Chapter 41
Finn had done a lot of thinking the day before, all day he had been wondering what had gone so terribly wrong between him and Anna. What he was thinking was it just felt like there had to be something he could do. He had felt so down since their break up like he had lost her for good but yesterday it seemed like maybe he hadn't. Maybe there still was a chance for them.
This morning he woke up knowing he had to try to win her back. Things can't be so bad that she won't at least talk to him and if he can get her to listen then maybe he can get her to see they should still be together. Yeah, Anna might be dating Robert right now but Finn felt like it wouldn't last. Robert had been there for her while she was dealing with the memory mapping, Robert was the one she turned to when it should have been him and Finn knew that. He hadn't supported Anna when she needed him and it had led her and Robert on a trip down memory lane. It might have been a fun distraction but Finn was sure that it won't last. As he got ready for the day, he thought about what he wanted to say to Anna. What would make her see that he had been a fool and that she should still be with him?
He didn't have to be at the hospital for a while, Finn picked up his phone and thought about calling her. No this is something he should say in person. He was about to put his phone down then thought he would have to call her to say he wanted to talk. Again he almost put it down, it's not like she's going to answer it if he calls. Finn sighed and put the phone in his pocket, maybe he should still think about what he wants to say then go over and see her.
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Anna had talked to Robert the night before and it sounded like he was going to be away for a couple more days at least. He had told her there was something he needed to tell her about why he had been called into headquarters but didn't want to tell her over the phone. They had talked for a little while but Robert told her he had a lot of work to do and wanted to get it finished so he could get back to Port Charles. After they got off the phone Anna was smiling, he wanted to get back to her. This morning she wanted to get a few answers of her own.
Anna knew Peter was back and wanted to find out how his visit with Alex had gone. She didn't want to just call him to see if he wanted to talk but thought if she went to the Metro Court she might bump into him. Her plan proved successfully almost as soon as she arrived there, "Peter, nice to see you."
"Oh, hello Anna."
"Do you have a few minutes to talk to me? I'm a little curious about how it went with Alex."
"I have a few minutes then I have to get to a meeting."
"Good, thank you."
"What do you want to know?"
"I think what I want to know the most is did Alex admit she is your mother?"
"She did not try to deny it. I don't know why she did what she did to you but she did say that I am her son."
"Peter, I'm glad you at least know that for sure now. I never meant to hurt you and I must have when I told you I wanted to know if you really were my son."
"Anna, we should put that behind us. I don't know what's going to happen in the future between us, maybe we will have some kind of a relationship, I don't know but you shouldn't beat yourself up for something that wasn't your fault."
"Thank you for saying that Peter. Can I ask what else you talked about?"
"It was kind of strange walking in there meeting her, once we started talking I tried to get her to tell me why she gave me up. You were right it was basically what you told me. I wanted more answers she didn't really want to give me any, then I told her about myself she told me a little about herself. There isn't much else to tell."
"How do you feel about the visit? Did it help, even if you didn't get all of the answers you were hoping for?" Anna asked.
"I didn't really get answers but being able to look her in the eye and ask at least I feel a little better. I get that my father was never meant to know about me but other than that I don't really know how I feel about the visit. I've only been back a couple of days so maybe after a little more time has passed I'll know how I really feel about all of this."
Anna touched his arm, "I'm glad you at least know who your mother is now, I know it's not much but it is something."
"Thank you, Anna. I should be going."
Finn had been watching Anna and Peter talk, when Peter turned and walked away he walked over to Anna. "Hello, do you have a few minutes?" he asked.
Anna didn't see any reason not to talk to him, "Yeah, what can I do for you?"
"I was hoping you'd want to talk." Finn thought it was a good time to come over since he had not seen Robert yet.
"Yeah, I have time we can talk."
"Can I interest you in a coffee, we can go up to the restaurant," he suggested.
"Alright, I think I'd like that." They turned and headed for the elevator.
"We're you on your way here to meet Robert?" Finn asked. He hoped that wasn't why she was here but thought he should know if Robert was going to be showing up at some point.
"No, he's out of town at the moment actually."
"Oh," Finn hoped she didn't notice his smile.
"Is that what you want to talk about?"
They stepped off the elevator as he said, "I want to talk to you about what happened between us." Anna had felt that might be why he wanted to talk so it didn't surprise her to hear him say that. They walked over to a table and sat down. "Anna, I know I made a lot of mistakes."
"You didn't. You caused a lot of fighting. Then it felt like we were fighting about the fighting."
"I made one very big mistake because I thought something had happened between you and Robert. The night I slept with Alexis I was sure you and Robert were sleeping together."
Anna hadn't expected him to actually admit that. "Will you tell me when that happened?"
"Does it really matter?"
"Yes, I want to know," Anna said folding her arms in front of herself.
"The night you confronted me about moving out."
Anna took a moment before she spoke again. The waitress came over then, once she had taken their order Anna leaned forward and said, "That night after I walked away from you I messaged Robert and told him we should go out for a few drinks. We had a lot of drinks then he showed me home."
"I was at your house waiting to talk to you when you and Robert got there. You were hanging off each other when you got home."
"I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Robert and I have gotten drunk together a lot. No matter how drunk he is, he makes sure I get home safely."
"So he was just escorting you home?"
"What do you want me to tell you? That we went inside and made out or had a quickie so that you turning around and sleeping with Alexis is justified."
Finn realized that was exactly what it sounded like he was asking for. "No," he answered simply.
"Robert came in, we talked. We both had realized our feelings for each other were getting harder to ignore but that does not mean we acted on them. He left about half an hour after we had gotten there."
"I'm sorry Anna, this really isn't what I wanted to talk about. I don't mean to make it seem like you did anything wrong. I cheated, I felt insecure and I did what I did because I thought it didn't matter anymore."
"So you had already given up on our relationship, was that why you really moved out?"
"Maybe, I think I thought I had already lost you. I was angry that you wouldn't listen to me but I know that I was wrong. I never should have told you Peter had to be your son." He reached out and took her hand, "I don't even understand why I needed to believe that, why I had to make you believe that. It made no sense and I see that now."
Anna pulled her hand out of his as she nodded, "Do you expect me to just forget all the fights that caused? You were adamant that Peter was my son. You wouldn't even hear me out. You were right and I was wrong and that was all there was to it."
"I was wrong."
"Yeah and as soon as the DNA test came back proving that, you should have admitted that but you wouldn't."
Before Finn could say anything else the waitress came back with their coffees. "Anna, I said I made a lot of mistakes, I know that now. I want you to know I am very sorry about all of that. I never wanted to fight with you."
She is with Robert now why not just accept his apology and be done with it she thought. "Alright, that's behind us now so you don't need to feel bad about it any more."
"Thank you. I'm glad you agreed to talk to me."
Maybe Anna will never get the explanation she wanted about why he had acted the way he had but at least knowing he was sorry for it made her feel a little better. "Finn, just because we broke up it doesn't mean I hate you."
That made him smile, this was just the first step to getting her back. He loved her and even though he'd messed up maybe she would be willing to take him back eventually. He didn't want to push his luck right now so he decided it was time to leave and talk to her again later. If Robert is out of town they won't be out together later, maybe he'll stop by her place later so they can talk some more. "That's good to hear. Anna, I hate to run but I should be getting to the hospital."
"Alright, it was nice talking to you."
Finn got up and for a split second thought about giving her a kiss, but knew that wasn't a good idea, "I'll see you another time." Then he turned and left. Anna watched him walk away then finished her coffee, this must have just been something he needed. Something that would help him make peace with the fact their relationship had ended.
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The afternoon found Robert sitting in Frisco's office again, he'd had time to watch Alex and Peter's visit again now he wanted to talk to Frisco about it. When Frisco got off the phone he looked up at Robert, "So?"
"Well, the first thing, whatever account they were talking about. I think it has to be something she took the night Hendrick was conceived. She took something from Faison, apparently, it wasn't turned over to the WSB but I don't know what that was."
"Alright, we can look into that. That part about stealing a million from the DVX, was this some kind of pay off?"
"That's what I think it could be. Someone did a job and for that, they were getting a payoff or Alex found more than she expected to. Faison might have had the information for one party and a payoff for another."
"That might be it. If she took the informant she must have known the WSB wasn't expecting to get that account information."
"That would explain why she seems to be afraid to touch it. I don't think that she's been living off what was in that account."
"No. I don't think so either," Frisco agreed.
"What about this suggestion she mentioned, do we have any idea what that could be? It sounds like it must have something to do with Anna."
"So you don't think that it's connected to that account they were talking about?" Frisco asked.
"No," Robert paused. "If Anna was Hendrick's mother she never would have had to work as a fence to support her and Robin. If people believe it was Anna that took the file they wouldn't have thought she was the one that took that account information," Robert said to himself.
"What was that?"
"Oh, just thinking out loud. To protect herself Alex could have planted those memories so that everyone believed Anna was Hendrick's mother. They would know she didn't have access to a lot of money if she had to work as a fence. I think Alex was just trying to protect herself from an unknown threat."
"That's all well and good, she still messed around with Anna's memories."
"Oh, I am not saying it's excusable I just think I understand what her motive was. I'll have to run that past Anna to see if she agrees."
"You're going to tell her about this then?" Frisco asked.
"Yeah, she needs to know about all of this. I also want to warn her that maybe someone close to her had some kind of suggestion planted. I think it was something to do with her but not done to her."
"That's what I thought too. Will you stick around a little longer to help track down what Alex handed over after her night with Faison?"
"Yeah, I'll see what I can dig up."
"Good, did you get that paperwork finished?"
Robert smiled, he could tell Frisco wanted to make sure he and Anna got to be together now. "Yeah, I dropped that all off before coming in here."
"Good," Frisco said with a smile.
"I'm gonna go start doing a little research. Hopefully, I won't be here that much longer," Robert said as he stood up. He turned and walked out of Frisco's office, there was still something going on that involved Anna and he wanted to know what that was.
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Anna had eaten dinner and was just getting comfortable on the couch with a book and a cup of tea when there was a knock at her door. She sighed and got up again, she had wanted to just relax until Robert called. When she opened the door she was surprised to see Finn standing there. They had talked earlier today so why was he here now? "Hello, Finn."
"Hi, Anna. Can I come in?"
"Ah, yeah of course." She stepped aside and let him in, "What brought you here this evening?"
"We had a really good conversation this morning so I thought we should try talking some more."
"Alright," Anna said following him into her sitting room. What did he think was going to come of these talks?
He turned to her, "Anna, I did a lot of thinking after we talked today." She nodded, waiting for him to continue. "I made a terrible mistake and I know that's why you ended our relationship."
"If you're talking about sleeping with Alexis, I didn't know about that until after I ended things between us."
"Oh. Anna, I need you to understand that I regret what happened. I hate that I hurt you."
"Finn, I knew I had to end our relationship because my feels for you had changed. I need someone that's there for me, I don't need someone that tells me I'm wrong about things that shouldn't even matter to them."
"Anna, I shouldn't have done that. I know that now."
"I was struggling with trying to understand what I could trust and the one thing. A very important thing at that, you needed to tell me I should doubt. It wasn't just that you felt the need to tell me Peter is my son. It was that you wanted me to doubt Robin."
"Anna, I am so sorry about that. I was so wrong."
"I started thinking about what I did know, what I could trust. I want to know something. Was it because Robert was the one that could convince me that Robin is my daughter and that I shouldn't question that, that made you say those things? Did you need to be right just to prove Robert wrong?"
Finn but his head down, "Maybe," he admitted there really was no other explanation for the way he had behaved. He looked back up at her and reached for her hand, "I hated that he was there for you, that he was able to give you something to believe in."
"Why? He was there with me, he knew what happened. What was so wrong with him telling me that there was no reason for me to doubt Robin, to doubt what I knew had happened between him and I?"
"I guess it was that he could give you something I couldn't."
"I just wanted you to be there for me, to let me know everything was going to be alright. That was all I needed from you." She pulled her hand out of his and turned away from him.
"I was wrong, I see that now. Anna, do you think you could consider giving me another chance? I miss you."
Anna turned around to face him again. Does he really not know she's with Robert now? "Finn, that's not going to happen," she said shaking her head slightly.
He felt like he had said what he needed, even if she still didn't think she wanted to take him back he hoped she would at least think about it. Finn stepped forward and kissed her. "Think about it," then he walked away. As he walked out the door he was trying to decide if he had left that quickly so his last words were the only ones she was thinking about or if it was so she didn't hit him for kissing her. He smiled and walked to his car, tomorrow is another day and maybe he'll be a little closer to getting Anna back by then.