True friendship isn't about being there when its convenient. Its about being there when its not.
Stepping into his office located in the Elm Street Pier warehouse, Jason's not too surprised to find his best friend and business partner waiting for him. Shutting the door behind him, he greets Sonny before taking a seat behind his desk, pulling out some files that need his immediate attention.
"Sam told me you were having breakfast with Robin." Sonny breaks the silence, knowing that he'll have to be the one to bring up the topic in order to get the answers he seeks. "How is she?"
"About as well as you'd expect." Jason voices, signing off on shipment orders before looking over inventory for the new warehouse. "She's having a hard time readjusting."
"I'm sure the fact that that Sabrina girl's pregnant isn't helping any."
"Its hard to accept, yes." Jason looks up at Sonny, getting a sudden feeling that he needs to point out the obvious to his friend. "But she has accepted that life didn't just stop when she was taken. No one's at fault here."
"Of course not." Sonny shrugs, meeting Jason's eyes. "I just think its rather inconvenient."
"I hope you're talking about the situation and not the baby." Jason says seriously, having had this very argument with Sonny before. "Babies aren't an inconvenience."
"Right, sure." Sonny rises to his feet, securing his jacket around him. "Well, I should go check on the progress over at the new warehouse. We'll talk again later?"
"Sure." Jason watches as his friend exits the office, getting a sudden dejavu moment, a moment that causes him to reach for his cellphone. "You busy?"
"For you, Stone Cold, never." Spinelli assures quickly as he reaches for the bottle. "What might the Jackal do for you?"
"I need to know if Sonny's been keeping up with his medication." Jason states. "I hate even thinking it, but I have a bad feeling he's stopped again."
"Mr. Sir going off his medication can have disastrous consequences." Spinelli utters the obvious. "I shutter to think who will take the brunt of one of his episodes..."
"Spinelli." he cuts him off swiftly, not wanting to even hear a scenario that might happen if Sonny really is off his medication. "Just do what you do and let me know. The sooner the better."
"Of course, Stone Cold." he assures as he rocks his baby in his arms, lulling the little one to sleep. "The Jackal will report any and all findings once its available."
Ending the call, Jason decides to put his focus into the tasks before him, knowing that there's nothing else he can do until he gets the confirmation from Spinelli. The mere thought that Sonny has gone off his medication is enough to give him a migraine. Life's just too complicated right now to have to worry about Sonny's life falling apart by choice.
Staring into the eyes of one of her best friends, Elizabeth could see her friend's side of things, but that didn't change the fact of the matter. As much as she loves Robin, she loves Sabrina, too, and she has to be fair. She knew that it would hurt Robin to know that she was helping Sabrina in any way that she can, but she deserved to hear it from her.
"I understand, Robin, I really do." Elizabeth assures her friend. "But I'm her friend, too, and I can't just walk away from her when she needs me."
"So you're choosing her?"
"I'm not choosing anyone." Elizabeth corrects. "I will always be your friend and I will always be here for you."
"I know." Robin sighs, pulling out a chair to sit down. "I guess, I just wish things could go back to the way they used to be. Back when there was no Sabrina or Felix or Brit...or anything. Back to when it was just us, you know?"
"I know." Elizabeth sits across from Robin, reaching out and taking hold of her hand. "Robin, I..."
"That would be yours." Robin points out when Elizabeth doesn't reach for her phone. "You gonna answer it?"
"Its...Sabrina." she voices as she pulls out the phone, knowing by the ringtone.
"I guess you guys really are close if she gets her own ringtone." Robin tries to go for light humor, regardless of how hurt she felt that Sabrina has somehow woven herself into the lives of everyone she holds dear.
"Robin..."
"Its okay." Robin assures, rising to her feet. "You answer that. I have to get back to work anyway."
"We'll talk again soon?"
"Sure." Robin shakes her head before pulling open the door of the break room. "See you."
Watching her friend walk out of the room left an ache in her heart, an ache she had seen coming the moment she decided to support Sabrina in her pregnancy. She could see what Robin had meant by this being much like her situation with Jason and Sam, having made the comparison herself, but its not exactly the same.
In Robin's eyes, Sabrina is Sam and she's Elizabeth in this scenario, since she and Patrick have history like (she and Jason) while Sabrina (much like Sam with Jason) walked into Patrick's life out of nowhere. Elizabeth, however, sees it the other way around because Jason and Sam had been separated at the time that Elizabeth had gotten pregnant with Jake. Much like Patrick and Robin had been separated by her supposed death when Sabrina conceived.
"Hey." Elizabeth answers her phone. "No, you're not interrupting anything. I was just clocking out for my lunch."
"Oh, okay." Sabrina replies. "Do you think you can come home? I could really use another talk."
"Sure, of course." Elizabeth says without hesitation. "I'm just gonna stop by the diner and grab some food. I'll see you soon."
Ending the call, Elizabeth informs Epiphany that she's going to take her lunch and that it might be a little longer than an hour, but she'll be on her cellphone if she's needed. It would take a moment before Epiphany agrees to it, but eventually she does, knowing exactly how they've both let Sabrina down lately.
Making her way out of the hospital, she heads straight for the diner to get some food for her and Sabrina before heading home. She can only hope that, with time, Robin will come to understand her choice. She was hoping to have been the one to bring it up, but Patrick telling Robin is as good a way as any, she supposes. At least now its out in the open and they can all find away to move past it and find a way to come up with a solution that best satisfies everyone involved.
Getting out of her car, Robin makes her way into the Elm Street Pier warehouse, making her way to Jason's office where he said he'd be. She knows that he's busy and she had understood that when he told her, but she needs to talk to him. Now more than ever. If anyone can get her to see Elizabeth's side more clearly, its him.
"I'm sorry for bothering you..."
"You're not bothering me." Jason assures, gesturing for her to sit down before handing her a glass of water. "What's going on?"
"I need one of those talks." Robin admits. "You know, the talks that I never want to hear, but you know I need to."
"Okay." he pulls up a chair to sit in front of her. "If that's what you want, you got it."
Laying it all out there for him, Robin tells him what Patrick told her about Elizabeth taking in Sabrina and how she initially felt about that. She tells him about her talk with Elizabeth, how she felt as she had that conversation and how Elizabeth wishes she'd understand why she was doing what she's doing. About how badly she wants to understand, but how her hurt she feels about it all. Everything.
"Okay, I'm gonna tell you a story and I want you to really hear me."
"Okay."
"A long time ago, Lucky had been presumed dead, much like you." Jason explains. "Elizabeth, like Patrick, was left to move on from him. As hard as it was, she had to learn how to live without him. It took her a long time, but eventually she did it. She learnt to let go and live again. So much so that she fell in love with someone else."
"I'm guessing that someone else is you."
"Yeah...it was me." he admits. "In that one year, her life changed more than anyone wanted to admit, more than anyone wanted to allow. Then one day Lucky was found alive and everyone wanted to believe that it was the miracle they prayed for. Elizabeth and Lucky would continue from where they left off and their lives would go back to normal. She'd stop spending so much time with me and they'd have their perfect little world back to the way it had been."
"I'm guessing it didn't work out that way."
"Far from it." Jason replies. "The more they tried to act like that year didn't happen, the more and more they kept getting hurt."
"Are you saying that I should let Patrick go?" she looks at him in disbelief. "That I should let them love each other?"
"No." he shakes his head. "What I'm saying is that you need to accept that these last two years happened instead of trying to make it as if it didn't. Be smarter than we had been and maybe this just might turn out better than it had for us."