Disclaimer: I don't claim or own anyone characters from Beauty and the Beast that I mention, they are all own by the CW .

Author s Note: My take on season 1 episode 'Seeing Red' I've changed it around a little and added a few scenes.

Summary:
Vincent feelings for Catherine takes a whole new direction after the horrible car accident. He tries purses her, but an old flame from his past sees him at the hospital and wants to reconnect. Him on the other hand doesn't want to and then there's consequences.

Chapter 1

Even if it was still daylight out Vincent knew he was taking a big chance on being here at the hospital. That he shouldn't be here, but he needed to check on Catherine. Her safety and well being was more important than him getting exposed right now. Vincent thought of how hard it was for him to transformed back to himself after coming home last night. He miss Catherine's touch, the way she would caress his cheek while talking to him. If he wasn't such a jackass and left her at her father's wedding she wouldn't be here. She would be at her place or at work. Safe and alive.

He never felt so helpless like he did last night pulling her almost lifeless body out of that wrecked car and holding her that close to him. It wasn't that long ago which they were dancing that close together. Holding her, feeling her small beautiful frame close to him, smelling her sweet jasmine scent and hearing her heartbeat. He was tempted to kiss her, and tell her how he felt about her.
By that time the dance was over and she dragged his ass outside to avoid him being seen. He would have told her how he felt outside in the gazebo, but that didn't go as planned. Thanks to her bringing up the conversation about his DNA changing and him taking a risk being there. Like he was taking being here.

As he waited for the right time to visit her, he saw Catherine's sister Heather leave one of the rooms to head home. Vincent was lucky enough to find a storage supply room unlocked and with a lab coat along with a surgeon's mask inside. So he could quickly through it on overtop his jacket and add to his doctor persona. He also quickly grabbed a charts from the nurses station, then waited a couple of minutes before heading out towards Catherine's room. He made sure nobody saw him as he enter her hospital room. He heard her just getting off the phone with her partner Tess and step inside drawing the curtains around them so no one could see them.

"Vincent." Catherine greeted him with a smile as she watched him enter the room and pull the mask from his face. She was happy to see him, but with all the stuff going on, he needed to be careful. "What if someone sees you?"

"Playing doctor is kinda my thing." He smirked as he approached. "Besides, I, uh..." Vincent sat down on the side of the hospital bed. "I needed to see you." He had to see, he needed to after almost losing her. If only he had answered his damn phone, nothing would have happened to her.

"Thank you. My nurse told me about that procedure you did." Catherine smiled at him again.

"Yeah, uh, about that..." Vincent started to say, but she cut him off.

"The amazing roadside save." Catherine interrupted him with another smile.

"Catherine, uh..." Vincent tried again - she needed to know the truth. He wished it could have been him that performed the procedure and not the other guy.

"Vincent, I'm alive because of you."

"It wasn't me. It was, uh, it was Evan, actually. I, uh, I just ripped the car door off, I got you out, and, I wanted to stay, uh, to help. But, I just..." Vincent paused as he stumbled over his words. For a second he tried to gather his emotions from that horrible night. "I couldn't, you know, get back to... being me. And, uh, Evan pulled up, so I had to make a choice. He was your best option." He told her.

"You still saved my life." Catherine gave him a grateful look. "If you hadn't got me out of that car, Evan never would have gotten to me in time." Catherine explained.

"Well, if he hadn't shown up though, then what?" Vincent pressed his lips together. He didn't want to think about that right now. "Sure, I can pull a car door off, but you needed a doctor and... I couldn't help you, you know." His voice saddened and he paused again.

"Vincent..."

"In that moment, all I could do was... watch you slip away." Vincent voice was thick with emotion as he took her small hand in his and held it. He was trying to fight back the tears. "You know, I thought that I lost you." He continued as he started to caress her small hand in his, running his thumb overtop the back of her hand. He didn't know what he would have done if something had happened to her. He probably would have blamed himself for leaving her at her father's

"You didn't lose me." Catherine gave him a reassuring smile as she squeezed his hand. "I'm right here." She smiles at him before looking down at their hands. "And... I accept all of what you are. That's what I was coming to tell you. Even though your DNA is changing, that doesn't have to change things between us." She told him.

"You know you say that now, but just wait until I sprout whiskers and a tail." Vincent joked trying to lighten the mood and make her feel better.

"Very funny." Catherine laughed at his sense of humor.

"Uh..If... I didn't leave you at your father's wedding alone nothing would have happened to you." Vincent voice was sad with guilt as his head was down while talking to her and his eyes were moist. He continued to run his thumb across her knuckles. He enjoy the physical contact, her soft warm skin against his rough hands.

"Vincent..." Catherine wanted to tell him. "It's over now, stop blaming yourself. I'm alive, thanks to you." Catherine grasped his hand again and they looked at each other for a moment letting their gaze linger. Her phone beeped with an incoming text. It was Evan, letting her know he was on his way.

"Um..." Vincent was about to say, but when he glance at the florescent light that hung over top her hospital bed. He had to squeeze his eyes shut for a second as his eyes started hurting for some reason and his vision was turning to a reddish color.

"It's Evan. He's on his way up." Catherine told him sadly as she looked up from her phone. She wished Vincent could stay longer. But knowing the circumstances he couldn't.

"You know if I could stay, I would." Vincent told her as he slid off the side of the hospital bed and stood. He leaned over the bed and kissed the top of her forehead, before letting go of her hand.

"I know you would." Catherine smiled at him as he was about to leave.

"Uh..." Vincent turned to leave, but remembered he had to let her know about the chance that Evan may have seen him at the car accident. "You should probably know that Evan might have seen me on the road last night."

"Okay. Bye." She whispered to him.

"Bye." Vincent whispered back before pulling up his surgeons mask to cover half his face and left her room. As he walked along one of the wing sections of the hospital towards the stairs heading down, he spotted Evan walking past with a bouquet of flowers in hand. He sighed silently, he knew Catherine didn't have any feelings for the guy, but he couldn't shake this feeling he had that Evan was trying to win her over for his own selfish needs. Evan had to know that she wasn't interested in him, surely.

Vincent was now glad to have her in his life, even though at first he didn't want anything to do with her. Mainly, because of Muirfield hunting him and the way she kept pestering him about her mother's death and involvement. He'd grown to understand why she kept asking, because besides being a cop she needed peace. And then her ability to help calm him when he wasn't himself. It drew him closer towards her like a magnet. Like she wasn't afraid of him when he wasn't himself.

He was so relieved to know that Catherine was okay and alive. He needed to tell her how he felt about her the next time he saw her or there might not be a next time. He should have followed JT's advice from earlier. He should have told her how he felt about her, but with all the blackout issues he was afraid. He was so distracted thinking about Catherine that he pulled his mask down relieving his face as he made his way down the hospital steps. He then heard a voice, calling his name. "Vincent! Vincent! Vincent Keller!"

Vincent then saw her and he stopped dead in his tracks in the middle the stairs what the hell was she doing here? He had to hide before she could figure out that if it was really him or not. Of all the people to show up here it had to be her, his ex-fiancée Alex Salter. He quickly made his way down the steps and snuck behind one of the pillars breathing heavy. He closed his eyes trying to calm his breathing. His heart was pounding against his ribcage like it was going to explode. He had to get his ass out of there before someone else sees him. He took a deep breath and pulled the mask back over his face before peeking around the pillar. He was relieved to notice Alex had disappeared.

"Cocky grin, bit of a swagger, flowers... Someone's feeling good about themselves." Catherine watched as Evan enter her hospital room carrying a bouquet of flowers smiling ridiculously at her.

"Just thinking about how much you owe me for saving your life." He said.

"Didn't I just save your life? Wasn't that you a couple weeks ago... psycho subway killer?" Catherine joked as she remembered it was actually Vincent that saved him, but Evan didn't need to know that part.

"Yeah, the statute of limitations on that expired days ago." Evan retorted back.

"Did it? Thank you." She replied.

"I couldn't lose you." Evan told her. He still had them same feelings he did when he kissed her in the phone booth on her birthday.

"You know, if I could make six figures a year doing that, I would not be in a basement cutting open dead people."
Catherine joked again as she was trying to get her mind off the pain in her shoulder. "And, the way that you pulled me out of Heather's car..."

"Pulled you out?" Evan raised his eyebrow at her and gave her a questioning look. It must be the medicine that has her thinking like that. He assumed whatever creature that had her in its arms must of have pulled her out. "No, I just bravely slammed on the brakes, so I didn't flatten you."

"So, I was... already on the roadway when you found me?" Catherine then realized that it must have been difficult for Vincent taking her out of the car and placed her on the ground in his other state. Not to be able to do anything to save her.

"Yeah, you must have crawled out before you lost consciousness." Evan assumed and then added. "You did lose a hell of a lot of blood."

"So, I guess I'm a living, breathing miracle." Catherine gave a half smile.

"You are to me." Evan said seriously as he wanted to tell her about the creature he saw cradling her in its arms, but pushed it aside for now. He wasn't about to cloud her with another problem right now, she needed to recover first.

Catherine seen the sincerity on his face, apparently it was hard for him to watch his coworker half dying before his eyes. She knew Evan had feelings for her, but the feeling wasn't mutual. As she was about to reply, the nurse that had come by earlier, reappeared and she seemed nervous as she entered the room.

"Could I...?" The nurse started to interrupt.

"Yeah, of course, um, do you thing." Evan politely excused himself as he didn't want to interfere with nurse duties. "Uh, I'll check back with you later." He said while heading out the room.

"Okay. Uh, it's not something wrong with my X-ray, is it?" Catherine asked with concern in her voice. She watched as the nurse kept flexing her fingers, curling and uncurling them. She had never seen a nurse so broken apart about a patient before. Unless it was something serious.

"Oh, no. No, no. Everything's... everything's fine with you." Alex voice sounded nervous as she began pacing. "Um, weird question: The doctor that came in here earlier, do you know him?"

"I don't know which doctor you're talking about."

"He's tall, um, he was wearing a lab coat, had a scar on his face." Alex tried to explain as she ran her finger down the right side of her face to indicate the scar. "Another nurse saw him walk out of your room."

"Uh, yeah, a doctor did come in here to check my chart. I didn't recognize him though." Catherine lied. She didn't like were this was going, how could Vincent be so careless to get himself caught. "Why?"

Alex sighed. "Still cool to over-share?"

"Always." Catherine said feeling a little hesitated in knowing the answer.

"I know this is going to...sound crazy, but..." Alex started to babble on as she took a seat on the empty hospital bed next to hers before continuing. "the doctor I saw is supposed to be dead. It was Vincent Keller."

"Oh." Catherine paused trying to figure out what to say. "Maybe it was someone that resembles him." She assumed. "You know what they say everyone has a twin in the world."

"You know, you're right. You're right. He's been dead over nine years." Alex stood up from the bed. "He...he would have come back to me if was him, right?"

"Of course." Catherine forced a smile as she watched the nurse return the smile and then leave the room. She then reached for her phone and texted Vincent about not coming back.

Catherine briefly closing her eyes and took a deep breath. What the hell was he thinking getting himself caught? And letting someone see him, especially someone who knows him. She can tell by the way Alex reacted to seeing him she must of been important to him. Someone close.

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"Hey, so how's Cat doing?" JT greeted Vincent as he was coming back from visiting Catherine at the hospital.

"She is fine. Uh...I just wished I've could have uh...done something better, you know." Vincent said pulling the hood down from his jacket.

"Come on V don't beat yourself up for that." JT said.

Vincent clenched his jaw tightly. "I should have been the one saving her, not Evan."

"You did what you could, considering the circumstances." JT told him as he when back to flip through some of the notes he wrote down.

"Yeah." Vincent let out a sigh.

"Hey, I've been thinking, maybe you're mutating DNA could be another evolutionary step." JT said as he stood up and continued to look through the notes. "Like, a-a new manimal ability breaking through. Anything physical changing?"

"I don't know, man, I guess. My eyes have been playing up on me." Vincent said taking off his jacket and placing it on one of the chairs. He didn't really care about that right now. He had other problems surfacing, like an ex fiancée showing up and at the same hospital where Catherine was.

"Probably just allergies, but who knows." JT suggested as he continued to go through the research papers that he had on the subject. "We can't really predict how you'll evolve. Maybe you'll change genders like a clown fish." JT let out a laugh as he turn to Vincent who wasn't amused by it. "Come on, that was a joke."

"Yeah..." Vincent scoffed as he gave a lopsided grin. He tried to figure out how to tell him who he saw at the hospital.

"What?"

"I saw Alex today." Vincent stated. He wasn't sure about how to tell him that she'd also seen him without freaking out JT.

"Alex Salter?" JT eyes widen and his jaw dropped open in shock.

"Yeah, I didn't talk to her, I just, I ran, you know." Vincent voice was weakened as he pressed his lips tight. "Like I did ten years ago."

"You have to stop beating yourself up for that too, man." JT came up to him and placed his hand on his shoulder for support.

"You know, I never got to say goodbye and..." Vincent stammered as he shoved his hands in the pockets of his jeans. He felt a bit ashamed of how he'd ended things with her. "I never even reached out when I got back."

"And you had a damn good reason. Muirfield was hunting you. They still are. If they found you anywhere near her, they'd-" JT was about to finish, but Vincent got the idea.

"No, you're right, you're right. I never wanted her involved in any of this." Vincent admitting as he nodded his head in agreement and then hesitated.

"There's more isn't there?" JT saw the concerned look on his face.

"Mm-hmm."

"What?" JT asked. He didn't like the sound of where this was going.

"She uh...She might have seen me." Vincent stammered.

"What? What do you mean she might have seen you?" JT questioning him as he raised an eyebrow at him.

"Well, while I was heading down the steps, I pulled the surgeon's mask down...and that's when Alex saw me." Vincent explained to JT. How can he be so careless?

"Vincent, I thought you were going to be careful."

"I was, but..." Vincent hesitated trying to find an easier way to say it.

"But What? What happened dude?"

"Alex uh...called my name out." Vincent answered, regretfully.

"What! Seriously dude what the hell?" JT threw his hands up in the air. "What were you thinking?"

"I don't know man..." Vincent ran his hand through his hair in frustration. "I didn't think she was going to be there."

"That's not the point V." JT grabbed one of the books he was researching that he took from his office. "Muirfield could have seen you and then, what?"

"I know, I screwed up, okay." Vincent admitted shamelessly.

"Look, dude I wasn't thrilled when you broke the rules with Cat seeing you the first time, but Alex..."

"I know man, but I didn't mean it to happen." Vincent tried to explain. "How was I supposed to know she was going to be at the same hospital where Catherine was?"

"Even so you could have waited until you left the building to take the mask off." JT told him.

"Yeah." Vincent let out another sigh. He thought for a moment. He'll have to face her now and tell her the reason he never reached out to her. "I...l'll just tell her what I should have told her years ago."

"Yeah and what's that?"

"That she's needs to move on and forget about me." Vincent answered as he thought about the conversation that he and Catherine had earlier.

JT scoffed. "Yeah good luck with that. You know how Alex is, it's not going to be that easy with her."

"Yeah, I know." Vincent sighed again. He remember how hard it was for her when he got enlisted. She wasn't very enthusiastic about him leaving. "All I can do is try, you know."

JT sighed as he already could see this not ending well. "Well, since you're busy trying to get yourself exposed..."

"JT." Vincent warned him.

"Look, I'll be visiting Sarah, since she is an earth sciences professor, emphasis in evolution." JT told him as he shoved one of the books into his bag. "I thought I might hit her up with some veiled mutation questions."

"Okay." Vincent whispered in a low voice. "Hey, just remember to, uh, make sure I'm not turning into a female clown fish, okay?" He joked trying to change the subject.

"Or are you? With the way you've been acting lately." JT snickered as he headed for door.

"Funny." Vincent called after him as JT left the warehouse to attend his classes. He needed to figure out his next move. He needed to check up on Catherine again, but on the other hand he needed to avoid being seen by Alex .

Just then his phone in his back pocket started to vibrate and buzz indicating there was a text message. He pulled out his phone and flipped it opened. It was from Catherine telling him don't come back to the hospital and that it wasn't safe. He let out a breath, grabbed his sweat jacket with the hood and headed out the door. Hopefully Evan didn't make a move on her. Or questioned her about him. He needed to see her still, even if it meant for him getting exposed. It's a risk he's willing to take.

To Be Continued…...