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Natalie sat in the questioning room, she hadn't seen her brother for over two hours. She tapped her fingers against the desk as the man who she and Rex saved. ' my god he's gorgeous.' she thought to herself. His eyes had a lot of back round to them. They were a dark blue, that had a lot of hurt and anger behind them. John pulled up a chair across from her. Natalie put on a brave face. She had to protect Rex, at all cost. John looked at her, trying to put in the back of his mind the discussion he had with Mackenzie earlier at the hospital.

FLASHBACK

Mackenzie sat there on the bed, bored out of her mind. She was suppose to wait until her father came back. She started to fall asleep on the bed until John came barging in the room, she sat up quickly.

"Do you think you can spend the night at you're mom's?" He questioned her. She looked up at him and wanted to tell him no. She knew he would be going to work and then she wouldn't see him until next weekend if they, he and Antonio, were done with the case. She never should have told him what was happening.

"Why?" She wanted to know what was going on. Maybe she could stay at the hotel. She didn't want to go back home with her mom unless she absolutely had to. She didn't want to deal with Chuck.

"Because we arrested the people in the case that I have been working on. I won't be home a lot and it would be safer for you to be at Caitlyn's."

"Dad I'm almost eighteen. Don't you think I can take care of myself at your room? I mean for god sakes I'm going to be living on my own soon." She wined. She didn't care if she was sounding selfish or childish. She wanted to be with her dad and her dad wanted to be with work.

"Kenzie, It's not that I don't think you can take care of yourself-"

"Oh so you don't trust me?" she scoffed.

"What? No! I trust you with all of my heart. But what I don't trust is the people out in that hotel. What if they know you're by yourself?" He always worried over her, wither she knew it or not. They way she saw is that he didn't trust her. She sighed, knowing that she wasn't going to win.

"Fine, but do I have to go to mom's?"

"Where else would you go? Wait, why don't you want to go over there?" he sat down next to her on the bed.

"I just don't. I have to go be with her every week day, I don't want to be there on the weekends too." She didn't look at him. He could tell she was angry. But there was something there that she wasn't telling him. He didn't press the matter. That would just piss her off more. Michael came in with some papers, feeling the tension in the room between the two.

"Uncle Mike can I stay with you and Marcie?" Michael looked at her and then John. He wondered what her want to stay with them but he didn't mind.

"Uh…sure if its alright with you're dad." Michael looked over at John as he nodded in approval. He dug in his pocket and pulled out his keys.

"Take my car, get you're things and Charlie and I'll have Marcie come and pick me up." He smiled at her as she smiled back."

"Thanks Uncle Mike." She hugged John, grabbed her purse and walked out the door.

"Bye dad."

"Bye baby." As soon as she left Michael glared at him.

"Why does she want to stay with me and Marcie?" he asked.

"Because I have to work on a case." Michael sighed. Why did it not surprise him that's why? He should have figured it out soon.

"Jesus John you and you're work." He nodded his head back and forth. "What about you're head?"

"Fuck my head I'll be fine. Listen I got to head over to the station. Just make sure that she's okay and not to much trouble." He grabbed his coat and wrapped it around him.

END OF FLASHBACK

John sat his coffee cup down on the table. He was with Natalie's brother and within the hour they were talking he cracked like a egg. He told everything about her and Christian's relationship. How he would abuse her and treated her like she was nothing. Supposedly, Rex was sleeping over after a breakup with a girlfriend and heard them fighting. Christian was hurting her and he did what any other brother would do. He and Natalie fled and stayed with Roxy, their mother in Angel Square Hotel. He couldn't believe that they were right under his nose.

"Well first of all, I want to tell you thank you , for saving me. You and you're brother. I'm John McBain." Natalie nodded silently. She was pretty quiet. He eyes held a story, years of abuse. They looked scared and alone. But they also looked fierce at the same time. They had a tuff hardcore image, but John could see right through them.

"Second, why did you kill Christian Vega?" He went straight to the point. Rex told him she would be a hard one to break.

"What makes you so sure of you're self that me and my brother had anything to do with my fiancé's death?" She said sternly. "When the hell can me and my brother get out of here?" She stood up and started pacing.

"Because Natalie you're brother was scared shitless and spill everything to me." He looked her in the eye as she stopped pacing in the middle of the room. John tried reading her face as Natalie did the same but both were good at not showing emotion.

"You're lying. My brother wouldn't tell you assholes anything." John sighed and pulled out the tape from his coat pocket.

"Do I really need to show you that Rex spilled?" Natalie came back and sat down.

"Yes, with sound. I know how you guys play people." She said nasty. Man he pissed her off. John got the vibe and felt the same way. She was no dummy to be tampered with. He could imagine for some reason that she had been in situations like this before. As he put in the tape he looked at her. Damn she was hot when she was mad. I mean she was hard headed, but angry was a good look on her. Natalie watch and heard how her brother told everything and sighed. 'it was self defense' she heard. Rex would tell him five times every minutes.

"Okay, okay." Natalie waved her hands in the air.

"Natalie listen I know you and you're brother is scared. He was only helping you the only way he could. It was self defense, like he told me." John raised her chin. "Its going to be alright." He told her. She smacked away his gesture.

"Fuck you okay? You don't know anything about me or my brother. Just let me see him, is he going to go to jail?" She got up and headed toward the door. John couldn't believe her. He was trying to help her and be kind and caring to her and she just blew it off like it was nothing. This girl infuriated him, and turned him on at the same time. He had never felt that away about anybody before, not even Caitlyn.

"I'll take you to him."

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"Thanks for letting me stay Uncle Mike." Mackenzie sipped her hot chocolate slowly.

"No problem sweetie, you can stay with me anytime you need to. I'm just surprised that you wore Tommy out that fast. How did you do it?" Mackenzie smiled as she sat her cup down on the table. She loved coming over to her uncle's house. It was warm and inviting. She love Marcie, she never really acted like a aunt but more of a sister and she love Tommy. He was a little pistol, full of energy and laughter that he could make the angriest people put a smile on.

"It's magic. No, not really. We ran around and played hide and seek till it got dark and then came inside and pretended to be power rangers." Michael smiled in amazement of his niece. He remembered when he got to hold her in the hospital and how proud John was. Even when she was just a baby she was a small version of John.

"You're so good with him and he loves you to death. You know, contrary to what you may have heard, John was amazing with you to. " He wiped down the table and slung the towel over his shoulder.

"Oh god, memory lane." Mackenzie laughed and rested her head in her hands. Michael sat down across from her.

"He loved doing everything with you, I mean maybe the whole diaper stuff, didn't really to appeal to him but he would do just to spend time with you."

"Great, me and dad bonded by him wiping my ass? That's one to tell the grandkids when I'm older." She laughed at herself and heard a snicker out of Michael. "I wish he still felt the same way about spending time with me." Michael's heart broke when he heard those words. He knew John loved her with everything in him, but he was now working so much he wasn't spending enough time with her.

"Sweetheart he loves you to death. Straight up my brother can be an ass. You're important to him but his work-" Mackenzie cut him off.

"His work is important to him too. I know I know I just wish he would…I don't know." she got up and washed her cup out and placed it in the dishwasher.

"Skip it?" Michael questioned.

"Yes. He keeps telling me he's sorry but…I guess I'm just used to it now. I'm going to go and head on to bed." She turned around but before she could make it up the stairs he stopped her.

"You're father loves you, he may not show it much, but John is not one for expressing himself." Mackenzie laughed.

"Yeah I know." She hugged him tightly. "Thanks for the pep talk Uncle Mike. I needed it." Michael smiled and kissed the top of her head.

"Anytime."