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Chapter 2

Natalie was standing when the dark haired man walked in, she suddenly felt ill, sick, she took a seat in the back so he wouldn't see her.

'Shit' she yelled at herself inside, of all the freaking luck, the first one-night stand she had ever had, shows up, and he's now her boss. Not technically but yeah, he was a superior, she was forensics, she answered to her Uncle but... but she interacted with the chief of detectives all the time, most of the time, almost every case. She put her head in her hands, 'how the hell am I going to handle this'.

John Mcbain spoke to the squad, the Llanview police Department, the uniformed cops, the Detectives, Forensics. He was exact with his words and clear, he was here to work and he expected 100 from all of them, each and every one of them.

"All right now, everyone get back to work" Bo announced as he walked closer to Lt Mcbain, he shook his hand.

"Good to have you here Lt, you will definitely be an asset to our department' he said as he saw, as Bo saw Natalie's flash of Red hair out of the corner of his eye. He turned to her

"Hey, Buchanan, come and personally meet the man you'll be spending so much time with" he said with a smile as he noticed she was acting odd which wasn't her, if he didn't know better, she was trying to avoid him, them.

Natalie heard her uncle, the commissioner, what the hell was she going to do, she was about to tell him she had something important, later she'd meet him but the man turned her way, John Mcbain turned her way, her new boss, so to speak turned her way. It was to late for excuses. She walked closer to them and only hoped he was to drunk to remember her, to remember a damn thing.

"John Mcbain, this is my top Forensics Tech Natalie Buchanan, my niece," he said as he introduced them, he whispered the last part as if a secret of some sorts.

John saw her and he stood for a minute, her red hair, even the face although it was a bit fuzzy from that night, he thought he knew who he was looking at, not a 100 sure at this point till an officer came up to her and asked her something.

"I told you I would have your DNA analysis by noon, its only ten, go away" she told the officer demanding, he shook his head, smiled briefly a bit hoping no one saw and then knew for sure. He would recognize that commanding voice anywhere, drunk, sober or even deaf. He would know.

Natalie dealt with the officer, the nagging officer who wanted his reports and then turned around and knew she had to shake his hand, the hands that she so vaguely remember up and down her body, even parts inside at one point.' play this cool Natty, he was to drunk to remember you, to remember it, to remember it over and over' she stopped herself and put out her hand for him to shake.

"Nice to meet you Lt." she told him as he shook her hand and he smiled briefly, he saw she wasn't smiling; she was serious.

"Nice to meet you too Scarlet...I mean Natalie" he said covering as if he made an error but she knew better, he was just getting off on remembering that night, that long night, 'shit' she said inside, if that wasn't one of the stupidest things she had ever done in her life and now it was coming back to bite her in the ass, and to continue to bite her everyday, day in and day out at work, in this small town. She shook her head as she saw him give her a look, a smirk even.

"I've got work to do, it was nice meeting you" she told him and left him and her uncle standing alone in the interrogation room. Both men watched her walk away and then Bo turned, looked at Lt Mcbain and got a gut feeling, a feeling of something he just didn't know, he ignored it and proceeded to take John into what was going to be his office.

Bo had shown John his office and left him to get to a meeting, John was unpacking his box of stuff, putting it around his new office, it was nice, he thought as he looked around, cozy almost. He looked up towards the door as he heard a knock.

"Come in" he yelled as he looked up to see her standing there, Scarlet. He gave her a smirk as she walked into his office.

"I was told by my uncle to give you this file, it's on a case the old acting Chief and I were working on together," she told him as she handed him the file. He took it from her and tipped his head a bit.

"Thanks, can I ask you something?" he told her as she was about to walk out of his office, she stood frozen for a minute, 'Shit' she screamed inside, he wanted to ask something about that night, she wanted to just forget.

"Yes" she said politely as she finally turned

"Do you think it's a good idea?"

"What?" she asked confused as to what he was asking.

"To be calling the commissioner, uncle at work, I don't think its something that's appropriate or professional" he told her, and the way he said it, his tone, his demeanor, he was an asshole. Who the hell was he to tell her what to call her uncle, her uncle was the damn Commissioner, his fucking boss, and he had no problems with it.

John saw he got under her skin and that was what he had intended to do, he held back his smile as he saw her trying so desperately not to get mad at him.

'Lt, I think maybe you don't understand things, things around here, we are a small town, everyone knows everyone, hell...I'm related to half this small town, and as for me referring to the commissioner as my uncle, he does not have a problem with it, so neither should you, if that is all?' she asked cold and testy as he nodded his head and she left.

John laughed as he saw her walk out his door steamed, it was a cute color for her, and her face almost matched her scarlet hair. Five minutes later there was another knock on his door. He looked up to see his younger brother Michael at the door.

"Hey, settling in nicely I see" Michael said as he took a seat in front of his brother's desk.

"Yeah, just trying to find my bearings Mikey, just trying to fit in" he told him as he to sat, as he sat he noticed her thru the window of his office leading into the lobby, she was talking to a few officers and was even smiling a bit, he smiled, as he thought he was smiling inside but apparently he wasn't as he saw Michael turn to see what he was so caught up in.

"John, she's a no- no," he told him as he turned back around, John looked straight into his face.

"A no-no Michael, didn't they teach you big words in Medical school" he said and they both laughed, John tried for a few minutes to change the subject but he was really intrigued now to know why Michael thought she was a no-no as how he put it.

"Why Mikey?" he asked as a confused Michael took another look behind him to see her bending down for something, he turned to see John's eye's widen and he snapped his finger in front of his face.

"John, there are more reasons than you could possibility imagine, so I'll just spell out the obvious ones, like the two of you will be working together, side by side probably, she and Karl, the last chief were more like partners than anything else. That alone is a huge reason"

"So, what else? You said more reasons" john asked as he watched behind Michael again and she walked away.

'There are plenty of reasons, Natalie is somewhat of a friend, she really is great but... but... she's been involved with a few, lets just say men around town and... well.."

"Are you saying she's easy?"

"Oh, No, she's anything but easy, not easy in anyway, anyone involved with her just ends up ... lets just say she can make the strongest men cry and we'll leave it at that, and ... and with everything she's gone thru in her life, it really is a bit understandable."

John heard Michaels words and he was right, he wouldn't be putting much effort into finding out more, nor perusing more, she was a colleague, someone he would be working closely with, he had to just try and get that night, that long night of mind blowing sex out of his head.

Michael and John caught up on things and made plans to meet at Rodi's for dinner, Michael was about to leave when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in" john yelled as Scarlet... Natalie walked in.

"We've got a hit and run on Sanders Road, I'm heading over now, Oh, Hi Michael how are you?" she asked as she faced him, 'shit ... Mcbain...he's Michael's brother', this was getting worse by the minute. She looked between the two as she said hello to Michael and she got a weird vibe, 'damn him, he was probably bragging something to his brother' she told herself as she decided at that moment they would have to talk about it, talk about that drunken night of sex, she had so hoped to just ignore it but... but she couldn't, she couldn't have this asshole of a man going around this small town telling everyone.

She heard Michael finally say hello and she smiled.

"I haven't had time to learn the area much, give me a minute I'll ride with you" John told her as he saw her face, she got white as a ghost, he chuckled inside to himself as he turned to Michael and told him he'd see him later.

John meet Natalie outside by her truck, he got in, in complete silence and they drove to the scene of the accident. After a few minutes of awkward silence Natalie decided she needed to say something, anything.

"We are going to have, to have a little talk about that night" she told him as she wanted to control the situation, the conversation, she wanted him to know she was no push over, what happened, it wouldn't be happening again, and he was best not to even think about it.

"What night?" he asked as he smirked a bit, she turned her body slightly as she drove and saw his smirk, he had just pissed her off even more 'fuck you' she wanted to tell him so back but she contained herself, she needed to put him in his place, put this ass in his place.

"You know, you really are an ass, thank God I was to drunk that night to remember anything but your face." she told him and he turned serious for a bit, did she really not remember it, that night, the night that he couldn't get out of his mind, the night he was brought to some... some..., he shook his head not knowing how to describe that place she brought him to over and over that night, the place he swore any woman would have never forgotten.

" Don't really think you were that drunk by the third encounter that night, definitely not by the fourth and oh, lets not forget the fifth in the chair" he told her smugly as her face started to steam, turn Scarlet, he thought as he laughed inside.

'What the fuck' she said inside at his smug comments,' this asshole doesn't know who he's dealing with'

"Listen, if I could remember it, I'm sure there was no third, fourth or fifth time in any chair, as a matter of fact as I was checking you out earlier, I'm very doubtful there was a first or second, your equipment is a bit... how would I put it, Old" she said as he couldn't help but laugh this time out loud.

Natalie heard him laugh and she went in for the low blow, he low punch, she wouldn't be laughed at or humiliated by him or things, rumors being spread around this small town.

" You do know what they say about Old Wood,... it doesn't stand the test of time" she said as he wasn't sure if he should still be laughing or getting pissed by her comments. 'Bitch' he thought to himself, she was a bitch. Her mouth would definitely keep him from perusing her now, or would it? He asked himself as he took a look at it, it was curled up, serious, her mouth, the things it did to him that night, he shook his head, 'get that damn night out of your head, Mcbain'