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Chapter 15

Natalie kissed her Uncle as he got up to leave.

"Smile Honey, things will work out this time, I just know it, I feel it in my gut" Bo told her as he kissed her and saw John walk up behind her. He looked at john and then backed up a bit, he slowly walked away from her, she turned to see him walk away and she saw John standing there

"Hey" he said awkward not knowing how she was going to act towards him, act like he was the enemy or a friend

"Hey" she answered back softly not sure if she wanted to speak to him, she tried so hard not to look into his eye's, his blue eyes that were capturing hers

"Where's CJ tonight?" John asked as they stared into each other's eyes.

"He's staying over night with my mom" she told him and John's eye's widened a bit, they almost became desire filled, he looked at her almost like he wanted to kiss her or take her home to bed, she too started to feel strange, feel uncomfortable by what she was feeling when they both came out of there trance when someone cleared their throat, they turned to see Jessica and DA Hugh Hughes standing there.

"Natalie, I'm going home with Nash, do you want us to take you home?" Jessica asked as she looked between Natalie and a man she didn't recognize.

"I'm sorry did we interrupt something?" Jessica asked as John looked towards Jessica, he extended out his hand for her to shake as he spoke.

"Hi, I'm John Mcbain" John told Jessica and Jessica shook his hand and looked over at Natalie, Jessica knew all about John Mcbain, the John Mcbain, when Natalie came to Llanfair to live after they found her, when they eventually got close Natalie told Jess everything, the twins were extremely close. After a few minutes of silence Jessica spoke up.

"Nice to meet you John, I'm Jessica, Natalie's sister and this is Hugh Hughes" Hugh shook Johns' hand and said hello. The awkwardness was getting almost unbearable when Hugh spoke.

"Nat, how about I take you home so you don't have to go with Jess and Nash, we still need to discuss business about the Community center" Hugh told her and he didn't know John, he didn't actually care who he was but he did notice he got a steamed look on his face when Hugh suggested taking Natalie home.

"Hugh I'm not up to discussing work or business tonight, I'll just go home with Jess" she told him not wanting to cause more aggravation for anyone, John already looked pissed, Jealous from before, before he knew she was dancing with his brother and now, she didn't need anymore drama in her life, not tonight.

"We don't have to discuss business, and its not a problem I'm going in that direction" he told her and she nodded yes just as John was about to say something, something she was sure had to do with him taking her home. Hugh smiled and then excused himself to go get his jacket as Jessica told John it was nice meeting him, Jess turned to Natalie, hugged her and whispered in her ear.

"You never said how cute he was" Natalie smiled at Jess' words and told her she would see her. After both John and Nat watched her walk away John turned to Nat.

"Let me take you home" he asked her and she shook her head back and forth a few times, she got a bit teary eyes as she shook her head, she thought about home, a place where you are comfortable and surrounded by people or someone you love, a place that she use to have with John at his home, his moms home. Her home now, it was home but was surrounded with a different Love, her son, and her love for her son.

"Natalie, please let me take you home, don't be so stubborn, I meant everything I said earlier today"

"No" she said softly, "its for the best" she added as she started to walk away towards the door where she saw Hugh waiting for her, John let her walk away knowing there was nothing he could do, could do to change her mind, she was stubborn and until he figured out what the feds were up to, until he figured out how to get them off her back, he knew the more he pushed her the further away she would go.

Natalie approached the door and looked back briefly, he looked at her, their eyes locked for a minute and she started to walk out the door with Hugh.

A half hour later John sat in his car up the block from her house, he needed to make sure she got home alright, he didn't know this Hugh guy and he needed to make sure there was no funny business. Who was he kidding, he needed to make sure their wasn't anything going on between this guy and Natalie, to make sure his jealously wasn't warranted. He saw the car pull up, and park in her driveway, but she didn't come out of the car, it was fifteen minutes later and she still didn't come out of the car and go in the house.

John's jealousy started to rise again as he decided he couldn't sit any longer in the car, he walked closer to her house, across her lawn and over to her front porch where she was unable to see him from the car and the driveway.

After a few more minutes of standing on her porch trying to figure out if he should approach the car he heard her thank Hugh for the ride and start to walk towards the house. John walked a few feet away from the front door and sat on the wooden swing that hung from the rafters.

Natalie had her key in her hand and placed it in the lock when she realized she wasn't alone, there was someone on the porch, the swing to be exact, she heard the sound of the chain from the swing and she also knew who it was without turning around to catch his eyes, to see him.

Natalie let out a sigh knowing it was him as she turned to see him stand and walk a few feet closer to her, their eye's locked for a few seconds and she was lost, becoming found almost, something found her, their past, their connection, their love in a sense. She was having a hard time thinking when she asked.

"Are you following me Detective?" she asked him softly and he smiled slightly. Remembering the first time she asked him that.

"Yes" he answered as he came a bit closer, she continued to lose her calm exterior with having him so close, she wasn't fighting it although she knew she should, she was just caught up in who they once were. Without even blinking or wavering of eye's, he leaned in and kissed her hard on the lips, his tongue making a path into her mouth and savoring every last inch of it. After about five minutes they pulled apart breathless staring at each other yet again.

"What do you want Detective?" she asked trying not to remember he wasn't that same detective, he was a federal agent now. John didn't answer with words, he answered with actions; he pulled her body to his by her waist and starting again taking her lips for his own.

She received his kiss, the kiss she was secretly dying to feel on her lips since she first saw him, then she came closer to him, touched his body with hers. Natalie felt his mouth go down to her neck and she was continuing to get lost in it, in his actions. She started walking them backwards towards the swing.Asshe came upon the swing and started to lay her back down on it his body followed hers and laid slightly on top of hers.

John's mouth started to descend further down her neck to the little bit of cleavage she had been showing tonight. The few buttons on her shirt at the top weren't buttoned. Lowering his mouth tasting in between her breasts, he was enjoying something that he had wanted for over five years. Something he longed for over five years, her taste, the taste of her flesh. His body pressed up against hers more tightly as they laid back further on the swing. He was lost in her, in all that she was and all that he wanted, all that he loved when they both heard her cell phone ring from her purse a few feet away that laid on the floor of the porch.

The ringing was enough to bring Natalie out of her state of desire for him and to realize what she was doing, she got up, and moved a bit and he was forced to sit up too. She didn't go for her phone as the ringing stopped and she looked at him. John knew the moment was lost but refused not to give it one last try, he took her lips again hoping to start it again, start something that they should have done years ago, something maybe she wouldn't have been able to throw away so easily.

John didn't feel the tenderness on her mouth as he took her lips again, he stopped, and he knew it was gone, over for now, hopefully not forever. He watched as she quickly moved to her front door, opening it and only turning back slightly for a minute to use her words. Words meant to hurt, to push him away.

"I can't love you, I didn't back then, and I can't afford to let myself now" she told him as she lied about loving him back then, she didn't want him to know, she never wanted him to know, well at least she never wanted to actually tell him, she had hinted to it yesterday in there talks but she knew now wasn't there time, it couldn't be not when he still had his dreams with the FBI being fulfilled, and that was just something she could never live with not after all she had put her thru. It was best to completely end it now, end anything and everything, end all the feeling that was soaring thru her body for him.

Natalie left a stunned and shocked John standing on her porch, as she knew she hurt him with her words this time but she had no other choice.

John heard her words and they cut to the core of him. They almost seemed to be purposely hurtful, like she was definitely doing this to get rid of him, he shook his head, "if she wants to get rid of me I'm gone" he said to himself out loud as he stormed off her porch.