A/N: So things are starting pick up! And I officially know what is going to happen in the next few chapters. Now it's just a matter of writing it all out. But I promise its coming and hopefully, I will find some time to post this sooner starting from now on… But thanks again to all of you guys. My fellow Scrubbies! Hehe Your reviews are amazing and they mean so much to me so thanks again!

And here we go…

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Help Me Fall

Chapter Nine: Finding Closure

"Patrick! Stop it! No!" She giggled as she tried to pass him without letting him grab the football that she held close to her body. "Put me down! No, stop it!" She now squealed breathlessly as he tickled her sides. "Alright, fine. I give. Here…" He continued tickling her and she was almost on the ground, dying with laughter, "take it!"

He stopped tickling her but he still held her close to his body, staring into her eyes. So much had change between the two of them on just a few short weeks. Take the night before for instance; they had gone back to his apartment. They were playing and joking around; eating a little ice cream… he never let any woman come home with him. Ever. It was his own unwritten rule that he swore to himself that he would never break. If he did, he would get too close to someone. Possibly hand his heart over to them and he swore to himself he would never go through the earth shattering pain of having your heart ripped in two and handed back to you… But yet, they had stay at his apartment… in his bed. They had kissed and held each other close and of course his mind shifted to the other things that they could possibly be doing but never once did he attempt to take things farther. She wasn't ready and he knew that. He promised himself that he was going to take things slow, for her sake. He wouldn't allow him to push her away. He now knew just how deeply you could feel for another person. So they slept, holding each other all night… purely content.

"What? Do I have something on my face or something?" She suddenly felt really self conscious under his close stare.

"No…" He stated simply, "you look beautiful." She wrapped her arms around his neck, preparing for what she knew was coming. He leaned in, resting his forehead against hers sighing contently and finally moving his lips to cover hers. They relaxed into each others' touch, not even caring who saw them being only content being this close to each other.

But their moment was ruined with the incessant beeping of Patrick's beeper. He grunted in aggravation as he pulled away from her and looked down at the device, already knowing that he was being called to the hospital. "I'm sorry…" He whispered, resting his forehead against hers once more, "I'm on call."

"Don't worry about it…" Robin started,

"Robin?" A rough voice asked from nearby.

The two turned to see who the voice belonged to and finding none other than Jason Morgan standing there, glaring at Patrick threateningly.

"Jason…" Robin began but stopped once again when she felt Patrick pull away from her, grabbing his things.

"I have to get to the hospital." He stated, kissing her on the forehead before turning and walking away.

Robin glanced awkwardly between Jason and Patrick's retreating form. "Patrick!" She called after him and ran to catch up with him. He turned toward her and was surprised when she grabbed him and kissed him. "You didn't kiss me goodbye." She smiled sweetly when she finally pulled away. "Call me when you get a chance, okay?" He nodded and kissed her a final time, before turning and walking to his car.

"What are you thinking?" She heard behind her.

"What do you want Jason?" She was already irritated and the conversation had only just begun.

"Why are you with a man like him? You know that all he wants is…"

"Don't! I don't want to hear any thing that you have to say about Patrick. He is a great guy and I a care for him. Nothing you have to say with make me change my mind." She walked past him picking up her belongings, and started to walk away but stopped when Jason grabbed her arm.

"Can you just hear me out? Please?"

"Why should I Jason? All you are going to do is stand her and belittle Patrick and I have no interest in hearing it." She tried to walk away once again but he still held her arm tightly.

"I want to talk about us…"

"Us?" she asked in a disbelieving voice. "There is no us! We ended years ago, Jason." She was suddenly breathing heavily. "We ended years ago when you decided to sleep with Carly while you were with me!"

"Why can't you get past that? Why can't you move on? I have!" Jason spat.

"Move on? How can I move on when every time I see Carly she throw it in my face that she had what I lost? Jason, I gave my heart to you even after everything happened with Stone! I gave it to you, despite having already had lost the one man that meant everything to me!" She glared at him. "And you haven't moved on… So you have a new bed mate, Carly still runs your life. She calls and you drop everything and go running…"

"And I suppose you have moved on, right? With Patrick Drake?"

"What if I have? We were over ten years ago Jason… I lived in Paris. Did you seriously think that I kept myself locked up from the outside world? Because if you did, guess what? I didn't. I didn't wait for you… I didn't care for you. I lost every shred of respect that I had for you when the truth came out about you and Carly. When you didn't bother stopping me at the airport before I left… I knew then, we were over."

"He is only going to hurt you…"

"No more than you did." She said coldly, knowing that would hit him where he deserved it.

"What about you? I suppose you are just innocent in all of this? It doesn't matter that you hurt me when you told AJ that he was Michael's father?" He argued in return.

"I can't apologize for something that I believe was for the best. Okay, AJ wasn't the best father but he still had a right to know his son!" She seethed. "Besides, aren't you the one always talking about letting people make their own decisions? Well at least that was who you were ten years ago…"

"You think you have moved on? Then what are we doing standing here fighting about Carly?" he waited for some sort of reaction but all he saw was the anger flowing from her eyes. "It never changes with you does it Robin? Ten years ago, I made a mistake but you made quite a few too…

"I know that and I have tried to apologize and move forward but then you, or Carly, or Sonny comes around and you drag me back into your drama. I don't want to be apart of your life anymore. I'm out. I have been free for years now and I don't want to be sucked back in…"

"Then why did you come home to help me?" The burning question that he had wanted to know for quite so time now. There had been many of times that he had run into her at the hospital and wanted to ask. He wanted to thank her but he never could… He never could allow himself. But then again, that was the way he was. He was cold and unfeeling Jason Morgan.

"When Stone died, I thought I lost everything. The love of my life was gone forever and here I was strapped with this life altering disease. I thought my life was over. No man would ever look at me or want to be with me ever again. But then you happened and I felt love once again…" She sat on the nearby bench. "I can't sit here and say that I don't still feel something for you, Jason, because that would be a lie. But I can honestly say I don't wake up in the morning wishing that things were different. I don't wake up anymore missing what we had. That was in the past and yes, it was a great time in my life but… it's over. It took awhile for me to realize the true meaning of those words but I understand now…"

He sighed and looked out at the other people walking in the park. "I was tore to pieces when you left. I didn't know what I was going to do. You know, you talk about me helping you live life after stone but you helped me live life after the accident. I didn't know of my future. I had no clue where things were going but if I had you everything would be fine. It would all work out…" He sighed. "I know that none of this matters now. Especially not after everything that happened with you and Patrick the other night…"

"What do you mean?" Robin asked quickly.

He saw the fire burning in her eyes once more. He hadn't meant for it to slip that he had seen them together, watched them together just the night before… "I saw you." He gave in. "At his apartment…"

"What? You were watching us?"

"I saw you on the docks and at the grocery store… I was just trying to protect you…"

"No you weren't! You were spying on me! This whole thing was planned wasn't it? You were following us today and you saw the two of us kissing and you just had to come over and stop it didn't you?" She was standing once again. "I can't believe this, Jason!"

"He is only going to hurt you Robin!"

"It's not your job to protect me anymore!" she shouted at him, hoping her would realize just how serious she was. "I don't need your protection, Jason. I don't need anything from you anymore. Just stay away from me…" She turned and grabbed her things once more as her cell phone rang.

"It's him isn't it?" Jason asked softly.

She glanced at the cover of her phone that simply read "Patrick." She flipped the cover up, "Hey you!" The smile instantly returning to her face, as she grabbed her bags and turned glancing only briefly at Jason and walked away.

"I was just leaving actually? Do you want to grab some lunch?" She asked him. "I'll meet you at Kelly's in fifteen minutes." She giggled at his last remark before hanging up the phone. She made it to her car and sighed after throwing her things in the back seat, glancing at Jason once more still standing watching her leave.

It was time to move on, and despite his latest revelation about watching her and Patrick, she wasn't as angry as she possibly should have been. Finally there was some sort of closure… they were done, over, complete. She had her new relationship with Patrick now and that was all she cared about.

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He stood in the trees nearby, watching the two quarreling. It was obvious that there was some sort of past between the two and that's exactly what he was counting on. He needed an unexpected target, someone they wouldn't think to protect and here she was right in front of him. This plan was falling into place faster than he could have expected or ever hoped.

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A/N: Okay, so let me just tell you now, this isn't going to be a triangle story. Jason WILL be back later on in the story but he isn't going to play a very large part in what happens next… well, then he actually does kind of play a large part in the next part… BUT not physically. If that makes any sense… But if it doesn't, I guess that gives you a reason to keep reading. Hehe And I know that the ending of this might have been a little confusing but please bear with me, this will all work out and it will all makes sense.

Thanks again for reading and remember, feedback is always welcomed!