Chapter Twenty Six

John sat at the diningroom table, a paper in his hand as he tried to read it but his mind was still on her and to make matters worse she seemed to of dropped off the radar suddenly and surprisingly that didnt sit well with him.. He was upset over the fact that his mind was preoccupied with her, he had other pressing matters that needed his attention..

For as long as he could remember he was on a mission. One that would take down this world and put him in ultimate power over the humans and monsters alike but even now his mind began to wonder why and how..

He hadnt thought much of his past, there was nothing really to remember. He was angry all the time and he was determined. He never questioned why, he just did whatever he had to but now he couldnt help but wonder what the hell had been happening to him and it all lead back to her. He didnt know why and the memories that haunted him confused him even more.. He made sure to keep his thoughts to himself when Evangeline was around. His relationship with her was one of necessity but he found it harder and harder to be around her.. He couldnt even pin point as to when they had become partners in crime so to speak and he never really cared, well not until lately.. Now all he kept thinking about was natalie and the fact that he didnt know what he was doing anymore..

"we have to get this moving along" Evangeline said as she came into the room and looked at him, he glanced up from his paper.." we cant keep on waiting, too many people are trying to work against us" she said quickly, paranoia was her strong suit and she wore it well, hell sometimes she had him so paranoid that he was literally looking over his own shoulder..

"what is the point of all of this" he began as she looked at him with wide eyes..

"what do you mean, this is the plan, this has always been the plan John" she had shock to her voice..

"so we bring on the apocolypse, then what? I mean if the world goes to shit then how exactlly are we suppose to live in it" he said honestly and she blinked in shock at him..

"what? Your not seriously doubting this are you" she was stunned and getting annoyed by the second..

"think about it Evangeline, if there is nothing left then what is the purpose" the more and more he thought about this plan, the more he realized that it was completely and utterly fucked up..

"why are you talking like this, John this is what we want and once we wipe out all the insignificant weaklings then we can truly be in control, you know this" she said as she walked over to him..

"How did we meet" he cut her off as she looked at him with her head cocked..

"what?" she said quickly..

"how did we meet, I mean, I cant remember anything past a year ago, dont you think that is odd" he said as she tried to control her anger, she knew this had to do with the red head and the sooner she could get rid of the problem, the better..

"i told you John, you had an accident, you nearly died, and so you lost some memories, it still hasnt changed what we had wanted, it just well, delayed it a bit" she said quickly as she looked at him, his mind was blank.."You never cared about this before"

"yeah well cause maybe I never really thought about it" he said honestly..

"i already told you John, we met five years ago while I was on vacation" she began as she looked at him.."Honestly your not the only one affected by this amnesia, I have to live with the fact everyday that you dont remember me, or us" she shook her head..

He hated that he couldnt remember anything at all and yet when Evangeline would talk about how they met, it just seemed so strange to him but then again who was he to question anything, his memory had been lost..

"alright" he finally gave in even though something was pulling at his gut..

"John were together in this, we always have been" she said as she kissed his cheek softly.."theres no need to question what is right in front of you"

Natalie stared out the window of the motel room, she had cried literally for hours,she was so sick to her stomach over all of this. Her recent conversation with Bo hadnt helped. He had wanted her to come home now and to be with her family but she just couldnt.

To say that he was shocked that Michael could go to such extremes was appalling to him and to make matters worse it wasnt like they could make a missing persons report, god knows where Michael took Victoria too. Natalie ached for her daughter and the overwhelming sadness she felt was quickly replaced with anger..

"were gonna find her" Victor said as she stared aimlessly out of the window, she felt hollow and empty.."You need to eat"

"Im not hungry" she said without emotion..

"Yeah well your not doing anyone good by starving yourself" he said quickly as she looked at him..

"I cant eat ok" she snapped at him..

"Listen we didnt get this far to just let the world swallow us up whole, the apocolypse is nearing and we have to do something otherwise all of this would have been for nothing" he said honestly as he got to the door..

"where are you going" she was beginning to go stir crazy in that place,the four walls seemed smaller by the second..

"Im getting you some food" he said quickly..

"fine then im going too" she said as she looked at him, she had to get out of that room..

"I already told you it is too risky for you to be seen, weve become the hunted ok and I can move around a lot faster without you, so your staying put" he finished and then he was gone as she huffed loudly. She wanted to break something In that room, she wanted to scream but instead she stared out the window, her mind on Victoria and where she was? Was she crying, scared, hungry? The thought was almost too much to bear, her daughter had been missing for a week and she was god knows where. Hopeless didnt even begin to cover how she felt..

She pulled out her wallet and started going through her pictures, ones of Victoria.. She couldnt even believe that there was a time that she really had wanted to get rid of her baby, the thought was absolutely inconceivable now. Victoria had changed her in ways that she didnt even think possible, she never knew that she could love another person as much as she loved her daughter. Tears began to well up in her eyes as she stared at picture after picture..

A knock on the door snapped her from her thoughts as she quickly put the pictures away..She got to the door and swung it open in midsentence.."Took you long enough to get some food" she said expecting to see Victor standing there with something to eat but what she saw, she hadnt expected, it was John and she gasped in shock and immediately went to slam the door shut as his hand came out and shoved it open..Natalie felt fear race through her as she quickly backed up and reached for her knife but he was too fast as he got right in front of her..

"I didnt come here to fight you" he said seriously but she didnt believe a word he said as she jumped back and grabbed her knife, waving it in the air..

"stand back or I will stab you" she said as fear raced through her..

"no you wont" he said and then just like that the knife that she had held onto so tight was literally ripped from her hand as it flew across the room and she gasped in shock as he looked at her. Victor wasnt kidding, he was powerful as hell..

Natalie looked around frantically as he stood there just watching her and then he took a step closer to her.."dont you dare come any closer,...or...or" she searched for something in the room, anything to arm herself with but there was nothing..

"your not going to do anything Natalie" he said as she swallowed hard, she wasnt about to go down, not like this..

"Like hell im not, you'll have to kill me" she yelled and then jumped at him, if she was gonna have to take him down with her hands then so be it!

He moved faster than she had anticipated and within seconds he had grabbed her as he pinned her against the wall and she tried to fight against him but it was useless.."stop it, I didnt come here to fight you" he yelled at her..

"I know exactlly why you came here" she said through gritted teeth.."and im not going out like that" she said as she kneed him hard as he let go of her and hunched over and groaned in pain.."how you like that asshole" she yelled as she roundhouse kicked him and he stumbled back as she ran towards the door but just as she grabbed the handle he came up behind her and pushed his hand on the door..

"i said stop this" he snapped at her as she spun around, her fist was ready as she threw it at his face but he was expecting it as he grabbed it with his hand, stopping her as she gasped in shock.."just listen to me damn it" he yelled as he pushed her back against the door once more but this time he pushed himself against her so that she didnt have room to move..Fear raced through her, he was going to kill her..

"Please...dont" she finally gave in as she looked at him..

"I dont want to hurt you" he said in a low yet serious tone.."I came here to talk to you" he said with a heavy breath..

"talk?" she shook her head with fear.."i saw the cages, I saw what your planning" she continued..

"just tell me who you are" he said as he looked at her..

"i already told you" she snapped at him..

"im not asking your name, I want to know who you are and why your in my head" his words shocked her as she stared at him completely stunned..."You know, dont you, you know me"

"I dont know you" she said honestly.."you are a monster" she breathed heavy as he backed up from her now, a look of confusion on his face as he looked at her..

"how are you in my head" he said as he stood back from her and she swallowed hard.."HOW!" he yelled now..."are you a witch, are you trying to mess with me" he was getting angry as she stood there, her heart absolutely racing.."HOW damn it!" he yelled again..

"Im in your head because I use to know you, we use to" her words trailed cause she wasnt even sure what they use to be to each other. The entire time she knew him it was one cluster fuck after another..

Now he blinked in shock as he looked at her.."what do you mean you use to know me, when?" he said sternly as he tried to digest this..

"before you became this, I knew you before this" she said honestly, her voice trembling..

"who am i" he asked quietly now as he looked at her..

"I dont know why your asking me all of this, I just want you to go" she said truthfully..

"i dont even know who the fuck I am anymore" he snapped as he began to pace frantically..He was so unstable, so completely messed up looking as he paced back and forth, part of her was itching to open the door and run out, or maybe Victor would show up but another part was completely lost In the sight of him. He had been thinking of her, but how, he had no soul, how could he possibly remember her.."just tell me" he finally said with a heavy breath as he looked at her and she couldnt help but feel bad at the moment, was he really going through some mental dilemma now?

"fine" she finally swallowed hard.."fine i'll tell you" she said as he looked up at her..

She started from the beginning, telling him details of who he was and how they met, of course she left out the details of sex and the mortifying scene in his place so long ago. She wasnt about to relive that nightmare again. He looked at her in shock as she spoke. The words soaking in as more memories flashed through his head. To say he was shocked would be an understatement..

"an angel?" he said in disbelief, he wouldnt of believed that if she hadnt made such a compelling point of it, how had he been an angel and a fallen one at that?

"its the truth and I thought, I thought you were dead" she said as she swallowed hard and he began to pace the room..

"and that was a year ago?" he said with a shake of his head, confusion raking through him..

"you were never like this John, I mean you had your issues but never like this, you wanted to stop the apocolypse not start it" she said honestly..

"Evangeline" he began..

She cut him off.."what ever she told you, she is a lying bitch, she is using you to her advantage"

"and I dont have a soul?" he said more to himself then anything else..

"I wouldnt of believed it unless I had seen you first hand" she said as he looked at her now..

"you came to the club looking for me, didnt you" he asked..

"I had to see for myself" she said honestly..

"this doesnt make sense, none of this does" he said quickly..

"Yeah well its true" she looked at him before he could answer Victor was in the room as his eyes got wide and he immediately tossed the bag of food aside, a look of rage in his eyes.."wait...dont"Natalie said quickly to Victor as he looked at her and John looked at them both..He didnt know why but seeing them together like that, it did something to him, jealousy, anger, he wasnt sure..

"what the hell is going on" Victor said as she stood in front of him and he took in the sight of the room, it was trashed..

"he's not here to hurt me, he's not" Natalie began as Victor looked at John suspiciously and then at her..

"she's telling the truth" John finally spoke as Victor looked at him..

"yeah well I dont believe that" Victor pushed Natalie aside roughly as he walked over to John.."you killed my friends" he said angrily..

"that wasnt me" John began..

"oh really now, we saw the cages you son of a bitch" Victor went to lunge at him but natalie grabbed his arm and stopped him..

"Please Victor dont do this" she pleaded with him as John stood there staring at them, images of Natalie floating in his head still, one in particular of her standing nearly naked before him..

"I dont trust him, this could be a trap that bitch could be waiting for the perfect moment" Victor snapped at Natalie..

"he could of hurt me ok, he could of killed me, trust me" she said seriously.."he wanted answers"

Victor kept staring at him in disbelief.."he doesnt even have a soul"

"neither do you" John finally said dryly..

"Listen, we all just need to relax ok" Natalie said quickly as she got inbetween the both of them and put her hands out to block them from hitting each other.."He knows the truth now" she continued..

"the truth?" Victor began..

"he wanted to know who he was, I ...i told him" she said quickly as she looked back and forth between them..

"You told him everything?" Victor stared at her and she knew what he was thinking, it was about Victoria..

"everything he needed to know" she finished as she stared at Victor in such a way as to say 'keep your mouth shut'...

"you knew me too?" John said to victor who kept his eyes narrowed on him..

"Barely" Victor said dryly.."I dont like this"

"yeah well it is what it is" Natalie said quickly..

Victor pulled Natalie aside as John watched them.."i dont trust him and his intentions" he said quickly..

"well right now we have no choice" she said quickly..

"Oh trust me, we do" Victor continued..

"I hate to break up this lovers quarrel" John said sarcastically as he looked at them but something was nagging him in the pit of his stomach..

Natalie went to set the record straight that her and Victor were not an item but Victor spoke first as he looked at John.."do you have a problem with that buddy cause I could fix it"

"stop it Victor" Natalie snapped..

"tell me what you want" Victor demanded as John just stared at him, he didnt like this guy, not one bit..

"I just want answers" John finally said..

"yeah well I would like some answers myself" Victor said sternly..

"well then why dont we figure out this together" John began as Victor laughed..

"Oh there is no we in this" he said quickly as he shook his head..

"what Victor means to say is we can help you" Natalie said quickly as Victor looked at her with wide eyes.."aint that right Victor, we can help him" she said again as he rolled his eyes.."what are you planning on doing with your new found information" Natalie said quickly to John..

"well for starters im going to kill that bitch" he said honestly, natalie wasnt expecting that, neither was Victor as they both looked at him.."and then im getting my life back" he continued as natalie swallowed hard, maybe now would be a good time to tell him that he had a daughter..

"Your life? And what are you going to do about the end of the world crap" Victor said sarcastically.."i have a hard time believing a damn thing you say so tell me why we should help you, why we should even do a damn thing"

"maybe because I could of killed you both and I didnt" John said seriously.."ive spent the last year in a void, I want my life back" he continued..

"i hate to break it to you but your life was pretty much shit before" Victor said with a shake of his head..

"can you stop" Natalie looked at Victor..

"hey just cause you want to throw all caution to the wind doesnt mean I do" Victor said seriously..

"You dont have to trust me but im willing to stop everything that has been going on unless your looking forward to the end of the world" John raised an eyebrow at Victor..

"just tell us what we need to do" Natalie blurted out before Victor could say another word and Victor looked at her like she was crazy.."what exactlly do we need to do"

"i have a plan" John said quickly as he looked at them..