Chapter 14
Robert and Anna were up first the next morning. They were in the kitchen, Robert was making coffee when Anna came up behind him wrapping her arms around him. She put her head against his back and closed her eyes, she had him back she thought with a smile.
When Robert was done he turned and put his arms around her as well. "Have you thought about what you want to do next?"
"I'll have to go down to headquarters and give my notice. That can wait until after Robin has left."
"I take it that means we aren't staying here," he said and kissed the top of her head.
"No, I think it's about time you took me to Australia."
"Is that where you want to live?"
Anna looked up at him, "I think I want to settle down in Port Charles, I just don't know if I'm ready to go there yet. I want some time with you without people asking us a ton of questions. I think we should give Thomas time to get used to the idea of moving, to say goodbye to his friends."
"That is a very good idea."
"That also gives us some time to figure out what we want to once we move back to Port Charles."
"You're moving back to Port Charles?" Robin asked as she walked into the room.
"Eventually, we're going to go to Australia for a while first."
"I can come and visit you guys there," Robin said with a smile.
"You better," Anna said still standing in Robert's arms.
There was a knock at the door, they all looked at each other, "They wouldn't be back already, would they?" Robin said as she turned to go answer the door.
Robert touched her chin and Anna looked up at him, he kissed her tenderly, "I needed that." Anna smiled then took his hand and they turned to follow Robin.
Robin opened the door to find two men in suits standing there, "Yes? Can I help you?"
"We're here to speak to Anna Devane."
"What's this about?"
"That doesn't concern you, miss."
Robin folded her arms across her chest, "Are you WSB?"
"Is this Anna Devane's residence?"
"It's alright Robin. We knew they might show up," Anna said from behind her. Robert standing right beside her. Robin stepped out of the way and the two men stepped inside. "What do you want?"
"We have some questions for you."
"I think we should move this into the kitchen," Robert suggested.
"This is fine," one of the agents said.
"I don't want our son to get up and see you interrogating his mother. I said this should be moved to the kitchen." The agents looked at each other and nodded. "When your uncles get here, send them in please." Robert turned to head to their bedroom.
"I will. I'll keep Thomas out of there as well."
"Thanks," Anna said then the three of them walked into the kitchen. "Have a seat and show me your ID."
The men took out their badges, Agent Mahony and Agent Blake then sat down at the table across from Anna. Robert walked in and went to lean against the counter when he came in. "Sir, you don't need to be in here for this."
"Like hell, I don't. Ask your question, I'm not going anywhere."
"Sir," Mahony started.
"Scorpio. I am Robert Scorpio and I know exactly why you are here."
The agents looked at each other, "You are here to question me because the WSB wants to believe that I was giving WSB secrets to Cesar Faison. That I left my family willing to help that man. He forced me to go with him, I was his prisoner."
"You are a trained agent, you couldn't get away?" Mahony said it seems he will be the one asking the questions.
"I was lured into a trap. There was no escaping then he drugged me and took me to the first of several places he held me prisoner."
"What information did he ask you for?"
"None, Faison did not want information from me, he wanted me. Faison has been obsessed with me since I was a girl. His mother was my nanny. He wanted me, plain and simple. He tried to kidnap our daughter because he thought that would make me happy and that it would change how I feel about him. He took me away from my husband, we have just gotten remarried. All I wanted was to go home to my family."
"The information he asked you for was it about current WSB case at the time?"
"Again he did not ask me for any information. He wasn't even DVX at the time why the hell would he want WSB information? He is obsessed with me. He showed up on our wedding day hoping I would leave with him. He wanted me to be his."
"What kind of information did you pass on to Cesar Faison?" Mahony either wasn't listening to what Anna was telling him or had a list of questions that he had to ask no matter what she said.
"I told him I was pregnant with Robert child. I told him I will always love Robert and nothing he ever did would change that. I told him he discussed me."
Mahony held up his hand, "We are talking about the information you passed on to him."
"I did not pass on any information! You are aware I was not working for the WSB at the time I was abducted, right? That I hadn't been for years. What kind of information would I have had to pass on? Oh wait, it must have been about Robert Scorpio, Sean Donely, Mac Scorpio and myself taking down the cartel operating in Port Charles. One that Faison was a part of and how the WSB let him escape after we had handed them all over to their custody."
"Ma'am, you know that is not what we are talking about. What information did you pass on to Cesar Faison?"
"None, I didn't tell him anything."
"Ma'am, this will be a lot easier if you just tell us the truth."
Robert was getting tired of this guy and his attitude. "Who sent you here? Was it Jenkins? Check those papers in front of you, when did the WSB know Anna had her memory back?"
Blake looked at the papers in front of them, "We have known where Ms Devane was since she was in the hospital here in Pine Valley."
"That was months ago," Anna said looking up at Robert.
"Does it also say when she regained her memory?" Robert asked. This guy might not know Jenkins wouldn't want him telling them this stuff.
"Um, after a visit from her daughter she started to regain her memory. We knew it was back completely a month after that."
"Robert that was almost four months ago."
"Yeah, and they told me they had found you but that you did not have your memory back not quite two months ago."
"What's going on in here?"
They all looked over to see Sean and Mac now standing in the kitchen. "This doesn't concern you," Mahony told him.
"Yes, it does. Sean Donely, former director of the WSB. Maybe you've heard of me." The look on their faces told him they had.
"They finally decide to come and accuse Anna of giving Faison WSB secrets. This isn't a debriefing, it's Mahony there asking Anna over and over what she told Faison. Nothing else just that but Blake here, he just told me the WSB knew where Anna was and that she had her memory back for two months before they told me they had found her."
"Oh, that's interesting. Anna, is this the first time any agents have come to talk to you?" Sean asked.
"Yes, it is."
Sean looked at the two men sitting at the table with Anna. "Mahony, Blake did I get that right? You are aware you that you are only here because Frank Jenkins has his panties in a bunch because Robert made sure he wouldn't get screwed over by the WSB."
"Sir, I don't think you are fully aware of the situation," Mahony told him.
"I was in Jenkins office with Robert and Brad Richmond when this was discussed and Robert was released from the agreement he had made with the WSB. What was that line about questioning Anna?" Sean asked Robert as he and Mac moved closer to the table.
Robert pulled out the paper he had gone to get then read, "If the WSB does not feel the need to contact Anna Devane after she has regained her memories it will be taken as an admittance of her innocents in the matter of her abduction by and suspected collaboration with Cesar Faison."
"Four months, that wasn't enough time to come here?" Sean asked them. "You are only here because Robert went down to headquarters and he is holding the original copy of the agreement he made with the WSB and Jenkins is upset that he can't force Robert to work for the WSB any longer because of that."
"We are here because she was working with Cesar Faison," Mahony insisted.
"Really? Where's your proof?" Mac asked.
"She made a recording," Mahony started.
"I was pregnant! If I didn't record that message he would have made l sure I lost my baby! He made that very clear!" Anna yelled.
Sean pulled out his phone, after a moment it was answered. "Hello, Sean Donely. Connect me to Brad Richmond please." Sean then put his phone on speakerphone.
"Hello Sean, what can I do for you today?"
"Hi, Brad. I'm hoping you can straighten something out for me. I've got you on speakerphone here. Are you aware Agents Mahony and Blake were sent to here speak to Anna?"
"No, I was not."
"Then you weren't aware that they are her accusing her of giving Faison information? That the only question they have is what did you tell Faison. Oh and we now know that the WSB has known for four months that Anna had her memory back."
"Agents, who sent you there?" Brad asked.
"Jenkins told us this was important and that we should get here as quickly as we could," Blake answered.
"When was this?"
"Yesterday afternoon, sir."
"Leave them alone. Excuse yourselves and report back to me as soon as you arrive back here. This matter was closed last week and both Robert Scorpio and Anna Devane Scorpio are free to do whatever they feel fit to do from here on out. The WSB does not have any problems with either one. You will not ask them any more questions."
"Yes sir," Blake answered.
"Thanks, Brad," Robert said.
"No problem, Robert. Thanks for calling Sean. I will let you know what happens but I feel there will be an opening here very soon." Then the line went dead.
The two agents looked at each other, they weren't sure what had just happened or what was going on. It didn't seem like she had done anything and all Richmond needed was names to know exactly what was going on here.
Agent Blake started putting away the papers that were in front of him. He looked at Anna, "We're sorry for the interruption." Mahony looked up at him as he stood, then stood as well but didn't say anything. "We'll be going now." He looked at Mahony who he knew wanted to argue about this but he did turn to leave the room. The other four people followed them out of the kitchen.
Thomas was sitting with Robin watching cartoons when they noticed them all come back into the room. They had heard raised voices a couple of times but he didn't know what was going on. He didn't know those two men with his parents and knew that had to be why Robin wouldn't let him go into the kitchen.
"Blake, I trust you will be reporting in with Richmond," Sean looked at Mahony, "and you'll make sure he does as well."
"I was doing what I was told to do," Mahony said defensively. "If secrets were passed to the DVX that is very serious and I would think you would all understand that."
"She was not a hostile witness. You were sitting in her kitchen and she was willingly talking to you," Sean shot back. "You were treating her like an enemy agent."
"I was to get answers!" Mahony insisted.
"That was not what we were asked to do," Blake said. "We were to ask questions about her abduction. We were to ask about any interaction she had with Faison. Not accuse her of anything."
Thomas came over and took Anna's hand. "Mom, what's going on?"
"Nothing buddy, these men were just leaving."
"They just wanted to talk to your mom but they're done now."
Thomas heard the anger in his father's voice. "Dad, is everything alright? They aren't going to take Mom away from us, are they? We just got her back." Then he wrapped his arms tightly around Anna.
Robert bent down, put his hands on Thomas' shoulder and looked him in the eye. "No one is taking Mom away from us."
"You promise?"
"I promise."
Thomas nodded but did not let go of his mother. Anna had one arm around him and the other stroking his hair, "This is who I was protecting. This is the baby I would not let Faison harm," she said glaring at Mahony. "The WSB has kept our family apart for years and no one's twisted vendetta is going to keep us apart any longer. I don't care how high up Jenkins is."
Robin walked over and opened the door, folded her arms and glared at the agents waiting for them to leave. Seeing how them being here was upsetting her family really bothered her and she just wanted them to leave.
Blake looked at the boy wrapped around his mother. He had heard a little about what had happened at headquarters last week but he had no idea what the WSB had put them through. He might ask Richmond about this when they talk but he knew all they wanted was to be left alone. "Again, we are sorry to have bothered you. James, let's go." It looked like Mahony wanted to say something else but after a few seconds, he did turn and leave.
Mac was watching Robert Anna and Thomas. Robert was now on his knees with his arms around Thomas and Anna. Anna was still holding Thomas and he now had his face buried in Anna's side, Mac thought he might be crying. "Sean," he tilted his head towards the kitchen then they turned and left them alone. Robin had followed the agents outside to make sure they had actually left, now she came back inside.
"Hey, Thomas look at me," Anna said as she stroked the side of his face. He looked up at her with tears in his eyes. "No one is taking me away from you. We are finally together, all four of us. No more hiding, no more having to use a different last name. Everyone is going to know you are my little man and that's all that matters."
"We're going to be together?"
"Of course we are," Anna said as she wiped away his tears. "We are going to go to Australia, I'm going to meet your friends. Would you like that?" Thomas nodded. "We were also talking about moving to Port Charles after that."
"We could live there? I think that would be amazing," he said with a smile.
Robert looked up at her, "Thomas has always liked the idea of living in Port Charles. He told me that it would be cool because everyone would know who he is and who his parents are."
"We'd be in Australia for a little while before we moved there, does that sound good?"
"Yeah."
"Once I'm done with all my schooling I think I'll want to settle somewhere close to all of you. I might even end up in Port Charles too," Robin told him.
"You should move to Port Charles, then we could hang out," Thomas said, finally letting go of Anna.
"You're right we do need to hang out. I have to leave tomorrow so you are spending lots of time with me today."
"Yeah, okay." He turned and walked over to Robin. She put her arm around him, then they walked off down the hall. She was glad Thomas seems happy again, just the thought of their mom not being with them had really scared him.
Robert stood up and pulled Anna into his arms, "No one is taking you away from me. Never again."
"That was the end of it now, right?"
"I think it is. I'm going to talk to Sean about this. See if he can follow up and make sure that it is all behind us now."
"I don't even want to think about it, never mind worry that at some point down the road the WSB is going to come and try to punish us even more."
"I don't want to think about it either. This is Robin's last day with us for a while. Mac and Sean are here, I want to have a good day. I want us to be happy."
"Alright," Anna kissed him tenderly. Then she smiled at him, "Let's go see what everyone else is doing."