Chapter 2
Patrick stood up and walked over to the door. "Hey Cam, how are you doing?"
Cameron laughed and shook Patrick's hand. "Doing good Dr. Drake. Sorry, maybe we should have called before we came over."
Emma glared at Cam but he just smiled at her. Robin walked over to her daughter. "No, we are always happy to see you and you are welcome anytime."
Emma wanted to stay mad but the fact was that her parents had been this way for a long time and they deserved every moment of happiness they got - they went through hell to get it. Her brothers and sister didn't remember what had happened over 10 years ago, they were too young, but she did.
Her mom was a brilliant doctor and had been kidnapped for her research abilities several times before Emma was 6, including almost 2 years when someone actually faked her death. Emma and Patrick's lives had been destroyed thinking she was dead and they were thrilled when she came back to them. Their happiness was short-lived as her mom was taken from them again just a few months later. Even though she still talked to her mom, it was almost a year before she got to see her again.
Then her mom came home, engaged to Nikolas Cassadine. It turned out that instead of being her savior, Nikolas had been obsessed with her mom and done everything he could to try and keep her parents apart including kidnapping her mom and Uncle Jason and brainwashing her dad and Aunt Sam. It didn't work as her parents love for each other had been too strong. It also helped that her grandparents were spies with a lot of connections.
It wasn't until she was older that Emma learned Nikolas had planned on kidnapping her and Mal as well but her dad and Jason had stopped him. She was grateful every day for the fact that her family was still together and happy after everything they had been through.
"So," Robin smiled at her older daughter, "what brings you here today? Laundry?"
Emma laughed. She was living in the dorms at Port Charles University while she studied pre-med. Although she wanted to go into medicine like her parents, she had no interest in working with the brain. She planned to become a pediatrician. "No," she looked at Cam, "actually Cam heard something today at the station and we wanted to talk to you about it."
Cameron Spencer had followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Port Charles Police Department. He had graduated from PCU a year ago with a degree in Criminal Justice and successfully completed his training at the police academy 6 months after that. He was still a rookie but Commissioner Dante Falconeri, Cam's uncle, saw a great future for him with the department.
Robin was confused. She and Patrick had made it a point to lead as normal of lives as possible since everything that had happened with Nikolas. Sure they dealt with medical emergencies and the occasional police investigation but nothing too dangerous. "What is it?"
Cam took a deep breath. "Why don't we sit down?"
Patrick took Robin's hand and they walked over to the couch. Emma sat down next to her mom with Patrick on Robin's other side. Cam sat down in the large easy chair by the couch and leaned over with his elbow on his knees. "There is no easy way to say this – Nikolas Cassadine is being transferred from the maximum security facility he has been at in California to Fern Cliff."
Patrick was the first to respond. "What! How in the hell could they do that? He murdered his grandmother. He kidnapped Robin. He…" Patrick looked at Robin, "Stephanie."
Emma held her mother's hand while Robin shook her head, tears forming. "We have to tell her. If he is coming back, it will be in the papers. We have to tell her before she finds out some other way."
Emma looked at Cam. Dante had agreed to let Cam break the news since he was practically family to the Drakes - Emma and Cam had dated off and on since grade school, finally becoming serious last year. He was the only boy Patrick trusted with Emma. "Mom, are you sure?"
Emma had always known that Stephanie was actually Nikolas's daughter. It wasn't until a few years ago that Robin had sat Emma down and explained what happened with both Mal and Stephanie's pregnancies – how the Cassadine's had taken her mother's eggs when she was being held captive and used surrogates to carry the two children to term. It was horrifying to think of everything her mother had had to deal with in addition to being HIV positive. "She needs to hear it from me and her dad. Cam, could you please tell Dante that we will be in to see him tomorrow? I want to make sure that the restraining order is up to date and that all of our children are protected."
Cam smiled at them. He had told Emma many times how lucky she is to have two parents were still together and who loved each other and their children as much as Patrick and Robin did. "Of course."
Patrick asked the next question. "Are the doctors aware that they are moving him closer to his victims?"
Cam shook his head. "Unfortunately, I don't know the details. From what Dante could gather, it looks like someone with a lot of influence arranged the transfer."
Patrick pulled out his phone. "Well then, I guess we need to get our own person with a lot of influence to help us figure out how in the hell this happened and see if we can stop it." He dialed a number and waited for a moment. "Hey Jason."