Chapter 27

Anna and Robert walked into Stienmore for their appointment to see Alex. Earlier they had agreed that Anna could talk to her alone first as much as Robert didn't like it he had finally agreed. "What all are you going to talk to her about?" Robert asked as they waited.

"Well, the main thing is for the sample. I also want to see if she'll tell me why she did it. Any of it, why let me think I had a child with Faison."

"Anna, do you really think she'll tell you that?"

"No, I guess not. I will ask her why she felt the need to make me doubt you."

Robert turned to her, "Doubt me?"

"I mean, doubt us. Why did she suggest she knew you?"

"Does that matter?" Robert moved a little closer.

Anna smiled at him, "No maybe not but I will still ask." They had basically eaten then gone to sleep last night. Anna hadn't told him what was in Tiff's letter and he hadn't asked but she had to admit she had been thinking a lot about what it said. She put her hand on his chest and leaned a little closer, "I hated thinking you had sex with her." Robert reached up and touched her hair letting it fall through his fingers. "Robert, did you mean it when you said you're still mine?" He looked in her eyes, and lean in.

"Agent Devane the prisoner is being brought in," a guard said as he opened the door. They were in the observation room and they looked up to see Alex being lead into the adjoining room.

Anna turned and took a deep breath, settling her nerves and walked through the door, Robert went to the window to watch. The guard locked the door after Anna was inside. "I'm sure you think you can tell them apart but we aren't taking any chances if something strange happens in there," the guard said to Robert.

"I can, but I understand the precautions. Just when I want to go in you had better let me in there."

"Yes, I was told that I had to do that as well."

"Good." Then Robert pressed the intercom button so he could listen to Anna and Alex.

"Anna, it is so good to see you again. Did you miss me already?" Alex said as Anna sat down across from her.

"Did you think I wouldn't be able to find out there were four planted missions in my head?"

Alex just smiled, "Did you have fun finding them? Oh, it must have taken days going through all of those old case files to find them."

Anna hadn't even thought about how long Robert worked to find them actually but she wasn't gonna give Alex the pleasure of responding to that. "I'm here on behave of your son actually. You know the one you wanted me to believe was mine."

"I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about."

"Well if you don't then you should have no problem giving him what he asked me to get, a DNA sample."

"Use yours, it'll be close enough."

"We did that already. My test done with Robert and Robin showed that yes, Robert and I are her parents. The one for Peter Faison and I oddly did not say that Peter is my son."

"You tested your own daughter," Alex asked with a laugh.

"That was only to make Peter happy so he would agree to the test."

"Oh Anna, you keep telling yourself that. You needed to know because what if Robert was her father but you weren't her mother. Have you found him and asked him about our time together? He really is a wonderful lover."

Nope don't let her get to you, Anna told herself. "We've talked," was all she said. "So I would like your permission to take the DNA sample. It's the least you can do for your son."

"Fine." Alex acted like it was an annoyance that Anna was here for something so trivial. Anna got up and took the sample then sat back down again. "Is there something else? Seem like a long way to come just to get something anyone here could have acquired for you."

"Peter does want to know why you gave him up. I told him what I believed but he doesn't know if he can believe that. I think he is going to try to contact you." Alex remained quiet so Anna continued. "Were the mind games just for your entertainment?"

"I knew you were going to turn me in but I wanted my vision back. Why shouldn't I have had a little fun before getting locked away?"

"It was fun for you to make people doubt what they were sure of?"

Alex leaned forward, "Oh, is Finn doubting if he's enough for you. He was fun to mess with I could tell he already had his doubt, I just made him more aware of them," she said with a smile.

"You find entertainment in this."

Alex was watching Anna then she smiled, "Oh, it isn't what I said to Finn that bothering you. Does he know you are still in love with Robert?"

"What Finn knows doesn't matter."

"So no." Alex smiled again, "Where is Robert? Are you hiding him from me?" Alex leaned forward on the table, "Oh, Anna doesn't like to share her toys."

Anna was trying very hard to not smack that smug look off of Alex's face. She put both hands on the table then smiled at Alex. "I know you're lying."

"Dude, are they talking about you?" the guard asked.

"Open the door." Robert walked in when the door was opened. With his head down he walked over to Anna put one hand on the back of her chair the other on the table. Without looking at Alex, he leaned down and whispered, "The answer to your last question is yes." Anna nodded, "I will always be yours," she nodded again. "Let her wonder what we might be talking about. Oh, this skirt you're wearing, you should wear it more. I could watch you in it all day. Now ask her something about me."

Alex sat watching the two people now in front of her. Who was this guy he had come in and bent to talk to Anna so quickly Alex hadn't even seen his face? What was he telling her? Why was he even here?

Robert still hadn't moved when Anna asked Alex, "Did Robert tell you how he got the scar on his inner right thigh?"

"Are you trying to trick? We both know he doesn't have a scar there."

Alex watched as Anna moved her hand and ran it up the leg of the man standing beside her. They must be close because he didn't flinch as Anna's hand moved further up his leg. "Even through his jeans, I can feel it." If he gets to have a little fun so does she, Anna thought.

"You might be feeling something else soon," he whispered then stood up straight and looked at Alex.

"He was 17, he wiped out while surfing and got cut by some coral."

Robert held out his hand, "Robert Scorpio, nice to meet you."

Alex looked up at him, "You know each other that well? You think I couldn't fool you?"

"I know you couldn't. I know things about Anna no one else does. Things you wouldn't know, things you couldn't fake."

"Fine we've never met," Alex admitted. Seeing him in the flesh is so much better than the pictures, Anna did have very good taste in men.

"Why did you need Anna to believe she had a child with Faison? What are you hiding?" Robert asked still standing beside Anna.

"Who says I'm hiding anything?"

"You must have had some knowledge of Anna and Faison's relationship. Why would you want her to think she had a child with the man that has ruined her life so many times? I know you must have a reason for doing that to her."

"I don't have to tell you anything."

"You're scared people are going to find out you're Peter's mother. You tried to protect him by giving him away but that didn't work. Now you've tried to hide him by making Anna believe she is his mother. Why? What are worried about coming out? What is it that people can't know?" Robert asked.

"I'm done talking, guard. You have the sample you wanted I'd like to go back to my suite now," she said with a smile. "The view isn't great but what are you going to do?" Guards came in from behind Alex then escorted her out of the room.

Anna stood up and smiled at Robert, "I guess we got what we expected. I really didn't think she would tell me anything."

"Yeah, but we aren't leaving until tomorrow. Tonight you're stuck with me."

"I can handle that." They walked over to the door waiting to be let out. Once it opened they left.

...

Finn wanted to talk to Alexis, he felt they at least had to talk about what had happened. When he called her Alexis agreed to meet him at Charlie's. Finn walked in and saw Alexis talking to Julian so he walked over. "Thanks, Julian, I'm sure Kristina will be back soon and will want to still have a job when she is." She turned to Finn, they might as well get this conversation over with. "Hi, let's go sit. What's going on?"

"Um, I was going to ask you the same thing. Is everything OK with Kristina?"

"I think it will be. My girls are all causing their own drama in my life but nothing I can't handle at the moment."

"K, that's good." Once they were sitting Finn took a moment to say anything. "Alexis, I am very confused at the moment. I really enjoyed myself the other night but I was upset and I don't want you to think I used you."

"Finn, we're both adults. We made that choice together."

"Right." Finn didn't say anything else right away.

"Are you telling me you're going back to Anna? Is that why you wanted to talk?"

"I don't even know where Anna is. What I wanted to talk about is that I don't know what I want."

"You just ended a relationship. That's understandable."

"Alexis, I may not have actually ended that relationship. Yeah, I moved out but we never actually broke up. Neither of us said it was over," Finn admitted.

"Oh!" Alexis already knew she had behaved rashly the other night but until right now she hadn't regretted it.

"I do think it's over, I get the feeling Anna doesn't want me coming back. Now I've pulled you into this when I don't even know for sure where I stand with her."

Just then Chase and Willow walked in, when she walked over to a table of their own Chase walked over to Finn. "Um, look I need to tell you something." He pulled out a chair and sat with them. "I may have been wrong about something I told you."

"I don't think I'm going to like this," Finn said dryly.

"I may have led you to believe something was going on but yesterday morning I overheard a conversation that made it clear two parties hadn't done something I led you to believe they had."

"What?" It was actually Alexis that spoke.

Chase looked at her then back at Finn, "They flirt and stuff but from what I heard they both seem to understand they can't cross that line."

"You can not be serious," Alexis got up and stormed out of Charlie's.

Finn watched her then turned to his brother, "Yeah, she didn't need names to know who you were talking about."

"Why did she leave?"

"We may have crossed that line."

"Oh, and I show up and tell you, oh."

"Yeah, I have been a complete idiot and I think that has cost me Anna. Now I may have also messed up things between Alexis and I."

"You and Alexis?"

"We are friends, we lean on each other when we need support. We dated for a little while before Anna and I started dating. The other night we slept together again."

"Finn, what are you doing?"

"Other than messing everything up I have no idea."

...

After they had eaten Anna and Robert went to her room for a nightcap. Robert had picked up a bottle of wine and now he had put on some music. He brought over their glasses then sat down beside her. "Anna, I think we really need to talk."

"I know that."

"What would you say if I admitted this scares me?"

"It would make me feel better actually." She took a sip of her wine. "This is us, Robert. What happens if we try and we can't make it work?"

"Anna if we take a chance I know we'd stay together."

"But how long until something rips us apart?"

"That's what scares me," Robert told her. He took her hand, "Anna I have wanted to give us another chance for a long time. Since you came out of the sky and kicked me in the head really," he told her with a grin. "I just don't know if I can go through losing you again."

Anna got up, needing to put a little space between them. "Robert, I don't even know if I'm single. Yeah, Finn moved out but does that mean he ended our relationship?"

"Anna, please tell me what you're thinking."

"Of course I want another chance at us but can we actually try?" She put her head back and Robert got up and walked over to her. "I want what keeps getting taken away," she said as he stepped up to her.

Robert put one hand on her low back and she smiled as she put her hand on his shoulder and took his other hand. They started swaying to the music. "Enough talking for tonight, let's just enjoy this time together," Robert said as Anna put her head on his shoulder.

Oh how she loves this man, it felt so right being this close to him. For tonight this was all she needed, time in his arms. Anna didn't know how long they had been dancing when she moved her other hand to his neck. When she did his free hand started playing with her hair. She tilted her head back enjoying his touch. When his lips brushed past hers she kissed him lightly. "You are so beautiful," he said then kissed her tenderly. Slowly his hand slid down the side of her face then to her lower back. It was Anna's turn to run her fingers through his hair just over his ear, then she smiled thinking about when he had a lot more hair. Robert was watching her and when she smiled he leaned in and kissed her again. He was being so tender, they knew what was going on. What this could lead too but neither one seemed like they wanted to do more than this.

Anna didn't know when it became more kissing than dancing but even though she was really enjoying this she leaned back in Robert's arms and looked up into his eyes. "I think we should say good night. This has been a truly wonderful evening."

"But we need to stop before we go too far." She nodded then Robert put his hand on her cheek, he kissed once more, then took her hand and walked to the door. Before he opened the door he turned to her, "Anna think about this, think about if you're willing to try. I might be scared but it will be worth it to be able to call you mine again." He kissed her tenderly then left her room. Anna sighed, a smile on her face. This had been a wonderful evening in the arms of the man she has always loved. With a smile still on her face, she went to start getting ready for bed.