Chapter 10

When Anna got home she notices most of the light were off, she dropped her bag by the stairs then walked into the sitting room. There was a fire and just one light on, then she noticed the bottle of wine and glasses. She smiled as hands went around her waist, "I missed you."

Finn kissed her neck, "I missed you too. How was your trip?"

"Mmm, it was nice."

Finn went and to pour her a glass of wine. "I don't need wine, I'm just happy to see you, happy to be home."

"So you had a nice visit?" Finn asked as he stepped closer to her again.

"Mostly Sean knew us and we got to have a nice visit."

"Mostly?" he said as he put his hands on her hips.

Anna put her arms around him, "I don't want to talk about that right now," she smiled up at him.

"Oh, what do you want to talk about?" he asked as he stroked her cheek.

"I don't want to talk at all."

He leaned in and kissed her tenderly, "I'm glad you're back," he whispered.

"Prove it," she said playfully as she started undoing his vest.

"I think we should move this upstairs," Finn started walking backwards bringing Anna with him. She laughed as they got to the bottom of the stairs and he stumbled ever so slightly when his foot hit them. He took her hand then turned and lead her up the bedroom.

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Long after Finn was asleep Anna lay awake. They hadn't talked about her trip but that wasn't what was on her mind. She couldn't get a question out of her head. 'If a woman had had a child could someone believe they were a virgin a year later?' Robert's words from that night he and Tiffany had talked were playing in her head again. She hadn't meant to eavesdrop, she was going to say goodnight when she was done on the phone but stopped when she realized they were talking about her.

Why had he asked that question? What else had they been talking about that had lead to that question? She knew he and Tiff had talked about their love for each other after that. Slowly Anna drifted off to sleep, it was nice to be home in her own bed with Finn there beside her.

So young, they are both so young. Their emotions so raw, there was still love there, but there was pain and anger as well as sadness. They want to trust what is being said, what the other is telling them. She knows he is trying to understand why she would wear a fake scar. 'Why a beautiful woman would wear a scar for those years?' 'Six and a half years.' 'Get it to tell you the truth about the beautiful Anna Devane.' She shows him out. Oh, what are they fighting about? He seems hurt and she just wants him to understand. Why was that scar back on her face? A knock and he's back they still need to talk. He wants to understand, he seems more tender now, willing to listen. 'You're a beautiful woman, why hide?' Sitting together on her bed finally talking, 'I could never let another man look at me or want me again,' He listened as she explained about the scar. Then he realized what she was telling him, 'You haven't been with another man since?' 'Since we were married. You were the first and the last.' She knew he was taking that all in but he wasn't talking. Finally, he turns, their love for each other had affected them both so deeply, 'That kind of love burns a man alive.' 'I was as scar as you were by that explosion.' Their hearts and souls open to each other, they were putting it all out there no more lies, no holding anything back.

Anna awoke with a tear on her cheek, that was not just a dream. That was real, those were memories and she knew in her heart that they were hers. How can that be? She sat up as more tears started to fall, getting out of bed she put on her robe and went to look out her window wrapping her arms around herself. Where had that come from she wondered? All she had wanted to do when she came here all those years ago was have him understand. She needed him to know that she had only wanted to protect him. That she never wanted to hurt him the ways she had. With that came conversations where they had to bare their souls to each other. There was no room for lies, nothing could be held back if she was going to make him understand. She put her hand to her face as she gasped, that's why he had asked Tiffany that question, "Oh Robert, I am so sorry," she said into the night as her tears continued to fall.

Finn had woken up when she got out of bed he thought he had heard her crying softly, then she spoke and it went right through him like a knife to his heart. What had happened while she was gone that she is this upset and apologizing to Robert for being here with him?

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Robert had gone straight to the London office when he had arrived. He wasn't sure how long it would take but he was going to find any and all cases that had AD listed as an agent. He wondered if Sean had ever met this agent or if it was simply an order he had to follow to keep him and Anna away from any of their assignments. It had been hours and so far he had only found three files, he had started his search in the files from '75 but it wasn't until late '76 that AD started to appear. The assignments were similar to the one Alex admitted to being the planted memory. AD was a courier, they escorted people of importance to safe houses some times providing protection for witnesses. He was starting to think this person was not a full agent but someone that only worked for the WSB once in a while.

He was tired and knew there was still a lot of files that he wanted to go through so he decided that he should call it a night and come back in the morning. Robert was glad that no one seemed to be questioning why he was suddenly so interested in these old cases. He was high up enough in the WSB that most people just accepted that whatever he was working on had nothing to do with them and just left him alone.

Robert was back bright and early the next day, he didn't care how long it took he was going to find what was needed to help Anna make sense of what had been done to her. The more he thought about this more positive he became that AD must stand for Alex Devane. There had been orders that Anna and himself could never work with AD, when had his name been added to that? Sean knew he and Anna were married but he didn't think anyone else in the WSB did. Was it because they worked closely that no one wanted Robert to see another agent that looked like Anna. Had the WSB really known about Anna twin all those years, before Anna or Alex even knew themselves and that was why they had to be kept apart?

After three days of going through case files, Robert had a total of ten missions that AD had been involved in. After '79 there hadn't been any more mention of AD so after he had gone through all of '81's he decided that he must have found all that he would. It had been another very long day and he needed sleep. Tomorrow he would get on a plane head back to Port Charles so he can take what he's found to Anna. Right now he just really needed to sleep.