Patrick impulsively decided to stop at the cemetery to visit his son on his way to get Emma from Anna's after work. Although he didn't discuss Gabriel much since finding out that Victor had caused their accident, he missed the little angel greatly. As he neared the burial site, Patrick heard Sabrina's voice and then spied her sitting on the grass gently caressing Gabriel's headstone as she spoke. Patrick paused a moment and listened as Sabrina told him all about her engagement and new family. She talked about little AJ and how happy she was to be able to atone for her horrible judgment by caring for the little girl she had come to love as much as Emma. After reassuring Gabriel that he would always hold a very special place in her heart that no one could ever replace, Patrick heard his name. Knowing he shouldn't be eavesdropping but unable to make himself leave, Patrick held silent whole Sabrina told their son how she felt like their connection had been severed after his death and how sad she was to not be in his and Emma's lives anymore - which made it all the more meaningful for her to be welcomed into the Quartermaine home. She was tired of feeling alone and now she didn't have to.
Guilty over listening to their private conversation, Patrick turned to leave but tripped over a rock as he did so, which alerted Sabrina to his presence. "Patrick?"
"Hi"
"She glanced from him to the headstone and back and jumped up. "How long have you been there?"
"Long enough."
Sabrina blushed. "You weren't supposed to have heard that. It's private."
Sheepishly, Patrick apologized for his eavesdropping but said, "I'm glad I know." Then, "I owe you another apology."
"For what?"
"For promising you we would always be a family and not living up to it."
Sabrina opened her mouth to likely let him off the hook for yet another broken promise, so he stopped her and invited her to dinner with him and Emma that night. When she hesitated to accept, he stepped forward and lightly touched her cheek. "Come on. You know you want to. And I won't take no for an answer."
When she agreed, albeit reluctantly, Patrick gave her hug and then pulled her by the hand to their cars.
Later...
Sabrina was in a good mood as she entered the living room of the Quartermaine mansion to see Michael feeding AJ on the couch. Despite having been hired as AJ's nanny, Sabrina only took care of her when Michael was at work because he was adamant about being very hands on with his baby sister. Sabrina snuck up behind them and kissed Michael lightly on the cheek as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Hi," she said happily.
He turned his head and looked up at her. "Hey, yourself. Did you have a nice dinner with Emma and Patrick?"
Sabrina nodded and then made her way around the couch to snuggle next to Michael and the little girl. After properly greeting AJ, she sank into Michael's embrace. "It was nice to spend time with Emma. I really miss having her in my life."
"And Patrick?"
Sabrina hesitated, unsure of what to say. Sighing, she said, "He was a huge part of my life for so long and now we barely speak. We'll always be connected because of Gabriel, but we've both moved on. In between Emma's chatter, we sat a lot in companionable silence. It was a little sad."
In response Michael kissed her temple and squeezed her shoulder in comfort. "I'm sorry."
Sabrina shrugged. After that, their conversation turned to AJ's evening and some preliminary wedding plans. Michael was determined to give her a lavish wedding fit for the next Quartermaine matriarch, but, truth be told, she got sick to her stomach just thinking about being up at an altar again in front of all the people who witnessed her humiliation. As Sabrina argued with Michael over the merits of eloping to a tropical island, his phone buzzed. The tone indicated that a Quartermaine news alert had come through, so Sabrina took AJ while Michael looked at the article. When he frowned, she asked, "What's wrong?"
Michael handed Sabrina the phone and she gasped at what she saw. There were pictures of her and Patrick at the cemetery - him caressing her cheek, them hugging and them holding hands as they walked to their cars - and a headline that read: Is Miss Goody Two-Shoes Too Good to be True? Since they had conveniently cropped the pictures to only show them from the waist up, eliminating Gabriel's headstone, it looked like she was cheating on Michael with Patrick.
Sabrina looked at Michael and said, "This isn't what it looks like. I swear."
"I know that nothing happened with you two Sabrina, but the media doesn't care. You're a soon-to-be Quartermaine and fair game for the paparazzi now."
When his cell phone started buzzing all over the place, he looked at her sadly. "Can you tuck AJ in? I've got to do damage control."
When Michael went to get up, she tugged on his sleeve to halt him. "I'm really sorry. How bad is it?"
He leaned in and kissed her sweetly. "Compared to our family's past indiscretions, this is nothing. We'll get through it."
Sabrina cuddled AJ tightly as she watched Michael get up from the couch and head toward his office and prayed that she didn't blow the best thing to happen to her in a really long time.
