Chapter 2.
When Sabrina returned to work two days later she was wondering why everyone kept staring at her and whispering.
She walked up to the Nurses station and grabbed her folder for her rounds when Patrick walked up to her.
"Is it true?"
Sabrina looked at him with a confused look "Is what true?"
"Are you really adopting that baby?"
Sabrina looked at him and the loos and whispers made sense now. "Let me guess Felix told you?"
"Yeah are you serious about it?"
"Yes I am as a matter of fact I have a home study next week and if all goes well with the home studies then can formally adopt the baby."
"Sabrina are you sure you are ready for this?"
"Yes I want to be a Mom, Victor took that away from me with Gabriel but now I can give this baby girl the loving home she deserves."
"Are you sure that's all there is to this?"
"Why do you care what I do Patrick, I want to do this and I do not need your permission or explain why I need to do anything to you anymore."
Sabrina walked away in a huff and bumped into Jesse on the way out.
"Hey what's wrong with Sabrina?"
"Nothing." Patrick said walking away.
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After shift Sabrina found Patrick in the locker room.
"Hey." She said.
"Hi." He said.
"Can we talk?"
"Sure."
Sabrina sat on the bench and Patrick followed.
"I owe you an apology." Sabrina said
"For what?"
"Earlier I shouldn't have snapped at you. It's just this is what I want, I want to be a mom when I found out I was pregnant with pregnant with Gabriel and then Victor took that from me and this baby she has no one and to be honest besides Felix and Juan that's all I basically have and I don't know I just I feel connected to this little and I have this desire to be a mother figure to her and I really hope that you can support me in this because it would mean a lot to me."
Patrick looked at Sabrina and covered her hand.
"You got it."
Sabrina smiled.
Patrick was about to say something when Jesse came in.
"Hey Sabrina you ready to go?"
"Yeah of course." Sabrina said getting up and walking towards him.
"Where are you two going this evening?"
"Oh I offered to show Jesse around town since he is new and all."
"Oh well that was nice of you."
"Yeah well that's me Ms. Nice." Sabrina said smiling.
Jesse and Sabrina left leaving Patrick with a pang of jealousy inside.
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Patrick sent Emma off to Darcy's for a sleepover and was looking forward to a night of relaxation he sat down on the couch with a cold beer and sighed.
He was so close.
So close to asking Sabrina out for a bite to eat before Jesse came in and ruined his chance now he and Sabrina were probably somewhere having a great time and he was all alone and with no one to blame but himself, how could he think Sabrina would ever give him another chance after the hell he put her through, maybe it was just wishful thinking that he would ever get a chance to make everything he did to her right because there was no way he ever could do that unless he could go back in time.
Patrick groaned and mentally smacked himself.
There was a knock on the door and Patrick got up and walked to the door opening it to see a woman he has never seen before.
"Hello, may I help you?"
"Yes are you Patrick Drake?"
"Yes and you are?"
"Vanessa Stevens, Child Services, I need to speak to you."
"About?"
"Sabrina Santiago."
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Sabrina and Jesse walked into the Floating Rib.
"Hey Sabrina." Mac said walking up and hugging her.
"Hey Mac, How are you?"
"Good, what are you up to this evening?"
"Oh I'm just showing Jesse around town he's new here."
"Oh well it's nice to meet you Jesse."
"You too."
"Well grab yourself a drink or something to eat and it's on the house."
"Thanks Mac."
Mac smiled and walked away.
"Alright does everybody in this town like you Sabrina Santiago?" Jesse asked
"Probably I'm a very likeable person."
They walked to an empty table and sat down.
"So what's good here?" Jesse asked.
"Everything Patrick brought me here a bunch of times when we were…..never mind anyway I love their ribs."
"Sabrina can I ask you something?"
"Sure what about?"
"You and Patrick…. I know you were together but I don't know what happened…so what happened?"
Sabrina looked at Jesse and sighed.
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Patrick led Mrs. Stevens into the house and shut the door.
"What do you need to know about Sabrina. "
"Oh I'm just checking in on your experiences with her taking care of your daughter Emma as her babysitter."
"What for."
"Well Sabrina is looking into adopting a baby and as part of the adoption process we need to establish that the baby is going into a loving home that can care for the child responsibly."
"What would you like to know?"
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Sabrina sat there in silence for a minute staring at Jesse.
"I'm sorry that was highly rude of me it's none of my business."
"No it's not that it's just me and Patrick we have history but there's nothing there now….I mean a part of me will always love him and we will always be close because of our son but…"
"You have a kid?"
Sabrina wanted to smack herself for bringing up Gabriel.
"We did he died."
"Oh I'm so sorry."
"Yeah it was painful and I thought I would never survive or recover from that pain but I did and now I am living life to the fullest because life is too short to live with regrets."
"Yeah it is but if you don't mind me asking if you still love him why aren't you together."
"We dated for a while and then he proposed and his wife whom everyone thought was dead came back on our wedding day and it's all too painful to relive the rest."
"That's all I needed to hear." Jesse
Sabrina nodded.
"Patrick will always be a friend to me but that's pretty much all that will ever be between us from now on friendship besides I have this whole adoption thing that needs my undivided attention now."
"What adoption thing?"
"You haven't heard?"
"No."
"Remember the baby that was born from that car crash the other day?"
"Yes."
"Well I am in the process of adopting her."
"Seriously?"
Sabrina nodded and smiled "Yeah."
"Wow that is so cool, I hope everything works out."
"Yeah me too but I'm nervous you know I don't know if I have what it takes to make a great mother."
"Sabrina I have only known you a few days but from what I see you are everything a mother should be, Caring, Nurturing, Loving I think you would make a great mother."
"Yeah well let us hope and pray child services feels the same way you do."
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Patrick stopped talking after answering every question that Mrs. Stevens had for him and looked at her.
"Well Thank You Mr. Drake I will make sure this all goes into Sabrina's file."
Mrs. Stevens got up and walked to the door.
"Can I say something else off record?"
"It depends on what it is?"
"Look Me and Sabrina we were engaged at one time, and then she was pregnant with our son until we lost him but I saw the joy that Sabrina had when she thought she was going to be a mother and it was magical, Sabrina is the most loving and caring woman I have ever met in my life and she wants to adopt this child I can see it in her eyes, she wants to give this little girl the home she deserves and Sabrina can give it to her and more, and that child would be damn lucky to have a mother like Sabrina so please do whatever you can so Sabrina's wish comes true because she deserves it more than anyone."
Patrick stopped and looked at Mrs. Stevens trying to read her facial expression to see if he struck a chord with her.
"Mr. Drake can I tell you something off record?"
"Sure." Patrick said scared of what she was going to say.
"It sounds to me that you are still in love with Ms. Santiago and from what I hear about her she is a lovely woman and I would say her chances of getting this adoption cleared are very good but I suggest if you still love Ms. Santiago you tell her life is too short to live with regrets."
Patrick smiled and nodded "Yes it is thank you Mrs. Stevens."
Mrs. Stevens smiled and left.
Patrick stood there stewing over Mrs. Stevens words before grabbing his cellphone off the table and dialing Sabrina's number.
"Hi you reached Sabrina leave a message and I'll get back to you, Have a Great Day."
Patrick hung u before the beep.
"No this is something that needs to be said face to face."
Patrick grabbed his coat and keys and headed out the door.
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Sabrina and Jesse laughed as they walked out of the Floating Rib.
"Those Ribs were amazing." Jesse said.
"I told you they were."
"Yes you did, and thank you for today for showing me around Port Charles seems like a very awesome place."
"Oh it is I mean the winters are brutal and it's a small ton but I love it here."
"Yeah I think I'll like it here to." He said looking at Sabrina the whole time until they reached Jesse's car.
"Alright my car is a little further down so this is where we say goodbye I guess." Sabrina said jokingly.
"Yeah Thanks again for tonight."
"No Problem." Sabrina said as she nodded and started walking to her car.
"Hey Sabrina." Jesse said calling after her. "Yes?"
"Remember earlier how you said life was too short to live with regrets?"
"Yes." Sabrina said wondering where he was headed with the conversation.
Jesse walked up to her and kissed her.
Sabrina stood there shocked before kissing him back.
As they pulled apart Jesse looked at her "That's one regret I won't have." Before walking to his car leaving Sabrina shocked at what had just transpired.
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Sabrina smiled as she walked to her apartment door but was confused when she saw Patrick standing by the door.
"Patrick?"
Patrick looked towards her and smiled.
"Hey."
"Hi, what are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to you."
"Okay here let's go in."
Sabrina opened her apartment door and let Patrick in before shutting it.
"What can I do for you?"
"It's kind of hard to explain, Sabrina ever since we broke up I never got over my feelings for you and I know that I don't deserve you after everything that I have put you through and I know that it is presumptuous of me to even come over here and talk to you about this I mean after all I hurt you in the worse possible way and I regret that you need to know at the time I thought I was doing what was best for my family and walking away from you broke me and I will regret doing that for as long as I shall live but now I'm free from all of that there is no Robin, no doubts of who I want to be with because it's been clear for a while who that is."
"Patrick wait ….what are you trying to say?"
"Sabrina I want a second chance a chance to prove to you that it's you I want to be with a chance for us to be together like we should be what do you say can you give me a Second Chance?"
Sabrina stared at him shocked thinking to herself how many more shocks would she have that night.
