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Chapter 2

" What?" John said softly not sure if he heard Bo correct

"How dare you Comm. how dare you say something like that to me?" Darren started getting up from his seat, he stared into Bo's eyes, neither of them wavering there dispositions or their eyes

"Sit. Back. Down., I only speak the truth and you know it" Bo told Darren as he saw the man sit reluctantly. Bo turned to John after Darren sat and he softened his appearance and his tone.

"You heard me right the first time John, it's your son we are talking about and we really could use your help finding them" Bo told him calmly as he saw John's shocked face, John tried to speak but couldn't, all he could think about was he had a son, he didn't even know anything about him, he searched his brain and tried to figure out how old he could be.

"Three, is he around Three years old? John asked softly

"He was three last week," Bo answered as Darren just sat and evaluated the situation.

" I have a son, a three year old boy," John said out loud, trying to come to terms with it

"No, you don't have anything, I have a son, you weren't here, you left town and he's my son, since the day he was born." Darren told John coldly as he stared at him

"I wasn't here! I wasn't here cause she didn't tell me! I would've been here if she did"

"Are you so sure about that John?" Bo asked him softly

"What?" John again asked confused as he turned his attention from Darren towards Bo

"You were pretty messed up back then, your fathers murder it was affecting you, it ran your life. Does it still run it John, run your life?" Bo asked him

"I...I .. She had no right to keep this from me, none" John told them in a low calm tone

"Get over it already, you were no where to be found, she looked for you, I helped her, you just left her hear longing for you to come back and longing to hear words you would never be able to say, don't blame her, you're the one to blame" Darren told him coldly as the two men glared at each other, John got up pissed and was about to say something to Darren when Bo jumped in.

"Darren I think you need to wait in the hall, I need to speak to John alone" Bo said and Darren turned and left the room a bit reluctantly, but not before he made another uncalled for remark

"You're all my wife said you were, Demons and all" Darren said and he walked out of the door.

John took a seat again after listening to the arrogant words from this man, this man he didn't know, the man who was married to the woman he loved, the woman he still loves and would always love, the man who was raising a son he didn't know he had.

"John, I'm not going to make excuses for Natalie but she really did the best she could, she.. She confided in me, no one else knows except of course Darren, but she.. She really did try and find you at first but then.. Well she met him and I think he pretended to help her but.. Then he convinced her that if she found you and told you, that if that was why you came back and you weren't ready to be back, nor if you really wanted to be back, that everyone would just end up being miserable in the long run."

John heard his words but he wasn't really hearing them, he turned and looked out the window of Bo's office and saw Darren, her husband on the phone, he looked back at Bo.

"What's this guys story? And... and..."

"Just ask it John, I know you're curious, say it"

"And why did she marry him, is she in love with him?"

"It was convenient, their marriage, she got a father for her son, he furthered his career by marrying her, and then having a kid, on paper they are the perfect family, he's trying to be elected Lt Governor, she upped his chances of getting it, hell her being missing now has upped his chances of getting it even more."

"And the other question" john asked almost whispering

"I'm in no position to answer that, that is something you need to ask her when we find her"

"Hey, it's me, how are they? I understand she can be a bit stubborn, but she has to eat, find a way to make them eat, nicely, if I find out you laid a hand on them, your dead. Understand me? Good, plans have changed, meet me tonight they may have to come back sooner than planned." Darren said into his phone.

John sat back down in the chair as he put his elbows on his knees; he put his face into his hands and held it for a few seconds.

"I know this is a lot for you right now, but we really do need your help finding them, can you just hold all the anger you're feeling for her right now at bay? John, I need your help. We haven't found a single clue as to who has them and what they want."

John brought his face up out of his hands, he knew he would help, there was no question to that, the question was... could he ever forgive her, forgive the woman that he loved for having his child and not telling him, for all the deceptions.

" Was there a letter for a ransom? Was there any phone call demanding money? Is it possible she just left with her... son? Why do you think that isn't possible, we are talking about Natalie here, she is a bit impulsive" John asked Bo all these questions getting the answer of No to all of them but the last one, for a few minutes Bo didn't answer or say anything about the impulsive part.

"You've been gone along time Agent Mcbain, My wife isn't that girl anymore, she isn't impulsive, hasn't been in a little over three years, once our son came into life, she knew she couldn't be any longer" Darren told John as he walked into the room

John didn't respond to his words for a few minutes, he didn't want to get into an argument with this man about Nat's son really being his, he just needed to focus on finding them for now, find out who took them, he shook his head, thinking, thinking about this man, there was something about him, he couldn't put his finger on it, something with all of this didn't add up. John looked over the file on the kidnapping that Bo had handed him a few minutes ago, in the folder was a picture of his son, he scanned it with his eye's quickly, not wanting to get caught up in emotion and then he closed the file as he turned to Darren.

"They were taken from your home?" John asked and Darren nodded.

"I'll need access to it" He told Darren, Darren knew he had no other choice than to go along with this, if he didn't, he would surely be suspicious.

" You have to eat." the man told Natalie and Aiden when he brought there food in, Natalie just shook her head back and forth indicating no.

"It's been three days, the boy is hungry, let him eat"

"No, don't know what's in that food" Natalie told him defiantly

"You think I would put something in your son's food?"

"Why wouldn't you, you do everything your boss says right, don't look at me like that, I know you're too stupid to be running this thing, you're just a flunky for the big guy, so if the big guy says poison the food, I'm sure you're too stupid to say No"

"I should smack ya around for saying that but your husband wouldn't like it very much"

"What did you just say about my husband?"

"Nothing, nothing, I didn't say your husband"

"You did, tell me or it'll be worse when I tell him what you did to me"

"Are you threatening me, you are in no position to threaten pretty lady"

Natalie took a few minutes and had to think about it, this guy knew something about her husband, it almost sounded like Darren was the one behind this. She changed the way she was playing him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to act like that, I... I'm just so tired of being cooped up here, I mean.. When Darren brought up this idea of me staying hidden like this, I at least thought I'd get better accommodations, maybe at a spa or something but this place, and the food..." Natalie told the man nicely, she only hoped he was too stupid to realize or remember that she wasn't eating the food, if she had known all along Darren was behind this, that this was a plan why wouldn't she eat the food, she held her breath for a minute as the man seem to warm to her, he smiled, and he obviously didn't put two and two together.

Natalie smiled back at him for a minute.

"Do you want to have lunch with us, I could really use the company, and I'm sure you haven't eaten yet, there is plenty of food" she asked him and she saw the man get a sultry smile on his face which for a minute made her nervous but she overcame it long enough to set another place setting at the kitchen table in the middle of the room.

"I'd love too," the man said, as he watched her as she turned from him and walked over to the table.