Chapter 15
Mac and Felicia were very excited about everyone getting together this evening. They didn't get many opportunities like this and wanted to take advantage of the fact they were all here in Port Charles for once. Maxie was coming as well, she called to say she would meet them there and that Peter was going to come with her. "Are you ready yet?" Felicia asked.
"Yeah, I'm just grabbing my coat." Mac walked into the room with his jacket in his hand. "You know they are going to be here for a little while yet."
"I know that but we're leaving in a few days and everyone is going to be there today."
Mac smiled seeing how excited she is. "I know, if Georgie was in town too this would be the perfect evening."
"Oh, that would be so wonderful but I will take what we get and enjoy it. So let's get going," Felicia said and took his hand.
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"So we've had Robert over for dinner last two nights, the extended family tonight. Are you throwing a house party tomorrow night?" Finn asked smiling at Anna.
"No, but I really did want to have Mac and Felicia over before they go to see Sean and Tiff. Having everyone here will be so much fun."
"I can tell you're excited. I'm just going to go see what Patrick is doing." Robert was already over again and he was in the sitting room with Robin and the kids so Finn felt it was best to just give them time together. It wasn't like he wanted to spend a lot of time with Robert anyway. He was grateful Robert hadn't mentioned their little run in on the docks to Anna.
"Alright," then the doorbell rang and Anna smiled. "I'll get that." Anna hurried over to the door, she was excited about this evening as well. She smiled seeing Felicia and Mac, "Hi, come in."
"Maxie said they are on their way so should be here any time," Felicia said as they came in.
"Perfect, Robert and the kids are in the sitting room." Anna turned and they walked into the room together.
"Luv, come play."
"Oh that is so cute, he's calling you Luv," Felicia said putting her hands to her face.
"Yeah, when Robert got here the other day that was how he greeted me. Now Noah's calling me it, I think because his Papa does. I better go see what he wants."
Mac smiled at Felicia, "It won't be all that much longer and James will be coming up with names to call us."
"I know. Even with them leaving out in Berkeley I hope James and Noah get to be close growing up."
Robin walked over to them, "Hi, it's so good to see you." She hugged Mac first then Felicia. They were talking happily when Patrick and Finn walked in followed by Maxie Peter and James. "Maxie," Robin smiled and gave her a big hug. "Let me see that little one." She looked over, "Hi Peter. I'm glad you're here." Then Maxie handed James to her and they started talking happily as they walked away together.
"Get used to that, women and babies are one thing. They think of each other as sisters so this is mommies showing off their little bundles of joy," Patrick told Peter as they watched them walk over and sit down gushing over James. Felicia and Anna walked over to them, Anna holding Noah. While Mac and Robert were talking to Emma.
"So I kind of get the feeling the three of us will be getting to talk to each other a lot this evening," Finn said.
"Oh just give them a little time and then they will remember we're here as well," Patrick said with a grin.
"Some of them, I think there is at least one person here that would be a lot happier if Finn and I weren't here."
Patrick knew Peter meant Robert and he understood why they might feel that way, "There are other people to talk to."
"That all happen to love him," Peter said watching the other people in the room.
"This is very special to them. Getting to have their family all together like this. I get you two might not like Robert but keep in mind his personal feeling for either of you have nothing to do with this evening. I know what it feels like to have that man disapprove of you and he does have a way of letting you know that. Tonight I'm sure he will behave himself." Peter and Finn looked at each other, they realized Patrick had just told them that they better just suck it up, this wasn't about either of them. Peter still wasn't really feeling any connection to Anna and the only reason he was here was that Maxie had asked him to come.
Felicia made her way over to the men standing away from the others, "What are you all doing standing over here?"
"Just giving you all time to gush over babies and catch up with each other," Patrick to her. Peter decided he could go over and join Maxie now, he smiled at her as she put her hand on his arm. "I think they are started to realize they just might have feelings for each other," Felicia said watching them.
"From what Robin tells me he has been there a lot for her since Nathan's death," Patrick noted.
"Yeah, I think that's how they grew closer."
"Luv, come here, please. You need to tell me who's right," Emma called. Anna smiled and walked over to her Robert and Mac.
Finn scoffed at that, "Really now he has her calling Anna that too?"
Felicia looked at him a confused look on her face. "What?"
"First Noah now Emma."
"It's so cute they are calling Anna Luv. Robin called her Luv for the first almost 7 years of her life," Felicia said with a smile.
"What?" Finn asked.
"Luv, yes it's Robert's term of endearment for Anna, but he calls other people that as well, he calls Robin and Emma that. In this setting, to their family Anna is Luv as well as mom and grandma," Felicia explained.
"It's funny if Robin is looking at pictures I can always tell when she finds one from when she was little because she almost always says, awww Robby and Luv. Then she gets this look on her face that shows the love and happiness the picture brings her. She told me all about when they sat her down and told her they are her parents."
"Oh, I guess I didn't realize that," Finn admitted. He thought Anna had told her a lot about her life but maybe not that much about her family or was it because he doesn't listen that closely when she started talking about Robert?
"Finn were you bothered by them calling her Luv?" Felicia asked.
"Maybe a little but I see now that I shouldn't have been." He walked away from them just needing to think about that for a little while. Why was he still letting things like that get to him? When he came back into the room the grouping of people had changed so he walked over to Anna Patrick and Robin. James and Noah were on the floor by them. James might be smaller but Noah was sitting with him playing and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Peter was talking to Maxie and Mac while Robert and Felicia were talking. Emma wasn't in the room at the moment.
Anna had her arm around Robin while they talked. Right away Finn joined into the conversation, Patrick and Robin were talking about work back in Berkeley. He was happy it was a conversation not about the family. He grinned to himself, for a second he pictured it like a Mafia Family.
While they were talking Robert noticed Anna looked worried about something so he thought he'd wander over. Finn might be standing right there but he didn't believe Finn could see that she was working at hiding the fact something was bothering her. She was thinking about something important, Robert looked over and realized Anna kept glancing over at Peter. "Excuse me," he said to Felicia then walked over to Anna and touched her arm. "Come talk to me for a moment. Excuse us." Anna smiled at the other then followed Robert out of the room. By the stairs, he turned to her. "Are you thinking about talking to him tonight?"
"I don't know. Maybe." Anna took a couple of steps away from Robert then turned back to him. "It's driving me crazy, the not knowing. A couple of courier missions are meaningless, this is huge. I mean Alex has me believing I sleep with my worst enemy. The man that destroyed my life, our life, over and over. She tried to make it sound like she even slept with you."
"But I didn't." Why did he get a little feeling of pride knowing that bothered Anna so much? "I know you need to know for sure but is tonight the night to bring that up?"
"Bring what up?" Robin asked. They turned to see Robin with Maxie and Peter who were holding James and Noah. Both of which were almost asleep. "These little guys are ready for some sleep."
Anna looked at them, "Why don't you all go get them settled then we can talk about it."
"OK, mom." Robin led the other two up the stairs.
When they were out of sight Robert took Anna's hand, "Are you sure about this?"
"Robert I need to know. I need to tell Peter what I'm thinking or he'll never agree to the test."
"Alright, if you're sure. I want to be here while you tell him. I think Robin is going to want to stick around as well."
Anna started pacing, her arms folded in front of her, "Yeah, she should hear this too."
Robert was leaning on the bannister while Anna paced when Robin Peter and Maxie came back downstairs. "Oh, you waited here for us. So what's going on mom?" Robin asked.
She turned to look at them, "I guess you can all hear this. You all know about my blindness and that Alex was here with the same temporary blindness. That the other twins that live here were all affected by the same thing."
They were all listening closely, Robert was still leaning against the bannister. "Do you know what caused that?" Maxie asked.
"Yeah, that's not what I need to say though. It's related to it but," Anna turned and exhaled trying to figure out how to say this.
"We now know that all three sets of twins had different levels of experiments done on them, most of them were unaware of this," Robert told them giving Anna a moment to gather her thoughts.
Anna turned back to them, "I now know that some of Alex's memories are in my head. I remember them like I was there. Down to the smallest detail." She stepped a little closer to them then reached out and took Peter's hands, "I need to ask you to do something and I know it's going to sound terrible."
"What's this about?" he asked.
"Peter, we need to go and do a DNA test." She glanced over at Robert. "I think you are actually my sister's son."
He looked at Robert as well, "This is you. You put that in her head because you hate who my father is."
Robert didn't respond, he knew this was something Anna had to do and him yelling at Faison's spawn wasn't going to help anyone so he held his tongue. "Robert knows about my concerns but he did not suggest this in any way."
"Oh, so you'll ask me to do a DNA test but not Robin," he said loudly. "You want to believe the hero's kid is yours but you will do anything to deny you had a child with your enemy!"
"That isn't it. Peter, it has nothing to do with who your father is. This is something I just feel is true."
"Oh sure. It feels better to think that you only had a child with Scorpio. It's easier to accept but you told me all about giving me up. You told me how hard that was."
"That's because I believe Alex planted all of those memories, everything that deals with you."
"But there's no chance that the planted memories are of Robin's birth. No chance that little bit of your precious life story is wrong. You just know that she's your child."
"You want me to get a DNA test, Peter? Let's go, I'll do it. Mom is struggling to figure out what she can believe. You want to stand there screaming at her when she's asking you for help. Help to understand what's in her head. You want to suggest that somehow I'm Alex's let's go do the test."
"You seem sure of the results. How is it going to feel when it comes back and the people you think are your wonderful parents aren't. Maybe Robert isn't even your father."
That did it Peter had no right to suggest that Anna and Robert weren't her parents. He had crossed a line, "You don't know what the hell you're talking about. You want to lash out, you want to say mean things to hurt us. Fine. That doesn't change the fact that to help my mother, we are getting those test done first thing in the morning."
"Oh, really and if I refuse," Peter shot back.
"Then I will rip the hair needed out of your scalp to run the test," Robin said getting in his face.
Robert stepped over to her, "That's enough sweety."
"Maxie, talk some sense into him," Robin said angrily then walked away.
"I just want to know the truth Peter," Anna pleaded. "Think about it, please," then Anna turned and walked away as well.
Maxie looked at Robert then lead Peter back into the sitting room, the people there had heard the conversation but weren't saying anything. Robert watched them walk away, he thought about following them but thought he might end up punching Peter if he did. It might be Finn that should follow her but Robert knew he had to go after Anna. He needed to know she was alright. Robert found her standing outside looking out into the night. "Are you alright?"
Anna didn't turn, "I just want answers."
"I know you do." He stepped a little closer standing very close but he didn't reach out and touch her.
"I know that could have gone better."
"Could it have though? I don't think he would have reacted any differently no matter how you brought this up."
"I guess you're probably right." Robert didn't say anything else he just stood there with her. She needed time to think and he just wanted to be there for her.
Finn had gone looking for Anna as well. There were a lot of tense people in the house at the moment and he wanted to see how she was doing. When he saw her standing with Robert, neither of them talking he couldn't help but think that maybe Robert knew what she needed at the moment. Silent support, just standing with her, letting her know someone was there for her. He put his head down and turned, Finn knew if he was over there he would want to say something, make some silly comment. Want to distract her from what had just happened. This wasn't something she needs to be distracted from though, this is something she needs to know the truth about so she will be able to move forward. He decided to give them all a little space so he got in his car and drove away.
After about five minutes of standing there not saying anything Anna asked, "What if he's right?"
"Anna, Peter is not right. He's upset, he's hurt but he is not right."
She turned to him, "I thought she was going to take him down right then and there when he suggested that neither of us are her parents."
"She feisty, like her mother," he told her with a grin.
"Robert, I hate this. I just want to know for sure." Anna put her head down, "If it turns out that Peter is my son, that means I have lied to you so many times. How can you be standing here with me? How can you even look at me?"
"Because I know the truth, even if you are still doubting it." He reached out and touched her cheek, "Anna Devane never would have let Faison touch her. She does not give herself freely to just anyone." A tear fell from her eye and Robert wiped it away with his thumb. "Do you remember watching Robin and Patrick at their wedding? Do you remember what we said to each other?" he asked letting his hand drop from her cheek.
Anna thought back to that wonderful day, a smile on her face as she did. "I think I know what you're talking about. They were about to cut the cake." Robert nodded, Anna smiled and continued. "We were both thinking about when we told her we're her parents."
"Right, what did you say after that?"
Anna thought a moment again, "She was conceived out of our love for each other." She smiled tenderly, "To which you replied, still ranks as the greatest love of all."
"That is still true," he said with a grin. "What I'm getting at is you know that beautiful woman is our daughter. There is no question in my heart."
Anna nodded as another tear rolled down her cheek, "I just got caught up in the fear of not knowing that I can trust my own memory."
Robert pulled her into his arms, "Trust that. You know Robin is ours." He felt her nod against his chest. "If you need I could always prove that you are the woman my body know." Then he whispered in her ear, "Still craves."
"That won't be necessary, but thanks for the offer," she said with a smile still in his arms.
He kissed the top of her head, "The offer stands if you change your mind," he said with a smile.
Anna leaned back in his arms, a smile on her face. "You are incorrigible."
"You don't want me to change." He looked into her eyes, the desire to kiss her was becoming overwhelming. He cleared his throat and took a step back letting her go, "Come on let's go see who's still here."
"Yeah alright." As they turned her but her hand on his back, she was grateful he had been there for her tonight.
...
Alexis wasn't expecting anyone, when there was a knock at her door she got up and walked over to answer the door. Finn was standing there, "You look a little upset. Come in."
"Thank you," he walks in. "More confused, feeling a little out of place maybe."
"What's going on."
"I am not a Scorpio and there are a lot of them at Anna's right now. There was a little drama and there's possible made up drama in my head so I just needed to get out of there for a little while."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
He looked over at her and gave her a little half smile, "Sure." They went over and sat down on her couch together.
"OK, do you want to start with the drama?"
"Um, I don't know." Finn took a moment then said, "I guess this will be out sooner or later. Anna told Peter that she felt they should do a DNA test."
"Is this because of the mixed memory thing?"
"Yeah, Peter got upset by that. Robin came to her mom's defence. Peter suggested Robin should have one done too. Robin told him she would because she knows Anna is her mother. Robin's little but when she gets angry she's actually frightening."
"So now they are all getting DNA tests?"
"Yeah, Peter throw it in Robin's face that she couldn't know for sure who her parents were. He suggested that Robert might not even be her father, that when Robert came over. Surprisingly he had the coolest head of all of them and got Robin to back down."
Alexis took that in, "I can see Peter's point, I mean can they be totally sure?"
"Anna says yes. She and Robert apparently had some way of clearing up any question of that. Don't ask me I was not told what that was. I may have suggested that to Robert as well and I think I'm lucky I didn't get punched that day. Peter left shortly after this happened and I didn't stick around much longer. I went looking for Anna but she was outside with Robert."
Robert helping her through this makes sense Alexis thought, this was about their past. "That can't be easy on Anna trying to figure all of this out. What is this possible drama?" Alexis asked hoping to get Finn mind on something other than Robert's involvement in Anna's problems.
"Oh, just the same type of thing that's been on my mind too much lately," he admitted. "Can you believe that I was actually a little upset about the fact a toddler is calling Anna Luv? That he was using Robert's pet name for her."
"Finn you can't really be upset about that."
He tilted his head slightly, showing that yes he had been. "Do you know why Robert calls her Luv?"
"He's Australian, it's a common term of endearment there."
Finn looked at her and nodded, "Good point, that might be where it comes from because he apparently has always called her that. I was informed tonight that Luv was actually what Robin call Anna until the time she found out she was actually her mother. They all thought it was so cute that Noah was calling her that, then when Emma did it I might have said something about it. Felicia explained it to me. She remembered when Robin showed up at Robert's and Robin telling them about her friend Luv."
"That's what you meant about not being a Scorpio. They have all known each other a long time and you're feeling out of place."
"I get that everyone there is Anna's family but it's the fact it's Robert's family too that is making it hard."
"I don't think that is ever going to change."
"No, it never will," he agreed. "And I don't think I'll be getting a break from him being around as long as Robin's family is here." He turned a little to look at Alexis, "Tell me something you're dealing with. I want to think about something else for a while."
"Alright," Alexis took a moment. "I am trying a different approach to the Kristina DOD situation."
"That's good right."
"I hope so. I am going to try to show her that her life did have good moments before she found DOD. I also need to try and find other faults with DOD that aren't directly related to her and try to make her see those."
"You've been talking to a therapist haven't you?" he asked with a grin.
"I have. I don't know what to do and I don't want to lose my daughter to Shiloh and his cult."
"You really believe it's a cult now don't you?"
"Yeah, I do." Finn put his arm around her shoulder. "I hate that she's messed up in this."
"I know you do. I'm sure this will work out. Kristina will realize what she has gotten involved in and she'll reach out for your help."
"I hope you're right Finn," Alexis said as she leaned against him a little more.