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Chapter 33

" Alissa, what did you just say?" John asked anxiously, not wanting to frighten the child, she was obviously upset enough, but wanting answers none the less.

"I .. I went back, to tell her, cause I forgot, and.. I saw Uncle Chris he was holding her. He said she didn't feel good, said she asked him to help her feel better, that he was gonna help her, she'd be at the house in time to get married, said that I shouldn't tell anyone, that he'd have her back before it began" Alissa said sounding upset

"But she's not back, he said she'd be back right away, I waited here and she's not here, I looked for her but, she's not h---" Alissa said starting to cry, Jessica leaned in and held her to her chest and told her it would be alright, Jessica looked up at John as she leaned down to her child.

"You do know she wouldn't just go with him right?" Jessica told John softly not to alarm Alissa

"Yeah, I know" John said as he headed into the Living room to speak with Bo.

After John explained things to they went into the living room where John took out his cell phone and called the station. Telling every one to be on the look out for Chris's car he ran to the carriage house hoping to find a clue as to what Cris did to Natalie and where he might have taken her. He ran so fast out of the door of the house that he almost slipped and fell on the snow coated ground on the path to the carriage house. The snow was really piling up outside, this was another thing starting to worry him now, the snow, it was coming down so fast it was becoming dangerous.

John ran into the carriage house and saw the back French doors open. Knowing that must have been how he took her out, he thought about what Alissa said, about Chris saying Nat didn't feel good. He looked around on the ground and saw something; it was her veil, picking it up gently as he began to lose his calm exterior. He pushed it back, the anger, the pain, all the worry, the guilt that was right at the surface for him. He had known something was off about Chris when it came to Nat and right now he was mentally trying to keep his cool, so he could find her.

John held the veil and then looked to the ground again, he saw a piece of Material, he picked it, brought it to his nose, "chloroform", he said out loud.

"That Son Of a Bitch" John said losing it full force and he threw a vase that was on the near by table to the ground. He didn't see Bo and Clint walk in till after he broke the vase into a million pieces.

"John! Calm down John, I don't think he'll hurt her" Bo said as he approached him.

"He may not want to hurt her but what about the baby, he chloroformed them, where's Michael?" John asked and Clint got on his phone and called the house asking that Michael come down to the carriage house.

" Bo, where would he take her, do you have any idea's" John asked as he started to calm again

"The Cabin" Jessica said as she walked into the carriage house, Michael followed shortly behind her

"The Buchanan cabin?" John questioned Jessica

"Yep, it was always special to Chris, it... it was the first place they..., that's not important, but I'm pretty sure he'd be taking her there" Jessica told him

"That's if they make it there" they heard Clint say behind them

"The snows coming down pretty hard, it's probably worse by the cabin" Clint said and John didn't say a word back to him, he needed to leave and go find her and now, even if there was a snow storm out there.

Before John was completely out the door he grabbed Michael aside to ask him a few questions.

"Michael, chloroform, if she was chloroformed would it have any .. do any harm to the baby?" John asked almost not wanting to know if the answer was yes.

"Not sure Johnny, it all depends"

"On what?"

"On how much of it she ingested, how much it took to knock her out" he told John and John didn't say another word to him and ran out of the house, he did turn back to Bo and nod when Bo told him to check in every now and then.

" What the Hell is going on!" Natalie yelled at Chris as she woke to find herself in his car driving with him in the snow that seemed to be coming down a inch a minute.

"Just go back to sleep Nat, we'll be there soon" Chris told her calmly as he tried to see thru all the falling snow

"Chris, stop the car, stop it right now!"

"Can't do that pumpkin"

"Christian, I'm not going anywhere with you, turn the damn car around and take me back to Llanfair, I'm suppose to be marrying John!"

"You're not going back and you're not marrying anyone, you belong to me!" Chris said losing his calmness.

Natalie saw the rage in his face, and she looked outside the car, the snow was getting worse. Noticing how hard it was for him to drive in it, as mad as she was right now, as angry and confused as she was right now she needed to keep him calm. Driving conditions were pretty bad and she knew if he wasn't concentrating on the road they could get hurt.

"Okay, Chris, Okay, where are you taking us?" Natalie asked calmly

"To our place, the place where we made things right, the place where we first made love" Chris told her

"The cabin?" Natalie asked and then Chris smiled at her and nodded

"That sounds great Honey, but the snow it's really coming down fast, I'm not sure we'll make it to the cabin if it keeps up like this. Maybe we could stop somewhere, Oh, wait at the hotel right before Rt 9. Remember that old hotel?" Natalie again said everything calmly, not wanting t o upset him and cause an accident. She mentioned that hotel hoping he'd take them there instead, knowing that was the last bit of civilization before the mountains.

"That old Hotel?" Chris questioned

"Yeah, just for now, just till the snow stops and we can make it up to the cabin" Natalie told him and she saw he was about to go for it, then the baby kicked her and she moved her hand automatically to her stomach. Chris noticed what she just did and his temperament changed.

"No! We're going to the cabin," Chris said furiously as he jerked the steering wheel with out realizing it and ran off the road into a high pile of packed snow that the car couldn't drive thru.

It was fast but Natalie saw what happened. She didn't think about anything, not her, not the baby, not the snow, only that he was unstable and she needed to get away from him. Jumping out of the car quickly when it wouldn't move cause of the snow, she ran. She took the blanket with her, the one that he had placed over her wedding dress when he took her from the Carriage house for she didn't have a coat.

Natalie ran as fast as she could in the packed snow as she saw him jump out of his car, leaving the car door opened. He started to run after her and she continued to run approaching a few trees and tried hiding in between them, so he wouldn't see her.