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Jason walked into the hospital the back way. He wasn't exactly sneaking in but he was avoiding the heavily traveled hallways until he got to Robin's room. Visiting hours had ended a couple of hours ago and he didn't want to get run off right away. He had been trying to see Robin all day and now he was finally here.
Robin heard the door open and sat up slowly. She had been fairly certain that he would come to visit and that it would be after hours. She was glad that he was here. As horrible as things were right now seeing Jason somehow made it a little better. It was like seeing him reminded her that some things were still right in the universe.
"Jason," Robin said in a slightly lower than normal voice. "Please come in."
"I didn't want to wake you." He said as he casually glanced around the room. It was a habit now to check every room when he entered. Half the time he wasn't even aware he was doing it. He was this time though because it was dark in her room and he checked things twice.
"I wasn't asleep." She assured him with a slight smile. "Thank you for the flowers. They are really beautiful."
He shrugged and busied himself taking off his jacket. He pulled the jewelry box out of the inside pocket and set it on the jacket before pulling up a chair next to her bed. She watched him the entire time and gave him a full smile when he finally looked at him again.
"What?" He asked curiously.
"You always do that when someone thanks you for doing something really thoughtful." Robin said quietly. She decided to change the subject since he seemed uncomfortable. "I like your jewelry box."
"It's Monica's. I need to return it to her." Jason told her as he glanced at his watch. "Do you mind if I have her paged here?"
"Of course not. How did you end up with her jewelry?"
"Someone broke into the house and took it. Apparently her wedding ring and that locket she likes so much were in there and she was sad about it." Jason said with another shrug. "Edward came to see me. Then I went to see the thief and asked him to return her stuff."
Robin nodded. She noticed the swelling on Jason's knuckles and that confirmed her suspicion that he didn't "ask" very nicely.
"It was nice of you to help your mom like that." She looked at the box for a minute as if she was trying to decide something.
He shrugged again and Robin nodded again. Any mention of the Quartermaine's tended to make him edgy. She realized that she was one of the few people he would even discuss them with at all. She also realized she was focusing on other things so she wouldn't have to face her own grief.
"I like Monica. She's better than the rest of them." Jason stated simply. "I still think she is looking for some reminders of him when she looks at me. Jason Quartermaine is gone and she needs to accept it."
"She has accepted it more than you think. Take a look at the inside of the locket. Turn on the light it will be easier to see."
Jason's look was one of confusion. He got up and turned on the light and returned to his chair. He was still confused but decided to take a look. He opened the jewelry box and pulled out Monica's locket. Inside were two pictures, one of A.J. and a fairly recent photo of him. That was new. She used to have an older one of him in there when he was still Jason Quartermaine.
"She updated her picture of me." Jason stated. He was still a little confused.
"Look under the picture." Robin told him quietly. She was watching him carefully for his reaction.
Jason did as she suggested and removed the picture of him from Monica's locket. He knew immediately what Robin was referring too. The engraving had been updated. Originally it had J.Q. and the year he was born. Now another line had been added and it read J.M. and the year he woke up from the coma.
Jason stood up and headed for the phone by Robin's bed. He didn't know what to say right then about the locket so he said nothing to Robin.
"Can you page Dr. Quartermaine to 614 please?" he asked the nurse who answered the phone. He had barely put the phone down when he heard the page over the loudspeaker. Jason put the locket into his pants pocket and then moved his coat so it covered the jewelry box.
Monica arrived a few moments later. She was surprised to him there. She had thought Robin needed something before she went home for the night. Seeing her son there was not what she expected and the surprise showed on her face.
"Jason!" Monica exclaimed with a smile. Seeing him twice in one day was a very rare treat and she was glad it happened today.
"I came to see Robin." Jason told her immediately. "But I wanted to give you something before you left."
This really surprised Monica. Robin now sat fully upright in her hospital bed. She was enjoying the discourse between mother and son and didn't want to miss a single look that passed between them.
"You caught me just in time then. I had just finished my charting and was headed to the nurses' station to sign out when I got the page."
"Close your eyes." Jason told her quietly. She looked at him strangely for just a moment before closing her eyes.
She heard Jason move behind her. He pulled the locket out of his pocket and placed it around her neck. She moved her hair out of the way to allow him to fascine it. With her eyes still closed her hand felt her neck. She knew immediately what it was and opened her eyes to confirm it.
"Oh Jason thank you!" Monica told him with tears in her eyes. "How?"
"Edward came to the coffee shop today and told me." Jason told her with a smile. He gave her a hug as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "I made arrangements for the return of all your jewelry."
Her eyes got wide. "All of it?"
Jason nodded and retrieved the jewelry box from under his leather jacket and handed it to Monica. She immediately found her wedding ring and put it on. He thought about mentioning it but decided against it. Robin had just lost her husband and it didn't seem like a good time.
"Robin, you should be sleeping." Monica told her when she regained control.
"I'm afraid to go to sleep." Robin admitted quietly. Jason turned to look at her. "I keep having nightmares."
"I'll order a sedative then." Monica assured her confidently.
Robin immediately shook her head no. "I can't take that risk Monica."
"I understand." Monica replied. "Just try to lay quietly then and let your body recover."
Jason stood silently watching Robin and Monica and realized there was something under the surface that he did not understand. A few minutes later Monica gave him a hug and a kiss and then left the room. He returned to his chair next to her bed.
"I was told you were doing fine." Jason told her. The concern was evident in his face.
"I am. They are keeping me as a precaution and will be letting me out of here the day after tomorrow."
"Then why is a sedative a risk?"
Jason watched as tears welled up in Robin's eyes. His heart broke for her and he got a terrible feeling deep in his gut. She wasn't fine! Something was really wrong with her. He reached for her hand and she gripped it tightly.
"They did blood work when I was admitted." Robin told him. Jason nodded, he already knew that. "It showed that I was pregnant."
Jason's heart almost stopped right there on the spot. That sinking feeling in his gut became more pronounced as the news sunk in. She was pregnant. Sedative's would be a risk to her baby and he had the doctor sedate her at Sonny's!
Robin watched Jason's reaction closely and was worried when he started looking almost green. He looked physically sick at her news and that broke her heart. She was sad to be doing this alone but was glad to still have part of her husband with her. Jason apparently did not feel the same. She felt even more alone.
"Jason!" Robin said sharply. "Inhale or you will pass out."
He took a couple of shaky breaths in order to steady himself. He had to tell her. She needed to know but how could he tell her that he had jeopardized the last part of Patrick she had left. He felt awful! She wasn't looking at him. She had turned to face the wall.
"Robin, look at me." Jason said a moment later. She turned her head to face him and he saw the tears running down her face.
He jumped up from the chair and reached over the railing to give her a hug. It used to be that any woman crying would upset him. Over the years he had gotten desensitized to it or something because now it didn't bother him nearly as much. Except for a couple of women. Robin was one of them. Her tears hurt him.
"I would never do anything to intentionally hurt you." Jason told her with his arms tightly around her.
She nodded into his chest. She mumbled something like, "I know."
"I may have put you in danger by accident." He told her. She looked up at him but did not pull away.
"I don't understand." She said at first. Jason watched her face for a second and could see a look of realization cross her face. "It was real wasn't it?"
"Was what real?" Jason asked confused.
"I thought it was a dream or a hallucination or something like that. But it wasn't was it? I really did go to Sonny's this morning and you had the doctor sedate me."
Jason nodded. He wanted to cry too thinking he had caused her harm. He never wanted to do that. Ever. Until he felt her hand reach up and start wiping his face, he didn't realize that he was in fact crying.
"It's okay." She told him. She said it over and over until they both stopped crying.
"I didn't know about the baby."
"No one did. I didn't even suspect that I might be pregnant." She told him calmly. "I don't think the sedative will hurt anything Jason. Monica knows I am pregnant but she felt safe in offering me one. I am just being cautious."
"You've had one hell of a day." Jason said with a wry smile.
"It's been a lot to handle." She admitted as she tried to stifle a yawn. "I have a lot of questions."
"I will answer as many as I can tomorrow." Jason told her as he got up and turned the lights back off in her room. "Right now you need to sleep."
"Can you stay a little while?" She asked.
"I will be here until the nurses make me leave or Mac comes in." He told her. He watched her visibly relax.
She fell asleep a few minutes later still holding his hand.
Sleeping in a chair in a hospital room wasn't the best place to get a good night's sleep Jason thought as he closed his eyes. To be honest, there was no place he would rather be.
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