Chapter 23:

After Olivia was released she begged Jason if she could visit Robbie. She knew he would never say no to her. Eventually he gave in but he had to leave so he told her to call when she was ready to come home and he would come get her. As she rounded the hospital corner she saw Marco sitting against the wall with his head in his hands. The tears immediately came back to her eyes.

"Marco" she said barely audible but her heard her. He stood up and enveloped her in a hug. "I'm sorry Marco, this wouldn't have happened if I wasn't for me."

"Hey hey it's not your fault, you're the last person that could be blamed for this. We can't be worried about faults we just have to pray that he wakes up." She shook her head and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Have the doctors said anything else?"

"Just that its up to him to wake up, why don't you go in an talk to him they said that would be helpful."

"Okay." She walked shyly to his door and took one last look at Marco before walking in.

She was instantly taken back by his appearance. He was surrounded but wires and machines. She pulled the chair that was in the corner right up to the bed. As she sat down she grabbed his hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Okay so I've never talked to a person who is in a coma so if I sound like an idiot I'm sorry," she tried to lighten the mood but then felt stupid cause she was the only who could actually hear the joke so finally she took a deep breath and continued "I really need you to wake up. Just open your eyes please; you know I really love your eyes. To be honest I really love everything about you. I really tried not to because I knew that we could never be together but I couldn't help myself. There's something about you Robbie, I feel more connected to you then anyone I've ever known. Since the first day we met in the park, I didn't even know you're name but I knew you would change my life. Then our talk at Kelly's just proved to me how special you are. I can talk to you about anything. God I've known you for like month and I really am in love with you, like head over heels in love, so please wake up because I'd rather spend my whole life loving you and you not reciprocating it then lose you forever." She kissed his palm and let the tears fall down her cheeks. She just stared at him and willed his eyes to open and after a half hour the door opened.

A woman in her mid-forties opened the door and walked directly to Robbie. She looked like she had been crying for hours and clearly hadn't slept. She kissed Robbie on his forehead and whispered something into his ear that Olivia couldn't hear.

"Umm…here you can have my seat I'm gonna go," Olivia was feeling really uncomfortable, she figured this woman was his mom and knew she would want alone time with her son.

"Wait honey you wouldn't happen to be Olivia would you?"

"Yeah that's me, how'd you know?"

"My son talks about you all the time, he wasn't exaggerating when he said you were beautiful," Olivia couldn't help the red that was appearing at her cheeks.

"Thank you, well your son isn't that bad looking either," his mother slightly giggled then looked back at Robbie. "Well I'm gonna give you time alone with Robbie but can I get you anything coffee or something to eat?"

"Sure coffee would be great and then I'd like to talk to the girl that has stolen my son's heart," Olivia's face was getting red again, not only did Robbie think was she beautiful but he told his mom how much he liked her.

"Okay I'll be right back"

"Jason I didn't want to get into this now but it can't be put off, I got more information about the guy from Miami. His name is Frank Morrelli, he is basically involved with drugs but will move anything for money. He's got his eye on moving north and Port Charles is his target, which makes us his target."

"How powerful is this guy?"

"He's not to smart but he's got alotta men on the payroll," Jason just did his usual thing, listened contently and tried to make a plan.

"Has he been in contact with any of the families?"

"Not according to any of them but for now we'll keep on eye on them, Morrelli isn't in Port Charles yet he's got his men doing all the work."

"Okay I'm gonna call the Paul Valencia, he knows a lot about the southern families so if Morrelli's a threat he'd know." Sonny shook his head in agreement.

"And I'll tell Max to make sure we don't make any new hires or take on any new clients."

Olivia walked into the hospital room balancing 4 cups of coffee in her hands and a brown bag under her arm.

"Olivia what is all this I only needed one cup?"

"Well I didn't know how you liked your coffee so two are decaf and two are regular and one of each has milk in it and the bag is filled with sugar or whatever you put in your coffee. So which would you like?"

"I'll have a regular with milk and half a sweet 'n low, " Olivia quickly prepared it and handed it to her. "Thank you."

"Mrs. Santori it's the least I can do and if you need anything else just ask, I'm here" Olivia started fidgeting out of pure nervousness.

"Well first call me Fran and second I want to know more about you so pull up a chair," Olivia did as she was told and pulled up a chair so she was sitting next to Fran.

"So what do you want to know?" she said as she took a sip of her own coffee.

"When did you know you loved him?" Olivia had to stop herself from spitting her drink out of her mouth.

"Pardon me? I…ahh…I'm not...well umm...is it that obvious?" she sighed and put her hand on her forehead.

"No but you can call it mother's intuition, I can see by the way you look at him. And even though he hasn't told me directly he loves you too," Olivia gave her a weak smile.

"Maybe so but it doesn't matter because we could never be together anyway, Jason the guy that hired Robbie and my sort of dad, he would never allow it."

"Well my husband and I were also a forbidden couple. Robbie's father Tony was in this business and my father was a cop. My dad did everything in the book to keep us apart but eventually he just realized that if he didn't accept Tony and I then he was gonna lose me forever."

"But I don't think Robbie would be willing to give up the business, I'm sorry I really can't talk about this right now. I gotta go. It was nice meeting you." Olivia ran out of the room like a bat out of hell. She ran into a stairwell and broke into out into tears. There she was sitting at Robbie's bedside and talking about him loving her and he might not even wake up. She needed to think and she knew the perfect place to go.

"Have you spoken to Jason about the trip yet?" Carly and Courtney were sitting in Kelly's having lunch.

"No, now is not a good time. I mean first Olivia gets taken away then the warehouse bomb, and now with Robbie getting shot it's just not the right time"

"Very true so then I guess your not gonna propose to Jason anytime soon?" Courtney started hysterically laughing not really she was being serious.

"What's so funny? It would be so cute if you proposed to him. Okay so you wouldn't get a new engagement right but I can talk him into buying you a new one. We all know he has the money. You know what just leave it to Olivia and me; we'll take care of all the details. I can right your proposal if you need me to."

"Carly I am not going to ask Jason to marry me and I repeat just in case you want to ask me again I am not going to ask Jason so marry me"

"Okay I got it then I'll just talk to him about asking you, I get it your shy" Courtney just shook her head and continued eating while Carly rambled about their wedding, the guest list, locations, etc.

"Carly P.S. you say word about a wedding to Jason and I'll tell Sonny where you hide the pixie sticks, we all know how Sonny is about the pure sugar. And if that isn't enough I'll tell him how you let Michael and Morgan have them too" Courtney knew she was being cruel but desperate times call for desperate measures.

"You wouldn't dare"

"Are you really willing to take that chance, I mean butting into mine and Jason's life or pixie sticks? Take your pick."

"Okay okay I'll keep my mouth shut, but only until I can find a new finding spot for my treasured pixie sticks."

Olivia sat on the bench in the gazebo and prayed for Robbie. She didn't hear the footsteps approach her.

"Excuse me Miss can you please pass this along to Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan for me?" Olivia jumped back when she heard the voice. In front of her stood a rather tall tan man wearing a long trench coat. He tried to hand her a note but she wouldn't take it.

"If you have something to tell Jason or Sonny tell them yourself" she tried to walk away but he grabbed her forearm tightly. She winced under his grasp. He opened her palm and shoved the note in it.

"Just give them the note and tell them to watch their back or there may be a bullet there" with that he walked away and Olivia headed back to the penthouse, ready for 'that was very irresponsible' lecture along with the 'what were you thinking' speech.

A/N I really like this chapter, I hope you guys do too! Please review and thanks to everyone who is reviewing it means so much to me that you enjoy my story. I'm really trying to update sooner for you.