Chapter 2

Anna answered the door, she was glad that Finn said he had to talk to Chase before going to the hospital today. It meant she would be able to talk to Robert alone. This was something she felt needed to be discussed just between the two of them. She still wasn't sure how to ask him but she had to know if Alex had said what she had to mess with her or had Robert really been fooled by Alex? Or worse, what if he was part of the planted memories? What if their past was not just their past?

Anna opened the door, "Hi, thanks for coming." As he walked in, Anna folded her arms in front of her then followed him into the sitting room.

Robert could tell something was bothering her, just by her body language. "What's happened? There's something bothering you."

"You sound like you know me so well."

Robert looked at her, "That's because I do, Luv." He took her hand and guided her to the love seat. "Come on, seat down. What's going on?"

Anna sat down beside him, "You know that Alex was here. That she was also temperately blind."

"Yeah, I do."

"I told her the only way she would get the procedure to restore her sight was if she told me which memories of hers were in my head."

"Alright, what did she tell you?"

"There was a mission that I believed I had failed and it got a man killed. The one I had you go look into. It was all there like it had happened to me. I remembered it all. I froze, I didn't pull my gun and they killed him. Then she told me there was no way I would have frozen in that situation. That I was always ready, I always reacted, that only she would have frozen. That was the memory that was implanted."

"What else?"

"What do you mean."

"Anna, do you really think there were only one of her memories implanted? Once is a fluke, they would have done a few to make sure it really worked."

Anna let out a sigh, "Why did I just accept that she told me one so that had to be all of it?"

"Because you want to trust her. Because when you met her she was the one that finally helped you get better. Because she's your sister and you love her. Is that enough reasons?"

Anna smiled, "Yeah, I guess you have a point. What did you find out in London?"

"Not much, the case file was actually a little odd."

"Odd how," Anna asked.

"Well, the agent on file was only ever referred to by their initials. A.D. Every time the agent's name should have appeared that was it. No name, no code name, just A.D."

"So it could have been me or Alex?"

"Yeah, that's what it looked like. Was it done because they knew the agent wasn't you and had to still keep her existence hidden from you? I don't know but I haven't seen that before in a case report."

Anna nodded, she wasn't sure how much looking into this case would have helped prove if what Alex had told her was true or not but she had to try. "Thanks for looking into this for me."

"This isn't what's bothering you."

"No, it's not," Anna admitted. "It's what Alex said as she was being taken away."

"Come on, tell Bobby what she said," Robert said and gave her that little grin he knew she loves.

"It was something like, I need a little passion in my life or life needs passion." Anna looked down and took a deep breath, "Then just as she got on the elevator she looked at me and said 'tell Robert I'm sorry I didn't get to see him on last time.' Then grinned." She looked up at him, the look on his face confused her.

"Anna, I have never met your sister."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"How can you be so sure of that? What if you thought you bumped it me somewhere and it was actually her?"

"So she knew it was me and for no reason what so ever pretended to be you?"

"I don't know, maybe."

"Anna come on. I would have known."

"Would you? What if I'm not the woman you know? What if you know Alex and I only believe I know you?"

"Anna, don't be ridiculous."

"Is it ridiculous?" Anna asked and got up. She started pacing then asked, "How do I know what's real, what's not? Robert what if my entire life is a lie? That everything I believe is me is actually Alex?"

"There is no way that's possible," Robert got up and walked over to her. "What are you thinking?"

Anna stopped pacing put her hands on her hips, put her head back and exhaled. "I don't know."

"When do you think these memories were planned in your head?"

"I have no idea. The one she told me about was from before I met you. So who knows what's me, what's Alex."

"Anna, you are not seriously thinking what I think you are?" He had a bad feeling that she was doubting a lot about them, about their history.

"I don't know, maybe."

"Anna, you are the woman I met in Sean's office."

"Are you sure?"

"Anna, don't even suggest what I think you are. You can't actually be questioning that." They met, went on assignment. That was when they fell in love, when they got married, that is the beginning of everything about them. She can't seriously be doubting that.

"Robert I don't know what to believe. What if, keeps running through my head. There are so many things I don't know if they're real. If it's me or Alex that went through them. What if everything I believe happened to me, really happened to Alex?"

"No." Robert didn't even want her thinking like that. "You are the woman I have always known. I have never met Alex. You better believe I would know the difference," Robert insisted.

"How are you so sure?"

"Test me. I feel certain I would be able to tell it was Alex if I was to meet her, just because I know you so well and you know I do. I don't care how well she thinks she can impersonate you I would see the tells. I would notice the slight differences."

"I want to believe that. Hell just the way she said it, it wasn't just that you met her. You 'knew' her," Anna emphasized.

"There is one thing that has always been there, that we can't deny and there is no faking it. If what you're suggesting is true then if I were to kiss you, and I mean really kiss you there isn't going to be that spark that I know will still be there. If she had fooled me, how did she fake that?"

"Sounding pretty full of yourself aren't you?" Anna said with a nervous grin.

"Scared to take the challenge?" he asked with a little half smile, a twinkle in his eye.

"Robert, I don't think." Before she could finish speaking he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, hard, passionately. There was instant intensity, their lips parted and his tongue plunged into her mouth. Anna moaned as she kissed him back as her body pressed against his. Melting into him the way she always had. Her hands moved up into his hair pulling him closer, deepening the kiss even more. Neither of them held anything back, they put all the passion they still felt for each other into the kiss. When the need to breath forced them to end the kiss Anna looked up at him breathing heavily. "So yeah, you have a point." Then she grinned, "Nice to see you still responded to me like that."

Robert grinned back still breathing heavily, "What can I say, my body knows what it likes. Are you still doubting that at anytime part of our history was actually shared with Alex. I have only ever kiss Anna Devane. I have only ever made love to Anna Devane. My mind knows that. My body knows that."

Anna cleared her throat, she had been just as affected by their kiss as he was, it just wasn't as obvious. Memories are one thing, the way her body responds to him is completely different. A sudden heated kiss and she was more turned on then she had been in a very long time. "I believe you." She smiled then stepped away from him a little. "Maybe we don't mention this little experiment to anyone."

"You don't want me to tell Dr. Feelgood that I can still make you all hot and bothered."

Anna grinned, "No, we are not telling Finn anything."

Robert grinned a little twinkle in his eye, "I like dirty secrets. Especially when you're part of them."

Anna rolled her eyes, "I feel a lot better now." Anna smiled shyly at Robert, "I feel a little silly telling you this, but I really hated thinking you and Alex might have," Anna bit her bottom lip.

"Oh, do you think she has a mole on her inner thigh too?" he asked teasingly.

Anna's looked at him in shock, then hit his arm, "Robert," she said with a laugh. Of course, he would remember that.

"I do know every inch of your body. Well, I did and I'm sure it hasn't changed that much."

Anna grinned, "This is fun but,"...

"I need to stop flirting because you are with Finn."

"Thank you." As exciting as that had just been, as much as she liked him flirting, even if she wouldn't admit it. She knew they couldn't let something like this happen again.

"Anna we have to find out what other memories of Alex's are still in your head. You know I'm right about there having to be more than just that one."

Good, he's back to talking about her problem she thought. "Yeah and I should have known that." Anna turned and went and sat back down. "Right now I want to think about something else. Take a little break from worrying about what Alex and Cabot did to me."

"Let's go grab a bite to eat. Maybe a walk before, get some fresh air and just clear your head. We can talk about this again later."

"That sounds like a good idea, let's go." Just knowing she could trust the important memories made her feel a lot better. Robert was a huge part of her life and the family they share is what she cherishes most in her life.