Chapter 1
Sabrina Santiago sat on the beach in Puerto Rico watching the sunset just as she had every day since arriving home six weeks ago. As she watched the sun sink lower and the sky turn beautiful shades of reds, yellows and oranges her mind drifted to her son.
She couldn't believe that she and Patrick had said goodbye to baby Gabriel six weeks ago. In some ways, it seemed so long ago, but her heart still ached just as much as it did that day she held her son as she listened to his heart beat fade away using her mother's stethoscope. After nearly losing her mind, getting away seemed like the best thing to do, but Puerto Rico no longer felt like home to her.
Sabrina knew she was going to miss Gabriel regardless of whether she was sitting on the beach or back in Port Charles and was starting to think it might be time for her to leave Puerto Rico. The sound of her phone ringing pulled her out of her thoughts and she smiled when she saw that her best friend, Felix was calling her.
"Hey Fe!"
"Bri! How are you?"
"I still miss Gabriel every minute of every day. But I was just thinking that it might be time for me to return to Port Charles…" Sabrina said, waiting for Felix's reaction.
"Really? That's great! I really miss having my best friend around. Besides, I don't think your timing could be better."
"Why's that? What's going on?"
"Well there has been a lot going on in the last week. I ran into Dr. Drake the other day,"
"Patrick?" Sabrina interrupted. "Is he okay? Is Emma okay?"
"Emma is fine, so is Dr. Drake, but he's going through a lot right now."
"What do you mean? What happened?" Sabrina asked with concern. Even after everything she and Patrick had been through, she stilled loved him and Emma just as much as she did the day they were supposed to get married.
"That's what I was trying to tell you. Patrick started working with Sam McCall a couple weeks back, she had offered to help find out who ran you guys off the road since the PCPD hasn't made much progress. Bri, they found out who it was."
"What? Why didn't you or Patrick tell me?" Sabrina asked shocked to hear that she was finally going to know the reason her son was gone.
"Well when I ran into Patrick we thought it might be best to give you some more time to recover."
"Felix," Sabrina started.
"I know, I know. We should have told you right away."
"Felix, who was it? Why did they do it?"
"Well it was this young kid, his name was Rafe Kovich."
"Rafe Kovich, that name sounds familiar…"
"Rafe was good friends with Molly Lansing and stayed with Sam for awhile and is Dr. Clay's nephew," Felix explained.
"Oh, well what happened? Is he in jail?"
"Well that's just it. When Patrick and Sam figured out who it was, they went to the hospital to talk to Dr. Clay. Dr. Clay said that Rafe was at GH with him, they were supposed to go out to dinner. But when they went to find him, he disappeared. They think he overheard Sam talking with Dr. Clay and he took off. He went back to Dr. Clay's apartment, hopped in a car with Molly and took off. Sam and Detective Falconeri were following him, but they crashed into a police road block."
"Oh my god, were they okay?" Sabrina said, trying to take in every detail that Felix was telling her.
"Well, Molly is okay, but Rafe was suffering from traumatic brain injury and needed to have surgery right away. But it was July 4th and Dr. Drake was the only one around that could perform the surgery… " Felix lingered.
"Wait… Are you telling me that Patrick had to operate on the person that was responsible for us losing Gabriel?"