FLASHBACK

"John please! I don't want to go!" Annie cried. It was the day after the funeral and John was taking her to go live with her dad. He was about 2 hours away and he wished he never had to take her.

"Annie it's going to be fine. I bet you two are going to have fun. And I'll visit and call." He took his eyes off the road for a second and looked at her. She wasn't facing him in the passenger seat and was looking out the window. Her feet were up on the dashboard and her head was lying comfortably on her knees.

"I hate you." She replied. Those 3 words broke John's heart. It hurt him to hear them. He knew she was upset. But hate was a strong word.

"Annie I…" He didn't finish his sentence. She turned up the volume on radio and continued to ignore him. He took the hint and went back to concentrating on the road in front of him.

The two hours had past and they were pulling up to the drive way. The house was huge, full of open space around the yard and a barn in the back. Annie was already out of the car and getting her stuff together. He pulled out her suitcase closed the trunk. As he was about to start heading up to the front door he was stop as Annie pulled on his arm. He looked down at her.

"I'm sorry." She busted into tears and hugged John around the waste. He let go of the suitcase and wrapped his muscular arms around her. He felt his shirt getting stained with tears, but it didn't matter.

"Please don't leave me." She whispered. "I'm scared." She held on tighter. He picked her up and sat her on top of the trunk

"Why are you scared?" he asked, his hand clicked to his hips.

"I…don't…know. Just…nervous…I guess." She hiccupped. She was gasping for air and gestured that she needed her inhaler. John quickly understood and dipped down to get her inhaler in her suitcase pocket and handed it to her. She inhaled a puff and held her breath. John pushed the hair out of her eyes and watch as she held in her air.

"Everything is going to be fine. And if anything goes wrong, and I mean ANYTHING, you call me ok?" He took her inhaler from her and put it back in its place. She nodded her head and jumped off the trunk.

"Hey you're forgetting something."

"What?" she asked wiping her tears away and tried to calm herself back down.

"You're smile."

END OF FLASHBACK

John sat up quickly and rubbed his eyes. 'God why didn't I just take her with me?' he asked himself. This would have never happened if he hadn't left for Lanview and take the chief of Detectives job. But there was nothing he could do now. It was in the past, something he realized that he couldn't change. He looked over and noticed that Landon sometime in the night took off his shirt, his athletic body was showing. He also noticed that Natalie and Annie were not in their bed. John thought it would be the perfect time to pick on Landon. He licked his palm and smack Landon hard on the stomach. Landon's eyes flew open and he looked around, seeing John trying to hold his laughing back.

"What the hell was that for dude?" he rubbed his stomach, seeing a red handprint starting to form across his abs.

"Didn't I tell you to keep your shirt on?" John said skipping his question.

"Yes but I got to hot last night." He got up and stretched. "Besides no one saw if that's what you were wondering. Wait let me rephrase that, ANNIE did not see me, if that's what you're wondering." He put his shirt and pants back on and went strait to the bathroom.

"Keep pushing it." John glared. "Where are Nat and Annie?"

"I don't know. Probably went and got breakfast already."

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"Why didn't we do this in the first place?" Annie said snuggling under the sheets. Natalie had bought them a room since they couldn't get any sleep from the twin snorers. They each had there own bed and the both had a good night's rest.

"I don't know. I didn't think it was going to be this bad. I mean I can stand John its not that loud, but with Landon, well…that was just a whole different story." She said laughing.

"John doesn't snore loud? Are you kidding me? He's like a stream train. Or at least when I was little he was." She laughed at the memories. "I came and jumped up in his bed one time when Caitlin was staying over and I told he had to be quiet and stop that snoring because I couldn't sleep." They both laughed.

"Can I ask you something?" Natalie supported her head in her hand and faced Annie.

"Sure."

"What was John like with Caitlin?" Annie thought a moment before she answered the question.

"He was happy…content….but nothing like he is with you. I can tell that there is something about you that John loves and is crazy about. I mean Caitlin had affected him, hard. But when she was murdered, it was like a part of John died. He became a little hateful to world. He became distant kind of lost. John tried to hide it from but I knew. He tried to have this, hardcore image about him which didn't suit me to well. But now I see him with you and you guys are a match made in heaven! I've never seen him this happy before. It's like he's the old John again"

Natalie blushed, taking in Annie's words. She was pretty smart for only be 16. Wise beyond her years. Natalie took to heart what she said.

"Thanks." She smiled. "Why don't we go and wake the boys up and get some breakfast. And then we're probably going to go to the station after. We got to get this stuff cleared up."

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"Where have you been?" John asked as he got up off the bed. Landon came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. His hair dripping wet from his shower.

"We had to get are own room. You guys were snoring so loud we couldn't sleep." She hugged John tightly and kissed him on the lips softly.

"I do not snore." Landon pouted. Annie walked up to him and held both of his hands.

"Baby yes you do. But it's cute. Just next time, don't sleep with John and everything will be fine." She smiled "Did you sleep well?"

"Yes…until I was rudely awakened by a huge slap on my stomach. I don't want to mention and names," he death glared John. His eyes full of mischief. Like he wanted to get him in trouble. "JOHN!" he pointed.

"What? John," Annie said in a disapproving tone.

"Yeah, and it hurt! Look at this!" he showed her his stomach. There was a big red print of a hand.

Natalie hit John with her purse. He just shrugged his shoulders "He wouldn't get up." He replied. Annie giggled.

'Aww. Poor baby." She laughed and pulled him close.

"Yeah I know. Poor me." He smiled and kissed her forehead.

"Why don't we go get are clothes, change and get something to eat?" Natalie suggested.

"Everything is at your mom's." John answered her question.

"Well I think I have some old clothes that would fit Annie. And I'm sure you have something to fit Landon. We'll go back to the apartment and see what we can find."

"Ok. Sounds like a plan." John said as they headed out the door and went back to the apartment.

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