Robin Scorpio

Robin Scorpio Drake
General Hospital General Hospital: Night Shift character
File:Robinabcpromo001.png Kimberly McCullough as Robin Scorpio Drake
Portrayed by	Kimberly McCullough
First appearance	August 1985
Created by	Anne Howard Bailey
In-universe information Other names Robin Soltini (birth name) Occupation Neuropathologist Parents Robert Scorpio Anna Devane Siblings Leora Hayward (maternal half-sister, deceased) Spouse Patrick Drake (2008-present) Children Emma Drake Grandparents Thomas John Devane (maternal, deceased) Aunts and uncles Mac Scorpio (paternal) Alexandra Devane Marick (maternal) Lindsay Devane (maternal; deceased) Gabriel Devane (uncle) First cousins Maxie Jones (paternal adoptive) Georgie Jones (paternal adoptive; deceased) Aidan Devane (maternal) Prunella Witherspoon (paternal)

Dr. Robin Scorpio Drake (née Soltini) is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera General Hospital, a main protaganist on its prime time SOAPnet spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift, and one half of supercouple Patrick Drake and Robin Scorpio. The character came to mainstream attention when she was diagnosed as HIV-positive in the 1990s.

Storylines

Arrival

Robin arrives in Port Charles as an infant who grew up thinking her mother, Anna Devane, was her aunt. Her father, Robert Scorpio, has no idea that he shares a daughter with Anna but soon selects three of his closest friends -- Sean Donely, Frisco Jones and Dr. Buzz Stryker to serve as Robin's godfathers when he and his wife Holly leave for Australia. Robin is asked to BJ Jones Godsister while Tania is pregnant. Robert later returns to Port Charles to find Anna married to Duke Lavery. During her childhood, Robin's grandmother was killed and she faced tough times when her parents were supposedly murdered in an explosion. She is then adopted by her uncle Mac Scorpio who marries Felicia Jones. This marriage gave Robin two step-cousins, Maxie and Georgie Jones.

After her first love dies from AIDS and leaves her HIV-positive, she begins seeing Jason Morgan, who had been involved in the mob. Through this relationship, she gets to know Sonny Corinthos, his employer, and the three become great friends, helping Jason deal with his brain damage. Robin left Port Charles to avoid the mob but returned in 1998 to help her friend Brenda Barrett from her recent break-up. During this period, Robin became friends with Nikolas Cassadine and the two bonded over their similar childhoods. Robin reconciled with Jason but their relationship began to deteriorate when Robin revealed to Jason's brother A.J. Quartermaine that he (and not Jason) was the father of Carly Roberts's son, Michael. Robin left town in 1999 but found herself in Pine Valley, where she finds her mother and the two begin a mother/daughter relationship.

Return

Robin returned to Port Charles to save her friend, Jason Morgan's life when he had experienced seizures. It was during this time that she teams up with Patrick Drake to perform an operation that could determine his fate. Robin was greatful towards Patrick whent he surgery was a success and this hook-up leads down to them being a couple. Their team work came in handy when in a couple of months, Port Charles experiences a virus outbreak, which brings back her father, Robert Scorpio and the two reconcile.

Robin had then learned and revealed the paternity of John Michael Jacks, Nikolas Cassadine's son in which her best friend, Jasper Jacks was claiming to be the father of. This caused Carly Corinthos to vow vengeance against her. At the same time, Robin and Patrick admitted their love for one another and at long last became a true couple. Robin helped Luke Spencer reconnect with his traumatized wife, Laura Spencer, who had been incapable of communicating until robin discovered a miracle drug. Robin and Patrick faced trying times when Patrick abandoned a date with Robin to go to a bar in Vegas.

Robin once again faced problems when she was held hostage and was shot in the lower abdomen but was saved when Emily Quartermaine agreed to operate on her with guidance from Patrick through telephone. Patrick and Robin, after the crisis, discovered that they both loved enjoying sitting at the pier. Patrick declared to Robin that he loved her and the two reconcile. After a few months of being together, Robin wanted to settle down and commit to each other with a wedding and children. Patrick had different plans which caused Robin to walk out on Patrick.

Along with her recent break-up, Robin had to deal with her father's health due to the fact that he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Marriage

When Georgie Jones, Robin's cousin, had died, Robin was devastated and had a one-night-stand with Patrick. Robin later discovered that she is pregnant and hid the truth from Patrick, stating that she had went to a donor. Upon hearing this, Carly Corinthos criticized her. Insulted, Robin revealed the truth to Patrick and the two bonded. Robin's mother Anna Devane, returned to town and discoveres the pregnancy and asks Patrick to marry Robin. Although the two initially refuse, Patrick boldly proposes in public but Robin refuses. The two later agree to get married in the end of October but Robin went in to labor right when the wedding had began.

Robin names the child Emma Grace Scorpio Drake and they discover that baby is not affected by Robin's HIV status. Patrick and Robin wed right after Emma's first christmas and the two lead a happy wedding until Robin is affected by post-birth depression and doesn't accept any aid from her friends and begins to act out. Robin leaves for treatment but quickly returns and bonds with her child.

Their happiness is interrupted when Patrick is faced with a malpractice suit focusing on the mayor's affair and Robin aids Patrick in proving that the mayor's mistress was murdered and proving her husband's innocence.