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"Bren?"
She looked up. Her eyes were red
and swollen. "Hey. I was wondering if
you were gonna come."
"Have you heard anything?" He came
to sit on the other side of the couch
gingerly so as not to wake the
sleeping children. The bodyguards joined
Brenda's around the room and Carly
and the kids took a chair.
"Alan came out a few minutes ago
and gave us an update about how the
surgery was going."
"And?"
"They're pretty sure that Robin
won't make it through the night.
Nikolas has a better chance."
"What about Karina?"
"She wasn't in the car. She's at Wyndemere."
"Thank God for that." He looked
at Brenda's children. "How long have
they been out?"
"About twenty minutes." She smiled fondly at her son and daughter.
"Did you call anyone besides me?"
"Yeah, Mac and Felicia, Stefan,
Bobbie and Jerry, Laura, Lucky and Liz.
I think I covered all the bases."
"Do you know anything about how it happened?"
"It was a car accident and that's all I know."
"Have the police been in yet?"
"Garcia was here. I don't know where he went though."
"At least it wasn't Taggert."
"Amen to that." Carly interjected
softly from her chair where she and
Spencer sat. Michael was
at her feet.
"Honey I'm gonna stay for awhile. Take the kids home."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'll call you when we hear something."
"Okay. Hey Jimmy, give me a hand would ya?" She said to the bodyguard.
"Right away Mrs. Morgan." He bent
down and scooped up Michael. Carly
picked up Spencer and kissed Jason
on her way out.
~~~~~~~~~~
Alan walked out of the OR and over
to Brenda and Jason. He kept his
voice low seeing that Morgan and
Scorpio were still asleep.
"How are they?" asked Brenda.
"Nikolas is holding his own. They
just took him to recovery. He's lost a
lot of blood, but he's expected
to pull through."
"And Robin?" Jason asked not sure he wanted to hear the answer.
"I'm sorry, " said Alan.
~~~~~~~~~~
Carly and Jimmy walked through the doors of the PH.
"Would you like me to carry Michael up to bed, Mrs. Morgan?"
"Yes, follow me. I'm going to put
Spencer down too." They walked up the
stairs and put the kids in their
rooms. Then, Jimmy left to go guard the
front door. Carly wanted to call
the hospital and check on Robin and
Nikolas, so she headed down to
the kitchen to make herself a sandwich
while she called the hospital.
As she walked in the door, she walked
right into something hard yet soft.
She was sure it was a person, but
she was so scared that she didn't
have the voice to scream. She couldn't
move she was so scared. Suddenly,
she saw the figure reach for the
light. It flicked on, and she looked
right into the face of Sonny
Corinthos.
"Oh I'm so sorry Jason. Look
tell Brenda I'll handle the meeting
tomorrow morning."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'll take Alexis with
me if she's up to it and if she's not I'll
do it myself. It's not a
problem."
"Alright. Look I'm gonna take
Brenda and the kids home and help her put
them to bed. Then I'll be
home."
"Alright drive safely. I love you."
"Love you too." Carly smiled
and hung up the phone. Then she turned
around to face her house guest.
"Okay start talking."
"About?"
"Who you are and what you're doing in my home."
"Sonny Corinthos and this used to be my home."
"Sonny. Well it's nice to
finally meet you. I've heard so much about
you."
"And that leads to my question. Who are you?"
"Caroline Morgan."
"Morgan?"
"Jason's wife. Mother of his children. That sort of thing."
"Mother of his child you mean. Cause Michael ain't Jason's."
"Oh right he told you and Robin
the truth and of course Brenda knows but
she's not gonna tell anyone."
"Brenda? As in Brenda Jacks?"
"Jacks? Boy you really have
been outta the loop. Brenda's last name is
still Barrett. She never
married Jax. He got pissed when he found out
the two of you did the horizontal
tango and he split town."
"I see. So what was Jason's phone call about?"
"Oh right. You were friends with Robin Cassadine right?"
"Cassadine?"
"She married Nikolas. Any
way I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news
but Robin died tonight."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Thanks for your help Jason."
"No problem. What are godfathers for?"
"I don't know." She smiled.
"Well the kids are in bed, the bodyguards
are in place, and I am tired.
So you are going home to your wife."
"Alright. Call tomorrow if you want to talk or something."
"I will. Night Jason."
"Night Bren." Jason let himself
out and Brenda sat on her couch. Then
she leaned over and picked up the
phone, dialed and a few minutes later
heard a sleepy,
"Hello?"
"Ned? Sorry I woke you but
I needed to talk to Alexis. Is she back
yet?"
"No she's still at the hospital. How're you doing?"
"I've been better. Even though
Robin and I weren't all that close these
last few months she was still my
best friend and my little sister."
"How's Nikolas?"
"I haven't seen him yet but Stefan
caught me before I left the hospital.
He wants me to come to Spoon Island
tomorrow and help him tell Karina."
"Poor kid. She's so young."
"Yeah. Listen have you called Lois?"
"No. I probably should, shouldn't I?"
"No I'll do it."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. Go back to sleep and
when Alexis comes home tell her to call me
no matter what time it is."
"Alright. Bye Bren."
"Bye Ned." Brenda hung up the phone and then she dialed Bensonhurst.
"H'lo?" someone mumbled.
"Lois?"
"Yeah? Bren?"
"Yep."
"What's wrong?"
"What makes you think something's wrong?"
"Because it's almost midnight."
"Lo, there's no easy way to say
this. Robin died tonight."
Carly gasped as Sonny rushed out
of the kitchen and toward the door. She
heard it slam, all before she had
a chance to blink. Carly rolled her
eyes. "Okay. See ya, Sonny."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brenda heard silence on the other
end. Then she heard deep breathing.
"What? Robin is...she's not-dead?"
Brenda bit her lip as the tears
flooded over. "Yeah...she was in a car
accident. Nikolas'll make it, but
Robin...well, there was internal
bleeding, she had a fractured skull..."
Lois couldn't stop the tears. "Brenda?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't go anywhere, I'm on my way!"
"Lois, no!"
"YES!"
Brenda sighed as her friend hung
up. She turned around and looked up at
her window. It was nights like
these when she thought of Sonny. Brenda
looked down at the picture of her
children. Sonny's children. He had
missed out on so much of their
lives. And she didn't have the strength
to hate him any longer. She
needed to love him.
Brenda picked up her house keys
and pulled open the front door, closing
it softly behind her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sonny sat down on a bench in the
park, looking up at the night sky. The
hospital was visible over the treetops,
the huge structure, the white
lights reflecting out of hospital
rooms, very possibly, one of the
hospital rooms where his sweet
Robin had died. Robin was a Cassadine?
Since when?
"Since you left her and everyone
else you loved six years ago," Sonny
mumbled beneath his breath.
Sonny sat on the bench, deep in
thought, not even noticing when a short
brunette walked into the clearing.
Her head was up to the sky, staring
at the very same stars he wished
upon, and she brushed her now short
brown hair out of her eyes.
The woman walked to the bench, ignoring
the man with the goatee and hat
sitting on it, and sat down. As
she sat beside him, something told
Sonny to look at her--look in her
face. So he turned and looked. There
she was. Like an answer to his
prayers. Brenda.
He must've whispered it or something
because her head snapped around. A
lock of hair flew into her gorgeous
face. Her eyes rushed to his. When
she realized it was him, the man
who had walked out on her, unbeknownst
to him, 2 months pregnant, her
heart shattered and her eyes clouded with
tears. She surged to her feet.
Sonny did also. "You cut your hair,"
He whispered softly, referring to
the chin length wispy 'do she now
wore.
"You grew yours." Brenda replied
hoarsely, referring to his goatee.
Sonny nodded his head once, wiping
at sudden tears. Brenda wiped her
tears off of her face and looked
at him. "So...why are you back?"
"I dunno...I kind of missed the place." And you, he whispered mentally.
Brenda swiveled to face him. "I have to go."
"Why?"
"Well, if you haven't noticed, I'm
not exactly *thrilled* to see you."
She rolled her eyes through her
tears and sniffled. Tucking hair behind
her ear, she whispered, "My cottage
is just down the road and I was only
going to walk to the end of it
and back. Morgan can't be alone for very
long or-" Brenda broke off when
she realized what she had said.
"Who's Morgan?" Sonny asked her curiously.
Brenda quickly saved herself by
saying, "My dog." For some reason, she
didn't feel as angry as she thought
she would be. But looking at
him...she didn't feel a thing.
Not one thing. Was it possible she had
fallen out of love with him
over the last seven years?
Sonny watched Brenda turn and walk
into the bushes toward the road. His
heart slowed as soon as he saw
her figure disappear, but his mind was
racing. "Dammit."
Brenda stumbled towards the door
the next morning as she tried to walk
and put on her shoe at the same
time. "I'm coming!" She called as the
doorbell rang again. Finally
she reached the door and when she opened
it she found Lois on the other
side. "Lois!"
"Hey girl!" The friends hugged
and Brenda moved aside to let Lois and
Brooke enter. "So where are
my godchildren?"
"Upstairs. Stalling."
Brenda went to the bottom of her stairs.
"Morgan! Scorpio! Let's
move it!"
"Coming Mommy!" Two voices answered from upstairs.
"The joys of motherhood." Lois commented.
"Yup. Look make yourself at
home. I have some stuff to do this morning
and I should be back around noon.
I'll bring some take out burgers from
wherever I end up being closest
to."
"Okay. How should we work the rooms?"
"Hmmm. I don't know. Wait
I've got it. Morgan's got bunk beds so
Scorpio can stay with her for a
little while and you and Brooke can use
Scorpio's room."
"Okay cool with me." Lois
said and then Morgan and Scorpio came
clambering down the stairs.
"Aunt Lois!" Morgan shrieked jumping into Lois's arms.
"Hey Morgan. Boy did you get big."
"Morgan your shoes don't match."
Brooke said, speaking for the first
time. Brenda looked at her
daughter's feet and groaned. It was going
to be one of those days.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Spencer Jean! Grandma's here!
Let's move it!" Carly yelled up the
stairs and then turned around to
face her mother. "I really appreciate
this Mom." She said as she put
her earring in.
"It's no problem." Bobbie
Jacks smiled. "I enjoy having my
granddaughter with me on my day
off."
"Where's Jerry?"
"In Malibu with Jax."
"Oh." The door opened and Jimmy poked his head in.
"Mrs. Morgan?"
"Yes?"
"Alexis Ashton is here."
Carly checked her watch. "On
time as usual. Show her in Jimmy." Jimmy
nodded and opened the door wider
and Alexis walked in.
"Ready Carly?"
"Just a second. I'm waiting for Spencer."
"Carly go. I'm perfectly capable of getting my granddaughter."
"You sure?"
"Yes. Now go on. Get out of here. You have a business to run."
"Too true. Okay Jason'll pick up
Spencer after he gets Michael from
school. That's about three."
"I know. Now get going."
"Okay. Bye Mom."
"Bye Bobbie." Alexis said
as she and Carly left the penthouse and
Bobbie went upstairs to retrieve
her granddaughter.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"So tell me. What's been going on with everyone?"
"You mean Brenda?"
"I mean everyone that was important
to me." Sonny said, squirming a
little.
"Uh-huh. Have you seen her yet?"
"Last night. For about five
seconds. Then she made an excuse about
having to go home because of her
dog."
"Brenda doesn't have a dog."
"Then who's Morgan?"
"Morgan's her daughter."
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