RETURNING HOME
CHAPTER NINE
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A/N: I am not sure how events played out on the show when Jason and Robin broke up and after that as I stopped watching the show so please bear with me if I don't get things exactly right. Please read and review. All mistakes are mine as I don't have a beta reader so please forgive me if I get something wrong.
Felicia and Alan stood up and Alan helped Robin to her feet. They are anxious to hear what Monica has to say.
Monica looked at them and smiled. "The medication worked his heartbeat is back to normal."
"Oh thank God!" Felicia exclaimed smiling.
Robin is very relieved that Mac didn't have to have surgery. "So what happens now?"
Tony speaks up. "Monica and I have talked about it and I want to do a CT scan of his head, stomach and chest to make sure that there is no internal bleeding and that we didn't miss anything else that we got the bleeding stopped and there is no bleeding in his brain. If there isn't I think we will try bringing him out of his drug induced coma."
Robin and Felicia were happy that Mac was going to wake up if all went well with these tests. "When are you going to do the CT scans?"
"Right now, I am going to have him taken down to radiology and have it done." Tony told them. "Do you have any questions before I go and do that?"
Felicia and Robin shook their heads, they didn't have any questions. They just hoped that everything turned out okay in the CT scans so they could take Mac off the medication that kept him in a coma. Tony left to go take care of getting Mac down to radiology. Monica and Alan both said they would be around if Felicia or Robin needed anything and they would be back to check on them. Felicia and Robin sat there talking, Felicia catching Robin up on what had been going on in her hometown since she left. They had been talking for a while when Jason and Sonny showed up with their bodyguards.
"What are you guys doing here?" Robin wanted to know, surprised to see them.
"I called Mac's to check on you and see how you were doing after what happened at Kelly's and how tired you were and the babysitter told me that you were here, and that Monica had called and asked you to come back to the hospital so we decided to come here to see if Mac was alright, and if you needed anything." Jason told Robin, wanting to be there for her and hoping that Robin would be okay with that.
Robin is touched by Jason's words, "I don't need anything. Thank you for coming down here though." She smiled at Jason and then looked at Sonny wondering why he was here; he didn't care about her anymore. He had turned his back on her, just like Jason had, when she needed him the most. She had been alone and pregnant when he turned his back on her, when she really needed Sonny to be there for her he wasn't, he took Jason's side. All the words that he spoke about family and honor had been lies, the first time she did something he didn't like he turned his back on her so she wondered why he was here.
Felicia spoke up. "Jason, please take Robin down to the cafeteria and get her something to eat." Felicia knew that Robin would protest but she knew that Robin needed to eat.
"I want to stay here until Tony comes back." Robin protested not wanting to leave.
"I know you do, I will call your cell phone if Tony comes out to tell us anything but you need to eat for your baby's sake. It's been hours since we were at Kelly's. Mac would want you to take care of yourself and your baby and you know it." Felicia knew Mac would want her to take care of Robin since he couldn't and that he wouldn't want Robin to put herself or her child in danger because of him.
"I agree with her, in fact I was just coming to tell you that." Alan said as he had come up behind Felicia and Robin and Robin and Felicia hadn't seen him. "Jason, Sonny," He greeted them figuring they were here to support Robin. "As your doctor I am telling you go to the cafeteria and get something to eat. I will wait here with Felicia and make sure to get you if anything happens or if Tony gets done faster than I think he will." Alan promised her.
"Okay, thank you, Alan, I will go with Jason to the cafeteria if he has time to eat with me?" Robin knew she was beaten.
"I have time." Is all Jason said which was normal. He was a man of few words.
"Can I come too, Sweetheart?" Sonny asked nervous inside but not showing it on the outside.
Robin, who knew Sonny better than anyone, knew he was nervous so she smiled. Life was too short to hold grudges she thought even though he had turned his back on her she still cared about him. "Yes you can come."
Sonny breathed a sigh of relief. Jason walked over to Robin and helped her to her feet, they can both feel the connection that they have always had; it hadn't been lost in the months that she had been gone. They walk to the elevator and head down to the cafeteria. Robin, Jason and Sonny got their food and sat down at a table.
Sonny was the first to break the silence. "Robin, I know I was in the wrong when I picked sides five months ago, You never picked sides no matter who or what was going on and I shouldn't have either, I should have been there for you like you have always been there for me. You never chose sides with Brenda and me or with Jax and me when you could have. I regret what I said to you that day. Can you ever forgive me?"
"Why did you turn your back on me?" Robin asked moved by what he said. She took another bite of her sandwich. They were eating as they talked
"Betrayal, it reminded me of what Brenda had done when she wore the wire." Sonny told her the truth about why he had turned his back on her.
"Sonny, Brenda did that because she was scared and insecure and she knew you were lying to her, not because it was the right thing to do. You have to understand I don't regret telling AJ the truth, the only thing I regret is going behind Jason's back to do it, just because Jason had betrayed my trust didn't mean I needed to betray his. I also did it too ultimately to protect Jason from Carly's manipulations." Robin told them both, knowing that they needed to talk about this but she was also afraid of what they would say to this.
"How did I betray your trust?" Jason wanted to know not understanding what he had done.
"You didn't protect me from Carly when she would say things to hurt me, my HIV wasn't killing me you not protecting me was, I felt like I was an obligation to you, I wasn't a priority in your life. Carly and Michael was. And you would be at Carly's all the time until finally you just were going to move in with her and Michael. I felt betrayed and I was pregnant with your child and I was told you knew and didn't care that was the last betrayal. I grew up not knowing who my parents were for the first seven years of my life I know how Michael would have felt if he had to go through that. So after what Carly said to me on the docks I went to see AJ and told him the truth. I wanted our lives back, I thought you would be angry but I wasn't prepared for the anger you showed me. I thought you knew I was pregnant and just didn't care." Robin had tears in her eyes by now. Jason was heartbroken to see this.
"I'm sorry Robin I didn't know how you felt. I knew you were sad. What all did Carly say to you?" Jason was very regretful for how he treated Robin, the woman he loved was hurting and he hadn't seen it.
"That you needed a real woman not a weak little girl with HIV she also said that she would take real good care of you. And you know me, always with a smile even when I am hurting inside." Robin said sarcastically with tears in her eyes.
"You never had to pretend with me though Robin."
"You use to be able to see behind my smile to what was going on, you just stopped seeing. I always thought we had this great connection but in the end you were a stranger to me, I couldn't feel you even when we made love. You stopped loving me." Robin tearfully told Jason how she felt at the end of their relationship.
Jason was shocked, his connection to Robin meant everything to him, now she's saying it was gone at the end of their relationship and she thought he had stopped loving her. "I never stopped loving you Robin, never. I had promised Michael I would be there for him. The connection we have means everything to me. Can you feel it now, Robin? I can."
"Yes I feel it. Five months ago though I didn't you were like a puppet with Carly pulling the strings, Carly was ruining us and you let her. How do I know you won't do the same thing again if I let you back in, that you will put me and our baby first, that you will protect me from Carly? How do I know that?"
"Carly is out of our lives, after what she did I could care less about her, you and the baby will be my first priority, I won't let anyone come between us again, I have been dead inside without you, I love you Robin I always have, since the first time I kissed you on the bridge I have loved you. Please give me another chance, I will put you first, I promise that you and our baby will never have to doubt that I love you or that you come first. I know I let you down before but I won't again."
Robin thinks about what Jason has said for a minute and remembers what Alan said to her, to follow her heart; she had a baby to think of now so she sure hoped she would be doing the right thing. "Alan told me to follow my heart so that is what I am going to do, but Jason this is the last time we try to make this work if we fail this time there will be no more chances."
"We won't fail this time, I know it, I love you Robin." He leaned over and gently kissed her lips after a few seconds he pulled away. He smiled at her and she smiled back.
"I'm glad you're back together. You are meant to be. Sweetheart, can you find it in your heart to forgive me also?" Sonny asked wanting his little sister back in his life.
"We will take it one day at a time all three of us we need to learn to trust each other again. That will take time." Robin told both of them. They knew she was right, but at least they had a chance. Just then her phone went off and she answered it.
It was Felicia, Tony had news, they were done eating, they had finished a while ago but were just talking, she told Felicia they'd be right up. They leave the cafeteria and head to the elevator to take them to the ICU floor; they step off the elevator and walk over to where Tony, Monica and Alan are at with Felicia. When she got there Tony said "I have news on Mac's condition."
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