, she will still be at the bridge, it's the one place she feels safe and she goes there after he beats her and then he goes out and screws some whore, come with me please?"
"Alright I will. The thought of her being abused, I just can't imagine it."
"Neither could I but she told me to butt out, that she could take care of herself. She told me why leave what is there out there but a life alone, for as long as she lives, she couldn't leave him if she wanted to he is mob. That is what she told me and she said she has tried to leave several times and she don't get very far because mob women can't leave so the mob has her brought back."
"Let's go Brenda. Let me tell Sonny I have to go with you."
He and Brenda walk back over to where the bar is and tells Sonny that he is going with Brenda and Sonny invites himself along. They head toward the bridge that Robin goes to, it's like the one in Port Charles and Robin had taken Brenda to her bridge a couple times since she had arrived in Paris.
"Why are we going to this bridge?" Sonny asked, not having been told anything.
"Sonny, Robin is with a guy who is abusing her and I don't know what to do so I came to get Jason hoping maybe he can do something to get her to leave him for good and what I haven't told you is who the man is that she is with. It's Johnny O'Brien."
"What the hell? He's dead." Jason said, surprised.
"No he isn't, he is the one abusing Robin." Brenda said.
"She is being abused by Johnny O'Brien?" Sonny asked.
"Yes, please help her." Brenda begs.
They pull up to the bridge and sure enough Robin is there. The three of them walk up to her and she is shocked to see Sonny and Jason but not Brenda.
"What are they doing here?" Robin asked.
"I went to get Jason and Sonny tagged along." Brenda said.
"Robin, we want to help." Jason said "Let me see your face? Why are you hiding it?"
"Brenda told you about what he does to me, didn't she?" Robin asked.
"Yes she did. We want to help you." Jason said.
"You can't. You can't help me." Robin said.
"Why not, Robin?" Sonny asked.
"Because his connection to the mob. I would have to be under another mob family protected by them and there is no one that can do that."
"You can go under Sonny and Jason's protection." Brenda said.
"No, I can't. When they tossed me aside that meant that I would no longer be protected by them. I was no longer family. They can't just put me back under their protection again without marriage and Sonny is married and Jason is getting married tomorrow according to the newspaper."
"You can't go back to him." Brenda said. "He's going to kill you one of these days."
"I know, I can't wait till he does then I will be out of my misery."
"You don't mean that." Sonny said suddenly scared that she wanted to die.
"Yes, Sonny, I do. I wish I was dead so he can't hurt me anymore."
"Robin, listen to me I want to help you but I need to know something first. Are you bruised up? Show me what he did to you."
Robin shows him her bruises on her back and her face and her front and tells him there are more on her legs. When he is done looking and seeing what Johnny had done to her, he knows what he is going to do.
Jason looks at Robin "Robin, there is a way out of this. If you marry me he won't be able to hurt you anymore. You would be protected under marriage, if you married me. He will kill you one day if you stay, come with me and you and I will go and get married. I know this is shocking but you need to get away from him and you marrying me will get you away from him. He won't be able to touch you or anybody else you love. So what do you say? Marry me?"
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