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Chapter 27

"Natalie the phone is ringing, Nat your phone is ringing" Rex screamed to her in the bathroom

"Well Get off your lazy ass and answer it, you know I'm sick in here!" she screamed back at him

"Geeezzzz, if you are pregnant, I hope you get nicer," he told her as he answered the phone.

"Hey Bo, Yeah, Nat's here, what's up? What! What happened?" he said as he was a bit shocked by what Bo had told him and he didn't know how to tell her.

'Yeah, we'll be right there" Rex told Bo and then he turned away from the phone to see Natalie staring at him.

"Something's wrong" she said as he came over to her and tired to take her hands, she pulled them away.

"Natalie, Natalie' he said as she yanked hr hands from his grip

"He... I mean... He isn't ...Rex... What?' she said having a pain run down into her soul. She started to breath heavy.

"We have to get to the hospital, he was in a accident" was all he said as he grabbed CJ up from the Excersaucer and he moved her frozen body with his arms to get her to walk to the door.

Natalie still felt frozen, frozen in her own head, her own body, this couldn't be happening to her, she couldn't lose him and not when they just found each other, not when there just hadn't been enough time together. Rex had to guide her towards the waiting area in the ER, she wasn't moving, she wasn't listening, she wasn't hearing, she was a mess, so not herself.

Rex ran over to the nurses station and asked about him, then he ran back over to her and CJ, she was sitting at this point holding the boy on her lap but she wasn't really there, she was somewhere else, she looked at him as he tried to speak to her and her face stayed blank.

"Natalie"

"Natalie Balsom, Buchanan, what ever. Where the hell are you?" he asked her getting upset at what he saw, she was getting paler by the minute, this wasn't her, she seem to be somewhere else

Natalie's mind drifter to a different time, a few different places, if she was going to lose him tonight, right here, she wanted to remember, remember the first time she kissed him, the first time he held her, the first time they made love and he asked her to marry him. She was lost in her own mind.

Rex couldn't get thru to her it was as if she didn't want to come out of her head, she smiled briefly while in such thought. Rex took CJ from her lap, she didn't even flinch, he went back over a few feet away to the nurses station, he put the boy down on his feet as he held him up against the desk with his legs and held one of his hands.

' Are you following me detective' she said in her head, over and over all there cute exchanges all the moments of their short life together came back to her, she remember it all, there wasn't a lot of it but what there was, was beautiful.

She closed her eye's and she remembered their wedding their beautiful wedding day, the way he took her son, their son and walked him around trying so desperately to get him to walk, so desperately wanting to someday teach him to play football, she opened her eye's, her teary eyes and something caught it, and for a brief second she almost didn't believe what she had actually seen, as if she didn't see it, it brought her out, back.

"Oh. My. Gosh. Rex" she said walking toward Rex who was now scrunching down to the boys level and smiling a bit.

"Did... did I just imagine that" she asked him and he smiled although the situation was a bit tense

"Imagine what, this" Rex said and he let go of the boy, of CJ, her boy, their boy, he walked. He walked all by himself over to her; she grabbed him, and gave him a huge hug as she let a few tears escape onto his shoulders.

" Johns' gotta see this," she said as she held on to her son, to their son, hers and Johns tightly and moved him back and forth in her arms for a few minutes, she heard a familiar voice, actually two voices and she looked up at the words.

"As soon as he wakes he'll be able to " Michael said as he and Bo walked over. She got up of the floor she was kneeling on and holding CJ on.

"So... does that mean he's okay?" she asked cautiously

"Michael and the other Doctors say he will be fine honey" her uncle told her and she let out her breath, the breath she had been holding, unaware to herself.

"Can I see him?" she asked as Rex came over to her and tried to take CJ from her arms, she didn't give him up.

"I want to take CJ in with me" she told them and Michael smiled briefly

"I didn't even tell you, you could see him"

"It doesn't really matter what you said Mike, you weren't stopping me' she told him and gave him her stubborn Buchanan back bone.

"Damn, Johnny's really got his hands full with you huh?" he told her and she smiled a bit as she started walking towards the room that Michael had told hr was his, it was around the corner and away from the men, she was just about to open his door when she heard the creepiness in his voice.

"You aren't looking so good today Mrs. Vega" Agent Johnson told her as she turned and saw him.

"Are you feeling alright," he asked her as she ignored him and the use of her dead husbands last name, she started to proceed into John's room. He put himself in front of her and blocked her entrance.

"Get out of my way or I'll scream," she told him in his face as CJ was making a slight low screech sensing his mother's vibes.

"You wouldn't want to do that, or would you? Do what you want; I'll do what I want and what I have to " he told her as he walked away from her knowing he said just enough to get her to come to him. She turned away from John's door and over to him a few feet away.

"What is that suppose to mean?" she asked him as he smiled at her

"Not sure, it could mean lots of things, for instances, maybe it means just what it sounds like, do your thing and I'll do mine, scream for your uncle or your brother or who ever, and maybe I'll have to do something's, some other things, some not so nice things, things to someone dear to you' he said as he put his hand out to touch her son, she quickly backed up with him and glared at him.

"Are you threatening my son?' she asked point blank and he smiled

"This whole momma bare protecting her young is really what I like the most about you" he said with a smile

"But no, not threatening your son, I'm not that bad, especially since I got to celebrate the joyous occasion of him being born with you, maybe someone else, maybe no one, maybe it's nothing"

"Stop it! Stop it right now! No more games, what do you want? What is this about?" she asked strongly as her insides were mush.

" What it has always been about, about something you have that I need, a few things you have that I need" he told her as he know got a desired filled look on his face, she turned away from him as she knew what his face and his mouth were now saying. She bit her lip at what she was about to say, but she said it anyways.

"Did you do this to my husband?" she asked him point blank

"Yes... No...maybe' he told her playing with her as she now got steamed, he did it and she now knew it, she was pissed, but she had to do this smart.

"Lets just say I did have something to do with this, what would it be worth to keep it from happening again?" he told her and she understood perfectly. She got a look on her face, she shifted CJ into her other arm, she went closer to him, to this bully, and spoke softly near his ear.

"You're not getting into my pants, I may have something else that interests you" she told him and he looked at her, he gave her a sideways glance as she knew what she was doing, she was setting up the con, this girl, this older more wiser girl still could bluff with the best of them, and although she rarely ever used her abilities to con anymore, to bluff so to speak, and although it wasn't one of her best traits, her best assets, it still was something she could do well, perfect actually.

"Are you saying what I think you're saying," he asked her and she smiled a bit.

'Are we back to this game again Agent Johnson, then what do you mean, what are you implying game? Cause maybe it's better we continued the direct approach, I have a husband to see and my kid is getting heavy in my arms" she told him and he gave her a smirk.

"Direct works for me" he said

"My husband... My Dead Husband he left me some stuff, stuff you guys haven't, haven't never, ever found, not sure what it all means but ... but I've had it this whole time." she told him as Rex rounded the corner

"Hey, What the hell are you doing near my sister " he screamed as Natalie looked at Rex

"Its okay, agent Johnson was just being kind enough to tell me that he was glad John was doing alright and that he was glad it was going to stay that way" she told Rex but really she was telling Johnson. Rex listened to her words and saw her face, he knew, almost immediately what was going on.

"Isn't that right Agent Johnson," she added as if making a deal with him in code

"That was exactly Right Mrs. Mcbain" Agent Johnson told her and walked away from them.

Natalie started to move into Johns' room again as Rex stopped her this time.

'What are you doing Natty?" he asked her

"Going in to see my husband Rex," she told him short

"I'll be waiting for you right here after you are done"

"Suit yourself Rex, I'm going to be awhile"

'That's fine, I'll be here all night if I have to, you need to tell me what you are doing, or don't you know?" he told her as she walked into John's room with CJ in her arms