Chapter 24

Erin had to end her message abruptly when she heard someone outside.  She slid the watch back onto her wrist and scooted as far away from the sound as she could.

Mickey appeared in a doorway.  “Oh, how lovely, the little princess is awake.  My it looks small in there, why don’t you come out here where there is more room.”  Mickey said in moc-sincerity.

“I think I’ll stay where I’m at.”  Erin said defiently.

“If you know what’s good for you, you would do as I ask.  Or if you would rather be treated like Helena’s men treated you, that could be arranged.”

Erin’s eyes grew large when she remembered how they had beaten her.  Her mind clicked back into reality.  How could Mickey have known about that?  “How?”

“You didn’t think the old bat could have pulled all that off on her own did you?”  Mickey laughed.  “I knew the old lady had a grudge against your father, she wanted revenge, and I wanted his territory.  It all would have worked out perfectly, but your father had thought a head and he had someone lined up to take his place if something had happened.  He actually had a line up of people to take his place; I was only number two on the list.  All I have to do now, is get rid of number one.”

“What do I have to do with it?”  Erin said as she climbed out of what she now realized was a storage bin.

“You don’t know?  You are number one.”  Mickey informed her with a wicked smile.

Everything clicked.  He had to kill her to get his hands on her father’s territory.

Jason’s penthouse

“Who’s Mickey?”  Sonny asked looking around the room.  No one had an answer.  “Forget this.  Lucky show me how use the tracking device.”

“Okay.”  Lucky started to show Sonny how to use the tracking device.

“I’m going to see what’s taking Robin so long.”  Jason said, it didn’t matter because no one was listening to him.  Jason walked into the kitchen and didn’t see Robin.  This is odd, Jason thought, there was juice on the counter, but no Robin.  She hadn’t come out of the kitchen, so the only other place she could be was in the guestroom.  Jason took another step into the kitchen and saw a sight that made his heart drop into his stomach.  Robin was lying on the floor with blood around her.  “Oh, my god!  Robin!”  Jason ran over to her and knelt down next to her.

Sonny came running into the kitchen.  Jason looked up to him frantically; he looked back down at Robin.  He rested her head in his lap and brushed the hair out of her eyes.   “Robin, come on, please.  Wake up.”  Jason checked her pulse, her heartbeat was weak but it was there and her breathing was shallow.  “Robin don’t leave me.”  Jason told her fanatically through tears.  He checked all over her body but there was no sign of where the blood was coming from.  Then his memory triggered back to when Carly had her son Michele, she had gone into premature labor, and there had been a lot of blood.  Very much like what had just happened, but only Carly had been 8 ½ months pregnet, Robin couldn’t be any more then one month along.

Jason scooped Robin up into his arms, ran past Sonny and out of the penthouse down to his car.  He placed her gently into the back seat and hoped into the front, there was no time to weight for his driver, he had to leave now.  As he sped along the road to General Hospital he called Bobbie there and told her what was going on.  She told him not to panic, that there would be someone weighting for them to take her up to ER immediately.

General Hospital

Jason was pacing the weighting room.  He didn’t know what to do for one of the first times in his life he was scared.  Sonny had been there but Jason had sent him back to the pent house to continue trying to locate Erin.  Lucky had told them that they needed a computer to use the tracking device.  Robin’s doctor came over to Jason; it was the same doctor that had taken care of Erin when she had been shot.

“Jason, you can go in and see her now,”

“Thank you.”  Jason walked into Robin’s room.  He crossed over to the bed and kissed her forehead.  “How are you feeling?”

“I still feel a little queasy and tired, but other then that I feel fine.”  Robin said quietly.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know, I think I just fainted from the stress.  I didn’t eat much today because of everything with Erin.”  Robin yawned.

“Forget about that for now, Sonny’s working on it.  You just get some sleep okay?”  Jason kissed her forehead again.  “I love you.”

“I love you too.”  Robin’s eyes closed slowly and a few minutes later she was fast asleep.  Jason just sat by her side; he wanted to be there for her when she woke up.

Half an hour later Robin’s doctor came in.  “Dr. Scanlon, how is Robin doing?”

“How about we take this outside I don’t want to wake her up.”  They left the room.  “First off you can call me Karen.  Jason, do you remember the last thing Robin had to eat or drink?”

“Huh, oh, she went to get something to drink right before I found her.”

“Do you remember if she had anything to drink about 4 hours ago?”

“I think she had something to drink when we were at the cottage.  Why?”

“Jason, we both know what kind of business you’re in and it can be dangerous.  I guess what I’m trying to say is that this was not caused by stress or anything natural, Robin was poisoned and what was used would have taken about four hours to take an affect.  We had to pump her stomach and all we found were liquids, that’s why I asked if she had anything to drink.”

“Poisoned?  What?”  Jason looked at her in shock.

“Robin’s going to be okay, but…” Karen looked down.  This was the part of her job she hated most.

Jason just looked at her.  He could tell there was something more that she wasn’t telling him.  “But what?  What aren’t you telling me?”

Karen opened her mouth to say something, but closed it when she couldn’t come up with the words to tell him.

Robin was going to be okay, then what else could she have to tell him that was so bad, Jason wondered.  His eyes grew wide with fear.  “No, please tell me no.”  Jason’s voice was choked with anguish.  Tears streamed down his face and his legs couldn’t hold the weight of his body, he sank down into a near by chair.  “The baby.”  He said softly through his tears.  He covered his face with hid hands and cried.