Author's Notes

Hey guys, here is the next chapter like I promised. I want to thank DenisefromNY for reviewing the last chapter. Please make sure to leave a review after reading. I want to know if what I am writing is good or I have to improve it. I also love to hear from the readers about what they think about this story. It's ok to say this is a terrible story with terrible grammar and spelling!

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CHAPTER 5

Tess pulled up in front of J.T.'s apartment a short while after leaving the park. The long-haired detective turned off the engine when she felt the car come to a complete stop by the edge of the street. She let go of the handle and the keys as her head turned to the mysterious guy. "I want you to ALWAYS keep calm and never worry," she began to instructed him nonchalantly, "This is guy is a friend, not the bad guy. He is actually Vincent's best friend and might even think that you are him. In fact, he might get a little TOO excited once he sees you. Please don't overreact or get frighten. We know what happens if your adrenaline levels spikes..."

"I don't think I follow you" the man in the passenger seat said with a confused look.

Oh, that's right, Tess thought in an irritated tone while turning her head to look out the driver side's window, He MAY look like Vincent, but he doesn't have the thoughts or memories like Vincent did. We have to take this step by step. First step is calling J.T. before things get out of hand.

Tess then turned to face the stranger once again, smiling in hopes that he wasn't too confused by what she said. "It was just a joke. Don't take it seriously!" the brunette spoke lightheartedly, "Speaking of seriously, I need to make a quick phone call before we head up. Do you mind if I step out for a few minutes to make this phone call?" The man simply nodded a no. "Thanks a lot, bud," the middle-aged brunette smirked as she unfastened her seat belt, "Just stay here until I come back, ok?" The woman took her keys and got out the car, locking the car in case the man was having thoughts of escaping. Feeling secure that the man in her car wasn't going anywhere, Tess ran across the sidewalk and leaned against a wall belonging to the apartment building, dialing her boyfriend's number.

"Hello, J.T. Forbes speaking" a male voice came on after a few rings.

"Hey, J.T. Do you have a minute?" Tess asked as she focused her eyes on her car. J.T. exhaled a deep breath with slight annoyance before he answered, "I am in a middle of watching a Rangers game. Can it wait?"

"It is very important to talk to you right now. You might want to stop watching that hockey match after you hear what I found," Tess started hesitantly, approaching the situation as if she was walking on eggshells, "Do you remember that you have a best friend named Vincent Keller who was a doctor-turned-beast and that you, me, and Cat are currently searching for. Well, I found him and he is currently in my car, waiting to meet you. There is a slight problem..." She trailed off, hoping that he was paying attention.

"Wait you found Vincent? Is he ok? Where did you find him? What "slight" problem?" a stunned J.T. began to rapidly ask. He started to rattle off a list of questions that he was hoping to ask when his best friend was found.

"Well, to answer the "Is he ok?" question, he looks ok. He has changed physically a little bit since the last time you saw him. To answer the next question, I found him in the park today near that slain jogger's body," Tess continued, "The slight problem is that he has no clue who he is. He might look like Vincent Keller, but he certainly doesn't remember that he is Vincent Keller. His memory got wiped somehow.

He also doesn't remember how he got to the park today. I am guessing he doesn't have no recollections about the jogger and how she was murdered. But oddly enough, he did mention that when he woke up from sleeping on the sidewalk, he had blood on his hands. Does that mean he can beast out with remembering it? If he still can, this guy could of killed that woman in the park without knowing it. This new Vincent could be even more dangerous since he doesn't know what he is doing!"

J.T.'s mind was racing when Tess mentioned "Vincent's hands" and "blood" together in one sentence. Maybe Tess' suspensions were right? He was glad that Vincent was alive and was in one piece. However, he was disappointed at the fact that his best friend was unable to remember who or what he can become.

He slowly reeled in Tess' revelation for a bit before responding. "Ok, Tess, this is what we have to do," J.T. began, "He has to come upstairs to my apartment right this minute. We, meaning you and me, have to keep a watchful eye on him so he doesn't instantly disappear into the night and kill another innocent person. I will try to figure out what the hell happened to him by running tests with the few resources in my new apartment. I might have to go to the lab to get a few things later on. Could I trust you to stay with me for an extended time and keep an eye on him until I know what happened? Remember, you can't let Catherine know about this or she will freak out and race to get here the moment she hears "Vincent". Knowing that Cat's adrenaline levels will be sky high, Vincent might blank out and turn into a beast to protect himself. This will put anyone in risk, especially Cat. Please promise me."

"I promise that I wouldn't tell a soul about him," she reassured her boyfriend on the phone, "I can stay for an extended time if I can pick up a couple of things from my apartment from time to time." The thought of sharing an apartment together made Tess blush a little. Yes, this woman has stayed in various living spaces and even beds with past lovers before. But, those words coming from a cute, sometimes fumbling nerd like J.T. was pretty charming and sweet.

"Sure thing," her boyfriend sweetly said, "I see you in a little bit."

After Tess said her goodbyes, she hung up the phone and walked towards her car. She breathed a sigh of relief when the detective saw that the man mentioned frequently in the phone conversation was still in her car, calmly pressing his face to the window and watching what was going outside. Thank God he is still here and didn't beast out, Tess grinned inwardly as she took her keys out of her pockets and pressed the button to unlock her car. She opened the passenger's door and greeted the stranger, "Hey, sorry for making you wait. Shall we go?" She extended her hand towards him hoping that he was willing to take it and go.

The man smiled and took her hand as he started to get out of the car. "I take it that the man on the phone was your boyfriend?" the brown-haired guy lightly bantered while they walk towards the building's door. This caused Tess to turn a little red around the cheeks. "How did you know?" she asked as they reached the elevators. The brunette pressed a button on the side panel as they waited for the doors to open.

How did he know about her little conversation? Ah, yes! He recalled that one of the scientist at a lab he forced to live at mentioned that one his many abilities was super hearing.

"I am going to conduct another experiment", a pale blonde scientist with a long stature who went by the name of Dr. Kaiser notified him behind the bars of his iron cage,"Today, I am testing you on your sense of hearing. Hopefully you are ready." He groaned in response. Another experiment, another time to become someone's test dummy. He felt like a monkey in a cage, just obeying what these scientist wanted in order for him to survive.

"I take that as a yes", the woman continued as she looked over her lab notes, "In another room in this building, Li Zhao is talking to someone. Can you tell me if you can hear him?"

On cue, the middle-aged man closed his eyes to concentrate in efforts of finding Li Zhao. His voice wasn't hard to find, he knew well what the sponsor of Muirfield sounded like as the man would come into the laboratory from time to time, checking on the experiment's progress.

"I found his voice," the man exclaimed once he could hear Zhao's voice. "Good job," the scientist praised him with an emotionless face, "Now, can you tell me what he is saying?"

The human experiment focused on the agent's words. A brief moment later, he began to hear what was being said. "...got to order the research team to speed up their experiments on Vincent Keller..." the businessman spoke as his conversation was coming in piece by piece, "...if they can't, we will fire them and hire a new team who will be willing to do everything in half the time."

Who was this Vincent Keller? Was it him? To his knowledge, he was the only "human" who was being experimented on in this lab. What did Zhao mean that the experiments have to be sped up? All these questions were going through his head as he stared off into space for a bit. He then realized that one of these scientist that Zhao mentioned was standing in front of him, expecting him to give her some sort of answer.

Should he be truthful? Or should he lie about what Zhao said? The man in the cage felt that both parties were using him for their personal gains as they didn't care for him as a human. However, he guessed that he had to be truthfully to the woman in front of him. Though they experimented on him a lot, the scientists there at least showed him a little compassion unlike Li Zhao.

The man cleared his throat, speaking to Dr. Kaiser, "He is saying that if the research isn't going any faster than the current speed, he is going to hire a new team to replace the current one," he informed her with complete honesty.

The pale blonde scientist exhaled an annoyed sound as she rolled her eyes and banged her fist lightly against the iron bars. "We told him many times that these experiments are delicate," Dr. Kaiser whispered bitterly as she turned around so the test subject wouldn't hear her, "What does he truly want from this experiment? To quickly make his own beasts? For what reason?" She faced the man in cage once again and thanked him for his help. Dr. Kaiser then opened up to a blank page in her notebook and gripped her pen. "It seems like you have the ability to hear things from far away," she quietly informed him as she jotted notes down, "Congratulations, you can add super hearing to the list of abilities you possess." She finished up writing and closed her notebook as she began to walk off.

"Wait," the man behind the iron cage exclaimed, trying to get her attention before she trailed off, "Can you tell me one thing. Who is Vincent Keller?"

The woman looked dead in his eyes and said, "It's you. You are Vincent Keller"

"Earth to mystery boy, are you coming or what?"

That annoying Brooklyn-accent voice came crashing through his flashback. He blinked twice and realized that the woman was already inside the elevator, looking at him with an impatient look. He apologized and headed in. Tess pushed a couple buttons, making the doors close and having the car start moving upwards. As it was moving, he went back to the earlier memory in the lab with Dr. Kaiser. She said he was Vincent Keller and that was who this woman next to him was looking for. It wasn't a coincidence? There must be more than one Vincent Keller out there! He was sure that this woman was looking for a different person with the same name.

He turned his body to face the woman next to him and whispered, "By the way, I have an ability called super hearing, to answer your question. Or that is what the scientist in the lab told me. So, I was getting bored in that stuffy car of yours. The people in this city have boring stuff to talk about. Only you had the most interesting conversation in a five mile radius" Tess gasped in shock when he revealed one of his abilities, Look who is the dummy now! Of course he would have super hearing as an ability of his. I have to be careful of what I say from even far away. I wonder how much he listened into my phone chat with J.T..

But before she could ask the man next her that question, the elevator dinged to indicate they had arrive at their destination. The doors opened moments later as the two got off the elevator car with Tess leading the way to her boyfriend's apartment. Once they got there, the detective rang the bell and yelled, "Hey J.T.! It's me, Tess. Open up!"

A voice inside the apartment yelled back, "It's unlocked already, just come on in." Tess smirked a little, annoyed that J.T. would leave his door unlocked in times like these. Nevertheless, Tess grasped the handle and turned it to open the door. She gestured the so-called stranger to come in behind her as she swung the door gently. She playfully laughed while walking in as she saw J.T. watching the final moments of his prized hockey match, "It looks like the New York Rangers are going lose!"

"Haha very funny! I bet you are a psychic just by looking at the scoreboard on the upper right corner of the screen " J.T. scornfully commented before moving on the reason why she was there, "What was so important that had you come up here and interrupted the last moments of an important hockey game?" The chubby middle-aged man with little hair on top, a less-visible blabo, and glasses turned around to face the woman he was currently infatuated with. He could see that there was another person standing behind Tess but couldn't clearly tell who it was since the guy and Tess seemed to be the same height. Also, that the professor couldn't make out who exactly the man was as J.T. had dimmed all the lights in order to get a better viewing experience during the game.

"J.T Forbes, meet the mysterious man I found in the park today," Tess cheerfully announced as she took a couple steps to the right. She encouraged the mysterious man to come a bit forward by grabbing one of his wrists and pulled him forward. As soon as the man came into J.T.'s view, the professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the guy in front of him in total shock.

"Holy shit, THAT is indeed Vincent Keller."