"Now that you've got Elizabeth back you won't be needing another girl" Dr winters whispered into Nat's ear and then he walked towards the kitchen door. Natalie was in some much pain with the contractions and the burning sensation of the next baby coming that she screamed loudly not being able to form words.
John was on his way to Dr. Winters house, he had gotten a voice mail from Natalie saying she was heading to AC cause there was a problem with Elizabeth, he got an uneasy feeling come over him and he was rushing over to the house when an ambulance came up behind him in his car. he moved to the right letting it pass and then he felt a knot in his stomach, he followed right behind the ambulance and with every turn his knot got bigger and bigger, he followed the ambulance right to the Dr.'s house and he slammed the car into park and jumped out of it, he ran into the house and stood for a few moments, moments that felt like they were in slow motion. John looked over to see Natalie on the couch and she seems to be in labor. She seemed to be trying to scream something in between all the pain when he ran over to her.
Natalie was still trying to get the words out to tell John about what Dr Winters did when she felt the second baby crowning. She pulled at all her strength and let out one last try at telling him.
"He... took... her!" Natalie screamed out as John ran over to her legs to see the top of the baby's head, just then the paramedics ran in and John took his place next to Natalie as it was time to push the baby out. Natalie kept trying to get John's attention to go after the Dr but he didn't understand her.
"Elizabetttttttth!" Natalie screamed, thinking maybe Liz could come and tell John. Natalie sat up about to push again. This time she pushed so hard the baby came right out. As soon as she felt the pain ease from the baby being out she turned to John.
"He took her John, he took her!" John saw something in Natalie's face and was confused as the paramedics took the baby, wrapped him in a blanket and held him up.
"It's a boy" a medic said as Liz walked into the room. Liz saw the paramedic had the baby and her father was gone.
"John! He took our girl!" Natalie told John, as Elizabeth stood frozen in her spot.
"Where's my sister? Where's my dad? He took her, he took my sister" Liz said and John looked at her, he heard Natalie speak and he turned his attention back to her.
"Two John, there was two" Natalie told him and John finally realized she wasn't talking about Liz this whole time; she wasn't talking about him taking Liz all those years ago.
Elizabeth was in some kind of shock, shock that her father could do this, she stood frozen as she, Natalie and the paramedics saw John take out his gun and start to walk away.
"He went thru the kitchen, it's been a few minutes" Natalie managed to get out in between sobs and the pain. One of the medics's tried to hand her, her son but she was too weak and distraught to hold him. One of the paramedics told her they needed to get her to the hospital as they saw John go into the kitchen with his gun out. A few minutes later John walked out of the kitchen on his cell phone, he had searched the house but Dr. Winters wasn't there, he was having the police put out an APB on him. John saw Liz still standing in shock in the corner, he saw the paramedics raise Natalie onto the gurney to take her to the hospital. John walked over to Liz.
"Do you know anywhere he might have taken her?" John asked, as Liz still stood frozen, she didn't speak. John saw she was still very much in shock. He got down to her eye level and stared into her eyes.
"Liz, I need you to go with Natalie to the hospital, can you do that? I need you to take care of her," John asked her and she nodded her head yes. John ran over to Natalie and his son before the medics could take them out of the house.
"I'll find her. I promise, I won't let him take another baby from you" John told Natalie as Nat pulled on his hand pulling his face down closer to hers.
"Please" Natalie said and John's eyes became teary, he brought his forehead to hers, he kissed her gently and then he moved away so the medic's could take her out.
"Liz" Natalie called over to her when they all saw Liz run into the other room for a minute.
"Liz!" Natalie screamed as Liz came back into the room with a box of stuff. Liz quickly fumbled thru the box for the envelopes her mom left for her, for when she got older and she dropped the rest of the box on the floor, she handed the envelopes to John without words and then she ran after Natalie as the paramedics pushed the gurney out of the house.
John watched them leave and then he opened the envelopes Liz gave him. He noted by the wording on the front of them that they seem to be from Liz's dead mom, Dr Winter's wife, it seemed she had wanted Liz to open them when she was older, much older. John opened one of the envelopes and as soon as he did he knew why, he also knew why Liz and the Dr must have been fighting today. John read into the first envelope a little more, it was evidence, proof, proof in forms of copies of checks, adoption documents and even medical information, all proof that not only had Dr Winters stolen Liz from Natalie all those years ago claiming she was stillborn but he had done it to at least ten other teenager girls over the last ten years. He was stealing their babies and selling them to the highest bidder.
John sat on the couch that Natalie was just laying on a few minutes ago, the couch that his two children were just born on and he went over the file for clues, for anything to where the Dr might be taking his daughter. He sat studying the file and waited for the ACPD to get there. He wasn't quite sure if he could do this one alone, he was becoming more and more emotional as he read the files thru, he took a break from the one envelope and then opened the other. He took out what seem to be pictures of Natalie, pictures of Natalie at the clinic, she was pregnant in most of them, he touched one of the pictures gently, his finger skimming the face of a scared sixteen year old, a tear escaped his eye and ran down his face. He wiped it away, he pushed them back, he pushed his tears back, he pushed them all back, he couldn't afford to show any kind of emotion right now, right now emotion would be a handicap in finding his child. John put that file down and went back to the other one. He read over it, over and over and then he read something about where the Dr would make the exchange, the exchange for cash and the baby. He got a gut feeling he was onto something and he ran out of the house, calling the police as he left.
Natalie and Liz along with Nat's baby boy arrived at the hospital about an hour ago; they were resting in Natalie's hospital room. Natalie and the baby were checked by a Dr and was said to be fine. Neither Natalie nor Liz had spoken any words since leaving the house, both very much upset about what had happened. Finally after a long while Natalie heard Liz speak in a soft whisper.
"Don't be mad at me," Liz said towards Natalie and Natalie looked up from the bed at her.
"I'm not mad at you, I could never be mad at you, this isn't your fault" Natalie told her as she extended a hand out off the bed to Liz who was sitting in a chair across the room. Liz saw her hand reaching for her and she got up out of the chair and walked over to her with tears in her eyes.
"But I knew, I knew. I knew what he did, what he's done. I shouldn't have told you to trust me" Liz told Natalie as Natalie slightly moved herself back on the bed, she made room for Liz to get into the bed with her, Elizabeth got in the bed with her and Natalie held her as the child cried.
"I know you didn't give me up, I know he took me from you" Liz said as a whisper as she cried.
"It doesn't matter now, we're together and I love you" Natalie told her as she continued to hold her.
John arrived at the carousel on the boardwalk, he went around the back hoping, praying his gut instinct was right about this. It had to be; he needed his gut to be right on the money this time, he personally had a lot riding on it. John stood hidden in the back by the control panel of the carousel as a few officers that had arrived when John did were stationed more towards the front. John watched for a few minutes and then he saw him, Dr Winters and nurse Nancy his accomplice, the nurse had the baby, his baby, his daughter, and they were walking near the carousel obviously watching for someone. John was trying to be patient about this, trying to wait till the other people, the people who thought they were buying his child arrived but he couldn't do it, he had to get her out of the arms of those horrible people. He took out his gun and moved out into the open, he approached them face-to-face.
"Bring me my baby or I'll shoot the good Dr. Do not tempt me!" John told Nurse Nancy as they all stood staring at each other.
