Chapter 11

Anna noticed that the last couple of days Finn had seemed a little distant. When she had returned he had a nice romantic evening waiting for her, they'd made love but the next day she couldn't help but feel like something was bothering him. They had talked before she left, she thought he understood why she wanted to go with Robert. Now he didn't even seem interested in how her time with Sean and Tiffany had been. When she had started talking about it the morning after she had gotten back she could tell he wasn't actually listening to her. At least they'd a nice time when they had gone out for dinner last night.

This morning he was up and gone when she woke up, apparently, he had been called into the hospital. Maybe that was a good thing because Robert was going to be here soon with the information he had found in London and she wanted to focus on that. Robert said he had found more case files about AD but he hadn't mentioned if he had found anything that pointed to who AD was. Anna walked over to her desk with a cup of tea in her hand and sighed as she sat down. The dream she'd had the other night was still on her mind again. That had to have really happened, those had to be her memories. Maybe she's the one that's distracted and not Finn she thought. Was she not paying attention to him? Today wasn't the time to think about that, she needed to focus on the information that Robert was bringing her. She sat enjoying her tea until she heard someone at her door.

Anna went and opened the door, she smiled seeing Robert standing there, "Morning Luv," he said as he walked in.

"Morning Robert, how was your flight?"

"Fine, did you want to get right down to this?"

"Yeah, I need to start getting a few answers. The not knowing is getting to me. Hopefully, you found a few things that will help me."

"There might be something there, I found a total of ten assignments that AD carried out, one we already knew about. You can read them and see if you think you did any of them."

"That works, I didn't make coffee but you know where everything is."

"Yes, I do. Might even make something to eat. Are you hungry?"

Anna smiled at him, "If you're cooking." Robert just smiled back and left her to read over what he had brought.

Anna was still reading when Robert was done making breakfast. When he walked over to her desk he noticed she had two piles sitting in front of her and one file in her hand. "Time to eat."

"This is the last one," she said without looking up. When she had skimmed over it she put it on the bigger pile then picked up the other one. "We can talk about these ones while we eat." Anna had four files in her hand as the walked into the kitchen. After they were seated at the table Anna asked, "So those were all you could find that AD was listed as the agents?"

"Yeah, I started my search at the beginning of '75 went all the way to the end of '81."

"There were no dates on what you gave me."

"I know I did that on purpose. I want to see if there were some that you think you did but that we both know you couldn't have."

Anna grinned at him, "Smart," then she started eating. As they ate Robert flipped through the files and put two aside. One was the one they already knew about, he pulled out his phone and checked something and smiled. "What are grinning at Scorpio?"

"You couldn't have done either of those two."

"How do you know that?"

He handed her the file on the bottom, "What do you remember about this one? Were there any problems? Were you having trouble chasing Krycek?"

"No, after the shots were fired I pursued on foot then made the arrest."

With a smirk he asked, "Were you waddling at all, maybe there was some discomfort in your back?" Anna had a look of confusion on her face as he continued. "Were you still wearing bandages at that time? I don't know how many surgeries you'd had on your face by August 27," he paused and grinned, "1977."

Anna lit up, "That one wasn't me. I was in Italy and very pregnant at that time. I think I'd just had my last surgery by then," she added with a grin.

"I know for a fact you were busy doing other things when this happened," he said pointing at the other file, a little grin on his face. "I know you were not in London in February of '77." Robert handed her his phone showing her the ten case file numbers and corresponding dates. "I wanted you to see which ones you remembered before you know when they happened."

"I was rather busy in February," she smiled at him. "So they didn't really think about the timeline when they planted these."

"If you really think about it why would they? You would have just remembered them as assignments. You might remember where something happened but when not unless there was something significant about it. The time might have been more like it was around such and such date."

Anna nodded as he finished, "And those were all just basic assignments, nothing interesting." Anna sighed feeling a little better now that they had found a few false memories. "What about this one?" Anna checked the case number on the fourth file she's brought with them then checked the date. "I didn't do this one either." She looked up at Robert and smiled, "Robin was breastfed, I wouldn't have been away from her for a week, not when she was four months old."

Robert smiled, "So that's four of Alex's memories. Do you think there could be anymore?"

Anna thought back to the dream she's had. That conversation happened she was sure of it. So did that mean there was at least one more memory left? One very big memory. "Maybe," she said and bit her lip. "Let's just finish eating, let it sink in that these are all in my head but weren't me."

"Alright." Robert smiled at her, he couldn't help but wonder if that pause before answering meant she thought there was and that she might finally be thinking that having Faison's son was not something that happened to her. He felt his stomach tighten just thinking about that. The thought of Faison touching her made his skin crawl.

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Alexis was working in her office, she looked up when there was a knock at her door. "Come in."

"Hi," Finn poked his head in. "Um, do you have a little time to talk?"

"Yeah, of course, I do. Sit, what can I do for you?"

"Talk some sense into me."

"Oh, why? You haven't done anything stupid, have you?"

Finn grinned, "No, not yet and before I do I thought I should talk to someone."

"Well you know there's no judgment here."

Finn sat down across from her, "Anna got home a couple of days ago. Did you know that?"

Alexis nodded, "You had told me that was she was coming back."

"Right," he fidgeted in his chair a little. "So she got back, that was good. We had a nice evening."

"Just nice, she was gone for almost a week?"

"It was more than nice, I, we," he stammered.

Alexis smiled, "I know what happened when she got home, I'm teasing you."

"Right." He looked at her then asked, "So have you ever gotten up after that and cried?"

Alexis was not expecting that, "Was there a problem, did" she gestured toward him, "something not rise to the occasion?"

"That was not an issue, thank you. This was after. We had both been asleep. I woke up as she got out of bed."

"How was her visit, maybe she was thinking about something that happened there."

"I think it was fine."

"You think? Anna has been back for a couple of days and you haven't talked to her about her trip."

"She's talked about it, mostly Sean was lucid she mentioned there were a few times he didn't really know who they were."

"That could have been on her mind."

"Maybe," Finn picked up a picture on her desk, looked at it, then put it back down.

"What else is bothering you."

"I heard her, she went and stood by the window. I think she might still have been crying as she stood there, then she said 'I'm sorry Robert'."

"Did you ask her about it?"

"No, why is she thinking about him in the middle of the night?"

"So you're just being stupid right now, right?" Alexis leaned forward putting her elbows on her desk then said, "Anna Devane and Robert Scorpio have a forty plus year history. Anna also now knows she has some of her sisters memories and can't be sure what memories are hers. Do you think that maybe somewhere along that forty-year history Alex may have added something that affects them? They also just returned from visiting very good friends, one of which is slipping away from them. That is a lot for someone to deal with. If getting up in the middle of the night and talking to someone that isn't there, even just to say she's sorry is how she's dealing with it. That's a hell of a lot better than our way of dealing with our problems."

Finn nodded slowly, "I'm being an idiot. I should listen more, be more supportive not questioning everything."

"That might be a good idea."

Finn got up and started for the door, then turns back to Alexis, "Thanks," then he left. Alexis watched as he left. She couldn't help but think there was more to what's bothering him. There has to be a reason he suddenly doubting his relationship with Anna.