Chapter 14

"I understand – next week will be fine." Robin rolled her eyes as she finished her phone call. It had taken several days but Robin had finally been able to set up an appointment with Obrecht to talk about possibly returning to work at GH. She hung up her phone and looked out over the city skyline.

"Hey Stone." Robin had been walking to the bridge while she had called the hospital. "I am sorry I haven't been back for awhile but I have a really good excuse." She leaned on the rail. "Actually, I am pretty sure you know why I haven't been here but that is beside the point. So what is the point?"

Robin considered what she wanted to say. "I guess the point is that I just needed to take a few moments to think. I am finally feeling like I have my feet back on stable, firm ground and that the future I want, the future you wanted for me, is possible again. I am with my daughter and the man I love, no more guards or threats from the Cassadines or Jerry Jacks, and I may even be able to go back to work. So why do I feel like I am about to lose it all?"

She sighed. "I guess because every time I get this close to my happy-ever-after something happens to tear it away and I am so scared that it is going to happen again." She wiped away a tear that fell from her eye. "How can I be sure that I won't lose the ones I love once again?"

"You can't." Jason stepped out of the shadows and onto the bridge. He smiled at her. "You're Robin."

Robin studied the man, not sure who he was until she saw his eyes. She smiled back at him. "Jason."

He walked over and stood next to her. "I understand I have you to thank for saving my life."

Robin shrugged her shoulders. "You would have done the same for me."

He placed his hands on the rail. "It's nice that you think so but…"

She covered his left hand with her right hand and gently patted it. "You would have."

Something about her touch felt very familiar. Jason turned to gaze at the dark haired woman standing next to him. He had a flash of her - her was hair longer, they were in a grey room and he was handcuffed to a table. He cocked his head to the side. "It's too soon to jump."

Robin's head whipped around and she regarded him curiously. "You remember something?"

"I said that to you – why did I say that to you?" He was surprised that this woman had triggered something in him by just a touch.

"I think I should explain a few things to you. First off, I am HIV positive." Robin waited to see if he would move his hand away from hers and was happy he didn't. "That memory was from about four years ago. My viral load had become unstable and I was asking you to help me disappear but you refused to do it."

Jason closed his eyes to try and recapture the memory but he couldn't. "I want to remember." He concentrated harder and a different memory came to him. "You were sitting on the rail of a bridge holding a teddy bear. You were so young."

"I first met Jason Morgan at a bridge, one that was torn down. You had this bridge built to replace it." Robin looked back out at the sky. "The night you are talking about – we were supposed to meet to go out to dinner but a little girl I had been visiting died of AIDS and I came out here. I stood up on the rail and you joined me and…"

"I thought you were going to jump so I grabbed you and pulled you down." He could remember it. "You yelled at me."

Robin shrugged her shoulders. "I was mad at the world."

"And then I kissed you." Jason smirked at her. "You yelled at me some more."

She laughed. "Because you only kissed me after I told you I was HIV positive – I thought you were just looking for another thrill."

"No, I wanted to kiss you and I knew you couldn't contract HIV through kissing." A sense of relief flowed through him – he was remembering things. "I have been trying for a long time to remember something, anything."

"Maybe you just needed something to jog your memory. This bridge was always special to us and seeing me here may have helped."

"No, it was you. I had a dream about you or a vision." Jason sat down on the rail. "Helena had programmed me to kill Sam but I had a vision of you and you stopped me from going through with it."

Robin shuddered. "Helena was a horrible woman."

"I know that she kept you away from your family." Carly had told him the whole story. "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault – the important thing is that you are home with Danny and getting a second chance to be a father to Jake." Robin smiled at him. "Make the most of the time you have been given because you never know when it might be taken away from you."

"The same goes for you." Jason took her hand in his and gently squeezed it. "I need to get going – I'm meeting with Sam and Danny but I would like to talk to you again. Would that be okay with you?"

Robin nodded her head. "I would like that too." She looked at her watch. "I need to get going too – I have dinner plans with Patrick."

"How about I walk you to your car and you can tell me more about how we met?" Jason had a strange need to make sure she was safe.

"Sounds great." Robin walked with him off the bridge. "I'll start with the night we first met. I was here on the bridge…"


He watched as Jason walked Robin to her car and threw his tablet into the passenger seat. He had intended to talk to her tonight, to get her away from Patrick so that she could understand that Patrick was wrong for her, and that man had ruined it.

He started the car and headed back to the hotel. Drake was waiting for her at the house which meant he would have to wait until tomorrow, while her ex-husband was at work, before getting Robin and showing her she belonged with him.