Note:Before you go on reading, let me tell you something: I'm from Spain, English is a foreign language for me. I wrote this fan fic to entertain a group of Spanish friends in love with BATB. I am translating it because readers were so kind to my first story that I thought they deserved it and because I was asked to. So, please, if you don't like the story there's no need to be rude or impolite. Just don't go on reading. I'm sure some of you will love it, especially when it gets to the point. Thank you.
Chapter 4
Cat was looking at him petrified.
-What have you done to him?
-Nothing, dear. He's having a rest. But the fact that he will think that we've hurt you when he wakes up is so attractive to me…
-What do you want?
-I need someone to do something for me. That's why I need you both alive and unhurt. But Vincent doesn't know. It's so funny seeing him scared. Ok. We'll put you in another room. Say goodbye, dear.
Cat looked at the man confused.
-You told me you wouldn't hurt him!
-And I won´t. But if I get what I want, he will never remember you again. I'll make sure for my own sake.
Catherine trembled.
-You can't do this. I'll give you what you want. Please…don't do this to us… - Tears started to fall down her cheeks.
-I'd like to accept your tempting offer…but it's not possible. I need him as a soldier, as the best soldier, the one who ended Muirfield. And then…you know the rest.
The same nurse she had seen in the other room entered again and placed herself next to the bed to move it to the door while she was looking at Vincent unable to accept that everything will start again. The months looking for him, the waiting, the joy of finally meeting him safe and sound, the fact of making him remember some of their moments together and having created new ones…everything had been useless. She would probably never see him again, and she found him, there were no guarantees that she could ever recover his Vincent.
Once the nurse had taken her outside the room, the man followed them. She was put in a similar room and before she could realize it, she was asleep again. Then, the unknown man in the black suit put on a screen where Cat's dad appeared.
-Agent Reynolds, my pleasure. – said the man.
The first thing Reynolds saw from where he stood was the woman lying on the bed behind the man who was talking to him. He knew she was Cat and what the man was going to ask him.
-Don't you dare touch my daughter!
-Calm down, I won't hurt her…Well I won't if we get an agreement, that's why she's here. Oh, but it was great watching Vincent tremble at the idea. You know what I want. I want Vincent for me, for my team, as a soldier, the same who killed Li Zhao for you. Will you do that for me?
-You know I will. But you will have to take him to the military facilities to start the process again. Or you can tell me where you are.
-Good try! Don't worry. Send me the details and I'll take him there. Do we have a deal?
-We will as soon as you leave my daughter alone.
-That's not how things work, agent Reynolds. You will have your daughter as soon as I have Vincent.
-What?! You don't know what you're saying, do you? We may need weeks to erase all his memories again, the ones he has recovered and the ones he's built now…
-That's my offer.
-No. Give me my daughter back.
-Do you think I am an idiot? You won't keep your part.
-I will. You know me. You know I will.
The man looked at Catherine again and then at the screen.
-Ok. But if you break the deal…I warn you…There won't be more warnings. I'll kill her and there's nothing you'll be able to do to avoid it. We'll have to make her think she has escaped or she might suspect.
Reynolds nodded and put his screen off. The unknown man went out from Cat's bedroom and went to visit Vincent. He woke him up with a fluid. He didn't know where he was till he saw the man next to him. Then he tried to move again but he couldn't.
-Vincent, Vincent, Vincent…What a fierce that Catherine Chandler, man! It's been hard to tame her…
The rage he was feeling in that very moment would have been enough to kill this man in a minute, but whatever they had injected in his body was so good that the beast couldn't appear.
-Where is she? What have you done to her?
-Nothing she didn't cry for…and she's cried a lot…that bitch!
-I'll rip off all the organs in your body while you're still alive, I swear – cried Vincent furiously. Then he asked fearing the answer – Is she alive?
-Of course she is…My friends want to enjoy the experience too…
The fluid invaded his veins again and Vincent lost his consciousness thinking about the fate of the only woman that had ever worried about him, the one that had risked her own life without caring about the consequences.
The man in the black suit smiled:
-Well…I didn't enjoy enough but I have to take him to the military facilities…
A man appeared in the room when he pressed a button on the wall.
-Take him to the mobile unit. We have to take him out of here. Make sure no one follows us, I'll follow you with my car.
The man pushed the bed where Vincent was asleep completely unaware of his fate and Cat's.
Meanwhile, in the room next door a disoriented Cat woke up and looked around till she remembered where she was and what has happened. "What was that? Was it my finger? Could I move my finger?" she thought and smiled at the perspective of being able to escape from this place. She took a deep breath and waited. Some minutes later she was finally able to move her hand, then her arm, and finally she noticed a tingling, as if her body was waking up from a long dream. Then she found out that her body and her blood belonged to her again. She waited patiently till she was sure her body will obey her and sat on the bed. There was no one in the room and no one had come during her recovery. She thought she should draw a plan before someone came to inject her something. She looked at her sides and at the corners of the room. She looked at herself. She was wearing some kind of nurse blue uniform, a shirt and a pair of trousers. She didn't have shoes but she didn't mind. The first thing she had to do was to find out where Vincent was and get him out of that place, they will do it together as they had done in so many occasions since they met. She went to the back part of the door and noticed it was open. She went out and walked through a long corridor. It looked like a hospital or a lab, so white and aseptic. Then she entered the room where she thought she had been with Vincent when they woke up. But it was empty, even the bed wasn't there, just the things you usually find in a hospital…and…what was that? ... It wasn't possible… a mobile phone was on the floor hidden right under a small bedside table. Some might have lost it…She looked around and threw herself on to the telephone. The first number she remembered was JT's. She hide behind the door just in case someone entered the room and dialed his number. JT answered at the third tone:
-JT…it's me…Cat.
-Cat? Weren't you in the woods, with Vincent?
-How do you know I am not there?
-Your telephone sends a signal that places you near the port.
-Please, you have to come here… We were kidnapped. I can't find Vincent! - She cried.
-What?! Ok…Ok…Don't move. I'll be there in a minute. Look for a way out and wait for me. I won't take long. And do not leave the telephone, please.
JT took his car which was next to the club and rushed to pick her up. Meanwhile, she was walking carefully through the corridors, opening and closing doors trying to find a way out and trying to find out if Vincent was still there. No and… no. She thought she was in some kind of abandoned hospital facility. She turned left and saw a door at the end of the corridor. It looked like an exit or a door to a terrace or patio. She came near and opened carefully, she showed her head…the port.
She was right at the entrance of the place. She hadn't found Vincent, in fact, she knew that she was completely alone, because otherwise she would have already been intercepted. She shrugged and rubbed her arms with her hands, she was freezing. It had been snowing outside and she was just wearing a hospital pajama. She started to shiver as tears ran down her frozen face. She was shivering because of fear and cold, and because of the anger she felt at losing Vincent again. She thought she could never find him. They will make sure of that. Her lips were turning purple because of the cold and the dry air was burning her face, which was very hot in spite of the cold. Right then JT appeared with his car and stopped by her side. He went out to hold her because she was about to fall due to the cold and the shock.
-Cat! Cat! – He cried while he tried to warm her surrounding her with his body– Cat, say something, please…
-I lost him again, JT…I lost Vincent again. – She said throwing herself into his arms.