Chapter 28
They had an early flight back to Port Charles so Anna wasn't surprised when she heard someone knock at her door first thing in the morning. She opened the door then smiled seeing Robert there with breakfast for them. "I thought you might like something before our flight."
She pulled the room service cart into the room. "Thank you."
Robert walked in and once the door was closed he turned to Anna. He reached for her hand, when she smiled at him Robert pulled her into his arms. "Good morning." He kissed her and Anna put her arms around him holding him close. This wasn't like the kisses they'd shared the night before. The desire for each other was growing as the passions intensified. Anna moaned in his arms then leaned back both of them breathing heavily. "I wanted to kiss you like that last night."
She smiled and stroked his cheek, "We should eat."
"Anna, we'll figure this out. I thought about this a lot after I left last night. I just need to know you want this too."
"That kiss didn't tell you I want this too. I have to talk to Finn but you're the one I want in my life." Anna smiled, "You get that, I really I want to show you something." Robert took the covers off their breakfast and poured them both a cup of coffee as Anna got something out of her bag. "I think you should read this." She handed Tiffany's letter to him. "I think we may have been the subject of a few of their conversations." As they started to eat Robert read Tiffany's letter, when he was done he smiled at Anna. "That letter made me really think about what I want. It was written with love and I knew she just wants me to have what will make me truly happy. Robert did I tell you Finn accused us of having an affair. Well, maybe it was just sex but still."
"Does he listen to you at all when you talk? You are a lot of things, a cheater isn't one of them."
"No, that's why I have to talk to Finn when we get back. He needs to know that he and I are finished."
Robert smiled at her again, "We're doing this then? We're going to give us another chance?"
Anna looked up at him a bit her lip, "I want to."
"Good, I want that too," he said with a grin. "Now we better finish eating so we don't miss out flight."
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Sitting in his office Finn had a lot on his mind. A lot had happened in the last few days and somehow during that time, he may have thrown away his relationship with Anna. Finn wasn't sure where Anna had gone, it could be work-related. After hearing Chase admit that he had been wrong about Anna and Robert Finn knew he had made a terrible mistake. He had said things to Anna, he had called her a cheater. He justified going to Alexis by telling himself Anna had already picked Scorpio. That she was already with him so she couldn't expect Finn not to wander as well. Was there a way to make Anna understand why he had done this?
He had tried to talk to Alexis after she walked out of Charlie's but so far she hadn't wanted to talk to him either. At first, she said she was busy with Kristina, then she had court. Finn was sure some of that might have been true, but more than likely she just didn't want to talk to him. Why had Chase led him to believe Anna was sleeping with Robert? What had he seen that he believed that? Finn had been so confused yesterday that he left without talking to him. Maybe that's what he should do now. Until Anna got back from where ever he couldn't do anything to fix what he had done so he might as well have a little more information to work with. What was he thinking, more information? Who is he kidding? He's been acting like a total jerk, hell he moved out of her house without telling her. Can he convince her to forgive him? All she wanted was his support, his understanding and all he did was tell her she was wrong to believe what she did. He had called her so many horrible things and there may not be any way to take that all back now but that didn't mean he wasn't going to try.
Finn sat with he head in his hands for several minutes then he had a different thought. What if he purposely sabotaged their relationship. Anna had asked him why he needed to believe Peter was her son and he couldn't tell her why. Even now he wasn't sure why he felt that he was right about Peter. To make it even worse he may have lost a friend as well.
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When their flight got in Anna went back to her place, Robert had told her he would call her later. Right now she wanted to drop off her things give Peter a call then she had to deal with Finn. He had called her a couple of time while she was out of town but she hadn't answered. Besides, after the decision she had made this morning Anna knew they had to talk in person.
Anna made herself some tea then called Peter, she told him she wanted to meet him today to give him the sample. There were a couple of other calls she had returned. She was about to call Finn to tell him they had to meet when there was a knock at her door. She smiled when she opened the door and saw the delivery man with flowers, red roses, she was pretty sure she knew who these were from. Once she closed the door she found the card, 'You are beautiful. You are wonderful. You are the most captivating woman I have ever known. Robert.' Anna put them in some water then picked up the card again and smiled as she read it once more.
She had just finished reading it again when there was another knock at her door so she went to answer it. When she opened the door Finn was standing there. "Hi, I'm glad you're back."
"Hello Finn, come in I was just about to call you."
Finn thought that was a good sign, at least she wanted to talk. "That was a quick trip."
"Yeah, Robert and I went to talk to Alex."
"You were with Robert?" he asked pausing to look at her.
"Yeah, when the director says I'll set up the meeting but you're going with another agent that's what you do. I told you Robert and I were working on this together."
"I think you told me you were meeting with your partner about something."
"Did you expect me to tell you every little detail right after you moved out without so much as a word to me about it?"
"Right, you have a point." Finn looked at her trying to figure out what she was thinking. "Anna, I've been behaving like an ass. I've been a complete jerk and I am sorry about that."
"Yes, you have been."
"Can you forgive me? I know I can make this up to you."
"Finn, even if I do forgive you I think you moving out was the right thing to do."
"With how much we've been fighting I guess it was. Now we can slowly repair what I messed up."
"No, that not what I meant and that won't be happening. I need to do what's going to make me happy and this," she gestured between them, "isn't it."
"Anna, you don't mean that."
"Yeah, I do. When I really needed support, when I was spinning crazy thoughts in my head. You let me down. Then got angry about the fact you didn't agree about the one thing I knew I could trust."
"This has been a very confusing time for all of us. You're right, I should have done better."
"Better?" Anna said. She took a deep breath then let it out, there was no point fighting with him she already knew what she wanted and this wasn't it. "You told me you didn't know what you want. You moved out while I dropped off my daughter so we couldn't even talk about it. Now you here telling me you can do better."
"Anna, I made a mistake."
"Just one?" Again she stopped herself from saying something to make this worse. "I don't want to fight. I'm done fighting with you. If you want to double check that you did get all of your things, do it now. Finn, I am making this very clear, you and I are done. I do not want to try fixing this. I don't think we should just take a break. I am not going to take you back."
"You want to end this?"
"You left, you said horrible things to me. You accused me of things I didn't do. So yes, I am ending this." She took another deep breath, "Give me your hand."
"What?"
"Give me your hand." Anna reached out and took his hand and put it on her right cheek. "You've touched my face, have you ever noticed this?" She moved his fingers so they were right over the mark on her cheekbone. Finn was looking at her with a confused look on his face. "He marked me before Robin was born. I was his wife. I was carrying his child. This is what's left from the explosion he caused. You need to know how Robert could be so sure. How I could be so sure. This, he touched my cheek." She let go of his hand then Anna started to turn, should she tell him about the kiss? Did it even matter now? "That's how he tenderly got me to start thinking clearly again after you felt the need to tell my family Robin isn't my child." Finn was just staring at her now, lost for words. Yup Anna thought, she's gonna do it, why the hell not? "When I asked him if he had ever been with Alex. Yes Finn, the idea of Robert being with my twin sister bothers me. I needed to know if there was any chance that maybe, just maybe that was who he met first. Robert proved in a different way that time. He told me he would know the difference, that there were things she couldn't fake. He told me if he kissed me he could prove it. One kiss, one very passionate kiss but that was all it took and that was all that happened."
"When was this?"
"The morning he came here to tell me what he found out about the memory Alex told us about. We were talking about if she could have fooled him. He said he would have noticed the differences, see the tells. Then I clarified that she meant she 'knew' him. That's when he told me what he was going to do, there is no faking the way we respond to each other. I didn't tell you this because you didn't need to know. It wasn't cheating it wasn't done to hurt anyone. It was done to prove a point."
"When you say respond you mean what exactly?"
"When I asked you if you have ever been so in love that it consumes you, that there is such a physical reaction that you feel like you needed them like you needed your next breath. When Robert and I are together that's how it is." Anna turned then looked back at Finn, "I know Robert and I touch all the time. That we sit too close, that we don't even notice when we do it. That has to be part of this, we aren't together but we still need something from each other. When he kissed me that day, it was that physical response, that need we have for each other that he needed to remind me of." Anna paused, "I know I'm not explaining this well but this is the best I can do."
"No, I think you are. I guess I should have accepted that there were reasons you believed Robert and that you weren't telling me them because you were trying to spare my feelings."
Anna felt better now that she had told Finn all of this, maybe she had to just so she didn't feel guilty now that she wants to have a relationship with Robert. "Finn you still haven't told me why you believed I had to be Peter's mother." He looked at her but didn't say anything. "You must have a reason for that."
"I felt bad for him," Finn offered as a weak excuse.
"No, the way you were acting. The things you said to me. You feeling bad for Peter doesn't excuse that."
What can he say, even now he doesn't fully understand why he was acting like that and he was the one doing it. Yeah, when he was talking to Patrick he was trying to understand how Anna could claim one child and not the other. The way they all just accepted that Robin was her child but questioned Peter bothered him, but why? Why did he still feel so certain that Peter is Anna's child? "I know this isn't an answer but I really don't know."
Anna just stared at him, was he serious? He caused fight after fight and he doesn't even have a reason. "So I was wrong to trust what I knew but you didn't even need a reason to tell me over and over that I was wrong. Yeah, you know what it's time for you to leave. Just go, get on with your life and leave me alone." Finn nodded then turned and left, there wasn't anything else he could say. There was no getting back what they had. She wanted answers and he couldn't give them to her.
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Robert walked into the Floating Rib, Mac told him that was where he'd be. Robert didn't see his brother right away when he walked in but he did notice Alexis sitting at the bar. "For someone that doesn't drink isn't this a strange place to be hanging out?" he asked as he walked over to her.
"I am willing myself not to drink but I am very tempted to. I made a big mistake and if I go home I just feel like I will stop, get a bottle then throw away my sobriety. Here with people around it doesn't seem like a foregone conclusion."
"You need to talk to someone, don't you have a sponsor?"
"I had someone that could usually talk me out of it, then I slept with him," Alexis turned to look at him, "again. So since he is the mistake I made, calling him doesn't seem like the right solution."
"Yeah, I can see how that might be a problem." Robert sat down beside her, "My way of dealing with problems often is having a drink so that's not gonna help you either."
"No." Thank god he's not going to ask who it was, Alexis thought. "There's a lot going on with my daughters so I'm not going to bother any of them. That's why I'm sitting here."
"There must be someone you can call."
"I make bad choices. So for right now I'm just gonna sit here."
"Alright, but you can't say I can't sit here with you." Alexis glanced over and saw him grin before calling the bartender over. "Got coffee?"
"Yeah." Robert held up two fingers. "Coming right up."
"You really are just a nice guy aren't you?"
Robert looked around then leaned a little closer, "Don't go telling people that. Otherwise, it confuses them when I start hitting people."
Alexis laughed and shook her head slightly, "I won't tell anyone."
"Good. What are we going to talk about while we sit here not drinking?"
"Where did you last assignment take you?"
"Well, that's boring. Stienmore, accompanying another agent who requested a meeting with a prisoner there."
"Stienmore, isn't that where Anna's sister was taken?"
"Yup and the director would only arrange it if I went with her. He's an old friend of ours and none of us like what's been done to her so he wanted to make sure Alex didn't have a chance to mess with her again. That's why I was sent with her."
"Alex didn't try to play any mind games with the two of you?"
"I think we were the ones playing the mind games by the end. She got all upset and went back to her cell but Anna already had the DNA sample for Peter and that was the main reason she was there."
"Peter wanted Alex's DNA sample?"
"Yeah, he asked Anna and she felt like she owed that to him."
Why were they sitting here talking about Anna after what she's done to her? "You must have had some very interesting assignments through the years."
"I have and most of them I can't talk about," he told her with a little grin.
"Hey, Robby you weren't gone long," Mac said as he came over.
"Nope, just a quick trip to meet my ex-sister-in-law. We didn't have lunch or anything but she seems like a peach."
"What are your plans this evening?" Mac asked with a grin ignoring Robert's remark.
"I'm not sure yet."
"Well, you're welcome to join us for dinner." Mac looked at Alexis, "You can bring a friend if you want."
"Oh, I'm just sitting here so I don't go home and drink. Robert's just keeping me company," Alexis told him.
"You don't want to drink but you're sitting in a bar."
"I know that doesn't make sense but so far it's working for me."
"And you're OK with this guy bothering you?" Mac asked with a smile, she smiled back and nodded.
When Robert and Mac started joking around with each other Alexis let her mind wander to why she was sitting here in the first place. After thinking about it for a while she knew getting drunk wasn't going to change anything. She regrets what she had done but again drinking isn't going to fix that. Before long she was smiling listening to them pick on each other. She hadn't drunk last night and she felt like the urge to drink today had passed so she stood up. "I think I'm gonna head home."
"You sure about that?" Robert asked.
"Yeah, I feel better and I'll be fine." Alexis patted Robert's shoulder then turned to leave. As she was walking out she past Anna on her way in.
Anna saw Robert sitting at the bar talking to Mac and walked over. She felt a little annoyed after talking to Finn but mostly she was just happy to have that conversation out of the way. As she walked up behind him she slid her hand up his back to his shoulder. Robert leaned back and started to turn, Anna stepped closer. She put her other hand on his shoulder, without standing up he hugged her. Anna hugged him back enjoying being in his arm. "Yeah, this is what I needed."
"Did you talk to him?" Robert asked quietly, Anna nodded. "How did that go?"
"We'll talk about it later."
"Do you want to join me for dinner at Mac and Felicia's he said I could bring a friend," Robert said with a smile as he leaned back a little.
"Oh did he? Sure dinner sounds nice." They let each other go and Anna sat down beside Robert.
Robert turns back to the bar, "Alright, Mac I found a date for tonight."
"Oh she walks in gives you a hug and now you want to hang out with her."
Robert nodded with a grin, "Yeah, she seems nice." Anna laughed and leaned against Robert for a moment. He put his arm on the back of her chair, "Did you want a drink?"
"Yeah OK, then after that we should take a walk so we can talk."