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Natalia took the first half of the day off to visit her doctor to find out whether or not she was pregnant or if it was just stress.

She was pregnant.

Pregnant.

Almost a month pregnant and growing a tiny life inside of her. Now all she had to do was tell Josh. He was the father after all. They'd gotten drunk and had sex, and this was the result.

Before heading to work, Natalia drove to Josh's house and knocked on the door. She took in a deep breath to calm her nerves.

"Hey Nat," said brightly and pulled her into a kiss as he lead her into the house.

"Josh," she mumbled against his lips and held his shoulders still. "I came here to tell you something."

"So, what'd you come here to tell me?" Josh asked, slightly peeved that she'd stopped their kiss.

Natalia took another deep breath, "I'm… I'm pregnant."

Anger surged on Josh's face. He grabbed her shoulders roughly and shook her hard.

"What did you say?" he growled angrily through clenched teeth.

"I- I said, 'I'm pregnant'."

Josh slapped Natalia in the face making her whimper in pain.

"You're not having a baby!" he shouted and punched her in the stomach repeatedly until she collapsed to the floor in pain.

She curled up in a ball attempting to protect her baby from Josh as he kicked her in the stomach over and over again. Natalia could feel a bruise forming on the left side of her face from where Josh had slapped her. Tears fell from her eyes. She couldn't believe this was happening again; her second abusive relationship.

Josh's foot would occasionally miss her stomach and would hit her in the leg or the arm. After he kicked her arm once, Natalia was positive she'd heard a "crack". She rolled over and Josh kicked her forcefully in the back. Just when Natalia was sure she'd pass out from the pain, Josh roughly grabbed her and pulled her up from the floor.

He made sure she was looking him in the eyes when he said, "you aren't having any baby."

Josh then spit on her face before dragging her to the door and throwing her onto the ground outside. Natalia wiped the spit off of her face and some of the tears were pouring down her face from not only the physical pain, but the mental pain too. Natalia had thought Josh was a nice guy… now she didn't.

Using her good arm she pulled herself off of the ground, wincing in pain as she did so. She couldn't believe she had to go to work after that, and she was already late. She limped to her car and carefully tried to get into the driver's seat. She groaned in pain as she set her bruised back against the seat.

She knew it was dangerous to drive with only one arm, but her left arm felt broken and was incredibly sore like the rest of her body. Natalia pulled into her usual parking spot at the lab, grabbed her purse from the passenger's seat, and carefully got out of her car. She winced as she landed on her feet not so lightly.

As she walked into the lab she did her best not to limp and instead gritted her teeth through the pain. Natalia went into the locker room and did her best to clean her face and cover the large bruise forming on her face. She also had a few large bruises forming on her most likely broken arm. Natalia used her right hand to lift up her shirt only to reveal mass amounts of bruises covering her stomach. She couldn't turn enough to see the bruises on her back but she knew there had to be plenty of them.

What about her baby? She wasn't ready to have a baby, but her baby didn't deserve to die like this. She remembered telling Walter that the highest number of deaths was pregnant women. But Natalia wasn't dead thankfully. She'd just survived becoming another man's punching bag once again.

She wasn't wearing a jacket, and she had no idea how she was going to hide the bruises on her arms. Most of the bruising was on her left, and she just hoped she'd be able to keep her lab coat on all day. If she had to go out into the field she was in trouble.

Natalia resumed her daily post in DNA and began running samples from earlier that day that she'd missed while taking half the day off. She hung her left arm still at her side to minimize any more damage and minimize the pain as much as possible. The pain was radiating down her arm, she needed something, anything; lots of aspirin would do.

She knew aspirin was always kept in the break room. She looked through the cabinets and finally found the bottle of aspirin. Natalia hissed in pain when she reached her arm upwards and caused discomfort in her back.

"Hey Natalia, you ok?" Ryan asked worriedly as he entered the break room.

"Uh, yeah, I'm great," Natalia replied and gave her best fake smile.

She turned back around to the counter so Ryan would not see the look of pain on her face as she lifted her left arm and tried to open the bottle. She struggled with the lid because of her lack of getting a good grip on the bottle with her left hand.

"Damn it!" she cursed as the bottle crashed to the floor.

Thankfully Ryan grabbed the bottle right away so she didn't have to bend over and retrieve it herself. He handed it to her with a smile.

"Thanks," she said taking the bottle and pouring five aspirin into her hand. "Would you please get me a bottle of water?"

"Yeah," he replied walking over to the refrigerator and pulling out a bottle of water before handing it to her.

She set the pills onto the counter and took the bottle in her right hand. Natalia then set the bottle onto the counter and attempted to open it with one hand.

"Natalia, why aren't you using your left hand," Ryan asked with concern.

"Oh, uh, it's just a little sore," she lied.

"Well isn't five aspirin a few too many for being a 'little sore'?"

"Ryan, I'm fine, ok," Natalia said angrily.

"Do you want me to take a look at it?"

"No! I don't want you to 'take a look at it'!" she shot back.

"Natalia, what's wrong with you today?"

"Nothing!" she shouted, "It's nothing!"

"Please tell me what's wrong!" Ryan pleaded. "This isn't you Natalia."

"Yes Ryan, this is me! Maybe there's something wrong with you, because there's nothing wrong with me!" She yelled before leaving the pills and the bottle of water on the counter and storming out of the break room doing her best not to limp.

Natalia walked down the hallway as fast as she could but didn't make it far before pain started shooting down her abdomen. She kneeled over in pain. It was ten times worse than any menstrual cramps she'd ever had. Natalia didn't know what was wrong at first but she then immediately knew that Josh was successful in killing her baby. Natalia realized she was having contractions, and just a few minutes later another one hit. She tried to balance herself against the wall but found herself sliding to the floor. The pain in her back increased dramatically.

After Ryan took a few minutes to himself thinking about what could be wrong with Natalia, he put the aspirin back into the bottle and returned the water to the refrigerator he walked out of the room. He was so angry and worried that he didn't notice Natalia as he walked the opposite direction down that she had gone.

"Ry-Ryan…" he heard a voice say.

Was his mind playing tricks on him?

But then he heard the voice again, "Ryan, please."

He turned around and he saw Natalia sitting against the wall, her face scrunched in pain and her hands holding onto her abdomen.

"NATALIA!" he shouted and ran to her.

He crouched down by her, "Natalia, what's wrong?"

She was suddenly hit with another contraction and she fought back a scream. They were getting longer and stronger.

"Please Natalia! Tell me what's wrong!" Ryan pleaded.

He unbuttoned her lab coat and carefully pulled it off of her. He gasped when he saw the bruises on her arms and could clearly tell that the left was broken.

"Who did this to you?"

"I-I-I fell… I fell," she lied.

"Oh my go-," he gasped bringing a hand to his mouth. "Na-Natalia you're bleeding!"

Natalia glanced down and sure enough there was blood all over her white pants between her legs.

"Are you- are you pregnant?" Ryan asked quickly realizing the signs: the pain in the abdomen was the contractions, and the bleeding meant she was losing the baby… Natalia was having a miscarriage.

"Ye-yesssss," she hissed in pain as another contraction shot through her.

"C'mon, I'm getting you to the hospital," Ryan said and quickly lifted her into his arms before rushing her out of the lab and into the Hummer.

Ryan turned on the sirens and drove like a madman, but did not get out completely un-noticed. En route, Eric called Ryan.

"Wolfe, what the hell is going on?"

"Natalia's having a miscarriage!" Ryan shouted into the phone.

"Oh, and it's yours?" Eric asked cheekily.

"No, Eric, it's not!"

Ryan ended the call and soon after he pulled into the parking lot. He quickly pulled Natalia out of the back into his arms once again.

"Ryan, it's too late," Natalia whispered looking up at him through teary eyes.

Ryan didn't care, he still ran just as fast into Miami D.A.D.E. general.

"I NEED HELP!" he shouted and a woman quickly ran up to him.

Soon a gurney was brought out and carried Natalia off into the hospital and out of Ryan's sight.

So, as you see some of you guessed correct when you thought that Josh would do something to Natalia. Please Review and tell me what you think(: