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Chapter 17
"John" Natalie said again as she continued to hold his arm with her hand.
"No, Nat, I'm not gonna look at you, I asked you, I asked you several times to be sure cause I didn't want it that way again, I didn't want for either of us to regret it and now you are." John told her as he got up completely, he started looking all over for his clothes.
"You think I'm regretting it?" Natalie asked confused by how he could jump to that conclusion. She started to get off the pool table and walk closer to him.
"Well you are, aren't you?' he asked as she found his shirt that he was so desperately looking for, she handed it to him and their hands touched briefly, she let her fingers linger touching his. Again she asked him
"Look at me John, really look at me, I've been thru so much in the last day and a half and this is the only thing that has felt right, us, us making love" Natalie said as he finally turned and looked at her, he listened as she continued.
"I think I may be falling as fast as you are, No, I know I'm falling faster than you, I've known all along and it scared me, just be patient with me alright? I don't always do this trust thing so good," Natalie told him as he interlocked their fingers that had been touching. He moved back towards her and he went in for a soft kiss. After their tender soft kiss, John leaned his forehead against hers and they both stood that way with their eyes closed for a few minutes.
"Wanna go back to my place?" Natalie asked softly as they pulled their heads apart and started to gather their clothes.
"I thought you'd never ask" John said with a smirk as he found her bra for her and helped her on with it. They both finished getting dressed. They drove back to Nat's apartment in silence until he wanted to know more, more about her, he remembered some of the stuff Bo had told him about her but he wanted to learn about it, about her, from her.
"Your uncle told me you grew up in Atlantic City like me" John told her
"Yep, not the nice part of town, the part you don't walk alone at night"
" And you weren't always a Buchanan?"
"Well actually I've always been a Buchanan I'm actually the only female true Buchanan blood line, I have a brother in England and he is also a true blood Buchanan, I have several other brothers and even a twin sister"
"Excuse me, how can you be the only true blood if you have a twin sister"
Natalie laughed at his question and gave him the technical answer, not that he understood it, not that she understood it but he did a good job faking his understanding of it. They continued to talk about their childhoods and the things that they liked to do, their favorite things and then they arrived at Nat's apartment.
"You're coming up aren't you?" Natalie asked him as she saw him sit still in the seat while she got out of the car.
"Yeah, I'm coming up, wanna race?" he said and he raced her up the stairs
"Hey, you can't do that, you're blocking my path" she told him as she ran up the stairs trying to beat him to the her apartment, he playfully put himself in her way so she couldn't get by him as she caught back up to him after he ran passed her the first time.
"I can do what ever I want remember you're falling for me"
"That doesn't mean you're allowed to cheat"
"Who's cheating, I'm not," John said as she opened the door with her key
"Oh, you cheated alright, cheater" Natalie said as she closed the door behind both of them after they walked into the apartment.
"Cheater Huh? I'll give you cheater" John said as he kissed her roughly, he picked her up and walked them inside to her bedroom, he put her down on the bed gently and they made love again, softly and tenderly, taking their time and enjoying the sensation of each other and their togetherness, afterwards they laid tangled up in each other as they held on tight to each other not wanting to ever let go.
John was half asleep when he ran his finger over a sensitive spot on the back of her neck; she jumped by the quick jolt of pain.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was so sensitive back there, let me take a look at it." John said as he moved her hair from away from the place and noticed a circular red burn type mark.
"Natalie, what the hell is that?"
" I don't know but it's sensitive, it hurts a little, what does it look like?"
"It looks like a cigarette burn, like someone burned you with a cigarette on the back of your neck, right at the hair line."
"What? Why? Oh, My God!" Natalie said and she ran inside to the extra bedroom that she used for an office, she came out with a few files. She was flipping thru the pages as she walked back over to him.
"What is it?" John asked
"Does it look like this?" Natalie asked him as she showed him a picture of the autopsy of one of the women they suspected Izzy killed.
"That son of a bitch!" John said realizing what this was he was looking at, it was the files on the girls Izzy killed, the murders they couldn't tie him to legally but everyone knew he was responsible for.
"He must have done it to me when I was out, I can't believe I couldn't feel something like that, that's odd but I guess I was really out of it"
"You do know what this means right? "
"Yup, now we can tie him in to the murders of those girls, it should be enough to get an arrest warrant, if we could only find him to arrest him that is" Natalie said and John knew all that but he also knew what else it meant.
"That, but it also meant... well, that he was most likely going to kill you and something happened to him, something went wrong." John said and she shivered a bit. John put the file down, he took her hand and led her back into bed, and he laid her on his chest.
"Go back to sleep, we'll figure out the rest in the morning, you really need to try and rest some" John told her knowing this was getting to be a little to much for her right now, he could tell with the way he saw her shiver a bit.
The next morning John woke to feel her gone, he got out of her bed and called out for her but she didn't answered he had a feeling he knew where she went and then when he saw the note on her dresser he knew.
John walked into the police station about seven am, he walked right over to her desk and sat across from her at her desk without her even knowing, she was so wrapped up in her files that she didn't even see him or even hear him at first, not till he said her name a little louder.
" I'm sorry, I guess you saw my note" Natalie said after he said good morning to her, she smiled hoping he wasn't mad about her leaving so early.
"Are you mad?" she asked him as she saw he didn't smile back at her.
"No, not really but... you do know you shouldn't be working on this case, actually not any case, Bo made it perfectly clear that you are on a leave of absence for awhile, till your all healed both physically and emotionally."
"I'm fine John, I can do this, I'm feeling good, we just got this break in the case, I'm alright really, thanks for the concern"
"Natalie you 're not fine, you may insist you are, you may think you are but you 're not, I can tell"
"John"
"Natalie, you shivered last night when his name came up and... and well it doesn't matter anyways, this is the FBI's case now and you are off of it."
"Excuse me!"
"You heard me, it's my case now kindly hand over the files and your findings"
"No way buddy, why are you doing this to me?"
"Because I care about you, I don't want to see you get hurt again, stay out of it"
"Please Natalie, just stay away from it, "
"John, I have to do this, he took so much away from me, I'm afraid now, I feel powerless, not in control and I need to find him and put him away to make myself feel better."
"I can do that for you, trust me, I'll take care of Izzy Foley, he'll be getting what he deserves"
