Home Is Wherever You Are

The first time it happened, it was six weeks after Valentin succumbed to his injuries after the Hook attacked and grief tormented Anna and Robert was just trying to offer her some sense of purpose and comfort.

The second time it happened, it was twenty-four hours after Robert had discovered that Holly was the illusive Hook they had been searching for. He had come to apologize to Anna because now he was the one wracked with guilt. She would have none of it.

The third time it happened, it was because, well, they had fallen into old habits that were apparently harder to break than they thought. In each other's arms, they could feel something other than the pain.

Except when it was over and rational heads prevailed, they knew that it could not happen again. At least that was what they kept telling themselves. Now here they were again and the lines between friendship and more seemed less and less blurry.

"Why does this keep happening," she asked.

She was not looking at him and he understood why. They had been down this road so many times before; it was almost impossible not to think it would end the same. Yet there was also something underneath that. Something that made them hope for something different. Something that they had never been able to attain for long before.

She moved her hands in front of her face to cut off his first attempt at humor. She knew what he was about to say. "And don't say it's because the sex is good. That has never been an issue with us before. Why now?"

"Maybe because it's the first time in decades that we are both single at the same time."

"Robert, I'm…I'm being serious here."

"So am I Luv, but maybe it's more. We are already everything else to each other. Why can't we be everything?"

She looked at him then, maybe a little longer than she should have. He was right, of course. There was a time when they were everything to each other. And just like then, she would still do anything to save his life.

"We both know Holly was not working alone Robert. I don't want you getting caught in the crossfires."

"Just like I don't want you getting caught in them."

"Then what do we do?"

"We take a shower."

"Robert."

"I hear you Annie. However, we both need a clear head and some sustenance before making any decisions. I say we take a shower and get something to eat. We can discuss what we do next after that."

He walks across the bedroom towards the bathroom and Anna wants to hit herself for staring at his naked form as he goes. Damn him for still looking so sexy at his age. Damn him for making her want him again. Then he looks over his shoulder, raises an eyebrow and says, "You coming?"

…And Damn him for knowing she wants him.

Throwing a pillow at him, she says, "Wipe that smug grin off your face. It doesn't mean anything."

"Keep telling yourself that Luv. We've already proven that isn't true."

He was right about that too, of course…And she hated when he was right.

Getting to her feet, she tossed the sheet to the side of the bed and joined him in the shower. Maybe just this once she could let him be right.

After breakfast, they were sitting around the fireplace talking about what to do next when finally she asked the question she had been wondering about for some time.

"Has Holly told you anything Robert?"

"You mean, "Why did she turn into a cold blooded Killer?"

"Robert."

"It's true though isn't it? Even if she is working with someone. Even if she did not kill everybody, she is still responsible for a lot of death and destruction. I cannot help feeling partially responsible for that Anna."

She reaches her hand over and places it on top of his, squeezes it gently. "This is not your fault Robert. How can you even think that?"

"Because we both know that in Holly's warped mind, she is doing this to get back at the people that she blames for losing me. It doesn't make a lot of sense and some people just were in the wrong place at the wrong time but everything Holly has ever done has been to…"

"Get you back," Anna Finishes.

"I told you it doesn't make sense. I mean even if I was still interested in her, which I am not, I could never forgive her for killing so many people in my name. It just makes me sick. I am happy she is still alive but I cannot think of her in the same way ever again after what she has done. The Holly that I knew died a long time ago. "

"I am really sorry Robert. You are the last person who deserves to be hurt this way. She is a damn fool for throwing you away like this."

"She has not had me for a long time Anna. Maybe it's time we both admit that she wasn't my soulmate. You are."

She looks at him with so much love in her eyes and he hopes that maybe she is thinking the same thing. They may have loved and lost each other too many times in the past but they had still been there for each other through it all. Maybe Fate was trying to tell them something.

"So who do we think she is working for," Anna asks, changing the subject?

"Victor," they say at the same time.

There is a look of understanding between them before Robert breaks the silence.

"Even if she was messed up after the kidnapping, it doesn't excuse her behavior Anna. This whole thing started because of her."

"You will get no argument from me Scorpio," she says. "But what are we going to do about it."

"What can we do about it Luv? He is a Cassadine. He is going to come after us with guns blazing because one of his own was murdered."

"So we'll be ready for him," Anna says. "I am not going to let him get away with hurting more people. And I am certainly not going to let him dictate my personal life. Are you?"

"Annie, you know how I feel about you. How I have always felt about you."

She smiles at him but gives away nothing. "How do you feel about me Scorpio? I am going to need you to say it. I mean just because we have been having some mind blowing sex…"

He cuts off her words with a soul-searing kiss. "I love you. I have always been in love with you. I just told you that you are my soulmate and I mean that. It has always, always been you."

She smiles through another kiss as she holds him close. "It's been you for me too Scorpio. I have been in love with you for as long as I knew what the word meant...And even though we have spent so much time apart, it does not mean that it was ever not true. You are my soulmate too Robert Scorpio.I have always, always been in love with you. I always will be in love with you."

"So you are willing to face the danger we will certainly be in if the world finds out about our relationship?"

"When have we ever not been in danger Robert? I would rather face it with you then spend a lifetime without you in peace. I am tired of pretending that I am not in love with you. That I do not want to be with you for the rest of my life. We both know there will never be another for either of us. So why are we still pretending that it could ever be an option? You are all that I have ever wanted Scorpio. Just You. "

He smiles as he takes her hand in his. "Then I have one question for you Luv?"

"Yes, Robert Scorpio I will marry you."

"How did you…"

"I know you Scorpio…And you are right. Why should we waste another second not being married? We have already spent decades doing that and it did not work. I want to be your wife."

"I want to be your husband," he agreed. "Let's get married."

Two Hours later, they walked out of the courthouse with a ring on their finger and a marriage license to prove it. It was not something they would advertise because they really did not need to. Mac and Felicia had been their witnesses and anybody else would know soon enough when they discovered the thin gold bands adorning their hands. For now, it was enough.

Now they were boarding a plane for California and their daughter and grandchildren. They would spend Two weeks with them before taking off for Paris and another two weeks of alone time for the honeymoon they insisted on taking. When they got back to Port Charles, they would face the hook and the consequences together.

They would spend their wedding night at a hotel close to Berkley, with a "Do Not Disturb" Sign on their door. For tonight would be the first time the sex would be more then sex in a long time. Tonight, the newlyweds would spend the night and the early hours of dawn making love and falling asleep nestled in each other's arms. Whatever the future held for them, they were finally content in spending it together. To hell with the "what if's" or the "if only's" or the fear and danger they might be facing. It was scarier to face a lifetime without each other, knowing that they are better together than apart.

In the morning, they would wake and take a shower together, making love under the faucet and again in their bed, and then they would stop by that little Deli Robin loves and pick up breakfast for their family. This was the first day of the rest of their lives. Finally together, like they always should have been.

The End