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Ch 10

" Natalie, now isn't the time for this, later, later I'll tell you what you want to know but for right now I think to re---" John's words were cut off by Darren.

"Come Home with me, I'll tell you everything, you need to know, anything you want to know" Darren said as he approached Natalie. Natalie shook in front of him, looked him in the eyes and shook her head No.

Before anyone else could say anything else Bo walked back over with Aiden, he handed the Boy to John.

"John why don't you take my car, take Nat and Aiden back to the carriage House, you can meet me at the station after that, I'll get a ride with one of my officers"

John agreed, He, Nat and Aiden walked towards Bo's car with Darren following behind trying to get Natalie's attention, but she wouldn't turn to him.

"Natalie, I promise to tell you the truth, just come home where you belong, you and Aiden are my family, you are my Wife for God's sake!"

Natalie slowly turned to him when she heard him raise his tone a bit.

"I don't feel like your wife and I will not ignore what I feel, leave me alone" She told him and got in the front seat of Bo's car.

John started the car and proceeded to drive them to the Carriage House, he made a phone call making sure someone would be there to stay with Natalie and Aiden, he didn't want them being alone, he still was unsure what Darren was completely up to, he was obviously the one behind his brakes being cut and his gut had been telling him all along that he was behind her kidnapping, he just didn't know what else he was capable of.

John pulled the car into the Driveway at the Carriage house, he turned to see a sleeping Aiden in his car seat, he turned back around to meet Natalie's gaze. They stared into each other's eyes for a few minutes when John reached his hand out to hers that was resting on the seat, he laced their fingers together for a minute and then finally he spoke.

"Somebody should be inside to stay with the two of you, I'll answer all your questions tomorrow," he told her as he stared into her beautiful blue eye's.

"Will...will.. you be coming back tonight, to see us, maybe check up on us," she asked and he smiled.

"Do you want me too?" he asks still smiling

"Yeah.. It's weird.. I mean, I feel completely safe with you, even being in that car with no brakes, I ... knew you wouldn't let anything happen to me or to my son.. our son. ...was it always like that?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, the safeness I feel, did you always make me feel this way.. safe and... and.. never mind it's not important, go figure out who tried to kill us tonight." Natalie said all this and she jumped out of the car, John too got out of the car, he got Aiden out of his seat and carried him inside to his bed.

By the time John got out of putting Aiden in bed, he saw Rex was there. They nodded hello to each other and then he headed towards the door with Natalie following him to show him out.

"See ya" Natalie told him as she held the door open for him so he could exit thru it. John took his hand and caressed her cheek with his palm.

"Yeah, see ya" he said as he left, turning back a few times before he got to the car, only to see her still standing at the door watching him leave.

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Darren sat up the block in his car, up the block from Llanfair, he watched John leave, 'good ' he told himself as he picked up his phone as he started driving off.

"What the Hell were you thinking, you could have killed her and my son tonight, I said get rid of Mcbain, not my wife and son! You better be more careful next time, wait... I think maybe we won't have to get rid of him, we could just make him leave town, I've got a plan, meet me at the docks"

Sometime about two in the morning John knocked lightly on the door to the carriage house, he was standing there for a few minutes when a very sleepy Rex finally answered it.

"Hey, you can go if you want, I'm here now" John told Rex as he walked into the carriage house.

"No, that's okay, if anyone's gonna stay and take care of my natty and my nephew it's me, you never know, you might run again, and not come back for three more years" Rex said in his usual charming tone. John just gave him a phony smile and took a seat on the couch.

"Suit yourself, then we both can sit here on the couch and stare at each other," John told him and he saw Rex head towards the door.

"Take care of her Mcbain, not like the last time, better this time, she deserves it" Rex told him and he was out the door, John followed him and locked the door up tight.

John walked away from the door and went upstairs to check on them in the bedrooms. He walked into the room she was staying in and he stopped by the door to the room. He stared at her asleep on the bed with their son sleeping on her chest, he sighed as he took in this wonderful sight, they looked so peaceful he thought and then he noticed Aiden seemed to be stirring, he must be uncomfortable he thought, he quietly went over to him, gently lifted him off of her and carried the boy into the other bedroom.

John laid Aiden down on the bed, he pulled the covers up and over his son, John then leaned down and kissed the top of his head. He was heading back towards Nat's room when he heard her scream.

"Get away from me, leave me alone, where's my son!" Natalie was still screaming when John entered her room.

John ran when he heard her screaming, he was a little relieved when he saw she was just having a bad dream, he moved closer to her as she was still in an upset state, he pulled her up off the bed and pulled her to his chest.

"It's Okay Natalie, it's okay, Aiden's okay, nothings gonna happen to you, to either one of you, I'm here, I'm here now" John told her as he saw her open her eye's and wake. She didn't see Aiden

"Aiden?" she questioned trying not to panic with not seeing him on the bed with her.

"He's okay, he looked uncomfortable, I put him in his bed"

"Thank you,"

"Are you okay now?"

"Yeah, a little but... but I'd be better if,.. If you held me," Natalie told him as she looked up into his blue eyes. John let go of her for a second, he stood and took off his shoes, then he laid down on the bed next to where she was sitting, she moved closer to his chest as he pulled her into it, he wrapped his arms around her and held her.

"I'd be better if I held you too"