Authors Note: Sorry I took so long I am bit of a protectionist when it comes to my writing so I keep going over things and changing things constantly until I feel it is right. Thank you for the reviews you guys made me smile with each one I read. I am glad you are enjoying my story so far I am enjoying writing it. I will continue to try to push chapters out each week so bare with me guys. Thanks for the support!

Chapter 2: Another lifetime

Vincent sat at a table in the corner of the café shop on campus. His thoughts where all over place as he waited for JT to show up. He couldn't stop thinking about Catherine, he was just now getting her back thinking they were going to move on from the past and all the chaos Gabe caused and now she don't even know him anymore. Vincent was trying to wrap his head around what is going on but nothing came to mind he just couldn't explain how one minute everything is fine and the next completely flipped upside down.

JT came walking in with his messenger bag and familiar style of dress, Vincent sighed relief to see that at least not everything has changed. JT has always been a constant in Vincent's life that has not changed. It made him comfortable to know he will always have his best friend and brother JT.

"What's up big guy?" JT says having a seat across from Vincent.

"JT, how is it going?" Vincent asks

"Good, so what happened to you this morning cause dude you sounded out of it" JT says.

"I don't even know where to start" Vincent sighs just hoping that after JT listens to what he has to say he won't think he is crazy or like he said this morning on drugs.

"Is it that bad? What happened? Does it have to do with Alex?" JT ask eager to know Vincent's problem.

"JT remember the day my brothers died in the towers and I kind of disappeared for a few days, well in another lifetime I made a different choice in those few days then what I am living today"

"Ok" JT says sounding confused still. He let Vincent continue.

"What did I do after my brothers died how did I take it?" Vincent ask JT

"you got all depressed and threatened to go to the army but me and Alex talked you out of it you didn't go" JT says

"What if I tell you in another lifetime I did go" Vincent says

"Why do you keep saying in another lifetime?"

"Because it's true, what I am about to tell you might sound strange but it is all true because I lived it. In a different lifetime I did go the army and when I went there they changed me…" Vincent went on to tell JT all that happened when he join the Muirfield experiments, how things went wrong, how they tried to kill him and then how he escaped. Then came the part where he introduced Catherine into the story. He explained how he saved her and years later a case brought her back to him and how they fell in love and how JT played a major part in both their lives. JT was blow away at how real it actually sounded. When Vincent finished he let out a chuckle.

"Vincent do you know how crazy this sounds"

"Yes JT I am aware. I need to find out how to reverse whatever happened and get back to my life with Catherine" Vincent says

"Wait V. what about Alex and Ryan? You can't just leave them behind and believe it or not this is your life, they are a part of your life too"

Vincent felt slightly guilty, he was trying to leave his family, his own son at that but this isn't what he was use to this wasn't his life. He didn't want to sound selfish and make it all about him but how else was he to put it? How else was he suppose to get through this situation, it's not like he can pretend to forget about Catherine and all the memories they shared and suddenly be madly in love with Alex and be one big happy family with his son. That was way to foreign to him he couldn't even imagine having that life.

"JT I know how this must sound to you but I can prove it, I just have to get Catherine to not think I am so kind of stalker. I need to tell her what is going on and we can both figure out why all this has happened"

JT wasn't too convinced in fact he thought Vincent was somehow losing it but he wanted to believe what Vincent was saying so he went along with it to see how far he would go with it.

"So when do you want to prove this to me?" JT says

"Give me a few days first, you never know I could wake up tomorrow and everything is back to normal"

JT sighed he was worried about Vincent still didn't know what to make of his story and didn't like how this could affect his and Alex married. "Aright, so what do we do now?"

"I am going to go talk to Catherine again. I need for no one else to be around her so she can hear me out. Tess was there last time it didn't go so good. Oh by the she way was dating you in another lifetime" JT couldn't hide his smile.

"Well I am coming with you. I want to see this Tess woman. Is she hot?" JT asks.

"Yes she and Catherine are both beautiful women" Vincent tells him.

"Well I am definitely coming, you will need back up" JT insists. He also wanted to make sure Vincent didn't do anything stupid and get in trouble.

"Well Catherine is at work right now probably on a case and I have to go to Ryan's game today I promised I would"

"Well we better get going that game should be starting soon. Surprised you coming I haven't seen you at Ryan's games in a long time" JT says. JT always went to Ryan's games when Vincent couldn't so he could give him the play by play of how well Ryan did.

"So I've heard" Vincent says feeling slightly guilty even though he didn't know he had a son until today.

"You are lucky to have a son like Ryan and a wife like Alex Vincent" JT reminds him.

"I know JT" Vincent said as he and JT left the shop.

He and JT got into JTs car and head over to Ryan's soccer game. Once they arrived he spots Alex sitting in a fold up chair next to all the other parents.

"Vince you came" she got up and hugged him then went in for a kiss on the lips but Vincent turned his face so that she kissed him on the cheek. Alex looked at him stunned, ever since this morning Vincent had been so different to her and now he treating her like she is his friend instead of his wife. She tried not to make a big deal about that kiss and decided to see what was going on with him when they got home. It had her so worried she could barely concentrate on Ryan's game.

Vincent was in awe of his son watching him play soccer he was very good and another boy on the team they were always in sync scoring goals back to back. The crowd was going wild. It was hard to believe Ryan was just 7. When Ryan realized Vincent was there he couldn't stop smiling the rest his game, Ryan thought of Vincent as his hero so him to being there watching him play made him excited, he valued his dad's approval.

Ryan's team won the game 4-1 Vincent was so proud because two of the four goals scored where because of Ryan. Once Ryan's game was over he ran over to Vincent hugging him excited to see his dad at his game for the first time in a long time.

"Dad did you see what did I scored twice" Ryan's says.

"Yes you and that other little boy were awesome" Vincent says. Everyone stops to look at him.

"Dad his name is Seth remember. My best friend" Vincent wasn't aware that Seth was Ryan's best friend which is way everyone turned to look at him. He said it as if he never knew the boy which was odd to them.

"I know I remember" Vincent says trying to play it off. It was also then that JT realized something is wrong with Vincent and that just maybe he was telling the truth about everything. Vincent would never forget his son's best friend even though Vincent works a lot he has seen Seth on numerous occasions. JT thoughts went all over the place trying to figure how this is happening to Vincent.

"Let me talk to you for a second" JT says pulling Vincent aside

"I'll meet you at home" Vincent tells Alex and Ryan.

"I believe you man" JT admits.

"Really, what changed?" Vincent says curiously.

"You didn't know your son's best friend's name who by the way is your god son"

Vincent was stunned "whose son is he?"

"Zach's" JT frowned

"Whoa, I killed him" Vincent says

"What!" JT says "He is very much still alive"

"Here he is alive in another life time I killed him" Vincent admits

"Well are you still going to try to talk to Catherine again?" JT asks

"Yes, let's go now see if she is home yet" Vincent says as he and JT walk to the car.

When Vincent and JT arrive at Catherine's place they see her navy blue mustang parked out front meaning she is home.

"Wait right here while I scope out the place" Vincent tells JT and climbs out the car. Vincent goes around back and climbs up the fire escape to Catherine's apartment on the 5 floor. It took Vincent longer than usual to climb without his special abilities. By the time he made it to Catherine's window he was out of breath. Her window was slightly open, but he didn't see her, he tried to listen for her but his hearing wasn't like it used to be. This was the first time ever that Vincent wished he was a beast.

What Vincent didn't know was that Catherine had saw Vincent coming up the fire escape and was waiting on him she had her gun drawn ready to shoot. She watched a man slowly opened her window in her bedroom, once he climbed in she heard him say her name. Catherine was going to knock him over the head but something stops her. The fact that he announced himself made her think he wasn't a complete threat.

"Catherine it's me Vincent" he says

Catherine walks out slowly with her gun still drawn

"Who are you and what are you doing in my house" Catherine asks

"I came to talk to you" Vincent says

"Why are you sneaking in my window then, you are some kind of weird stalker aren't you?" Vincent stood staring at her she was still beautiful to him but something was different about her, she had a darkness in her eyes that she didn't have before.

"No, if you let me explain I can tell you why all this is happening. We know each other you just don't remember me" Vincent says

"If you want to talk to me why are you sneaking in my window? I could shoot you where you stand and not think twice about it because it is self defense. You know you are pretty stupid to come back here after my partner told you that we are cops"

" I know you are a cop I know everything about you, and like I told you earlier I know this is going to sound strange but the last time I seen you, me and you where really close and now you don't know me" Vincent says

"That's because whatever crazy fantasy you made up in your head is obviously not true. I never seen you in my life"

"I can prove it to you. I know intimate details about you that no one else knows"

"Oh yea like what" she says.

"I know that your mom was murdered"

"Anyone can find that out it was in the newspaper"

"True, but I know you have a birthmark on your inner thigh that you say looks like a diamond"

She looks stunned "how could you... wait you stalk down one of my ex- boyfriends to find that out"

"No I've have made love to you on a few occasions" Vincent says taking in her beauty, even with a confused look on her face she was still stunning to him. He watched as her cheeks turned bright red. "I also know that you are ticklish in the area below navel, I've kissed you there makes you squirm" She slowly lowered her gun her were cheeks bright red from blushing.

"Ok let's say I do believe you why don't I remember you or remember even making love to you. I don't know very many people who could forget that"

"I don't know, I think only I remember our other life. I think I am in some kind of alternate universe one where I didn't enlist into the army and we didn't meet by me saving you in the woods"

"Saving me in the woods, when?"

"When your mother died" Vincent says

"No one saved me by the grace of god I saved myself, I have the bullet wounds to prove it I was shot twice in the back" she pulled her shirt up and showed him the wound on her lower back and the other near her shoulder. Vincent walked up to her gently touching her wound he watched as goose bumps pierced her skin. He got the feeling of déjà vu.

"I feel so bad I wasn't there to protect you this time, how did you get away?"

"After they shot me I played dead, they went back to the car they come in so they could get rid of our bodies but I got up and ran into the woods till I got to this house and after knocking on the door I clasped. The family in that house called the police I barely made it I was losing blood so fast"

"So how is Heather?" Vincent asks

"How do you know I have a … oh wait that's right in another lifetime you are my boyfriend" she smiles making light of the situation. Just a briefly as the smile appeared it disappeared with her response. "I don't know I haven't seen her in years"

"Are you serious" Vincent says shocked Catherine and Heather are really close at least in his world they are.

"Yes, he had a falling out years ago I don't talk to anyone in my family anymore"

Vincent stared at Catherine trying to figure out why since he has seen her she felt different to him. Then it made sense that darkness he kept seeing in her eyes was from loneliness and the rage she felt to seek revenge for her mother's death. This was a different side of Catherine. Vincent didn't know this Cat where most of her humanity was gone. It saddened him that she wasn't the same Catherine. This Catherine was battling emotional demons that not even Vincent felt like he could break through. He felt the need to try anyway.

There was a knock at Catherine's door, she turned to walk toward the door but then turned back and pointed her gun at Vincent "you come with me, and don't try anything"

"Even after we just talked and connected back there you still don't trust me" Vincent asks following Cat.

"No I don't trust anyone but my partner Tess" she says as she reaches the door.

"Catherine I would never hurt you, you must trust me somewhat to let me touch your wounds"

Feeling put on the spot by Vincent she ignored his last comment, Vincent slightly smiled.

"Who is it" she called out

"Its JT I am looking for a guy named Vincent"

Catherine opened the door switching the gun from Vincent to JT.

"Whoa, whoa! I come in peace, Cat" JT says with his hands raised.

"How do you know my name?" Cat says looking back forth between JT and Vincent.

"He told me, apparently I know you in another lifetime as well" JT answers

"Ok both of you are creeping me out with this another lifetime thing" she says lowing her gun once more and letting JT in. "if one of you tries anything I am shooting no questions asked"

"Is she always like that" JT asks Vincent

"No this is a darker side of Catherine" Vincent answers

"First of all why are you talking about me like I am not standing here and Vincent what do you mean a darker side of me"

"To tell you that we would have to start from the beginning" Vincent says

Vincent and JT went on to tell Catherine everything about how he and Cat met in another life how they fell in love. Every major case they broke even the stuff about Muirfield, Evan and Gabe leading all the way up until now. Vincent didn't have the guts to tell her about the Alex and Ryan part he felt the need to leave that out.

It was going on 10 when JT realized he and Vincent needed to get going, especially Vincent he was a married man.

"V. we better get going it is getting late" JT says

Vincent reluctantly replied "yes it is we better go" he didn't want to leave this place felt like his place was there with Catherine but the reality now is that it wasn't so he had to suck it up for now. Catherine wasn't ready for them to leave either, she liked talking with them both even if they had a story about her and Vincent in another life together, Cat stayed to herself, most days she felt lonely. It felt good to have some company for a change other then Tess.

"See you guys later" Catherine says walking them both to the door. As JT walked down the hall and down the stairs Vincent turned to Catherine and gave her an unexpected kiss on the forehead and walks away. Catherine was slightly taken back but actually didn't mind the kiss and felt weird admitting that to herself. She could admit that yes she was slightly attracted to Vincent but the weird story had her on edge. She kept thinking what if he is crazy and this is a trap or worse a joke. The fact that he knew so much about him lead her to believe that just maybe there was some truth to what he was saying. She fell asleep that night with Vincent on her mind.