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Chapter 4

"When I gave you a key it was with the understanding that it was for emergencies only." Robin said looking at her cousin who had let herself into the apartment.

"This is an emergency." Maxie said throwing down her purse and crossing her arms as she looked at Robin. "My normally genius cousin has taken complete leave of her senses." The blonde started. "You know it's odd that Port Charles has so many geniuses. You, Georgie, Emily, Ellie, and Spinelli." She said mentioning one of her sister's best friends. Maxie had no idea why her sister even hung around that weirdo. "Two in one family. Which I guess is an argument for nurture over nature because you and Georgie don't share DNA. I wonder where Uncle Mac went wrong with me." She said stopping her ramble.

"Why are you here?" Robin wanted to know.

"To get an answer to my question." Maxie said like it was obvious.

"You haven't asked me a question." Robin said trying not to laugh.

"Oh. What the hell is wrong with you?!" Maxie shouted. "You are basically stalking Jason Morgan. I get it, he's hot although he has no fashion sense. However you are acting pathetic. He isn't the only hot man in the city." Maxie missed Logan every day, but she wasn't blind.

Robin frowned, that was the second time today she had been called pathetic.

"You are lowering yourself to Sam McCall level." Maxie pointed out. "She spent all summer making a fool out of herself."

"I'm nothing like Sam. Or like she was." Robin found that to be insulting.

"The both of you have been running around trying to get Jason's attention for months. So yes you are." Maxie called Robin out. "The hospital is a breeding ground of delicious men. Stalk one of them. If you must have a mobster Johnny Zacchara is free. He wasn't that serious with Lulu so he isn't really grieving."

"Johnny Zacchara is too young for me. And all those delicious men you mentioned aren't interested." Robin said getting close to what was at the root of her behavior. "I've been home for four months and no one has asked me out. No one is interested."

"I doubt that. You're adorable." Maxie said grinning. "You could use an update to your wardrobe though." The blonde never let a makeover opportunity pass.

"I'm also HIV Positive." Robin reminded her cousin. "That kind of deters guys from asking a girl out. I haven't been on a date in too long to count. Even in Paris once my status got out the dates dried up. It doesn't matter to Jason. It never mattered to Jason. I'm tired of being alone. I turn around and it's seems everywhere I look I see people holding hands with someone else. I want that too. I deserve to have someone special in my life."

"You can't force attraction." Maxie said as she walked over and gave her cousin a hard hug. "Besides it's not your HIV status that is making the guys not ask you out. It's the fact that you are a know-it-all and have to always be right. Your ego is huge. Huge. Trust me on this." She repeated being blunt. "I get it. Having spent most of my life surrounded by surgeons I know that you overachieving types in the medical field tend to have god complexes, but you really are the worst case I've ever seen. Well maybe not the worst. Patrick Drake really does think he is the greatest thing ever. You guys would be cute together."

"That was harsh Maxie." Robin glared at her cousin. "Where is your compassion for my situation? And the last person I want to date is Patrick."

"I'm not known for being compassionate. You want that go talk to Georgie, she's the nice one. Wait, you can't because she isn't talking to you. Mainly because you have been a complete bitch lately. I'm the honest sister, I tell it like it is. You are pushing people away. I know, because for a long time I did the same thing." Maxie said dishing out the honesty she was talking about. "I get that as a leader in your field you have to be confident, but you have moved right past that into arrogance. That isn't attractive. Neither is stalking." She said getting back to the point of the visit. "Since you are here I'm guessing you aren't working today."

"I'm off." Robin wasn't going to mention that Monica sent her home and said the next time a suspension was going to be handed out for unprofessional behavior. Robin also had to apologize to Patrick, again, tomorrow.

"Good, we are going shopping. And to the salon, you need a haircut." Maxie said eyeing her cousin up. "While we are out we will make a list of the eligible men in the city and figure out which one is right for you. Jason will not be making an appearance on said list. I've seen the two of you talking, his body language screams that he is not interested. He probably would have been your friend, but I think it's safe to say you've blown that too." Which might just be for the best. Robin didn't need to go back there. Georgie dating a mobster filled the bad boy quota for the family.

"I was going to review some studies." Robin was hoping to do a clinical trial in the next year. She and Matt were working together on a project that might yield results with catatonic patients. And yes she had been planning on figuring out how to get Jason to warm up to the notion of them dating again.

"Put the lasso away Wonder Woman. The studies will be there when you return later." Maxie wasn't going to take no for an answer. She only this one day off to fix Robin. According to Georgie their cousin was close to getting knocked on her ass by several people at the hospital with Liz leading the list. The former Mrs. Lucky Spencer had to be tired of the women of the Scorpio/Jones family irritating her. Maxie had made Liz's life really hard for a while there.

"You aren't going to go away are you?" Robin resigned herself to shopping.

Maxie just shook her head no.

"Fine. Only for a few hours, because yes I do need a haircut." Robin conceded to a mini-maker. She would also think about what Maxie said about being arrogant. Her cousin wasn't even close to being the first person to say that. So maybe it was time to listen. It just never even crossed her mind she would be getting advice, good advice at that, from Maxie.

Johnny walked into Francis's office and found his friend looking at one of the two boards he had set up. One held a picture of each known TMK victim. Johnny was thinking there may be more that they didn't know about. The guy was way too good at this for this to be his first killing spree. He should have Spinelli tap VICAP to look for similar patterns. The second board held the photos of folks they suspected could be the TMK. "He's dead." Johnny said tapping a picture of Caesar Faison.

"So were you." Francis said with a smirk.

"Good point." Johnny said shrugging. "I don't think he could heft Logan's body on his own."

"He has staff." Francis countered. To some it would seem like Johnny was naysaying but that wasn't what was going on. This was how the two friends worked a problem out.

"He didn't do subtle." Johnny said pouring himself some coffee.

"Point taken." Francis reached up and took the photo off the board. "If I hadn't seen her body for myself I'd put Claudia up there."

"She's evil enough to rise from the dead." Johnny said shaking his head. "That family holds a lot of crazy. Do we know where John is? Maybe he finally cracked."

"We have eyes on him, and he isn't in the states right now." Francis had also wondered about the scion to the Zacchara family fortune. They all liked John, but given his family's history of behavior it was doubtful they would ever fully trust him. "Who else?"

"I can't see this being Helena. Although yes she does do subtle, she also is in it for the long haul. Rarely does she come in and dispatch a large number of people so quickly. She likes to watch people suffer." Johnny said sitting on the edge of the desk. "Besides her interactions are almost always exclusively with the Spencers."

Francis took down that picture as well. "Would it make me less manly to admit I'm glad we don't have to deal with her much?" He asked laughing.

"Nope." Johnny said sipping his coffee. "She's scary." He could admit that. "Like old school mafia scary." He looked at the board, they didn't really have many suspects. "The crimes fit in with how Manny and Jerry would go about things. Although I don't see Jerry coming back again so soon. Not after the poisoning failed."

"But you can't discount him." Francis felt the same way.

"No. The poisoning could have been a red herring. See this is why I don't like dealing with crazy people." Johnny looked at his friend. "They don't think in a straight line. I really liked Lucky for these crimes, I figured he had finally snapped. It's going to be someone we didn't even think about."

"I know. Tell me about the surgery." Francis stayed in the office to run things, but his thoughts had been with his friend.

"It went well. Patrick said Jason can fly out tomorrow. I'll breathe much easier when the plane takes off and Liz and the boys are out of the city. Same with Emily today." Johnny moved to one of the wing chairs. "Liz got a text before I left the hospital."

"Shit. You tell Jason?" Francis didn't have to ask who the text was from.

"Jason is still groggy. He'll be briefed before he leaves. Spinelli has Liz's phone and I had another one taken over. I'll send you the new number." They already had Jason's new number. Johnny stretched out his legs. "The kid was damn near bouncing in his seat when I gave him the device. He isn't going to turn it off, but is going to try to trace the texts if anymore come in. He's hoping that the TMK is going to try to play some mind games, because the more texts that are sent the more information Spinelli can gather."

"Do you remember when we used to just do surveillance and then put a bullet in someone's brain? We didn't go in for all this cloak and dagger shit." Francis said having a mini rant.

Johnny just laughed, he couldn't help it. "First of all you aren't a relic from another age. In fact you aren't that much older than me, which means you are too young to talk about when we used to do things. Second I'm pretty sure when you trail someone for a week so you can kill them that's cloak and dagger shit." He grinned at his friend who was scowling. "I will admit that the use of technology is making this harder." The enforcer sat up. "What about Stan?"

"Stan Johnson?" Francis wanted to make sure they were talking about the same person.

"Yeah. We know TMK is employing technology when he piggybacks his messages to make it look like they are coming from other people's phones. Spinelli said that he suspects our resident serial killer is also messing with the traffic cameras, and even private cameras to cover his movements because no one has seen this guy but twice. Stan could do all that with no problem." Johnny said explaining his theory. "He hated Sonny towards the end."

"Sonny wouldn't let him out, but Jason eventually did." Francis could see a clear motive. "Stan is dead."

"We never saw the body. Jason just got a call telling him that Stan had been gunned down." Johnny pointed out. "I seriously doubt Nurse Johnson would tell us her son is really alive."

"If she knows." Francis said shaking his head. "I don't have a picture of Stan, I'll have to get Spinelli to pull one from the DMV. Having to take into account possible dead people who really aren't dead is making this much harder than it already is. How is Georgie handling having Rory follow her around?" They would switch topics.

"She is less than thrilled, but not fighting me on it." Johnny knew that once this was over she would request the guard be removed. "She knows that I really want to send her away, and since I can't she is accepting the protection. How is Diane taking this?"

Francis just laughed. "I think Sal is afraid of my girlfriend."

"Any sane person has a healthy fear of your lady." Johnny really liked Diane, but she could rip a person to shreds without missing a beat. He tried to never piss her off. "Is she demanding the guard be removed?"

"No." Francis said getting up to get coffee. "She also knows that once all this is over the guard is staying." That had not been a fun conversation. "This whole situation has made me look differently at how we do things. We need to make sure our ladies stay safe."

"We do." Johnny said nodding. "I'm thinking this trip is going to change things for Liz and Jason." It was time to talk about happier things.

"I think so as well. He's never had the chance to just walk down the street with her hand in his. Assuming that holding hands is an option." Francis didn't know what kind of restrictions Jason was facing. "Getting time to do that is going to make it so that he doesn't want to go back to hiding."

"I'm guessing the same will be true of her too." Johnny knew it was wrong but he was glad they wouldn't have to deal with drama from Carly when the relationship went public. Sonny probably would have been accepting of the change. In recent years he had been edging back to the man he was when he first came to Port Charles. "I just hope they don't elope. I'm not sure we could protect Jason from his mother."

"Or his sister." Francis said laughing. "Although both Monica and Emily might have to suck it up. I won't be surprised if Jason and Liz come back married. The boys are already both Morgans." That fact was not something that most people knew. Diane had been able to hide that.

"I think if things had been calmer this summer they would have already gotten hitched." Johnny put the empty mug down. "Maybe then Robin will get a hint."

"I was happy to see her return. I've always liked Robin, but lately she is venturing a little too close to the land of the obsessive." Francis was surprised that the doctor was behaving that way.

"I just figured Liz or Emily would eventually kick Robin's ass. Maybe even Georgie, and then we would be done with that." Johnny was not a fan. Even when Jason dated Robin years ago, OB hadn't really liked her. "Now that Mac is no longer commissioner we don't have to worry about her running to her uncle when that happens. Okay I need to go do some work. Call me if anything happens."

"You know it." Francis said going back to looking at his board.

"Every time I open my eyes you are right there." A sleepy Jason said. "It's the best way to wake up."

"I like being here when you wake up." Liz said smiling. He had been in and out of consciousness for the last several hours as the anesthesia left his system. He was so cute all sleepy, and reminded her of Cameron when he got tired. "Are you thirsty?"

"Yeah." Jason said blinking owlishly. "How did the surgery go?"

"Really good." Liz had answered this question four times already. She wondered how much of the night he would remember.

"Good." He said sipping the water. "You're pretty." Jason told her.

"Thank you." Liz said trying not to laugh. As a nurse she saw this all time, but this was a much more personal situation. So there was no emotional distance happening.

"And you smell nice. Like vanilla. I like to touch your hair, it's so soft." Jason said looking at her. "Can I have a kiss?" He asked with a goofy grin.

"You sure can." Liz leaned over and gave him a soft smooch. "Go back to sleep baby."

"Kay." Jason said letting his eyes close.

"How is he?" Epiphany asked coming in for a check.

"In and out." Liz told her boss.

"You heading out?" Piph wanting to know.

"Yeah. I need to get the boys because Em is leaving in about an hour." She had picked up the boys for a visit. Flying overnight would help to hopefully ease the jet lag. Liz wanted to hug on her friend some. She was going to miss seeing her around the halls.

"Tell her I'll miss her. She's going to help a lot of people who need it." Piph commented. "Get going. I'll sit with Jason for a while."

"Thanks Piph." Liz said smiling. She was looking forward to the coming trip and not having to leave Jason at the end of the day.

"Get some rest. He's a horrible patient." Piph said laughing.

"See you in the morning." Liz said before heading out.

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