Chapter 3

None of the WSB agents couldn't understand why Anna would have chosen to leave their protection. She'd been safe where they had her. No one knows where she is now and that means the WSB can't offer her any protection. All Agent Norris had been able to tell Agent Tucker in the debriefing was that Anna wanted to know why she couldn't see her daughter and where her husband was. Even after she had been told in detail what had happened the night she had been rescued and why the WSB wanted the world to believe they were dead Anna had wanted to know those two things, why can't she see Robin and where is Robert. Other than that Anna hardly spoke at all.

They did feel Anna was likely to try and find Robert but without at least some assistance it would not be an easy task. Also, if Anna wanted to see her daughter she would be heading for Port Charles first. It had been five days since she had gone missing. It would have taken time for her to get down the mountain, she could have even gotten lost along the way. There had to be close to fifty different trails that met upon and crossed or joined that eventually would have led her down to civilization. If she hadn't gotten lost somewhere on the side of that mountain then it is possible Anna could be close to Port Charles by now.

Waiting to see if Anna returned is why there were now four WSB agents in Port Charles. If Anna does come here then there are two individuals that the WSB felt certain Anna would turn to for help. Malcolm Scorpio and Sean Donely would help her any way they could even if neither of them would willingly admit that to the WSB. Agent Matthew Tucker, he was the agent that had been put in charge of this team, had looked into Anna Scorpio's recent activities. With the help of her husband Robert Scorpio and those two men, had recently brought down a cartel operating in Port Charles that just happened to include Cesar Faison. Since he had then abducted Anna after escaping, they would want him stopped as much as Anna or Robert but might not trust the WSB to do that since they were the ones that let Faison escape after all their hard work.

This was gonna be easy, he thought confidently. Agent Tucker looked at the other agents waiting for instruction. They were all good agents that won't let him down. "Alright, these are the men we are watching." He held up pictures of Mac and Sean as he spoke. "Do not approach the house or their daughter. Robin Scorpio has been through enough, having recently been told her parents are both dead, we don't need to cause her more pain by bringing up her mother, understood?" There were murmurs of agreement so he continued. "For now, we watch them, if you see anything to suggest Anna Scorpio is in the area, notify the rest of us. We need to find her and detain her. We can't have people knowing the truth." He looked around the room, "Alright let's get to work. Report back here this evening at eight."

It wasn't that Anna was a wanted person. The black box orders on both her and Robert had been lifted once evidence came in that proved Anna was indeed Faison's prisoner. That was why she had been rescued before they tried to apprehend Faison. The problem was the WSB needed the world to believe Anna and Robert had been killed along with Faison so he would let his guard down. Cesar Faison will hopefully make mistakes if he believes no one is looking for him, so for now the world had to go on believing all three of them were dead.

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Anna was on a small plane set to land in La Plata, Argentina. She hadn't known where to start so after arriving in South America and making a few inquiries about the tanker explosion and the area it happened near, Anna decided to go there to try and find out more. The place where people were taken would be more of a local story and she might even find out the best place to look. Once she knows that, then maybe she'll know where to start checking hospitals.

The WSB would have come here looking for Robert Scorpio but maybe they should have been looking for someone else. In places like this, not everyone trusts foreign men with badges looking for other mystery men. If she is here, a distraught woman looking for her husband, a Lyle Thompson, and has pictures and ID to prove she's his wife they might share a little more information. Even if that meant she might have to pay a little to get the information she needed.

Roxanne Conner stepped off the plane with her carry-on bag. She was quickly out of the small airport and then into a cab. No one will know Anna is in Argentina. Sean might know the names on their fake IDs but he isn't someone she's worried would be looking for her and he isn't going to tell the WSB them either.

Anna needed to find a hotel preferably somewhere close to a library, so she could start going through news reports from the last few months. Even if it takes her a little longer Anna knows she will find out where the injured people were taken. On top of that, now that Anna was here she knew she had to keep an eye out for WSB and DVX agents. They might be here searching for Faison but if she was spotted by either group, Anna knew that could be very bad for her. There was no way of knowing what either organization would do if they found her.

Roxanne Conner was checked in at a little hotel not quite an hour later. After settling in she made her way up the street to a beautiful old building she had been told was the local library. With the help of the librarian's broken English and Anna's limited Spanish, they started going through news reports about the tanker explosion. The librarian remembered it quite well, as it happened just off the coast. Anna knew what she was looking for but wasn't that good at reading Spanish and that was why she needed some help. According to the news stories, they were able to find, all the boats that helped that night were all directed to San Bernardo del Tuyu.

It had taken several hours to actually find all of the relevant information Anna thought she would need. As she left the library she decided to spend the night here. Get a good night's rest and first thing in the morning get over to San Bernardo del Tuyu. There was no way of knowing how long it would take to find a lead once she gets there but Anna knew she was now a lot closer to finding Robert.

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Holly stood looking at the divorce papers for probably the hundredth time. She was in the room she was staying in, at Robert and Anna's. Well, she supposed it was actually Robin's house now. Holly let out a sigh, she is an intruder in their shattered life. Mac being here to raise his niece makes sense but did it still make sense that she was here? Yes, Robert had asked her to help with Robin but how long was she expected to stay here for?

Robin's words from the other night were playing in her mind. Why hadn't she signed them? That was a very good question, why hadn't she. This is what Robert had wanted. He had picked Anna, she is the woman he was in love with. Why did she want to be his widow if he had been committed to someone else at the end? Part of Holly wanted to rip the damned divorce papers up and throw them in the harbour but there was another part of her that knew how much that would hurt Robin.

What was she holding onto? Her marriage to Robert had been over for a long time. Staying here, seeing their daughter every day, being in their home. It seemed very clear this was the life Robert had wanted. Ever since Robin had yelled at her about these papers Holly has been trying to figure out why she couldn't bring herself to sign them. "Give him what he wanted," she finally said to the empty room but it seemed she couldn't even take her own advice.

Holly looked around, she was in Anna and Robert's house. She is staying in Anna and Robert's house because Anna and Robert's daughter needs her. If Holly was honest with herself, she would have to admit she was uncomfortable here most of the time and that Robin didn't need her, she had other people here she turns to.

Yes, Mac was here but he was struggling too. He's lost his brother and now has to adjust to raising a teenage girl he hasn't known all that long. A teenage girl that is missing her parents terribly. Parents that had just gotten back together because they loved each other. It hit Holly, just how hard this must be on Robin. Robert and Anna's daughter is heartbroken and she wants to remember her parents as husband and wife. Remember them all as the happy little family they were, finally all together. Now here she is, this reminder of why that isn't true, living in Robin's home, with papers that say the beautiful life she had and that she wants to hold on to was all a lie.

Holly took a deep breath and set the papers on the side table, she stared at them for a good five minutes then signed them. The life Robert had picked was the one she was now an outsider looking in on the shattered remains of. The least she could do for his daughter is give her father what he had wanted. Holly picked up the signed papers and left. She wanted to file them before she changed her mind. Even if it didn't matter now, Holly knew she had to do this. It was the right thing to do, for Robert and Robin.

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Anna had been in San Bernardo del Tuyu for three days, she had checked the hospital and had found all the little clinics and checked them just to be sure. If Robert was injured he might have gone to one of them after. At the hospital, she learned that there had been a man brought in that matched Robert's description and when Anna had shown the nurse a picture she confirmed that, yes, he had been one of the men brought in after the accident. There was no name to go along with him, but he wasn't the only one that night pulled from the water without ID.

According to the nurse, he had come in about the same time as all the others. She had been working that night and remembered him. He was confused and upset, she remembered him because he was worried about someone's safety. Given that he had come from the accident, she assumed it was more than likely someone that had been on the boat with him. He was there for a little while and in need of medical care. He might have been looked at but the nurse felt he probably wasn't and he had vanished before her shift had ended so she didn't know much more than that.

When the nurses had talked with him, she got the feeling that he thought someone was after him. He was always looking around, watching the doors. When Anna asked if he might have actually wanted to find someone, could it have been he was watching for someone to be brought in, the nurse agreed that could have been the case, as she did remember him asking if she was here. Sadly the nurse hadn't known who he was talking about and had dismissed it as part of his confusion from what he had just been through.

Anna now felt certain Robert was not in any of the medical facilities here and knew she would have to start looking in other places. The problem was she didn't know if she was looking for an injured man that maybe didn't know who he was or a trained agent trying to keep himself hidden.

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"Come on, we can't stay here." A nervous young man said as he looked around.

"I like it here," the other man said, looking out at the water.

"I know, you always say that. You can't stay out here at this time of night. If you're a wanted man they could find you here."

The man didn't move, he just continued to look out at the water. "It's so peaceful here. I could stand like this for hours." Then he smiled hearing the harbour bells. He sighed, "Do you hear that? Every time I hear them a peaceful feeling washes over me. I don't know what it means but it's nice. It is so nice." He started spinning the ring on his left hand with his thumb. That feeling is connected to her, he just knew it. The woman he needs to find, who he is sure is trying to find him. She's out there somewhere he can feel it. She will come for him even if he's not sure who she is. He'll know her when he sees her.

"You say you have to find someone. If you want to find her we need to get out of here before anyone finds us. Let's go." The younger of the two men, he was no more than fifteen, grabbed the older man's arm and started pulling. When the man finally started walking on his own the boy let go of his arm. "We don't want any trouble and if we're out here too late that is exactly what we will find."