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Chapter 16
Natalie ran into the house and slammed the door after she told him her lies, the Lies of never loving him and not loving him now. She turned her back to the door, lowered herself to the ground and started to cry, cry so intensely as her eye's shed all they had inside of them.
John was mad, hurt, he drove to AC as fast as he could. He shook his head trying to get her purposely hurtful words out of it. But he just couldn't, why? Why would she do that, say those things to him, especially after just about admitting she loved him to back then, after hinting to it last night.
John walked into his mothers house the house he once shared with her all those years ago and he lost it, he couldn't hold things inside any longer, he threw his damn jacket across the room, and flung himself on the couch, he ran his hands threw his hair before they rested on his eyes, his teary eyes. He had just found her again after all these years, and she did it again, she hurt him more than words could describe, he laid back on the couch and closed his eyes.
John tried to fall asleep on the couch but couldn't and he just didn't have the energy to go up to his room, his mom was still away, she was never home actually and he hated being in this house alone, after Quantico training he came back her for a few days four years ago but that was it, e couldn't bare to be here without her. He put his feet up on the arm of the couch and started to drift off as he thought about her some more, thought about how he had seen her after all these years and that she was a mother.
He smiled with closed eye's as he thought about watching her with her son, the way she was so gentle and just loved him so much, how her face lit up when she spoke about him. He felt his anger for her fade again, just like his bitterness, from all those years ago faded as when he saw her. He fell asleep knowing what ever reason she had for pushing him away, the stupid reasons that he figured had to do with the fact that he was a Fed, that it didn't matter, he loved her and he wasn't going to let her go, not again, he wasn't going to run and hide. He knew she felt something for him back then, even if it wasn't love she felt something and he knew with a little time now that he knew where she was and what has been going on in her life, that he could get her to love him the way he had always loved her.
He drifted off to sleep determined, determined to have her back in his life, after, after he resolved this situation about the government harassing her.
John walked into Finnegan's bar and tavern on 3rd street in AC; he took a seat in the back and waited for his friend for Mathew Thompson to show up. Thompson was an old Colleague from his first year in the FBI, they worked a few cases together, and Thompson went on to do better things, bigger things
Mathew climbed the ladder so to speak, he was up high in the bureau, he was meeting him today to tell him about Christian Vega, and what the Fed's weren't telling him, and also why he of all people were sent to try to try and get info from Natalie. He ordered a beer as he waited is friend.
"Mcbain, you bum, you look good man" Thompson said as he approached john and they man hugged when john stood.
"You to, buddy, you too" John told him as the two men sat.
After a few minutes of small talk catching up Thompson looked at John and asked him a question as he pushed a file across the table to him.
"You said this was personal, how personal Johnny?" he said using his first name, which told John of the seriousness of the case and the situation.
"Very serious"
"Yeah, I guess I didn't have to ask, its in the file" he told John and john was puzzled for a minute. He took a minute and read thru the file
"So it was a set up, they sent me purposely cause she and I had a past" he told his friend and the man nodded his head.
John continued to read the file in silence for a few minutes; he looked up after reading something that upset him to no end.
He gave a small bitter smirk " they locked her up, held her without a lawyer"
" For two days" John asked as he read the file
"Yeah, and she was pregnant, she had morning sickness and they wouldn't even ease up on her, they wouldn't stop with the questions" his friend chimed in as he saw John barely holding it together
"What the hell do they think she knows that keeps making them put so much pressure on her" john asked as his friend just motioned for him to read on, john read on.
"Her Husband was working for Flynn Lawrence, smuggling drugs?" he questioned as he read on
"So the kind artist smuggled drugs to clients thru his paintings, son of a bitch"
"Read on Johnny it gets better"
"So we were trying to flip him huh?'
"We did flip him, the only thing was... according to those files... was that the information he obtained for us, that info what ever it was incriminated more than just Lawrence, Vega's info also increminated a few bigger sources, a major drug family doing buisness in the Northeast. Vega supposedly has a conversation of all parties on CD."
"So that's why they wont leave her alone, they think she has the CD, it was never recovered when his body was found" John told him shaking his head and disgusted for being a Fed right now, the things in the folder that they did, just invading every aspect of her life, he was having a hard time thinking straight with those things, with learning those things, he just wanted to punish each and every one of them, one by one. But something wasn't adding up.
"But why? Why so severe? What exactly was on that CD?" Thompson shook his head, as if saying no, he couldn't tell him.
"No John, I'm not getting in the middle of this, I wont"
"Matt, you owe me and big time, tell me" he told him.
"This was enough John, I can't go into anymore that I know"
"I love her" was all John told him
"I already know that, its in the file," he told john and john looked confused for a minute till he realized it, they had been watching them, him and her since he stepped foot in Llanview.
"How's Sara? The kids?" John asked him and Matt knew what he was getting at.
'She's got a kid Matt but you already know that, she has no one to protect her, not like Sara would if the feds or anyone else thought she was holding out something on them, you wouldn't sit by idly and watch as they continued to harass the woman you loved. Tell me, it goes no further than my ears," he told his friend and his friend was silent for a minute.
"Its only been a few days but I love her and even her kid, I've got a real chance here you know, a real shot to have more to my life than the job, help me, do it for me, cause you know I would do it for you, if the roles were reversed.
Matt thought about it for a few minutes, he shook his head
"You wont find this in any file but the word around is, well... the info, the CD contained a few names of a few influential people in the Bureau, a few top ladder intervals who need the CD destroyed. If it got out, it .. Well lets just say the rumor is it would turn the whole Bureau upside down," Thompson told him and he told him he had to go.
"Take care Mcbain, and I hope it all works out for you, if you need anything else let me know," he told John as he got up to leave they shook hands
"Take care of the Sara and those kids alright pal?" he told him and they both smiled
"I always do, they are all that matters most" Thompson told him and left John to read thru the files some more
