A Beauty And The Beast FanFiction by LMM06

Upside Down
Chapter One: Rough Day
Catherine

Me and Tess arrived at the crime scene and walked over to the dead body that was laying in the middle of the room, the victim was a 31 year old male called Paul and he was defiantly murdered. He had a perfect slit wound on his neck which had bleed out over half an hour or so. The cut was deep enough to kill him but it wasn't deep enough for the death to be instant "Who found him?" Tess asked.

"His 20 year old wife but she wasn't the one who called us it was a neighbour, when we got here his wife was covered in blood and for someone who's husband had just been killed she didn't look all that upset" An officer told us "She told us that she came home from work, seen him like this and tried to save him but she wasn't successful... Obviously... The neighbour though has a different story. The neighbour said she heard the couple arguing and when she heard a lot of banging she called us and said the wife had been there the whole time" He explained.

"So the wife did it?" I questioned.

"Yeah that's how it looks. According to the neighbour they've only been married six months and have only known each other for eight months. She says that they argue all the time and she normally ignores it but when she heard the banging noises and then everything went quiet she got concerned" The same officer said "The wife is down the precinct now" He informed us.

Me and Tess had a look around the apartment for any indications as to why they argue so much, how they met each other or anything that could tell us more about them but the place was clean. Tess a had look through the letters as I went into the bedroom and on the left side of the bed was a bedside table with a drawer so I opened the drawer and seen a phone book. I flicked through it and seen a number for 'Mom'. I didn't know whose phone book it was but I needed to phone that number.

I went back through to Tess who had two piles of letters "Why are you arranging their letters for them?" I asked her as I sat down at the table next to them.

"I'm not arranging them for her" She stated "This pile is letters from a life insurance company, our vic had gotten life insurance five years ago and if he died then his darling wife would inherit $25,000 off him" She explained "And this pile is bank statements, it seems that the two of them were in huge debts" She said.

"How much debt?" I asked.

"Well let's put it this way... The wife wouldn't get a lot of change from the $25,000 inheritance money" She said.

"She's in that much debt?" I asked in disbelief "How does a woman of 20 years old get in that much debt?" I questioned and Tess shrugged "What's the third pile for?" I asked.

"That's for letters that are not useful to the investigation" She told me.

After me and Tess took everything we could use as evidence we went back to the precinct and after booking in the evidence we went and interviewed the wife, Cheryl, she stuck to the story she had given the other officers so Tess asked her about what her neighbour had said and Cheryl kicked off. She started ranting and raving about how Paul, her husband, was a horrible person, he never did anything for her, how he had numerous affairs and how she had become like a slave to him and then she admitted that she killed him.

She told us that she had the knife in her hand whilst she was cooking, they were arguing and she turned around with the knife in her hand and it got him. We asked her to show us how she did it. Paul was a lot taller then her so if she turned around and accidentally got him with it then she would have had have been holding the knife up instead down like you do when making dinner. We decided to let Cheryl sleep in her cell overnight to see if she changes her mind on what happened and then me and Tess called it a night.

When I closed the front door when I got home I seen Vincent standing in front of me in nothing but a pair of boxers "Is it my birthday or something?" I asked him with a grin.

"No sorry... I came to do some washing, is that okay?" He asked me.

"Of course it's okay" I said and kissed him. "I cooked us some dinner, it's nothing fancy just some pasta but I thought we could have a nice night in tonight" He suggested.

"That sounds great after the day I've had" I stated.

We walked into the kitchen and Vincent started putting the pasta onto plates "Why? What happened?" He questioned.

"This woman killed her husband, they've known each other for eight months and been married for six months. He's got life insurance and she's in a lot of debt. She said that she killed him accidentally but it's not possible" I said and he waited for me to continue "She said they were arguing as she was cooking dinner, she had a knife in her hand and she turned around and the knife slit his throat. He's about your height and she's an inch or two shorter then me so she would have had to swing round holding the knife horizontally in the air" I explained.

Vincent chuckled as we went over to the table and started eating "So it wasn't an accident" He stated.

"Nope it wasn't but I think she'll stick to her story" I said.

"I'm sure you and Tess can break her" He stated making me laugh.

"Thanks for your vote of confidence" I stated.

After dinner we sat on the sofa cuddled up and watched a movie. I loved it when me and Vincent did things like this together, just relax and enjoy each other's company but that never lasts long "Catherine I have to tell you something" He said, well there goes the romantic evening in "Alex is back in New York. She went to JT's work to find me and well he took her back to the hideout. JT called me so I went over and I asked her why she had come back, she said she thinks Muirfield found her so she came back to warn me. I thanked her for telling me and then we started talking about our history together and..." I didn't give him the chance to finish that sentence.

"Did you sleep with her?" I asked him.

"No I swear... We did make out and well... There was other sexual contact" He said. I stood up from the sofa and started pacing around the living room in anger, Vincent stood up and tried to stop me walking around but I slapped him around the face which I knew hurt me more then it hurt him. I started walking to my bedroom and he followed but I slammed the door in his face "Catherine please open the door" He said.

"Leave me alone Vincent!" I shouted.

"Catherine I'm sorry okay! I swear I never intended that to happen it just did. I promise I never wanted to hurt you again, can you please just come out and talk to me?" He asked me.

I decided to ignore him. I grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and sent a text to Tess;

Need a drink... A lot of drink. Fancy a night out?

She replied within a few seconds and told me that she would be at my place in an hour so I opened my wardrobe and started choosing some clothes to go out in, I heard a thud behind me and turned around to see Vincent had come through my bedroom window "Vincent leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you right now" I told him angrily and pushed him towards the window but because he was a lot stronger then me it took a lot of effort "Vincent just go" I pleaded.

He grabbed my wrists to stop me pushing him "Catherine I am so sorry, I never wanted to hurt you" He said.

"Every time Alex comes into your life you and her end up... I can't do this anymore" I said and I started crying.

I pulled away from him and took a couple of steps backwards "I'm going out with Tess and I am going to forget about you and her... I am going to enjoy my life" I told him and pushed him towards the window again. I went back to my wardrobe and pulled out a new dress I had brought recently, I turned around and seen that Vincent had gone and he had closed the window behind him.

After changing into my new dress which Tess made me buy, it was a short black dress with a gold pattern on it, I sorted my hair out and applied some make up. The front door knocked and I rushed to answer it and seen Tess standing on the other side of the door, I let him in and closed the door behind her and she studied me "You and Vincent have an argument?" She asked me.

"How did you know?" I asked. "Because you're dressed like a single girl... What happened?" She asked.

"Alex is back in New York and he cheated" I told her.

"They slept together?" She asked in shock.

"He said they made out and had other sexual contact but that was all that he said, he swore he didn't sleep with her though" I explained.

"I'm sorry... I say we get drunk and I am giving you a task. You have to kiss at least two people" She said.

"If I go around kissing people then I will be no better then him" I told her.

"It will make you feel better though" Tess stated and I rolled my eyes at her.

"Pour us a glass of wine, we can have one before we go and make mine a large one, it's been a rough day" I said.

Vincent

After I was kicked out of Catherine's apartment I didn't want to be on my own but Alex was staying at JT's and obviously I couldn't go there so I had nowhere else to go apart from my place... On my own. I can't believe that I messed around with Alex again, I honestly never meant for it to happen but it just did... One minute we were just talking about when we were in high school and then we were making out and our hands were all over each other like a rash.

When I realised what was happening I instantly pushed her away but the damage was already done, I had hurt Catherine for a second time and I know that it was going to take a long time for her to forgive me for what I had done. The last time that Alex was in New York I did the exact same thing and I told Catherine that I wouldn't do it again but yet here I was in the exact same position, well maybe not the exact same position because I'm not dating Alex but still...

I know Catherine would never cheat on me but I was worried about her going out with Tess because I know what Tess is like and she might convince Catherine to get her own back on me or something. Part of me wanted to go follow her and Tess to see what they get up to but I didn't have the right to do that to her, she's as going out with her friend to forget about the argument we had and... Well forget about me in general for the night and I can't say I blame her.

Well this is chapter one, what do you all think? Thanks for reading and don't forget to leave a review. LMM06