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Chapter 36

Johnny parked his car next to Cody's and got out. Leaving Nadine was the last thing he wanted to do. "What happened?"

"Robin Scorpio died." Cody didn't know the doctor at all, but he knew she had a history with Jason.

"Shit." Johnny liked Robin. "Does Brenda know?"

"We had just come back from the hospital when I called you. She wouldn't let me stay." Cody figured she let loose when she was by herself. "She probably shouldn't be alone and she doesn't have any family here."

"You did the right thing calling me." Francis would have done his best, but he just couldn't stand Brenda. "Stay here." Johnny instructed.

Cody just nodded he was glad Johnny came over. It just didn't feel right to leave her there alone, and he didn't want his presence to intrude of her grief. Although he would have stayed.

Johnny took the stairs and picked the lock on Brenda's door. Spinelli had all kinds of tools and this master card could disable the hotel locks in seconds. He was banking on her not having called to replace the safety chain and he was right. Walking in he found her curled up on the bed. "Brenda."

The model just looked at him. "Go away."

"I can't just leave you here alone. Get some clothes and you can stay at my place." He had no idea how he was going to explain that to Nadine.

"You hate me." She said wiping her cheeks.

"Yeah I do." Johnny said bluntly. "So pack up."

"I'm not going with you." Brenda just wanted to be left alone but she knew O'Brien wasn't going to leave. "Where's Cody?"

"Down in his car." Johnny was surprised she knew his name. Brenda tended to treat the guards like Carly. Well that wasn't true, Carly treated the guards like servants Brenda ignored them only talking to them when she had to. She hated having them which was only one of the reasons she and Sonny couldn't make it.

"Call him, he can sit up here and listen to me cry." Brenda reached for another tissue. "I'm going to see Sonny in the morning."

"Is that wise?" Johnny could only imagine how ugly that would be.

"It needs to be done." Brenda blamed him for Robin's death. None of this would have happened if he had kept his mouth shut. That pull she thought they had was dead. She would never forgive him for causing this. "The man who shot Robin, do you know where he is?"

"Not yet, but Jason wants him." Johnny was reaching out to his contacts overseas. So far nothing. It seemed Craig didn't even exist before Port Charles and that would make him harder to track, but everyone left a trail.

"Why does Jason want him so badly?" Brenda needed information.

"Because he planned on taking Elizabeth with him when he left." That was why they all wanted him.

"The nurse. Robin said they were fighting an attraction." Brenda loved hearing the gossip from Port Charles. Robin knew to leave out Sonny and Jax. "They finally give in?"

"She had his son yesterday. He's a cute kid, if you are sticking around you should stop by seeing as you were once married to Jason." Johnny would of course be there for that. No one irritated Jason more than Brenda. "Just be careful what you say. Elizabeth does not take kindly to anyone insulting Jason."

"She must be pissed all the time then." Brenda would need to meet her. They would mostly likely be at the funeral. "Go please. Call Cody." She laid back down ignoring him. Johnny called Cody up and met him in the hall. "Just sit with her. She's planning on going to see Sonny so I will send you relief."

"It's fine. I can handle it." Cody was not a Sonny fan he wanted to see the model rip him a new one.

"Call me if she needs anything." Johnny said before leaving.

Nadine was waiting up for him. It was nice way to come home. "You should have stayed asleep."

"I missed you. You are better than an electric blanket." She said smiling.

"Glad to know I serve a purpose. Baby girl, I need to tell you something." He didn't want her to be blindsided at work.

"What?" She could tell it was serious.

"Robin died this morning." Johnny was holding her hand and watched her eyes fill with tears. He did the only thing he could which was hold her and offer her his support. "I know you were friends, I'm so sorry baby."

"Will you go to the funeral with me?" Nadine would miss Robin. They were good work friends and were becoming good friends outside of the hospital.

"Absolutely." Johnny promised. "Let's try to get some more sleep. Things will be busy once the sun came up.

Jason stepped back into Elizabeth's room. They'd both been awake when his phone buzzed. She was feeding Jake and he was watching them. When they got home Elizabeth was going to start pumping so that he could feed their son as well. Jason was looking forward to that.

"Can you put him in the bassinet?" Elizabeth had already burped him.

"Sure." Jason sat him down and just looked at him for a moment before turning to Elizabeth. "Something's happened." He came and sat down. For him the news brought momentary sadness. Robin had not been a part of his life since she told AJ about Michael. For his girl it would bring real grief. "Johnny just called me. Robin died a little while ago."

"What?" Elizabeth just looked at him stunned. "Are you sure?"

"He just came from seeing Brenda." Jason knew that once the shock wore off Elizabeth would be in pain.

"Is Brenda alright? Does she need anything? Jason she shouldn't be alone right now. Maybe she should come stay with us." Elizabeth didn't know the model but when you experienced a loss you should be with family. Jason was her ex-husband. While their marriage wasn't founded on love it did end in friendship.

"Brenda is not staying with us. She can move into the penthouse." Her room was just the way she left it.

"Poor Robin." Elizabeth said as the tears came. Jason just held her and let her get it out.

"We will go to the funeral although if both Jax and Sonny come it could get ugly." Jason warned her.

"Sonny wouldn't dare show his face. It's his fault that Robin was shot in the first place." Elizabeth would never forgive Sonny for this. Robin hadn't even been a problem that night. She'd spent most of her time making sure that the baby was doing okay.

"Sonny will come, he won't be able to stay away because he knows that Brenda will be there." Jason just hoped they managed to not do anything stupid at the service. Afterwards Brenda could shoot Sonny in cold blood for all he cared.

"Get in." Elizabeth scooted over. She wanted his arms around her.

"Okay." Jason wasn't even going to argue. He spooned up behind her and they both looked at their son. "I love him, just as much as I love Cameron. I want you to know that there is no difference in how I love my sons."

"I know." She did, she saw it in how Jason took time with Cam even though Jake was now here. Before Cam left for the night Jason took him down to the cafeteria and they had ice cream just the two of them. "Thank you for that."

"I love their mom too." Losing someone made you want to hold tight to those around you. Robin hadn't been a major part of his life for a long time but he was still sorry that she died the way she did.

"Their mom loves you too." Elizabeth sniffed before crying again. "She was my friend and I will miss her so much."

"I know baby, I know." Jason just held her and let her grieve.

Monica sat in the armchair and watched her daughter sleep. It had taken some time but Emily was finally resting. Cardiology was Monica's specialty but she'd been around long enough to know the signs of withdrawal when she saw them. After all she was the wife of an addict and the mother of two more. Jason for all his faults had never succumb to that particular demon.

Emily had been too far gone to tell Monica what she was taking or how long she'd been taking it for. Looking back the only obvious change had been in personality. Emily's mean and vicious attacks were most likely because of the drugs. The troubling part was that those thoughts and feelings were there all along, the drugs just made it so that Emily gave voice to them. Once she got clean her daughter would need to spend some time with a therapist, maybe even go to Shadybrook for a while. She might also have to give up her dream of being a doctor.

The question that was haunting Monica was did Nikolas know? Did he use Emily's dependence on drugs to keep her close to him? They went from broken up to a couple once more very fast. Emily moved into that drafty castle to help Lucky and never moved out again.

"How could I be so stupid?" Monica asked herself. Oxycontin was Lucky's drug of choice, and she would bet it was Emily's too. She'd need to go up to the house and get her bag to take a blood sample. If what she suspected was true then she'd get the necessary supplies from the hospital to help her daughter through the first stages of withdrawal. Emily had a long road ahead of her, but she would have support every step of the way.

Nikolas was in a room at the Port Charles hotel because he couldn't bring himself to go home. He was not in the mood to deal with Sam's whining about how Elizabeth was ruining her life. He should be looking for Emily, but couldn't muster up the energy to do that either. Now all he was going to do was continue to drink until he passed out.

Tomorrow he needed to start planning his sister's funeral. Luke was still M.I.A., but Lucky was going to come home. Probably to get himself killed by Jason. It might be a mercy killing. Lucky hadn't been the same since Helena took him. His death had been hard enough but his return was when everyone's lives took a turn for the worse. How much better off would they have been if his Grandmother had really killed Lucky.

They would never know. Nikolas drank the rest of the Scotch in his glass and poured more. He needed to go see Laura and tell her what happened. He had no idea if she could even hear him all she did was sit and stare at the wall. Hopefully whatever world she was locked in was peaceful. He almost envied her not having to deal with all the shit the real world heaped on you. Nikolas took another drink and began to plan his escape. He would find Emily and they would leave Port Charles as soon as possible.

This late at night the lab was empty. Ian grabbed all the supplies he needed and started testing. An hour later he was even more frustrated than when he began. The blood work showed no anomaly other than the HIV virus. There was no sign of infection in Robin's system.

So what had killed her?

He started testing for anything he could think of. Everything came back negative. No viruses, no organ failure, no problems what so ever. The new protocol was working. No signs of a heart attack or stroke. According to what he was looking at she should have been ready to leave the hospital in a day or two.

Without an autopsy he'd never get his answers. Unless he ran a full body scan. It would take no time at all. He would be able to get a look inside her body for any abnormalities. He just had to figure out how to get her body out of the morgue. Doctors couldn't just sign a corpse out.

Alan was no longer in the building so all he had to do was get around the night shift that worked in the basement. If he could lead a double life as an assassin and world class surgeon, this would be cake. He just had one more test to run. The tox screen. Once he got the preliminary results from that back he'd go downstairs and get Robin.

Finding who he was looking for hadn't been hard. When he saw her leave the cottage he simply went in and picked up the sleeping young woman. Emily obviously needed help. Monica was a great surgeon but this was beyond her specialty. Matt knew exactly where he could take Emily to get her the help she needed.

It was Nikolas who gave him the clue he needed to know what was wrong with his colleague. He'd been brought in by the paramedics to be treated for shock. He asked Matt if Emily had been brought in and he let it slip that she was back on drugs.

When Monica bolted from the hospital his shift was over so he followed her. Then he waited. "I have a friend who owes me a favor, we will get you fixed right up." Matt took the exit that would lead him to the private clinic in Connecticut. There Emily would get the help she needed. He was glad he learned about this before it was too late. Emily's name was on the naughty list. She needed to get sober, and then he could decide if it stayed there or not.

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