She Was My Greatest Adventure

The sun was just setting on a beach in Italy, and Anna Scorpio is watching her husband throw sticks to their two lively dogs. She smiles as she sips her Mai Tai and goes back to her book.

"How do you like it," Robert asks moments later, as he kisses her neck, their dogs trailing behind. She smiles at him as she puts the book down on the blanket.

"I can't believe I'm married to a celebrity," she jokes.

"Isn't that going a little overboard Luv?"

"Why so modest Scorpio…You happen to be on the top of the best sellers list. It is easy to see why. You write so eloquently. "

"Only because I had a great subject," he says, drawing her into a passionate kiss. "When will the kids be here?"

Anna looks at her watch and wraps her arms around her husband of almost fifty years. "Not for a couple of hours. How about we take a walk?"

Robert does not have to say anything; she can already read his mind. She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him, his arms lifting her slightly off the ground. "My hat please, "she asks.

"So Demanding Mrs. Scorpio."

"That's why you married me isn't it," she quips.

"One of the reasons," he says, and draws her into another kiss, which she returns with equal passion. They walk along the shore, the dogs running behind them excitedly, until they finally reach the church where they were married so many years before.

"Do you ever think about what our lives would have been like if we hadn't retired from the WSB after that last mission," Robert asks.

"I don't believe in looking back Robert. We had such a glorious life don't you think? I mean how many people can say that they got to be co police chief with the love of their life…and we were good partners weren't we?"

"The best…In everything," Robert said. "First the WSB, Then as Police Chiefs but especially in life and in love. We were one of the lucky ones weren't we?"

"I'm not sure luck has anything to do with it…If our lives had taken a different path then I know that we would have met somewhere else…we were meant to be together weren't we?"

"Soulmates," he agrees.

He takes her hand and brings it to his lips, kissing her fingers and then her hand. "There's a little bit of light left…will you dance with me Mrs. Scorpio?"

"I would be honored Mr. Scorpio," she says, and he leads her down to the shore. As he holds his wife in his arms, he begins to serenade her as they dance in the sand, his hand upon her back, and her head buried in the crook of his neck. "I love you," they whispered in harmony.

In the quiet tranquility of his arms, she can hear the steady rhythm of his heartbeat. His arms wind around her waist as she snuggles against him on the hammock, her head resting on his shoulder. Just as the first whiff of the cool breeze blows through her hair, his lips caress her cheek, trail down her collarbone, up her neck, in her hair and finally settling on her own. His tongue dances in tune with her lips as the kiss becomes deeper and deeper. She can feel his erratic breathing as her expert fingers slip under his shirt.

"You're killing me Luv," he says, his voice quivering with desire.

She arches a brow at him teasingly and says, "You don't look fatal to me Scorpio. In fact, you look more alive than I've seen you all day."

She smiles at the sound of his muffled groan and soon her fingers were skillfully massaging his barely contained libido.

"Maybe we should take this inside Luv," he gasps, his eyes smoldering with unbridled hunger.

"I like it here," she says, binding her fingers into his shirt and pulling, causing a button to fall to the sand.

"I'll buy you another Scorpio," she insists, as she frantically pulls at his shirt, every button now joining the others on the sand. She slides her leg between his as she plays with the hair on his chest.

"Dear God, you are still the sexiest man alive," she says.

"Careful luv. You might give me a big head."

"You already have one," she quips.

He suppresses a grin as he captures her lips in his own. He can taste the salt from the ocean as his tongue demands possession. She laces her arms around his neck as she deepens the kiss, letting him feel every quiver that his touch elicits.

"Dear God, you still take my breath away," he admits. "Even after all these years, it still feels like the first time I ever laid eyes on you."

"You were smitten weren't you?"

"So were you," he maintains.

"Guilty. "

His calloused digits skimmed down her backside, easing the zipper of her dress down. He could hear the soft moan escape her lips as she hooked her fingers into the buckle of his pants and urgently pushed them down his legs. She shifted her hips as she curled around him, skin on skin. It was only when the hammock began to rock when they were forced apart, their breath coming in shallow gulps.

"I suppose things might be a little too intense for this hammock," she concedes.

He reaches for her hand as he pulls her up off the hammock, her legs locking around his torso as she kisses him sensually, a hint of carnal need shining in her dark brown eyes. Her lips never leave his as he carries her down to the shore.

As her bare feet touch the sand, she takes off sprinting into the ocean.

"I thought you didn't like swimming naked," he calls after her, catching up with her almost immediately.

"Who said anything about swimming," she jokes, as she leaps into his arms, her mouth hot on his, her hands weaving into his wet hair.

He takes the time allotted to kiss and caress her, letting the anticipation of their need build with every touch. As the angry waves crash beside them, they let passion explode.

He holds her in his arms as he kisses her again, the warmth of her body still inside him as they continue to make love on the shore. Fifty years ago they washed up on this same shore, young and in love and running from the people who were trying to kill them…It had been the best day of his life…it was also the day he married her.

"There still has never been a more beautiful bride then my Anna," Robert says, lifting her veil and kissing her deeply.

After Mac has remarried them, Robin takes out the old Vinyl record player and soon songs from the 70's and 80-'s began to drift from her parents down to the shore. Everyone watches as Anna and Robert dance barefoot on the sand and gaze lovingly into each other's eyes.

"Do you two ever come up for air," Mac teases his brother, as he begins to kiss his wife again.

"Oh Hush," Anna responds.

"The lady has spoken," Robert agrees, pulling her close once more. When the next song starts, the adults grab their partners and join the happy couple on the shore.

Moments later, Anna and Robert were holding each other close in the hammock as they watched their extended family play in the ocean.

There were five children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren, as well as one on the way. Their Children's lives were vastly different and yet somehow entwined.

Mac and Felicia were happier than they had ever seen them before and so were Sean and Tiffany, alongside their two children. It did Robert's heart good to see his brother a father again. Losing Georgie had nearly broken him. It was something that they themselves understood, as their first son had been stillborn. It was amazing how much you could survive when you had the right partner.

Anna peered over Robert's shoulder as he grasped her hand in his. The family was now peppering him with questions about his bestselling autobiography titled appropriately, "She was my greatest adventure."

"Do you regret it Dad," Robin asked. It was a question on all of their minds.

"Regret what sweetheart," he asks.

"Oh come on daddy," she reiterates. "You and mom were world famous super spies and yet you gave it all up to become police chiefs in Port Charles. I just want to know if you have any regrets."

Robert smiled radiantly at his wife and then said without a single moment of hesitation, "I regret nothing."

"Really?"

"Robin, your mother and I were already planning on retiring when she first got pregnant. The WSB is not a job for someone who wants to have a family. When we lost your older brother, it was a wake-up call. We handed in our resignation that night."

Anna looks between her husband and her children and says, "We had a rough couple of years. I was so scared that I had lost my chance to be a mother. It was what your father and I wanted most in this world. When we moved to Port Charles and took the shared job of Police Chief, it was our way of starting over. It was the best decision of our lives. It made it possible for you children to come into the world and have the life that we wanted to give you."

"So why did you retire so early," their youngest daughter asked?

"Because your mother and I were burned out. We spent many years working for the WSB and then for the PCPD. We wanted more out of life. We wanted to see the world through different eyes. We had that. When we came home to stay, we wanted to live a quiet life. Your mother enjoys teaching women and children how to protect themselves and I enjoy writing. We don't have a single regret."

"So why didn't you write about any of those adventures Robbie," Mac asked?

"Because none of those adventures would have meant anything without my greatest love. The reason our life was so grand was that we did it together. I am not saying it was easy…It was anything but. I am sure you have read the chapters where I tell you that there were days when we wondered if it would be easier to throw in the towel."

"So why didn't you? What's your secret for making your marriage last so long?" Their oldest son asked.

Anna and Robert look at each other lovingly and then say in unison, "We choose each other…every day. No matter how bad or how hard things get, we choose each other. That is the secret. Love your partner so much that choosing them is the only thing that makes sense."

"You know Robert, you are a hard act to follow," Sean says. "You're making all the other husband's look bad."

There is laughter from the others and then Robert says seriously, "I was born in the age where men pulled out seats and opened doors for their ladies. I still believe that. I am not trying to impress anyone…I just want my wife and my children to see how a woman should be treated. I hope my daughters have learned what they should expect from their partners and my sons know how they should treat theirs. I hope my wife can feel how much I adore her."

"We do," they said, in unison. "And we have taught our children and grandchildren to do the same," the children added.

"Then my job here is done," he says.

He takes Anna by the hand and they run back down to the shore. They watch her jump into his arms, as he kisses her and swings her around with more enthusiasm then most men half his age.

"The Lord must have broken the mold with you daddy," Robin says, to which her brothers and sisters agree. When they said that when you grow older than you just get more as you were when you were younger, they must have been telling the truth. Robert and Anna seemed more in love now than they were when they first fell in love.

Three days…it took them three days to fall in love…and they have still been falling ever since.

The End