Chapter 8

When Tiffany walked into her kitchen the next morning she saw Anna and Robert already sitting at the table drinking coffee. "I didn't think you would be up this early."

"We aren't gonna be here that long so we want to spend time with all of you," Robert said as he walked over and kissed her cheek.

"Is Sean up yet?" Anna asked.

"No, but he should be waking up soon. I don't know why you mentioning your sister and that file set him off last night it might have just been that he was tired but maybe today we don't talk about that." After she had gotten Sean into bed Tiffany had come to talk to Anna and Robert a little more and Anna had told her what they had been talking about.

"Yeah, he had just asked me about what I'm dealing with but I understand. We had been having a really nice conversation up until then."

"I know, sometimes it's like that he's there then he's either in the past or just very confused. Other times it's like he just gets confused slowly and isn't sure where he is or what's going on." Anna walked over and hugged her. "I am so happy you two are here." Tiffany smiled at them, "I will warn you that Sean often talks about you as a couple and he may assume you're still married."

"That's fine, we can be a couple if that happens," Robert told her as he smiled at Anna.

"I didn't think it would be a problem, I just wanted to give you a heads up." Robert then handed her a cup of coffee. "Anna, I do want to know about this memory switching thing your sister did to you," Tiffany said looking at Anna.

"Well she didn't do it but she was the willing participant while I had no idea it was being done to me. There's this doctor that wanted to experiment with identical twins to see if their memories could be interchanged I guess is what he was hoping for. I now know that I have some of Alex's memories but I don't really have a way to know which ones are mine. I tried to force her to tell me by withholding the treatment that would give her back her sight but she only told me about on memory. Now I feel like there were more and I hate not being able to trust what I think I know."

"Anna, why don't we save this for another time? I can fill Tiff in a little more later if you want," Robert offered.

Anna gave him a little smile, she knew he didn't want her worrying about that while they're here. That he wanted her to just enjoy visiting with her friends. "Yeah alright, thank you, Robert." She turned and went and sat at the table.

Robert touched Tiffany's arm, "That's been weighing on her a lot. She could use a break from thinking about it, right?" Robert nodded. "Alright, but you are filling me in later."

"Yes, I will," then Tiffany hugged him.

"Get the hell away from my wife!"

The all turned to see Sean and Ann standing in the doorway. Ann was just behind Sean, she looked at Tiff and shook her head slightly. "Good morning darling," Tiffany said as she walked over to him.

"Why are you talking to him? Is he hitting on you again?"

"Sean, that's Robert."

"I don't care who he is. He has no right being in my house trying to take you away from me."

Robert exhaled and put his head down, it was almost the same as what happened last time. Once again Sean was angry and it was directed at him.

"Sean no one is taking me away from you. I love you." Tiffany put her hands on the sides of his face, "Look at me. Where are you this morning."

"I'm here with you."

"K, do you want to go for a walk. I would like to spend a little time alone with you."

"Is he gonna be here when we get back?"

Anna had been watching Robert while Sean and Tiffany were talking and could see the pain on his face. He had told her that last time he had been her Sean had gotten very mad the day he didn't know who Robert was. That he had all but ordered him to leave. She didn't understand why Sean would ever react to Robert like that but seeing this, it was like he had no idea who Robert was.

"Anna and Robert came here to visit us, to visit you."

"Then where are they?"

Anna heard that and got up and walked over to Robert, she took his arm and leaned into him. "Come on, let's go help our friend." Anna led him over to Sean and Tiffany. "Good morning Sean."

"Are you here with him?" he asked her studying the two of them.

"Yeah, Robert and I got here last night."

"He's here with you?"

Anna touched Robert's chest. "Yes, Robert and I wanted to come and see you, Sean."

"Alright."

"You know what we were just going to take a little walk ourselves so we'll talk to you later."

"It's nice seeing you, what was your name again?"

"It's Anna. We're Devane and Scorpio," she said as she wiped a tear from her cheek. Sean just nodded then walked over to the table.

Robert put his arm around Anna and they left the kitchen together. He led her to the door then grabbed their coats before leading her outside. He took her hand then turned, they walked down the drive, neither of them talking. After about five minutes he stopped walking and Anna turned to him. "I am glad you're here but I am so sorry that you had to see him like that."

"It's like he has no idea who we are."

"At least he doesn't think you're trying to steal his wife. I don't know what it is but when he doesn't know me he thinks I'm here to take his family away from him."

"This happened last time didn't it?"

"Yeah, he walked in, Tiff and I were laughing about something, she said darling you could always make me laugh then Sean hit me. He was furious and just kept yelling. I know it was best if I just left so I did."

Anna hugged him, "I'm so sorry Robert." She leaned back and looked up at him, "So I think to prevent that while we're here you and I are a couple. If Sean believes that then maybe he won't think you're hitting on Tiff."

"Anna you don't have to do that. I'm a big boy I can handle Sean being mad at me."

"No, I want you to have good moments to look back on. Sean is your best friend and the last memories of him shouldn't be of him yelling at you because he's confused. We don't know how much longer he'll remember us so I will not let you waste any of that time."

Robert hugged her again, "Thank you, Anna."

"Are you ready to head back?"

"No, let's walk a little longer. Give them some time, maybe he'll know us when we get back."

"Alright," Anna took his hand and they started walking again.

...

Alexis walked into Charlie's, Kristina was getting deeper into this cult and she just wanted to try talking to her again. She had realized that Molly was right when she called it a cult, she had to stop denying that's what DOD is. It was early so she hoped it wouldn't be that busy and Kristina would actually talk to her today.

Kristina saw her mother walk in and was in no mode for her negativity this morning, "Unless you're here to see Julian I suggest you leave Ms Davis."

"You can drop that Ms Davis crap right now. I know you and I don't often see eye to eye. Clearly you think I am trying to sway you to something other than what you think is right. I'm not, I am worried about you."

"There is no need for that, I have people in my life now that care about me."

"You've always had people that care you," Alexis shot back. Quickly she realized she had to calm down some or she would just push Kristina further away than she already is. "I know you feel like you have finally found somewhere that you really belong. I understand that, but I want you to make sure that you don't lose yourself along the way."

"DOD is helping me find myself."

"What I'm trying to say is that while you're on this journey of self-discovery just keep in mind who you are, who your family is and remember even if you don't always believe it. Your family loves you and just wants the best for you. Please stop pushing me away. I'll stop trying to sway you, I just don't want to lose you."

"Maybe you need to come to another section with Shiloh. You still don't understand it and I know if you did you'd see that I'm right to want to follow Shiloh's teachings."

Even though everything in Alexis' head was yelling at her grab Kristina by the shoulders and tell her to snap out of it she didn't, she took a deep breath and calmed herself instead. "I don't know about that but I am glad you talked to me today. I do love you Kristina, and I want you to be happy. I should go." Alexis turned and left she felt like she may have made a little bit progress with Kristina and didn't want anything to happen to send them back peddling. Once she was outside she stopped and took a few deep breaths. "Oh Kristina, I hope you know what you're doing and you aren't getting into something dangerous," she said to herself as she walked away. Ever since Molly had pointed out that DOD could be a cult Alexis had been even more worried about Kristina. Sam was up to something because of this and she hoped she wasn't getting in over her head as well. Alexis would be so much happier if Shiloh would pick up and leave town never to be heard from again.

...

As they walked back up to Sean and Tiffany's Robert started to walk a little slow, "Maybe you should go in. I'll wait a little longer."

"Robert you are coming in with me." She turned to him and saw the concerned look on his face, "Come on Bobby, Annie's here for you."

Robert grinned and followed her inside. As they walked through the house he held onto her hand as he walked just slightly behind her. They found Ann first, "Hi, I was wondering when you would get back."

"We wanted to give everyone a little time," Anna said.

"Dad was just asking if you had gotten up yet. Some mornings are rough when he doesn't see mom right away I think he gets a little scared."

"Maybe we should be staying at a hotel," Anna suggested.

"No mom wants you here. She needs to have friends around it helps distract her even just for a little while."

"We'll stay here," Robert said. Anna looked back at him and he nodded still holding her hand.

"Tiff they're in here," Sean called as he walked into the room. "I'm glad you're here already." Sean walked over and hugged Anna. He stepped back and looked at her, "You were here last night, right."

"Yeah, we got here last night. We just went for a walk this morning."

"Oh, that's where you went." He looked at Robert and smiled, "So I told Ann we would tell her more stories about our WSB days when you got here."

Robert smiled, "That sounds like a great idea, with Anna here she'll make sure we don't exaggerate too much."

Sean laughed at that then he joined Ann on the couch. He noticed Robert and Anna were holding hands, "Anna do you remember when I asked you if you were in love and you finally admitted it."

Anna smiled then looked up at Robert, "I do, I told you I love him, I always have."

"I'm happy you two are still together you went through a lot."

"We did. I thought we were talking about our WSB days," Anna said wanting to change the topic. Playing at being a couple is one thing sitting around talking about their feeling was completely different. She glanced back up at Robert quickly, it was still true, she always has and always will love him and that kiss proved there was still that fire there for each other but she couldn't think about that. Now was a time to enjoy this time with Sean and Tiff, hopefully, today she would get a little time alone with her. She wanted to spend a little time talking to just Tiffany and catching up with her. Right now Sean seemed better than this morning so she hoped he would stay that way for a while.