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Italicized section contains quotes from the episode 'Ancestors'.
Cat could not believe the past two days that she has gone through. First Vincent had allowed Tori to bring him to a hospital and to expose his identity to the world, then she got thrown into the middle of a criminal heist at the Russian Embassy while doing a job for Agent Dana London of the CIA, ending with her barely escaping with her life.
Cat sat in her car shaking her head as she looked at the bar sitting in front of her, ironically the same bar where her CIA mission started and Vincent saw her kissing Patrick...the one person who was unavailable to her, but she couldn't get out of her mind. Now all she could picture in her head was a fading memory of the Vincent she had fell in love with and a savage, punch-me-in-the-gut, head-in-the-clouds feeling about when she was with Patrick. She knew that going from Vincent to Patrick was not a step in the right direction, but Patrick seemed like he could be a good guy and right now she just could not handle the advances that were coming from Gabe, who though he was sweet and kind and the type of guy that she should want, if she weren't ironically attracted to bad boys.
Now she found herself sitting outside the bar that she had first met Patrick in, hoping that he might even be here. After finally gathering the courage to get out her her car, she headed into the bar. Not seeing him, she felt herself grow down and went straight for the bar, ordering a jack, hoping to drown the gnawing feeling from not seeing Patrick. As she took her first long pull at the drink she heard someone walk up behind her and was about to tell them to f*** off, until they spoke.
"Damn, the ex must have done a number this time for you to be in a scummy bar like this, downing a jack." Cat swirled around and came face to face with Patrick.
Oh my god, Patrick. I figured you would have taken off." Cat said starting to go back to how she was acting as Mara.
"Was on my way, but I just couldn't get this feisty brunette out of my head." He said before leaning close to her ear and whispering to her. "So, Catherine, what is the real story?" When he pulled away Catherine became worried, as to how me knew her real name. Noticing the look on her face, he spoke again. "You didn't think anyone would find out, did you?" He asked before offering her his hand. When she made no move to get up he spoke again. "Come on, just figured it would be easier to talk over in a booth." Finally Catherine resented and left her stool to follow Patrick. He led her to a booth and took a seat across from her.
"H-how did you find out?"
"My brother and his goons may have been stupid, but I remember faces. There was an article about you bringing in some FBI dude, then digging in I found another article, same person, same name."
"Why are you here?"
"Figured if I was a lucky son of a b, you would somehow show up here." He said before pausing. "God, I have not been able to stop thinking about you, especially after that kiss." Catherine blushed and covered her face.
"Since it seems we are being honest, that first kiss was because my ex showed up here and I wanted to hurt him."
"Believe me Catherine, I am aware. I saw the guy walk in and freeze up when he saw you talking with me. After you kissed me like that, he looked like he wanted to kill me for it."
"Patrick, since you looked into me, you know I am a cop, right?"
"Yeah, to be honest I could have guessed. 'Mara' seemed to have a personality difference and the whole river plunge." Patrick said, pausing to take a pull of his beer. "You were wired, weren't you? The water would short circuit the electronics rendering it useless, and unable to be picked up."
"Yeah I was, and my little swim freaked out my team since the wire died. They figured your brother had offed me."
"So detective, what are you doing in a shitty bar downing a jack?" Patrick asked, waiting for a reply. When one didn't come, he spoke again. "Damn, what did ex do now? He has to be worse than me and I am not very clean myself."
"More of what he has done for a while now." Catherine said thinking back to when he showed up again and then to present, regarding Tori. After a few minutes Patrick pulled her out of it.
"Would talking about it help you out? Sounds like this isn't a recent issue." Patrick said, starting to sound a little friendlier then before, and Catherine worried he might want something more than just friends, which she could not handle right now.
"Patrick, I don't want to let you down , but right now I really cannot handle anything more then us being friends."
"If friends is all you can offer for now, I will gladly take that. You can probably tell that with how my brother was, friends were a novelty who would just rat us out in the end. Besides, how many people would want to be friends with criminals?" Patrick asked, not expecting Catherine to counter back so quickly.
"How many criminals would want to be friends with a cop?" She said with a laugh. Patrick laughed before speaking.
"Want to get out of here? There is a diner up the road that would be better for chatting. The barkeep doesn't seem to like that we have been here this long and only ordered one drink a piece."
"Sure, this bar is slightly creepy. Did you drive here?"
"Yeah, you?"
"Yeah, I will just follow you to the diner." Catherine said getting up and following Patrick out to the parking lot before they split up to head to their cars. Right as Catherine went to open the driver's side door, she could sense someone standing behind her. Thinking it might have been Patrick, she turned around and started to become pissed at the fact that it was Vincent.
"What do you want?" Catherine asked with venom in her tone. "You made it clear at the Russian embassy that I am no longer important, so why are you here?" Cat said, thinking back to when they met up at the embassy.
"Vincent?" Catherine asked surprised, seeing him at the embassy.
"Well, it looks like you have little fans everywhere in America, now. Don't you mister Keller?" Asked the Russian ambassador's wife. Vincent smiled at her before responding.
"Yes, yes I do." He said not even giving Catherine a passing glance, or giving any indication that she was anything other than a simple, meager fan.
"Why are you following me?" Catherine asked after he followed her over to where the platters of champagne were waiting to be served.
"I didn't follow you. I think I was here first." Vincent said acting as though he had better things to do than to be speaking with her..
"Yeah, then why did you follow me to the bar last night?" Catherine said, trying hard to act as nonchalant as Vincent was.
"I didn't follow you to the bar. In fact, what were you doing at the bar last night?" He asked, suspicious of her.
"Same thing I'm doing here, working on a case. So don't blow my cover." Catherine said becoming irritated with the cross interrogation.
"I see, so that's why you had your tongue down some guy's throat?" Vincent asked aggravated, with an air of slight jealousy, hidden behind a wave of contempt.
"What, you jealous?" Catherine asked, knowing that him seeing her and Patrick riled him up.
"No, not at all." Vincent said as if she was boring him. "Look, I don't know what case you're on Catherine, but just keep you distance from me."
"Why are you here? Your relationship with Gabe not working out?" He snarled. This caused Catherine to laugh.
"If you were not so obsessed with Tori, you would know that Gabe and I are not in any relationship other than the fact that he is my boss. The only relationships I have right now are with Tess and my sister." Catherine said unsure of why he was even acting like he cared. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I am meeting with a friend." Catherine said before getting in her car and driving over to where Patrick was leaning against his. When she pulled up he got in his car and lead her away from the bar, out onto the street.
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