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Chapter 31
"Don't fidget John, don't the EMT's will be here any minute" Natalie told him as she walked them pasted Davies now dead body
"Lets sit you down over here," she told him as she helped him to sit, they stared at each other for a minute, neither speaking words, she gave him a weak smile.
"You worry me, you shouldn't have come out of the hospital" she told him as she took a piece of her shirt, she ripped a piece off and held it on his wound, she heard the police sirens and even the ambulance getting close.
"I worry you…I shouldn't have come here, taken myself out of the hospital, Natalie... you shouldn't have done what you did, we could have lost it, lost all of it, I could have lost you." he told her a bit cold, a bit upset, he could have lost her tonight, CJ, could have lost her tonight.
"We could have lost each other, I know... alright...I know... but... but If I had to do it again, if I had to, I'm not sure I wouldn't, I mean, if it came down to saving you, CJ, making your life better, safer, I cant lie, I would probably do it again" she told him as she saw his face change, it softened a bit, they were still just facing each other and staring when the ambulances arrived.
"Thank God, they sound like close " Natalie let out a sigh; she continued to hold pieces of her shirt on his wound as he stared at her.
John was almost trembling inside when he thought that he might not be able to save her, when he was shot, it scared him beyond belief, he loved her so much, much more now than he had even loved her back then. He took her free hand that wasn't holding his wound just as the EMT's raced in the door followed by Bo.
"I'm so sorry I worried you," she told him as she quickly leaned down and kissed him as they started to work on his wound. Natalie moved a few feet away as they worked on him, she saw her uncle come near her after checking both Agent Johnson and his old friend Davies.
"I'm sorry Uncle Bo... but... But it was him all along, he was the one behind all of this mess the past year, he was on the disk." she said almost in tears, as he came even closer to her.
"I know he meant a lot to you, I..." she said and he grabbed her into an embrace, he hugged her as he saw the tears come out of her eyes.
"You mean a lot to me " he told her and she smiled weakly at him. She came out of her embrace as they heard John giving the medics a hard time a few feet away, Bo and Nat looked at each other for a minute and laughed. They both walked closer to him.
"I don't need to go to the hospital, my brother is a Doctor, he can stitch me up at home, I just want to go home with my wife and see my son" he told the EMT's nasty as Natalie walked over.
"You are going to the hospital, and that is final" she told him as she leaned into the gurney that they had just put him on, he was complaining
"And you are going to have to tell me where you got the disk, where it was the whole time or...or is it a fake?" she asked as she grinned at him, would her husband, the law abiding Chief do detectives, would he be trying or planning on bluffing about the disk. She laughed some more as she heard his words.
"Well I'm not the con artist in the family now am I?" he told her and he laughed as they started to transport him to the hospital.
Awhile-later John was resting comfortably in a hospital bed as she was sleeping next to him in a chair, she had tried to crawl in the bed with him but she was afraid she would hurt his shoulder. Bo had come in a while ago and they had given him the Disk and their statements, she called and checked on their boy, Rex said he would bring him as soon as CJ woke.
She was trying so desperately to get some sleep, but she couldn't, she just couldn't. This was over, really over, she felt freed, light almost. She wouldn't have the feds hounding her any longer, they would be able to have a normal life, raise CJ together, and maybe have a few more kids.
That last thought stuck in Natalie's head, she was almost convinced before all the drama, and everything that happened tonight that she was pregnant again, almost sure of it, with all the throwing up, feeling nausea, but... but she was feeling a bit disappointed now, let down even, she was fine when everything was going on, when she was conning Johnson. She shook her head; it must have been Jessica's cooking after all.
"Hey' he said as he woke and saw her sour face. She covered and smiled at him.
"What's wrong, I mean... I know its been along night, shit a long couple of days, years even but... now isn't the time for those faces and to be upset, they can't hurt you any longer, they can't hurt us, our family' he said and she got a bit more upset with the word family. He brought his hand to her face. They looked into each other's eyes.
"I Love you' he told her and she smiled with a bit of weakness
What's wrong" he asked, she leaned in and kissed him, she pulled back quickly, looked into his face, she was turning green again, she ran to the private bath in his room.
John heard her sick in the bathroom, he also heard her crying or what he thought was crying.
"Natalie Babe, are you alright, want me to call a nurse" he asked as he started to get up off the bed, he was a bit groggy and slow moving, she was back in the room with him before he even made it up. She moved closer to him and helped him to lie back down.
He saw her face, it wasn't stained, it was fine, her eyes were bright and wide.
"You weren't crying in there?" he asked her confused; she smiled at him, took his hand and stared into his eye's. She was about to tell him something, tell him she thought she might be pregnant when the door swung open and in came Rex carrying CJ. She let go of his hand and took CJ from Rex, rex saw they wanted to be alone and he excused himself.
"I've got a few surprises for you" she told him and he looked at her all curious like. She put CJ down on the ground, on his feet, John just looked between Natalie and CJ.
"You ready Daddy?" she asked him, john nodded his head clueless to what he should be ready for but he nodded yes anyways.
Natalie let go of CJ's hand and he walked all the way across the room to John, to his father. John's mouth fell open as he saw him start to walk towards him, as soon as their boy made his way to the end of the bed; Natalie picked him up and put him on the bed with John.
"Oh, Buddy, that was great, when I'm out of this bed we can get started on teaching you to play football" he told CJ as the boy smiled back at John. John looked at Natalie who was in the chair again, she was all smiles, and he leaned in and kissed her.
"You said surprises, is there another surprise for me?' he asked as he smiled at her words.
'Yeah, seems CJ might not be the only one you get a chance to teach Football" she said and he had to think about it for a minute, a slow grin appeared on his face.
"Is that so, Huh?" he asked and she nodded her head.
"You know for sure?" he asked her and she shook no.
John didn't say a word; he pushed the button for the nurse, asked her to send his brother into the room.
They spoke no words as Natalie walked around the room chasing after a bored CJ; Michael came in a few minutes later.
"What's the matter John? Are you in pain?" he asked but saw John's face.
"No Mikey, can you give my wife a blood test? We think we're pregnant" he told him as he looked at Natalie, her smile matched his, bright and wide.
