**I DO NOT OWN THIS SHOW OR THE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW, I AM JUST BORROWING THEM**

~Catherine~

It felt good to hear the crowd applauding for me. They absolutely loved my work and I was offered cash for my paintings. I couldn't sell them though…they were my first actual showcase paintings and I wanted to keep them as souvenirs to remind me of such a wonderful night. As the after party began, people were getting lost in conversation and drinking wine. My dad approached me along with Heather, Tess and JT and they all took turns hugging me.

"Cat you are such an amazing older sister and I didn't realize how great of an artist you were. You are totally awesome and I am so happy for you."

"Aww, Heath thanks!"

I noticed Tess and JT had shocked looks on their faces as they looked behind me. I took a drink of my wine, and asked, "What are you two looking at?" and I turned around and gasped as I dropped my wine glass and covered my mouth. Tears swelled my eyes….it was him. Vincent. He seemed just as shocked to see me as I was to see him. The music had stopped, and everybody was staring. He edged closer to me and I would have backed up but my body was frozen in place. As he made it as close as could get to me he said, "Hi."

"Hi." I said breathlessly….and everybody began to go back to what they were doing, and the music began to play again.

"Catherine, I love you more than anything in this world. JT has been lying to you by saying I was fine, but the truth of the matter is…I'm not, fine. I have been binge drinking for the past 2 weeks since we broke up….been going crazy without you…"

A tear fell down his face and I reached up to wipe it away as I cupped his face and he leaned his head into my hand as he reached up to hold my hand there.

"I have missed you Catherine. My life has fallen apart and I have never felt this way before. You have no idea how much you mean to me….

He removed my hand from his face and webbed his fingers with mine as he continued, "You are so beautiful…..I want to kiss you so bad right now."

"So kiss me." I responded in a whisper and he cupped my face and kissed me. My body melted into his as our tongues touched and I wrapped my arms around his neck to pull him closer to me. This kiss seemed more passionate than the first….more loving and needing. I didn't want him to stop, but then I realized our surroundings. I pulled away and looked down in disbelief, then back up to look into his golden brown eyes, "I missed you so much Vincent…..I must admit, I went a little crazy too. It felt like my entire world was stripped away from me when you left. I wanted you with me, I needed you. I thought I was dying without you. You have become such a huge part of my life that when you left, I didn't recognize who I was anymore? Please forgive me…..I can't lose you again."

"I'm not going anywhere….I'm right here and I promise I'll never leave your side again…even if you tell me to."

We both let out a slight laugh and I began kissing him again.

"You have no idea how badly I wanted to just drive to your apartment and kiss you like this again, Catherine."

"Ditto….but it was for your own good Vincent."

"I know…I know…..you were looking out for me and I know that now. Tori called me earlier and she had somebody calling her on the other line. She answered, but they must have lost the connection and she was still on the phone with me when she said to have you took out. She had no idea that it was me on the line, and I said nothing more to her….I hung up and came straight here."

I let out a laugh and said, "So that explains why your wet right now...although you do look really hot wet, so I'm not complaining."

"Do I now?" Vincent said with a smirk on his face and he bent down to kiss me again.

"STOP! STOP KISSING HER!" Tori ran up to us and Vincent got in front of me while holding me back.

"Vincent, your making a huge mistake right now. You can't be with her! I love you…not her! Remember? She broke up with you!"

I have had enough her bull! I stepped aside of Vincent and retorted, "Yeah, only because you had me beat half to death and you had somebody threaten me his life if I didn't! You are so unbelievable Tori! He don't love you anymore, so let it go."

"And you think that he loves you? HA! Wrong! He only uses the word love to make himself a detour into your pants. Trust me I know."

"Grow up Tori! I love Catherine in more ways than you can imagine. I have never felt this way with you or anybody else and now that I'm finally happy you want to come back around and try to get back with me? Keep dreaming…..and I suggest you tell Mikey to leave us both the hell alone! I don't like to fight, but if I have to in order to protect Catherine, by God I will."

"Vincent….baby….I love you….please don't walk away with this….this….TRAMP! She's no good for you!"

That's it!

I walk up to Tori prepared to respond as she said, "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue? You can't respond because you even know its true."

At that moment, all I could bring myself to do was smack her across the face, "Stay away from Vincent!" and I walked away. I left the party and stepped outside, Vincent soon after me. It had stopped raining but it looked like it wouldn't be long before it would start again. Vincent and I took each others hand as we walked up the street towards the club.

~Vincent~

Bernice made me start thinking after she gave me advice today. We must truly be meant for each other since we are back together again. When I kissed Catherine for the first time in 2 weeks, it felt like a dream…and I waited to wake up. Knowing that this was real made me think about marrying her because I wanted nothing more than to wake up next to her forever. She is the one, I just know it…..and I think she knows it too.

I wrap my arm around her and hold her close to me as we walk towards my club. It begins to thunder and we both stop dead in our tracks and look up at the sky. I look back down towards Catherine, who was still looking up at the sky as I said, "We better hurry up before it rains again." and no sooner than those words left my mouth, it poured. Catherine began to laugh as she twirled around in the rain. Such a beautiful sight I might add. We started running towards the club, and it became visible as we got closer.

We ran inside still laughing from being caught in the rain, and I closed the door and locked it behind me. We ran upstairs to my apartment and as I closed the door to it, I turned around to Catherine sitting on my kitchen table leaned back on her hands, soaked….she looked at me with such hunger and want that I was ready to take her there. Damn her beauty! She was totally seducing me as she crossed her legs, causing her skirt to move up her leg slightly. I couldn't resist…I could not fight it anymore. Tonight she was all mine and I intended to make up the past 2 weeks all in one night.

Vincent moved closer to Catherine and he reached out and grabbed her by the small of her back as he pulled her closer to his body. He began kissing her as her body slid up on his and she hooked her legs around his waist. Both were wet from the rain so taking off clothes would be a slight challenge…but they didn't care, cause tonight was going to be as if they had made love for the first time again. As they make it to the bedroom, they fell onto the bed, Vincent laying on top of her and their kiss had deepened. He kissed on her neck as he rubbed upward on her right leg, pushing her skirt up to her hip. He squeezed her hip slightly as he hooked his fingers around her panties and slowly slid them down her legs. Catherine sat up and broke the kiss briefly to pull Vincent's shirt off, then began kissing him again. Vincent turned their bodies around, sitting on the bed with Catherine straddling him and he unfastened Catherine's dress and slid it off of her. He cupped her face and starred into her eyes as she moved around on top of him to arouse him more than he was. She slid her tiny figure off of him and got down on her knees. She reached up to his belt and unfastened it and quickly pulled it out of the loops. She unbuttoned his pants and unzipped them and slowly slipped them off. She crawled on top of him and began kissing him as she pushed their bodies down onto the bed. Vincent moaned when she trailed kisses down his rock hard body and she stopped when she made it to his hip. She hooked her fingers onto his boxers and pulled them off, then she looked into Vincent's eyes and said, "You want me?"

"I think you know the answer to that."

They touched tongues as they began kissing hard. Vincent grabbed Catherine's hips, raising her up then sliding her down onto his erection. Catherine hooked her fingers around Vincent's neck as leverage to help pull herself up and down his shaft. Vincent let out a quivering moan as she continued to rock her body on top of hip. His right hand glided up her body to her breast and he began squeezing it. She arched her back exotically as she screamed out his name in pleasure. He turned their bodies around once more, laying her completely down onto the bed as he began thrusting deep inside of her. Both clinged to each other, caressing each others heated, sticky bodies. Vincent grabbed Catherine's neck on one side and kissed and sucked on the other side causing her to buck underneath him. He rubbed his hands up both of her arms and webbed his fingers with hers as he pushed her arms above her head. He moaned as she met his thrusts with her own and he began kissing on her shoulder. He sat them up once more to give Catherine full control over their bodies as they continued kissing, and Catherine cupped his face, staring into his eyes as she told him, "I love you Vincent…."

"I love you too."

He picked them up, not removing his erection from inside her and slammed her against the wall as he continued to thrust deep inside of her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and began kissing on his neck, moving down to his adams apple, causing him to growl in pure ecstasy. He began to thrust much faster and harder, building up their climax. He looked into her eyes, as she looked into his as they watched each other make it to their high. He slowed down the thrusts as they came back down from climax. Catherine clinched onto Vincent as she trailed kisses from his jaw bone to his lips. Both were shaking and out of breath as Vincent laid them back onto the bed and Catherine turned over wrapping her left arm around his body, and her head onto his chest as he wrapped his arms around her tiny frame, pulling her closer to him.

"God I missed you Catherine…..and not just for the sex neither. I missed everything about you."

"I know Vincent, I missed you too…and I'm sorry. I never wanted to hurt you….I was only trying to protect you. I love you so much that I was willing to leave you just so you could live another day. I never want to be away from you again….promise that no matter what happens that you will never leave me again….even if I tell you to…promise me Vincent that you will be there always and forever."

Vincent stood up, wrapping a sheet around his waist. He walked over to his dresser, opening it and shutting it soon after then turned back towards Catherine. She sat up, pulling the blanket up to cover her body.

"Do you trust me?"

"What?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Yes, I trust you with my life."

"Close your eyes."

Catherine did so and he continued, "Now when I tell you to open your eyes, you can't freak out on me, okay?"

"Vincent, what is it? You know I hate surprises."

"Alright, alright…open your eyes."

When Catherine opened her eyes, Vincent was on the floor on one knee. She gasped and covered her mouth with both hands as tears swelled in her eyes. He opened up a box and pulled out a ring as he said, "I promise I will never leave you no matter what happens….even if you tell me to. I promise I'll always be by your side as your lover and friend forever….."

"Vincent…."

"….I promise I'll be everything you want and need but you must promise to be my wife in return so we can be there for each other. Will you do me the honor…."

"Oh my god, Vincent….."

"…..in being with me forever, and marry me?"

"Vincent…YES! YES!...A thousand times YES! Of course I'll marry you! I promise I'll love you to the very end."

He placed the ring on her finger and she began looking at it in awe.

"When did you…..Where did you….."

"Don't worry about that…..you are totally worth it to me."

"Oh, Vincent…."

They laid back onto the bed and started kissing, only to rekindle their love once again.

**A/N: This chapter is shorter only because its actually Part 2 of chapter 9….I named it Chapter 10 tho, yes I know I don't make sense sometimes haha. Anyways, what are your thoughts? I know this sex scene wasn't all that great as the first one but oh well they did it lol. I'm really happy with this chapter and I hope you are too….as far as Mikey and Tori goes…well lets just say its not over yet :/ I know you hate me, but again, Tori has a purpose of being in this story as the psycho ex-girlfriend. Anywho, no questions for this chapter, I have my oldest niece's graduation tomorrow so I will not be able to update chapter 11 soon. But I will as soon as I can. I love you guys so so so much for your wonderful reviews and I hope you keep posting them : ) You know what to do guys. Love you later!**