Walking down the steps of John and Natalie's house she looked around-remembering that moment just a week ago when Natalie got the picture from her dear Uncle Todd.

Natalie had been so hurt-so confused as to how John could do this. How he could say the things he did and then go off and kiss someone else like that?

But now he was out of the picture-at least for the time being. She wasn't sure how long Clint Buchanan would hold that restraining order in place once he knew it wasn't his spitfire daughter that had come to him in tears about her safety from John.

She re-read the short note she'd put together just now. There wasn't much to it because there really wasn't much to say. She was in charge now-nobody in this town was going to hurt her again, that was for sure.

"Tricia."

The voice made her jump and she turned to look at the mirror that hung over the fireplace to see Natalie staring back at her, "I'm busy-I need to get out of here before they figure it out."

"Jessica was figuring it out right when you took over. Is she ok? What happened to her?"

"She's fine-nothing a little ice and aspirin won't fix," she said with a sly smile.

Natalie made a groaning noise, hoping Jessica wouldn't hold it against her later, "I don't know why you are here. But I need to have control of my body and life again. Let me out-I can handle this."

"No. You need me-I wouldn't have been able to get out if you didn't. So, let me have control for a while."

She rolled her eyes at the fact that she was arguing with herself, "Where did the name Tricia come from anyways?"

"Well, you know how there's Tess and Bess, and Viki and Nikki."

"Yeah."

"Nothing rhymes with Natalie. But Patty rhymes with Nattie," she said with a smile. "Of course, I didn't like that, so I went with Tricia instead. What do you think?"

"I think I need to see Dr Jamison at St Anne's."

"Well, sorry self-that definitely isn't going to happen. I've got a few more errands to do around town before I leave. See ya," she said with a smile as she dropped the letter into the envelope before leaving it on the front table and heading out the door.

"I still can't wrap my head around this," said Rex as he sat on the couch in Llanfair listening to Jessica and Clint talk about their interactions with Natalie-or whatever this alter was calling herself-from yesterday.

When Jessica had told him over the phone he was in disbelief-he sister was his rock. Everything he'd watched her go through and she never seemed to break. But now-to know that she had, and maybe it wasn't new, but something that just resurfaced at this point. It was a lot to take in. He'd gotten in just an hour ago and was tired, but knew they needed to hit the ground running if they were going to find her.

"It's a strange feeling. Knowing Natalie's going through something I've been dealing with for years."

"You think-," he stopped his question, he wasn't sure where to go with it.

"Who knows," said Vicki, her mind on the same thought as to what caused Natalie's split in the first place. Hearing the cry on the monitor she sighed as the sweet voice once again began to beg for his mom. "Let me go settle Liam down."

Jessica sighed, "Every time it was Tess that was out Natalie was there to comfort my kids. I don't know how she did it. I don't know how she was so strong and was able to get Bree to believe it would all be ok. That mama was coming home soon."

"That's just Nattie," he smiled as he remembered how she was when they were kids.

The ringing of the phone pulled him out of the memory, and he watched as Jessica went to answer it. "Hello?"

"Jessica-hey, it's Jeff at Rodi's. I'm trying to reach Natalie and she's not answering her cell. I wanted to see if she was nearby. If not, I guess I can call John."

"No, she's not. What's going on?"

"This morning I came in to do the deposit from the night drop and all the cash is missing."

"What?" she asked as she locked eyes with her brother.

"Yeah, so I went into the office to see if maybe it'd been moved to the safe. That's when I found out the safe has been cleaned out too. Do I need to call the police?"

Jessica sighed, "I'll be over there soon. You don't need to call the cops."

"What was that about?" asked Clint as she hung up.

"Money is missing at Rodi's most likely by Natalie. Or her alter. The safe and cash from the night deposit is gone."

"No way to track her if she uses cash. She's definitely got Natalie's brains," smirked Rex, trying to see a silver lining in any of this.

"I'm going to go replace the money. You want to come with me?"

"Yeah, I need to tell Roxy what's going on. I hate to do it, but we need to have Bo put a BOLO out on her."

"I'll take care of that," said Clint quietly. "I'm going to get some BE investigators on trying to track her down as well."

"Who gets to call John?" asked Rex, not knowing the firestorm that would start up.

"McBain is not going anywhere near this. This is a family situation and it will stay that way."

"And John's not family? They were going to get married. He proposed to her what-just two months ago."

"And then he cheated on her. As far as I'm concerned, he cut ties when he did that."

"Let it go for now, Rex," said Jessica, giving her father a side eye that she wasn't pleased with his decision. "We'll go to Rodi's first," she said as she pulled on his arm and went towards the door to leave.

"Roxy, you here?" called Rex from the door of the Hair Haven. He'd left Jessica over at Rodi's to handle Jeff and the money situation. He figured if Natalie-or whoever this was-came by Rodi's maybe she stopped to see their mom as well.

"Rexy!" she shouted and came running at him at full force.

"I missed you too," he laughed as she threw her arms around him.

"Where's that grandkid of mine?" she laughed as she pulled out of the hug.

"He's back in London-I had to come home for a-situation."

"Oh," she said as she walked around the room a bit. "Sounds interesting."

"Yeah," he looked to make sure no one else was in the building. "Have you seen Natalie yesterday or today?"

Roxy's face went into a pout and he knew the answer before she said anything, "Yeah, she came by yesterday-and I know her and Johnny are having problems, but she said some really hurtful things to me."

"Like what exactly?" he asked as he heard the door open and Jessica came in, just nodding that Rodi's was taken care of.

"She brought up ya'lls childhood. Said how could I put her through everything I did. I don't understand why she was being so cruel. I know I sucked as a mom back then, but I thought we had gotten past it all. Years ago. Why bring it up now?"

Jessica came over and gave Roxy a hug, "You did, Roxy. She hasn't had any hatred for you in a very long time. She loves you."

"She sure had a funny of showing it," she said as she wiped her eyes.

Rex sighed as he walked her over to the hair dryers and sat her down, "Rox, that wasn't Natalie."

"What? Do you need your head examined? I know what my kid looks like."

He actually smiled, having missed his mom these past few months, "I know you do. What I'm saying is-that apparently Natalie has an alter."

"Are you saying she went splitsy like Jessica and Vick?"

Jessica rolled her eyes, Natalie was so much better at handling her than she was, "I'm afraid so."

"You think she was abused as a child? You think my recklessness let some creep get their hands on my baby girl?" she said as she began crying at the thought.

Jessica kneeled down in front of her, "We don't know yet. We have to find her first. But I know when we get Natalie back-and we tell her everything she's going to apologize to you for what was said yesterday. She loves you and she forgave you a very long time ago."

"Really?" she said as she grabbed a Kleenex and blew her nose loudly.

"Really. Why don't we head back to Llanfair and see what dad has found out? We can figure out the next step from there."