ABC Owns them


Chapter 30

The rest of the dinner party went off uneventful; John met everyone, all of Natalie's family and even a few family friends. It was a long night and everyone went home, John had told Natalie that he was tired so she insisted he go up to sleep as she finished cleaning up the kitchen.

About twenty minutes later Natalie walked towards the bedroom when she heard music coming from it, she shook her head and opened the bedroom door, a smile started to form on her face as all she saw were candles lit all over her bedroom, their bedroom. She walked in and saw a small radio in the corner of the room, there was some slow music playing on it and she looked around the room for him, she didn't see him. Finally after a few minutes he came out of the bathroom with two filed Champagne glasses in his hands.

"I thought you would've been a few minutes longer" John said as he put the glasses down on a small table she had by the window.

"What's going on? What's all this?" she asked as he started to walk closer to her.

"Lets dance" he told her as he took her hand and slowly danced with her, up against her

"Are you sure you should be doing this?"

"Of course, the Dr didn't say anything about not Dancing" he said and he smiled. He looked into her blue eye's and knew now was the right time, this was their style, her style, private, just the two of them.

"Really John, what's going on?" she asked with a bit of a smirk on her face knowing he was up to something

" Well... I debated about doing this earlier and ..."

"Doing this earlier with my family here?"

"Babe, can you just keep the questions till I'm done, this isn't the easiest thing for me" He said and he saw her make a motion of locking her lips and throwing away the key, he laughed as they continued to slow dance.

" I wasn't sure.. wasn't sure how to do this, to go about it, I mean, you .. well I know you like stuff private, so I decided this would be the best way"

"The best way for what?"

"Natalie, your mouth, remember?"

"Sorry, go on it's your show"

"I'm... I'm just gonna do it" John said realizing he had to just go for it, ask her, and ask her now, he was so anxious to ask her all day and now was his chance. He let go of her hand, and got down on one knee. Natalie gasped when she saw him on his knee.

"Natalie Buchanan, will you marry me?" John said and then he held his breath for a few minutes as he held out a ring for her. After she didn't say anything for a few minutes he got nervous and spoke again.

"We can be engaged for how ever long you want to be, till we know each other better, I just wanted you to have a commitment of some sorts, I just want us to commit to each other" John said as he saw her eye's get glassy.

"Say something Natalie, anything" John begged her, as she wasn't saying a word

"I didn't know I was aloud to speak yet" She said softly as she saw him laugh, she smiled as she gave him her hand, John took her hand, put the ring on it. Natalie looked away from his eyes for a minute and just stared at the ring.

"It's beautiful" She said still looking at it, John stood to his feet and touched her hand as he too started to look at it.

"It was my mom's. My dad gave it to her, he didn't have much money when they first got engaged, she brought it to me this morning at the hospital asked me if I'd like to give it to you, she said she was pretty sure you'd like it." he said as he stared out from the ring and into her eye's.

" She was right, I do" Natalie told him as she watched his eye's as he got a little insecure

"You know, if the stone isn't big enough, I can have it replaced with a bigger one," he told her

"Are you kidding? This stone is perfect, this ring is perfect," she said as she leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips.

"Thank you for making this perfect" She told him as they broke apart

"Perfect huh? You don't think maybe I should've waited till I was all healed and we could've made love after all this?"

"No, this is what we are, and we are so much more than just that" she told him.

"Come on, lets change and go to bed" she said as they both changed and got under the covers, Natalie laid her head on his chest and brought her hands on to his chest. He pulled her in as close as possible and they started to snuggle in for the night.

"This is who we are John, this is it" she said as she kissed his chest with her lips, she closed her eye's.

"I love you John Mcbain, and yes I'll Marry you," she said before falling into a content sleep.

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The next few Days went by fast, John had his checkup with his Doctor and was told everything was fine, today they would be leaving on there trip, there trip to get to know each other better.

John and Natalie were undecided on where to go for their trip so they decided where better to get to know each other than where they both grew up, they took the train to AC, reserved a room at one of the casino's for a few nights.

Natalie took John all around to her favorite spots in AC and some of the places she loved were also favorites of his. They were having such a great time that they hated for it to end, but they knew it would, they didn't discuss serious stuff like work and never touched the subject of Nat quitting her job while she was pregnant, or even quitting after the baby was born. The few times that it had come up she got stubborn and told him point blank it was her decision and only hers, which wasn't completely true but John was learning a lot about Nat's stubbornness.

It was about an hour before they were going to head back to Llanview, back to real life, and Nat just wasn't ready to go back yet.

"Can we go walk on the beach one more time before we go?" she asked him as they were on their way to the train station.

"Yeah, you really want to, It's really cold out today, it is the beginning of December remember?" he asked her as they drove

"I know, I... I just want to hold on, hold on to these past few days a little longer, Please, we won't stay long, I promise, I just want to walk a little "

Natalie and John walked on the cold beach when John could see she was getting a little misty.

"Hey, what's wrong, are you that upset about going back?"

"No, it's not that, I thing it's just my hormones"

"Yeah, are you sure?"

"I don't know what else it could possibility be, I mean ... here I am with you, the man that I've so quickly come to love and I'm having a baby, something I've wanted for a while, there isn't anything to be unhappy about." she told him and he saw her face their was definitely something missing, something going on, he pulled her to his chest and held her tight.

"You know you can tell me anything right, anything"

"I know, I just ...maybe it's just everything over the last couple months catching up to me. Being undercover at the Red Pelican, being beat up by Izzy, taken by Izzy, you almost dying, falling in love with you, getting pregnant, I mean... none of this was planned, and now... now I feel like I'm sure if I want to continue to be a cop, or work even."

"See, I grew up feeling worthless, I didn't have anything, Roxy, although she and I are over it, she was drunk most of the time and she would always tell me how worthless I was, how I would never amount to anything, I grew up feeling as if I would never be important or do anything important in life, and well, I went into the academy for that reason, so it's bothering me now to think about quitting it, as if quitting would make me unimportant again, I'm sorry, I know you can't understand this, lets just forget it alright?"

"Natalie, you are important, you're important to your family, to me, to our child, I just wish you could see that, understand that."

" I know John, I know, it's just a lot for me right now to know what I want and now being pregnant and with us on the verge of us getting Married I..."

" Well that's a good thing right, us getting married, you do still want to marry me don't you?"

"Of course I do, I mean.. I really.. really do"

"Alright then, I know what might make you feel better...lets set a date, we've gotten to know each other, we went on our little trip, lets just do it Natalie, It'll make you feel better,"

"Yeah, I think you may be right" she smiled.

"So when, when do you want to get married"

"How about right before Christmas?"

"Really? You do know Christmas is only three weeks away?"

"Yup, I know, I think I'd like for us to be married for Christmas, that way this year it'll be real special, I could use a real special Christmas, Mine have never been real special before"