Chapter Ten: Warning: Intensity May Lead To Pain

Cabin

Days have passed since the group of six have been here and now it's finally Christmas. The snow is finally dying down and they know it won't be long until they can finally leave. But they know it won't happen tonight. So they make the best of it, all trying to tolerate each other and do something fun to celebrate the holiday. Charades is the game of choice this time and the six have already split into two teams, the game well under way. Its team two's turn (Robin, Patrick, and Emily) and they're in lead in the lead. Patrick and Robin can simply look at each other and know what the other is imitating. They know that they have the game on lock.

Patrick picks up a card and as he quick stares at it he thinks of how to show the words in the card. Dirty Dancing. I remember that movie. A slow smile comes to his face as he remembers his Mom watching the movie for the billionth time so long ago.

"Mom, its opening day for NASCAR. Can you turn that movie off and let me watch it." Patrick asks his mom insistently.

"NASCAR over Dirty Dancing? You must not know what you're missing. I'm telling you son, if you ever want to show a girl you love her, dance with her like that. Show her that she's the only one on your mind and in your heart." she says smiling, hoping that one day her fifteen year old son would find a woman like that.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say mom. Now can you change the channel?"

God I missed her, he couldn't help but think. His mom was gone but in his heart she was so vivid and an ever present part in his life and decisions.

I know what to do, he thinks. I have the music, now I just need the girl. As Bailamos by Enrique Igleisas plays, he leads Robin off the couch and begins to dance a sultry salsa with her much unlike, and sexier than the dance from the 1980s movie.

Tonight we dance
I lay my life, in your hands
We take the floor
Nothing is forbidden anymore
Don't let the world in outside
Don't let the moment go by
Nothing can stop us tonight

Bailamos
let the rhythm take you over, Bailamos
Te quiero amor mio, bailamos
Gonna live this night forever
Bailamos, Te quiero amor mio, te quiero

After he takes her hand, he brings her closer to him. They dance close for a little bit and his hand runs up her leg a little. He dips her low as the music speeds up and as he brings her up again she guesses, 'Dirty Dancing". They've won the game. Yet they keep on dancing and things start too heat up...way too much.

"Why don't we all dance?" Elizabeth suggests and they all stand up and try to dance, try to break the awkwardness coming from watching these two dance.

Nikolas takes Emily's hand and they dance a slow classical dance, the only type the prince knows. Yet they can't help but stare at the Patrick and Robin while dancing. They seem so lost in each other's eyes and seemingly forget that others, mainly their spouses are even in the room. How can Emily and Nikolas not take notice of the lust...or maybe love, between them?

As Robin stares into Patrick's eyes dancing she can't stop the thoughts that race through her head, good and bad. She looks at him and her heart swells as she feels amazed at his dancing skills and more. It's just the way he looks at me...like I'm the only woman in the world for him...almost like he really loves me. It's really amazing. But it has to stop.

She breaks away from his grasp and makes a quick excuse to get away, even though she knows she'd rather do anything but. It's just all getting to be too much. "Patrick...I think I'm tired and I should go to sleep, so um, thanks for the dancing. It was nice," she quickly rambles. She walks out of the room and than dashes to into a closet. An awkward place for her to gather her thoughts but she's desperate and for once, she doesn't want to be found.

'Nice. Is that all you could say, she thinks to herself? Is that all dancing with Patrick and all the other moments you've had with him have been? When he first told you he loved you or was simply there for you whenever you need him and things got tough. Nice.

But it was more than that, I know it, and its why I had to get out of there. I know I love him and I always have if I'm completely honest to myself. I was the first to tell him I was falling in love with him, not the other way around. But there's a big chance that we might never get the chance to be together. We screwed up once. Who's to say it won't happen again?

Whenever I get close to someone I get hurt. We never mean for it to end and we always fight for our love but in the end, it all falls to pieces. Stone was my first love and he died with the same disease still that lies inside of me; a virtual ticking-time bomb. Jason loved the mob mroe than he could ever love me. Nikolas cheated and lied to me again and again. Even Patrick and I drifted apart after so many arguments and blows to each other's pride. When I allow myself to over think and analyze my feelings, I realize one thing: I'm scared to love.

She looks up to the door slowly opening and sees Patrick walk inside.

"Patrick, I just need a moment to think by myself. Can you go?" she asks seriously, yet subconsciously happy that he was here with her.

"I'm not leaving you alone until I find out what happened in there. Why did you just up and leave?" Patrick asks, genuinely confused.

"Fine, if you don't want to leave, I will," she replies stubbornly and gently pulls on the doorknob.

It's stuck.

She grasps it more firmly this time and yet it still won't budge. Once again they're stuck.

Damn. Robin fleetingly tries to call Elizabeth and Lucky to open the door but finally realizes that the music that still plays is too loud for her to be heard. She sits back down in defeat.

"You still haven't told me why you left so suddenly? You looked like you just had to get out of there. What's going on Robin?"

Being this close to him and hearing him sincerely concerned for her feelings makes her realize that she can't keep anything from him. So she bears her all, hoping that he'll understand what she's trying to say.

"It wasn't the dancing that made me run. It was me fully realizing how much I care about you...love you. When I love I love completely and I depend on the fact that the love I share with that person will never die. But it will... it always does. It happened with Nikolas and it will with you. Loving someone doesn't mean you can get the opportunity to spend a life time with him. I realize that now.

I'm just too scared at the fact that I might have to go through that again. Maybe you'll decide to stay married to Emily or you'll stop caring about me...maybe I'll die before we even get the chance." Robin says so passionately, her emotion filled voice bringing chills to Patrick.

"That's the whole point of life. We don't know what might happen, or how much time we have left. We just make the best of what we have and hope it's enough to make life worth fighting for." Patrick replies.

"But what if-" she replies but is cut off by Patrick's finger on her lips. As they sit side by side in the coat filled closet Patrick begins to understand more about what she's going through.

"But nothing. Life is going to be hard whether we like it or not. But sometimes, someone can walk into your life and make you realize that maybe, all the strife is worth it if in the end you can have moments like these with someone you love."

He goes one step further to silence her from anymore rambling and kisses her, yet this time its different. They go farther than they have in a while and as Patrick pulls her black camisole over her head, and she does the same with his shirt, neither thinks that they are making a mistake. Maybe because they're not.

Completely into the moment and into each other they come close to doing something that can be wrong but feels so right. They begin to explore each other's bodies, instinctively, like being with each other is the most natural thing in the world.

They don't even hear the pair of footsteps approaching the door or see Lucky open the closet to see them half dressed, so close to making love.

"What the hell are you two doing?" Lucky asks completely shocked and hurt to think how his best friend, Emily would feel when she saw this. Angrily he pulls the shirtless Patrick out of the closet and punches him directly in the face. This is for Emily he thinks.

Close behind Emily, Elizabeth, and Nikolas walk in to the hallway to see Lucky trying to pummel Patrick but Patrick eventually getting the upper hand, his hands raw from hitting him.

The fight goes on and Lucky again lands on top of him, trying to go beyond Patrick's blocks and punch him again in the face.

"What are you doing to my husband Lucky?" Emily asks confused as Nikolas tries to pull the two off each other.

"Your husband?" he asks incredulously, "is that what you call a man this close to having sex with another woman his wife is in the next room?"

All eyes turn to Robin, who was frozen with the shock of being caught in such an intimate moment. 'What the hell was I thinking. I don't regret what I was going to do but I should have known something like this would happen and we would get caught. Why didn't I think that by doing this right now, right here could hurt people...like Nikolas. But should I even care after all that's happened and finally realizing how deep my feelings for Patrick are.'

Emily looks at her spouse; utterly disgusted "So this is what you call trying to make our relationship work?" she says quietly, the visual proof of what's been going on hurting her, "Is sleeping with this slut part of your plan?"

The rest of the room stays quiet knowing that Emily and Patrick had to talk this out. Patrick looks at her not fully understanding her shock.

"Do you really have a right to criticize me after all that's gone on between us, after all that you've done. Do you really think you have the right to play the Innocent Victim here?"

"What have I done so wrong?" she yells, "Being there for you when you needed me, loving you-"

"Sleeping with Nikolas," She pauses and looks at him, silently pleading with him to not go any further with this tirade of his. They both knew the pain it could cause the others and shock at all the things that lay hidden beneath their surface. Yet he goes on.

"Don't act like you don't remember Emily." He says loudly, his hands boldly gesturing at her and Nikolas. "Tell everyone how you f--ked prince charming after our daughter died. How I walked in on you to find you with another man. You were still married to me and Nikolas was married to Robin but it didn't matter. You were just the first of many. Where was your high horse then?"

He stops and realizes what he's said, including the fact that Robin was never supposed to know. He never wanted to add to her pain by telling her this, even if it meant lying to her.

"You knew?" she asks Patrick accusingly and he can only nod reluctantly. He tries to take back the words but it is too late. The words have been said and cannot be erased from Robin's memory. Before he knows it, she's gone.

Into the night she runs until she's out of breath and she wonders when she began to run from all her problems. Shouldn't she, a Scorpio face her problems head on? Yet even that thought is incomprehensible. The fact that Patrick lied to her about something so important when he was the only person she could still completely trust is unbelievable. He was supposed to be different.

She stops and turns to find himstaring back at her. Cold, and shirtless. Livid, she slaps him with all the force her anger can allow her to find. If it hurts, it's not the pain, rather the fact that he made her feel this way that truly hurts him.
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Inside the Cabin

Lucky walks around the living room trying to work off his anger. Even though he had cheated on Elizabeth four years ago, he still couldn't contain his anger over someone trying to do the same to his best friend. They had been friends since they were kids and he couldn't help but be protective... It was too hard to hear her cry.

"Its okay, Em" he said pausing from his pacing to hug her with all his might, "you'll be better off without him."

"He's right," Elizabeth agrees, "you don't need him and there's no reason for you to talk to him if you don't want to."

Emily buries her head in Lucky's shoulders, yet looks up to give a response. "Except for the fact that I could be pregnant."

The room goes silent. There's nothing they can say about that.

"I can't keep waiting, I need to find out now," She walks into the bathroom and they wait.

Elizabeth looks around the room and through the window only to find a dark figure run across the window with something glinting in their hand...a knife? Before she knows it she's screaming and barely knows how to stop.

"Elizabeth, why are you screaming?" Emily asks after running out of the bathroom for her friend.

"There--there was someone, something out there." Elizabeth stammers. Naively the men laugh and though Emily is slightly worried she shrugs it off as nothing.

"Maybe it was Sasquatch, come to eat us alive?" Nikolas replies sarcastically

"There's nothing outside honey. Maybe you just saw Robin or Patrick outside." Lucky suggests.

She nods yet for some reason her gut tells her it's something more. That someone out there wants to do them harm. It's happened before. Yet she too shakes it off... eventually... as nothing.

"So what did the test show," she asks looking at the now distraught Emily.

"It was positive. I'm pregnant."
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Outside

Patrick puts his hand to his cheek, shocked that she slapped him, yet knowing that he deserved every bit of it. He never should have lied to her and now he realizes this... but is it too late?

He feels her glare at him... through him... yet he knows that he has to try to say something. They've gone too far to simply go back to square one and give up.

"I'm sorry, Robin," he says sincerely and she laughs out of spite.

"You're not sorry, you're just mad you got caught. How many times and opportunities did you have to tell me what you saw? How could you look at me and lie to my face everyday? It was my marriage they ruined too you know." She tells him, so much hurt and anger evident in her voice.

As her eyes glimmer with tears he tries to hug her but she waves him off, refusing for him to touch her right now. "No Patrick. I don't you fully understand how hard it was for me. I loved Nikolas, I really did. All the lies could have ruined me...if it wasn't for you. But you were part of the lie all along. Isn't that ironic?" she says cynically and angry.

"I know how hard it was because I went through the hurt of finding them in bed together. I could never hurt you like that again. I care about you too much... I love you" he tells her, honestly, praying that she will understand, "I swear I never meant to-"

"You never meant to do a lot of things, but you did." she says cutting him off in a more calm and final way, "It's too late to try and turn back time Patrick. Maybe we shouldn't have tried in the first place. We should have let it die."

She finishes with this and even though it hurts both of them, she won't take it back. To take it back would mean to have to try and work it out, only for it to fall apart in the end. She wouldn't go through that again. No, it was over. She would make sure of that.

A/N: Do you think it's over? Or is this just another bump in the road that Scrubs will have to conquer? Emily pregnant, Liz seeing things, how do you think the story will go? Tell me what you think and you'll find out sooner. Thanks to all the readers and reviewers.

Preview: Emily discovers a shocking possibility. Things go from bad to worse at the cabin.

kae-thinks-of-u: I'm glad you love the story and I'll try and update as much as possible though this week i have finals. And its good to know your opinions on what couples u like.

jasam2010: New reader? Cool. Glad you like the story and hope you keep reading.

IlovetowriteSMP: Nikolas might get desperate to keep robin and what happens with those two later on will be shocking. And I really wanted L&L2 to finally have a kid together since in this story thhey both have kids with others. Even I wonder what couples I want together but for the most part I think I know who will last.

maliek: My fiftieth reviewer! I do love both couples too. I'll update soon as I get a chance.