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Chapter 22

"What the hell?" Natalie said as she heard the phone next to the bed ringing and quite loud, her head was hurting so bad and when she tried to sit up to answer it she saw John who was lying next to her already did.

"Hello" John said groggy into the phone as he looked at the clock next to the phone, "okay, yes, we'll be there, twenty minutes" John told her man on the other end of the phone

"Natalie, get up, we over slept, the Buchanan jet has been waiting at the airport for us for an hour, he can only wait a bit more or he'll get kicked off the runway" John told her as she saw her still laying down in bed. He got up and started grabbing their stuff.

"Oh. My God, my head hurts so bad" she said and she held it, " why does my head hurt so bad?" she asked him as she tried to focus on getting out of bed, john had disappeared into the bathroom for a few minutes and came back out with a few aspirin

"Take these, they'll help you to feel better, you drank to much last night, do you remember anything?" he asked her and she shook her head gently as she started to take the pills.

An hour later they were up in the sky flying back to Llanview in the Buchanan jet. Natalie head was feeling a bit better.

John was sitting next to her, she looked a bit pale probably from all the alcohol she had yesterday, he thought about what had occurred when she got back last night, back to the suite.

Flash back

"Whats up John? You...you dressed up," she said as she noticed him dressed up for something, but she was a bit drunk to understand anything.

"For dinner, hey... You want another drink, what exactly you been drinking all day?" he asked her and she smiled, she got a dopey look on her face," Tequila" she said "more please" she told him and he smiled.

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John sat there on the silent plane watching her as she closed her eye's, she was his wife now, and she didn't even know it yet. He thought about when she found out, when he would get up the courage and the nerve to tell her that he married her when she was half drunk. Well how he actually helped to get her completely drunk so she would just go thru with it. He somehow got her to sign the papers and even to say I will, it was amazing how easy it was. But John wasn't stupid he knew... it wasn't going to be so easy once she finally found out, once he finally told her.

He really didn't want to trick her but he was desperate. He had it all planned, the justice would come at 7, and he would have already asked her. She would have said yes, they would be married before they went back home, she wouldn't doubt anything, that was the plan but... but the plan went to shit when she came back to the room half drunk.

So he moved forward with the plan anyway but at that point he needed to keep her drinking, if she sobered just a bit she would be pissed that he would even think of doing this while she was out of herself. She started to speak and his thoughts were lost for a few minutes.

" Wow, I must have drunk a lot last night huh? My head is still hurting a lot" she asked him as she turned to him, he smiled.

"Yeah, you did drink a lot, do you know why you were drinking so much yesterday, do you remember any of it?" he asked her and she thought about.

"Yeah, I remember some of it, I guess... I guess I shouldn't be so stubborn and tell you, tell you about why I left you in the suite, the real reason and probably why I was drinking so much, what I remember of it that is." she told him and he nodded his head.

John got a bit nervous inside, was she going to remember it, now that she thought so hard into it, he couldn't fear it, she loved him and he only hoped she wasn't mad about the drunk part. He reached other to her with his hand and stared into her eye's"

"I got upset with what you said after we made love, about going back to the way things use to be, I know I should have spoke to you about it, I would have expected you to talk it out with me but... it just upset me alright? There's things that I want out of life and I don't know if you want them too, or will ever want them and... and well... I don't want to give them up John, they have been important to me since I was a child being raised the way I was." she told him and she didn't know why but she got a bit emotional, he saw her get that way and pulled her head to his chest.

" I really thought you knew what I was about John, all those years ago and now" She told him as he held her close.

'I know Natalie, I know what you want in life whats Important in life for you and I'm just sorry I never told you about wanting those things too" he said and she pulled her head off of him quickly and looked at him all curious like.

"What?" she said and he looked into their eyes

"I always wanted those things in my life to Natalie but with all my baggage and everyone getting hurt around me, I just lost site of them, you make me want them again, you always have but I've be to stupid to see" he told her and she smiled a bit

"Really?" she asked and he nodded his head, " what are those things you want John?" she asked needing him to say it, say them.

" I want a life with someone I love, with you..." he said and she took a deep breath "I want three no maybe four kids, two boys of course and two girls, a home" he told her and he saw her face she was a bit in shock at his words, he leaned in and started to kiss her.

After a few minutes he pulled himself off her lips" We need to talk, its important" he told her, now was the time, he had to tell her they were married, he couldn't not tell her the truth.

"No, no more talking, my head hurts and you've made me the happiest I've ever been. Just hold me alright in silence like we use to always do" she told him and he shook his head yes, it would have to wait again for another time.

With the time difference and by the time the plane landed in Llanview it was late. John went back to Natalie's apartment with her for the night, they were both a bit jet lagged, and Nat was still a bit hung over.

"So you don't mind me staying... I mean... I just haven't had a chance to get my old room at the hotel back" John told her as she opened her door and let them in her place.

"No, I don't mind and... Well... maybe if things go well now that we're back, maybe you'll just want to stay here instead of that crappy hotel" she told him, John looked at her and smiled.

"I'm gonna so tell Roxy you called her hotel crappy" he told her; he moved in closer to her, he started kissing her.

John slammed the door behind him as he moved closer to her to take her lips with his own. He knew he should tell her, tell her now but... he just couldn't she was smiling and joking even. He was so afraid of how mad she would be. He just wanted to be with her tonight, with his wife.

Half hour later John laid holding her naked body on his. They made love for the first time as husband and wife and she didn't even know it, another thing she might be pissed at. John closed his eye's as he held her on his bare chest in her bed, he ran circles around and around on her back and he loved the feel of her skin. He thought about what she might say when she found out, how upset she would be, how long it might take her to get over it, she would get over it right? He asked himself, he was so sure she would get over it at first but now... now he doubted himself for a bit.

John knew he had to do something quick, think of something quick. He was almost thinking what a mistake he had made by doing this, by having them married when she was in no condition to get married but then... then he looked down to her on his chest. Natalie's beautiful hair laid spread out on his chest, her arm draped across him, her face resting near his heart. He smiled, no mistake, this was something right for a change, something he should've done along time ago. This was no mistake, even if the circumstances and the events to make her his wife was unconventional, was warped even. Her being his wife, him being her husband, that could never be a mistake.

Natalie woke sometime around 9 and was still very tired. She got out of bed and didn't see him anywhere. She walked over to her dresser and saw a note.

"N- I let you sleep late, we don't have to be to work till 11, shower and meet me for breakfast up stairs. J-" she read the note and smiled, he was on he roof. She showered and dressed quickly and she went out onto the roof.

"Hey, you look good" he told her as she walked over to her, he took her hand and kissed her good morning. John led her to the table in the middle of her roof. He knew it wasn't the angel square hotel roof but... but it was a roof and they were alone on it so it would work.

"Nice spread you got here" she told him and he grinned " thanks" he said, he watched her take her seat but he didn't sit in his seat, he moved a bit closer and got down on one knee in front of her.

Natalie saw him stand near her and then when she sat he knelt down in front of her; she wasn't sure what was going on.

"John... please stand up" she told him and he was confused, was she telling him she didn't want him to ask.

"Natalie? " he asked confused and she realized it and chuckled a bit, she stood, she took his arms and brought him up with her.

"If there is something you are going to ask me, ask, but no kneeling, its just you and me, us, we're not that formal, I never want us to be" she told him and he smiled at her. He looked into her glassy baby blue eyes.

"I love you Natalie. I want the same things as you, with you. Marry me again," he said and he realized he slipped the word 'again'.

Natalie was confused by his last word but then dismissed it. He said it softly, he could've been saying anything so she ignored it and concentrated on what he just asked her. That and the beautiful ring he pulled out of his pocket.

"Oh my gosh, its beautiful" she said and he widened his smile

"It was my mom's, the first ring my dad bought her, she wanted us to have it, you to have it," he told her and she was speechless, the ring it was perfect.

Natalie stared into his deep blue oceans, she went to kiss him on the lips, but he put a finger up in front of her mouth just as she was about to. He shook his head no, back and forth slowly

"Not till you answer me," he told her and she acted as if she was thinking about it. Then finally she mouths a yes as he moved his finger and she kissed him.

They kissed for a few minutes when she pulled away from him.

"Do we have time before work to go back downstairs and celebrate our engagement" she asked as he smiled and moved away showing the other half of the roof, she looked pasted him and saw it.

'We don't have to go down stairs" he said as she saw the tent from Vegas set up, he took her hand and led them to the tent, they bent down and went in.