Chapter 14

Natalie sat in the exam room fully clothed waiting for a doctor to come in, a nurse had been in prior and she drew her blood for a blood test and now she was waiting impatiently for the doctor to give her the results. She watched Michael walk in with his nose in her chart.

"Okay, I see that your blood tests are positive so, congratulations Mrs.. Mrs.. Mrs.. McBain?" Michael said not looking at the name on the chart till after he read the results, then he for the first time looked up and saw Natalie sitting on the table with a big smile on her face.

"Omg Nat! You're pregnant, does John know, I mean of course he doesn't know for sure yet but does he know you are here and that you might be, why isn---" Michael was rambling on and on when Natalie talked over him and shut him up.

"Michael, Michael, he doesn't know anything yet, I wasn't feeling great and I missed my period so I took a chance to come an see if it was true. Don't say anything to him, I want to find the perfect time to tell him." Nat told Michael as she stood to leave

"What ever you say Nat, I'm just so excited to be a uncle, you know I couldn't tell him anyway, right, patient doctor thing, so your secret is safe with me, I can't and I won't tell my brother he's going to be a father, Omg what a good day this is turning out to be. First I ..." Michael started rambling again and Natalie left the office and went out to the nurse's desk to finish up paper work when Michael finally realized she was gone and he ran out into the hall to catch her.

'Wait, wait, these are prenatal vitamins, take one a day, everyday," Michael said as he handed her the bottle of vitamins, Natalie and Michael were both unaware that Carlotta was still lurking watching and listening to everything they had been saying. Michael gently kissed Natalie goodbye on her cheek and Natalie left the hospital. Michael returned to the exam room and Carlotta followed Natalie outside, she stopped by the front doors of the hospital as she watched Natalie get in her car and drive off. Carlotta pulled out her cell phone and made a call.

"It's me, it isn't going to be so easy, remember I told you about the man she's married to, I'm sorry son but she's pregnant with his child. There's no chance for the two of you again, even if you get her to understand and she forgives you. Please just let her be, she seems happy, isn't that what you wanted?" Carlotta told someone on the other end of the phone, she finished her conversation and left.

Natalie walked into their house, their home, hers and John's, and she was beaming, beaming from ear to ear. She was pregnant, pregnant with his child, they weren't taking precautions because it was something they both wanted and wanted right away but she was still a little shocked that it happened so fast. They've only been married two months and they were already pregnant, pregnant with their first child. Her smile was getting brighter and brighter and she started to think about how happy he was going to be when she told him, when she told him, she thought, what is the best way to do that? When would be the best time to do that, tell him she was going to have a baby, to tell him she was going to give him this amazing gift, a child, she couldn't contain her joy and she decided to call Rodi's and tell them she didn't feel good and that she wouldn't be coming in to work tonight. She called and then she again tried to figure out how to tell him, she thought for a few more minutes and she knew she wouldn't be able to keep it a secret for long so she decided to tell him tonight. She called him at the office to make sure he wasn't working too late and she purposely didn't mention that she would be home when he got here. She made a big dinner knowing that he usually came home straight after work and she lit candles all around the living room. She closed all the lights and she took the roast she made for dinner out of the oven, she placed it on the counter when she heard the front door, he was home, and she was getting very anxious to see the look on his face when she told him.

She walked out of the kitchen and looked through the candlelight to see the back of him looking at the pictures of the two of them on the mantle. She got closer and approached him but something felt weird, strange, he turned and it wasn't him. Natalie looked into the face of what she thought must have been a ghost and she fainted, he caught her and while she was still unconscious he carried her out of the house.

John arrived home and he saw all the lit candles on the mantle and around the house and he smiled, she must have taken the night off and she wanted to surprise him. He walked quietly into the kitchen to sneak up on her and she wasn't in there, the oven was on and there was a roast on the counter but she was nowhere to be found. He felt a knot in his stomach and he frantically searched the house, she wasn't there, she wasn't in their home. He immediately called Bo to come over. When Bo arrived John was searching the grounds of the house.

"I cant find her Bo, I ...I.. Don't know where she could be," John told Bo frantically

"Calm down John, have you called Vicky? Jessica, any of them?" Bo asked

"Yes, I didn't want to alarm Vicky but I told Jessica and she and Antonio are on their way over" John told bo as he went back inside to look for more clues.

John was in the kitchen when Antonio arrived, Antonio went over to the mantle and something caught his eye, a picture of them, a picture of John and Nat, John's face in the picture looked like it was scratched at. He knew he had to tell them, tell them all the truth, even if no one ever forgave him for doing it, he thought he was doing it for their own good, for Natalie's own good, for his brothers own good.

John walked out of the kitchen and saw Antonio turn when he heard him. John approached Antonio at the mantle and he could tell he wanted to say something.

"Don't worry she's safe, he won't hurt her, he would never hurt her" Antonio told John as he handed him the picture from the mantle.

Natalie woke up in a big bedroom with what looked to be all the furnishings of the bedroom she use to share with Chris, she got up off the bed she was laying on and she looked to the chair next to the window and he was sitting there, a man, the man who took her from her home, her home with John. She was terrified yet she knew for her sake and her baby's she needed to be smart about this, she needed to keep her cool.

"Who are you and why do you look like my dead husband? Why did you bring me here?" Natalie asked approaching him cautiously as the man stood.

"It's me Natalie, It's me, I'm not really dead" Christian said as he walked closer, he put out his hand to touch her cheek and she backed up slightly, not going to far.

"No, My Christian is dead," she said, as she felt frozen in her spot. He got closer to her and she didn't move this time. He leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips.

"I'm alive Natalie, I'm alive," he said as he saw she didn't resist the first kiss so he went in for another.

Natalie felt his lips the first time and she knew it was him. It was really him, but then with the second all she could think about was John, her heart, his heart, their souls, their baby that she was now carrying. She raised her hand and slapped him in the face.

Chris' hand immediately went to his face where she slapped him and he held it there.

"Don't ever do that again! I'm a married woman," Natalie said as she stared into his eyes. She didn't recognize his eye's they were different. They were harsh looking.

"Yeah, I know you're married, to me!" Chris said as he gave Natalie an intense stare that scared her. She backed up to a door that she believed must have been the bathroom and she locked herself in it.

Chris walked over to the door and talked thru it.

"You're still my wife Natty, not his, you can't stay in there that long, and when you decide to come out we can get on with our lives, you, me and your baby's." Chris said as he turned and went over to the door of the room. He knocked on it and a big goon opened it from the outside, Chris walked out and told the man to make sure his wife, Mrs Vega was comfortable but under no circumstances was she to leave that room.