"I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it. Are you alright?" John said starting to contain his laughter. Natalie was fuming at this point, she didn't know who this guy was but he was a jerk.
" I'm fine!" Natalie said as she moved a few feet to try and open the door again but realized it was locked from the inside.
"It's locked, you've locked us up here" Natalie told John as she turned around to face him.
" Just Great! Perfect end to my perfect day!" Natalie said as she looked at her cell phone, the battery was dead.
"Now I'm sure it wasn't that bad of a day" John said with a grin. Natalie looked him straight in the eye with a look of hatred
"No, It wasn't that bad of a day if you consider being yelled at and manhandled by some jerk and then being locked up on the roof with said jerk, oh, and my battery on my phone is dead, No, just a freakin ordinary day." Natalie said in a rant and John couldn't help but laugh some more, it really was amazing how beautiful she was when she was mad, he thought, but again he hadn't seen her any other way yet.
Natalie heard him laugh and she realized she was being a bit extreme, not that she would let him see that she knew it, she ignored his laughing.
"I'm sorry again, I mean, I'm sorry about earlier about the police station and all" John said as he continued thinking how beautiful she was.
"Tell it to someone who cares" Natalie said as she again tried to open the door. She didn't want to be locked up here with his guy, this.. this . She wondered why she couldn't get the word jerk out again in referring to him.
"Do you have a cell phone? " Natalie asked him as she watched him move closer to her and the door.
" Nope, left it downstairs, let me try " John said as he pulled at the door but couldn't get it opened. John was actually glad for once he didn't have his phone on him and he was even a little excited to be locked on the roof, locked on the roof with her, foul mouth and all.
"Yup, it's locked" John said after continuing to try and open it for a few more minutes.
"No, shit Sherlock." Natalie said and then she walked passed him to go sit again on the bench.
" No, actually, it's John." He said as he followed her over to the bench, he put his hand out for her to shake, which she didn't. They stared at each other for a few minutes when John spoke again.
" Do you have a name, or should I call you angel" John said and he saw a confused look come over her. she said nothing as John took a seat next to her on the bench.
" Okay, angel it is" John said and then he saw Natalie soften, it was slight but she was softening towards him, he knew it.
"It's Natalie...Natalie Vega" she said as she tried to fight it but she let a small smile pass from her lips.
" Nice to meet you Natalie, Natalie Vega.' he said with a small grin and then again put his hand out for her to shake, this time she did.
" So, what are you doing up here on the roof, and all alone?" John asked as they sat next to each other on the bench. John was trying to get her to talk with him, trying to find out anything about this angel with a foul mouth. Natalie was hesitant at first to talk with him, she just wanted to be left alone, but then she felt something, something she couldn't describe and she opened her mouth, she opened up to speak to him, as if a feeling of comfort came upon her.
"I..I.. was suppose to be with friends but I..couldn't do it. Just didn't feel up to it, so I came up here to think, clear my head. " Natalie said as she got up from her seat and walked over by the side of the roof, John followed her over and started talking as if, as if comfortable.
"Yeah, I came up here for sort of the same reasons" John said as he stood next to her looking out.
" I love it up here at night, so peaceful, so clear, helps me to remember." Natalie said reaching out to John with her words
"What does a beautiful thing like you need to remember, what guy you're going out with this week?" John said flirting with her, Natalie knew he was flirting and she ignored it. She stood there for a few minutes and closed her eye's, she wanted to see his face, her husbands face, her Christian, the face she always saw when she closed her eye's but she didn't, she couldn't, she was trying to see his face in her mind so hard that she didn't even realize she was moving towards the edge of the roof.
John watched her, and thought she was the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. He continued to watch her and she seemed to be struggling with something in her mind, her eyes were closed and she was moving forward, unaware that she was moving near the edge of the roof.
"Natalie, Natalie" John said as he tried to get her attention but she seem to have blocked him out. She got a little to close to the edge for John and he grabbed her by her waist and pulled her back toward him. He stood in front of her with his hands resting on her hips as she slowly opened her eyes.
" Are you okay? " he asked as he looked into her blue eyes
" I'm fine, Thank You," she said not pulling away from him, she looked him straight in the eye's and searched, as if searching for a reason to be on this roof with this man, on this night. They stood this way for a few minutes when it seemed their intense staring got the better of them. John leaned his head slowly in and kissed her. Natalie saw it coming and did nothing to stop it; she actually opened her mouth wider after the first kiss, telling him she wanted more. They kissed several times with each kiss getting more urgent than the first, when they felt wet, it was raining, and the rain came upon them as if a sign to slow down, slow things down. John let go of Natalie and she walked back towards a covered spot on the roof. John followed her over and stood next to her in silence until finally she tried to speak.
"I... I.. I don't usually kiss people I just met" Natalie said realizing what just occurred. He kissed her, this man she didn't even know, a man she didn't even like, he kissed her and she kissed him back. She thought.
" I don't either, I'm sorry It was my fault, I don't know what happened, I guess I just.. I just g--" John was saying when Natalie cut his words off.
"Lets just forget it, alright?" Natalie said but knew she wouldn't be able to, the way he kissed her, it was like nothing she had ever experienced before, there was a charge, a spark, a light. Natalie shook her head clear of their kiss and she started to shiver.
John heard her say to forget it and he nodded yes, but he didn't want to, that kiss had something to it that he had never experienced before, a light, a spark, a jolt. He was unsure of how to explain it when he noticed she was shivering.
"Are you cold?" John asked as he watched her continue to shiver underneath her wet clothes.
'No, I'm okay," she said but he didn't believe her when he took his arms and wrapped them around her from behind, rubbing his hands up and down her arms he tried to warm her. They stood speechless for a few moments.
Natalie couldn't believe what she was feeling, what she was letting him do, first kiss her now holding her to try and warm her, and his hands, his strong hands running up and down her mostly bare arms, she had just met him today, a little while ago, this was so not how Natalie was with people she didn't know. Yet she didn't protest, she didn't ask him to take his arms off of her, she just went with it, and with the feelings of comfort she felt in his arms.
John thought to himself as he moved his hands up and down her arms to try and warm her. What am I doing? I just met this girl, this angel with the bad attitude, with the warm heart, at least that was what his gut told him, his gut was telling him a lot of things tonight and he had hoped this wouldn't be the first time his gut let him down. a few more minutes went by and the rain seemed to be stopping when they heard the roof door open, they looked to see Michael walk out onto it.
"There you are John. " Michael said before he even saw Natalie, the minute they saw Michael John had removed his arms from Nat and walked out on the roof to greet him.
" I was looking all over for you, hey, Nat I didn't even see you there, what's going on?" Michael said as he noticed they were both soaked.
"The door was locked, we were locked out here" Natalie said as she stood next to John
" Both of you were locked out here, alone?" Michael asked and the two of them shook their heads yes.
"Okay, so I guess the two of you met, then?" Michael said and they both again nodded yes
"So, John what do you think of my red headed friend here" Michael said as John realized, realized this was the girl Mikey had told him about. John didn't acknowledge the question and Michael moved his focus to Natalie.
"So, what do you think of my brother?" Michael said as it registered for Natalie.
" You mean your brother the FBI agent?" Natalie said and John saw it, he saw her change back to that cold person he ran into at the station today.
"Ex-FBI agent" John said but it really didn't matter much what he said, she walked over to the door, turned briefly and said goodbye to Michael and left the roof.
"What's that all about?" John turned and asked Michael as he watched her leave the roof.
"It's a long story" Michael said
"Well, I have plenty of time" John said as they walked off of the roof.
They made their way to John's room so he could go inside and change, all of Michael's guests had left and he had a few minutes before having to go to bed. While John changed he thought about what happened on that roof, he kissed her, she kissed him back, there was something there, something that if the rain hadn't come they might have explored. John peeked out of the bathroom door and saw Michael looking at the television, Michael he thought, this was the girl he was talking about, the girl he was interested in, how was he going to tell his brother he kissed the girl that he was interested in.
" Natalie was great right?" Michael asked as John walked out of the bathroom
" Yeah, how was the party?" John asked wanting to change the subject and quick cause he didn't know how to handle this, handle the fact that he just spent an unbelievable time locked up on a roof with this girl, this girl that Michael liked so much.
"Party was excellent, even met me another red head, she and I actually have a lot in common. She came with a friend and we really seem to hit it off well." Michael said as John became relieved, relieved that Michael was fickle.
"What about Natalie? Not interested anymore?" John asked causally as he took a seat next to Michael who was already sitting on the couch.
"I guess I'm not anymore, Natalie's great but she and I, different, it's gonna take a strong man to tame her after all that's happened to her and I just don't think I'm that guy." Michael told John and then John needed to know more. He needed to know what it was that happened to her.
"What happened to her?" John asked
" Poor thing, her husband was killed last year in a FBI sting operation," Michael told John as he yawned and excused himself to go back to his room for some sleep.
Michael left and John let it really sink in, what he said, no wonder she reverted back to the coldness when she learned he was FBI or at least he used to be. She must hate all things associated with the FBI, and who could blame her.
