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Chapter 4

John rented his old room at the angel square hotel and started to lay the files all over the room, he spread them out over the floor and he sat down in the middle of the papers and looked over everything, he had a feeling Darren had something to do with this, he knew more to this than the let on, maybe Natalie did leave him and he didn't want the scandal to effect his chances of being elected, then he thought about what Bo had said earlier in the office, said something about the kidnapping helping his campaign, no, he told himself and he kept looking thru the files.

Natalie felt all groggy, she sat up quickly and her head spun around for a minute, she focused herself and then she saw it, she was home, in her bed in Aiden's room, Aiden was sleeping in his bed, she quickly got up and put her hand on his back to feel it move up and down as he was breathing, she sighed a sigh of relief and then thought about if it was all a dream, did she dream being taken away, she shook her head and knew she didn't, she remembered, remembered that it must have been Darren, she wanted to know why, she needed to know why he put her and her son thru that hell, she stormed out of Aiden's room and looked into the master bedroom, he wasn't there, she went down the stairs towards his office but turned when she saw him sitting in the living room near the fireplace, he heard her and he turned towards her too.

"OMG! Natalie you're a live, where's Aiden? Is he alright? I was so worried, how did you get back?"

"Cut the shit Darren, I know you had us taken and before I call my uncle and have you arrested, I wanna know why? And how you could do this to us? Scare us like this?"

"Natalie I... I.. don't know what you're talking about"

"You son of a bitch, I know why, I know now, you thought you'd get the sympathy votes, bastard" Natalie said and she slapped him across the face, Darren grabbed her hand roughly.

John sat in the car, he couldn't sleep, he drove over to Darren's' house, he had just arrived a few minutes ago. Things just weren't sitting right with him; he saw all the lights on in the living room. He got out of his car and walked up towards the door quietly.

"Let go of me Darren, let go, I'm calling my uncle and your career is toast, gone, I can not believe you would put me and my son thru all that" Natalie told him as he continued to hold her wrists.

"Natalie you can't do that, everything I've worked for, everything we've built, it will be ruined, think about it Nat, there was no harm done, we can just cover it up" Darren said as he loosened his grip on her wrists little

"You're delusional" Natalie said as she pulled herself out of his grip so hard that he yanked her back forcibly and she went flying across the room towards the fireplace and fell heading her head on the brick hearth.

John was close to the front door when he heard a thud of some sorts and he looked into the living room from where the noise came and he couldn't see much but what he did see, made him approach the front door quickly, it was locked so, he banged on it for Darren to open up, when Darren didn't it, he too out his gun and shot the lock off till it opened, he ran into the living room to see Natalie unconscious on the floor by the fireplace, Darren was hovering over her feeling for a pulse.

"She has a pulse" Darren said as he sighed, John automatically called 911, he pushed Darren off to the side as he aimed his gun at him. John leaned down and checked to feel her pulse himself, then he brought his hand to her face. Darren backed up a bit, as the tow men stared at each other

"What happened!" John asked hostile as they both turned to here a small voice.

"Mommy, mommy, mommy" Aiden walked into the room rubbing his eyes looking for Natalie. The boy went from quietly looking for his mom to screaming in a matter of seconds when he saw her on the floor.

Darren ran over to him and picked him up, he pulled him close to his chest but Aiden wouldn't be comforted by him, he never was. John put his gun away quickly as he looked at the face of terror that the boy made.

"Take him in the foyer where I can see you, he can't see her like this" John told him as he watched Darren closely as he moved into the foyer to calm Aiden.

With in ten minutes the ambulance arrived and so did Bo, John had called him after he called the ambulance, Bo approached Darren and Aiden in the foyer and saw the boy was sobbing, he walked into the room and saw Natalie being lifted onto a gurney and the man starting to push it out of the room, Bo turned to John as John let go of Nat's hand that he had been holding the whole time as they waited for the ambulance.

"John what happened?" Bo asked and John explained what he saw, they both went over to Darren as he was still trying to comfort Aiden.

"Darren, we need answers," Bo told him as he approached

"Not now Bo, I need to go to the hospital and be with her, she shouldn't be alone," Darren told Bo and Bo nodded No. Bo reached over and took Aiden out of Darren's arms, Darren didn't give him up easily, Bo handed the boy over to John, who was dumbfounded and didn't quite no how to hold the boy.

John felt awkward with him in his arms for a minute, Aiden wouldn't stop crying, he turned him to look into him little face.

"It's going to be alright, your mommy will be fine" John told him and he pulled the boy to his chest, Aiden quieted within seconds, Darren looked on in shock, how could he comfort him and so quickly, John walked closer to Bo and told him he was going to take Aiden and go to the hospital to make sure Natalie was alright.

John was about to walk out when he turned back to Bo.

"Do I need one of those seat thingies for him?"

"Yeah, go look in Nat's car in the garage" Bo told John and John thanked him as he walked with his son.

Bo took Darren inside into the Living room for him to answer questions, Darren was not happy, not with the fact that Bo had handed his son to John, and then to the fact the Bo wouldn't let him leave to go see Natalie. He knew he had to be there when she woke, it was to risk for him not to be, that was of course if she woke.

John arrived at the hospital with Aiden about twenty five minutes later, it usually didn't take that kind of time to get from one end of Llanview to another but John was a bit nervous driving with his child in the car, first it took him almost ten minutes to figure out how to put the child's seat in his car.

John walked into the ER with Aiden in his arms, as he saw Vicky and Jessica were already there, Jessica saw John with her Nephew and she walked over to them.

"Didn't know you were back in town?" Jessica said as Aiden put his arms out for her to take him

"unt essica" Aiden said and he smiled a little, the three yr olds smile was weak, he was exhausted, he had been thru so much, but some how he still managed to smile.

"Do you know what's going on John and where is Darren?" Jess asked

"I'm sorry, you do know about Darren right?" she asked and John shook his head yes.

"Not sure what happened Jess, is there any word on Natalie?" John asked as it began to set in, the fear, the fear that she might be really hurt, she was still breathing when they were at the house, she still had a strong pulse but she seem to take a nasty fall, a fall, he thought to himself, was it a fall or was she struck, or pushed or shoved even, he began to get angry again as he saw Jessica give him a look wondering what was going on in his head.

"I'm sorry, I zoned out there for a minute" John excused himself as he heard her pick up there conversation

"There isn't any word on Natalie yet" Jess told him as she continued to hold Aiden

"Why don't you take Aiden and have a Dr make sure he's alright, he seems to be fine but not sure what he's been thru lately" John told her and she nodded as she spoke.

"That's a good idea John"

Jess took Aiden and went over to one of the nurses at the desk, the boy looked back at John, john watched his son's face, he smiled at john, his son smiled at him and didn't take his eyes off of John till he was down the hall and entering an exam room.

John walked closer to the room they obviously had Natalie in, he smiled weakly at Vicky as she waited outside it but neither was up for words. John continued to pace the floor for the next twenty minutes when Jess came back with Aiden.

"He's fine, perfect the Dr said" Jess told John and she saw John sigh.

"Good" John said and she watched John, did he know, she wondered.

"John.. do y---" Jess began to say as John cut her words off.

"Yes, I know he's my son, I didn't know anyone knew, but I guess you're just not anyone to Natalie are you?" John told her and she nodded her head.

After a few minutes of being held the boy was becoming heavy for Jess and he wanted down, Jess put him down in a seat by Nat's exam room, but Aiden was getting bored, he jumped out of the seat and started to walk around, he curiously walked behind the empty nurses station where he became curious and started opening and closing all the drawers on the desk.

John watched the boy in amazement, it was so funny how he just took himself and did what he pleased, not regretting it not asking permission, he was curious to what was in those draws and he opened them, he was definitely Nat's son, a handful and stubborn. When Jess reprimanded him about him being behind the nurses desk, he completely ignored her and went on doing what he wanted to, Jess at this point went over to pry him away from the desk, when the boy was to stubborn and wouldn't leave.

John watched with a slight smile on his face, oh he had Nat's disposition all right, the more you told her NO, the more determined she was. Out of the blue they heard Darren's voice.

"Aiden, stop that, you are not allowed behind there" Darren told Aiden in a stern demanding voice, the minute Aiden heard Darren's voice and tone, the boy stopped short in his tracks and returned to the chair silently.

John observed what happened and it didn't sit well. He approached Darren.

"He was just being curious, it doesn't warrant that type of tone," John told him coldly

"And what is it you know about Children Agent Mcbain? Wasn't aware you had any" Darren told him back as John walked closer to the man staring him down, John was about to say something not so nice back when the door to Nat's exam room opened, Michael and another Doctor walked out. Everyone gathered round as they looked at the doctors.

"How is my wife, Dr Mcbain?" Darren asked Cooley, as he was anxious inside to know if this was all going to blow up in his face at this very moment.

"Physically she's fine, she has a slight concussion, nothing major"

Everyone let out a sigh of relief of course everyone but Darren. Which John made a mental note of.

"Can I see her?" Darren asked and Michael stopped him as he started to walk into the room.

"Not yet, there's something all of you should be aware of"

"What is it Mikey, tell us?" John asked him anxiously, for Michael just scared him.

"She's got a case of amnesia, we think it's temporary and it's just a mild case, she doesn't seem to remember the last six years, she still thinks she's engaged to Christian Vega"