Chapter 2

This damn headache was getting worse and worse. For the past 3 hours he had been bordering on a migraine and he was at the tipping point. He was beginning to think it was stress induced. Patrick had heard Emma talking to Robin earlier and both of them had been crying. Emma had had a bad day at school and all she wanted was her Mommy to hold her and tell her everything was alright. Robin was crying because she wasn't there. He didn't get it – if Robin was so upset, why didn't she come home?

She certainly wasn't acting like she was a broken woman, unable to be a Mom when she was talking to Emma. No matter what she had told him, there was always this nagging doubt in the back of his head.

But these damn headaches… it was usually after he heard Robin's voice and then the headache would come. Definitely not neurological, stress induced.

He just needed some sleep. He'll take a couple of aspirin, get Emma to bed and get some sleep – everything will make more sense in the morning.

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"This all Anna and Robert's fault. If they hadn't abandoned Robin when she was a child, she would not have abandoned Emma. I will take Emma and we will build a new family with Danny and Sam. Anna needs to stay away from Emma. She is too dangerous for Emma to be around."

These words played in a loop all night. Dr. Obrecht watched Patrick on the video screen, tossing and turning, lost in a nightmare. He kept saying Robin's name over and over. No matter what she did, Robin was still there haunting him.

It didn't matter. As long as those feelings stayed in the background and he continued doing what he was told, Liesel would have her revenge and Helena would be happy. She didn't want to work for that woman but she didn't have a choice. Very few people scared Dr. Obrecht but Helena Cassadine was one of them.

When the WSB had first approached her with the brainwashing plan, Liesel had been shocked to say the least. Why the hell did the WSB even care about Patrick Drake and Sam Morgan? In the long run it didn't matter – Victor, the head of the WSB, was extremely dangerous and well connected. He could destroy Liesel's life with a single word and she knew it.

Getting to Sam was easy – the woman lived alone with her son. Sure Dr. Clay had stayed over every once in a while but that problem had been solved with sudden appearance of Dr. Clay's dead wife. After that, the programming was begun.

Patrick was a little more difficult. Emma wasn't a baby; she could tell if she saw someone in the house that shouldn't be there. But the accident Victor had arranged provided the perfect opportunity to get Patrick's treatment started. A few hours alone in his office and suddenly Patrick was having all sorts of doubts about his wife. Exhaustion and grief just helped the process along.

Obrecht turned back to the screen and sipped from the cup of coffee she was holding. It was going to be a long night.