-1Chapter 2

"Hi." She pulled the door to the Scorpio house open and greeted Lucky. "I need like five minutes to get Emma cleaned up and ready." She led Lucky back into the kitchen where Emma was finishing breakfast.

"Here, I brought you coffee." He handed her one of the cups out of the drink carrier he'd brought in with him.

"Thanks." She smiled gratefully at him. She took a drink and then set the glass on the counter so she could wet a paper towel to wipe Emma's face and hands.

He leaned against the door jam and watched her interact with her daughter. If he had to guess, he'd say these times with Emma were about the only times she was close to at peace and happy. "You look tired." He took a drink of his own coffee.

She looked down at her jeans and fitted black t-shirt self-consciously, and ran a hand over the hair she'd thrown into a messy ponytail. "I'm not sleeping well. I can't get my mind to turn off." She pulled Emma out of her high chair. "I don't even know how to begin making sense out of any of this."

He looked down at his coffee cup. "I'm not sure it ever really makes sense."

"That's encouraging." She grabbed her purse and Emma's diaper bag. She just wanted to wake up and realize that this had all been some sort of terrible nightmare.

Robin stood in front of her open locker staring blankly inside. The pictures she'd brought in just weeks ago to replace the damaged ones hung on the door. A few toiletries, some scrubs and sweats, and the binders containing her research littered the shelves. She packed the practical items into the box she'd brought first. She fingered the pictures lightly and then turned to Lucky who was sitting on the locker room bench entertaining Emma. "I don't know what to do with these. It's like these people don't even exist anymore."

He sighed and looked down at Emma who was playing with his badge. "Keep them. You don't know how this is going to turn out."

She leaned against her locker warily. "I trusted him so completely, and he knew what that meant for me to give my heart to someone again. But what he has done to Emma, the threat that he has brought into her life because of his actions. I don't know that I can forgive him for that. I'm so angry at him, Lucky. I don't even know how to explain the kind of anger I'm feeling right now." She carefully untapped the pictures from her locker and placed them in one of the binders containing her research.

"I get it, Robin, you don't have to explain it. I've been there, twice. If it's any consolation at least Lisa's not your sister and Patrick didn't get her pregnant. Liz has a real knack for getting pregnant when she cheats on me. " Lucky shook his head in disgust; upset with himself that Elizabeth's betrayals and his own inability to see the truth could still bother him.

Robin closed her locker and came to sit next to Lucky. "No, Lisa's just a psychopath determined to get me and my daughter out of the way any means necessary. She pulled Emma onto her lap and held her close.

"Hey come on now," he reached over and took Robin's hand in his, "Lisa is not going to be able to get to you and Emma."

"She's been doing a pretty good job so far."

"Well that ends now. I'm a Spencer and you're a Devane and a Scorpio. We're resourceful and we are more than capable of taking care of ourselves." Their parents had taught them young and had taught them well how to survive.

"Our parents made sure of that, huh?" The sound of the locker room door opening caught her attention. "Steve." The Chief of Staff came through the door. "We were just leaving."

"I'm really sorry that it has to be this way." He knew what Robin was going through and he hated that he was adding to it.

She stood up and shifted Emma in her arms. "I understand you have a job to do.

"Steve." Lucky nodded to the man who had almost become his brother-in-law again and picked up Robin's box.

"Robin." Patrick caught up with them at the elevator. "I heard you and Emma were here."

"We're leaving." She informed him and pushed the down button. She wasn't going to have another meltdown in the hospital. She was done giving Lisa or anyone else ammunition against her.

"Robin, come on, this is crazy, please talk to me." He pleaded with her. She hadn't answered any of his calls last night.

"I don't have anything to say to you right now, Patrick. And I don't want to fight with you in the middle of the hospital or in front of our daughter." She looked around the floor to see doctors and nurses already stopping by the hub to see what would happen.

"You and Emma belong home with me. I miss you." He reached out and touched her cheek.

She took a step back. "If you want to spend time with Emma you can come to my Uncle Mac's after your shift."

"Robin." He was interrupted by the ding announcing the arrival of the elevator. He didn't say anything else, just watched them get on the elevator.

Lisa leaned her forearms on the railing of the balcony and watched the scene below play out. She just shook her head and walked away when she saw the elevator doors close and Robin disappear from view.