Beautiful Disaster

Chapter: 12

Pairing: Robert\Holly

Rating PG

General Hospital

Holly laid quietly in the hospital bed staring up at the ceiling tiles. She knew that she had hurt Robert by not telling him about the baby right away, the look in his eyes earlier broke her heart. Looking back she realized that she should have told him right away, but in hindsight everything was always 20/20. In the first few moments of him finding out about the baby it was if everything was going to be alright and that they had a future together, but now Holly didn't know what the future held.

Robert stood by the window looking out at Port Charles. As excited as he was about the baby, his baby with Holly, he couldn't help but be disappointed in her choice not to tell him. They had been through this before when she had returned from the dead. He knew that she had her reasons for not telling him but somehow he expected more from her although he certainly didn't deserve it.

They hadn't spoken a word to each other in over an hour. Holly wouldn't even allow him to be in the room with her when Dr. Meadows examined her. He waited outside whilst Tiffany stayed with her, holding her hand, comforting her and assuring her that everything was going to be all right. When Dr. Meadows came out and told him that Holly had experienced Braxton Hicks contractions relief flooded over him. He had never been so scared in his entire life.

Robert had convinced Tiffany to give him some time with Holly and she agreed and took Robin down to the cafeteria. In the twenty minutes that she had been gone he stood staring out the window. Finally working up enough courage he walked over to the hospital bed and sat down beside Holly. "You scared the hell out of me." he confessed.

"I'm sorry." she said dryly, continuing to look up at the ceiling. "I want to go home. Dr. Meadows said I could leave."

"I know she did." he replied. "I thought you and I could talk first."

"I really don't want to talk about anything right now." she told him. "I just want to go home and get in my own bed."

"Okay." Robert agreed. "I'll take you home."

"No." she protested. "I want Tiffany."

"Tiffany took Robin down to the cafeteria." he replied.

"Well then go get her."

"Holly, I'm the father of this baby, not Tiffany." he told her. "I should be here with you."

"Robert." she breathed out, not taking her eyes of the ceiling. "Please go get Tiffany."

He let out a heavy sigh and got up off the bed. "Whatever you want." he told her as he left the room. As soon as the door shut behind him Holly burst out into tears, tears that she had been holding back since the moment Robert had entered the room. She turned over onto her side and sobbed softly into the pillow. She had ruined everything.

"Holly?" Tiffany called out as she entered the room. "Are you all right?" she asked as she crossed the room to where Holly was. "What happened? Why are you crying?"

"I ruined everything!" Holly cried. "Robert hates me!"

Tiffany sat down on the bed beside her. "Robert doesn't hate you." she said softly, brushing a lock of hair away from her face. "He's just upset."

"He hates me." she sobbed. "You didn't see the look in his eyes when he found that I kept the pregnancy from him. I've never seen him so mad."

"So what happened when he was in here with you?" she asked. "Did you fight?"

"He kept looking out the window." Holly told her. "He was quiet for the longest time. He said that he wanted to talk, but I refused."

"Why?"

"Because I can't bare to look him in the eye." she confessed. "The look of pain and disappointment is too much for me and I put it there. What makes it worse is the fact that all of this could have been avoided if I would have just told him the truth from the beginning."

Tiffany wiped away a few of Holly's fallen tears. "I think you should just give this a little time." she suggested. "Tonight was overwhelming with Robert coming back and the Braxton Hicks contractions. I'm sure once the both of you get a good night's sleep you can work things out calmly and collectively in the morning."

"I hope you're right."

She smiled. "I know I am."

Robert knocked on the door before he left himself inside. "Is everything alright?" he asked, concerned about his wife and child.

Holly buried her face in the pillow so that he couldn't see that she had been crying. "Everything's fine." she mumbled.

Robert and Tiffany exchanged glances.

"Are you ready to go home?" Robert asked.

"Yes." Holly answered. "I just have to get dressed. Where's Robin?"

"She's waiting outside." he told her. "I'm going to take her back home with me."

Holly lifted her head from the pillow, her eyes were red and swollen, her beautiful face tear stained. "Robin's home is with me." she told him. "Besides I don't want to be alone tonight."

"I don't want you to stay alone either." he said as he moved toward the bed, relieved that she was finally talking to him.

"Well, then." Tiffany breathed. "There's the perfect solution."

"What?" Robert and Holly asked in unison.

"You have a guest room, Holly." she reminded her. "Robert could stay there. That way you won't be alone and Robert will be near his children. Come on, what do you say? Holly?"

Holly shrugged. "Fine."

"Robert?" Tiffany asked.

"Okay." he agreed. "Just for tonight."

tbc...

Sneak Peek: Holly dreams of Anna.