It has to be okay. It has to be okay. It just has to be. After what we've been through together, he can't just give up..
But Catherine felt otherwise as she stood up from the couch as she took the the newlyweds couple figure into her fingers, staring at it and hopelessly as her heart felt like shattering into pieces. Oh God. Vincent..Tears were burning at the corner of her eyes, just to think of the earlier envents that just took place earlier onto the hospital rooftop. Vincent's wretchening scream would forever haunt her mind as she had visualized him falling over down from the rooftop and to see him laid onto the cold ground and unmoving.
Close enough like dead which seemed so real.
Arccording to the plan and the only one that they could come up with, she and Vincent had come up with the only plan that they could get themselves by catching Liam Cullen. Avenging and cold hearted, superhuman beast and probably the only main ressource to her past. To Rebecca and to Alistair's deaths, if she doesn't count Vincent's. Get a grip, Cat! Calm down!
Damn. Liam wanted her to make her feel this pain. Unforgettable pain. The one that would probably leave you scarred for the rest of your life. For Catherine, it was by watching Vincent getting himself shot and killed by the S.W.A.T squad. Some Agent Russo's fault who didn't have much of time to stop the squad from shooting Vincent. Such an horrible sight and unable to forget. But by raging up her emotions, it was also a way to come and get Liam by making him think that he has won. By killing Vincent, even if it was staged making his heartbeat stop and stagging his own death before everyone's eyes and DHS, Homeland Security Departement. Cat and Vincent had actually come up to them as they needed to come out clean about everything, before Liam could make things even worse than they already were. They had no other choice. Either tell the feds the truth or make a life on the run in order to escape esposure. A fear that could make their lives go hard for good as the two of them would probably suffer and Vincent would rather kill himself than to have make her go through so much suffering because of his mistakes from the past. Vigilante and beast cases that he was forced to do by the late ex FBI Agent and by her own corrupted father, Robert Reynolds. Too bad, that bastard and redeeming man had died by Liam's hands or claws.
"You're the one who's gonna suffer. Not me. And I won't let that happen.."His deep voice shook at this point as he had sworn to her, the night before.
And yet, she felt so unconsolable and still traumatized-No. Startled. No. Distraught. Not for Reynolds, but for Vincent. To think about the worst that might have had Vincent being dead and for real, though.What if I had really lost him? Oh, God. It really does hurt! Catherine really didn't know if she had lost Vincent or not. If he had the change to comeback on earth after he had been rushed into the hospital, as a patient or dead patient rushed in lying on a gurney with parademics and doctors trying to revive and save his life. Restart his heart. Didn't mattered if he was considered as a wanted man or not. She was on the nerve of breaking down into uncontrolling and shaking sobs.
She remembered rushing into the emergency room, screaming and begging an very convincing and dead Vincent to fight back, but only to be pushed away by doctors as she watched him being rushed away from her. And to be brought back at her own place by an very supporting Tess who actually told her to have some faith and with an very optimistic Heather who hadn't left her side as Tess had go back into the precinct.
And there she was alone with her own darkening thoughts and grieving for the man she loved. Thinking what kind of future she was gonna have on her own, if Vincent hadn't made it alive. Only if. Catherine closed up her eyes as she tried to hold back tears. Crying won't bring back Vincent. She has to be strong and to think about what to do next, if Liam wanted to come and finish her off. Just like he had done with Rebecca. Rebecca who chosed Alistair over him.
Just how could she be as strong, now that she has lost Vincent? On her own and against an very vicious beast?
Oh God. Did J.T. made it in time to save him? What if Vincent had died for real? What if? What if? She could have backed away from Agent Thomas And Agent Burnett's offers, but at what cost? To wish on living into a never ending fantasy and happily ever after land, knowning there's danger surrounding their way out of their future?
And with someone knowing Vincent's beast side and to threat them both by exposing them with all the lies and hiding they've been doing for years. She would never forgive herself, if it meant by hurting the people they both love. Heather, Tess and J.T. and everyone else, because of an cold hearted beast who wanted to take revenge and hurt all the innocent human beings here. Liam Cullen. The one who had crashed her wedding. Their wedding and right in front of everyone being present at that church and by killing Julianna and by nearly killing Vincent once by thowing him out, through the wall and to rush up to him lying down on the ground lying onto his own blood. Which made her realize that life was too short to be wasted away by attacking beasts and by going after them. It was by fear that she walked away from that path when Vincent told her the other way around-That they both need to find and stop Liam, not only because they were forced onto or that it was their destiny, but it was their doing.
Their normal. As long it didn't come up onto their relationship's way. By living like a normal and living couple who both loved each other so much. And as for Vincent being immortal? It won't probably happen anytime soon. With Curt Windsor and Gabe who both had grown and aged like any other people, the possibility of Vincent living an hundred year old looked very slim to her now..It didn't mattered to her anymore cause she would have wanted to try and to marry him. With no matter how much it did cost to them both. But everything is different now.
Now that she had lost him...
We had everything, until now..And now, he's gone..Oh Vincent..
Not knowing, how long she had remained on her ground as she stared at the young couple figurines clutchering up onto her hold, Catherine seemed so long gone into her thoughts that she wasn't aware of an certain stranger that just bursted into the appartement as he walked in silence..
Like a silent predator should be.
And yet, she felt a strange sense of an surprising anger going through her veins as she had recognized that quiet, but melancolic voice tone.
"He's gone forever." Damn. That Liam was seriously enjoying her to see her going through suffering. Cat waited for a second as she stared away, putting the figurines away. "It sucks, doesn't it?" How dare he?
Without hesitating any second,an very angered Catherine whirled around and fast as she attacked the angered but silent beast, trying kick, stab and punch him, in any way she had been taught many years ago when she took self defenses and martial kicking up classes, but only to become useless over his super and undying strength. Cat may have had caught him by a single hair by her first kicking, but got all of her blows blocked as Liam fought back and throw her down onto the floor and hard enough. Liam stood tall as he remarked this.
"That won't take away the suffering."Angered and pissed,Cat looked back up at him as a smirked smile had appeared up to his face as she was trying to recollect her breath. "Trust me."
"Hey!"Startled by her sister's voice that came out of nowhere as she appeared at the hallway all ready and armed up with her little red and dangerous paperspray on the way. Shaken but determinated, Heather splashed up Liam's surprised face as he groaned in annoyance by haven gotten himself by a little but strong woman, like Cat's sister. So unexpected. Pissed as he managed to wipe off the liquid from his face as he approached into Heather's direction as she stepped back getting herself a little worried or maybe wondering if it would have been better if she just stayed away as she watched her old sister jumping back into her feet and fast like a fury. A woman ready to take things under her control, despite the fact that she had seen her fiance getting shot and gotten himself killed, even if it was staged or not. In order to get Liam's attention.
"Don't touch her!"Cat had warned him as he was about to take another step to Heather who remained on her spot with her paperspray. After she had splashed Liam on his face almost blinding him and possibly leave evidence to easily track him back by the authorities of the law. "You came here for me, right? Not her." She may had lost Vincent and the possibility to see him coming back here alive and into her arms. However, she didn't not wanted to lose someone else like Heather who despite hard times and good times had been there for her, a lot of more than Vincent had done when he was into hiding. She wouldn't bare to live another day, if her sweet sister died under Liam's hands. Feeling her heartbeat going wild through her ribcage, Cat watched Rebecca's ex as he had examined her making sure she wasn't fooling him around and smirked back with a single word.
"True.."Too stunned to say anything else on this confident and single word, Liam didn't gave her much of time to think as he grabbed her out of the appartement by blurring out and away by destroying the fire escape through its speediness as the rushing blow made her lose consciousness. Leaving an startled Heather alone in the living room.
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Damn it. That one hurts! I'm freaking tired of getting shot! What's next? Get my ass glued up onto the toilet seat? I'm seriously not getting any younger anymore! Screw the immortality stuff! That's just made-up garbage!
Frustrated and pissed, and not only he had been brought back up alive after he had been injected with J.T.'s antidote from Liam's blood and by gotten punched up by his bestfriend in order to comeback up here, Vincent rushed upstairs into the building with the stairs and not by the elevator which would have taken far too long to hold on, while Catherine's life was in danger.
His chest hurted like a son of a bitch pain. To be brought up alive in this way just J.T. had done, had hurted a lot. Brutally. Hell, it still does till now. Damn. He cursed back as he hoped to get into Liam's dirty hands before he could harm up Cat. However, it was just as the plan had been-Making Liam think he had won and by making him turning himself into the authorities. Him, the good guy. But he hadn't expected to get himself shot as he rushed out and ready to jump out from the hospital's rooftop. The last thing Vincent remembered was an surprising and agonizing pain coming through and out from his chest as he yelled out and fell down onto the dumpster before he landed down onto the ground. Uncounscious as he appeared to be, but made things even worse when he managed to make his heart stop. Ouch.
Which had hurted even more as total darkness came over and surrounded him, until he woked up as he took out a huge and deep breath out from his burning lungs as he sat up on the gurney. And surrounded by doctors, Agent Russo and by J.T. who told him to calm down and to breathe as he desperately coughed air out and demanded to know where Catherine was. Completely startled and distraught from his near death experience and into panicking mood over the love of his life.
Where was she?
Oh God. Catherine. She must still be traumatized after having to witness her own fiance being chased by the authorities and by getting shot to almost ended up dead. He had to find her and fast. Didn't had much time to do anything else, but to maybe change into a new pair of clean clothes and many taking a look ionto his gunshot wound. No, that could wait! Vincent just grunted in pain as he finally come to the door and inserted his keys and unlocked the door handle as nothing had occured a few moments ago from the hospital. But to find his sister in law completely panicking over her phone with Tess as he first stepped inside.
And the place was a living helleva of a place as he figured out that Liam had come over without being invited. By taking the rest of his diner out as a takeout. Catherine. The fire escape had been destroyed by Rebecca's ex fiance.
"He took her, didn't he?"He grunted into a moan as Heather has rushed up to give him a hug after seeing him out of cold and still kicking after what he had been through before. Damn, he was exhausted and out of breath as he really wanted to take some rest, but he needed to find Catherine first and to bring her back here.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?"Feeling guilty on pushing him into a deep hug, Heather pulled away as she heard him wince from his injuries."Did they took the bullet out? What took you so long?"
"How long have they been gone?"He could feel her concerning stare right to his face while his attention was onto the demolished fire escape which he tried to control his angry behavior as he started to walk away from Heather, whom replied back feeling a little uneasy for a second as she tried to lighten up the situation even if it looked bad, at the moment.
"Uh, thirty minutes?"
"Did he hurt her?"Damn, right he did! Liam wouldn't give a damn even if he had hurted a woman or not, but knowning Cat-she would have fought back in her own way, like kicking Liam into the face, just like it had happened to him once and only by accident when Cat was working on her moves on a early morning. Of course.
"Well, yeah, after he had knocked her out, but only after she tried to kick his ass-"Delightful Heather. How much more of an sweet and smartass as she could be..What would he and Cat would do without her, around? Vincent just stared from behind at the mess that took place near the fire escape and mostly at whatever Catherine was probably imagining and thinking that he had probably passed away and left her alone to deal with a terrifying beast like Liam on her own. He blurred into the bedroom as Heather went on explaining the rest of Liam's disaster as he quickened found new and clean clothes as he threw out the blue and bloodstained t-shirt out onto the floor and angrily. He later went to the bathroom as he splashed water into his face to get rid of the bloodstains onto his features and took a peak at the gunshot wound that laid onto his exposed and hard chest at the mirror. He winced at the sight of it.
It wasn't bad as it looked to be now that J.T. had injected him with the healing product he managed to put together from Liam's blood. Vincent would probably have thank him back after all the mess with Liam would over. It may look less worse at first, but it still needed some extensive care later on. Unless he wanted to lose the rest of his blood leaving him to die once again. Like it had occured a couple months ago when Cat had shot him from trying to go with his beast side and refusing to go to any hospital, because the fear of being exposed was unbarable. And it still was today, if he didn't manage to stop Liam in any time soon. And probably needed to stop him from attacking Catherine.
After he put a clean bandage and wore up a black shirt with a grunt, Vincent walked back into the living room as Heather just finished on talking.
"The problem is, he knows how to cover his tracks.."True. Liam was a genius to it, but it didn't stopped Heather from grinning as she rose up her paperspray, feeling more proud than ever as he only stared up at her, perplexed until he finally got the missing clue to her grinning. It only told him something as he continued to stare at her with widened eyes. What a girl! She may have caught Liam into a trap.
Rebecca Reynolds didn't had a sister like her, but Cat did. And a very smart and bright up one to hold on onto. It made his heart jump into relief, knowing that he may be able to somehow catch Liam and probably save Cat.
"Yes, that's what Cat had said. That's why I sprayed him. Right into the face too."That's a smart girl. Feeling more prouder than ever of this brave and challenging, little kid ever since he had meet her on her and Cat's doorstep with a dozen of roses onto his hold. Vincent couldn't helped himself but give her a little of peck of gratitude to her cheek. He felt so thankful to even think that maybe things between him and Catherine would work out for the best with Liam being out of the picture. Vincent blurred out of the way to the demolished fire escape as he held with both hands and feet on to the bars like an very arched animal ready to jump as he growled like a lion looking up down into its direction like he was fixing up on a prey and vanished through air. He was desparate to find Catherine and the only one who saw the beauty within the beast and probably the only one who loved him and stood to his side by defending him and by loving him for who he is ever since he had meet her when he was still hiding into that lost warehouse. The man he had become today and that's because of her. His Catherine. His true love. He truly wished an happy ending to its nightmare and that somehow that they would overcome everything like they usually do, just like she had told him once.
Catherine, please wait for me..Vincent wishedly begged as he blurred out like a wild man as his beast's strenght give him enough courage by having the animal siding up with his human side, this time. He really hoped he could get into her in time.
An happy ending for the two of them and hopefully without any beasts or threats coming onto their way.
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I know what you're all probably thinking right now. That I'm losing my mind now. Haha! Don't worry I'm still working between The Villian One and Twisted Blood. However, I had this story into the back of my mind for a while as I loved to watch BATB's S3 last episode "Destined" VinCat's wedding was just emotional and so sweet. I just really wanted to give my idea of how Cat and Vincent were thinking at this episode, especially with Cat as she almost had believed to have had lost her beloved Vincent, for one only drastic moment though. It must have been horrible thought to endure for Cat. Thank you Beasties for your support and love and especially for your comments for the latest chapter I had posted for The Villian One.
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