Chapter 51
Anna stood beside Robert as they waited for Alex to be shown into the other room. When they saw her take her seat Anna looked up at Robert, grabbed his shirt and pulled him in for a kiss. He smiled at her after, "Now I'm ready," she said smiling back then they walked through the door.
Alex smiled at them, "You two seem happy together. The way Anna talked about you I'm not surprised that you are back together. More so, that it took this long to happen."
Anna smiled at her as she took her seat, "We are happy. We will be even happier when this is all behind us."
"Can I ask some questions today?" Alex asked with a grin as she studied Robert.
"What kind of questions?" he asked.
"Ones about you Mr. Scorpio." Alex leaned on the table. "I want to know what happened that finally brought you two back together."
Anna and Robert looked at each other, "Someone came up with a crazy plot that I needed to help Anna make sense of. Along the way things happened, now we're together," Robert told her.
"That's not all, I know there's more to it. Maybe a torrid affair," Alex suggested watching them both.
"A passionate kiss, no affair," Anna told her. If Alex wants to talk about them before she talks about what she has done that was fine, they will play her game for now.
"You were with Finn, you seemed happy when I was in Port Charles. I want to know how you went from being with Finn to having this sexy hunk of man by your side again."
"Well, you see someone felt the need to meddle in my life. Someone wanted Finn to convince me that Peter had to be my son when we all know that's not the truth. I had someone in my life that made me see that there was no way that what I believed could be true all while Finn insisted it was." Anna watched Alex as she spoke to see if her reaction gave anything away.
"I take it Robert was that person."
"Yes, he was. You know your little plan might have worked better if you had remembered everything I had told you about mine and Robert's relationship."
"I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about."
"Robert is the first man I ever loved, the first man I married and the first man I was intimate with. When he was able to make me see that, make me remember what harbour bells meant to us. I knew there was no way I could be Peter's mother, that I had ever been with Faison."
Alex put her hand to her face partly covering her mouth. That's right, she had forgotten that Anna had told her all of this shortly after regaining her memory. "We picked the wrong man then."
"No you didn't, I would never have spent a weekend with you. I would never have had sex with you thinking it was Anna. You played with Finn's emotions just to aid whatever plan you and Peter had come up with."
So they know almost everything Peter and I were doing but did they know why she wondered. "You sound rather sure of that Robert," Alex said, giving him a little grin.
"Did you know your right eye is just slightly different than Anna's? Maybe that's because of the injury to that side of her face. There's that little thing you do with your hands when you're really concentrating on what someone is telling you," he said as he folded his hands together like she does, "I don't even think you notice you do it. I could list off a few other differences if needed."
Alex quickly put her hands under the table, she had noticed their eyes but didn't think anyone else would have. She glanced over at Anna who had a satisfied look on her face. "No, I get it."
"I know Anna better than anyone else and that includes you, Alex."
"I guess you do." Alex realized there was little point in trying to deny what she had been up to, they seem to know everything already. "Does Finn know what we did to him?"
"He knows that someone planted a suggestion in his head and that at some point it was reversed," Anna told her. "We have not told him that it was Peter that did it." Anna wasn't concerned with telling Alex this, there was no way she could contact Peter that wouldn't be monitored.
Alex let her head droop forward, then rubbed her forehead as she sighed. "I hate that Faison taught him how to do that but we thought it would help us."
"Alex, what are you trying to hide? What could be in that account you are so worried about it coming out that you are the one that has access?" Anna asked wanting to understand their motivation.
"It's just money, I told you that's all it is."
"Then why is it so important that no one knows, so much so that you went through all this trouble?" Anna asked hoping Alex would actually tell them.
"Faison found out about the money I gave Peter. We had to ensure that he didn't actually figure out where it came from. If he had he would have connected me to Peter and that I was the one that had stolen it from him. There was no telling what he would have done to me if that had happened."
"How would Faison have known the money came from you?" Robert asked not fully following her logic.
"Peter told me Faison knew he had been in contact with his mother, that she had stolen a lot of money from him the night he had been conceived. Faison told Peter that I took the money and started a new life after abandoning him. That Peter had been lucky to have been brought to him after I walked out of his life."
"If Faison had told him that he was just trying to get into his head, trying to make him tell him where the money had come from," Robert insisted.
"No, Robert. He would have hurt my son! He would have gotten Peter to tell him about me then he would have come after me as well."
"Faison is dead now! Why did you have to keep it hidden now?" he asked.
"Do you really think there aren't still people out there that would carry out Faison's orders. He could have programmed them to carry out their orders no matter what!"
Robert sat back folding his arms in front of him. Something about all of this was bothering him. He felt that Alex believed what she was saying but he was having a hard time believing what she was telling them. Something about it wasn't right and he was starting to think Alex had also been played.
"You can't live your life in fear Alex," Anna told her as she took her hand.
Alex looked into her sister's eyes, "I might be in this place but if they wanted to get to me they could."
Robert gently bumped Anna's knee with his leg, "Alright." Anna knew Robert wanted her to let it go for a little while. "You think there could be people that would come after you if this all came out. Was it that belief that led you to do what you did to me, to Finn?"
"Anna, you were never meant to actually recall the memories about Peter. Finn was," Alex paused and rubbed her forehead. "Once the story was out, when people thought Peter was yours Finn was our way of making sure the truth didn't come out. Well, that was how we thought it would work."
"If that was all it was why make him so angry? I told him that I had doubts about Peter actually being mine and he would get upset with me. He was so insistent about Peter he was saying Robin was the one that wasn't mine. That there was no way to know I was her mother, that maybe Robert was her father but maybe he wasn't either."
"What? No, it was just supposed to reaffirm that Peter was your son, nothing else," Alex insisted.
"It was a lot more than that. From what I was seeing if Anna wouldn't listen to him about Peter then Finn wanted no part of Anna's real family. He picked fights, he out and out told Patrick that there was no way Anna could know Robin was actually her daughter."
"He was so angry, Alex. We were fighting all the time. Maybe it didn't help that I had Robert there talking me down but I needed him. He was my voice of reason."
"You being there for her, telling her she can believe what she thinks about Robin. That she is the woman you have always known. That was what led to you getting back together," Alex concluded. She didn't want to answer any more of their questions today but she did want to talk to them more.
"Alex, you basically told me that you had sex with Robert at some point. I didn't like that," Anna admitted with a grin. "He had a way to show me that he would have known it wasn't me even if there weren't tells he would have noticed."
"Oh really? Do tell."
Robert now had a smug look on his face, Anna glanced over and just shook her head slightly before telling Alex, "We have an effect on each other. We can ignore it but it is always there. He informed me he was going to kiss me and there is no other man that can kiss me the way he does. It wasn't meant to cause problems for Finn and I but I had a hard time not thinking about that kiss and Robert after that. He was helping me deal with what you had done. He was the one I kept turning to when Finn and I would fight. We hadn't planned it but it became very clear that we wanted to be together. Me running my hand up his inner thigh was really the beginning of this."
"I had just whispered that I was still yours," Robert said grinning at her.
"You're telling me you two were flirting last time you were here," Alex started laughing. At this moment she didn't care about where she was or what the real reason they were here was. Alex was happy for Anna, her sister seemed very happy and now that she had Robert back in her life she hoped it would stay that way.
"It was the next morning that I told him I was ending things with Finn." It felt nice telling Alex about them, this is the kind of information one would want to share with a sibling.
Alex wanted to get up and give them both big hugs. She knows how Anna has always felt about Robert and thought it was wonderful that they are back together. Alex leaned forward and took Anna's hand, "I know you might hate me for what I've done, but Anna, I am truly happy for you."
Anna smiled back at her, this is her sister, "Thank you."
"I think our time is almost up for the day, we'll be back again tomorrow," Rober said as he stood up.
"I'm sorry Anna. I really am."
Anna nodded, "We'll talk some more tomorrow." Then she got up, Robert put his hand on her back then they turned to leave the room. Once they were through the door and it was closed again she looked up at him. "Peter used her too, did he?"
Robert nodded slowly, "That's what I'm thinking now too, Luv."
Anna sighed, "Let's get out of here. I want to think about something else for a while."
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Finn was in his hotel room thinking. Ever since talking to Anna the night before Finn had been thinking about what she had told him. There hadn't been a suggestion that he should try to win Anna back just that the one about Peter being her son was reversed. Then why had he suddenly felt so strongly that he and Anna needed to be together? Trying to understand this Finn really started thinking about what he did know, what he had felt or thought and when.
Finn thought he had believed Peter was Anna's son because that's what she had told him. There was more to that though, somewhere along the way he started to believe that it was the only fact about her life that was true. Why was that? He knew Robin was her daughter, why had he needed to question that? He had repeatedly told people that Robin wasn't Anna's. What else had he been questioning if anything? He started pacing as all these thoughts raced through his head.
Alex came here to get her vision back, she made a deal with Anna and she messed with his head while she was here. Planting doubt in his head about their relationship. Anna has not told him when the suggestion was triggered but it was related to Alex, did her visit to Port Charles trigger it? Was it Alex or someone else? Alex was not here when it was reversed so who had done that, were they the same person that triggered it? But who, this was about Peter but he had only just met Alex. So who was she working with?
There might be a lot of questions in his head now but at least he didn't feel like he had right after learning what had been done to him. Hopefully, Anna wouldn't be gone much longer and will have some answers for him when she is back. He sighed and got up, he better go do something, sitting in his room all day thinking about this wasn't really helping him. Maybe he'll go find Chase but tell him they are only talking about his personal life today, Finn thought with a smile then left his room.