Chapter 26

"Now I feel silly." Carly sat down in her chair next to Sonny and pouted.

"Why?" Sonny was thrilled that Robin was getting a new start. He had to agree with everyone that leaving Port Charles was in Robin and her family's best interest. She deserved a new life with the man she loved and her daughter. Carly and Robin had even managed to become civil to each other and Robin was leaving town on her own terms for once.

"The cake Sonny. It says 'Bon Voyage'." Carly continued to pout while her husband rolled his eyes.

"So?"

"So that really isn't appropriate for a wedding." She crossed her arms. "If I had known that they were getting married I could have arranged for an actual wedding cake."

"Actually," Jason sat down next to Carly, "Bon Voyage works too. It means good journey and marriage is a journey." There was limited seating in the room and the only other open space in the room was next to Liz so Jason had picked the lesser of two evils.

"See – it works." Sonny leaned over and kissed his wife on the cheek. "Now just enjoy the wedding."

Patrick stood in the front of the room with Mac, anxiously waiting for Robin. "Thank you again Mac for doing this for us."

Mac smiled at Patrick. "I would do anything for my girls Patrick, you know that."

"I know…"

"Let me finish." Mac's gaze turned steely for just a moment. "You have been granted another chance with my niece and it doesn't matter if you are across town or the country – you hurt her again and you will have me to deal with. Understand?"

Patrick swallowed. "Yes sir."

Mac smiled. "Good." He slapped Patrick on the back. "Now let's get you married."

Patrick turned around to see Emma standing in the doorway with a little basket in her hands. She smiled at her dad and began walking towards him, slowly tossing out flower petals as she made her way down the runner. She reached her dad and hugged him and then took a seat in the front row. Patrick turned his attention back to the doorway, smiling as Robin appeared with her parents standing behind her.

"You ready to do this luv?" Robert took her right arm while Anna took her left.

"More than ready." Robin smiled at Patrick and began making her way to him. It took less than a minute for her to join him in front of her uncle. "Hi."

"Hi." Patrick smiled at the beautiful woman standing before him. She was breathtaking in her dark blue dress with her hair down. He reached up and tucked a wayward strand behind her ear. "You look beautiful."

Robin giggled. "You don't look so bad yourself." She handed her bouquet to her mother who took it and Robert and sat down next to their granddaughter.

Patrick took her hands in his and looked at Mac. "Let's get married."

"Family and friends, we are gathered here today to witness the reuniting in marriage of Robin and Patrick." Mac smiled at niece. "Let's keep this short and sweet since you guys have a flight to catch. Robin and Patrick, I understand you have written your own vows."

Patrick nodded. "For most of my life I didn't believe in second chances. I had a lot of important people in my life that left so when the opportunity came to give or get a second chance, I let it go, whether I didn't believe the other person deserved or I deserved it. But I got to have a second chance with you."

Robin interrupted, laughing. "A third."

"A third and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Robin, you make me want to be a better person, you make me want to be a better man, you make me want to be a better father and I can't imagine my life without you. I love you so much, I love you more than I can say."

Robin wiped away a tear. "Okay, my turn. All that time that I spent away, you know I had to live on my memory about the time that we fell in love and our first wedding."

Emma interrupted this time. "And the second."

Everyone laughed as Robin continued. "I would try to imagine you in the morning with your hair all messed up and how you would read to Emma in your monster voice and how you would cheat at board games."

Patrick shrugged his shoulders. "Eh."

"And how we would just cuddle together on the couch and watch scary movies. I would think about that all the time and it would seem like the memory would just slip further and further away and, now that I'm here, and I'm back I can see in every single detail how lucky I am." She took a handkerchief and wiped the tears off her face. "And now that you and Emma and I are back together, all that other stuff, that's the memory."

Everyone wiped away their tears as Mac continued on with the ceremony. "Patrick, do you take Robin to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, forsaking all others, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, through good times and bad, as long as you both shall live?"

Patrick tightened his grip on Robin's hand. "I do."

Mac turned to Robin. "Robin, do you take Patrick to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, forsaking all others, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, through good times and bad, as long as you both shall live?"

Robin bit her lip and smiled at Patrick. "Yes, I do."

"May we have the rings?"

A panic look filled Maxie's face. "Oh my God, I forgot the rings."

"I didn't." Patrick turned to Felicia who handed him the rings. "New rings for a new life."

Mac nodded his head, grateful that the doctor had thought about it. "Patrick, repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed."

Patrick slid the ring on Robin's finger as he said the words. "With this ring, I thee wed."

Mac turned to Robin. "Robin, repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed."

Robin took the ring and slowly slid it onto Patrick's finger. "With this ring, I thee wed."

Mac proudly finished the ceremony. "By the powers vested in me by the internet, I now pronounce you husband and wife."

The words were barely out of his mouth and Patrick had Robin in his arms. Moving slowly, savoring every moment, Patrick once again kissed his bride.