Anna goes into their bedroom and is actually shocked at what she sees. The room is exactly how it was left the day she was taken. She looks around and can't believe she is really finally home. For so long, she never thought she would be here again, and she feels like it is still a dream and that she will wake up and be back where she was. She sees his shirt and her negligee at the bottom of the bed and her mind instantly goes back to that last night they were together here in this room. She is standing in the middle of the room stunned, when Robert comes out of the bathroom. He sees her and sees the tears rolling down her cheeks. "A little overwhelming huh?" He says coming over to her and taking her in his arms. She can see that his eyes are red and that most likely he was crying which is why he left Robin's room so suddenly. "Yeah, it really is. Can't believe I'm here back with our daughter and with you, in our home, in our bedroom. It's like a dream and I just hope I never wake up. That's my fear." She says with her head against his chest holding him tightly. "It's reality Love, we are back together, and we have another Scorpio on its way. I will never let this be taken away ever again, never." He says holding her tighter.
He looks down into her face and kisses her gently. "I'm sorry, you had to come back to this. After you were taken, I just couldn't be in this room without you here. I just couldn't. But I would come in here just to smell your scent and to look at our bed and remember our times together and how happy we were." He says with tears in his eyes. "Robert, please don't apologize about this. If I was in your shoes, I would have done the exact same thing. I know you and Robin went through your own personal hell and it breaks my heart to know it." She says caressing his face. She pauses overcome with emotions. "I love you. God I love you." She says looking into his eyes. She kisses him tenderly. "I love you too. Come on its really late now and it's been a very long but incredible day and you need to rest ok?" He says and she nods. "Can we sleep in here though, it is a mess? There's like an inch of dust everywhere?" She says looking around chuckling but immensely affected that he didn't touch this room or let anyone else touch it since she left. He smiles at her "Go and get comfortable and I'll take care of everything. All your stuff is obviously still in the bathroom which I'm sorry to say also needs to be cleaned, but I'll take care of that tomorrow." He says smiling and she chuckles.
When Anna does emerge from the bathroom after taking a shower and getting changed it's over a half hour later. She comes back in the room and sees Robert coming back in the room looking very disheveled, but the entire room cleaned. He changed all the bedding, dusted all the furniture and she knew she heard the vacuum when she was in the bathroom. She looks at him and laughs because she can't help it. "You ok?" She asks through her laughter. "I'm exhausted." He says and then she really starts laughing. "Well let's go to bed then." She says. "I need a shower first, I'll be 5 minutes." He says taking off his shirt and heading to the bathroom. He stops in front of her. "I love you." He says caressing her face with his hand. She tears up immediately and they hug each other tightly and then Robert heads into the bathroom. When he comes out 10 minutes later, she is lying in bed sitting upright against the pillows and the headboard. He walks over to his dresser and pulls out a pair of boxers and puts them on after dropping his towel. He will deal with all the laundry and everything else tomorrow, he thinks and goes to his side and gets into bed. She has been smiling the whole time watching him. When he does finally get into bed, they immediately reach for each other as they lay side by side. "I can't believe I'm here with you." She says stroking his cheek. "Neither can I. God I missed this, I missed us." They hug tightly and then she kisses him sensually. "Hmm Love, its late. I think you need to rest." He says pulling back from her slightly. "Robert, I am finally home, in our house, in our bedroom and in our bed. I have waited two months for this, dreaming about this on a daily basis. It's what kept me going all this time. I am in bed with you with our child between us our oldest child down the hall in her room and I want to make love to my husband." She says caressing his face. She kisses him sweetly. "Ok, you've convinced me. Remember we have to be quiet; we are not alone anymore." He says and she laughs. "I'll do my best. But I can't make any promises." She says as she pushes him on his back and kisses him deeply.
Scorpio House, Port Charles March 5th, 1992 8am
She awakens to the feel of him and scent of him. She is lying across his back as he lies on his stomach. The feeling of his warm smooth skin under her cheek is overpowering to her as she realizes that she is truly home again. She listens to his breathing as he sleeps and thinks it's a familiar and comforting sound she thought she would never hear again. Yesterday, she woke again thinking that the last couple of days were all just a dream and she was still on that boat, in despair over the possibility of never seeing her family again. She has had episodes over the last two nights of waking up in the middle of the night in a night terror. But not last night and not this morning she thinks thankfully and with a smile. She looks around their bedroom, remembering too that Robin is sleeping in her bedroom down the hall and that they are all together again as it should be. She has never felt so safe and so utterly complete in her entire life. She kisses his neck and strokes his side with the arm that is draped over him. She looks at the clock on his nightstand and realizes that it is getting late and that they have their first doctor's appointment today.
She is both excited and fearful hoping that all of the stress of the last two months has not adversely affected the baby. She knows that this was going to be a high-risk pregnancy considering her history and considering what she endured for two months, but she feels that at this moment she has never felt better. She knows in her heart that this baby was meant to be and that they have been given a second chance to experience this together from the beginning. "Robert." She says quietly while kissing his neck again. "Hmm." He says muffled against the pillow under his head. "Time to get up." She says next to his ear smiling. He rolls onto his side as she still holds onto to him. "'kay, just a few more minutes." He says sleepily without opening his eyes. "Sorry, no can do. We have a doctor's appointment at 9:30." She says caressing his stomach and leaning her chin on his shoulder. "What time is it?" He asks. "It's time to get up." She says pulling the comforter off of him. "Hey." He says as he grabs it and pulls it back on. She chuckles thinking the poor guy he must be really exhausted since he's usually the first one up every morning. "Come on Robert lets go, don't make me drag you out of this bed." She says trying again to pull the comforter off of him also not realizing he is playing possum. He turns quickly knocking her slightly off balance and pinning her underneath him on the bed. "You were saying?" He says with a mischievous smile loving the sound of her laughter. "You're such a brute." She says through her laughter. She brings both her hands to his face. "Are you ready for today? We might get to see the baby for the first time." She says this with such joy on her face that it brings tears to his eyes. "I've been waiting for this moment since I first laid eyes on you." He says kissing her gently. He pulls back slightly and sees tears streaming from her eyes. "What's the matter?" He asks wiping the tear from her eyes. "You, you idiot. I keep trying to hold it together because I'm so emotional right now and then you say something like that and it's so sweet and so perfect and…." He silences her with a long and deep kiss. "Better now?" He says when he breaks the kiss. "Much." She says smiling up at him. "Good. Now, about this rush to get out of bed." He says positioning his lower body between her legs which causes her to close her eyes briefly. "Was there a rush? You must be mistaken." She says wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him deeply.
General Hospital, Port Charles
Robert and Anna step out of the elevator hand in hand on the tenth floor and head for the nurse's station "Anna, Robert!" They hear from behind them as Monica comes down the hallway shocked and joyful at seeing them. "Monica." Anna says tearfully as she hugs her dear friend. "It's so wonderful to see you both. I can't tell you how happy we all are especially Lila. She has been absolutely heartbroken these past months." Monica says giving Robert an emotional hug as well. "How is Lila? We want to stop by and see her as soon as we are done here today." Anna says. "She's wonderful especially after hearing the news about you and she would love that. Congratulations. You both must be so thrilled and you are positively glowing." Monica says truthfully. Anna grabs Robert's hand and looks up at him before replying "We've never been happier, thank you Monica." Robert squeezes her hand relaying his emotions to her. "Excuse me, Mrs. Scorpio? Dr. Lee will see you now." The nurse at the desk says to them. "Okay thank you. Monica, we'll see you later at the house." Anna says.
"Are you nervous?" She asks him as he is sitting next to her in the examination room. They are waiting for Dr. Lee to come back in and begin the sonogram. During her examination Anna explained her situation and what had occurred over the last couple of months trying to fill in the gaps that the press had left out. It was not an easy conversation to have and she was grateful that Robert was not in the room at the time. She knows she did the best she could trying to eat and keep her strength up, but she knows the stress had to have taken a toll. Once Robert came back in and the doctor left, aside from asking her how she was he has been very quiet and has not said a word for the last five minutes which is extremely unusual for him in any situation. "No, no not at all." He says very quickly as his left leg continues to bounce up and down. She bites her lower lip to keep from laughing because she finds it incredible that this man who can face down life-threatening situations without blinking an eye is an absolute mess at this particular moment. The doctor comes back into the room and proceeds to set up the equipment for the sonogram. Robert continues his death-grip on Anna's hand as she lies back down on the examination table. She smiles at him as he looks at her with extreme concern and a pasted smile. She can feel the tension coming off him in waves, but somehow she knows everything will be alright. It is a sense of peace and certainty that she has never felt before and it gives her strength that is unexplainable. This baby, this time in their life together was meant to be. "Alright, let's see how we're doing. Anna, I'm going to spread this gel on your stomach, it might be a little cold at first." Doctor Lee says as she proceeds. Both Anna and Robert are so transfixed watching Doctor Lee move the wand over Anna's stomach that they don't notice the image as it begins to appear on the monitor. "Guys, look at the monitor. Do you see it?" She asks. They both look up at the same time and see their baby for the first time.
The image is unmistakable as they can see the head, arms and legs in profile. They both gasp at the same time with choked emotion. "Our baby, my God." He says on a whisper to no one in particular. Doctor Lee notices instantly that the baby is smaller than normal at this stage but decides not to mention it now as she watches them in this special moment. He looks at Anna and sees the tears streaming down her face as she watches the monitor. He squeezes her hand and she turns her head to look at him. "Love you." He says as he kisses her. "Do you want to know the sex now?" The doctor asks and notices how Robert looks completely surprised at the question. "You can tell already?" he asks. The doctor nods her head with a smile as she continues to move the wand back and forth. "Do you want to know?" He asks Anna. She had already decided that she did not want to know, she wants it to be a surprise a happy surprise for a change which she feels they deserve. "Robert, let's wait, I want it to be a surprise." She says to him and they exchange looks of silent communication. "Okay" He says smiling at her.
Moments later they are in the Doctor's office waiting for her to come back in with all of Anna's test results. Anna has not been able to take her eyes from the sonogram picture she has in her hands and he smiles while he watches her. He doesn't remember seeing her so happy and it makes her more beautiful to him. He can't stop thanking God for the opportunity to share this with her and he has never been happier in his life that this woman is carrying his child inside of her. "Okay folks, everything looks good. Anna your levels are normal and considering all the issues, things are progressing somewhat normally." Doctor Lee says as she sits down and opens Anna's file and read through the results. Robert immediately picks up on the word somewhat. "You said somewhat, what does that mean?" He asks and this finally gets Anna's attention away from the sonogram picture. Her heart sinks at the question. "Relax, both of you. There is nothing wrong and nothing that you should be concerned about at all. I did notice that the baby is a little smaller than I would like at this stage. It is still in the normal range but is at the low-end of the quartile. I would like to get that up a bit." Seeing the matching looks of worry on both their faces, she quickly attempts to calm their anxiety. "Look, it's all the result of what you have been through over the last two months, and the fact that you are starting pre-natal care a little later than normal. That fact and the stress you were under has had an effect, as I suspected. But I have no doubt that things will get back to normal over the next couple of weeks as long as you do exactly as I say and limit your stress Anna, as much as possible, okay? I want to see you back in about two weeks. I'm giving you a prescription for pre-natal vitamins, increasing the dosage more than normal since you are starting them a little later than usual. Other than that, everything looks great, so stop worrying. And Robert, I'm counting on you to make sure she gets as much rest as possible. And Anna use your judgment when attempting to do anything too strenuous" She says smiling them both.
They both exhale the breath that they had been holding as the doctor finished her assessment. They are both relieved immediately and allow the happiness of this moment to come flooding back. As they both are leaving the office, Anna pulls the doctor aside while letting Robert walk ahead. "Doctor Lee, I do have one question." She says as she watches Robert walk out of ear-shot. She is somewhat embarrassed on what she needs to ask, but she has to know. "Sure Anna, what is it." Dr. Lee responds matching Anna's quiet tone, already guessing what her question is. "Um you mentioned limiting strenuous activity, um what exactly does that…, I mean, what about….can we…" She struggles to ask, but Dr. Lee has mercy on her. "Anna relax, let's just say, anything that doesn't involve a chandelier is fine."
Scorpio House, Port Charles Two weeks later
It has been a constant influx of friends and family as they all hasten to welcome them both back from their miserable ordeal. It has helped ease the transition back to their lives as they cope with what they have been through and to now refocus on happier times ahead. There are still issues that are hanging in the air, but they know that in comparison to what they have been through lately, it's manageable. They still have not seen Holly since they have been back, nor have they heard from her at all. They know from Mac, that she returned to New York City and is staying in a hotel now. Anna is not altogether sure why she decided to leave so abruptly, but she does understand and actually sympathizes. She was in her exact same position when she first came to Port Charles and it was a miserable situation. For Holly there now is no connection for her here any longer, aside from some mutual friends and well Robert, she thinks. It's that thought that makes her uneasy. She ponders what she would do in the exact same situation. She knows that she could never leave, knowing how she feels about Robert. It is the same motivation that has kept her in Port Charles for all these years. Whether unconsciously or not, she knows that her love for Robert was always there and was a driving force in how she has lived her life. This inner revelation makes her more worried as to what Holly might do next and if she will be able to let go of Robert for good. Nevertheless, she promised herself after Robert's Aruba declarations that she will not let this become an issue for her or for them, no matter what happens.
They have explained their current marital situation to Robin and what needs to be done, so that she does not hear it from strangers or in school. They were surprised she took it so well, but Robin figured it out already by herself she confessed when Holly turned up alive and all the news coverage of Robert's marital situation. They did explain that it's just a matter of confirming with their lawyer that the divorce papers are finalized, so that they can get remarried in a private civil ceremony immediately after. They explained that this civil ceremony is just a legal formality and the wedding that took place last June will now and forever be considered their wedding date. They all agreed that wedding was the best day of the lives and should not be diminished in any way by the recent setbacks or legal problems. Robert is still on a leave of absence from his job as Commissioner at the PCPD until the foreseeable future. It was his decision since he wanted to spend the next couple of weeks getting their lives back in order. Thankfully, Sean had no problem with filling in temporarily, but was adamant that it better be temporary, and added the additional threat that if it's not, he will send Tiffany over to Robert's house, with a lecture at the ready. For Robert, that was clincher and so an immediate deal was reached.
Anna comes rushing through the bedroom door loaded down with shopping bags which she dumps on the bed, heading straight for the bathroom. Ten minutes later, she comes out slowly, holding her stomach and the door jam, thinking she now has to add pizza to that rapidly expanding list. After she recovers, she goes over to her dresser and closet to start making room for all the maternity clothes she just bought, in the nick of time, she thinks. As she proceeds to grab a handful of lingerie out of the top drawer, she thinks a little regretfully, "I won't need this stuff anytime soon, sorry Robert", she chuckles to herself. Then she notices the black negligee. It's the same one that was on the bed their first night home. She recalls how incredibly moved she was that he had kept this room locked since she was abducted, in fact it completely threw her. This man never fails to surprise her, she thinks lovingly. He guards himself and his emotions so thoroughly, but in truth he feels things very deeply. It's a side to him that only she has the privilege to see and for that she feels truly blessed. The room however was a disheveled and dusty mess when they settled down that night, but it certainly did not put a damper on things, she recalls with a smile. She recalls how Robert seemed somewhat embarrassed that his emotional state at the time was on display and it made her love him even more.
"Hey, you're home, didn't hear you come in." he says startling her out of her thoughts. "Bought out the shops I see." He says with a smile noticing the bags on the bed while walking over to her. "Very funny, it was your idea remember?" She says before giving him a quick kiss hello. "Yeah, well it was either that or buying myself a new wardrobe since you hijacked all of my cloths. By the way does this mean I can have all my boxers and t-shirts back?" He asks. She just smiles up at him and says "Maybe. Were you down in the office just now? Any word from Don?" His smile fades and he replies "Yeah, actually I just hung up with him. There's a slight problem." he says pausing before continuing. "He never received the papers from Holly. Look, don't worry, it could just be a timing issue that's all, he said he would contact her for me to find out what the story is." He says to her as lightly as he can. "I'm not worried, I'm just anxious to put this behind us, that's all. But it is odd, it has been a while, Robert." She states truthfully. "I know, which is why I want to find out myself. I'm going to go and see her if she's still in New York. I think I should anyway. I want to thank her for taking care of Robin for us while we were gone. It's the right thing to do and I kind of felt funny about her leaving that night without so much as a hello or good-bye. Don't get me wrong, I was very thankful at the time that she did, it would have put an awkward twist on what turned out to be a wonderful day, plus I didn't want Robin or you to have to deal with any of that." He says trying to gauge her reaction but is unsuccessful. "I think that's a good idea." she says quickly. "Are you sure, I mean, I really don't have to, Don said he would take care of it? If you are uncomfortable at all with this, I won't go, no questions asked" he says. "Robert, don't start this, don't start second-guessing my answers or me for that matter. We have a mutual understanding remember. Nothing has changed that, at least for me, anyway." She replies but in a soft tone. He closes his eyes briefly realizing he made a mistake. "For me either and you're right I'm sorry, it's just my concern for you kinda makes me say things before thinking, sometimes." he says while pulling her close. "Has that been the cause all these years? Well that explains a lot then. And sometimes? Ha, you wish." She says through laughter while wrapping her arms around his neck. "Funny, funny woman." He says before kissing her briefly. "How are you feeling today and how's junior?" he says placing his hand on her stomach. "Junior's fine, but as of twenty minutes ago we can rule out pizza for me for awhile. But I'm fine. Right now I feel really, really good. Actually I feel more than good" she says seductively while pulling him into a deep and sensual kiss.
An hour later, they are lying in bed with Robert's head on her chest. He is making circular patterns on her bare stomach with his fingers. Her eyes are closed while she is stroking his hair at the same time. "God that feels sooo good when you do that." She says without opening her eyes. Just then, they both jump at the sensation. "You felt that too?" she asks excitedly looking down at him. "Yeah, yeah, that was amazing, it was faint, but I felt it, it was like a fluttering. There it is again." He says amazed holding his palm flat against her stomach. He looks up at her and sees tears in her eyes that match his own. "Another dream to cross off the list." he says softly then kisses her gently. Then he smiles devilishly and says, "Oh and while we're on the subject, you can cross these off the list too." He says while cupping her bare left breast gently and then placing an open mouth kiss over her nipple. After recovering from the sensation, she opens her eyes and says "You're such an idiot." He smiles at her "But you love me anyway." he finishes for her. "You know it", she replies. After a beat, she takes a panicked glance at his clock on the nightstand, seeing it's almost 3pm and says, "Sorry to break this to you, but Robin and Olin will be home in about 10 minutes." "Swell" he says. "Well then let me get up. You stay here and rest for awhile, but please for heaven's sake, put some clothes on will you." He says jokingly while going into the bathroom just barely dodging the pillow aimed at his head.