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Chapter 3

"All clear." Robin heard one of the WSB agents call out.

"Thanks." Robin said to Julian Jerome who had pulled her down and covered her when the shooting began.

"You're welcome. Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yes, but you aren't" She responded with concern upon seeing the blood on his shoulder.

"It's just a nick." He said as he winced when she checked it out.

"Julian." Alexis sounded relieved as she crawled over to them.

"You're okay. Is Sam okay?" Julian asked as Robin showed Alexis how to apply pressure to Julian's wound.

"Yes." Alexis nodded to where Sam, Patrick and Nikolas were climbing out of their hiding spot. "Are you okay, Robin?"

"I'll survive." Robin responded as they watched Lulu rush over to check on her dad.

"I told you I wasn't working for Luke Spencer." Julian said to Alexis.

Alexis sighed as she hugged him.

"We're okay here. Go check on your family." Julian told Robin.

* General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital *

Nathan and Jason rushed to pull the turned over couch off of Maxie.

"Maxie, are you okay?" Nathan asked with concern as he pulled her up into a sitting position.

"Yeah, I just had the wind knocked out of me." Maxie responded.

"I was so relieved when I felt your pulse." Nathan said before hugging her.

"I'm glad you made me wear the bullet-proof-vest under the scrub top. Help me stand up." Maxie said.

She was barely on her feet when she was nearly tackled by Robin.

"You scared me half to death! Lucky had to restrain me from running in when Jerry shot you." Robin hugged Maxie tightly until heard you slight gasp of pain.

"You're hurt." Robin pulled pack slightly.

"Just sore, and the vest feels a little tight. Help me get this off." Maxie said.

Robin helped her remove the blood soaked scrub top and tossed it on the ground. "I'm glad you thought to grab this." Robin told Jason as she examined the bullet hole in the nearly empty blood bag they had swiped from medical facilities. Nathan examined where the bullet had hit the vest before he helped to remove the vest from Maxie as Lucky came across the room the join them.

"Without this, she would have been killed instantly." Nathan said tossing the vest to Jason. Lucky stepped forward to examine the vest with Jason. Robin and Maxie paled at the thought. Nathan moved behind Maxie taking her right hand in his right hand kissing the top of her head as Robin began to exam Maxie. Nathan felt Maxie squeeze his hand when Robin poked around the tender area from the impact of the bullet.

"I told you that the decoy plan would work." Maxie said to Jason and Lucky.

"This was your idea!" Robin and Maxie turned to see their very serious fathers standing before them.

* General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital * General Hospital *

"Are you both okay?" Nikolas asked.

"Yeah, we're fine." Patrick responded as they watched Robin race across the room toward Nathan and Jason.

"Thank God, Nathan made Maxie wear a bullet proof vest." Nikolas said with relief.

"Maxie." Patrick and Sam turned to gape at him.

"She decided we needed a decoy, and you know Maxie. Once she sets her mind on something, no one is going to stop her especially when someone she loves is involved. She had to promise not to leave Nathan's sight." Nikolas responded. "When Jason regained his memory, he was concerned that in the month that he had been back in Port Charles he hadn't seen Robin once. So he went in search of Maxie."

"Why, Maxie?" Patrick asked.

"She's Maxie, but to Jason, she is a known quantity." Nikolas responded.

"He spent enough time around her when she was involved with Spinelli." Sam admitted. "But why didn't he contact me?"

"You will have to ask him. Lucky had just arrived planning to stay with me while he saw his sons when Maxie comes barging in with Jason and Nathan. We tried to reach you before we left, but apparently you were on your way here as well. I did assign guards for Spencer, Emma, Mac and Felicia when it became apparent that Helena and Victor were using threats to her loved ones to control Robin. Anna is going to want to have all your homes swept for video equipment and listening devices when we return home." Nikolas explained.

"Sam, Nikolas, Patrick, are you alright?" Alexis asked as she and Julian joined their group.

"Yes, we are all fine." Nikolas responded.

"Is that really Jason?" Alexis asked.

"Yes." Nikolas responded.

"I don't understand. I thought Robin had gone to Africa." Sam said.

"That was just a cover story. Victor Cassadine came to Robin last February and said he had a cryogenically frozen Jason, Helena and Stavros that he wanted her to find a way to revive. That if she didn't help, he would kill Jason. If she told someone, he'd kill Jason." Patrick explained.

"She told you." Sam said.

"I was the only one to know, and Victor was not happy about it." Patrick responded.

"Even more reason for him to cause the crash that killed your son." Nikolas said.

Patrick nodded as he rubbed his face with his hand.

"I had thought about telling you numerous times after we began trying to find out who caused the accident, but then I saw Robin at Crichton Clark and she said that Jason was dead. So I decided to not say anything." Patrick explained wearily. "I was so angry that she didn't come home after the accident, and then when she said Jason was dead and she still wouldn't come home. I believed she thought her work was more important than her family."

"You thought she had a choice in the matter." Alexis reasoned. "Most of my family is very good at ruining other people's lives in order to get their way."

"Jason's alive." Sam said sounding like she was still trying to believe it. "I guess that could explain Danny's reaction to him."

"And the evidence of brain surgery." Patrick added.

"Man, our lives are such a mess." Sam sounded so weary.

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"Dad." Robin and Maxie responded in union.

"How could you two do something so reckless…?" Robert began.

"So dangerous, so…so…" Frisco added.

"So like their fathers." Lucky finished.

Said fathers shot him a dirty look before they grabbed their respective daughters and hugged them tightly.

Then they switched girls.

"Hello, sweetheart. So glad you followed your family's tradition of coming back from the dead." Frisco hugged Robin tightly.

"You scared about ten years off of our lives, but we're so proud of you." Robert told Maxie.

"Both of you." Frisco added.

"Thank you, Uncle Robert." Maxie said as he released her. She stepped back against Nathan, and felt his arms wrap around her waist as she relaxed against him. "Lucky, Jason, and Nathan, these are our fathers, Robert Scorpio and Frisco Jones." The men all nodded, Frisco taking an extra measure of Nathan.

"Thank you for coming after my daughter." Robert said.

"Anytime." Lucky responded. "How did you know to come?"

"Anna requested WSB backup as Dante, Lulu, Patrick and Sam were searching for Luke." Robert said. "I came along to find out what kind of trouble my old friend was in."

"I've been working with a team to bring down Jerry Jax and the head of the Jerome family. We were surprised to run into each other when we got here." Frisco explained.

"Your mother is going to blow when she learns you have been basically kidnapped by the Cassadines for the past several months." Robert stated.

"Wait until she learns that Julian Jerome took a bullet for her." Maxie added.

"So, I guess the fact that Julian has been an informant for the WSB for the last several months in order to bring down the Luke imposter after he tried to kill Lucas is not going to go over well either?" Frisco added.

"Speaking of…" Jason nodded to the woman entering the room.

Anna Devane rushed across the room pulling her daughter and goddaughter into her arms.

To be continued