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Chapter 15
"John, are you alright?" Natalie asked John as she bent down to help him up off the floor.
"Chris, are you nuts! What the hell was that for?" Natalie said yelling at a red in the face Vega, an obsessive red in the face Vega.
"That's cause of what happened to you, he shouldn't have let that happen to you, get beat up and all. Where the hell was he when this was happening to your pretty face and body. Huh? Where the hell was everyone?" Chris yelled back at her. Natalie helped John stand up and steady himself.
"Chris you can't just go around hitting people, your going to end up getting arrested for it sooner or later, do you know who John is? He's FBI Chris, you stupid ass you just decked a Federal agent, do you understand what that means you fool, I can't get you out of this one because we use to be married." Natalie told him shaking her head in disgust
"I don't give a rats ass who he is Natty, they were suppose to be protecting you and they didn't, you're my property, My wife, this is why I didn't want you being a cop"
John was about to say something to this moron of an ex husband of Natalie when he heard Chris' last words to Natalie, John decided to stay quiet he knew with the look on Natalie's face that jail would be an easy thing for this guy right now. H watched as she approached Chris and ripped into him.
"You're what! That's what this is all about someone damaged your damn livestock, I'm going to throw you in that cell myself, you're such a stupid ass and repeat after me Chris, do you think You can handle it! You and I are no longer married; I am none of your damn business! Not get the hell out of the station before I personally throw you in one of those cells!" Natalie told Chris and John couldn't help but smirk, the guy was an ass, he could understand why, because he had only known her for a few short weeks and he had already punched a guy for dancing with her but this guy was a jerk.
Chris was about to open his stupid mouth when he looked at how mad she was, he thought best he didn't and he left. As soon as Chris was out of the station Natalie turned back towards John.
"Are you sure you are alright?" she asked him coming down from her rage
"Yeah, I'm alright and I can sort of see where he's coming from" John told her and he saw she didn't look good all of a sudden.
"I've gotta go, I'll see ya" Natalie said as she started walking towards the door to the station
"Wait, what's going on?" John asked as he stopped her from leaving
"Nothing, I...I.. I just can't take this today, being here anymore, I'm going home" Natalie told him
"You do look wiped, maybe it was to much for you today, I'll take you home"
"No, that's okay, I know my way, anyway don't you have to work on the case?"
"No, Tony and Kenny are just putting the their information together for today, tomorrow we look for Izzy and Matinio"
"Matinio Huh? I've heard that name, that guy is up for some heavy stuff? He's linked to Izzy?" she asked and John nodded
"Was he one of the guys in the photo's you showed me, I never have seen a picture of him."
"Natalie, I really can't get into the case with you, you know that"
"He was one of the guys, I bet he was the one with the mustache, and do you guys think he has Izzy or Izzy is with him"
"Natalie, I think I know where you're brain is going with this, and don't. Let us find him, them, let me find Izzy. "
"I wasn't up to anything, I was just curious, I mean I am allowed to be curious aren't I, the guy just did all this to me" Natalie told him and he gave her a face saying he didn't believe her.
"Go out with me tonight?" John asked out of the blue
"What? Like a date?" Natalie asked confused that he'd ask after all they went thru this morning
"Yeah, a date, dinner" John told her as he smiled
"John, we went thru this already, I don't think so"
"Come on, it's just dinner, we won't call it a date then, two friends hanging out, come on you know you want to, you have to eat. Maybe I'll let you win at pool."
" I don't know"
"Come on, please?" John begged a little more and he saw her giving in.
"Okay, dinner and maybe a game or two of pool as friends" Natalie told him and they headed out the door.
It was late afternoon and they both weren't that hungry yet so they went to Rodi's to play pool, when they were about to walk in Natalie looked into the bar thru the front window and she saw most of Llanview inside, well at least five to ten people she knew, she stopped before they walked in the door.
"What?" he asked as he saw her stop and get uncomfortable, he watched her twirl her hair in her fingers, and then she touched her face where she still was sporting a huge purple bruise.
"There's too many people in there, it's to crowd and I...I.. Don't feel like answering any more questions today, I'm just gonna go home" she said as she started to walk away, he walked after her before she got to far.
"Natalie ... wait up. This can't be the only pool table in town, is it?" John asked after she stopped walking away for him.
"No, it's not"
"Do you think the other bar would be less crowded this time of day?" John asked and Natalie smirked a little.
"Yeah, the other bar would be a lot less crowded" she told him and they proceeded to leave Rodi's'
Twenty minutes later John and Natalie got out of John's car. And walked towards Crossroads
"I don't understand why we had to stop for a six pack before we got here, doesn't this place serve beer?" John asked as he started to look around the place and noticed there weren't any other cars in the lot.
"Nope, it doesn't sell beer any more since it lost it's Alcohol license well actually they never renewed it" Natalie said as they approached the front door, John now knew why they stopped for beer and why there weren't any cars in the lot. He smiled and watched as she unlocked the door with a key she had on her key ring.
"You got a key to this closed down place?"
"Yeah, the old owner was sort of my pool coach and when he moved he asked me to watch it for him, I like to come here sometimes and play pool when Rodi's has too many people at it." Natalie said as they walked in the place and she flicked on the lights, the lights didn't come on.
"Oops I forgot the electric is turned off, I usually come earlier in the day" Natalie told him as she saw him start to think.
"It'll still be light out for a few more hours and do you think there are any candles or flashlights in the back?" John said and Natalie got a strange look on her face, candles she thought, sort of romantic, she shook her head quickly and got that thought out of it. They both went in the back and actually found some candles and a flashlight, it was kind of weird and if she didn't know better she would have thought he'd planned this.
John and Natalie played pool for hours, they drank beer, had a few snacks they picked up with the beer and they played, finally it started to get really dark in the place, Natalie set the candles up all along the bar, John came behind her and lit them as she placed them.
When all the candles were lit John turned to see her standing there, he didn't know what it was but something about the way the flames of the candles were glowing made her look even more beautiful. He was mesmerized by her, just like the first time he saw her; he couldn't take his eyes off of her.
Natalie watched him staring at her, right into her eye' it was the most intense stare they had shared yet, he looked into her eye's as if seeing into her soul, she all she was, all she wanted, her dreams, her ambitions, even her fears. She wanted to so desperately look away from his eye's but she just couldn't bring herself to do so, it was like they were hypnotizing her, she watched him start to walk forward towards her, he took a few steps never wavering his eye's never looking away and she tired so hard to think friends, to say friends but then he kissed her, he kissed her and the word friends was lost to her forever, when it came to John Mcbain, her heart would no longer be able to feel the word friend.
