ABC Owns them

Chapter 5

Natalie finished up speaking with Hugh and then decided to start looking for places for her shelter, she searched all day not finding anything worthwhile when she ended up at the cottage. Her cottage. It was empty, had been for years since the love crew finally moved out. She opened it with the key she had hide under a rock so many years ago and she went in. she looked around the place and it was just how she remembered it, except it was a lot dustier, dirtier, she remembered how she loved this place, how it was her home, she looked under the kitchen sink and found some old cleaning supplies and started to clean the place up. It always helped for her to stay busy while she had so much on her mind, and she sure had a lot on her mind today.

Today she saw Kyle for the first time in along time, he had come to Llanview and she wasn't quite sure why, it was odd, he never bothered her for the last year while she was two towns away from him but now that she was back home, he came here, he was here and he was definitely up to something for which she was unaware of, but definitely something. He tried to get a job working for her uncle and with john. John she thought, was that what it was all about? Was he back to make sure she wasn't with John? What right did he have being here where she loved it, being here in her hometown? She heard a noise and it brought her out of her thoughts as she walked out of the kitchen and into the living room to see Kyle standing there watching her as she walked in. she stood motionless for a few seconds and then she went to grab her purse to call the police when he ran and grabbed her by her arms.

"Not so fast, we have unfinished business you and I" Kyle said as he threw her on the couch. Natalie protested and tried to stand up as he pushed her back down.

"Stay there! I just want to talk for a few minutes and then we'll see what else I feel like doing" he told her as she stopped trying to get up off the couch, she knew it would be worse on her right now if she resisted. He wanted to talk, she would let him talk and then she would run, as soon as he was distracted she'd run. Kyle got up off her on the couch once he was sure she would stay. He started to pace back and forth like a crazy person.

"You had to leave didn't you, leave me in Florida and come here, come back here to be near him, why? I wasn't bothering you, I stayed away, but I couldn't any longer not when all you wanted was him, to be here with him" Kyle said as Natalie waited for an opportunity to run and get away from him, he was scaring her again, scaring her more than he ever did, he seemed deranged, obsessed.

John was finishing up some paperwork at his desk when Bo walked in.

"What's up Bo?" John asked as he saw a disturbed look on his face.

"Have you heard from officer Davis lately?" Bo asked John

"No, haven't seen or heard from him since earlier, what's up?" John asked again

"I asked him to tail Natalie when she left earlier just in case and I haven't heard from him in awhile, thought maybe you might have" Bo told John and they both looked at each other and got an uneasy feeling come about them.

"Why would you have her tailed?" he asked

"Cause she wouldn't let me have someone protect her and I knew she would probably need it" Bo answered with a worried look on his face

"Why did you think she needed protection?" John asked getting an uneasy feeling come about him

"I can't say John but Think about it" Bo told him and John thought long and hard for a few minutes when he grabbed his coat and ran out the door.

"I'll put out a APB on Davis's car" Bo called to John as he watched him run out of the station.

Natalie continued to wait for an opportunity to run when she thought she had a chance, she started to slowly get up off the couch as he was still pacing back and forth, he hadn't been looking her way and she got up but he saw her trying to run from the couch and he pushed her back down on it and brought himself on top of her.

"I can't believe you" Kyle said as he slapped her across the face. He continued to get red in the face as he put his hands around her neck and started to choke her, he stopped briefly after a few seconds realizing what he was doing, he calmed down while still lying on top of her on the couch.

"Lets go I'm taking you back to Florida with me" Kyle said as he grabbed her up by her shirt and pulled her with him.

"I'm not going anywhere with you" Natalie told him in a defiant shaky voice as she planted her feet firmly on the ground and refused to move. Kyle heard her defiant tone and he pushed her back on the couch. His hands went to the collar of her shirt as he again was on top of her, his hands started to shake as he crumbled them up into fists as he held on to her shirt and he watched her, he leaned in for a rough kiss and Natalie resisted, she made it perfectly clear that she wasn't doing this with him now, that she held nothing for him, nothing but hatred and fear.

"I see, now that your back with the good detective you don't want any part of me" Kyle said getting really angry this time. His hands were shaking and he removed them from her shirt collar and again placed them on her neck. Natalie was extremely frightened; he was much stronger than her. She saw his hands going back to her neck and she knew if she didn't do or think of something he would more than likely kill her. Natalie thought quick and remembered that Kyle use to carry a hand gun when he was off duty in his boot, she tried to lean down towards his boot to see if she could find it while he was trying to choke her. He started off choking her softly but as he felt her move to reach down he thought she was resisting him again and he started to tighten his grip on her neck. Natalie quickly got her hand down to his boot and found the gun. She pulled the gun out of his boot but before she brought it up towards him, they heard John. John was in the foyer a few feet away with his gun drawn and pointed at Kyle.

"Get off of her now!" John demanded and Kyle let out a small laugh as he stopped choking her, he moved to get off of her momentarily as he reached for the gun in his boot and found it was gone, Natalie had it in her hand, Kyle knew John couldn't get a clear shot at him without the chance of hitting her so he tried to grab the gun from her and it went off. Kyle automatically fell on top of Natalie with blood oozing out of him from his stomach, John ran over not knowing yet who was hit by the bullet. Natalie pushed Kyle's body off of her as she automatically went to the floor, pulled her knee's to her chest and started rocking herself back and forth in a state of shock.

John checked Kyle's body to see where it was bleeding from as he called for an ambulance. John was in no hurry to apply pressure to his wound when he heard Kyle start to mumble something about loving Natalie. John watched as Natalie rocked herself back and forth faster as Kyle continued to speak his last words about loving her.

"Natalie, Natalie" John called for her over and over as she continued to rock back and forth, she had blood all over herself from when she shot him and from when his body fell on top of hers. The ambulance arrived a few minutes later but it was to late, Kyle was already gone. The medics took his body out on a gurney as Natalie never looked up or stopped rocking. John moved closer to her to try and get her to look at him but she wouldn't, she couldn't. Bo had arrived and saw his niece in an unstable state. He motioned for John to come an explain as he saw John a few feet away from her not wanting to leave her alone.

John explained what he found when he came into the house and what had happened, how it was an accident the gun going off. Bo informed John that they found Davis knocked out, gagged and tied out back to a tree. They both just watched as Natalie continued to be in her state of shock.

"What should we do? I've never seen her this bad before, and usually I can get thru to her, this time she won't let me" John told Bo

"I don't know, I honestly don't know, I'll go call Rex or Vicky maybe they can get thru to her" Bo said as he walked away to make the call. John moved closer to Natalie again and watched her, he got down on the floor with her and tried placing his hand on her shoulder but she didn't even flinch, she didn't even acknowledge him there. He moved himself right in front of her on the floor and put his hand under her chin and tried to bring her eyes up to meet his but she wouldn't let them meet. He spoke to her anyway.

"Natalie, I know you can hear me, It's not your fault, this wasn't your fault, please babe, let me help you" John told her and she still didn't respond, he was continuing to get more and more worried with each passing moment that she was like this.

"Please Natalie you're scaring me now, you just got back, I can't lose you again, not like this, I still Love you" John said while still holding his hand under her chin, Natalie moved her eye's and met his. She stopped moving back and forth and stood still for a moment.

"I wanna go home" she told him as he helped her to her feet, he walked her outside passed Bo and the officers. John signaled to Bo that he would take care of her and Bo nodded his head. John drove toward Llanfair and was about to pull in the driveway when she stopped him.

"No, not here, the hotel, with you" Natalie told him and he turned the car around and headed towards the angel square hotel, John walked them to the fifth floor.

"No, your room, our room" Natalie told him.

"I know, that's where we're going, I need to get some of your clothes," he told her softly as she looked down to see that what she was wearing was all full of Kyle's blood. Tears came to her eyes and a few escaped as they entered the room and she got her clothes. Natalie had her clothes in her hands and she stood looking around the room, continuing to shed tears, John saw she was getting swept back into a state of shock so he picked her up and carried her out of the room and down to his.

Without words he stood her near the bathroom and he started the shower for her, he led her into the bathroom and helped her remove her blood soaked clothing, he guided her into the shower and left for a few minutes as he took the clothes into the other room to dispose off. He knew he could, he knew they were not needed as evidence, this case was cut and dry, Natalie had the marks on her neck to prove it was self defense. Marks he probably should have had checked out by a Dr. but he was so happy to just have her out of the state she was in at the cottage that they'd have them checked tomorrow. He could hear her crying over the shower so he went back into the bathroom and found her in the shower just standing there crying. He got in the shower with her fully clothed and pulled her to him and held her as the water washed away all the last signs of Kyle Anders. He looked at her neck with those awful marks on it and then he felt around on her back for the small scar he had found the other night. He touched it and he now understood why she was so upset by him finding it.