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Chapter 30

"What is that, it looks like some type of Disk, CD" Rex asked as he saw John stop his rage for a minute and also look at it, Rex bent down and picked it up.

John sighed for a minute, he caught his breath and got his breathing under control, he knew what it was, it was what all of this was about, the CD, the conversations of drug smuggling men, it was in her picture, the picture of her all along. He calmly turned to Rex.

"Its what this has all been about, where is she, do you even know?" he told him.

"Not sure, she... she... promise not to beat me, like you did that painting?" he asked John as he didn't want that fury turned on him, John just gave him a look.

"Okay, not sure but she was hinting to something today at the hospital with Agent Johnson, I confronted her and sh--"

"Rex, just get to it, the particulars later"

"I think she was going to con him or something, but if she had the CD all along, I guess she wouldn't be conning him or bluffing"

"She didn't know it was hidden here, where is she and what exactly do you think she is doing, and tell me quickly, I need to get to her before she does something stupid."

Rex explained the few details he knew and picked up on. John was starting to loose his control again, he was starting to feel the pain, pain in his body and pain that crept in along with the fear that he might lose her tonight.

As soon as John heard everything, which wasn't much he started running as fast as he could from the house, something hit him, if she was trying to get him to something, to what or who was on the tape, she would most likely tell him it was at the cottage, at her house, that the feds must have missed it.

"Call Bo, tell him to meet me at the Cottage, but not sirens " John screamed to Rex as he quickly walked to the door.

Natalie walked into the cottage, she looked around, it was empty, she would be selling it in a few days, this was the perfect place, the best place to set him up, he would think she had it hidden here somewhere, since this was her home. She walked around the empty house and tried so desperately not to remember the bad times here, just the good.

"Hey" he said as he approached her, her back was to him, she put on her game face, her con face, she turned slowly as she touched her bracelet for it to start recording.

"Agent Johnson, nice to see you, didn't think you were coming," she told him somewhat cold as she saw him walk closer to her. He got real close, almost touching her as he looked into her eyes.

He stared into her eye's and she knew she couldn't waver them, she had to look back into this bastards cold brown eye's, she needed to sell it, to make him believe it.

"I don't want to be anywhere else, now... lets get down to the reassurance" he said as he started to touch her arms a bit, he started rubbing his fitly hands up and down on her arms till she found enough courage to open her mouth again, she briefly walked away from him.

"I already told you that wouldn't be happening but as for reassurance, tell me your end of it" she said bating him a bit, needing him to say he wouldn't hurt john, CJ. She needed that on tape along with what might be on the CD.

"So you want me to be direct," he asked and she nodded her head as she moved in closer to him, he was close to saying something anything,

"Your husband, that asshole McBain, he don't deserve you, I've been watching you, you deserve so much better, give me the CD, lets go get your son while the ass is still in the hospital from when I put him in there and we can go away far, is that direct enough for you?" he said and asked and she...she was stunned by his offer, she couldn't let on that she was almost trembling inside, this guy, this federal agent who had been making her life a living hell for the past year and a half wanted her. She never wavered her face, her expression.

"You want me to give you the CD and run away with you, leave my husband," she asked him and he touched her cheek with his hand as he nodded yes.

'I've gotta get out of the country and you can come with me" he told her

"Wait, you want me to believe you, I mean, you have been making my life a living hell for eighteen months, doing all kinds of mean shit to me and even some to my family and I'm just suppose to believe now that you care for me, want me to go away with you, I think this is a game, another Federal trick." she told him knowing the time on the tape in the bracelet would be running out soon, she needed to get something anything.

"I know, but its true, I think I'm been falling for you and that ass your husband, I...I can give you so much more"

"Yeah, you think so, what can you give me?" she asked boldly this time

"Safety, love, security even"

'What about Trust, Huh? Can I trust you?"

"Yeah I can give you trust"

" I doubt it from where I stand you are not trust worthy, you are just like John, he doesn't trust me either" she said with the big guns so to speak, she would sell this now, sell him that she might be considering going with him and leaving her husband, he was going to now tell her about the CD and what it contains. He had too.

"I can prove it, tell me how' he asked her as she got what she was looking for, he said those magic words.

"Tell me about the Fucking CD that has turned my life upside down, It's in code, I listened to it once along time ago but have no idea what I heard" she told him as she saw him step back a bit, he was trying to read her eye's.

She saw him look at her and doubt her for a minute doubt this for a minute, she had to sell it, she walked over to him, closely, she came real close, she had to do it.

Natalie started to freak inside she needed to get out of this, she took her arm with the other bangle bracelet on it, the help bracelet, she pushed it with other hand as it came around his back to do so. He moved himself away from her body; he walked closer to the kitchen door.

"I'll tell you," he said and then there was a loud popping sound, then another. Natalie screamed when the windowpane shattered behind Johnson and he slumped to the ground. She stood there frozen with fear.

John was running up the walkway on the side of the house when he felt it, the burning pain in his shoulder. Looking at the blood coming out of his shoulder he realized that he had been shot. 'Shit' he muttered to himself as he fell to the ground, unconscious.

Natalie stood there in shock as Johnson fell to the ground. Hearing no other shots she carefully bent down to check his pulse, there was none. He was dead. Suddenly she heard a noise next to the french doors and spun around. "Mr. Davies?" she asked confused, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here for the disk of course." Davies said as if she should have known already.

"You! You bastard!" Natalie said in sudden understanding. It had been Mr. Davies all along! "You played us! You tricked Bo and you tricked me, WHY?" Natalie demanded.

Davies stepped into the room and over to Johnson's body. As Natalie backed away he said, "Money, what else?" He kicked Johnson's body in contempt before looking up at Natalie again, "Now where's the disk?"

Natalie looked at him in anger and fear. "Screw you, I'm not telling you squat," Natalie told him, knowing that she had gotten his confession on tape. She hadn't gone through all this for nothing. Now all she had to do was get out of this alive.

Enraged Davies grabbed for her and caught hold of her hair and pulled her close the gun digging into her back. "You'll tell me what I want to know or you'll never see that sweet little boy of yours again!"

John groaned and sat up slowly. His arm hurt like hell but it wasn't too bad he discovered as he probed the wound. He stood up quickly and looked in the front door and sucked in a breath in horror. Mr. Davies was holding Natalie by the hair! What the hell was going on? Then he saw Johnson on the floor presumably dead.

It became clear what was going on. Obviously, by accident or on purpose, Davies had shot both Johnson and himself. Well he wouldn't kill Natalie too! He would not, could not, lose her again! Carefully taking aim on Davies he pulled the trigger and the gun barked and jerked in his hand, Davies yelped and then fell to the floor.

Natalie screamed thinking he had shot her. She felt no pain and realized that she wasn't hit. Feeling Davies let go of her she spun around as saw that he had been shot in the chest. She looked around and saw John standing a few feet away outside the door. He was bleeding! "John!" she shouted and he ran to her.

John ran to Natalie and took her face in his hands, "Are you ok?" he asked, frantically checking her for injuries. His shoulder forgotten in his relief that Natalie was alive.

I'm fine John. How did you know, how did you get here?" She asked him. Seeing the bullet wound she exclaimed, "You're hit! John, you've been shot!"

John was about to answer when Davies groaned. John pulled the disk out of his pocket and bent down. Kicking Davies gun as far away as he could he waved the disk in his face and said, "This what you wanted? I listened to it, you've been a bad man."

Davies struggled in agitation and began to cough. Gasping a few more times he suddenly went still, dead.

Natalie looked at John then back at Davies, shocked. "You have the disk? But how? When...?"

John shushed her and gathered her close just wanting to hold her and make sure she was ok, everything else could wait for now.