Bobbie Spencer ran to the phone but it felt like she was barely moving. She loved this job when babies were born or when she was able to assist a doctor in bringing a man back from the brink of death. However, she did not feel that way right now, not today. Today she hated this fucking job. Sixty seconds later she reached the phone but it felt like sixty years. She had been through hell both personally and professionally since she had assumed head nursing duties when Audrey Hardy had retired seventeen years ago.

There had been a long list of failed relationships. Her daughter had taken off to parts unknown with her two grandsons not for any desire of safety like Bobbie always expected would happen but because she thought that leaving would cause her recently estranged husband to scour the globe looking for her but for once Sonny did not fall for Carly's schemes. Jason washed his hands of her as well. They were tired of the drama and danger both caused by the mob and Carly.

Five years ago he and Jason, had made a deal with The Five Families and gotten out of the mob. They mended fences with her brother Luke and opened a café that was adjoined to Luke's club. Sonny was head chef and Jason was manager and did the bookkeeping. It wasn't as satisfying for him as it was for Sonny. He remembered that Taggert had once told him when he'd been looking for Elizabeth that he'd have made a good cop if things had been different. So as a side business he had became a PI specializing in cases of missing kids that parents were not happy with the cops' progress.

Bobbie picked up the phone. She held her breath and dialed the number Johnny had given her when he brought in the raven locked girl Bobbie had watched fight for her life from the moment she was born. She had seen her just last month and that baby girl was now a strong, vibrant, and beautiful young woman. So much like her mother. But today the young woman was bruised and broken. She dialed the number and waited.

Two rings later and a young man answered. "Davis and associates Manhattan legal aid."

Bobbie swallowed a sob. "Alexis Davis, please."

"May I ask who's calling?"

"Bobbie Spencer, its personal and important." There was a moment of silence and the next voice she heard was one she knew well.

"Hi Bobbie what's up?"

"Alexis, hi. Look I'm sorry about this but I'm at GH its Kristina."

"GH Kristina."

Alexis felt the room begin to spin. She never thought she'd hear that phrase again nor did she think it would strike such fear in her heart. She felt herself begin to hyperventilate and she forced herself to count to ten slowly to get herself under control. "What happened?" she finally heard herself ask.

Bobbie sighed, "I don't know all the details I just know that Johnny and Zander found her in the park. Chris Ramsey did a visual examination and thinks her wrist is broken as well as a few ribs and some cuts and bruises but we won't really know until we do X-rays which we can't do without your consent because she's a minor. She..."

"Fine do whatever you need to do," Alexis interrupted. "I'll leave the city now. I should be to you in less than ninety minutes if the traffic goddess is with me. Please ask the guys to stay with her until I get there."

"Alexis they would not leave her side even if I ordered them to."

"True True." Alexis half-smiled because she knew her daughter was in the safest care she could be in other than her own. Suddenly panic seized her again. "Bobbie wait, you said she was attacked in the park. They didn't. She wasn't. Oh God."

Alexis was rambling but Bobbie did not need her to be coherent to understand. The same thought had occurred to her when the two men brought in the young woman. Alexis was worried that Kristina had suffered the same fate that had befallen both Laura and Elizabeth in the same park. She was quick to reassure the nervous mother.

"No, Alexis this appears to be just a really rough mugging."

Alexis exhaled, "Thank you." She said into the phone but she was looking heavenward. A thought crossed her mind. She spoke again. "Did anyone call Sonny?"

Confusion evident in her voice, Bobbie replied "He isn't called Sonny anymore but no one called Michael why would they?"

Alexis cleared her throat to cover. "Oh no reason. I don't know what I was thinking. I just figured since Johnny was one of the ones who found her he'd have called his boss for advice."

"Alexis I know you've been gone a long time but I would have thought somebody around here would have kept you up on the events around here. Johnny hasn't work for Michael since shortly after you left."

"I had no idea. Bobbie please watch out for my baby. I'll be there as soon as I can."

Alexis hung up the phone. Her mind was spinning. She was trying to process everything Bobbie told her. Kristina had been mugged in a town Alexis hadn't stepped foot in for sixteen years. She had left shortly after regaining custody of Kristina. She had tried to get Ned to relinquish his parental rights but he had refused so she had been forced to subject Krissy to a confidential DNA test to get Ned removed from Kristina's life.

Luckily for all of them Sonny had had his hands to full with trying to keep Carly safe until the baby was born, being haunted by visions of his former wife and trying to save Nikolas from both Alcazar and Lydia at the same time to realize that Ned had been proven not to be Krissy's father. She had taken Kristina and moved to Manhattan. She didn't want to be to far from Nikolas or Stefan but she didn't want to take the chance of running into Sonny or Carly at the park when the resemblance to her father started to show in their daughter's face. Alexis had left town the day she had Ned legally removed as father and had not looked back.

She had remained close friends with Luke who would come to visit her and Krissy whenever he was bitten by a case of wanderlust. Johnny was also in her life he came and visited at least five times a year sometimes even taking Krissy to stay with her "Ti Ti Liz." Who Krissy knew as her first Aunt because she had come to stay with Alexis and Kristina when she had finally come to grips with the fact that her vision was not coming back and decided to attend the Manhattan Institute for the Visually Impaired at Jason's suggestion.

It was then that Alexis' secret had been revealed. He had come to drop Elizabeth off, took one look at Kristina in one year-old full dimpled flirt mode and smiled a knowing smile. Alexis nodded and that was that. She had known then that Jason would not say anything but Jason must have thought she had doubts because a week later a bouquet arrived saying simply "unless its an emergency my lips are sealed."

Actually Kristina had spent a great deal of time in PC either with Uncle Nikolas and Auntie Em or Uncle Z and Auntie G. But as Alexis turned everything off in her office she remembered how her gut had told her not to let Kristina go on this trip. She walked to her car remembering the debate she and her daughter had engaged in.

"But Mama, you have to let me go. Its Tasha's 15th birthday, I can't miss her quinceanera. She's my best friend. I don't see the big deal. You never had a problem with me going home without you before. Not to mention you promised if I kept my grades up I could go."

Alexis had remembered that promise well. She also remembered being pleasantly surprised when Zander and Gia had decided to name their little one Natasha after her and had also chosen to raise the child in with the Mexican traditions of Gia's natural father's heritage. However, when she had promised that Kristina could attend she had erroneously assumed that her child would be escorted. She had no way of knowing that at the precise week the party was to be held Helena would be released from jail and have Nikolas and Emily up to their eyeballs in legal and illegal maneuvers trying to keep Helena from regaining any of the Cassadine holdings.

"Krissy Port Charles isn't our home. Our home is here in the city and I know you've been to Port Charles plenty of times without me but this time is different no one can pick you up. Its just impossible for me to fathom you taking the train all by yourself." She added to herself you've been there plenty of times but how much longer will the fates smile on me and keep you from accidentally running into you father and him thinking he's looking in a mirror.

Kristina had smiled Sonny's smile. "Ok ladies and gentlemen of the jury let's review the evidence shall we." She mocked doing a perfect impression of her mother during a closing argument. "First, my mother promised me something and then went back on said promise. Second, said mother always taught yours truly to always keep your promises. Third Natasha Smith is my very dearest and truest friend and will never forgive me for missing such a big day hence I will never forgive said mother and finally I kept my end of the bargain to be allowed to attend said event and if the defendant does not let me go she will be in breach of an oral contract." Kristina finished with a flourish and another Corinthos smile.

Alexis was forced to relent. "Those darn dimples get me every time it's a good thing I never let your father's sway me as easily." Alexis remembered seeing the sadness very briefly visit her daughter's eyes just then as she whispered, "tell me about him Mama." She then replied simply that her father was someone her mother had once loved very much but that he had done some terrible things and also reminded her daughter that if her father had known about her he would have loved her very much. Anything else she had wanted to know would have to wait until she turned 18 as they had agreed. Kristina knowing full well that she had just bullied her mother into honoring an agreement said she would wait. Alexis just wondered if what had happened in Port Charles would now making waiting impossible.