Posted by Kim on 3/2/2002, 4:44 pm "It's freezing outside Mac and the snow is a foot deep," Felicia sniped, tracking snow into the cabin and stamping her feet. Even though she was not looking forward to catching her husband in bed with Dara, that scenario would sound much more salacious and scandalous on the evening news than Mac and Dara being fully dressed and virtually greeting her at the cabin door. She drove for three hours in really awful weather for this? Immensely disappointed that her surprise visit didn't turn out exactly as she'd planned, Felicia decided to stick to her story and play the part of the concerned, but cuckolded wife. "Robin told me about your accident yesterday," Felicia said sympathetically. "When we couldn't get in touch with you on your cellphone and with the weather and all and knowing the SUV was damaged, we got worried and decided to come up here to help." Mac didn't buy that explanation for a second and fairly snorted upon hearing it. He was ready to explode over Felicia malicious prank when he felt Dara loop her arms around his waist. Dara didn't believe Felicia any more than Mac did but she wanted Felicia to be upset; not Mac and her touch prompted Mac to look at her face. Almost instantly his anger abated and he knew that he shouldn't let Felicia ruin their almost perfect weekend. Dara smiled and said smoothly, "Well, as you can see we are quite alright. In fact, we're just about ready to return to Port Charles so it's too bad you came all the way up here for nothing. But thanks ever so much for thinking about us." "There's no reason to be nasty," Robin accused Dara, looking at her with a fierce stare. "Felicia really was concerned about Uncle Mac and you're trying to make fun of her because she still loves him." "Little girl," Dara said using a truly condescending tone, "you have no idea what's going on here and you would do very well to stay out of this." Up to a point Dara was willing to take some crap from Felicia because even though she had treated Mac shamefully, strictly speaking Felicia was still his wife. However Robin was a completely different story and she wasn't about to be upbraided by her, niece or no niece. Dara didn't have a particularly close relationship with Keesha Ward when she lived in Port Charles but she remembered Justus speaking of Keesha's pain when Jason Quatermaine's accident transformed him to Jason Morgan, who wanted nothing to do with Keesha. Dara vaguely remembered Robin being friendly with both Jason and Keesha, especially during Stone Cates' illness and it always rubbed Dara the wrong way that Robin could so easily take up with Jason Morgan after he had treated Keesha so shabbily. "Uncle Mac!" Robin wailed. Acting as if Robin and Felicia weren't even there, Dara told Mac she was going to clean up the breakfast things so they could leave the cabin in a few minutes. Mac nodded and agreed, adding he would pack their bags. Going up the steps to the loft, Mac said informed Felicia and Robin that they were welcomed to stay in the cabin as long as they'd like to warm themselves up before returning to Port Charles. Felicia stood shivering in the cabin, not from the cold air outside but from the tremendous rage that roared inside of her body. She was almost too angry to cry and too furious to hurl insults her husband and the tramp who acted as if Felicia didn't matter. "Well, I do matter!" she thought to herself. "I won't be ignored and they'll regret every humiliating scene they've put me through during the last few months!" Feeling Robin touch her arm in an attempt to comfort her, Felicia looked at her through tear-filled eyes and cried, "I was a fool to come up here and be worried about Mac. He's abandoned me and the girls and couldn't care less about us. Let's go back home." Upon hearing the cabin door open, Mac expelled a sigh of relief and was glad Felicia was leaving without making a huge scene. But it was only fate that kept her from ruining his weekend with Dara, and remembering that he said loudly from the loft, "Felicia, leave the key to the cabin here before you leave." Screaming an obscene remark, Felicia flung the key in the air outside and challenged Mac to go and find it for himself. Robin left the cabin door wide open as they trudged through the snow to their vehicle and the women departed. "Whew," Dara said, closing the door of the cabin. "I don't think Felicia expected to find us dressed and finishing breakfast upon her arrival today." Shaking her head in disbelief, she added, "Why in the world would she put herself through something like this? I don't understand it." Mac kissed Dara softly, replying, "Because she's miserable right now and she wants us to be miserable too. But that's not going to happen." "Oh you are so right Mr. Scorpio, you are so right," Dara concurred, drawing Mac in for another breathtaking kiss.
Mac raised his eyebrows, seeing Felicia with her hand in mid-air holding a key, and asked sarcastically, "You weren't going to even knock?" His estranged wife pushed her way past Mac into the cabin; Robin followed closely behind.
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