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Chapter 8
"Uncle Bo please, I'm fine, I can do this, I'm not going to get impatient and do something stupid"
"Natalie honey, John is a seasoned FBI agent and if he said he was worried about you getting impatient and doing something stupid than I need to believe him."
"He didn't say that because he was worried I'd get hurt, he wants me off the case"
"Why? Why would he want that?"
"Because it bothers him, it... never mind. But Uncle Bo, tell me what I can do to prove to you that I'll be patient, that I won't get hurt. Tell me"
Natalie begged her Uncle for a few more days, Bo finally agreed to let Natalie work it for the next week, he would keep on top of things and if after that week he felt she couldn't handle it himself, he would pull her off of it, and that he didn't want to hear her complain about it.
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John was sitting in his apartment the night before he was to go back to work. He had gotten home from Llanview almost a week ago and he hadn't done anything but sleep, eat and think about her, Natalie. He tried all week to get her out, out of his head but everything he tried, none of it worked, every waking thought came back to her and her amazing self. Even when he slept he felt himself dreaming about her, what it would be like to make love with her again, what it would fell like to actually hold her after they made love. He knew it was a losing battle and decided to turn in the bed early.
It was almost three am when Natalie drove home from the Red Pelican, Izzy had been there tonight with a few big wigs as he called them, big wigs she had never seen before, they were being different tonight, acting different as if something was up, they sent a lot of time in the back room all three of them. She tried so desperately to snoop and around and to get back there to see what was going on but she just couldn't find out anything. Natalie pulled into her parking spot and she got out of her car, she flashed back a week ago to when he would follow her home and make sure she got home safe. She smiled a bittersweet smile as she thought of him, what was he doing? Was he on assignment somewhere? Was he safe? She shook her heading wondering how she could have fallen and fallen so deeply and so fast for someone she barely knew, for John Mcbain. She walked into the house and went to bed for the night.
DC FBI headquarters
"Hey Boss, Tony says you have a new assignment for us, something about Gerardo Martino"
"Yup, I just got word He's back to business and this time he's selling out of a bar, I need you two to go undercover at a bar called the Red Pelican in..."
"Llanview Pa" John said finishing his sentence
Two nights later Natalie was drinking a soda as she played pool at Rodi's, it was some time around nine O'clock and she was trying to relax before she had to go into the Red Pelican. Natalie was alone tonight just like every night this week, she wasn't up for any company, Rex wanted her to go to the club so they could spend some time together but she hadn't wanted to actually she hadn't wanted to do anything of late, nothing, nothing but play pool since he left.
John drove thru Llanview and he knew exactly where to find her, he knew if she was still working the Izzy Foley case that she wouldn't be going into the bar till around ten, and he knew, well he guessed that she would be here, here at Rodi's, he walked into the bar. John looked around the bar and he saw her by the pool table, his heart skipped a beat, she looked so beautiful he thought, she was so beautiful. John saw her bend over the table facing away from him and the door, she leaned in and lined up her shot, John leaned close to her ear right as she was about to make the shot.
"Hey" John said softly in his raspy voice, she had heard him as soon as she was mid stream into her shot and she scratched. She had heard his voice and she stood her position motionless after the scratch, she didn't want to dare look behind her in fear that it was all her imagination.
"Natalie" John said as he watched her become unstuck. She turned slowly as if afraid to actually look at him, and then when she did their eye's met. It was an intense stare that went on for almost ten minutes as their eyes focused and refocused on each other.
"You're back" Natalie said softly as her eye's filed a bit with water.
"Yeah, I'm back" John said matching her soft tone, he watched her carefully, not sure if she was happy he was back or sad, he couldn't read her expression. A few more minutes went by and he asked permission to play. She said yes and they played a few games, the question of why he was back never came up. They just enjoyed each other's company. After about the fourth game Natalie while still in a fog, not believing, believing that he was here had forgotten about heading over to the Red Pelican. Natalie's cell phone rang and she answered it, it was Harry and he asked where the hell she was, she covered by telling him she was running late and told him she'd be there in a few minutes.
Natalie turned to John as she hung up her phone.
"I've gotta go, I'm late" Natalie told John as she faced him and stared again into his baby blue eye's.
"The Red Pelican?" John asked already knowing the answer, she shook her head yes.
"I'll...I'll see ya Okay?" Natalie told him as she gathered her uniform that she had brought with her tonight to Rodi's.
"I.. I .. I can't believe your back, I mean, I didn't think you'd be coming back an so soon" Natalie said in amazement, she smiled her first genuine smile since he left, John walked over closer to her, he saw the expression on her face, she could read this one, she was happy to see him. He thought about her words for a few minutes and it hit him, she thought he had come back for her, did she think he came back to be with her, so they could be together? If he would have known that was all it was going to take, to do, to say, to promise, he would have done that the night they made love, the night he left.
John moved even closer to her and his hand tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. His hand lingered on her face as he caressed it, he leaned in slowly for a soft kiss. Natalie accepted his tender kiss and she returned it back just as tenderly. John backed up a bit after they kissed. He kept his hand under her chin.
"Natalie.. we have to talk" John told her knowing he had to tell her about the FBI taking over the investigation at the Red Pelican, he needed to give her the heads up for tomorrow it would happen. He also knew he needed to be honest with her about why he was back, although he would have come back if he thought they had a chance but she had made things not seem to be that way before he left.
"John" Natalie said breathy as her eyes filed with Desire for him, she licked her dry lips and he couldn't resist, he went in for another slow tender kiss. They were still kissing when Natalie's phone rang, she pulled away and she didn't have to look at the caller Id, she knew it was Harry.
"I really have to go John, I'll see ya tomorrow"
"Natalie we really have to talk"
"Tomorrow John, tomorrow, I'm very late" She told him as she ran out the door uniform in hand.
The Red Pelican
"Natasha you're late" Izzy told Natalie as she ran into the bar, she still wasn't dressed yet.
"I Know, I'm sorry Izzy, really sorry, I got hung up at my other job, remember I told you about having the two jobs" Natalie said to Izzy as she put her stuff behind the bar
"You know I could probably help you out with your financial situations, then you wouldn't have to work to jobs, then you wouldn't have to be late for me, my place, you know I have a lot of patrons that like to look at you, when you're not here, my business isn't as good" Izzy told Natalie in his sleazy tone as he eyed her up and down, he took his hand and rubbed it down her back till it came to the small of her back, it took all of Natalie not to throw up her earlier dinner, he seem to be getting off touching her clothed back.
"And how could you do that?" Natalie asked him licking her licks, reeling him in, thinking tonight must be her lucky night, first John comes back tonight, back to her, and now Izzy's finally hinting around to what she had been waiting for him to. She was finally catching a break in the case and soon she would crack it.
"Lets just say, if you stick with me, you won't be hungry any longer" Izzy said starting to salivate at the mouth.
"Go get dressed " Izzy told her as she walked into the back to get dressed, she noticed he followed her, she turned to close the door and his foot held it open so he could watch her dress. Natalie stood staring at him, he wouldn't let her close the door and she knew she'd have to do this to gain more of his trust. She began to undress in front of him, then when her clothes were off she started to put her uniform on, she started with her pantyhose when Izzy stopped her.
Det. Danny was in the surveillance van alone, he had sent Harry out for coffee, things seemed slow, quiet, last thing he heard was Izzy telling Natalie to go get dressed then things went silent, he assumed she was dressing with all the quietness.
