Chapter VI
When they reached the entrance rotating, they crossed with a white Lexus that left the Hospital.
The men guarding the entrance to the Baker let them in after checking their identities, and parked Jo's car in the warehouse next to the black van, where Jacob waited.
Tess and Jt went out to wait for them at the laboratory door.
Tess embraced Henry at the sight of him.
- Thank you for everything.. .- she said him with a smile-. To Jo, I had time to do it when she saved my ass with Joe ... .- She turned to her-. I will never be able to thank you for what you have done.
They both smiled.
- Well, you do not have to thank us ... keep in mind that you have helped me to unravel one of the mysteries of my life ... by the way, since when do you have a driver? .- Henry said, remembering the boy in the van.
Jt smiled funny.
- Its a very long history…
Tess also smiled ... a long story ... and so much ...
- Please, enter ... I have prepared a room so that we can do it with comfort .. - he indicated to them, conscious of what was going to happen. She had to see him again and close this story at once.
They went up to the laboratory floor and walked down the hall to a small adjoining room.
When Jt opened the door, they immediately saw a corpse covered with a sheet on an autopsy table.
- Tess, It's your turn ... if you still want to do it ...
She shook her head.
- I want to see him before you shred him...
Jt knew, that she had come with him in part for that, but the meeting with Angela and subsequent conversation had delayed him.
Tess took a deep breath, walked over to the stretcher, and slowly took the sheet away. The shattered body of the beast, with the color of death, appeared before her.
Through her mind passed, all the horrendous moments she had spent thinking of him creeping toward her, and the night he nearly killed her, but in the end, he fell on his knees in front of her, begging her to kill him before To continue suffering more ... Before remaining in what he had become.
She closed her eyes and saw again the moment she shot him ... and she also felt as she smashed shattered on the floor of the theater.
She gripped the stretcher, feeling her legs failed. Jt came up to her to catch her, under the watchful eye of Henry and Jo, who, knowing what that moment meant, had been kept in the background.
Tess pulled him back gently when she felt him by her side.
- I'm fine ...- She opened her eyes and took a deep breath-. … I'm fine…
She turned to her boy and kissed him on the lips. She pulled away and caressed his face as she lunched her forehead with his.
- I'm fine ...- she said again smiling.
He hugged her tightly and she let herself be hugged. Everything was over ... she was no longer afraid ...
She released Jt's embrace and headed toward Jo.
- Let's have some coffee ... Let them do their job ...
And without saying anything else they left the room leaving them alone with the corpse.
They arrived at the coordinates, which had the beast on his mobile, just in time to see how a private plane of considerable dimensions lowered the ladder so that passengers were going up.
The airfield had four different hangars. They stood on the wall of one of them. When they saw that Stanley, taking Rebecca's arm, was leaving the furthest from the hangars, leading the entourage to the waiting plane, Stuart was going to launch toward them, but Evan stopped him.
- Do not! Do not go ... there are a considerable number of hybrids inside ... nor could I tell you how many ... but many ...
They all looked at him. He was right without a doubt, but they could not see how they were going without trying anything ...
Vincent turned to his friend.
- Stay here ... we can not let them go ...
- Vincent ... no ...
Evan could only think of Cat ... If something happened to her husband ...
- We have to go…
van nodded just when the 5 came out, turned into beasts, hurtling toward the launch pad, but just then, several bursts of assault rifles were fired from the roof of the hangar, which had left Stanley and Rebecca.
It took only a second to react, and they began to dodge bullets ...
In the minds of each of them, a word formed that came from the mind of Erik ...
"It's a trap! They were waiting for us!"
Stuart, as the bullets whistled around him, kept his eyes fixed on Stanley, who was smiling at the top of the plane ladder as he gripped Rebecca's waist.
"We'll go for the shooters ..." .-Hugh told them, looking at Samuel-. ... but he did not give them time. They were just 100 meters from the plane when the hangar door appeared, giving Erik the right, 4 transformed hybrids.
They got to five in seconds and the fight started. Hugh threw himself at the shooters, as he had said, but Samuel stayed with the others ... They did not have too many opportunities, drawing bullets and fighting those evil beasts.
As experienced as Erik and Stuart had been, the struggle soon became uneven, in favor of hybrids.
They were fast and had trouble beating them. Vincent came face to face with one of them who was in a moment, about to take his heart out, but Erik came to his aid and with a sharp blow sent him away.
While they were fighting to the death with the hybrids, Hugh, with the help of Evan, who had reached the terrace, managed to neutralize the men of De Lucca, and stop the rain of bullets ...
When Stuart removed one of the hybrids that had him caught by the neck, it raised the head the exact seconds, before its attacker returned to the load, to see like Stanley and Rebecca, entered the airplane, and by at least, 7 more men came in behind him ... Everyone was leaving NY ... and he was sure where they were going.
The engines of the plane went on. The scale was removed by the operators and the door closed, while they continued fighting without being able to approach ...
In one last attempt, Vincent jumped in to dodge the hybrids, and reach the cockpit of the pilots, but they grabbed him by the legs and threw him against one of the walls of one of the hangars, which he traversed ... The blow left him semi-conscious ... Erik moved faster than they had ever seen him do, he took one's heart out and one of them fell to the ground dead, but he who had caught Vincent, came running towards him ...
At that moment everyone heard a voice ... "I want them alive" ...
"Ethan!"
And the voice of Evan screaming in his brain ..
"We have to go ... We can not win ... They're going to get you all"
Vincent heard the thunderous noises of the engine of the plane taking off, just as someone was grabbing it hard and lifting it off the ground ...
They opened it in a canal from the sternum to the groin and began to take samples. For more than two hours they were examining how the beast in the end had dominated psychically and physically the man.
They took pictures from all angles and analyzed their soft parts ... They opened their heads and took samples of his brain.
While Gabe's body was being used to check the bones on his face, Jt turned to Henry.
- You're going to tell me now, how you've come to Tess's life ... and why is this so important to you ...
Henry knew the truth about Vincent and everything Tess had told him about his relationship with Jt. Something told him that his experience might be good for Jt's friend, so it was understandable that he made them participate at some point in his secret ...
He caught air.
- Something like him ...- he said looking at Gabe's corpse-. ... killed me many years ago.
Thirty minutes later, sitting on one of the banquettes in the living room, with Gabe's corpse at his side, he was trying to assimilate what Henry was telling him. His personal history, and his encounter with others like Gabe many years ago ... A mystery he could now unravel.
- It's vitally important that you finish that asshole ...- he said, referring to the Consortium-. ... and that we will never again have something like that prowling the streets of NY... They are very dangerous when they become uncontrolled ... they become true monsters ...
Jt nodded without saying anything.
Henry smiled.
- Can you say something? ... with regard to me ... you just have to keep in mind that if you kill me right now, in an hour I'll be back here, just a little wetter..- he said trying to iron the matter.
Jt nodded again, catching his breath.
They were being very rare days. To the tremendous surprise of knowing what hiding the subsoil of NY, had to add the overwhelming presence of Vincent ... and now this?
- Give me a second ... - he asked as he recovered-. ... can not you die?
Henry shook his head.
- Well, let's say I die, I die, but I rise immediately in the cold waters of the Hudson completely naked ... I shook my head from side to side in disgust. Pretty shameful indeed. I can not tell you how many times I've been arrested for exhibitionism.
Jt could not help laughing, he needed it, but then apologized, looking at Henry's face, thinking of that neat English man, stopped by public scandal, trying to explain himself with that correct accent.
He put his hands to his face, not knowing what to say.
- I think with this I have covered the quota of rare things to bear ... - looked at him with curiosity. Yours, it's like Vincent's. Why do I suppose you'll know?
He nodded.
- Yes, Tess told me ... and I do not think he has much to do ... Your friend may die for real, he may live longer than you, but not forever like me .-The latter said it with much sadness-. It's a condemnation, Jt ... you get tired of living and losing the people you love ...
He could not stop thinking about what Vincent would feel, not only losing them, if not, losing Cat ... but he immediately remembered the idea that Evan and he had about that ... and his expression changed. In case they did not find Vincent's cure that could be the solution.
He got up from the stool and held out his hand to Henry ..
- Then, delighted to meet you, Henry, the immortal ... - he smiled coyly as he said this-. your secret is safe with me ... I have a lot of practice keeping secrets ...- He looked at Gabe's corpse-. And now, let's close it and make it presentable for your last trip ...
Henry nodded and settled on it.
When they finished, they moved it to the oven. After a few moments of silence, where Jt and Tess reminded the man that Gabe Lowan was, while he stayed away from the beast that dominated him, they put him inside and, for the second time that morning, they lit him.
Jt could not help asking Tess something.
- Maybe we should have waited for Cat before we burned him?"
It took her a few seconds to answer.
- No ... to her, he's dead ... let's leave it like this ... One day, in a very long time, maybe I'll tell her ...
Jt nodded knowing that this was not going to happen.
Tess stood for a few more seconds, looking at the massive iron door that separated her from hell, and with a deep sigh she turned and took Jt's hand, which was waiting for her. The four of them left without looking back ...
After fleeing at full speed from the airfield, they scattered each one in one direction, coming on different paths to the tunnels, when they were sure that no one had followed them.
The last to arrive was Vincent, who had remained hidden among the people strolling through Central Park.
He could still feel his head aching after the blow, which had been carried away by the hybrid. If Stuart had not lifted him off the ground, maybe this time, he would not be there. Stuart, always Stuart, thought with disgust ... no matter how much he could do, he could never forgive him.
With disguise he entered the sewers, through one of the tunnels of the park, and struck with force, the plumbing to indicate that they would come to open the gate.
He did not have to wait long to see Jacob appear by a bend.
Once he crossed the path, they went straight to the common room. The others were waiting for him worried. He was the one who had been worse off, but they had been dispersed, and he, once standing, was the first to say it.
When he entered the room he felt the sigh of relief on everyone's face.
Hugh went to him.
- Damn we were worried! That hybrid left you very badly with that tremendous blow ...
Vincent sat down in one of the chairs. He saw that the other Vincent was also there watching, leaning on the spiral staircase. They shook their heads.
- I've been away for a long time, to calm my head ... the blow left me somewhat stunned ...- He looked at Stuart-. Thanks for getting me out of there ... .- said in a whisper. It was hard for him to thank him ...
- You do not have to give them to me .- said the berseker, staring at him.
The silence seized a few moments of the stay, until Evan spoke:
- They were about to catch us all .- he said-. They were perfectly covered by Stanley's escapade and the others.
Erik let out a curse.
- It's amazing the power of these hybrids ... and there are many ...
- ... and the rain of bullets certainly did not help us ... .-Added Samuel.
Vincent nodded at that and turned to Evan.
- By the way, Evan, we told you to stay out of the way ... we can not risk losing you ..
He nodded.
- Yes, but the situation was desperate. I do not know from the inside how it looked, but from the outside, it did not look like you were going to get out of there alive ... I had to go ... there was no other choice.
Again they did not speak for a while, until Samuel asked the question that everyone was thinking.
- And now that? Here I suppose they will have remained De Lucca and his men, and certainly some hybrids ... but the one that Stanley is gone, we all imagine where, does not leave us many options.
Stuart shook his head.
- Do not…. Now, if we have to think about what Murray told us ... We have to go there ... and play with their same cards ...
Vincent got up from the chair where he was sitting.
- Yes ... but we can not leave all this unprotected - He looked at Vincent-. ... and someone has to stay to eliminate the ones left, to end Ethan ... and to know how they are ahead of the police actions ..
Erik was going to support what Stuart was proposing, when they heard footsteps down the hall. Lynn walked slowly without saying hello,
Vincent, covered with his cape, ducked his head, stopping leaning on the stairs, when he saw her enter. Since she had returned, the day that Ethan escaped, she was not the same, he dodged it continually, and the complicity he had noticed at the time, had disappeared. A part of him thought he understood the motives, after all, what was he? ... but that never ceased to hurt him ... He came to hope to have someone again in his life, like when Cathy was.
She slowly drew closer to them and then saw Stuart rise from the chair where he was sitting and take Erik's shoulder.
- It can not be ... .- said tremendously surprised.
Lynn gave no time for the salute.
- I have something very important to tell you ...
- What is Lynn? .-Vincent asked, not thinking about Cat for a moment, and glancing at the reaction of the bersekers.
She sat in the first free chair she saw. She bit her lip and looked at Stuart. She was sure they already knew.
-I'm pregnant….
Vincent, Hugh, Samuel, and Evan could not believe what they had just heard, while in Stuart and Erik's face he could not help but form a shy smile.
- ... and as you can imagine the father is Ethan ...
Neither knew exactly what to say.
She kept talking, was very aware of her situation.
- As you know, we both have a part of our own genetics ...- She looked at Vincent-. It's a case very much like yours and Cat's ... and I know from what Vincent has told us what this means for you ... .- She turned her eyes to the bersekers and realized they were holding the air. She bit her lip again-. Of course, I have no intention of aborting ...
Stuart and Erik breathed again.
She smiled.
- Not that it's the best way to have a child ... but Ethan in his peculiar way of wanting, I know he does ... And maybe this child can serve ... to redeem ... somehow ...
Vincent stepped away from the group and sneaked out of the room. Lynn watched him walk away and sigh; Then she would go and look for him.
Hugh could not be silent at that. He'd been watching Ethan the whole time he'd been caught.
- I do not think that's going to happen. Maybe he's infatuated with you ... because of the bond between beasts ... and wants to protect you ... and that's why he did not say anything about where we hide ... but, I do not think he has any other feelings ... If at any moment he catches you ... Will enter here without complex ..
Erik was right.
- It's true, Lynn, the connection stays with you ... Ethan I do not think he is ever redeemed ... he likes too much what he does ... and how he is ...
Evan approached her, who stood still listening to them, to try to cheer her up.
- Do not worry about anything ... we will control you like Cat ... and everything will be fine ... Also if we protect you well ... and we win this damn war, you do not have to see him again ...
Then again they heard footsteps coming from the stone corridor, and when they were still in shock at Lynn's announcement, Mark came in through the door of the room, and an Emily, with short black hair, was at his side.
Vincent, not quite knowing what had happened, went to them and first embraced his sister-in-law and then his brother-in-law.
- What happened? .-He asked frightened, as he let go of the embrace and looked at Emily-. Your hair?
- They went after her, just when you were facing Stanley ... Frank Reagan was telling me some of the things they said to him .. .-he nodded to Erik and Stuart-. ... I think you were hurt ... and I did not want to worry you more ... We fled as we could from the museum and have been hiding in Mountak so far ..
Emily smiled, looked at Mark and stroked his back, shyly for a few seconds.
- He saved my life, entering the Museum through the ventilation system ... If it had not been for Mark ...
Vincent could not believe what he was hearing.
- And now…. ?
Emily nodded.
- Mark was desperate not to be able to help with everything that was falling ...
- Yes ... I suppose you know that Murray has his hands tied ... - Mark told them, assuming that it was.
Everyone nodded.
Erik answered.
- He asked us to go to London to try something on our own ... but we had to try to hunt Stanley and the hybrids here ...
- ... and get Rebecca back ...- Added Stuart-. But now all that is not possible ... we can not do it ... they are gone ... and although we know where ... we can not go, without being detected ... and try to catch a merchant as did Cat takes its time.
Vincent told Mark what had happened.
- We could not even get close to the plane ... They were waiting for us ...
Mark sighed worriedly.
- We have many fronts open ... besides yours, someone filters information to the Consortium, that's why the director does not trust to take more action ... Scotland Yard has closed everything concerning Covington House ... and now this ... You have no choice but to go ...
Erik looked at the stone ceiling of the living room.
- Yes, but how?…
Just then, Jt entered the great hall, with Tess on the arm, smiling.
- I think I can fix that ... but with some conditions ...
At 20 p.m. Erik, Stuart, Vincent, Jt and Tess, were riding a private plane owned by Angela Baker on the way to London.
Jt and Tess after finishing with the problem that Gabe had assumed, and having agreed with Angela, that all decisions about the investigations on the bersekers would be left for after finishing the Consortium, if that happened, they had asked to go To London with them.
Knowing that Angela could lend her private plane, everything moved very fast.
In just over an hour, they decided that Evan would stay to check that no one was approaching the tunnels, and help Hugh and Samuel detect hybrids, then call Director Reagan and Mark. Everyone would have to collaborate ... but the first thing was to know how the information leaked, and from that, Mark said, he would deal.
Also, now that they knew Lynn was pregnant, it was important that Evan could do the relevant tests ... Although it would be difficult to approach the Baker they would have to try ... the tunnel men would take care of it. It hurt him a lot not to go with them, because he wanted to help Cat in everything he could with the birth ... because they were very clear that the birth would be in Scotland, but Jt and Tess said that they would go to Skye soon to be with her, And between them and Heather, plus the collaboration of the doctors there, there would be no problems ... or so they hoped.
Vincent would have given half a life, to go with them ... but his first mission was to end the Consortium when before ... they had no more time ... It depended on the life of his wife and children ... and his own ...
Arrived at the airport shortly before 7:30 pm.
Angela was waiting for them in her car, in a long black coat.
Vincent came over to thank her, but she came forward and hugged him.
- Do not let them kill you…. You have a wonderful woman and you are going to be a father ... it would be a great loss ... .-she said him.
He hugged her, too.
- Thanks for everything Angela ... For all.
With a lump in her throat, she let go of him and saw him board her plane, along with the others.
She remained there, still, all the time it took the plane to take off, until finally it did, heading London. When she lost sight of it on the horizon, she got into the car and told her driver to take her to the hotel ... she needed a hot bath, a cup of spice tea, some whiskey ... and a box of tissues.
It was still two hours to reach his destination, when Vincent fell asleep, hoping to be with his wife, but he woke up in a few minutes, his heart coming out of his chest.
When he got off the plane at 7:30 a.m., local time, his priorities had changed.
- Take a deep breath now ...- Heather said, taking her hands-. .. you are in your 35th week ... normally the births of twins should not go beyond 37 ... but your children weigh already what they have to weigh ... and they are already placed. At any moment we have to run to the hospital.
Cat snorted annoyed.
-Heather, I'm sick of breathing ... and hold my breath ... put on my side and all that ... ..- she sat up and sat as good as he could on the floor of her room. I'm almost sure that when the time comes I'll forget everything ... besides, is not there something called epidural anesthesia?
Dana sat up in bed smiling. He had just turned the camera off. Cat had insisted on recording everything that had to do with the pregnancy so Vincent could see it afterwards, if they had a chance.
- Sometimes it does not give time to put it ... and of all the ways, you will have to push equally ... you feel it or not...
Cat closed her eyes.
- I swear I have a crazy desire to have them leave ... I can hardly move, and I'm in the bathroom peeing, most of the day ... - she told them to help her get up. Speaking of the subject ...
They each grabbed her hand and lifted her off the ground.
Running, she headed for the bathroom.
While she was there she told her sister.
- This morning I had many discomforts in the back ... It was as if they kicked my back ... Do you think it might matter?
Heather looked at Dana, not knowing.
- I do not know ... I guess they'll have to stretch from time to time ... They are in a very small place and are becoming bigger ...
Cat kept talking from the bathroom.
- Today afternoon I will go again to the library to find things about babies ... special .- - said not knowing very well how to call them-. Angus has told me that there is some information on births ... but he tells me not to be afraid ... they are normal babies like all other babies when they are born ... .- She shrugged-. They eat and sleep ... nothing else ...
Heather sat on the bed.
- Do what you want, but do not go to chairs or move more normal ... and no long walks in the field ... It's too cold ...
Cat stepped out of the bathroom, pulling up the cotton trousers she used for exercise.
- I want to wear jeans! .. Really this ... .- He pointed to her huge belly-. ... ... back to normal again?
Dana smiled and nodded.
- Of course you have, and you have gained only what is strictly necessary ... you will look great, and Vincent will drool when he sees you, just as he does now.
Cat and Heather laughed at what Dana had just said.
- Yes ... I sure do ...- Heather said.
Cat sighed and smiled thinking of her husband and the nights they were spending together, when he could sleep and the children let him into their consciousness.
It was wonderful to feel him so deep inside of her ... even if it was so few times and so short ... the poor man would have to be exhausted ... She thought funny that the two deserved a good vacation.
She had been looking in the library of the Bersekers for something connected with the connection they had with children ... and had found references, from a kind of collective ancestral memory, which was transmitted genetically ... That's why, she sensed, Vincent could feel that he was flying through the landscapes of the island ... the cliffs, the castle ...
Heather got up and headed for the door.
- I'm going to see if I can track down Evan and ask him about your back pain ...I know that's important ...
Dana followed her.
- And I'm going to get your father ... We will go for a walk through the town ... I need to leave even if there is this fog that invades everything.
Cat nodded, staring out the window. Angus had told them that they would have fogs all week and that left them few options, and to her less than anyone ... No running in the field with this humidity.
She said goodbye to them and began to change clothes. She had another day of interesting reading ahead of her, and hopefully, hopefully, that Vincent, at some point, would fall asleep and be back inside her.
Lynn found him in the kitchen talking to Marie about the meals they would have to prepare next week ... they had to organize the remaining pantry before asking their friends for more food. Almost all they had were donations, they could not be abused, but the winter had been hard and the reserves had declined considerably.
As soon as she appeared, Marie discreetly stepped aside and said she had to check things out in the warehouse.
Vincent stared at her as she left, saying nothing.
Lynn approached him and touched his arm.
- I know I should have told you before ... but I felt too embarrassed to do it ...
- You do not have to explain me .- he said, but he did not look at her.
- I do not want to hurt you, Vincent ... but I can not help feeling something for him too ... I can not help it ... and this child ...
Vincent turned and looked at her this time.
- You do not have to explain me .-he repeated, and Lynn saw tenderness in his eyes. Something she did not expect. ... I know how things are ... I do not like them, but I understand them ...
She said nothing ... I did not know what to say to her understanding. She only sighed.
Vincent hugged her and kissed her hair.
- No one will think ill of you because what has happened, we all understand ... and I swear that you will be well ... You and your son will be well with us ... I will take care of it personally ...
He hugged her harder and she did the same, feeling safe and happy for the first time in a long time.
After dinner, Cat went to Heather's room to get a bandage, for the cut she had made, with the paper from one of the books she had been browsing that afternoon, on her finger. She itched and knew her sister had brought a complete kit.
She knocked first on the door, but no one answered. Heather Should still be with Dana in the living room. Without thinking twice, he entered the room and began to look around. She did not see the medicine cabinet at first sight.
She moved slowly toward the closet. She opened it and immediately saw one of the sides, took it and leaned on the bed. Just open it, saw a bottle of alcohol and just below bandages, band-aids and tape.
She took out the boat, one of the bandages and the tape, sat on the bed and healed. When had finished pouring some alcohol, she covered the wound with the band-aid, and this with and the bandage, so that it would not move.
As she squeezed the tape tightly, she lifted her head upward, frowning in pain, and as she did so, she saw in the upper part of the closet a black book on the edge of the cabinet.
When she had finished healing, he got out of bed and took it. She did not understand that she could make a book up there. She did not think it could be from Heather, maybe from some other guest the castle? She could not help but be curious.
he stretched slightly and stood on tiptoe, and thanks to the door of the closet was open and could place his immense gut, took it.
It was a black notebook about 20 x 15 cm ... A diary? ... A travel notebook like the ones about Rebecca?
She opened it, smiling and just see the name on the first page the smile froze on her face.
"Genetic analysis of the patient Vincent Keller ... Data analyzed in the first examination ... reference: enzymes ..."
She felt dizzy. She started to walk backwards and ended up sitting on the bed with her heart and breath rushing.
"What the hell was that?" ... was all she could think of. Leaves began to pass quickly. Phrases and more phrases and the name of her husband on all pages ... Suddenly, she came to one of them where she could read ... "Composites with which to experiment to obtain a cure ... Genetic material of the subject's parents, Vincent Keller ...
Then Cat realized that it was what she had in her hands ...
It was Paul Markus' note book! The book he used to find Vincent's cure!
She raised her head in despair and looked where she had found it.
How did he get there ?! How did she get to her sister's room ?!
With a horrible feeling, she jumped out of bed and with the book in her hand, ran out of the room, down the stairs, as fast as her condition would allow.
She came to the living room, where the others were talking about what was supposed to be happening in NY, her heart about to slip out of her chest. They rose from their respective seats, only to see her enter.
She did not stop to see them simply went to the oval table and dropped the book on it.
Although she could hardly breathe from the effort she had just made, the screams came out of her mouth uncontrolled.
- WHAT DID THIS IN YOUR ROOM, HEATHER !? ARE THE NOTES OF PAUL MARKUS!
She leaned against one of the chairs because she was certain she was going to faint.
Nobody said anything. Everyone looked at the book and looked at it.
- I WANT YOU TO ANSWER ME, NOW!
Bob came up to her and took her by the arm. Above the surprise of the fact that she had found the book, they were worried about her. Any emotion could have consequences.
- Sit down, please .- he said.
She saw Dana and her sister looking at each other with a face of circumstance. She pulled her father away.
- NO, I will not sit down! Not until you tell me what's going on here! ... .-she said firmly.
Dana looked at Bob and Bob nodded. She shook her head.
- No ... no ... it's very dangerous ...
Bob put his hands to his head.
- Heather! We can not do anything ... .- he looked at her daughter-. We know her very well, she will not move from here until we tell her ...
Cat nodded, looking sadly at her father.
- I thought we were done with the secrets, Dad ...
Cat sat in the chair and covered her face with her hands. She made a gesture of pain when he noticed a subtle prick in her belly.
- Tell me once. Please ... if you have not told me before, it can not be good ... - she said without removing her hands from her face.
Dana sat down next to her and took one of her hands. Cat leaned back in the chair. Bob went to one of the windows with his back to them. Fog surrounded the castle. She did not want to see her daughter's face when she knew that no one, not Vincent, had told her the truth ... and when she knew what Stuart had been able to do.
- I do not know how to tell you this ... we should leave it for after the delivery Cat ... we do not gain anything by getting more nervous ... - she squeezed her hand tightly and smiled, seeing that she shook her head-. ... you think only that now we have an opportunity, to have the notes of the good doctor, so that Jt and Evan can find a cure for Vincent ... Cat, think about it ... the details are the less ...
Cat stared at her.
- I may be pregnant, but I'm tired of all this ... you're hiding something very important and I'm imagining that I will not like ... .- touched the belly again."I should not have gone down the stairs so fast," she thought, for a moment as she slowly massaged her kidneys-. ... I will not stop thinking about it ... You can not prevent the ugly feeling I have is maintained and that I do not think it is good for children ... .- she said, as calm as she could-. Please tell me the truth of how this has come .- Cat pointed to the note book-. ... to your room .- She looked at Heather-. When Markus died, nothing was found there ... You must understand that I need an explanation ... .- looked at his father pleading-. please, Dad, you promised me ... no more secrets ... "
Bob turned slowly. Heather sat on the couch, which was next to the fireplace and covered her face with her hands ... She knew she was not going to end well ... she knew her sister very well ... and now she was even more upset than usual, no matter how much she seemed to be relaxed ...
- The book gave us Angus ... - he began to tell his daughter.
- Angus? I do not understand….- Said Cat, shaking her head from side to side.
Bob licked his lips and sat down on the other side of Cat.
- You have to know that things are always more complicated than they seem ... and I know he did what he did, because he feels something very special for your husband ...
- Who? ... Angus? ... Daddy do not understand anything! ... .- she interrupted him again losing her patience ... - I barely know...
Cat did not finish the sentence. She immediately realized that they were not talking about Angus.
She sat up slightly in the chair.
- You do not talk about Angus ... do you? ... you talk about Stuart ...
They both nodded.
Heather got up from the couch and moved closer to them little by little. Cat seemed calm, but her breathing was very agitated.
- What did Stuart do? .-She asked them.
- To keep Vincent from being what he is ... .-Bob said slowly, not wanting to go into details.
Cat said nothing. In these words there were many things implicit, horrible things ... She knew that they had not been able to find anything in the laboratory. Everything had taken him ... who killed him. She swallowed. Furtive tears began to fall down her cheeks.
- Are you telling me that this bad born was able to kill ... .- had to catch air to continue talking ... Was he able to kill Paul, to prevent Vincent from having a cure?
Dana ducked her head, gripping Cat's hand tightly. Bob slowly nodded and Heather stood beside her sister ...
Cat began to move her head from side to side, first slowly, then faster and faster.
- Cat, I know it's hard to assimilate .- Dana told him.
She could not hear.
- ... since when does Vincent know?
Dana looked at Bob before answering. Heather was on the brink of heart attack ...
- From the day they went to Stanley's apartment ... He told Vincent ... But they have decided that everything can wait ... we have to win this war before ... and now we have that notebook ... It can help you so much! .- She said, trying to get her to stay with the good ...
But Cat only heard what she wanted to hear.
- From the day they went to Stanley's apartment ... He told Vincent ... But they have decided that everything can wait ... we have to win this war before ... and now we have that notebook ... He can help you so much! "He said, trying to get her to stay with the good ...
Cat only heard what she wanted to hear.
- ... then he did not want to tell me either ... he lied to me ... ..- she stopped looking at them and looked at a point in front of her -. ... - But how could he be able to kill him ... HOW COULD YOU BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS! AND TO DO SOMETHING SO TO VINCENT! HOW COULD WE DO SOMETHING LIKE IT!HE HAS CONDEMNED US AND OUR CHILDREN! .- She shouted, striking the table-. I've tried to be patient ... to have an open mind ... .- She got up from the chair. Heather went to help her, but she pushed it aside-. ... but I can not ... .-Cat touched her chest-. ... I need to breathe ... I need air ... and I need to get out of here, I can not stand being at home ... I can not…
Bob reached for her.
- Cat, sit on the couch .. Dana will make you tea ... please stay! ...
She pulled away, another prick pierced her lower back, but she barely felt it.
- DO NOT! I need to be alone ... I have a lot to think about ... Leave me alone, please ... Now I do not want to be with anyone!
Cat went to the door, and when left the small room, she ran down the hall, up the stairs to the street floor, and without taking her coat, went outside.
The few seconds it took Dana, Bob and Heather to react were fatal, for by the time they left the castle to look for her, the fog had already swallowed her.
To be continue. Prepare for the following ... soon a very, very special chapter ... Thank you very much Beasties for your infinite patience ... A thousand kisses for all ...