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There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads...afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course, when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back. (One Tree Hill)

Nathan's POV

"Where is Michael?" I asked to Tyler and David.

"He went to see Artemis." Tyler responded putting the bullets on his gun.

"What?" I asked panicking, "What the hell is happening? Is she ok?"

"Relax!" David said "No need for drama queen. It's just precaution, and you know it."

I sighed in relief, if something happens to her I…

"Don't go there, Nathan" Tyler murmured "We won't let anything happen to her. We've been keeping her away from Muirfield for ten years; there is no reason for us to assume they know about her, besides she has three bad asses' uncles and a hell of a father. She will be ok."

I nodded, my daughter is my number one priority and I hope Catherine understands when the time comes. She is the only thing I have left of Meg and I will do anything to keep her safe and give her a normal life.

"Do you really think we have to kill Thomas?" I asked to both of them.

They stared at me at the same time but it was David that answered "You know we hate this as much as you do. If it wasn't for Vanessa, Artemis would be dead too."

"Vanessa and Vincent." David completed. "Don't forget we owe him that too."

"I know." Tyler continued "But if Thomas doesn't cooperate, we won't have another choice. I'm sorry about Catherine, but my niece comes first. She deserves a life, Vincent deserves a life. If Thomas can't see that, he deserves to die." He got up and went to stairs "We will be ready at eight." He finished and went to his room.

"You have to tell Catherine, she deserves to know about what her father has been doing all these years. She deserves to know that Thomas is the reason why Vanessa is dead." David put his right hand on my shoulder "I know it's hard for you, and I can't imagine the weight on your shoulders, but after ten years we finally have a chance to end all this. I know it's morbid and I hate myself for even saying, but if with Thomas' death we can save all those people, I think it's worth it."

I nodded, "Catherine won't agree with this, and she is right. Even Thomas has been the one that betrayed Vanessa, he still is her father."

"You know as much as I do that if you tell him everything there is no going back, and if he refuse to help, we can't let him live. It will be a risk for you, Artemis, Catherine, Heather and Vincent. Vanessa hid Artemis, but it was Vincent that brought her back to us."

"And he doesn't even know it." I said, remembering what Vincent had told me yesterday "He doesn't have any full memories from his time in combat or how he came back to America."

Tyler nodded "Vanessa did a good job on that. We just learn that, two weeks ago…We will tell him everything soon, but first, Muirfield has to go down."

I agreed I know that Catherine will hate me for that, but we came to a road there is no going back.

Catherine's POV

As I drive back home, I try to think about anything, but is almost impossible, knowing that my father, all these years, has been working for the people who killed his wife, my mother… Nathan was really vague about how and why my father is involved, but I'm not an idiot, I know it's something bad. I know that it's not just a key, we will need from him. I take a deep breath; before we go talk to my father Nathan has to tell me everything.

When I got home, Nathan and heather already left, probably my sister had interrogated him…To tell the truth what he said to her is the last thing on my mind. I put my gun, my badge and the keys on the table…the whole silence was too much to bear…My parents, Nathan…Vincent…'Why is it that so much easier to forgive a stranger than someone you love?' I looked around the apartment, something was missing, or I should say someone. It's been so long since Vincent was here…I shook my head; there were bigger issues I have to take care of.

I went to my bedroom and laid in my bed, my parents worked for Muirfield, my father is still their lawyers…Is it possible that he knew all this time what kind of business Muirfield has?

I don't know who long I've been there thinking, but what seemed minutes for me, was hours later and Nathan had come back.

"We need to talk" we said together

"Let's eat in that restaurant near the park; it's a good place for us to talk." Nathan said and I nodded getting out of bed.

Vincent's POV

Yeah, I know I made a promise, but I can't spend a single day without see her. I know she is going to be pissed and probably Nathan knows that I'm here, but I don't care. I just hope he doesn't tell her that. I arrived a bit late, you know. First I went to her apartment, JT is gonna be furious if he knows that I've been walking around in the middle of the day… She wasn't there, of course, then I started to look, I remembered Nathan saying something about Central Park and well that was my guess, luckily I was right.

Nathan had an arm around her and she had tears in her eyes. She took a deep breath controlling her emotions. After a few minutes without saying anything Nathan spoke.

"Ok, brutally honest and you can hit me if you want, but I have some questions for you. When Evan was kidnapped by that psycho frat boy, why did you ask Vincent's help?"

She looked at him confused "Why did you ask that?"

"Please, just be honest, ok?'

"Evan is my friend and Vincent was the only one that could help me to find him before he was killed."

"But Vincent had the blackout issues and then Evan started to "google" him let's say. It' was dangerous."

"I know!" Catherine answered and I was trying to understand where Nathan wanted to go with all that. Evan's kidnapped was months ago, right about the time that Catherine and I were going to that trip.

"Second question; why didn't you use the tranq gun on Vincent? He saved Evan, but he almost got caught too."

"I took a shot, ok?" Catherine was getting nervous "Why the hell are you bringing all of this. That was months ago."

"Because, I need you to be honest with yourself, Catherine. Are you sure that the reason why you asked for Vincent's help, was because Evan was your friend? Or you were, ARE in love with him?"

"What? No!" she denied, and I couldn't breathe.

"I think it's time for you to face your feelings. First, why did you go for Vincent In the first place, why you didn't use that tranquilizer gun on him? Why didn't you push Evan away when he kissed you in your birthday party? Catherine it might be a possibility that Vincent was right; Evan is the kind of guy that you could think about a future. You would have to face all those feelings and thoughts you've been hiding from yourself. You for so long have keeping everyone at some distances, and I get it, you had all the reasons too. But maybe Vincent, and using his own words, is the ultimate bad boy…"

"Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong, but I'm not going to explain anything to you. These are my issues and when the time comes, Vincent and I will talk. Right now we just have to be ready."

Catherine stood up and started to walk, my heart was beating fast in my chest. For a second I thought about following her, but then I gave up. Maybe Catherine and I was a fantasy too.

I started to pace around, throwing some punches in the bag…At this point I was a mess. Catherine didn't confirm if what Nathan was saying was true, but she didn't deny either. I'm in love with her for so long, how am I supposed to compete with Evan, when he can give her everything I want for her?

Is that possible that Catherine felt half of I am feeling, when I went to that stupid cabin with Alex? Nathan claims he knows her better than anyone else, so, he can be right…Catherine might be using me as an excuse to run from her feelings for Evan.

I was so lost in my thought that I missed JT walking through the door and stood in front of me.

"What are you doing in home? I thought you said you have classes?" I asked when I looked at my watch he got home three hours earlier than usual.

"You should sit big guy." He said and put his bag on the table. I sat in a chair in front of him.

"JT what is it?"

He took a deep breath "Do you remember the text I received this morning?"

"Yeah" I said "It was from Sarah, right?"

He looked at me confused "Why would you think it was her?"

I shrugged "Well, it seems that you couldn't get out of here fast enough and since you got yesterday pretty late I thought…"

"It was from Catherine. She wanted to meet me, but you couldn't know."

"Why?" I asked and he gave me a bottle with some pills. "What is this?"

"These dear friend, are Nathan's pills. Catherine gave to me so; I could test before we gave them to you. She was worried about giving you hope and then…"

"I understand" I said opening the bottle "If you are telling me this is because…"

"Well, I tested them. I still had some of your blood and well, they worked. It's not a cure yet, but Nathan's pills will work on you." He said with a smiled, a smiled I haven't seen for so long.

I look at him in disbelief, I couldn't believe. It was too good to be true. The only think I could think about is call Catherine and tell her the news, but before I got to carried way JT spoke.

"You can't call Catherine yet. There is a lot going on right now and she is not a hundred percent of Nathan and…"

"And?"

"There is a small chance that Nathan and Catherine can take Muirfield down, and I mean for good."

"More reasons for me to call, I can help them."

JT shook his head "She asked me to not let you get out of the warehouse in the next few days. She even asked me to lie to you, but since I'm terrible actor, I know if I lie to you, you are going to do the opposite. So please, just for once I hope you do what Catherine asked. She can't afford be worried about you."

"I…I don't understand…" I said confused "I can't be sit here knowing she is out there in danger."

"Vincent this is good news, if she still worried about your safety, it means that you still have a chance with her." I nodded thinking about her talk with Nathan earlier "Do you think she loves me? I mean…"

"Vincent I looked into her eyes, and I know you are quite worried about her friendship with Nathan, but dude, that girl loves you. She just gave you a chance of future."

"I don't want a future without her, I said that I would fight for her and I can't do that locked up here. I have to talk to her."

"You can call her, but not today. Tonight she is going out with Nathan." JT said and looking at him, I knew he was telling the truth, I was about to say that I knew but I bit my tongue.I knew I had to tell JT that I went to see her, but not tonight…He was going out with Sarah and if I planned to follow Catherine again, JT had to trust that I wouldn't leave.

"So, are you taking them or not?" JT asked me a few minutes later.

"Not now. Catherine might need my help and if I take those pills…"

"She is a grown up woman, Vincent. She can kick some asses without your help." He said and I could see he was frustrated "God, she was right, I have to be ready to…" and that moment he hesitated, he was hiding something, something big."

"You have to be ready for what?" I crossed my arms in my chest waiting for his answer.

"I have to be ready to try to put some sense in your head. I still don't know why she believes I'm capable of. You NEVER listened to me."

"JT!"

"I'm not trying to hurt you, but this is all she has asked from you. Even though she is still pissed at you, she is worried about your safety. Not that you actually let her feeling you cared about hers in the first safe."

"How can you say that? Her safety is my number one priority. Always has."

"Really? Let's check then. You went behind my back to expose yourself to Alex. Catherine was hurt from the accident and the shooting from a case you brought to her. Oh and she almost lost her job because she had to saved your ass from be arrested with your so lovely ex fiancée; then Catherine finally opened her heart and you practically told her that Alex was a better woman because she would give up her life to run with you.. Let's not forget, Alex didn't know half of the things Catherine did."

"JT, please" I was almost begging him to stop; I know I was an ass nobody knows better than me.

"I'm not finished. Then you told me that you were going to apologize to Catherine when actually, you just went there to rub in her face that you were going on a trip with your ex fiancée, a trip she tried to take you months ago, but didn't happened because you started to black out. How do you think she felt? Long story short, Catherine saved yours and Alex ass, lost her best friend in the process, almost end up on Muirfield radar thanks to your dearest Alex…Oh and top of that you went to her apartment to tell her you wanted to be with her in the same night you were willing to run away with Alex, that sure screams I LOVE YOU!"

"I know, ok?" I had tears in my eyes. "I know I screwed up, I know that. I would do anything to go back to the night Catherine came to see me and told me she wanted to be with me…I just…"

"Well, you can't. So what about for once you do what she asked you to do? I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure Nathan wouldn't let her in the middle of all of this if she was in danger. "

"You don't even know the guy." I said looking at him and frowning "Do you?"

"No! Catherine made perfectly clear that Nathan doesn't and can't know about me."

"I'm telling you if she doesn't trust him with this why I should stay here…"

"It's not that she doesn't trust him, because she does. She…It's complicated…"

"Well enlighten me, since you two have been so good friends"

"Don't give me that. If she doesn't trust you, it's not my fault. Actually I have to say, I was wrong about her. She is nothing like I thought she was. She really cares about you. And she proved that a lot. I guess everything she did; even let you go found your happiness away from her it was a big proves of how much she loves you. I guess it's your time to prove to her that what you feel is real, but I have to say you have to wait."

"She doesn't want to see me, talk to me…How am I supposed to prove myself to her?"

"I have no idea, but you can start by staying here until she calls and say it's safe."

"If something happens to her…"

"It won't" and with that JT went to the bathroom to take a shower.

JT might be one of the most intelligent people in the world, but he is kind of lazy sometimes and as he is in the shower he totally forgets about the world. I went to look at his things and found a new burner phone he had three new messages.

I'll send the address an hour before I leave, be ready for everything.

Yeah JT I love him, that didn't change. Be careful.

Don't call, see you soon.

I love him…be ready for everything…this didn't sound right…this sound dangerous…I need to think…what was more important for me? Have Catherine's trust back even with a small chance that I could lose her tonight for whatever she was up to or don't have her trust back, but be sure that she will be alive? My choice was clear, but before I could make anything I felt a small pain in my back and then my body started to fail. JT had used the tranquilizer on me.

Catherine's POV

As I get ready to go talk to my father I can stop think about the conversation I had with Nathan in the park. I sighed tonight we can be one step closer to finally put an end on Muirfield.

Flashback

Nathan and I finished to eat and went for a walk in the central park… we sat in a bench and he started to talk.

"I hide something from you and I know you know it."

I nodded waiting for him to continue. "The truth is Meg was pregnant when she start to blackout and we have a daughter.

I looked at him in shock "What do you mean have? Is…is she alive?"

"Your mother protected her and when she finally came back she brought her to me. The thing is you mother developed some pill to control her, and she has been living with my parents since then."

"What? How? Is not dangerous for her? For them?"

"They keep moving. Right now they are in the country but tonight they are going to leave. Her name is Artemis…"

He showed me a picture of her and I took in my hands "She is beautiful. That's why you tried those experiments, isn't it? You are looking for a cure…for her."

He nodded "The thing is, I couldn't let her go through all those things Vincent, Meg and all those soldiers went through…"

"There is more, right?"

"Yeah, Vincent was the one that protect her, there. We still are trying to figure out the rest of the story, Vanessa found a way to bring them back to the country, but it was Vincent that saved my daughter for those guys from Muirfield in the first place."

"He always does the right thing." I murmured. "What my father did? Please be honest, he must have done something bad, right?"

"We still don't know for sure"

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"Listen, I lied when I said I didn't know why your mother was still searching for cure, at least I thought I knew. For me she was trying to find a cure for my daughter, but that was not the whole truth, she knew about Vincent and he was the one that saved her life so she thought she owned him that much. I don't know how or why she did it, but she erased some of his memories."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Someone told Muirfield about your mom's research and we almost sure it was your father. There is might be this world that your father sent those guys to kill her."

"You are lying, he would never do that…he loved her…he suffered a lot…"

"Listen there was only two people in this world that knew about that, I would never do such thing especially risking my daughter; and Claire has been saying something that…"

"And I should just believe in you? You lied to me…You've been lying for so long…"

He hold my shoulders, "Yeah, I lied to you and I'm sorry, and I wasn't going to tell any of this, not about me or about my daughter, but Tyler and David found some pictures of your father with some guys of Muirfield. And Catherine, we both know that you always could tell just looking into my eyes if I'm telling the true or not."

Deep down I knew that he was telling the truth but that wasn't enough "I need evidences; I'm a cop after all."

"I understand and I can give you that. Before we went talk to your father we go back to my place and you can see for your own eyes that we have all the reasons to believe that your father has a lot to hide."

I had tears in my eyes and Nathan passed his arms through my shoulders "If your father doesn't cooperate the guys want to kill him, but I promise you that I won't let them. Don't matter what happen you father will be free."

"Thank you!" I said and gave a sad smile.

I don't understand why Nathan had to mention Vincent, why was he asking if I'm in love with Evan. Is he crazy or…but part of me was still considering what he said, it might be possible that all this time I've been hiding m true feelings behind Vincent? I shook my head…It wasn't time to think about that. For now Muirfield is my priority, my love life can wait.

I send a text with the address he must go if something goes wrong…I sighed, I just hope he keep Vincent in the warehouse. Nathan came to my room and looked at me "It's time."

I followed his car, making sure we haven't been followed. We went to his house and there I finally could meet Tyler and David.

After some introductions they started to talk. "Four years ago we found one of Muirfield locations, but we were too naïve and we thought just with our guns and our courage we could take the down, we were wrong." Tyler started to talk "Let's say we have four more people with us, just David, Nathan and I got out alive. But what we saw there…kids, babies… "

"Nathan told me, so what this all have to do with my father?" I asked. If they think I'm going to let them kill my dad they are so wrong…

"Before you say anything, you should see this." David gave me some pictures, it was my father with Muirfield scientists, but that wasn't the worst…David gave his laptop and a video started to play…It was my father watching one of the sessions, an experiment been made with a kid…that boy shouldn't have more than three years… I looked at Tyler and David but it was Nathan who spoke first "The video has no sound, but can you look at me and say that you are a hundred percent sure that he is innocent?"

I stood up, "Let's go!" my father has a lot to explain.

Oh my God! This was the longest chapter I've written so far…I know I promised a lot of things and Catherine and Vincent's conversation will be in the next too, with Nathan beasting out…I just didn't realize that I had so much to say in this chapter. Hope you all like it. At least, we all learn why Tyler and David wants to killed Thomas so bad…don't worry, Nathan we talk a little more about this time they found one of Muirfield locations…

Have you all a great week and in the next chapter FOR SURE, we all know what Thomas has been hiding.