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Chapter 12
John and Natalie laid with Nat's son CJ on her bed as she told him about how she came about being a Buchanan, well how she came about finding out about being a Buchanan.
Flashback
"Excuse Miss. Are you Natalie Balsom?"
"Yes" Natalie answered cautiously as she observed the man.
"My Name is Loren Harris and I am a PI for the Buchanan's, can I come in?"
"No, I don't think so, what do you want?" she asked the man as she held the door almost closed in his face.
"Ms. Balsom is there anywhere we can talk?"
"Here is just fine," she told the man as he got a defeated look
"Fine, the Buchanan's have hired me to find you, well to find a daughter they have just recently learned was stolen at birth and they believe you to be that daughter, they would like for you to have a DNA test done to see if you are said daughter"
"Ha...Ha... Ha. that's a good one, a really good con, and to use the name Buchanan, aren't they like those really wealthy people in Pa? Ha..Ha.. This is just too funny, go sell it to someone more gullible" Natalie told him and slammed the door in his face.
End Flashback
"So, you thought that guy was conning you?" John asked as he settled in nicely in her bed, he pulled a pillow on her queen size bed under his bed and a smile formed on his face as he became very comfortable on her bed and with her again.
"It wasn't till three days later when my Grandfather showed at my apartment and tried to explain the details of why they thought I could be a Buchanan"
"And how did that go?" John asked softly
"You haven't been in town long enough to have met my grandfather, have you?" she said with a smirk and a chuckle
Flashback
"What the Hell? Who the Hell is banging on my door?" Natalie said as she was awoken at 7am to a tall older gentleman
"What took you so long girl?" Asa spat out
"What's it to you old man, who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing banging on my freaking door like that" Natalie said giving it right back to him
"Well It's your lucky day little Lady, I've got a proposition for you" he told her as she became leery
End Flashback
"So he offered me Money, lots of money to take this damn DNA test, the damn Ridiculous DNA test to prove I was a Buchanan Heir of some sort, I thought it was ridiculous, I mean me a Heiress yeah, like that was right, but..but he kept smiling at me all weird and crap, and well the money, lets just say it would have helped out tremendously"
"So you went with him and had the test done?" John asked with a grin
"Yep, but I met him at the hospital of course, and of course I made him give me the money up front just to make sure he didn't stiff me" She told him smiling as she remembered Asa's words that day
"What are you smiling at?" John asked as he turned to see her slight smile when she was quiet for a few minutes
"When I asked for the money first he laughed telling me I could have it after but I got my stubborn defiantness up and stared at him and told him I'd be leaving, he smiled, gave me the money reluctantly and told me that stubbornness and determination were Buchanan traits." she told John and shook her head.
"So when did you get the results back and how come you didn't know about being a Buchanan?" he asked sitting up knowing this was the part that might be hard for her, he was pretty sure it was very hard for her back then. She was silent for a few more minutes.
"I got a call from a lawyer from Pa, the Buchanan's lawyer asking for a meeting with me, that the results were in, I just figured it was a technicality to tell me they were false, wrong, so I went to the meeting, and it..it .. it was more like some sort of welcome home party or something, with a whole bunch of people who were my family. My real mom was there, she's terrific, my dad, I've got two older brothers, Asa my grandfather was there of course and I even have a twin sister"
"Really?"
"Yeah, we aren't identical or anything like that and we also have different fathers"
"What?"
"Yeah" Natalie told him as she went on to explain what happened to her, that as a baby she was taken from the Buchanan's and given to Walter Balsom, taken by a mad man named Mitch Laurence, her Sisters father, and that just a few months ago when Mitch had come back to Llanview after being supposedly dead he had announced that Jess was his daughter and that there was another child, her. Natalie explained all about how Roxy hadn't known where Walter had gotten her from and that she never asked any questions.
After telling him the whole story, Natalie got quiet and so did John as he processed what she had just told him.
"Wow! Talk about a fairy tale huh? Always knew you were to good to be just some ordinary con artist from AC," he told her as he looked pasted CJ again and gave her a smirk. She met his smirk with hers.
"So what about Roxy, obviously your brother Rex is here in town, where is she?"
"She's here, she's cleaned up her act, she doesn't drink..much anymore, she and I have made peace with my childhood, although it wasn't easy being here at first, I mean, I grew up with nothing when I should have had things and shouldn't have had to put up with things the way I did, so lets just say it took me a bit of a while not to be vengeful. I wasn't very nice at first but then when I got to know everyone, things, things changed and I found some things I never had before, Love and a family." she told him and he got real quiet for a minute.
"That's not true Nat, you had those things, we had those things, and we had them together, if only for a short time when we lived in my moms house together we were each others family and we.. I mean I loved you, and you knew that" he said a bit insecure of how exactly she felt back then, he had always felt although she was so young that she had loved him the same as he loved her, although they didn't act on it, but.. But with what happened before he left for Quantico he has always doubted it. Been insecure about it.
Natalie saw his insecurity about her love for him back then, she had done such a number on his head she thought, she turned her head to look at him, she reached her hand across her son and rested it on his that were resting on his stomach, he looked to see her staring at him, their eyes locked and he saw it before she even said it.
"We, we loved each other back then, and I knew it, you were my family" she told him with her words and with her eye's. They stood like that for a few minutes as their gazing at each other and the lateness of the night came upon Natalie, she started to slowly close her eye's against her own protest and fall asleep, into a content sleep.
John felt a tugging on his on the sleeve of his shirt as he woke to a pair of small blue eye's staring at him, CJ Smiled as he started to move around and John looked over passed the boy to see Natalie still asleep, he also noticed the alarm clock behind her and it said 6:30, he looked back a CJ who was trying to move out of the bed, he smiled at him, as the boy let out a small noise and John got up carefully out of the bed taking the baby boy with him.
"Lets be quiet and let your mom sleep Okay?" he said to the wide-awake boy as he took him from the room and downstairs. John walked into the kitchen with the boy and started to go into the refrigerator. He wasn't quite sure but he some how figured the boy would needed a bottle. He took one out and handed to the kid as he started to drink it, he held him and they walked back upstairs to Nat's room to see her still asleep in the bed, John noticed the rocker in the corner of her room and he sat in it as he held her son and he took his bottle.
John rocked in the chair and watched her as she slept, her peaceful sleep as he held something of such importance to her in his arms, something that seem to be, becoming of great importance to him and fast, he realized that last night as she spoke about him, as she became tear eyes and spoke of loving him so much, how had this happened and so fast, fast again. He fell for her so fast all those years ago, she was everything to him and now..Now again as he continued to watch her she was still so much to him, meant so much to him and now her son, a son he had at one time back then hoped, had almost seen them with, that was.. That was before she did what she did, and in his house none the less.
John looked at her and then looked at her beautiful child in his arms, how was he able to forgive her for that? He asked himself, he shook his head remembering how bitter he was, how he swore he would never forgive her, how he never expected it, all these years later and he still never quite understood it, he knew her, that wasn't something she would do and on purpose, and she was far from stupid, so he knew it was done on purpose.
He saw her start to stir and he shook his head, however it went down back then, what ever had happened to make him run to Quantico, now..Now was a different story, now they might have a chance, they were both older, wiser, yet the same inside, she has been thru the ringer again, with a man she loved and the Feds. He couldn't be bitter now, not now, not five years later. He didn't want to be, he just wanted to be, be with her, in her life, in her son's life even. He knew what he needed to do, he needed to figure out this stuff with her dead husband, figure it out, as a fed, get them off her back, and then, then as himself, then he would show her, show how much she still means to him, show her that he wasn't bitter and that now was there time to love each other and be together for ever, to make all there dreams come true.
