Cat wasn't much fond of opera, but she had to admit that Smirnoff was right in one point here. Whatever language it was being played or the way it sang, it would blow your breath away.
From the way the singers portrayed theirs characters, it was far more convincing than she thought it would had turned out to be. How wrenching it was to watch Rodolfo clutching the love of his life into his arms as he cried her name out of despair and in heart breaking out into pieces when he had realized that Mimi was gone forever. She could feel her own shuddering inside of her ribcage.
She was moved into silent tears right here and right besides Vincent as she held on his hand and tight enough to break his fingers into pieces. Damn, she almost forgot how it felt-to feel the pain of despair, until now.
Oh God. She must have given him the wrong impression here, by collapsing into tears after watching a such powerful play here.
"You okay?" Startled by his voice, Cat turned up to Vincent whose face had shown up being all concerned by her well being. Not only she was the moved one here, she could have figured out that Vincent had also gotten overwhelmed by the play as if Rodolfo and Mimi's attraction to each other had woken him up lost emotions, as his eyes looked moisted. It did touched him too.
"Yeah, I'm sorry.."She dropped his hand as she went on wipping off the tears from her cheeks as she turned her attention away from him, feeling embarassed as she didn't even noticed that the actors were bowing all together up to the public whom had clapped after the play was finished.
"Sure?"She sniffed as she nodded watching the curtains falling down as the lights went right back on, slowly as people down there were starting to rose up and leave all at once.
"Yeah. I had no idea that it was too hard-I mean that it was gonna end up like that."The word 'emotional' was the one that couldn't get out of her mouth, as she struggled with her words. "I mean, all at once.."Her eyes shifted down on her fisted knuckles as she took a few breaths trying to swallow her sobs right back inside. She scoffed, being nervous feeling like she got caught by an ex by admitting she had feelings, after all. Human like."I don't cry easily, like that.."
"It's okay, to cry. Sometimes..I mean, if it makes you feel all better, later on.."She rose up her head to see him looking back at her with a comforting smile. Understanding smile that reached up his moisted brown chocolate eyes. He raised up his hand to wipe off one last fallen tear from her cheek. His touch was warm and soft through her cheek that made her heart skipping up a beat.
"Come on. Let's get a drink..."His hand dropped from her cheek, much to her displeasure. Her eyes had followed him up his movement as he stood up handing up down his other hand at her disbelief stare. Once she had treated him bad and there he was offering her his help. A such sweet gesture after seeing her falling into sobs like a saint.
"Catherine?"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry. Let's get going.."Holding her purse and her dress's falling end into one hand, Cat took his hand as she rose up from her seat. "Don't worry I'm okay.."She smiled back at him. Vincent nodded with a firm smile."Okay.."He agreed back, but still looked concerned for her as the two of them left the place, holding up their hands.
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"Jack Daniels on rocks. Two glasses, please.."Vincent seated on on a stool as he ordered two drinks to the bartender at the bar. The dark haired guy in the black tuxedo behind the bar nodded, said something inexplicable into his dark unshaved beard of seven days and went back to do his job. Cat looked around before she looked back at him, suspiciously. "Seriously, Vincent?" Why would she need a drink? She looked fine, alright. A little shaky from the opera, but okay. Why would she need a drink? He just shrugged his shoulders.
"It's gonna make you feel better, don't worry. Now, sit down and relax.."He nodded back to the empty stool next to his right side."And don't worry for Smirnoff and Anna, those two could have ended up somewhere out here.."He added back referring to the missing couple who managed to vanish away from their sight. It was late midnight and people were starting to hang around by drinking and play poker from now.
"Vincent.."
"Calm down for five minutes, okay?"She groaned back in frustration as she went to sit down next to him laying her purse on the bar counter when their drinks were brought up to them.
"Thanks, man.."
"Thank you.."She took a sip as the alchool liquid feeling went through her throat as it did calmed her nerves for a second. Vincent was right. She did needed a good drink and it did made her feel better after sitting and watching an sorroful play that ended into such tragedy. Which brought back hauntening looked down at the liquid inside of her glass, as she recalled back these lost like she was willing to put her life at risk in order to save Vincent's life from being exposed and killed into an horrible death and from Murfield. However, everything had changed now.
"Cat?"
"It was awful."
"What?"That was it. Time to pour your heart out. Cat kept on staring at her drink with a frown as Vincent was waiting for answer which she tried to explain."Beautiful, but sad. I had known that she was sick, but-"
"Well, she had tuberculosis. Things were a little different before-"
"I really thought that she was gonna make it. I mean it looked like that before she lost consciousness and yet I had the hope that she was gonna make it, but still she died leaving him yelling her name in agony.."Damn, Cat looked like she was still lost into the story as she kept defending it."Still, she had the strenght to scream her lungs out when she was coughing up.."She took a sip of her drink before she blurt anything else like a curse. She moaned in frustration and feeling so disappointed of not getting the happy ending she expected.
"Now, you know why I appreciate the rock musical instead. It has an happy ending to it.." Clearing up her throat, Cat turned her head back to his side. Watching him lost into his thoughts as he stared down at his drink he held. "Roger and Mimi may had their ups and downs in the broadway show as they both struggle with the same disease. One is an addict who is starving with heroine, while the other is an recovering one wishing to gain success into the music industry before the virus takes hold of everything that is precious to his it did happen to his dead girlfriend, April before as she killed herself before, leaving Roger all alone. Anyways, they meet and fall in love soon afterwards, they both learn that they share the same burden things slowly changes in the second act."He growled as he took a sip from his scotch glass drink, clearing up his throat as he spoke again, unattached by the alchool feeling." After he is being told lies that he is being cheated by his new girlfriend who had probably gone back into heroine, Roger gives Mimi an ultimatum-either it's the drugs or him and of course, Mimi chooses the drugs over their relationship and Roger walks away from her, feeling betrayed and leaves the streets after Angel dies, into the show.."He ended up his speech as Cat watched him, looking quite impressed of how the story seemed to have touched him, in a way. Like he had lived it before. The story of their relationship, before they had made drastic choices that had ended it.
"It seems like you know the show, in every detail, here.."Vincent chuckled nervously like a shy kid as he shrugged his shoulders for an answer like it wasn't any big deal.
"Got to watch the broadway on live with my brothers, once, but I did watch the movie version with J.T. and hundred of times before. However, it did reminded me of something else as well.."He raised up his drink once more to his mouth as he drank it more slowly than she did.
"What else?"
"You and I.."Alright, that was just out of the blue here. Cat had widen up her eyes in surprise.
"None of us is dying here.."She informed him like a tease as he chuckled nervously. It was nice to see him cracking up a smile which had brought up his dimples whenever he smiled back then.
"It's not what I meant, it's about choices. Decisions that you regret choosing and can't come back into it.."Vincent turned his head back to her concerned eyes as he clearified this."You never realize knowing what you have, until it's gone.."He blinked a few times at her face, feeling lost into her hazel eyes. How beautiful she was looking back to him."Which I do know the feeling now.."He sobered up as the smile he had before on his face was now gone. Almost sad. Cat could tell that he was referring back to the past, when he made bad choices that had drove them away from each other. The opera made him remember them. Same for her as well. Too many memories that had started to shake during that moment and that moment when she clutched into Vincent's hand like her life was on fire.
"Do you have any regrets, Vincent?"
"Too many to live with. Do you?"He watched her shrug off her shoulders as she leaned her elbows to the counter looking down at her drink as her voice broke back down when she nodded in agreement recalling one of her regrets. That moment when she had watch him slip away from her hold.
"I do too. Uncounting regrets and one of them was letting you slip away from my hold, Vincent.."He shook his head as he wanted to defend himself back, only to have the same and bad excuse he could afford to express as he waved his hand.
"It wasn't your fault, Catherine. Not only I wasn't a good boyfriend, I still ended up using and disappointing you-"Cat just cut him off with a short mocking laugh making him tense here and right in front of the bartender's watchful eye.
"Only after I caught you kissing another red head who wasn't what she seemed to be.."That cut him off as she give him a warning, but an amusing glare with her eyes as all emotions faded from her features in all of sudden. "Doesn't remind you of something, mister Keller?"Cat had raised up her glass back to her lips as he scoffed back at her face. But what Catherine didn't know was the fact that he only had kissed Tori just to make her walk away from him and from Reynolds who threatened him that he was going to expose her if he doesn't walk away from his only daughter. He figured out that neither he or she had the chance or the time to talk about the reason behind the kiss, cause everything went too fast later on. Both of them were too angry to settle and talk down.
Vincent looked behind his back wondering if people were watching the two of them talk or had heard them and took a peek at the silent african-american guy who served their drinks. But the guy's attention went back into his work. The guy was too busy on cleaning his glasses from his sight. Clutching up his knuckles until they were white in frustration, Vincent cleared up his throat and turned his head towards Catherine who finished up her drink as she brought the glass back down on the counter like a classic lady with a frown. Always looking elagant and it didn't mattered if she was pissed or angry.
"Okay, I think I had enough here. I better pay or else I'll turn into a tomato fruit once again. Which I wouldn't want that to happen ever again.."She chuckled nervously as she was opening up her purse as she looked for any coins or money left in there. Vincent decided to take courage into his hands and tried to spill the truth about the kiss he had shared with Tori and the threat that Reynolds had made way back before. Which was the start of their breaking-up. She needs to know.
"Catherine, about that kiss, I-"
"It's not like I cared, you can kiss whomever ever you want-"She kept on fidgeting into her purse as he tried to speak up his mind about that event, before she could hear it from someone else.
"About that..It wasn't out of nowhere. I didn't kissed Tori, because I wanted to.."
"I said that I don't care, Vincent-"
"And I believe you should. Now listen to me.."He spoke fast without noticing if his words were angry or not. He ended by silencing her up as she groaned in arrogance and as she followed into whatever she was doing when he added back with a sigh."I think you should know why I ended up doing it. Reynolds played a part in it.."Vincent watched Cat stopping looking through her purse before she could turn up to him. Her eyebrows narrowed in wonder.
"What do you mean, that he had a part into it?"Now that he got her attention, he kept on going as it was his turn to look away from her, cause what was going to happen later would maybe change things between them for good or maybe for nothing. Here goes nothing.
"Before dinner, I had come up to him, just like you told me that I need on to trying to convince him that I wasn't any threat and that he had figured out what I am, truly. After that our cover was blown."Vincent sighed as he struggled to find the right waved his other hand as he kept his stare in front of the bar. He felt Cat's eyes on him as she watched him carefully."I found him sitting on his chair and outside. I did say that I was sorry that I was about to kill him, the fact that I had a twisted DNA and was worried the fact that I would probably break things between you and Reynolds, this is where things had started to get bad."
"How bad?"
"He ended up threatened me.."Which was true. That bastard had figured out that he and Cat were involved and so blindly into each other, thinking that he would risk his daughter into making risky decisions that wouldn't end so well for her. So Reynolds had ended up by threatening him in order for him to leave her alone and safe from a beast like him.
"He threatened you, for what?"Her voice remained on guard as she waited for more to come out from him and that she felt like she wasn't gonna like it. Whatever he had to say, seemed important to Vincent as he held his breath for a second before he let it go.
"That if I didn't disappeared from your life, he would have denounced you. For everything you've done to cover me. Everything-"
"And you used and kissed that bitch as an excuse?"Harsh words had come out from her mouth as her heartbeat was rushing up too much, which had cut him off from saying anything farther. He bit up his lower lip as he tried to hold back a grimace at that true point. He may have been an true bastard before and wouldn't want to deny it, because it was the truth. He acted like a bastard and let himself fall into the darkest path of his other side which almost cost him something very important. His humanity.
"I know I wasn't thinking clearly, that I should've have told you about it, instead of acting like a dumb ass like I did, but I was worried about you and you paying for covering up for my crimes..-"He waved his hands as he surrounded himself in any defeat as she raised her voice, getting more angrier than he thought. Damn, scary and perplexity, couldn't say he didn't deserved. He did deserved her frustration.
"You didn't have a choice! He brainwashed you and against your own will!"
"Which I didn't wanted that to happen..!"He followed back with his voice that had raised up. His hand almost snapped the counter in frustration as he turned to see her angry eyes staring right back at him."I didn't wanted him to denounce you..He stated that he would have done it as it was a way to save you and to keep you away from me.."She stood silent as her eyes looked up at him as they tried to define if he was lying or not as her heartbeat was still rushing up, but into a way slower rhythym this time as she calmed down."Save me? Well, he almost made it happen. By trying to save me, he did tried to silence you with a threat.."
"Which it almost ended deadly.."He cleared back, thinking how close the bomb went off when he got himself caught with an tied and gagged Tori as preys back at that appartement. If he didn't calmed her down by using her other side to side him with his, the two of them wouldn't have never made it alive.
"Are you sure that you're telling me the truth, that you aren't making this up, just to save your skin?"Still frustrated, Cat followed back as a long sigh went off from her lungs.
"It is the truth.."He nodded back.
"And the fear about losing your humanity? You meant that point as well?"
"Yeah. I won't lie about it. I was scared and I'm still am, by now.."It still hasn't changed. He still was afraid to lose it whenever his beast side wanted to take place into him. Afraid he wouldn't be able to control it back.
"Well, at least you didn't lied about that point..But I still think you should have been honest with me, back at that dinner, I noticied that you were a little too uncomfortable after you came back with my father and that you would have had talked to me later on, but what happened with you and Tori destroying that table-"
"It's not that it was easy, it really wasn't easy. I did tried to walk away from her, but after your father tried to kill me and with you shooting me..I wasn't thinking straight."He kept on looking up at her when she tried to avoid him, feeling a little down now. "I let the anger getting through and with Tori in it, it made things worse and I'm sorry for that.."He was like imploring her to believe him that he was telling the truth. Which she nodded, but it didn't mattered to her.
"Oh, you're sorry for using us both, I mean by kissing and disappointing us? I even wonder which one of us was better at kissing..Maybe Tori, since she did give you what you always wanted that I couldn't deliver back to you.."Ouch, that hurt. She put an hand on her hip as she gave him a bad look which he tried to stay locked into like he had deserved its could see that he was hurt. His eyes expressed their pain through them. Got hurt because of the truth of his own mistakes."And you're right in one point here-You should have been honest with me from the start, cause I would have gone more prepared if I had to rewatch you kissing Tori. Had I known, I would probably smacked you first and then kick your hybrid female into her pretty face. It would have made my day way more better. The break-up way more better to handle.."She dropped a few bucks on the counter as she stood up from her seat and stared him back with a frown, after she did poured her heart out to eyes never left hers as his own heart was tearing up into pieces and into shame. He kinda wished she smacked him directly into his face than to hear her words. Physical abuse was way better to handle than verbal abuse when it come to ruin a man's reputation. When a woman managed to find a way to ruin a man's reputation by putting him into the deepest lowing point. He watched her in silence as he had nothing else to say any longer to her now.
"Thanks for the drink, but you need to remember that we have a job to finish up here.."And left the bar with her purse leaving him alone. He watched her leave without turning her back for an instant. Vincent felt so torn and it wasn't the opera that made him feel like that, but Catherine. The woman of his dreams was slowly slipping away from him and leaving him alone with his suffering. Endless suffering that could lead him into an horrible death sentance.
Like it had happened with Rodolfo and Mimi. Roger and Mimi's story had an better ending, but they had theirs ups and downs before they could find each others's arms, once again. Somehow, he just didn't see that happiness in any time soon. Cause sometimes, the truth doesn't always brings joy and peace towards two people, it could also tore and bring two people apart, like it just occured tonight.
"Bad break-up, uh?"Vincent looked back up at that voice to see that the bartender guy frown at him and nodded at Cat, who just left him here without defending himself as he shrugged. He took his tie to undo the knot as he wanted to give himself some air. Or more like he felt, like he was sweating up here. That damn illiness.
"Bad enough, yeah..It's too complicated to explain."He didn't wanted to share his experiences at bad relationships with a stranger in a white and black waiter uniform and describe how a normal man had become half animal by bad medical research from a very corrupted goverment when DHS hadn't seen any bad signs or anything strange onto that. Humans at their worst, thinking they can be God themselves.
"Uh, women. What can we do about them?"The waiter picked up the bills that were dropped off on Catherine's empty side of the counter with a groan. Good question had wondered the ex-soldier back.
"Uh, yeah..No one knows that point about that.."The bartender brought back the bottle onto the counter as he pointed Vincent if he wanted another drink.
"Need another refill?"Vincent nodded back as he pushed his half empty glass back to the waiter when something caught him off guard.
As the waiter was filling up his drink in silence, Vincent brought up back his hand and looked back down as he unbuttoned the two left buttons in a haste and unfold his sleeve up from his left palm to his wrist. He gulped hard as his eyes looked down in fear.
Oh No..
Another, but an larger purplish lesion was appearing up from his wrist to his thumb, which it would make things harder for him to hide the disease that was starting to take over him.
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"It had to happen, again? Carl had caught us off guard this time, for sure.."While he could hear Jeffrey talking in frustration as he was pacing around, J.T. was sitting on that fiflty bed and texting Vincent on the update news and the fact that he needed to find another place to lounge around now that the club wasn't presentable from now on.
"Damn, I need a drink.."
"Jeff, calm down-"
"Don't tell me to-Calm my ass down!"Ed whimpered in fear as he went up onto the bed where J.T. was just finishing up with his phone and laid his muzzle onto his lap and clutched his eyes shut, scared by the atmosphere that he had to go through here. J.T. hated to be forced to live up and lay up into a dirty place like this that sometimes, it did make him feel uncomfortable. But what other choice did Tess had? He couldn't go into the houseboat where it was splashed with blood and was being under investigation by forensic cops, thinking that Carl's finger and footprints could be around as well. He couldn't go anywhere, at all. None of them could go, since they were all trapped here for the whle night, at least.
Ed, couldn't either do it on his own since the dog was suffering from PTSD from a very bloddy experience and if it wasn't for Vincent whom had gotten the garbage bags out on one night after his kidnapping, Ed wouldn't have never lived, probably. Putting his phone aside, he petted down Ed's golden fur as he tried to comfort him.
"Ahh, it's not easy for you...Uh, buddy?"He tried to comfort the lying dog onto his lap, as Jeffrey's angry voice was heard just faw steps away as Ash tried to calm him down, but it was no use, anyways.
"I'm telling you, Ash. Once I get my hands around Keller's throat and strangle him-"
"You'll do what, uh?"J.T. looked up at an very frustrated Jeffrey who was fighting off with Ash. The guy who was wearing a black t-shirt and blue trousers with his used nikers stared right back at him with his brown eyes and wild ones in anger, like a beast holding on into his breath. Jeffrey looked like he wanted to beat up someone or more like two absent people here. Carl and Vincent and especially Vincent whom he had and still considered him as a rival from their time back at St. Benjamin's Hospital. When Regan was dating an unstable Carl and when Alex was engaged to an very hothead Vincent. When Ash was huge like a balloon way more than him and Jeffrey was probably chasing a girl from another like a new t-shirt.
And yet, they all looked okay. However today, it was all had changed, because the path that they had choosen drove them into directions they couldn't go back from.
What the hell had happened to them now?
Jeffrey had managed to pack up a bag for the night, drove and come up here, renting up a room just after Ash had come along after their conversation on the phone. Later on, Regan and Miguel together in here and without Regan's son. At first, Regan didn't wanted to come, but knowing now that her life and Vincent's were both at risk, she need to rethink about herself going out like a revenger. Which it would lead to bad consecquences if she did try to do justice managed to ease her up after they had received J.T.'s call as they both agreed to pack up and come up here, but without the kid involved. Regan wouldn't want to give her attacker the pleasure of surrounding up herself by giving what Carl always wanted.
To kill his own flesh and blood, whom he believes was conceived by the evil spirit himself.
"You really think that it would help things on it? By blaming Vincent?"J.T. tried to stay calm, even if he wanted to jump at the very pacing man with Ed lying onto his lap, he couldn't do more than he wanted. He wanted to speak up again, only to be interrupted by Regan who tried to defend his friend.
"Vincent didn't do anything to provoke Carl-"
"And that's the reason why we're all here tonight? Because of your ex? You seem to forget that you also provoke him too, Regs!"
"Jeff-"
"It's your own damn fault, Regs. We're all here and hiding from a monster that has tried to threat us to silence us all, including Keller. A guy that Carl had always envied before and that has all us looking up like cowards.."Miguel put an arm in order to push Regan back behind him as he took a step foreward, like a tiger and way builder than Jeffrey. The man who was Regan's new boyfriend was still a mystery for J.T. to discover, but had known the guy wouldn't never put the blond haired woman into danger, never for once.
"Watch your words, Jeff-"
"And then what, Miguel? You think you're gonna be able to protect her from me?"
"No, but I can always beat you up and pretty hard, if you don't shut up by now.."
"Look man, you're not the only one who is scared here, we all are here. So let's just wait for J.T.'s girlfriend to call us and figure-What's left for us to do.."Damn, J.T. had almost chocked back up his own saliva here after hearing Ash's calming words coming out. Tess Vargas his new girlfriend? Never. The two of them had just a one nightstand and that was it. She didn't called him back. Even if he had hopes on their affair, it wouldn't have lasted. Wouldn't it?
"What do you think, J.T.?"Being so distracted by his own personal problems for a moment, he didn't even realized that all of them were staring right back at him, waiting up for answer.
"How about going to see an horror movie?"He suggested nervously as his phone vibrated on the bed. Hopping that Vincent would had maybe called him back until he had seen whose name was on it. Tess..J.T. brought up the phone to his ear as he watched from the corner the gang who were waiting for him to answer his call coming from his so-called new girlfriend.
"Hey Tess, you got anything up?"Good thing, she'd called as she had come up with hopeful news.
"Looks like Ward has got you all an warehouse all the way from Brooklyn 33th street avenue, it's not as clean as it should look like, but strong enough to hold on a few days.."
"Okay. That's good."Finally, some good news had come out after an very exhausting evening. However, he could hear Tess's voice that wasn't sounding so joyful as she kept on following up.
"You'll have to move tomorrow and try to locate Vincent as well, knowing that he was also in the club doesn't ease up things for Ward either. You guys may be in danger.."
"That's what safe houses are for..Aren't they?"He scoffed back as he took a peek right to the standing people here as he raised up an thumb up to show that everything is fine. Telling them it's gonna be okay. But it wasn't for Tess who wasn't finished on the phone.
"J.T., I wasn't done..There maybe more than you think.."
"Okay.."
"We had managed to locate the cops that were working on Patrowenski's case. San Jose PD couldn't find any thing other than Patrowenski 's and Bennett's fingerprints at the crime scene. And quite a fight as they could tell had taken place. From what Detective Dante Ciccotelli had informed us when we took charges. It was too late to locate the guy since he went through airport without being recognized, however they did find an appartement under Patrowenski's name.."
"How?"
"When they managed to identified him and put Patrowenski's recent picture up to the media. Someone called. Some landlord, a swedish guy into his late forties had called and told them that the same guy had been living under his roof. He mentionned Patrowenski.."
"And?"
"Turns out that the guy had been planning his attack on his soon ex-wife and kid and was about to go after others as well, Jeffrey Rafferty, Ash,Vincent and yourself as well..Ciccotelli said they found many items, pictures, photos of his ex, notebooks, kitchen knifes..sketckbooks papers in every color. An damaged and used up MAC laptop. Bedsheets all messed up and where the dirty syringes, heroin and cocaine were found and hid into them..However no blackboard..Looks like he had left the room into a mess and without any blood shed.."
"Damn, it's pretty hard to digest all this.."And he thought that dealing with Vincent's bad beasting out moods were worse to endure. Now he had a crazy psychopath under his back.
"I could tell that your guy has been planifying his entire exucation from the start and leaving the city to finish off his work, once he had heard that Vincent exposed himself and at the public media.."
"And they couldn't caught him in time?"All confused, Ed had raised up his head when he felt that J.T. was petting him anymore. He watched the guy taking off his glasses and rubbed them in frustration.
"They needed Regan's version of the attack first and go afterwards to fetch Carl. They searched everywhere and spoke to every witnesses who had been there but said they saw nothing, until that night. Anyways, however it was no use since the guy had already fleed here, to finish what he had started and put the blame on Bennett.."
"Damn, I have to reach to Vincent!" And fast. Even if the guy was trying to settle things with Catherine, he needed to know the situation behind the whole drama with Carl, not only Carl had tried to finish with Regan, he may still be able to finish the others here. Including himself. He sighed back as put on his glasses as Tess growled in annoyance.
"And blow Cat's cover? I don't think so..That case means a lot for her. Make her lose that case and she and Vincent would get themselves caught by Vincent make his own decisions here. He's old enough, J.T. but I do think you need to warn him anyways, whenever you have a chance to reach him up.."
"Okay.."He couldn't blow Cat's cover or else Vincent would tell him to just back off.
"Is Bennett and the others are listenning?"However, it wasn't an good idea of backing away from Tess. He gulped.
"Sort of.."He glanced back to the others, especially the blond haired woman who was folding up her arms against her chest as she stepped back to the corner of the wall, like she was the real villian person here. The culprit who brought them all into her mess. Hell yeah, she was listening and wasn't missing it from her sight as she kept watching him. J.T. gulped as he felt like he was about to hyperventilate here. Shaky as they often said.
"Anyways, make sure they don't do anything stupid, especially Bennett. Ciccotelli did say that she confessed that Patrowenski was her attacker and may have been stalking her and her son from afar, according to the photos back at the appartement and just a few weeks before the attack..It wasn't just drug matter.."According to Tess's words, it turned out that Carl was stalking Regan and her son behind her back. Good thing, that he wasn't around the attack and was away at her aunt's place."Tell them to be careful. Tomorrow morning, two guarded officers would come with a black BMW to pick you guys up.."
"Alright."
"I'll call you back, if I get any more news from Ciccotelli about Patrowenski.."
"Look, I'll call you back and thanks for calling, Tess.."
"So J.T.?"
"Good news is that we might be moving tomorrow morning under two thugs's protection. The bad news is that Carl had an appartement back at San Jose where all items and data were found under record. To make long story short-He had stalked Regs and her son and was planning his attack and finish us too from what San Jose PD believes.."
"That part we had noticed by the threatening letters..To inform all of us that he is back to exterminate us, for good.."Had followed Ash with a sigh.
"Couldn't agree more than you.."Regan blurted this one out as she closed her eyes feeling so exhausted from all this mess and by putting everyone into danger when she shouldn't have. "Maybe, it would have been better if I've left Carl killed me, by then..None of this would have happened.."
"Come on, Regs, you don't mean that.."Miguel pressed his hands on her tense shoulders as she felt herself tremble from fear as J.T. waved his hands in self defense here, trying to explain.
"Look, it's just a step for now. It's not that I don't trust you, Regan-"But the blond haired woman shook her head. She had known what he was going to say. He must believe that she was crazy by now.
"I do, don't worry. I just did what Alex told me to do. Come back and face my fears, even if I have to stare at death's door. I would have came up here, anyways..Tell Vincent.."However, it was Jeffrey's mockering laugh that made her stop. He really wasn't helping any of them, but J.T. felt that the guy was going to have a nervous breakdown here as everyone looked up to him, even an eyeful Ed was looking at him, wondering whatever he was thinking by now.
"Tell him what? That you need his help? The guy had just come up from the shadows and yet, you ask him for help? Give me a break.."
"Alex told me so.."Shaking with fear, Regan brought her blond locks away from her face with an trembling hand. But the angry man wasn't finished as turned to her sight as he give her the most angry glare that she never has seen coming from Jeffrey.
"Well, Alex should have shut her mouth and mind her own buissiness, Regs. We're facing a death sentence here and that's because of you!"That was way too way out of control here, Jeffey was maybe angry but also scared in a way from what J.T. had observed. However, to have him accusing Regan of being careless was a little too much. By the time she has been attacked, Vincent was already stepping away from the shadows as he had made his first step outside. Not that he had had much choice ever since Cat had shot him which had left him bleeding very badly and ended up to the hospital where his fingerprints were taken by cops. If Vincent hadn't followed up to Tori's idea of handling Reynolds into the beast way and had put more trust into Cat's words. None of this mess would have had occured, at all.
And no one would have found him alive today. Not even his old buddies from med school and Regan would have never come in here at all, as well.
"Jeff-"
"For once I agree with Carl here. Your kid shouldn't have never been born into a stupid world where both good and evil can't stand to each other's faces and then, there wouldn't be any stupid sacrifices to make. And that means you and your son!"That just shut them off. All of them were still stunned as Jeffrey bursted away from the place leaving them alone.
"Maybe, I should go after him..Just to check him, if he's-"
"No let him go, Ash."Had blurted out Regan who still remained shocked after what Jeffrey had told her and how what kind of a friend she turned out to be, after all these years away and from not saying anything to anyone. Not even J.T. or Vincent had known about the signs and signs that Carl had been hurting and using Regan from all this time. Even if the two of them were hiding away at that lost warehouse.
"I believe he had meant every word of it.."Ash looked back at her, perplexed by her sounding calming voice. Like he believed that she had lost her mind, for a second or that Jeffrey made her believe that she was in fact the bad guy here.
"You can't be serious, here. Jeffrey was just scared, Regs. And people who are often scared do kinda of acting up and be very angry, not only at the people they care, but at themselves too.."
"That's a good theory, Ash, but I do think it's the best way to leave him alone for now. Trying to talk with him won't help, at the moment.."
"Miguel is right. Let's leave Jeff away for tonight and follow J.T.'s new girlfriend's orders until they get Carl out of the streets for good. And once all this is over, I'll probably leave..Miguel, Vincent and I would probably leave NYC, for a longtime, after that.."Say what? It strucked to hear from Regan that she was going to leave the city once all this mess is over. J.T. was stunned as he suttered with his own words to come out.
"Regs, don't blame yourself for that. There was nothing you could have done. At least, let's wait, until Vincent would show up and see what the cops are having on their sleeves..We'll figure this all together.."J.T. was usually good for making pep talks to other people, especially when Vincent needed his comfort and like a lot from before. Somehow, Regan needed one of his pep talks as well. He tried to comfort her before taking any regretting decisions.
"Okay."She didn't looked convinced but what other choice she had to go with? There she was hiding and trapped into a motel room with her new boyfriend and old friends. Regan made her way out of the room as Miguel had followed her back as he closed the door behind his back, leaving the two guys here alone with the dog. Jeffrey's harsh words did hurt, but they were somehow true. If Regan had noticed the signs at an very early beginning, none of that mess would have happen. No one would make any sacrifices and J.T. hoped that Vincent wasn't making a sacrifice that wasn't worth it or regretting, just like it had happened with Cat.
It's gonna be a very long night, for Tess and for Vincent to call back.
...
"Looks like we're gonna wait for now..There's nothing we can do until tomorrow, Vargas.."Frowning, Captain Ward leaned his back on his chair as he stared back at Tess who only stared right back to her phone after the caller had just hanged up on her. And she wasn't enjoying any of this. Here she was sitting with Ward behind his desk and with Cheng sitting besides her at her left side. Damn, she couldn't stand this guy at all, he even was worse than Medina and from the way he looked back down at her when he reached up to Ward's office, Tess could tell that he despised the sight of an strong willed, independent and very opinioned woman. Cheng was very different from Medina whom he respected women as they were equal and deserved to have the same rights as men have. She had to be honest. She didn't liked the guy at all.
"Do you honestly believe that Ciccotelli was right about that guy being a threat?"All the three of them managed to get ahold of the lead detective of the case through Skype as he had managed to tell them what he had known and learned. From Italian descendant and from a certain guy whom moved from Brooklyn, NYC to San Jose PD, Ciccotelli was an very good homicide detective after almost ten years at service, until this case at come up to him. It was somehow an too easy but also tricky case to handle as the the bad managed to fleed away from his sight and despite the many interrogations they could had gotten, it wasn't just enough.
Until today, when the Patrowenski case had been re-opened up.
"Well as long as the guy is still out at the streets, he might as well be..He has a definate goal here and it is to finish what he has started from the beginning. So we need a plan in a way to get him into his own trap and make blurt things out.."Had blurted out Cheng back to Tess's question.
"You think, it might work?"
"It might be the only idea, that we can come up with. Get him into his own fault and catch him.."
"And how are we gonna do that?"
"I'm sure that Patrowenski would give a sign to them, so we may need to have the entire warehouse wired, by tomorrow. Watch and listen to everything..Including renting cars.."The guy wasn't kidding as Ward looked up at him like he had two heads growning out from him.
"I'm not sure if the NYPD can afford all that..I mean with Vargas undercover with Chandler and with all the wires we had installed-"
"Well you gotta have to do better, because we may have a madman walking down on the streets with an vendetta and was close to finish off his ex-wife.."
"Cheng, I'm the one who gives the orders-"The asian detective had rose up from his seat as he angrily attacked the captain, without any hesitation which took Tess by surprise as she almost had jumped through his voice. Damn, the guy looked like he wanted to jump off at the man behind his desk.
"And I say, you need to act faster, old man or else Patrowenski would only get what he desperately wants, at the end-"This time Ward had enough as he slammed his palm onto his desk with a stern glare as he managed to keep his anger under control.
"And like I said here-I'm the one who gives orders here! You may have come onto us to join up your partner's invastigation, but as it is for this one here. Patrowenski's, is far different than a cold case. A woman and a kid's lives are both at the risk here. The same goes for the people that are close to them as well."
"So we all need your brain here and not your defeated ego.."Had half teased up Tess, even if she didn't felt like laughing at all. Cheng shook his head as he tried to defend himself as he managed to calm down, feeling he'd been out of control for a moment.
"I don't have any ego-"
"Then try to collaborate and obey into my orders here. We have much to do here for now on and with Bennett hiding away is the best way we can come up with until tomorrow."Captain Ward had conclued back. "Ciccotelli would reach up to us if there's any other developements into the case and as for the wires being plugged up and renting up cars, we'll have to think about it."He looked back at Tess as he followed up."Not all of us is living under gold, considering how the budgets are holding against us.."
"But, it didn't hold you back against Chandler and Vargas's case, no? You ended up plugging the entire club and put a car close to their street.."Cheng mockery scoffed back as he put his hands on his hips as he challenged the sitting man behind his desk.
"The FBI departement had agreed to help us into Àlvarez's case-"
"Only one and an hidden FBI Agent like Dana Landon had agreed to help you out, after she has been rescued by Chandler and Keller who might be missing by the moment we are talking about him.."Cheng turned to look back down at Tess for a moment under Ward's questionning stare, before he looked back up to the captain. "If you excuse me, I'd like to make some arragements as we are into it and since you said your departement cannot afford all your cops's advances, I'd arrange it on my own. I'd call a friend of mine who might do the job in a way better than you could have done on this case. Captain Ward."He had followed up and excused himself with a short head bow and left the office.
"Damn. That guy is way worse than your friend Medina, Vargas.."Completely worned out by Medina's strange partner, Ward had leaned up his back on his chair as Tess grimaced in disgust.
"Medina is not my friend. Just any other fellow cop and friend to my brothers, Captain. Nothing more.."
"And to say Lowan is away and locked up into his place while I have to deal with his mess. I wouldn't be so surprised if he ended up in behind bars, if Medina finds him guilty.."If he is proved guilty.
"I don't know about that.."Tess still looked up at the door from where Cheng had bursted out as he said he would handle on calling onto someone who could manage to put wires into the new warehouse as he said. She really didn't liked that guy, at all. Thinking he owned the place like he was the first man had walked on it.
"About Keller, did you seen him lately?"That question took her by surprise when she whirled around with her chair to face him, stunned as she blinked.
"Excuse me?"
"The guy is also an victim, considering into Patrowenski's case and might attack him if he is not being protected by the law.."Tess nodded trying to understand the situation."And last time, Keller had shown up his ass here was on the day when Sandler got attacked behind bars. So I was wondering if you had known.."Ward had entwined his fingers together as he waited for answer to come out. Playing innocent as Tess just shook her head, which she denied any fact of it.
"No. I don't know where he could have gone by now.."Tess had lied by looking up at the man, but for the wires being plugged up at the club, they might be saying didn't looked too certain as he kept staring at her hard.
"Are you sure?" She really hoped that she wasn't regretting any of this by lying for Cat. No, for Vincent. A guy that she had despised from his bad mistakes was only trying to find out himself and out from the beast side. To do some good after he had been hurt by Cat's jackass of father. Didn't she believed in redemption? That was the answer that she was looking for. If Vincent could handle on protecting Cat and from herself if she breaks all loose, maybe she could give him a chance to that. She stared back at Ward as she managed to serious as possible on convincing him that she had no clue about Vincent Keller's so-called missing.
"I am.." She swored to herself that she would be just screwed as Cat would be, but she somehow couldn't tell Ward where Vincent was at the moment. Especially when the man wanted to go by trying to explain himself to Cat that he has changed into a better man and to do some good by protecting those girls at the club from Catherine's exploding anger towards them.
Even if it meant to stop Àvarez.
...
Damn, he hated that as he let out a growl as he looked up from the stairs. Vargas was just as noisy and messy like her partner. He was stuck here in this place when he should be out on trying to find another prey, if that idiot of Àlvarez hadn't found one for idiot was too busy at the hospital and had been avoiding his calls since the last time he called him about the red necklace's effect on beasts. Which freaked him out. Not him, but Àlvarez. Tyler's heart was useful for a couple months but how long it would last? Not even Gretchen's liver was strong enough to hold him from beasting out. He was failing onto staying human as he tried to not let his eyes show their glowing. He needed another victim and prostitutes's organs wouldn't last on him for long.
He was afraid of exposure.
He had tried to go for Alicia and Helga's organs but it was already too late, since they had been injected and transformed into those creatures like him, it was no use. He had to kill them and bury them away from showing up. Lena was still on hold onto machines and kept alive and walking into a hospital was no use where all the security system and guards around the building.
As for Natasha, the latest girl to be attacked by Chandler was slowly recovering under Keller's care, but was still too weak to walk around. Maybe, she was the source of his healing and how young she looked, maybe it would help him to become more strong on controlling the beast inside of him. Yes, that was it.
He needed to go back into the club and talk to someone and fast. He looked down to his watch and winced at the time. It was already 1:00 am by now and Chandler and Keller would only come back from their date into the club by another hour.
He needed to do his job and fast. One jump ahead, as he thought back with a grin, but first, he had to face the mistress of the bar. The dying barmaid.
But for Chandler and Keller? Those two were a problem that he need it to face one day. Cause if they were holding him back by sabotaging his plans, and especially Keller was destroying his plans by keeping his girls safe, then he would have to kill them both and soon.
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Really Catherine was running out of luck as she dropped down the dices into the playground table to only see that she wasn't earning anything good.
"Sorry lady, it's been three times you're rolled up the dices here and you aren't winning anything-"With a guilty smile, she raised up her hand demanding the man to give her another chance at winning, believing to herself that she could win, this time. Even if she had no experiences at that kind of game here.
"Let me try again!"
"Sorry, let the others play here while you go and play at some real casino, outside.."Trying to hold back her ego, Cat had raised up her eyebrows in question as she quite hadn't heard the last sentence coming from the man."Excuse me?"
"Give me the dices.."Had said an familiar voice crossing Cat's frustration. Anna who was supposing to be playing Tori had walked up to the table with an champagne flute holding up with one hand as she crossed over the table through the small crowd. And from how her hair was slowly falling from its chignon and that a nice reddish mark was appearing on her collarbone, it could only told her that she and her date had a lots and lots of fun, during her time when she was clutching into Vincent's hand and cred her eyes out at the opera, two hours ago.
The bitch was enjoying her fun had remarked Cat as she eyed from a warning glare the red head woman rolling up the dices like a gifted person who had known the game as if she was the one who created it. So much for fun. Anna was grinning at her victory while Cat felt like she was the one being humiliated here.
"Seven! We got a winner!"
"And lost a few coins here.."Had chuckled the red haired woman back at Cat's frowning face. Damn, she hated to lose here and in front of a woman who could pass up as a new rival. Especially when this rival looked a lot like the woman who had stolen up her boyfriend. Cat really wanted to rip her apart here and in front of everyone.
"Hey, cowgirl, wanna stand up over a real man here? Then do me a favor and drop the dices over here!" Startled by Vincent's raising and challenging voice who silentely had followed up to stand up close to her. Cat turned her head towards him as she watched him raise his hand and waved back at Anna who dropped the dices at his and Cat's direction. She could tell that he looked pissed and drunk from the glasses of strong scotch he had taken ever since she left him alone at the bar. He had trouble standing on his balance as his head felt like pounding and boy, his cheeks were heated with reddening burning air. He was drunk. How much he had taken, she had no clue.
"Think you can defeat a girl, hero guy?"Anna put her free hand on her hip, raising up her chin to Vincent who only chuckled as he grabbed up the dices and played with them into a warming and wishing matter. He looked back up at the laughing red head woman with a smirk, looking so sure of himself. Cat just watched him in silent as she wondered how much glasses he had and how far he gotten himself drunk here. His scent was so close to her face.
"Watch and learn.."He replied back as he dropped the dices but to only lose at four. The dark short haired cut man in the white and penguin suit winced as the dices rolled to his direction and he could tell that the hunk guy was no better than the pretty woman to his right side.
"Sorry man, but seven still takes over the place.."
"Come on, man! Give me another chance, here!"Vincent felt Cat's warning glare right back to him as he almost like growled in anger like a monster she had known a longtime ago.
"Nope and besides- you had a little too much..Bad breath.."Had added up back the man as he give the dices to other people around at the table.
"What are you trying to do?"Cat had whispered back to him once the guy into the white suit had turned his back on them. His knuckles turned up white here as he held on transforming in any minute. Which wasn't helping, especially when they were surrounded by many people and mostly, because Vincent was a strong beast, but easily to get caught and exposed lately.
"Win back yours and my dignity. What else?"He looked down on the table as he held the edge of the railing with his fists, trying to control on his frustration. Vincent sighed.
"By getting yourself drunk.."Which it wasn't the smartest idea in other ways. She reminded him of his blood alchool here and how high he could get here which made his blood pressure go a little bit nuts here. Still refusing to look up to her, he held up an hand to her direction as he wanted to assure her.
"I know I had too much, but my head is still hanging on both of my shoulders. So I'm still perfectly looking just o-okay.."But she didn't think so, anyways as she tried to tease him."Ok, enough to sleep off with a hooker?"He scoffed back at that reply. He could even sense Anna looking up to them as she felt like they were talking about her from the spot she was standing on and far away.
"Well that was just mean..I don't sleep with anyone that lives and breathes.."
"Unless they have red hair, maybe.."He brought up his head and whirled back to look up to her focused and warning eyes that were telling him many and explicable things. Be careful. Be aware to not make yourself look bad. Don't beast out. Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't do any blah, blah and blah that. My ass. Vincent really felt like spinning here, he really shouldn't have had drank that much. With a mocking and stuborn grin stuck up to his face, he managed to turn the blade around and straight up to her features.
"Or those that have trusting issues with men.."It was payback routine. She observed him and straight up to the eyes. His chocolate and shiny orbs were challenging her. About wanting to lose complete control here, cause he wouldn't just back up away from his spot that easily. She knew he wouldn't be able to do that and neither would she give up in any other way.
Even if he looked and smelled sexy and right up to her face and only for her. despite he smelled liquor or looked serious 't mattered if he had put up a show or not to save apperences.
"You don't give up that easily, do you?"
"You know me better than that, Aya.."He used up her other name to not blow up her cover. She frowned as everything that just happened a few moments ago the talk and the emotion involing the opera and their reason of their so-sudden break-up at Mantuk, didn't happened at all. Now it was all about business was really enjoying this moment by challenging her up on how long she can hold up to maintaining up her control. Didn't mattered if he tasted good or not as his eyes locked up to hers. They were so hypnotizing.
"It looks like the two of you had enjoyed this evening, I see.."Startled by the familiar voice coming to them,they ended up getting themselves interrupted by an very grinning Smirnoff who was heading his way towards them. Like they were getting theselves a little bit closer as it seemed when Cat moved a step back from Vincent's side, feeling heated by the burning of her blushing. She could see that the elder man held two flute of champagne on both both hands.
"Excuse me..About what?"Catherine walked up front to face Smirnoff as Vincent remained right behind her. The elder man explained himself with a shrug as he smiled towards her.
"About the opera, I meant..Both of you looked like the two of you had an emotional rollercoster after the both of you had coming out of it.."Cat couldn't helped herself but to smile as she brought up her finger close up to her eye as if she wipped off an invisible tear off.
"It was so beautiful. I couldn't had kept myself from crying, sir.."
"It was really moving. Doesn't matter the language, it was just amazing..It was very moving.."Vincent nodded back following up with her review from the play they have been exposed and emotionally involved into as he tried to look more serious than ever in front of the old man. Which had brought too many nostalgic memories and mostly an inevitable fear for Vincent. That scene where Rodolfo was screaming to an dying Mimi was still giving him shivers. He was afraid of this truth. Truth that he might be dying inside and might have regrets if he doesn't find a way to express his feelings towards Catherine, before it's too lacerations were getting much too loose by now and taken too much place. Something was wrong with him and he didn't know what was the cause. Whenever he'll have some spare time for himself and away from all eyes on him, he'll have to call J.T.
He had to know. Cause in one way or another, he needed to warn Catherine about his strange behavior and about Àlvarez who wasn't what he seemed to be. That jerk was up into something.
"Well, I'm glad the two of you had enjoyed and of course, you've let me have the most delightfull time of my life by letting have a few hours with Tori. It was really a nice offer, Miss Ayaka and something I wouldn't be able to forget anytime soon.." Vincent groaned as he cursed himself in silence as he kept on listenning to Smirnoff's answer. What a wishing matter. From his corner, he eyed the red haired woman who was still playing at the table pool, winning enjoying, drinking and laughing, but didn't had any decent matter or any education or what's so ever. Tori was better than a cheap and trashed up girl like Anna, but only on the human side as for the beast side, she was just as vicious like the dancer here who pretented to be Sminfoff's girl just one night only.
"Pleasure is all mine, sir. I'm glad you had a good evening.."Catherine's soothenning voice had brought him back to the moment as she returned his gratitude back with waving hand.
"One of my boys would send a check by early dawn tomorrow morning to your bartender Lina, I think? And I believe the of you would take care of it when it comes to money, I assume?"However still under control, Catherine took care of everything as she assured the old man.
"We'll take care of everything and Keller, right here is taking good care of the girls, so there wouldn't be anymore problems.."She had brought him up from behind as he was reminded of his own role into the story here. He pushed his hauntenning thoughts away as he felt the silver haired man's eyes looking up to him.
"Oh, do you?"Smirfoff looked past over her shoulder to see him as he tried to stay firm as his features proved to be. Despite having the burning feeling of the alchool into his system, he did stood up in a good balance with conviction as he managed to look like.
"I won't worry about it, sir.."Had added Vincent back as he walked up Cat's side with both hands into his pockets as he closed up the gap made between Smirnoff and Cat.
"You look pretty sure, .."Vincent had took out a sigh as he took a peak towards Cat who was watching him very conscientious, telling him to be very careful with what he was about to reveal to the hopeful and possible crime man as he returned his attention back to him.
"Very much like I was protecting my own platoon from way back into Afghanistan. I had a few friends back there, soldiers both men and women that had died and engaged to serve and protect their own country.."Smirnoff had scoffed back nodding his head at this point from what Cat observed. Somehow her ex had got him locked up inside into unpleasant memories.
"Yeah. You were a soldier, Keller. I remember that part. The fighting never stops doesn't matter where you are or what country you live, it just never stops.."Smirnoff felt lost for a second as he looked totally like an idiot as he stood here with both hands holding up two flute of champagne and right in front of Cat and Vincent who remained silent as he added up with his sighed, hopeless and sad."My only son, Dimitri had enlisted to war right after the two tours had been blown off and had never looked back.."
"Your son was a soldier?"had recalled Cat trying to look sympathetic to his unforgettable memories as Vincent stood on guard here as he tried to get him into a lie. But the silver haired old man looked convinced.
"And my only child, as far you can see. Dimitri and I had always our fightings and our differences and boy, he did looked different from me. I didn't wanted to follow my footsteps, be a part of the family business at all. He said he felt ashamed and disgusted. He wanted to become a lawyer as he often used the law like an daring Sword of Damocles, all over my head. Like a threat, you see?" It looked like son and father didn't get along pretty much. It turned out that Smirnoff's late son had others plans than to follow his father's footsteps into the family business. Wanting to become an better example into the society like Cat had proved to be by wanting to be a lawyer just like Thomas Chandler managed, but everything had changed when Murfield had gunned down one of their problems. Her mother, the attentive and loving Vanessa who leaded a double life was gunned down in front of her eyes and when Vincent into a full beast mode had shown up from the woods to rescue her from the bad guys.
And somehow, the law didn't see this coming, at all. By letting people like Murfield coming and plagued a hundred and thousand people into a blinding and horrible fate. The law let them slip through its fingers and had hurted the innocent. Just like Vincent. How dare they..
"Not easy, I see.."She had concluded as Smirnoff continued to talk, but to Vincent than to her.
"I know I may sound a little hopeful here, but you really didn't see him around back up there, when you were at the battling field, Keller?"Cat looked back up to the man standing next to her side as he shaked his head, denying the idea and looked pretty certain.
"No. I'm sorry I haven't meet or seen him around. I'm sorry I'm still trying to get ahold of my memories, but you know this, they come and they leave whenever they want..I try to not force them, all at once. Or else-"
"It'll be too much to take all at once..I get it..You don't push too many things at once, or you'll feel like you'll end up exploding up.."Had finished Smirfoff back.
"I'm sorry for bringing back bad memories like these, son.."
"It's alright, Mister Smirnoff. It didn't mattered to you if you and your son had both your differences, you still loved him.."Had brought up Cat as she put a hand on Vincent's back as it was meant for him. She felt him getting a little shake-up as his heartbeat rushed up to her touch. She watched him turn his eyes towards her as her comforting stare had slowly turned up into a perplexed one. Vincent was sweating up here as his eyes were showing pain. Was anything that Smirnoff had just told them was the truth? By saying his son went to war and got killed right in front of Vincent's eyes?
Or was it something else, that she hadn't known. Could it be possible, what else Vincent was hiding from her?
"Anyways, I didn't come up here looking up like a fool with two flute of champagne and sharing bad memories with you both. But to tell you that the old fella here would need to go into bed as bedtime had come up for me by now."Smirnoff had yawned up to them both. He chuckled looking nervous by this gesture."But, I just couldn't leave without giving you both a gift.."
"No, sir. We can't.."
"No, it's not necessary..It wasn't that much.."
"Don't be silly kids. You guys need to have some fun once in your life, as you know life is short. I'm getting too tired to stay up until six of clock to the morning, while you guys still can hold on."Had advenced the silver haired man as he laughed. "Don't worry it's not poison, it's pure and simple champagne to enjoy. As you young folks often say-The night is still young. Go and live it while you still can.."He still held the drinks toward them both as Cat and Vincent exchanged an uncertain stare as they weren't sure if they should with it or not and with the old man who was waiting like an eternity right here and in front of them.
"Well?" Trying to swallow a gulp right back into her throat, Cat was the first one who made the step as she took the drink from Smirnoff's hold as Vincent followed up right after she did.
"So?"Despite having taken three glasses of Jack Daniel's scotch, Vincent took up the drink to his lips and drank into a one shot as Cat followed up, but more slowly. Smirnoff looked more happy now that they had drank up his gift as they both clutched theirs eyes shut as the drink was burning right into theirs throats. For him, they both looked like shy teenegers who just their first try into alchool.
"Well. It wasn't so hard, no?"Smirnoff couldn't helped but to laugh at theirs expressions which looked hilarious to him, but embarassing to them both. Cat waved a hand and pointed at Vincent's direction like it was his own fault to something unknown.
"It's just that Keller was already drunk when you got up here. That's why, we both hesitated first.."Vincent almost burped the liquid out from his mouth as he dragged his hand up to release his tie from its knot trying to breathe more normally as Catherine waved her hand right up to her face, feeling like she needed air from here as she blinked trying to adjust herself after she had took up the drink. Smirnoff was just enjoying what he was watching at the moment and did looked quite a little bit too much confident, for the moment.
"Well, that's more better to hear..Anyways, I have to go now, I wouldn't want to make my driver wait. Take Tori home and.."He smirked back to the two of them here. "Be nice as you're going to your way out.."And with a smirk stuck up to his face, Smirnoff took a few steps back as he whirled around and headed away from them. Looking a little too much confident like he had something planned or planted.
Damn, Vincent felt his head was spinning far too much than he had felt earlier as he stared down to his empty glass wondering whatever was inside of that drink he had sipped. When a curious thought came through him. Did the old man had drugged them, on purpose? He tried to focus by standing up straight as Cat's voice had awoken him up.
"What did he meant by that?"He shrugged as he made a weird sound coming out from his throat.
"I don't know, I'm too drunk to think straight now.." Lame answer. He really wished that there wasn't anything else planted into that drink, cause if there was any substence into it and that Smirnoff got them drugged against theirs will. Unless the old man had figured out Cat's cover into club. No, it wasn't possible.
"You think he put something into it?"She shifted her eyes up to him as he felt her concerned stare up to him, even her heartbeat speeding up a bit. He shook his head as he kept on looking at Smirnoff walking away. He blinked as he tried to focus on his sight, thinking that he might pass out. Vincent tried to remain on being steady.
"I have no clue. My beast senses are slowly fading away..Or maybe I'm just too drunk to notice anything weird, like everybody else here.."He lied by trying to ease up the situation here and hoping he wouldn't regret it later on.
"Yeah, maybe you're right..."However, for a weird reason he didn't felt like he was right at all. Cause here they were standing in a place full of strangers and close to a table pool with glasses on theirs hands as they exchanged a concerned look to each other again, probably thinking that Anna's date had both drugged them. They were afraid of what they were capable of doing by getting out of control for a moment of thinking a weird sensation was coming up through him that made his blood burn up with fire, like he wanted her to come inside of him and right now.
And Cat had noticed that look into his eyes, that he wanted her just as she wanted him back, so badly. Cause unwanted and burning desire was slowly starting to run through her veins and with Vincent close enough to her side didn't made things easy, at all.
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"Are you alone?"He did asked through the phone that made her jump as she was coming out from the room, like a up the door more slowly to not wake up the sleeping person inside, Lina whispered to her phone as she checked her corners, as if she wanted to stay under radar or hoping no one would spook her up from behind.
"I just had time to come out from Natasha's room by now.."She leaned her back to the door as she cluctched her phone with a tight hold into it. An hour ago, Lina had slowly made her way out through the crowd to walk upstairs to see how Natasha was doing as she left the entire waitressing job to Olga who had looked far more relaxed from the last time she had seen her.
"How is Natasha?"
"That bitch is doing just fine. She is slowly recovering and swored to me that she wouldn't touch any weird stuff anymore. But what can you do, with drug addicts? They can keep promises for a while and go back into their addictions, once they made themselves believed.."Lina had sighed after she had checked Natasha into her room. The wounded dancer was snoring peacefully and slowly recovering by staying in bed just like the new doctor had ordered from the last time he had her checked, but he had no clue how Natasha could be very manipulative person once she would be back into her own person. Oh hell yeah, Natasha could be very bad. Keller would have to be very careful of not letting himself falling into her puppy doggy eyes, but knowing how the guy worked and very concentrated, Lina wouldn't have to worry that much.
"You think that she might be a match?"He had changed up the subject when he wanted to know how well was the dancer as the bartender just groaned as answer.
"It's too early to say. I don't know with Nat. She might have a few failing organs with her addiction due to heroin. I'll ask Àlvarez.."
"What about Keller? You seem to have grown strong feelings for him. I know that cause you like to watch him while he's around Aya..You're almost jealous, Lina and I can feel it.."She stood silent for a moment, knowing where was going along as he had attacked her by the feelings. Feelings, she swored she wouldn't experience at all, because of her sickness.
"Don't be stupid. I don't have feelings for Keller. He is a nice guy to talk to, but I won't have any sexual desire for him.."Lina tried to lie by denying the the true fact. Which she did try to , in the other way around, she was deeply attracted to Keller.
But the monster holding up the phone wasn't buying any of it as he scoffed back. Damn, his laugh sounded much like a evily sneering that went hauntening through her own mind.
"Don't try to fool me around, Lina, you have strong feelings for Keller and yet, you can't have him because of your condition. You keep thinking yourself that you're going to make him sick, but I think you're wrong.."
"What's that suppose to mean?"She felt offended even if she was in fact quite jealous, because the hotshot doctor had an eye into someone else than her.
"HIV is no longer a death sentence anymore, it can be controlled now with medicine-"
"Medicine that has bad side effects. Not everything is all good with all the glory here.."She went through many of them and all of them were having theirs own side effects. Whenever they were good or not, they made her body exhausted.
"Anyways, you go and charm Keller and ask him if Nat has a clean blood for me, cause if she doesn't, than ask for Olga.."
"I'm not even sure of how long Olga would stick around..Due to her age.."
"Then watch out for her, cause if she ever getting herself messed and gets herself beaten by Aya and turns out to be not a match, you might have to eliminate her. You and Àlvarez might have to do it.."Just what the hell was he trying to say? Did he needed to have a organ transplant by now? By having Tyler's heart and Gretchen's liver wasn't just enough? If she and Àlvarez go for an third slaughtering surgery and leave an third body away, it would raise suspisions to everyone, including cops. Leaving out Alicia and Helga, since it was already too late for them. Because someone had injected them with beasts injections and the man through the phone didn't wanted any beast organs, but humans as he often called fresh and pure like those innocent lambs left alone into the garden. Ready to be sacrificed. And Lina didn't wanted to kill another innocent lamb. No, Olga was too young and precious, just like Kayla who was kept hidden by vicious creatures like Eva and Anna.
"I can't.."She almost went broken as he slowly started to warn her when his voice sounded evil with a surpassing growl coming out through his throat. He was angry.
"You remember about Gretchen of how the two of you had her trapped onto that surgery gurney and that I had her killed after her surgery? I have pictures with you two into it.."
"You can't do that. You can't expose us both. You would be dying if it wasn't for us-"He was blackmailing her by now as he lashed his anger out, through the phone.
"I'm not dying, you little bitch! I'm beasting out! I can't control it and it's because of you and Òliver. You need to find another donor Lina! Cause if it is Keller who is holding you back-"However Lina shook her head in denial as she clutched her eyes shut.
"He's not holding me back!"
"Then get Natasha and Olga tested, or if you can't do it, then go for the youngest girl into the club.." Oh God. No. Not this. Shivering with fear, she snapped her eyes open unable to cover up their fear. He had to be kidding. He wouldn't go that far. No, he cannot.
"Not Kayla, she's far too young!"She couldn't stopped her voice from raising up its tone. Maybe Eva was right. Somehow Kayla was too young and far too innocent to be exposed, including to have her organs checked and ripped out for an unidentified beast who was starving on surviving with human organs.
"Then do what you're ordered to do, Lina. Find a solution to my problem. If not, I'll come here to kill you in your sleep and you both of you and Àlvarez exposed, just like Yalena had tried.."He had threatened her back without any hesitation. She felt her blood run cold for a moment.
"Stop. Please just stop.." No, not Yalena. That poor woman taking the blame for both Àlvarez and herself, their crime and then to be pushed to death by him was quite a hard memory to forget. Just like it had been with Alicia and Helga, Lina had washed up her hands from them and leave them to theirs deaths. Under the hands of a monster and all alone at the dark. How scared Yalena must have been when an awful creature from damn mother nature had silenced her up. Lina broke down into shaken sobs as the thought came through her snickered back when he heard her cry.
All that blood. So much blood, it terrified her.
"You've seen her, didn't you? I tried to have her killed so that Keller would be seen as the bad guy and yes, I do know that he is far more special than just a human being. He is a monster, just like me."
"Please.."Oh God. She wanted him to stop. Stop from talking. How dare he judge people that he had barely had chance to meet? Vincent Keller was this confident and good doctor but also a very caring person despite his cold and distant features when he had examined the girls, including herself once. He even had complimentated her on looking good for her age despite her sickness, he saw her as a friend and confident. Hadn't he? Or she was making all this up like it was a way to make herself feel better?
Did the monster had been watching him, behind Keller's back? Or was it because of the..The gem. Yes, it made more sense now. It explained the lacerations onto his skin, but also scared her of the truth that she didn't wanted to face. Was Vincent Keller, a beast? Cause if he ever was a beast, it could only meant something important. Keller might never be able to turn back from that fate.
"I took care of everything, I even erased all facts of a beast butchering Gretchen alive lying onto that gurney, but if you don't do as I ask, I might be able to bring up those pictures of you and Àlvarez with Gretchen appear right back to the police departement and I'm sure you don't want this to happen..And who knows, I may have more than what I already have.."That man's menacing voice had awoken herself from her thoughts as he kept on blackmailing her by using the missing pictures from Gretchen's murder scene since he had took them right before the cops had come along into the scene. And the gun? A little switching and magic trick to make Àlvarez's troubled wife look more suspicious than ever to everyone.
"Please..Don't put me into that position.."She wipped off the tears from her cheeks when she heard him blackmailing her and somehow had found the strength to stand up against him.
"Then get what I need and you'll be okay. For the time being, you little bitch.."
"Just please, leave Vincent alone.."Damn, she sounded so pitiful here. How come she ended up by defending a man that she barely knows by now? Snickering laughter she heard on the phone when she had realized her mistake. Her breath got caught up into her throat when she did hear him say this and close enough out loud to her ear.
"So he is Vincent to you? I had known you had feelings for him even if you can't have him for yourself since he's all into Aya. I was right, you are jealous, Lina. You do what I say, and he'll be safe, if not, I'll have him killed with my own bare hands, with what he had done with my cousin Zhao..I'll need to have my own sweet little revenge soon enough.."Lina was about to say something else when she caught a man that just came out from a room looking quite upset and pissed off as he fidgeted on buttouned up his shirt. It was one of these guys that Eva was lounging herself into, just a few hours ago. What the heck just happened?
"I have to hang up. Gotta have to work.."
"You do what I say, Lina and you'll be safe. I need a new human organ by tomorrow, if not, I'll have to expose you to those cops which I have good connections with.."He hanged up before she could add something back up to him. She needed a new plan and someone to deliver up to Ayaka as fast as possible. Olga and Kayla weren't a option. It was either Anna, Natasha or Eva. But since Anna was on a date and Natasha out of work, it just wasn't possible. However with Eva who was dealing with two dates. And speaking of dates, one man wasn't satisfied with one of the girls here and she wondered for which reason.
"Hey, you there.."She headed up to him as he turned his attention to her concerned features as she come up to him. Into his mid-twenties, he was tall and lean not too muscular, but good enough. He had short dark hair, blue eyes, wore a simple blue shirt with sleeves, dark and old used up troussers, but despite his clothes, he looked like the guy whom have just came out from college. From some popular fraternity club. Damn, the guy was just as pissed as she figured out."Can I help you with something?"
"I want my money back!"He blurted out frustrated back to her face, as she blinked up by trying to adjust his anger for a moment here. She tried to stay calm as she went on."Excuse me?"
"You heard me, ma'am. The girl you've sent up to me-She's a fake.."Lina needed a full of defination here as she sighed.
"Okay, calm down and talk. Just what's going on here? Were they any problems, out there with the girl?"She watched him as he tried to explain himself as his hands waved up like mad.
"The sex was okay, but not with the girl that I wanted to be with tonight.."You idiot, you went with a girl that you didn't even know and had sex with? So dumb and not only her mascara was licking up because of her tears she shed a few minutes earlier because of the fear that the monster made her go through. She'd go and fix herself later and after she would resolve whatever problem was going on now.
"Be more fair, buddy.."It wasn't making any sense here, as Lina folded up her arms together trying to understand the problem here.
"I've paid lots of dollars to be with Kayla, not with that stupid faking blonde woman that my friend went with an hour ago. That bitch lied to me.."Say what? That was his problem that he didn't get the girl he asked? He went with the wrong girl?
"Kayla? I thought you wanted to go with Eva?"She sure did remember him falling into Eva's arms back before and didn't complained about it. Hell, he even had enjoyed it. Unless..
"My buddy did wanted, but not me. I was walking upstairs when he was finished as he came down and then I heard her from her room calling for me, laying there on bed and all naked."He had added up in a single breath as Lina nodded. "She told me to come inside telling that she was Kayla and that she has been waiting for me to come, like I was dumb enough to not have noticed anything.. Even if alcohol was making my mind go all wuzzy.."Which was true. Only a smart boy would notice the difference, unless Eva had lied to him by making him believe that she was Kayla. Okay.."Which she took advantage of me.."He followed up as she rolled up her eyes at him, getting annoyed.
"And still you went with her, so it's not my problem. It's yours.."It was his own problem. Not hers. His own fault at being weak to his own weakness.
"I want my money back!"
"Too late.."
"Let me talk to the new hitman here!"Not a chance when Ayaka is out. She is out when the guy that she cannot have. Maybe it would be just better if she just stop at dreaming by now.
"She's outside with someone else..May not be able to reach you up.."
"I was supposed to be her first!"Kayla's first, to be more clear. But this wasn't about to happen anytime soon.
"Everybody has or had a first-"
"I paid six hundred thousand dollars for a virgin and had been tricked! So I want my money.."That stopped Lina for a second as she stared at him hard. Did she just had heard the man saying what she just had heard? Since when, paying someone's virginity had come to a price? So that jerk could be her first? Where was Kayla, by now?
"What the hell, did you just said?"She had no clue about any of this matter and worse, didn't even known that Kayla was a virgin and that a random guy wanted her, for that kind of..Did Àlvarez had known about this? Oh dear God.
"The real Kayla was supposed to be a virgin, not that blonde..I paid for a virgin according to her profile and not for an expired and used up hooker!"Something wasn't making sense, at all. Lina felt confused like she felt like something was missing into this puzzle. Hoping that he was kidding, she held herself from him as he kept on pushing advances about getting his money back.
"You're too drunk to remember-"
"I just don't stay drunk for much long enough after I had sex and had realized that I was being tricked. Here, I have a picture right here! I know I'm not stupid, cause there is the proof..Look into it.. "He shown up his Iphone up to her face, willing to prove that he wasn't mistaken here."See the difference for yourself, if you know your girls that much.."Strucked with shock, Lina took his phone and stared down at the picture which made her jaw drop. In this picture, Eva didn't looked like in this picture at all, where a dark skinned girl with long dark hair held into braids with brown eyes was staring right back to her with a frown. And looked no more than thirteen year old.
Damn. Eva had lied to her. Stating that the guys had seen her picture before they went along with her, which wasn't when this college guy right infront of Lina was stating the truth that he had gotten tricked and took a picture of the original girl that he was supposed to meet from the catalog. No wonder Eva made that promise earlier on."Like I said; Kayla wouldn't be touched and it doesn't matter if Ayaka has to beat me up for covering her up here...We won't let that happen. I'll make sure it won't.."
And somehow, that guy had caught her up into her mistake as he shown up that picture taken from her catalog. Her own catalog with the girls pictures. Eva would pay hard for this mistake.
Damn. Where was Ayaka? But then, something had caught up into her mind as Lina stared back at the frustrated guy with a evil smirk on her face.
"I may not know where is the new hitman by now, but I do know her phone number.."She had a plan and it would make Eva regret any mistakes to come up, later on.
But before that, she had to call someone else first.
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"You can call that-An evening full of surprises, that's for sure.."
"Speak for yourself. You woudn't have to deal with that stupid worry of having an hangover, the very next morning.."Catherine had chuckled at that point as she walked into her room as an very bored and drunked Vincent had also stepped in and right behind her back, but only to sat down on the bed. She went to her dresser where she sat down, dropped her purse and scarf on the floor and as she started to took off her earings. She took a look at herself to the mirror to see her if her cheeks had gotten pink. Pink with desire. She frowned at the picture, she really didn't wanted to go through another red spots due to the heavy drinking, just like the other night. Which she really didn't wanna to go through again. Till now, nothing big was showing up. Good enough to not freak out. But she felt feverish, so suddenly?
Damn, it felt like hot in here. So hot, that it couldn't make her breath. It made her head spin like it was too heavy to hold on. Cat winced in pain as she held two fingers up to the bridge of her nose as she closed up her eyes. Just take a deep breath, Cat, she reminded herself as she leaned back to her chair. She tried to recall about the late events that just had occured. The palace, the opera, Vincent, Smirnoff and Anna. Her crying at the opera as she held up to Vincent's hand for support. Him telling her the real reason of that sudden kiss with Tori when she had lashed out at his face in anger and left. The pool table. Anna winning and made her jealous. A drunk beast to her side and then Smirnoff camed along with two drinks. Sminoff! No wonder he looked very tricky before he had left her and Vincent. The drinks. He did put something inside of these drinks, that's for certain. No wonder she felt like she burning up. Burning up with inevitable desire. Cat just held her breath for a moment when Vincent's picture just came up to her mind. Hauntening and evil passion came up.
And whenever Vincent was around, it only made her heart wanting to rip out of its cage. This sudden excitement to want to throw herself to him, this burning feeling running through her veins were making want to go crazy. Lose control. Go wild to finally end up insane now. She shivered at that thought as she kept on breathing slowly, but only made her heartbeat rushing up into madness. She deeply wanted him and so much inside of her. Feel him trapped under her. Under her body and possession. Only for herself and nobody would be able to get him away from her hold. No one would be able as long as he'll be under her control. Feel his skin burning colliding through hers as she would brush his sensitive lips, his neck, his chest and everything that belonged to his body making alive and screaming as she would feel his pleasure all over as she would slowly lowering her movement and touching fingers all over his heating him so deliciously and himself roaring back like a wild man desparate for hunger. They would go high to the edge of the night as they would soar together as they had done God. Damn, the champagne drink was making her lose her mind!
With a helpless gasping sound that had blasted out from her throat, Catherine awoken up from her mind brutally and shaken as she sat up straight to her chair. Sweating and frightened by the visions she had been awared of having in hold. Still. It just wasn't right to feel them. They were over and for good. She made it clear to him. There was no point of return. They were done.
And yet, she was having evil visions about him. Craving for him. Clawing him with her nails and marking him told her to go and haunt him with unforgettable possession. When her heart and mind told her to not go any foreward or else she would regret for a very longtime. Trying to come up to her senses, Cat turned her head towards the lying and breathing form into the bed watching Vincent as he slept, his sculpetered chest was inhaling and exhaling heavily. He had taken off both his vest and shirt and shoes which left him bare chested and heavily exposed and laid back down onto the bed. His muscles and abdomen were hard and sweating and were asking-no demanding her to come to him. There he was half naked and waiting for her to join him in bed or it seemed to be for her.
She took out a shaking breath out. The will to resist a man that she wasn't supposed to have any strong and undying feelings for was hard enough and yet, he somehow made her want to crave him alive. She wanted to kiss him all over. Taste him all over. Hopelessly wanting to desire him and burning him with her kisses. Just like before.
Stop it! Cat clutched her eyes shut as she put up her hands on both ears as if she wanted to put an end to these temptations. These voices who were telling her to go over Vincent and rub herself on him. She tried to recall back these reasonable voices like Evan's and Reynolds's back up into her mind.
"What he is- He's a danger to you and everyone around you!"But Evan was wrong about Vincent and yet, he only had tried to help her. Only to end up dead by Murfield's agents's shooting , Reynolds was another story.
"They're only get worse, Catherine, you know what you've seen!"
"The only thing that would break my heart is looking back and wished that I've done things differently.." Damn, her own voice came up which made her heart skip a beat. "Vincent, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.." But it did happen when her father had took him away. Crazy stuff happens. Yeah. Damn straight and look what happened for the both of them now. Her shoulders were shaking as she slowly opened up her eyes to see herself staring at the mirror. Her eyes were crying which made her mascara milting down on her checks and just couldn't stop them from falling. Because she heard herself confessing her love to him. To Vincent. When they both were standing on her rooftop, when they first shared their love and first kiss. It was a special and unforgettable evening. It was them against the world.
"I love you. I don't need walls or doors.."
"I'm so in love with you.." Damn. She cursed herself from having these feelings, these moments. He still managed to get her tormented and cursed with desire, after all that time and being alone when she was seeking out for him.
She wanted him and deeply inside of herself.
Taking a deep breath, Catherine realized that in order to be under control over her strong emotions, she had to face them with dignity in order to get over them. She wipped off her tears and the mascara marking spots from her face and started to put her hands behind her back.
She slowly started to bring down the zipper with a shaking movement.
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So hot. Too much hot in here. Oh God. He felt like burning up. Damn. Godamnit!
Vincent seated down onto the bed without asking for Cat's permission. He hurried on getting himself out of his clothes as they were smothering him and deeper into him. He took off his black tuxedo vest and unbuttoned his white shirt before he could drop them both down to the floor. Fell back down onto the bed, exhausted as he tried to breathe a bit better than earlier. Shaken breathing, actually as he grimaced feeling the pain everywhere from every bone attached to his body. His blood running hot into his hard veins. He didn't felt like changing or having the impression of changing up into a beast. He didn't felt happen as he lay there and completely unchanged. Vincent grunted in a helpless breath. He really shouldn't have had drank that much, at all. But why he did felt so weak? He even felt his heart wanting to explode and especially when Catherine was around. He clutched his eyes shut as if he were in pain. Unexplained pain.
Usually, three drinks of an heavy Jack Daniels's scotch wouldn't made that feeling, but after when he drank that champagne drink, a present coming from Smirnoff, it made him feel strange and more weaker than ever. And burning up like he had been trapped into an oven up reached into its limit. His head swayed around like madness and out of control. Damn, that Smirnoff made him more angrier than earlier he felt all bad for the old man who lost his son back at war. If it ever was the truth. And Catherine, she only made him feel more desirable than ever. Her naked body screaming for him to thrust her until fire would unleash him out. He really wanted her so badly. His hormones were about to go wild and the predator in him wanted to chase after her, until the very end like a hungered animal.
Oh God. No, it can't be.
Vincent rolled up to his side arching up his back as he held back an grimace. He let out a growl despite him being only an half human It can't be possible. It wasn't right for him to visualize her. His Catherine, in any way like this. Her body, her breasts, her niples, her collarbone, her neck, her legs. Her fluttered eyes looking back him with full of hauntening desire, telling him to come over as he would grip her hair into a tight fist as he would thrust and push himself hard inside of her. He could hear her scream his name as he would slowly, descend his mouth to her collarbone, to her sensitive nipples, down to her stomach, down to her lower private nectar parts. Letting his hands touching her buttocks, slip his fingers through her insides as she would hold on herself into the bed and roared the pain out from her lungs, screaming his name-
An rushing beeping heartbeat throbbed through his mind.
"Vincent.." He gasped into shock as this enchanting voice that came out of nowhere, had suddenly woken him up. An familiar female voice called up to him by waking him from his filthy thoughts. He snapped up his eyes in shock trying to regain back his rushing breath as he found himself caught into the darkness into the room. He heard her. It was Catherine's voice and it seemed so lost into the room. So faint and far away. His eyes tried to adjust the darkness as he turned his head to peak around. Why everything looked so dark, in all of sudden? Was he about to lose his mind here?
"Vincent.."She responded back to him, but more stronger due to the tone of her sounding voice. He slowly turned around rolling back his back up as he sat onto the bed and to stare at the standing person who called him, like a carressing whisper through thin air, through the dark. Catherine. Vincent felt his breath caught up into his throat as he sat here, shocked with what his widen eyes stared at.
She was standing just a few inches away from him. long and wavy brown hair falling onto her shoulders covering her breasts, her eyes looked down on him and those lips wanting him to kiss. Totally exposed and only for him. He was totally awed and strucked by her. So much he couldn't even budge his own body. She was simply beautiful. A beautiful feline creature. To appreciate, to desire and to love, which he wasn't able to forget anytime soon and ready to give him what he so deeply wanted from her. He could feel his heart rushing out and wanted to be ripped out from its cage. Wild visions of him doing naughty things with her. So aroused.
Even if it meant for only one night only, he would gladly take her onto this bed. For one night only. It didn't mattered if he was about to lose his mind or not. Sick or not due to the mysterious lacerations or the stuff that Smirnoff had put into his drink. It didn't mattered.
Vincent rose up from the bed knowing he only was bare chested with his dark pants and shoes while she stood up here naked as he approached her close to her height as his eyes never left hers, not even for a second. Standing here like a porcelean chinese doll, Cat watched him rose slowly and stood up to her height. Waiting for him to do something, to react at anything. She watched him standing when his brown chocolate orbs looking down upon her. Feeling his shaken and deeping breath coming out to her face for answer.
No. This isn't right. It shouldn't be, but in a certain way, she dared and wanted him, so deply when he looked so irresistible. Strong like a greek god such as an second Apollo. Heavily and sculputered muscles. Tall with his large broadered shoulders and carved tight abs and large fingers with hard marking veins. Extreme work from hard training and having enlisted into the army from way back ago. However, that was during the time when Vincent wasn't so sure about himself trying to deal with both parts. Being human and beast, all at once before, no wonder he looked frigthened when the two of them thought about moving their relationship to the next level. He was afraid of the thought that he could ever hurt her, in some way if he lost control of his other side.
But that was a longtime ago, cause now Vincent looked completly different. He looked confident and way assured about himself. Stronger and faster and even better, still uncertain, but better than he used to be. But that didn't included the morality. Because if he ever has to track down up her feelings back up to the way it was before, he might have a long way ago to reach it up and Cat wasn't going to let him have the favor, anymore easy at all. Unless..
"This isn't right.."Her eyes shifted back up to meet his confused but loving chocolate orbs that were staring back down to hers.
"About what?"He looked down onto her as he brought up his hand to strock her cheek with the back of his palm, slowly and gentle and aroused.
"This. We shouldn't be doing this.."And yet, he looked like he really wanted. He craved for her. After being away from her, so long.
"No, but here we are now."She brought up her hands to carress both of his wide and broaded shoulders until she slid them both to his chest where she could feel heart rushing up like made him shiver under her touch as he lowered his lids, leaning his forehead to hers, being completely at her mercy. He felt so hot and sweating under her touch. "Together..and alone.."She whispered back. His half opened lips were so close that she could feel his breath to her face. So tempting and overwhelming so much, that he looked like he was about to lose control as long she was standing here and under his hold and heating touch. Because, he was burning up and quite a lot than she expected him to be. So much, that his hand was trembling and it couldn't stop it from its movement. She felt him shake from the way his hand stroked her cheek.
"Catherine, I-"
"Just let it go, Vincent. Let it go.."He grunted as he swallowed back his fear of ever thinking of hurting her as his hand started to lean down onto her arm. Cat took the chance to lift up her head when she brought up her lips colliding up to his awaiting ones, brushing them into a slowing kiss, letting him feel the passion through them. Through the semi darkness where they were both at the same place, he felt like exploding so much as he could feel her tongue twisting around his with her mouth devouring him all over like a toy, like endless game.
Her hands were moving up everywhere tracing his shoulders, to his back moving around his waist, until they reached his belt. She knew where to get him into the guts, like she always used to do. He opened up his eyes to meet hers as they took a break from their heating kiss as they exchanged a look. Yes. The two of them wanted this to happen, didn't mattered if they heavily drugged by a drink, but that they were so fulled and passioned with one another. It was only one night. One night to share together.
Shutted his eyes tight, Vincent brought locked up his lips to her hers as he brought down his hands to his belt, where her hands were and helped her to uncleach him its hold. Helping him to loosen up with his pants. Damn, his cock felt rising up as her touch was making him wild. Vincent panted heavily as he realled wanted her inside of him and right now. Going wild as she slid his underpants down to the floor where his pants were also dropped. Growling into her mouth like a wild man desparate for hunger, Vincent grabbed her by her buttocks with his fingers as her thighs surrounded his waist, straddling him possesively and her arms held into his shoulders as her hands holding his face as she kept kissing him, adrenalized and heated up as he whirled around by changing the roles like he was under charged now. She closed up her eyes as she let herself drowning into his rushing and wild kisses. Burning herself into his touching and enchanting power.
Still holding him as her mouth was still locked into his, Cat felt herself being dropped down to the bed. Her head dropped into the comforting and large pillows as she held him tight and close with him down to her body. Moaning under his life-breathing kisses as her thighs were still strandling him by his waist. She felt his his cock jerking up when it reached to her private nectar part. Making her moan as she clutched her nails to Vincent's back as he started to rush things up. Feeling his kisses slidding down to her neck made her shiver as she kept her hands onto him, sweating up into fearful desire as his hands touched her waist, her belly as she panted as she felt him stopping his movement, so suddenly. Feeling him stop, Cat oppened up her eyes as she tried to regain her breathing under control as her naked chest rose and from the way Vincent stared down to it, he did looked like he craved and wanted to go for it. Not only for her breasts, he wanted, but much more. He arched up like a feline creature as he held both of his elbows to the mattress, keeping her like a prisoner and under himself with his body and protection. He looked so marvelous and beautiful. Big and large. His lips were red and bitten up by her raging and wanting kisses as he stared down to her. His hair was drenched into sweat up to his skin. His eyes looked so wild and possessive like a raging beast who has been locked up into a cage for so long without any food and women. Hungered. And wild sex. He was about to explode as he panted, inhaling his breath down onto her.
"I want more.."She stroked his hard, heated and sweating cheek. He was into wild mood and demanding more until he could climax into her. Desperately wanted to unleash himself into her. Even if he wanted to change the color of his eyes into the amber orbs that she had known so much and yet, she felt him holding back from doing it. Why?
"Go get it.."It sounded like a order.
"Can't, without protection.."He shook his head. He meant sex protection, just in case if things could go wrong, like it almost happened before.
"Under the mattress...There are some large and green condoms..That should fit.."She dragged an arm away from his back to point the mattress down. But Vincent's stare still hadn't left her.
"And you-"
"Always with the pill. No need to worry.."With a grunting sound, Cat watched him move away from her, lift up the matress to get into the condom bag. They were new. He kneeled down into the bed as she watched him fidgeting and hurling on opening up the bag and to get an green condom out from it. Her green orbs were watching him insert the condom covering his most sensitive part into protection secure, with an intense stare. Oh God, how badly she wanted him to taste and everywhere and fast. Damn, that fever, it needed to go away and if Vincent could be the medecine that she so needed, then so be it. She was hungry for his medicine.
Once settled and fixed up, Vincent lowered himself down atop of her again as he watched her like a prey, like a craving beast and shifted his eyes back down to her breasts. Her perky nipples had rose up as they felt his excitement. Her breath got caught up into her throat shuddering like a feather as she watched him looking down to her nipples that made his chest move so heavily. That taste and only for him as he inhale them into hunger. He was hungry for pleasure and she was the person who can specify it."Vincent.."She heard him pant over.
"Put your hands to the backboard of the bed.."He looked up to her, only to see the color of his eyes changing into the color of his beast. And threatening as she held still like a doll. Her eyes couldn't hold up back their fear as they widened into orbs were furiously glowing back to her and waited for her order to let him continue. He held her curves with his large fingers with force as she felt his nails transpircing her skin as he growled. "And now.."His voice still sounded human like, despite the rushing growl coming from the deepest of his throat. The man and the beast were now ready and wanted her only for himself. Themselves. With a shaken sigh, Cat raised up her arms up to the back of the bed and held herself as her thighs held up to his buttocks tight enough as her life depended on him. He inhaled in awe as he stared down and brought up his mouth to kiss her breasts. Cat clutched her eyes shut as she felt him absorbing her sensitive breasts as the worse part of it was about to come by now and soon. Raging as he was enjoying her moaning into pain, Vincent couldn't helped himself as he mouthed her left breast whole, which made her shuddle into exotic pleasure as she arched her head up and even released an loud moan when Cat felt him his tongue circuling up her nipple and deeper when he devoured it as his hands held her into a blocking position. Marking her like he held her into a prison she wouldn't be able to escape from as she kept on breathing hard as he felt her body shudder. He kept doing it again and again even as he went to the other breast and repeated the same movement. His tongue made her go wild as her body wanted more just like she wanted him to keep going on all over her. He wasn't holding anything back.
"Oh God, Vincent!"She moaned as he roared like a wild man throughout his kisses. She cried."Don't stop. More..Please..Oh God..Vincent!"Her entire body felt like thrusting as she kept demanding and begging him more and more. Breaking herself into into convulsions and endying pleasure. She felt his tongue going down and tracing into her navel section as his fingers were slowling going down until she felt something going inside of her that made her gasp as her heart wanted to rip out from his ribcage as it was madly rushing insane. She felt herself getting wet at that moment when she felt two large fingers grasped something inside of her. Her hands clutchured tight enough to the back of the bed as she tried to hold on into the bursting and awaiting pain. Two fingers inserting and grasping her into her clitoris hard and so tight which made her release a louding scream. She pushed her lungs out as she felt the most horrifying and magnificent pain. Vincent leaned down as she felt his raging tongue, his mouth sucking her and devouring her as she felt her back arching up into wilding possession as he kept devouring her like a hungered blood sucker. He ignored her screams and her pleads to never stop as he kept devouring, again and again as she continued to scream his name over and over. Being devoured alive under his possession as he kept on sucking and inhaling her, like a precious jewellery. Her heart wanted to explode as her voice felt like getting ripped as much as she continued to scream his name as loud than ever. She felt on wild fire. Bursting fire, so much as she could die of pleasure at any moment. Vincent was on fire, tonight which made her forget that horrible evening with Àlvarez when he came out here and almost had raped her, but with Vincent, it was better and ten times better than ever that she could have had imagined. With Vincent, everything seemed better. Much better. He knew how to make her feel good as he had known every each limb of her body such as her toes could curl whenever a sensitive part was touched, when she was into love making.
"Aahh..Oohh..Aah! Aahh!"And yet, Vincent couldn't hear her as he roared as he was getting into deeper and much deeper of her sex. All over the moon. And out of nowhere, Cat felt Vincent releasing his mouth from her private surroundings as he called her with a soothing voice.
"Catherine..Look at me.."Which she didn't, as she stopped from screaming, letting down her body onto the unmade mattress and her arms spread on each side of the bed. Sweating like mad woman everwhere as she was so exhausted. Her chest rose up and down as she tried to control on her heartbeat's rhythm and trying to regain her breathing. "Catherine, look up at me.."She weakly fluttured up her lids as she could see him pushing himself back down onto her abs. Vincent looked drenched as he was sweating just as she was, his lips were red from the earlier minutes and yet he looked so beautiful and so strong and large and big as he could break her under his weight. However, his burning eyes demanded one last favor for her to give.
However, he didn't had to wait that long as she nodded her head back to his demand, without even speaking up. Vincent moved himself way up to her laid figure and leaned his head down to hers to lean onto her, brushing up her lips into his. Wild kisses turned into passion as Cat felt his hidden junk thrusting down to her vagina as he pushed himself more and more into her. She held him back so tight with her fingers clawing up to his skin while he held her against him as he penatrated into her. They panted over and over as their lips never broke up from their fevered kisses and locked up tongues and bodies. All over. Cat heard him roaring as he nuzzled into her neck as he kept on pushing and pushing harder and harder as they both climaxed together until another scream tore out from their throats.
Didn't mattered, if the entire room and building heard them scream into pleasure like an forbidden couple. Other than a certain Òliver Àlvarez, nobody couldn't be ever able to separate them from being together this time. Even his horrible picture was far away from her mind which it only focused on Vincent. For tonight and only tonight.
After exploring, screaming and again and again and enjoying being at the beast's mercy for many minutes that she couldn't possibly count altogether, Catherine had finally let herself go. Her arms fell down spreaded on each side onto the bed as her body collapsed into exhaustion and as she lost consciousness completly. She could even hear her heart racing up into a wild speeding and uncontrolling movement, her head dropped down to the pillows as twisted and long locks of her drenched hair fell onto her face hiding her closed eyes from their view. She felt so exhausted that she couldn't hold on herself into Vincent's form as her legs lost their strength into him. She just wanted to to drift off to neverland. Sleep peacefully and never be awaken.
And yet something fell down onto her hard. No. Someone fell down onto to move as she laid there looking completely hopeless, Cat struggled to flutter up a lid to see who was still holding her up hostage, hiding herself with her messy brown hair covering up her face. An exhausting Vincent looking all sweaty her as he held himself with both elbows onto the bed, was still straddling her body with his own strong and larging form. Colliding herself with him. His eyes had changed back into its natural warming chocolate color.
"Vincent.."Exhausted as he looked,he managed to get a few locks of hair out of her face, stroking up her sweated cheek with his trembling hand as he deeply needed her to look up to him. Cat tried to focus herself by staring up at him as she watched his features changing. His eyes glowed into softness as he smiled at her, overwhelmed. His chest rose up against her crushed breasts as the slowing heartbeat she heard through him, proved that his emotions were real.
"You're so beautiful, Catherine. So beautiful." He shuddered in a shaken breath as he leaned down to give her a peck onto her lips. which she was too tired to give back as he looked down onto her. And then, he rolled off from her as he laid down to the bed and pillows. With one last strenght, Vincent dragged his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to crush her close to him. Her head leaning to his chest, she felt his fingers running through her hair."Please, don't ever leave me alone. Ever again.."He said these words as he was afraid of ever being on his own ever again, after she had left him alone at the rain, a few weeks ago. Damn, right. His heart was telling the truth just as his vocal cords had choked out a raspy sounding sob out.
"Never.." She brought up a hand down to his exposed navel as she caressed it. Her throat hurt so badly that made her wince, after all the screamings she made in here with him. She never felt so sore of her life, until tonight.
"Love you.."He whispered back to her ear, as he held her tight with his arms surrounding her back as he slowly started to driff off into sleep. For the first time, he had said those words which she wasn't able to reply to back up to him. Love you..
"I know.."She closed back up her eyes as she let herself fall into the warming and protection embrace of his arms, letting herself fall into sleep. And listening to his slowing and calming heartbeat as a nice lullaby for the rest of the night.
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Ouf, that was hard to finish it. But to tell you the truth here, I do feel proud of myself here. I mean I managed to write a sex scene with VinCat. Oh God and in two days! I'm not as good as many other writers, but I did it and I feel very proud of it!
Thank you so much for your support beasties and to everyone whose been supporting this story from the start! I love You all! Please review!
