AN:

Okay.... so..... I suck but we all knew that. So nobody should be shocked. I hate that this chapter took so long to post Here's what happened. I had asked someone to help me with a scene for this chapter and waited 2 1/2 weeks for the to say sorry and can't do it. Whatever. I'm not going to get mad about it. I swear I'm not.

Back to the fic....

This chapter is totally out of control. I have no idea what happened but it grew and grew and... yeah. What can I say? Um... oh yeah Enjoy!!

~Kelly~

Chapter Two

"You should listen to your husband Robin because he's right." Matt said standing at the doorway looking unhappy.

"Don't talk to Robin like that." Patrick automatically warned his younger brother. Matt didn't look much better than he did last night. His lip was split and swollen from the fight Matt had started. That did not mean Patrick was going to put up with his crap.

"I just want to understand..."

Matt sighed and tried not to snap at Robin again. He hated being questioned about his personal life. After being alone for years, he wasn't used to it. However, getting frustrated and lashing out would only make the problem worse. "What are you doing here?"

"We need to discuss what happened with the surgery."

"Didn't we already do that?" Matt mumbled collapsing into a chair.

"I thought we could try it with you sober."

"Hey I wasn't that drunk... " he said only vaguely remembering the night before. "Okay I was. I'm guessing that's why you sent Elizabeth over?"

"Better her than me" the older man said with a slight shrug. Actually almost anything was better than fighting with Matt again.

"Patrick that wasn't nice. Actually, I volunteered. Here," Elizabeth said handing Matt a cup of coffee and placing three more on the table. She had a feeling they could all use some caffeine.

"Thanks." Matt said gratefully taking the cup of coffee. He had taken a couple of aspirin but they had not kicked in yet. Part of him simply wanted to go back to bed but Patrick seemed determined to make that impossible.

Patrick watched the brief moment between Matt and Elizabeth. He wondered if there was something more going on between them. They both claimed it was just sex but he questioned that sometimes. Now however was not the time to find out. "What exactly happened in that operating room?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know! How in the..."

"Patrick!" both woman immediately said reminding Patrick why he was happy they where there. Between Robin and Elizabeth, they would be able to keep his and hopefully Matt's temper in check.

"Look I don't know what happened." Matt said setting aside the coffee cup. It was that or toss it. The last year had been such a roller coaster Matt didn't know how much more he could take. He was half-tempted to leave Port Charles just to get some peace. "Everything went exactly the way it should have."

"That you know of. You... you never did the procedure before and I knew it. If something went wrong..."

"Nothing went wrong."

"You keep saying that Matt but you don't really know. Okay let's ask someone who was there."

Elizabeth looked down at her hands trying to ignore Patrick's obvious hint. The last thing she wanted was to get between Matt and Patrick. How Elizabeth knew she had no other choice. Her thoughts were interrupted by Matt saying, "Leave her out of this."

"Elizabeth was there Matt, and she's seen the procedure before. She's the best person..."

The younger man shook his head at Patrick's assessment. Logically Patrick was right and everyone in the room knew it. However, Matt couldn't ignore how uncomfortable Elizabeth suddenly was. "I already told you what happened."

"I want to hear what Elizabeth has to say and I want you to hear it too. You think that Diane isn't going to drag Elizabeth into this. We both know she will especially after last night."

"You mean the stuff at Jake's?"

Patrick nodded at the question. He was still annoyed with Diane for showing up the way she did. "After that Diane stopped by the house and she's naming me as part of the law suit."

"I'm sorry, Patrick. Really." Matt told his brother sincerely. He hated that Patrick had been dragged into this mess too.

"She was going to drag him in eventually. That's how Diane operates. She thinks that by doing it this way you'll turn against each other." Elizabeth said finally looking up. Of the four of them, she knew how Diane worked best. "When I was divorcing Lucky... she and Alexis... it got really nasty. And it didn't have to be."

"You mean the second one right? Because I remember the first one and Lucky acted like an ass."

"That's not my point." Elizabeth said scolding Patrick with a laugh. He and Robin had helped keep her sane during that time. "My point is Diane is ruthless and Patrick's right she's going to drag everyone into this mess."

"That's why we need to figure out what happened." Patrick immediately agreed happy that they were finally getting somewhere.

"Matt's right things went exactly the way it should have. It was textbook. And then... then... everything fell apart and she was coding."

"That doesn't make any sense. Something had to have happened..."

Robin finally spoke up cutting Patrick off. "Patrick remember your suspicions from before the surgery."

"Yeah. I remember."

"What suspicions?" Matt asked suddenly interested in their conversation.

"Brianna Hughes injuries don't match the mayor's story. There is no way her concussion should have been that severe not from that kind of fall."

"You know that kind of information would have been helpful before the surgery."

"How the injury happened has no bearing on the surgery. If you had done your job..."

"Stop it both of you!" Elizabeth practically shouted. All this fighting was just making the situation worse. This is exactly the kind of thing Diane lived for. If she could get them to act like this at a deposition, or even better court, Matt and Patrick would not stand a chance. "No one here is at fault. Matt did the surgery exactly the way it should have been done. Is he the illustrious Patrick Drake? No, but no one is. That doesn't mean... he's a great surgeon Patrick. And you... you shouldn't have given him the surgery. Not because he couldn't handle it but because of who she was. You knew this would happen if something went wrong."

"I'm allowed to have a life," the older man snapped at what he felt was an attack.

"We all are but right now Diane is going to use everything that's happened against us."

"So we're right back where we started." Robin said on a frustrated sigh.

"Pretty much."

"Perfect." Patrick grumbled scratching the back of his neck. He did not quite understand how they could still be in the exact same place.

"Clearly we're not getting anywhere so..." Robin said standing and giving Elizabeth sympathetic smile. "Patrick and I are leaving."

"Wait we're not done." the older man immediately protested. They had to figure something out.

"Yes we are." Robin said gently pushing Patrick to the door.

"Thank god they're gone."

"You don't mean that Matt." Elizabeth said shaking her head.

"Of course I do. I care about Patrick and even Robin but this whole family I can generally do without."

"Poor Matt." she teased leaning against the doorway.

Matt leaned further back into the chair. It had already been a long day and he needed a distraction. Something that Elizabeth could easily provide, for now. "Come here."

"Is that a request?"

"What do you think?" he responded with a knowing smirk.

"I think that someone is awfully sure of themselves this morning."

He smirked at Elizabeth and held out his hand. Not surprisingly, Elizabeth immediately complied with Matt's request. She slowly walked across shedding her t-shirt as she moved. Matt watched her movements closely his eyes darkening with desire. She straddled Matt's waist causing them to both groan. He gripped Elizabeth's hips firmly stilling her movements for a moment.

They couple stare at each other for several second contemplating the next move. Matt leaned forward and kissed Elizabeth softly. He pulled back slowly pausing to kiss Elizabeth's cheek. Without warning, Matt picked up Elizabeth, tossed her over his shoulder, and headed back to his bedroom.

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"That was surreal." Robin said as Patrick drove back home. She was still trying to process the fact Elizabeth and Matt were... whatever they were doing.

"I'm sorry about the way Matt acted. He can be..."

"Exactly like you were when you first came to Port Charles."

"I was never that bad," her husband said scoffing at the idea. "I wasn't."

"Please." Robin huffed rolling her eyes, "That in there was classic Patrick Drake behavior and I don't just mean Matt."

"He just pushes my buttons you know?"

"I know." she said thinking of how her and Patrick fought. "So... tell me about Matt and Elizabeth. What is going on with them?"

"I wondered when you would bring that back up." Patrick said with a laugh. He knew Robin had not forgotten about what she learned. "I have no idea. Hell I don't think they know. I do know they never meant for anyone to find out."

"Well that plan is shot. Diane is going to have a field day with it."

"Tell me about it." Patrick agreed remembering the smug way Diane had shown up at their door last night. "We've got to figure out what's going on because even Epiphany says the surgery was textbook."

"That doesn't mean something else was going on."

"True but..." Patrick agreed with his wife. In fact, most situations like this there was no explanation. "I can't shake the feeling that there is."

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~Kelly~

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Matt lay still half-awake in his bed. Beside him, Elizabeth was sleeping on her stomach. She was nearly on the other side of the bed with the exception of her arm, which was draped across his bare chest. "Elizabeth."

"Hmm." she said barely stirring. Not liking her reaction, he ran his fingertips along her arm. She stirred again but this time open her eyes as well. "Hi."

"Hi."

Elizabeth blinked several more times half-surprised he was even awake. "You should be sleeping."

"I... I was lying here and I realized what an ass I've been."

Elizabeth chuckled as Matt's self-deprecating statement. It seemed he always did things like that. Only he could be so sweet and so frustrating at the same time. "That's' not exactly something new for you."

"I'm being serious Elizabeth. My... ego... it made me forget that you lost a patient too. How are you doing?" he asked gently while one hand toyed with her brown hair. Matt had decided long ago he like is best curly.

"I'm okay Matt. I promise."

"Come here," he said pulling her close. He leaned in to capture her lips as she turned her head playfully avoiding him. After a few more attempts and rejections, Matt rolled her onto her back trapping her arms above her head with his hands. "I've got you now," he said playfully. Grabbing both her arms with one hand freeing the other he gave her a mischievous look.

"If you value your life Matt Hunter you will stop right there."

"What? You don't like this?" His hand made contact with her stomach tickling her into a laughing frenzy.

"Stop… stop" she squirmed under him trying to get him to stop but laughing too hard to put up much of a fight.

"I guess next time you'll let me kiss you"

"Fine." She squealed out amidst the laughing.

"What was that? I can't hear you?"

"Next time you can kiss me."

He immediately stopped his tickling torture and looked into her eyes. "Well that's better."

Leaning down once more to kiss her, she quickly turned her head again, "I said next time Hunter." She turned her body beneath him moving them into a spooning position. "For now this will just have to do."

Matt could just imagine what his big brother would think if he saw him spooning a woman. And yet, a small smile crossed over his face, he really did not mind too much.