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Chapter 10

John ran into the hospital, he took a look around and ran over to the near by desk in the emergency room. He walked passed five people waiting in line to ask the receptionist something and he spoke on top of a man asking a question.

"I need to know Where Natalie Buchanan is" John said with urgency in his voice

"Excuse me sir, I'm helping someone"

"This if FBI business, where can I find Natalie Buchanan, she was just brought in by Ambulance!" John asked the receptionist hostile, he was impatient to see her and he wasn't going to let anybody or anything get in his way. The nurse started looking Natalie's name up on her computer when John looked away briefly to see Michael walk out of one of the rooms.

"Mikey" John said and Michael looked up from his chart to see John.

"John, what are you doing here, I thought you were in DC"

"Not now Mikey, have you seen her, she was brought here, have you seen Natalie?" John asked again getting impatient

"Yeah...I...I've seen her" Michael told John reluctantly

"Well is she alright? Where is she, I need to see her, I need to make sure she's alright" John told Michael as he looked around the hallway, he noticed that Bo walked in followed by a few other people that he remembered seeing at the wedding, he assumed they were her family. Bo walked over to John and Michael as the rest of Natalie's family spoke with the receptionist.

"Michael how is she?" Bo asked Michael and Michael looked at John. Michael wasn't sure how he was going to tell John and even Bo what he had found from his quick examination of Natalie. Michael knew John had gotten close to Natalie, he knew he cared for her, which he thought was a good thing because she was going to need people who cared for her right now, now with all that she had been thru.

"Michael, tell us" John said, as he looked Michael strength in the face.

" I examined her when they brought her in but it was brief, she wouldn't let me give her a complete exam."

"What? Michael where is she? Is she not here?" John asked confused

"She left, I left the room for a moment after trying to convince her to let me...let me... let me do a rape kit and she was gone when I came back" Michael told john and Bo as he saw their faces get white as ghosts.

"Michael did she... was she... did you see signs of..." John started mumbling out the words but he couldn't form any real sentences at the moment, he was shocked, well shocked wasn't the word because after speaking with Harry he knew it was a possibility.

"I don't know John, I really just don't know if she was" Michael told John shaking his head slightly

"Then what exactly do you know?" John asked

"I know she was beat pretty bad, there's evidence of bruises on her arms, her legs and even...even her thigh. She also had a busted lip which was probably caused by a back handed slap." Michael told him all of what he knew, John walked away briefly from Michael as he was telling them and he started to pace back and forth, he felt his fists clench and he wanted so bad to punch something, to kill something, to kill Izzy Foley. Bo started to open up his mouth and say something when Vicky walked over to the three of them.

"Would someone like to tell me what's going on with my daughter? No one here will give me any information," Vicky said as after she approached.

"Vicky, she .. she isn't here; she left " Bo told him

"And you don't know where she's gone?" Vicky asked looking at Bo, then she looked towards Michael, and then she continued to look and she saw John.

"Mrs. Buchanan, I know you don't know me but.." John started to say to Vicky as her words cut his off

"It's Davidson, not Buchanan and I know who you are, you're Eve's other son, I saw you at the wedding with my Natalie, you put the garter on her leg" Vicky told him

"Yes, that was me. What I was going to say was that Natalie and have become good Friends and I need to know if there is somewhere she would go or liked to go when she was scared or upset, she's most likely somewhere like that, I doubt she's at her apartment." John told Vicky

"That's right Vicky I agree with John that Natalie probably didn't go home." Bo chimed in, Vicky thought about where it was that Natalie felt safe and she remembered.

"The cabin on Llantano mountain, The Buchanan Cabin" Vicky told them as she barely got the words out before John asked someone to tell him how to get there.

"Wait a minute, I'll be going to find her or one of her brothers, I really don't know you, you might make her feel worse." Vicky stated the fact to him when although John understood where she was coming from he wasn't asking her permission nor was there any way in Hell he wasn't going to that cabin.

"Mrs. Davidson I understand where you are coming from but I don't need your permission to go find her myself, I care very much about Natalie and I won't do or say anything to make things worse on her, so I'm going" John told her as he started to walk towards the hospital doors. He heard Vicky call to him to call when he found her and he nodded his head yes as he left and headed to the Buchanan cabin.

Forty-Five minutes later John arrived at the Cabin, he knew it was the right one for it was the only one for miles. He noticed her car the minute he drove up, he went up to the door and was about to knock when he decided against it, what if it startled her, what if she had just fallen asleep. He walked over to the window that looked directly into the living room of the cabin and he saw her.

Natalie sat on the couch unaware of where she was, well she knew cause she drove herself there after leaving the hospital and sneaking back by the bar for her car but she was in a fog, a haze, she couldn't really focus on anything and that in this case was a good thing cause if she did she would be a mess, worse than a mess, if there was any such thing worse than a mess. She was freezing, beyond freezing, she felt ice cold, she had a blanket draped over her that the medics had covered her clothes, her little pieces of clothes that were left after everything happened, after...after.. after. She stopped herself, she stopped her thoughts before she lost it all, all her strength, or what was left of her strength after she had to fight for her life, fight to get out of Izzy's, to get out with something left, something left cause so much was taken from her tonight. She pulled the blanket over herself a little tighter and she hugged her knees into her chest trying so desperately not to feel.

John continued watching her for a few minutes for he didn't know what exactly to do for her to help her. He noticed she looked cold, he didn't smell wood burning so he looked around the property and found a woodpile, he gathered some up, and then he walked into the cabin without knocking with the wood in his arms.

Natalie heard something, someone and she looked up slowly to see John walking in with wood in his hands, their eye's met briefly and she watched as he walked over to the fireplace to start a fire, with out words he made her a fire for warmth, after a few minutes he looked away from the fire and walked over to her. He took his arm and tried to guide her up with it to help her to the fire when she backed away quickly. As soon as his arm was in contact with her she pulled back as if afraid, he cursed himself knowing that he should have known that would happen, she was afraid to be touched and even by him.

John walked back to the fireplace as her eyes and her chin went down to her knees. He watched her shiver still from the cold.

"Why don't come by the fire, it'll keep you warm" he told her as she looked up at him with glassy eye's.

"I won't touch you, I promise " John told her and he saw her debating it in her head

" Can you hold me?" Natalie asked him as she started to get up and walk over to him, he met her half way and he softly put his arm around her shoulders and guided her to the floor, they sat down on the floor and he gently pulled her closer to his chest and he held her.