ABC Owns Them

Chapter 16

The next few days went by fast, John had called and told Natalie that he was working for Bo again at the station and he had only a few hours over the past days to spent with Her and Thomas. Bo and Paige were getting married later today and she was pretty sure that was why John had been working so much and couldn't see them much. She thought about if she missed him and she wasn't quite sure why but she did. She thought it was strange cause he had only been back about a week and she seem to miss him more now than she did when she hadn't seen him in months. She was just getting ready to go upstairs and get dressed while Thomas was taking his nap when her doorbell rang. She looked to see Eve standing at it.

"Eve, what are you doing here?" Natalie asked as she opened the door for her

"Hello my dear, I'm here to see my grandson of course" Eve replied as she walked into the house

"Oh, I'm sorry I wish I knew you were coming, I have a wedding to go to in a little while, and Thomas is taking a nap" Natalie told her as she followed Eve into the living room

"I was hoping you would have a few minutes to sit and have a chat with me?" Eve told her as she sat on the couch

"I have a few but I think I know what you want to talk about, and I'm not up for talking about John" Natalie told her as she too sat.

"Natalie honey, I just want to tell you a few things when it comes to John. Please? " Eve told her and Natalie nodded knowing she wasn't getting out of this

"My son is complicated and you know that. I also know that you know him probably better than I do. Loving someone doesn't come easy for John, it never did, it's not like he's loved a lot of people in his life."

"What are you trying to say Eve, just say it" Natalie told her nicely not wanting to beat around the bush

"When he loves someone it doesn't change, it doesn't go away, whether he's with that person or not, whether he's smart about it or clueless, he is capable of so much love and I guess I just wanted to make you a aware that I doubt he'll ever love anyone ever again after loving you" Eve told her softly

"Eve the point, I really need to get dressed," Natalie again told her nicely while she was getting a little impatient

"Natalie the point is he loves you and the both of us know it's forever, it won't change, and we both also know that you love him the same."

"Eve, Loving John isn't the problem" Natalie told her standing up getting ready to end this conversation about John.

"I know Natalie, I know but...well I say this with very much respect and I care about you a lot, but.. You really are being a stubborn twit!" Eve told her and Natalie was taken back a bit, she smiled a little when she heard Eve's words and then they both heard Thomas wake from his nap.

"I'll get him, why don't you get ready?" Eve told her as she saw Natalie start to walk towards the stairs to go get him.

" I don't know who is watching him while you're at the wedding if you'd like me to stay," Eve asked as she approached her near the stairs

"I was going to take him with me"

"Oh, no. you need a little time to yourself, I'll stay and watch him, as a matter of fact I'll even spend the night, stay out as long as you want to, all night if you want." Eve told her inviting herself to stay with her grandson

"Alright, Thank you but I doubt it'll be all night, you can stay in the extra bedroom if you'd like"

Natalie ran upstairs to get dressed, she was now running late when she heard the doorbell ring, she knew it was Hugh and she came running down the stairs with her heels in her hands. She noticed that Eve answered the door and she saw Hugh walk in. she watched their conversation as she saw Eve introduce herself to Hugh.

"I'm sorry Hugh I'm running a few minutes late, just give me five more and I'll be ready" Natalie said as she ran upstairs to grab her earrings. While Natalie was upstairs Eve had a few words for Hugh.

"So are you and Natalie seeing each other?" Eve asked Hugh as she sized him up.

"We're just friends, good friends" Hugh told her

"I see than it's important to you that she be happy?"

"Yes, I'd love to see Natalie happy" Hugh told her starting to realize where she was going with her questioning

"Good than we're all on the same page" Eve informed him

"What page might that be?" Hugh asked

"The page that says Natalie and John will get back together and raise my grandson " Eve told him matter-of-factly

"Oh, I see" Hugh said as Natalie ran down completely ready this time.

"I'm ready to go" Nat said as she kissed Thomas goodbye and told Eve where everything was including her cell phone number.

Natalie and Hugh walked into the church and were greeted by Mathew.

"Hey, Nat isn't it great, after today Hugh will be part of the family," Mathew said excited and Natalie nodded her head.

The ceremony was about to begin and Hugh had to go walk Paige his mother down the aisle, Natalie was unsure of what side of the church to sit on, she was Bo's family but she was sort of Hugh's date for this thing, she decided to sit on her uncle's side right behind Jessica and Antonio. She took a seat and never saw John as he came around from the other side of the pew. He took a seat a few feet away from her as he watched her look towards the back of the church as Paige began to walk down the aisle.

Paige was down the aisle and Hugh took his seat on his mom's side and looked over to Natalie and smiled, she returned the smile and faced forward as she heard the priest speak. She watched the ceremony as she thought about what it might have been like to be the one walking down the aisle, walking down to marry John this time, she could remember some of what it felt like to walk down and marry Cris but it didn't do anything for her, when she thought about John waiting at the end of the aisle to marry her she felt warm, warm and content. She didn't know why but she turned to her side and she saw him there, he saw her turn and he looked at her meeting her eyes. They never broke eye contact; the two of them stared at each other thru the whole ceremony, as if talking with their eyes. The ceremony ended an Hugh walked over to Natalie as he noticed during the ceremony she and John had locked eyes and never looked away from each other.

"Hey" Hugh said as he approached and brought her out of her gaze.

"Hey, beautiful ceremony wasn't it?" Natalie said covering the fact that she hadn't even watched the ceremony. Hugh asked if she was ready to go to the Palace for the reception and she got up out of the pew, she briefly looked back at John and then Hugh took her hand and guided her out of the church.

At the Palace Hugh had asked Natalie to dance a slow dance and Natalie had declined at first.

"The least you could do is give me one dance before you break my heart completely" Hugh told Natalie as he looked at her

"What?" Natalie asked confused by his comment

"Natalie, you know I've been holding on to something with you, something that maybe you and I could become more than friends, one day when you were ready and were finally over Mcbain, but I guess I knew all along that it wasn't going to happen and today in the church, I can't keep fooling myself any longer." Hugh told her as she thought she saw his eye's get glassy

"Hugh, I told you" Natalie said starting to feel bad

"I know what you told me but sometimes what people say and what the heart finds a way of doing are two different things. One dance?" Hugh said and Natalie smiled a small smile and put out her hand, he led her to the dance floor and held her close, close knowing it was time for him to be completely out of the picture here. John was standing across the room when he saw Hugh lead her to the dance floor, he watched as Hugh held her close and he did all he could not to go over and punch the guy. Hugh seem to have her body so close to his that it seemed inappropriate, he moved a little closer as the song stopped, he walked up to them as they parted and looked into each others eyes. A look of Goodbye but John was unaware of it being anything more than a desired look. Natalie turned her head to see John standing near her as the music again started, it was a beautiful slow song that she loved, John looked at Hugh as he left the dance floor, Hugh turned to John before he walked completely away.

"You know you don't deserve her," Hugh told John. John without words took Natalie's hand and brought her close to him and they danced slowly to the song playing, they stared into each other's eyes, never wavering.

The song ended and without words John took Natalie's hand and guided her out of the Palace, never looking back just looking forward they drove in John's car to the hotel, up to his room, their room. John opened the door and Natalie went in, a feeling of peace came upon her, she walked over to him slowly over by the closed door and she stared into his eyes as he brought his hand to her face, she placed her hand on top of his and she leaned in for a soft kiss. The soft kiss quickly turned into a hard deep one with John's hands finding her hair and knotting themselves into it. He slowly pushed her backwards into the other room towards the bed, he pushed them both down on it as he continued to take her lips for his own.

John laid on top of Natalie as she arched her back up for him to find the back zipper of her dress, John's hand found the zipper and slowly unzipped it pushing his hand underneath the fabric as the other hand pulled the front of it off of her revealing her breasts and already perked nipples. John moved slightly and pulled the rest of her dress down of her, after riding her of the dress he brought his body back up her and his fingers went to the waist ban of her pantyhose and he pulled them slowly down her removing them and realizing she wasn't wearing any panties underneath, he watched her as she looked at him, there was tears in her eyes and he again moved his body back up on her, he brought his hand to her face.

"Are you alright? Are you sure?" John asked her, he barely got the words out when she leaned up and kissed him deeply. John wasted no time taking what she was offering when his hands went to her breasts as he felt hers on the buttons of his shirt, she unbuttoned his shirt and her hand went lower on his body to his penis, she felt him up and down thru his pants when she pulled at them, she tried to get the zipper undone but she couldn't get it, John felt her getting impatient at not being able to undo his pants and he stopped kissing her neck, he removed his hands from her breasts and he unhooked his dress pants and unzipped them. He pushed them off of him along with his briefs; he was impatient to get back to Natalie's breasts as he left his unbuttoned shirt on his shoulders. Natalie's hand wrapped itself around John's penis as John's mouth decided to feast on her left breast, he suckled it and then his tongue found her nipple, over and over his tongue teased Nat's left nipple till it moved it's actions over to the right one. One of John's hands slowly found it's way to her core. John felt Natalie's grip on his penis tighten as he inserted a finger into her core.

Natalie let out a small moan as John drove one then two fingers inside her, she pulled on his arms and he looked at her, he knew by her look without any words what she wanted, what she needed, he pulled himself up on her more and he inserted himself into her, she automatically wrapped her legs around him, they stood perfectly still for a few seconds enjoying the sensation of their togetherness when John felt Natalie's walls start to tighten around him, he saw her adjust her hips by bringing them up and down on his penis and he slowly started to move himself inside her, very slowly at first, just pushing himself in to her core a little and then as he felt her quicken her pace he did too, he pushed his whole self into her as deep as possible, as close to being joined as they could possibly be, he looked into her eyes and he leaned down, he took her mouth urgently as they together went over the edge. Natalie screamed out his name as she reached her peak and continued to hum it as she came down from it.

John leaned into her ear as he removed himself from her and he whispered that he loved her. He rolled onto the bed next to her, their bed and held her till they both were fast asleep.

Somewhere around four in the morning John felt empty, his grip was empty. He woke to find she wasn't there, he looked around the room but she was gone and so was her clothes.