Anna slipped into the chair next to Diane and waited until she looked at her. She knew this probably would not go over well but she was tired of watching someone she cared about hurt.

"Can I help you with something," Diane asked.

"I know you and I aren't exactly best friends and that's fine with me. I just want you to hear me when I say this."

"Okay."

"Robert Scorpio is a good man. The best man I know. I may not know everything going on between you two but I do know he deserves better than what you are giving him. Robert and I are friends Diane. We will always be friends. We share a daughter."

"Is that all?"

"If you cannot learn to trust him at his word then you do not deserve him. Any woman with half a brain would consider herself the luckiest woman alive to be the woman in his life."

"The problem is that he has too many women in his life."

"Not in the way you think. His only crime is having a big heart. Please do not punish him for that. Think about the kind of man you would be throwing away. Believe me, there are not too many men lefty in the world like Robert Scorpio."

"And you want him back don't you?"

"It doesn't matter what I want, does it? All the matters is Robert. If you like him as much as he likes you then I would think about that a little more. Eventually he will get tired of always having to prove himself to you and receiving nothing in return. He is a good man but even good men have their limits. That is all I have to say."

"You sound like a woman still in love with him," Diane said, as she was walking away. She did not respond but it definitely shook her. She had been thinking about Robert a lot lately.

She spent the rest of the day trying to concentrate on work and not on the man that had been creeping into her mind for the last few weeks. The man she could not stop thinking about.

When the day ended, she curled up on the couch with a bottle of whiskey. Could Diane be right? Could she still be in love with Robert? Damnit, why was he constantly on her mind.

At about three in the morning, she gave up on sleep and pulled on a pair of yoga pants and a sweater. She needed to see Robert. She knew it was probably not a good idea but she had lost the will to fight it anymore.

When he opened the door in just his sweats, she knew she had lost the battle completely.

"What's wrong," he asked. Of course, he would think something was wrong. She was practically shivering when she got there.

"Can we…Can we talk?"

"Why don't you come in? Can I get you anything to drink?"

"Tea would be nice."

"I'll go put some on."

Crap, she thought. What was she doing? Did she really think he would just drop everything because she was…what? Missing him. It was more than that wasn't it.

"Just say it Devane."

"Say what," he asks, as he comes out of the kitchen with her glass.

Crap, she thinks again. Do not say things aloud like that. You have not even told him how you feel…Wait? How do you feel? You know how you feel Devane. Just tell him.

She puts the glass down after taking a sip and steels her nerves. It was now or never.

She thought about what she could say but none of it made any sense. She was going on pure emotion now.

She took a step closer and took his own glass out of his hands. She put it on the counter next to hers. Then she took his face into her hands and traced the outline of his lips.

"I've been thinking about you Scorpio."

"Have you?"

"All the time. And I don't really appreciate you invading my thoughts and my dreams you know."

"You've been dreaming about me Devane? Do tell."

He was giving her one of those adorable little smirks and she did not know if she wanted to hit him or kiss him. Damn it, why did she have to want him so much?

"Why don't I just show you," she said. Her hands were shaking from her nerves but she was tired of pretending that she did not love this man with every fiber of her being.

She looped her arms around his neck and pulled him towards her for a kiss. It started gentle and sweet, just two people who never really stopped loving each other; relearning each other's bodies that they once knew by heart. When the kiss grew in intensity, he finally pulled away, as breathless as her.

"Annie," he gasped. She knew he was trying to figure out what was happening. Then she knelt in front of him with her heart on her sleeve.

"I cannot do this anymore Robert. I cannot keep pretending that I do not ache for you. That my heart is not completely yours. Please tell me it is not too late. Please Scorpio. I still love you. I want to be with you."

"Annie, where…Where is this coming from?"

"I cannot get you out of my mind okay. I have been distracted for so long that I cannot even remember the last time I was not thinking about the way you feel inside me. Do you think I want to feel this way? Damn it Robert, I know this is the absolute worst timing. And I cannot expect you to feel the same…"

Her words died when his greedy mouth met hers. His hands were everywhere…in her hair, on her face and her body…everywhere. God how she wanted him.

"I have loved you from the first moment I laid eyes on you. That is not going to change Luv. I just don't want you to regret anything…"

"I will never regret YOU my love. "

"What about Cassadine."

"Just another mistake I made when I was trying to convince myself we were better off apart. I was wrong Robert. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I do not want to be without you ever again. "

He kisses her softly as tears fall from his face.

"I love you Annie. I have never not loved you. Not once."

"Then show me Scorpio. Remind me what it feels like to be your woman again.

"Your wish is my command."

"Oh that has all kinds of possibilities."

He wraps his arms around her and together they walk up the stairs, stealing kisses as they go.
Nothing would ever keep them apart again. They were done running from their own hearts.

The End