ABC Owns them

Chapter 3

A few minutes later John and Kyle arrived at the station. John spoke to Bo briefly and then told Kyle Bo would be with him shortly. Kyle thanked John and John went to his office.

Natalie arrived at Llanfair and entered the house.

"Mom, I'm home," Natalie yelled out into the foyer as she smiled. She saw everyone's face as she entered the Library. Vicky got up slowly out of her chair to greet her with a big smile as Jessica laughed and ran over to her. Jessica gave her a big hug and a smile, then she went and picked up Sheri so Natalie could meet her niece for the first time. Natalie stopped hugging Vicky when she saw her Niece; she smiled at her and picked her up not expecting her to be so heavy. She laughed and they all sat on the couch so Natty could tell them she was home for good. They were thrilled; they spent most of the day together when Jessica mentioned going to get ready for Michael's party.

"Why don't you come?" Jessica asked Natalie as Natalie walked towards the door.

"I don't know if I'm up for a party so soon after being back" Nat told her

"Think about it, you just finished telling mom you want to still stay at the hotel, you'll be right there if it's to much for you, you can just leave and go down to your room" Jessica told her and Natalie told her she'd think about it. Natalie left to go back to her room; she thought about if she should go, what would it hurt to go, the worst thing that would happen would be she'd see John. Did she want to see John already? She asked herself and she decided she'd go. She got dressed in a pair of jeans and a light blue short sleeve sweater and she headed up to the roof. It wasn't very far since she was the last floor before the roof. She entered the roof and was greeted by Jess and Antonio. She stood by them for a few minutes when she saw Chris and Evangeline enter the roof, they saw her instantly and they walked over to her.

"Natalie it's nice to see you back, you look good," Evangeline told her.

"You to. Jessica says you're due any day, do you know if it's a boy or a girl?" Natalie asked her as Evangeline said girl. Evangeline excused herself for a minute leaving Chris and Natalie alone to talk

"I'm happy for you Chris, you finally got everything you wanted in life" Natalie told him sincerely as she gave him a quick hug.

"Thanks Nat, it means a lot to me that you seem to mean that" Chris told her as they smiled at each other

"I do" she said as Hugh Hughes approached her, Chris excused himself as Hugh approached.

"Hey, you're back in town, how are you?" Hugh asked as he saw her shiver a bit and look around.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he also looked around to see what she was looking for.

"Yeah, just a little cold, I think I'll go grab my jacket from downstairs" Natalie told him as she was about to walk away.

" Here take mine" Hugh told her and didn't wait for a reply and he put his suit jacket around her before she could protest, she looked at him and thanked him. They spoke for a few minutes and Nat told him she wanted his legal help with a few things. She started to explain about needing his help with getting a shelter set up when they all looked at the roof door when it opened. Michael and John walked out onto the roof and everyone screamed surprise.

John walked out on the roof and his eye's automatically found her, he wasn't sure if she would be here tonight but the minute he walked thru the roof door he felt her, he sensed that she was there. She saw him to and he saw her eye's get wide as they made eye contact, then John watched as she looked away and continued to talk to DA Hughes. He continued to stare at her and he noticed she was wearing his jacket, what was that all about? John thought as he watched them continue to have a deep conversation. John walked a little closer and knew he had to talk to her, he got real close to them and he saw her look up from her conversation with Hugh and see him.

Hugh noticed John also and he excused himself, he told her he'd call her tomorrow and they could discuss things more. He told her to continue to wear his jacket that he'd get it back from her later. After Hugh was completely gone John spoke.

"Marcie was right, you do look good," John told her as he stared into her blue eyes.

"Thanks so do you" Natalie told him back in awkwardness.

"So, I take it you've been good" John said fumbling on his words, he had no idea what to say to her, he knew what he wanted to say, what he wanted to do to her, but small talk wasn't happening for them right now. Instead he decided to use his eye's to talk to her, his desire filled eye's stared at her telling her he still needed her, and he still wanted her. He watched her eyes for a sign in them, a sign of the need she use to have for him, for the want she use to have for him and he saw it. Without words she took Hugh Jacket off her shoulders, she took it over to Hugh and thanked him. John watched her motions with his eyes. She looked back at him as she walked to the roof door and opened it; she gave him a look telling him she wanted him to follow her. John wanted to think for a minute but he couldn't, he wasn't going to waste anytime thinking when he saw was about to happen in her eye's as she went thru the door of the roof.

John followed her out of the door and saw her up against the wall as he closed the roof door behind him, he moved closer to her, he put a hand on her cheek and he leaned in for a gentle kiss to test the waters, just to make sure he wasn't misreading her eye's. She kissed him back forcibly and he knew he wasn't misreading things. She stopped kissing him suddenly and he looked at her.

"I missed you" John told her in a whisper as she took his hand and walked down one flight of stairs to her room. Natalie opened the door and they went in quietly as his hands came upon her waist and he pushed her up against the wall. Natalie took his mouth violently as she moved her hand into the back of his hair, pulling his head closer and closer to hers till John broke out of the kiss and moved his mouth down her neck, his hands were running up and down the sides of her body when she pushed him back slightly so she could take off her sweater. John impatiently backed up for a second but found she was taking to long removing her sweater when he helped her to rid it. The sweater hit the ground and John's hands moved to her heaving breasts, over the lacy material of her light pink bra his thumbs teased her nipples over and over till Natalie reached behind herself to try and get the clasp of her bra undone. She was having a bit of a hard time with it when he noticed and turned her around so he could help her. Natalie willingly turned her back for his help with the clasp, his fingers ran themselves back and forth under the clasp felling her bare skin as he undid the clasp, Natalie removed it from her arms and threw it to the floor, his lips came down on her neck nibbling and kissing the back of it as his hands moved there way around her to her breasts, he fondled her breasts as he opened his eye's while kissing his way down her back, he saw something on her back that was unfamiliar, a mark, a scar that was just below her shoulder blade, he stopped briefly and pulled back. Natalie felt him stop and she turned around to see him.

"Where did you get that scar?" John asked softly, he just couldn't overlook it, he needed to know.

Natalie had forgotten how he knew every inch of her body; she had also forgotten the few physical scars of Kyle's abuse that was still left on her body. He asked about one of the scars and she just didn't want him to know.

"I'm tired, I think maybe this was a mistake, please go" Natalie told him as she moved away from him avoiding his eye's. She put on her sweater and escorted him towards the door. John stood dumbfounded, he knew she wanted him the same way he wanted her, it was fine until he found the scar on her back. He walked to the door when she opened it for him but he didn't walk out. He turned to her instead and saw she wouldn't meet his eyes. John reached for her chin with his hand and pulled it so their eye's met.

"Maybe this was to fast, but I think there's more going on here than that, why don't you just tell me, you used to be able to tell me anything" John asked her as she stared into his eye's. Natalie didn't know why she felt like she couldn't tell him, she wanted to, but she just couldn't, she ran a shelter around people knowing what happened to her, she used her own stories to get other women in those same type of situations to trust her, it wasn't any big secret but why couldn't she just come out and tell him.

"Used to is the key word John. It's been two years and things change, people change, I've changed, I'm sorry I gave you the impression that things were the same."

"Natalie what almost happened with us, with what your eye's told me, that hasn't changed. Time may have moved on but our hearts haven't." John said as he leaned in and gave her a soft kiss on the lips, she accepted it and he walked out the door.

"I'm here when you're ready" John said as he saw her close the door behind him. John went down to his room on the third floor, he passed right by the closet by the stairs and right by Kyle who had watched and heard the whole conversation Nat and John had, had by her open door.