Chapter 11

Mac paced the floor waiting for Lucky and Robert to show up. Lucky had called as soon as they had left the clinic to tell Mac they had made some interesting discoveries in Paris and they would be on the first plane out of Paris to Port Charles. That was yesterday and Mac was going crazy waiting.

The doorbell rang and Mac ran to the door. "Where the hell have you two been?"

Lucky and Robert walked through the door and sat down on the couch. "Well that's a fine welcome. We just got off a transatlantic flight – the least you could do was offer me a drink."

Mac shook his head. "Sorry if I think Robin is more important than your thirst Robert. What did you find out?"

Lucky took over the conversation. "Mac, just have a seat and we will tell you what we found out."

Mac took a seat. "Sorry, it's just I haven't been able to get close to Robin in weeks. This Dr. Banks is keeping everyone but Emma as far away from her as possible. Please tell me you found out something on this guy."

"Unfortunately, no but we do know one thing – he's lying about where Robin was before she came back to Port Charles. We spoke to a nurse at the clinic and she swears that Dr. LeGrasse hasn't spoken to Robin, let alone seen her in years. In fact, they were all still under the mistaken impression that she was dead." Lucky couldn't believe that Robin's miraculous return hadn't made headlines at her old stomping grounds. "She did say that Dr. LeGrasse called her a month ago and announced he was closing the clinic doors. Everyone got one year of severance pay and excellent references, all the patients were referred back to their original physicians and LeGrasse disappeared. We still haven't tracked him down."

"So where was she?" Mac hadn't believed Dr. Banks' story but now they had proof.

Lucky sighed. "We haven't been able to figure that out yet. The divorce papers were sent from Paris but we have no proof that Robin actually mailed them. Mac, we can't even prove that Robin left the United States."

"Are you saying that Robin may have been close to us this entire time, being put through God knows what by this man we know nothing about, and we did nothing to help her?" Mac stood up and began pacing again. Needing an outlet for his anger, Mac knocked over the table by the door and watched as the small items on it crashed to the floor. "No wonder she wants nothing to do with us."

Robert stood up and went over to his brother. "Mac, this isn't your fault. You didn't know what was going on."

"But I should have. I should have questioned Patrick and Anna about that last conversation with Robin. I should have insisted on going to see her myself but I was so worried about Maxie I completely ignored her." Mac shrugged off Robert. "I going to go and talk to Patrick. He owes me an explanation about why he didn't let me know what was going on with my girl."

Mac stormed off and Robert sat back down on the couch with Lucky. "If I know my brother, Patrick is in for a hell of a hard time. Let's get settled in – we have some more investigating to do with regards to this Dr. Banks."

"Open up Drake!" Mac pounded on the front door of Robin's old house, wanting to see her ex-husband.

"Mac, please stop. Patrick isn't here – he's at the hospital." Sam had no idea why Mac was here but this may be good timing. "Why don't you come in – there's something we need to talk to you about."

"We?" Mac looked in to see Spinelli cowering on the couch. This day just kept getting worse. "Why?"

Spinelli stood up. "Greetings grandfather of my daughter. The lovely Samantha and I have been investigating Robin's new friend." After Sam's call yesterday Spinelli had begun an investigation into Dr. Banks.

Mac entered and sat down. "Okay, I'll bite – why do you care about who Robin is with?"

"Patrick feels horrible about not seeing the signs of PTSD when he spoke to Robin months ago. He is beating himself up and trying to find any way he can to help her. I decided to help by investigating this doctor who came with her to see if he is on the up and up." Sam needed Mac to believe her – his approval meant the world to Patrick.

"And is he?"

"We're not sure." Spinelli pointed at the laptop. "The thing is I cannot find anything on the doctor that wasn't created in the last year. All articles, licenses, photos, everything about the man were added to the internet after 2013 and backdated to appear older than they are."

Mac couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Are you saying this guy didn't exist until two years ago?"

"Basically – yes."

Mac and Sam both sat there in silence, processing what Spinelli had just told them. Finally, Mac stood up and headed towards the door. "Thank you for telling me this."

"Mac wait, what are you going to do?" Sam was worried that Mac would tell Patrick and then Patrick would do something crazy to get Robin away from Marcus.

"I don't know yet. Keep this to yourselves for now – I'm going to touch base with Robert, Anna and Lucky and see what else we can find out." Mac looked at Spinelli. "Good work Spinelli."

"Thank you paternal one. Please make sure fair Maxinista knows that I assisted you." Even though they were back together Spinelli still needed to show Maxie that he was the man she needed.

"Don't push it." Mac looked back at Sam. "I will talk to you later and let you know what we decide to do. Until then, don't say anything to Patrick. He's a little too unpredictable to be involved yet."

Sam smiled at him. "Not a problem. I'll talk to you later Mac."

Mac walked back out to his car, calmed by his conversation with Sam. His conversation with Patrick would have to wait because right now he needed to talk to his brother. It was time to figure out just who the hell this Dr. Banks really was.