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Chapter 12

Aiden woke and ran into the bedroom to find Natalie and John asleep with the covers over them, the little boy was to young to realize what he may have walked in on and he started to climb up on the bed. He put himself right in the middle between the two of them before either of them woke.

John woke first as he opened his eye's realizing their were a pair of blue eye's that matched his staring back at him, he almost jumped but realized he was only wearing a sheet. He smiled at Aiden.

"Mommy sleeping late again?" Aiden asked and John answered yep.

"Hey buddy, why don't you go in the other room and set up your trains, I'll come out in a minute and we can have breakfast and play trains, Okay?" John asked and Aiden got a big smile on his face, the boy walked towards the door, but turned back before he left.

"My daddy never played trains with me, he too Issy," Aiden told John

"Not me Buddy, I'm never too Busy to play trains with my favorite guy" John told him and he saw his son smile, as soon as Aiden left the room John got up gently and went into the bathroom to get dressed.

Natalie woke to a house full of Laughing, she got up out of bed, threw on some clothes and looked out into the living room to See Aiden and John rough playing on the floor, John was tickling Aiden and Aiden was ticklish everywhere, she shook her head, how did she know that? she smiled knowing that she was beginning to remember things.

Natalie was still smiling when John looked over to where she was standing by the doorway and saw her.

"Hey, you're a wake, what are you smiling at?" he asked with a curious smirk

"Nothing, I... I just think I'm getting parts of my memory back"

"Something else other than this morning?"

"Yeah" Natalie said as she walked into the room closer to Aiden

"Morning Buddy, you want me to make you breakfast?" Natalie asked Aiden as she leaned down and kissed the top of his head as he continued to squirm around from being tickled.

"I already fed him, there's a pot of coffee made to, if you want some" John told her and he saw her face.

"What?'

"Nothing" she said as she walked inside to get a cup of coffee. Ten minutes later she walked out to see they were playing trains again, she took her coffee and sat on the couch and watched them for a few minutes, then John took a break from playing and sat next to her on the couch.

"He really likes those trains doesn't he?" John asked as they both looked at Aiden.

"Yeah, there his favorite, he'll spend hours on hours just amusing himself and playing with them." Natalie said and she smiled again, "I'm remembering things, again" she said looking into his eyes

"Yeah, you are" John said as he leaned in to kiss her but realized maybe it wouldn't be a good idea in front of Aiden. He tilted his head" maybe not so soon in front of the kid"

"Yeah, it might confuse him since I'm married to the man he thinks is his dad" Natalie said as she pulled away from his close lips, she backed herself up against the couch. They looked at each other for a few minutes as John tried to gather the right words to say, to ask. He debated his questions in his head and wasn't sure now was a good time to ask them.

'Just say what's on your mind John" Natalie told him, he smiled at her

"You always did know when I had something to say or ask"

"Just ask it"

"I think it can wait, I mean... until you get all your memories back, it isn't fair of me to ask it now"

"You wanna know about Darren, if I know if I loved him, if there's a possibility that I might be going back to him when I regain my memory" she said and he nodded yes, he also noted how in tune she was to him, she always was.

"I ... I.. don't remember him, remember being in Love with him, he and I didn't seem to have anything strong, not like we seem to have... I definitely wouldn't have made Love with you if I thought I had Loved him, Jess says it was different for us, for he and I, she wouldn't get into any other details. I'm positive I've never loved him like I love you." Natalie and John stared right into each other's eyes when John's cell phone went off.

John smiled at Natalie and he answered his phone, he spoke to Bo for a few minutes on the phone and then he hung up.

'You've gotta go right?" Natalie asked as she saw him hang up the phone

"It's about your car and the brakes being cut right?" Natalie asked yet another question and John nodded his head yes. They both got up off the couch.

"Lets call up to the house and see who's there to stay with you and the kid" John told her and she smiled as she shook her head

"What?" John asked smiling back at her

" You called him the kid...I don't know, it's... cute.. sort of like I've heard it before.. Like I remember you saying it before"

"Well.. . Actually I use to call you kid, the kid, when you played pool, a very long time ago" John said as he continued to smile, she looked back at him almost remembering it, almost. They stayed frozen staring into each other's eyes for a few minutes when John finally broke the trance.

"I've really gotta go" he said and he went over a few feet away and said Goodbye to Aiden. Then he walked with Natalie to the door.

"Lock this and call over to the house, have someone come and keep you company"

"Yes, Sir!" she said as she watched him walk out the door.

"Hey, maybe I'll take the kid" she said and she purposely smiled "to the park if maybe you can get some time and you want to meet us for lunch"

"Yeah, I think I could probably arrange that, don't go alone!" He said smiling but getting his point across, about her safety coming first. She nodded and he again attempted to leave when he turned back quickly, checked to make sure Aiden wasn't watching and he gave her a quick kiss on the lips, she smiled and waved goodbye.

About Three Hours later Natalie and Jess along with Aiden and Jess' daughter Tabitha walked thru the park. They were all laughing and having a good time, although Natalie still didn't remember things she was beginning to, little by little, but stuff was coming to her.

Jess and Natalie watched as the kids played on the swings.

"Aiden, not any higher than that, you'll get hurt" Natalie called to him as she saw him swinging really high, well.. Not really to high but for a three year old by himself on a swing, Nat thought it was too high. She wanted to push him but he got stubborn and told her point blank, he wasn't a baby and that he could do it himself, all by himself. She had smiled when he said that cause he looked so much like John as he was saying it and it was definitely a do it alone trait that she remembered about John.

Natalie and Jess continued to talk on a bench a short distance away from the swings when Jess cell phone rang, she looked at the Id and it was work, she excused herself for a minute as she walked a few feet away leaving Natalie alone on the bench to watch both kids.

Natalie was beginning to think about what a good night she had, her and John, how it felt good to be with him, she continued to think when she saw Tabitha jump off the swing and start running over towards the older children's play ground just behind a few tree's. Jess was still on her cell phone and had walked over by the car a nice distance away. Natalie called out for Tabitha but she didn't come back when Natalie started to run after the child. Natalie ran over to Tabitha as the she continued to keep turning around to see Aiden, he was still on the swings.

"Tabitha, you can't just run away from Aunt Natalie like that, and when I call for you to stop, you need to listen, Okay honey?" Natalie told the four year old as she leaned down to talk to her, the child nodded her head and they both walked back towards Aiden and the swings the only problem was... Aiden wasn't anywhere to be found.