"Cause, she's dead. The man who was supposed to love her had killed her.."

Vincent felt like his breath had been caught up onto his thought. He couldn't believe of what he just have had heard. It may have been a cover up story for the undercover as Catherine made it seem convincing to an very bleeding Eva, but these words sounded so real and true here. It just struck through him like a knife. And yet. Catherine made this accusation of him being capable of killing anybody, including her. No, it couldn't be true. No. It just couldn't. She only said those words back only because Eva had discovered her out. Her real identity. She must have had recognized her from before and before Cat took this undercover job which made want to blow up her juices in terrible anger. It felt like a total déjà vu and going right back into that dark path and by this path which he had made Catherine suffer. Vincent felt like it was her sort of revenge of him having hurt her in the past, ever since he had seen her after being captive for a whole and long three months away. Away from her.

He really didn't wanted to watch her, hurting and torturing these girls over and over again, as they kept on screaming and crying hopelessly.

No, it couldn't be Catherine! Not his Catherine, who was supposed to be lovely and brave enough to put her life on line to save the people she loves, including him. Saving each other as she often told him before. Clutching his eyes shut, he turned his head away from the screen as Lina's threatening voice called him back.

"Don't try to look away, Keller. Keep looking at your woman. Look up at her. The one you just had screwed up and the very same one who can easily change into a vengeful monster.."He did tried to look away, but he had known that this gesture wouldn't just erase the terrible image of the woman he once loved and had known. Or more like he believed to have known her. Even if he knew that Cat was simply doing some undercover work to get the bad guy, he also felt the rage, the nastiness, the pain and the sadness that was somehow behind Catherine's words at the very end. All because of him.

The man who was supposed to love her had killed her.. And Vincent felt like he was this man. The one who had brusilly had attacked and murdered his girlfriend, in order to follow another woman. Some vicious red head as they often pass around and manage to take him under their own spell. Which he wasn't able to run away from. Did he?

"No, I can't.."

"You really believed you had a chance with her? To save her from her own madness? Wake up, Keller! This is reality, not a dream here. You can't change someone against their own will unless they wanted to. Which is far too late for Ayaka.." !

Her name is Catherine! Catherine! Vincent really wanted to scream Ayaka's real identity out here and loud enough into the entire world. He took deep shivering breaths as he tried to convince himself that all this mess was coming from his mind and not a real possibility of Catherine becoming a monster. No, it just couldn't be true! Catherine would have hated herself to become someone she wasn't, like a monster.

"No..It can't be possible.."Vincent opened back up his eyes as he looked back to the screen still disbelieved from what he had witnessed here. An very vengeful and all covered with blood, Catherine who took pleasure on torturing these women like Eva. Women who were paid to have sex and obliged to get hurt once they were caught by their clients, even if they weren't at fault at all. A person with a cold heart could have had done it with no hesitation, but not Catherine.

No. Not his Catherine which broke his heart. It didn't mattered if it was an undercover work, it still felt real. Which was gonna get worse.

And all that because of me..

The woman that his own beating heart had held on so dearly was gone as a dark shadow was covering up the good side of her soul. And that good and brave side he desasparetly fell for. And the very same one who kept him on fighting by keeping his humanity and his love intact, begging him to be more human than of a monster he had feared to have become in the past. Catherine was his will to be an normal human and to live an normal life and with the only woman who made him see the beauty of himself despite being an beast. No. Not her. Oh God. Don't let her become a monster. Vincent grimaced at this sight as he closed up his eyes shut as he walked away from the screen and painfully away from this atrocious thought of the woman of his dreams becoming a monster that might be just unbarable to see.

"I love you..I don't need walls or doors.."Oh God. To just hear her through his mind did hurt. Vincent couldn't take away Catherine's determinated and glowing eyes from his vision and to replace it by another woman. The same woman who had said and sworned her love to him to protect him, a longtime ago. The one who looked up at him like a hero and an human being who needed saving and only to be saved by her love as he returned her feelings back then. Didn't mattered the consecquences, Catherine was willing to face them for him at any cost.

What did he do for her in exchange? Only to hurt her more than he had to before..

What happened to you?

What happened to you, Catherine? Oh God.

But he had known the answer, already as he stepped back from the screen, from Lina and from everything that belonged to this place. He could even hear Lina's questioning voice from afar as he turned away as he let his footsteps leading him up to the way and down to the basement. To join her..

"Where are you going, Vincent?"

"Downstairs. I have work to do.."It was painful, but he needed to do pressed his fingers to his temple in frustration as he looked back down to the stairs and the very same ones who would lead him into the secret underground.

Where the ex-lover of his life was certainly becoming a monster, but mostly on taking on his hate he used to onto her. Because his past anger made her become a monster and right in front of his eyes and with this red gem didn't helped her to step back from her hate as it helped her to become more vicious and powerful than ever. A way to escape from her demons and the reality. Anger was easy to let loose as it seems, but to love and to forgive was way harder to accept.

Just like these lesions on his skin were hard to forget as well.

...

I hate her. I hate her. I hate her. I loathe her. I loathe them all. All of them are bad and they are paid for it. And yet, they are being punished for disobeying the rules.

And all because of a girl, that Catherine had never seen or meet before. And yet, she was starting to hate this little girl that Eva was willing to protect from being exposed to the club and from anybody else and alive from here.

Kayla. Where is Kayla? That little bitch hiding into the shadows that all the girls, including Eva were willing to protect. From whom? Àlvarez?

Catherine slid down onto the floor as she stared out at an uncounscious Eva who laid down onto the floor after she untied the rope from her wrists and very naked and mostly bleeding as Cat could see an very long and never ending trail of blood making its way towards the bars of the undeground. Deepest of the basement's underground's sewer, if it ever existed. She felt numb.

Completely numb of any existence here and the sight of Eva lying onto the ground didn't mattered her, at all. Cause this bitch deserved to be punished just as her own contract stated. You desobey the rules once, you get yourself punished, just like it had happened here with Eva and with Cat being the bad guy here.

No. Ayaka was the bad guy or wasn't she? After all, it was all for an undercover operation that she was willing to uncover after Lena being attacked and mostly by Vincent's betrayal as he setted her up to an trap. And with the night they shared together, he had made things worse for her to endure.

And for once, she felt good. Good at being numb and not having any remorse or regrets at all, for once. Because she had no one to fight for, but for herself now. No more guilt for anybody now. If she felt numb, than why were there tears falling onto her cheeks, so? She wipped them out, but by wipping them out, she couldn't helped but to stare at them down onto her palms. Her hands with had forgot for a second that she was all covered up in blood aftewr she kept on whipping Eva's skin off and that splashing blood would certainly slap onto her face, skin and mostly fell onto the rest of her body. Was she becoming a monster? Was she starting to lose her mind for a moment or forever? Horrified with herself,Catherine only stared her trembling hands trembling with Eva's blood onto her hands.

I loathe ..

Because of his bad choices and from the way he had let her down because of other women. These women like Natasha, Eva and Anna. They reminded her of the other women he chosen first and leave her for second. Taking her for granted for all the sacrifices she made for him.

Vincent..

Shaking up her head, Catherine closed up her eyes and hid her face with her bledding palms as shaking sobs fell. Knees brought up to her chest, she cried. Vincent..

He was the one who made her heartbeat and her love more stronger than ever, which she hated him for.

And he was the reason. The reason where these unstopping tears came from as her heart was racing up towards the sudden footsteps that were heard coming from outside of the gate.

She felt him coming down here.

...

Shocked, Vincent was terribly shaking just to stare back at the sight that he was watching from the gates. Where laid an very bleeding blond haired and naked woman, mostly Eva onto the floor. Horribly and unfairly tortured from what he had seen and witnessed from an tiny tv screen, from Lina's phone.

All the makings of Ayaka's hard work and mostly from Catherine's hate towards the girls. Prostitutes. After Natasha and Eva, who else was gonna be next? That clumsy woman Olga, that could barely speak english or that red haired woman Anna, the one who bored a very strong resemblance to Tori, but only to be more trashier with all that expensive make-ups, gowns and dresses. All of them had a price to obey and to be perfect, until they fail and be punished by the hitman here. The one who was sitting down with her back over him and covered into blood.

All that blood and for what kind of punishement? The punishement of passing a costumer for a complete fool and he could tell that Catherine didn't went easy. Or more like, she didn't went by mercy here as she horribely and slaughtered alive an poor woman, like an lying and bleeding woman like Eva here. He stared back down to Catherine who remained awfully quiet as she sat down and wipping off the tears off her eyes and blurted out a shaking laugh out of her mouth. A laughter that came from the devil, but from a beautiful woman sitting as her back was before him.

How could she be laughing, at a time like this? After the cruality she had been ordered to make happen? When he was on mission before from Reynolds, Vincent never felt anything good or bad after he had killed a best from attacking innocent people or including Cat before. It was only when the two of them got closer to one to another, that he had felt something. That he actually felt something when he killed someone after he got himself close to an human, like Catherine. He felt guilt and remorse for the beasts he had been ordered to kill before. Such as Zach or Sebastian or even worse like Curt and Gabe. And yet, Cat felt nothing better than to laugh over an nearly and bleeding woman here.

Or more like it was Ayaka, who was taking more place than Cat actually was. Or maybe the two of them were a team now.

"All this mess for waste. I mean just to look at this nightgown who used to be beautiful to wear only to be wasted by lies and splashing blood, here.."

"Cat.."

"I kept wasting my time all over again. It's starting out to be an habit..And all because of an unidentified woman..Pretty much like a ghost."She turned her head up to him to see her wild bloodshot eyes from laughter but also from covered up in blood. Still shaken,Vincent could still find some humanity into them. Well, as a part of it had still remained into them. But for how long, though? Would she remain an human being? He just kept staring at her, as he stood up onto his guard. Despite his heart wanting to explode as it begged for her to stay as a human than wanting to become a monster.

His breath shivered into a silent fear as he stared up at her bloodied appereance. Her bloodied face, mostly. How did this woman could be the very same one that went out with him at the opera, held onto his hand when she let herself fall down as they both watched how the story ended into a complete tragedy? He watched her cry and tremble at this precious moment. How angry she looked like when he told her the reason of the sharing kiss with Tori, of how he tried to protect her from her father's idea to expose her from covering up the murdering cases he was ordered to do so. And from that marvelous and passioned night they both shared together, just a few hours earlier.

And to become this cold hearted murder, after tonight? An sociopath?

"Unless, you do know something about her. About Kayla?"

"No, I don't.."He managed to say."I don't know anymore.."He shook his head, disbelieved. Or more like he couldn't tell to whom he was talking right now. To Catherine or to Ayaka. The second seemed to answer his question, but he held back onto his guard as he watched her standing up onto her feet as she stared up at back down to the woman hard enough to stop his heartbeat in a shot. He saw pure hatred here and disgust as she stared back down to the lying figure.

"What a joke.."

"What?"

"Her." She pointed back with a bloodied finger to the lying blond figure on the floor with blood as Cat snickered back."Eva is such a joke. She kept on telling me that she has asbolutely no idea who and where is that so-called girl named Kayla. When I had known that she just was lying to my face, hoping that she would save some time and waste both of my strength and breath. Even wasted this beautiful nightgown here..She kept lying to my face as she was volunteerly and willing to get herself tortured. All that because of an unknown bitch. Just like she is and will ever would be.."

"This is where, you're wrong.."Vincent had cut her off as he watched her turn her head towards him, through the cage's bars that separated them both. Trembling, he tried to show no fear or any way to break down, as he deeply wished he , the sight of an standing Cat with all that blood covered up onto her messed up hair, her face and down to her chest, her mid section as for the rest of her body and nightgown and up onto her shoulders, to her arms and her knees, had frightened him and horribly as his heart was racing into pure terror. He felt that somehow, she was losing her humanity and with the hate and anger she kept on unleashing out to these women would make it even worse.

"How so?"

"I don't know the whole story here, but I do know that Eva, lying right there was willing to lie and over to protect someone she had known. Didn't mattered this Kayla girl had existed or not, she still had done it."He looked back down hard to her bloodied and frustrated features."And by her own free will.."

"How would you know?"

"I know. Cause, I once had known someone as strong like Eva before and that was willing to lie to the authorities and in order to protect someone like me.."Like keeping me into the dark for protection, Vincent had almost added back. Not to forget, love me into the dark..Cat had once told him that she lied for him and only because she cared about him, even if his own memory was still fuzzy about everything and when he was trying to track another beast. She managed to cover for him from everybody, when he had attacked her, once and only when he thought of her as a threat.I lied, because I cared about you. You lied for a case..Ouch. That hurted a lot, but it was the absolute had done everything for him and out of love. She did sacrificed her love and freedom to keep him safe. Until now. And yet, what he had experienced here at the moment was way out of control, then he could had ever done. Too much out of control.

"Well, that makes us even, then.."She muttered back in a threatening tone that could slice up an human being's skin. Pretty much like his own flesh and burning blood here. Cat pulled hard the door open as she stepped out from the cage with such precocious and care like a delicate woman despte her autrocious and bloody attirance. Almost like a queen. A queen that drinks innocents humans's blood to keep her from getting older, as if it was a way to keep immortality into her body. Which had frightened Vincent here as his chest rose up with difficulty here as he stared back at her. Not like the other time when he saw her wear that stupid red necklace that laid onto and between her breasts, but that hatred was starting to take advantage of her good side.

She exhaled out a shaken sigh and took a one last look to the lying woman in there, as she whispered and cursed through her anger, Vincent had heard."I wish I could kill 'em.."

"What?"

"So that they're won't be any of them left here.." She cursed as much as her words sounded like a promise. More like a vow."No, spouses or wives should even live up to it and pay the price of a man that can't keep himself satisfied with what he has.."Vincent watched her green orbs turning themselves to him as they looked into him and with burning flames and as the tears were about to burst out. He could tell that she still has a warming heart beating up somewhere in here."Pretty much, like you have done.."So, she started to compare him to the other men who couldn't just satisfy themselves with one woman here and yet, she was right to this fact. But he wanted to share his word, first.

"Don't push the buttons onto me. You slept out with other guys before. Like Gabe.." He watched her scoff at that mention. As if she had the guts to move on faster onto another man like Gabe or that bad boy named Patrick. A guy that she helped to escape the authorities from catching him, because he was such a good guy and to follow his bad brother's path was just out of the question here and it all happened when she was doing some undercover work. And as theirs ways had crossed because of Rebecca's gem and that little scrapping moment they had before.

"Just a few dates, but nothing more.."Cat had admitted back as her lips were quivering now."I never slept with Gabe and even if he wanted to go into a more serious relationship, I had to reject him. Not only because of you, but because I was afraid I was gonna disappoint him and that's because of my stupid and selfish feelings towards you.."She tried to make him feel bad. And horribly as the bad guy that drove her into this path with him. Which it did. But Vincent didn't wanted to give her any satisfaction, didn't mattered if her words ached his beating up heart.

"Your feelings towards me, were never selfish. They were brave, sincere, loving and true. I recognized that ever since I meet you. It's just too bad, that I didn't respected that before.."Vincent had declared back as he bravely, watched her as she tried to not fall over his words."I'm sorry, for that.."

"It's too late, to say you're sorry, Vincent." She blinked back her betraying tears as she stared back to him. His hazel orbs were also shining, but not with pleasure, but with remorse and guilt. And he knew why. Cause, he was the one who made her suffer. Just like she had said before to an bleeding Eva. Cause she's dead. The man who was supposed to love her had her killed.

Because of him.

"Anyways, I leave the rest up to you.." Shutting back her eyes, trying to bring back the tears away, Cat had cleared up her throat as she brought her bangs away from her face and pointed the lying form inside of the cage as she managed to push her feelings away after an hard moment of conflict."Take care of that thing. Would you?"

"Her name is Eva.." He spoke back groaning through his words like an angry and offensed man. Which she waved off.

"Whatever. Just fix her up and bring her back to the way she used to be. There might be clients waiting for her.." Taken back by that order, Vincent felt like he just had misheard her last coming out words. Did she really believed that he could fix up the blond haired woman in a total second, or what? What on earth was she thinking? What the heck? Hadn't she lost her mind completely? He was shaking just as he groaned through his lungs.

"Are you freaking kidding me?"

"No, I'm not.." Cat looked back up at him as she narrowed her eyes in annoyance when he just stood up here, looking completely dumbfounded and shocked as his eyes were to her reply."We're running out of supplies here, with Natasha and missy blondie here out the picture here and Anna and the other scared worm can't just satisfy all the guys of the world here. Unless, your boss would maybe arrange and hire a few other girls to come by.." She meant Lina and Àlvarez. And since Àlvarez wasn't always here, Lina was the one who took the arrangements with the girls and with theirs contracts."Clean up that freaking and disgusting smelly mess.." She started back as Vincent wanted to take a step foreword to approach her, so that he could touch her. He hoped he could shake her off as it was a way to wake her out from her madness. To do something that could bring the woman he once had known before back. Even if he had to slap her, but only because of the love he still has for her. Didn't mattered if he had been tricked by an stupid beverage, earlier before.

"Cat.." But Catherine stepped back as she refused to be touched by burning flame. An addicted flame that kept asking and demanding her to comeback. Her ewyes burned with fury here as Vincent watched her being almost scared of him and aggressive here. What happened to his precious Catherine? Whoever was standing here with him was an vicious and unremorseful woman before his eyes. Hauntened eyes were the only matter that he could come up to identify her, here.

"Stop saying that name. My name is Ayaka, and get back into work, immediately!" She lashed out to his shaken features as he felt shivers going through his spine."And she's better be gone after I come back down here..I need my beauty sleep here.." No. No. Vincent shook his head as he remained here, looking like a helpless dead living figure and unbelieving of what he just had seen and heard, all in one night.

"You don't mean that, Catherine. It just can't end.." He followed as his voice broke pretty much like he was about to burst down into we have between us, he almost added back as his shoulder flinched to her touch. Her shoulder touched him, but more like it burned him alive.

"Like I said. It's too late. Too late to say you're sorry, Vincent.." Her voice followed up, but into a deep but unthreatening and regreful tone, this time."You better be gone, after I comeback here, Vincent..Good Night.."And she left him alone inside of this horrible and hauntening underground here as he tightened up his fists, as he tried to hold himself together as her steps sounded so far away from him now. Beasting out, wouldn't help and yet, he wanted to. How dare she! Looking delicate and beautiful as she was leaving the place like a queen with what happened just afterwards. After what they shared earlier on, meant nothing? Or did his own heart believed into a pure fantasy that wouldn't want to admit that everything that had happen was just a pathatic lie and betrayal, wasn't?

Hadn't she felt any remorses? Felt any guilt? Vincent shook his head, shut down his eyes as he brought two fingers up to the bridge of his nose as he pressed and took a few breathings, over the things that just happened.

"Vincent, are you okay?" It was Lina's voice that stood behind him as he felt her slim fingers to his shaken shoulder. Maybe Lina was right, he had to face the facts that whomever was this woman he used to know before was becoming a monster now. That Catherine had finally unleash the anger out and with himself involved to the dark bussiness, she was becoming his worst nightmare.

Unless, if he could find a way to save her from herself, which the chances were very slim because with her being undercover, he wouldn't want to blow up her cover. Unless, this case was being an very personal matter now. Which it was. he'd do anything to save these girls from the violence they've been prepared themselves into, but also saving Cat from herself, before she could become an villian. If not, Vincent wouldn't never be able to look at himself at the mirror without telling himself what he should've have done to save them dropped his arm down as he opened up his eyes, breathing hard. He had something to do here. Like cleaning up the hitman's mess. His ex-girlfriend's mess

"Vincent.." He sighed back as he pulled up the gates as he heard Lina's concerned voice as he pushed himself away from her, by stepping inside of the cage as looked down to the bleeding woman, with a frown. Eva was in a horrible state and if he didn't act fast enough, she might as well die before he could save her. He bent down onto his kness as he fidgeted on getting off of his jacket."Get me a blanket from the office and the first Aid-dressing kit and all of it, over here. I'll try to stop the bleeding, first and then, I'll bring her up to the office, so see if I can find any mortal injuries and internal bleeding with her organs.."

"Think you can do all that here?" Concerned,Lina watched him touch Eva's body after he got rid of his jacket and had used it for a messy cushion as he gentlenely turned the blond haired woman over as he laid her head down onto the cushion jacket as he took a look towards her injuries, which were bad and unexplicapable to figure out. Vincent had no idea on how to treat them as he had no clue on how worse they looked, without having the great equipement and from a professional view.

"Not much." Damn, he was almost talking like a real doctor, for a moment here. But there weren't into the nicest place to talk about underground basement did have a doctor office and all its instruments, but it wasn't enough if a person needed better care. Like an hospital, for an example. He put his finger onto her neck as he tried to feel any lucky pulse which Eva still had, but only to be weak. As he closed his eyes by trying to concentrate onto Eva's heartbeat, Vincent tried to to use his beasts senses as he finally heard what he suspected to be. And from the way her heart was beating and from the way she was losing blood and fast, it was something to alert his nerves off of opened up his eyes as he breathed hard in frustration."Let's just say that I'll do the best I can here, from now on.." Vincent took off his shirt as he tried to pressed hard onto the wounds, onto Eva's abdomen as she laid completely uncounscious and which he managed to fight hard enough to stop the bleeding as he deeply and desparetely wanted her to stay alive.

"From now on?" What the heck, Lina was still standing here? And even with one of the girls being into a very damaged state and maybe without any repair. He rose up his head as he didn't gave a damn of whatever the hell she was thinking or staring about, didn't mattered if he was half naked from the mid-section and with his hands covered up with Eva's blood. Vincent almost roared back like a beast as his eyes turned out golden as they expressed the anger and the sadness through them. Both of Catherine and Eva's well being, were the only two things he was thinking to save right now.

"Just do it!"

He watched her jumping back as Lina's concerned expression turned out to be frightened as her dark eyes changed into terror as she stepped back and ran away far from the man she believed to know until now. very same man who she had a silent crush, had turned out to be a beast. A beast. These hard veins to his face were hard to erase from her mind.

An agonizing and wrenchening beast whose heart was broken by the only woman he loved once before. Ayaka...Her breath got caught into her throat as she stepped inside and leaned her back against the closed door, feeling her body shake uncontrollable shivers and unmoving. And yet, she just couldn't believe it of what she just had experienced by now. More like she just had seen now. Closing up her eyes shut, she brought up her palm to her face, feeling her breath shaking even wider than she expected. Damn, she was scared and shaking like a fragile leaf.

Calm down, it's just the meds. AZT is making you look a creep with all these secondary side effects. Get a grip! Ji-Yeon! She inhaled and exhaled out her rushing breathings, hoping to calm down and ease up, as she always used to do before. Think more rationally. And about what? That Vincent might be a beast, if he really is.

No. He is definitely a real beast. A man with a cross species DNA, just like the other guy she and Àlvarez had been involved with and demanded to have more human parts to keep himself from transforming as his body was slowly rejecting the transplanting organs, lately. blond woman's heart was leaking and for the other, Gretchen's organ was giving up already.

However, with a beast on their way, it would be hard enough to eliminate him and not only if he was kind and compassionate and from how she had fell so hard into him which would heave her no choice but to denounce him to Àlvarez, that their new doctor might be a spy and who was willing to take risks..Unless, there might be another way to push him out. She had observed move and how he really stared back at Ayaka with a passionate glance that Lina really wished he could give same glance and back up to her. Which made her look jealous and envious. And there was something else as well that had caught her mind, for a second.

Now that she discovered that Vincent was in fact a beast, she could put all things together as it finally made sense. The red gem. The necklace that Àlvarez had gave to Ayaka was doing its effect to him. She remembered that night where both Vincent and Ayaka were both standing here in this office as they were both arguing and from the way Vincent grimaced as he held his chest as he was in pain a few minutes after he walked out from the basement. The lesions onto his skin. Lina even wondered if the red necklace had done far more damage into him. Like how many times, hadn't he beasted out, already? Or more like, wasn't he starting to show symptoms in the process, if he hadn't beasted out, at all and by now?

Because the second option sounded way too much horrible for a human being to go through a slowing and agonizing death, and maybe Vincent wouldn't be able to survive from it. And with Ayaka in the picture, things would be hard enough for Vincent to hold back, even if it meant by dying..And with his unhealthy relationship with Ayaka was even worse, with the gem. Vincent might not make it for a week if he stuck around here. Oh God. he'll be dead without he'll even realize it. And then, the cops would tracking for her and for Àlvarez and maybe even farther if they can go deeper into them. They might even find the other man into them.

They would come and get him. Dead or alive. Until the very end of it..Lina dropped her hand away as she pushed her head back to the door. But couldn't manage to stop her shaking as an violent roar was heard behind the door and probably coming from Vincent's agonizing and rushing roar which made her jump in a accerlarating race as she finally dragged herself away from the door's comfort and started to look for the medical supplices indeed. An agonizing roar coming from an wrenchening beast whose's love turned out to be an total vicious villian. An villian without mercy. Ayaka was able to attack Natasha and Eva, who else was gonna be her next victim. Anna, Olga or Kayla, if she is ever discovered, she'll be in trouble and the same thing would go for Vincent as well. Being brave and honorable as he was to Lina's eyes, he'll fight to get what he wants and even if he has to die for an ungrateful bitch like Ayaka. An real man like Vincent Keller wouldn't step away from a fight and neither from a woman whose heart was turning cold like ice.

If he keeps pushing himself towards Ayaka and without a scratch, which she'll probably do. Leave him an deadly scratch for answer to his love. Deadly and blind love.

...

Through the freezing winter and onto the cold snow of an very early morning in Denver, Colorado, Lieutenant, Sebastian Barnes walked out from The Thump Coffee shop with a large coffee into his hand as he made his way down to his car. Like any other day at 'd wake the first before his wife could do, gather up his beige uniform and his black tie, get himself shaved, brush his teeth, take a long hot shower and kissed his blond and short haired wife, goodbye, before he headed out with his coat, for work and for coffee.

Yup, just like any other day, in Denver.

Barnes walked into the DPD 34th Departement precinct as he cursed back to the horrendeus weather that he might never be able to get along with and even if he had moved up here, with his wife Leah. Things wouldn't be never be able to change. Either Denver or Canada.

But the two of them had chosen to live and go to Denver after fleeing their past away from NYC. An horrible event had taken place over there for the two of them and decided to flee away. However, he wouldn't go back into his decision, since he fell in love with Leah, an first resident ER doctor, whose hours demanded a lot from her just like it had been for him, but over here in Denver, the situation was way more quieter and safer. Or as he thought, it would be or so.

As he made his way into his office with his coffee, an tall and blue uniform man with brown hair and eyes and way younger than he was, blocked his way from his office. He was clutchering an newspaper onto his hold.

"Excuse-me, Lieutenant Barnes.."But Barnes tried to move away from the officer with an tired groan."Out of my way, buddy.."

"I would or so, but I think you should take a look to the news papers of today. This case from New York is totally insane.."

"Everything is insane, you know?"Barnes scoffed back by waving his hand away as he tried to move, but the officer still hadn't moved from its place.

"An old case, about Àlvarez's club, La Rose. It said that three prostitutes were found dead. Two buried underground while the last one at the hospital, savagely attacked.."He cut Barnes's line as the lieutenenant stared up at him, perplexed." What do you mean by savagely attacked?"

"All of the organs were ripped out. Heard her name was Gretchen Hernandez, as for the others, Alicia Wang and Helga Ivanov.."Barnes looked back to the newspaper where three bodies were shown. Two lying down into the ground at the dark, with the other was left onto a hospital stretcher and disgustdly ripped and murdered in cold blood. Savagely. With words such as "An cold case being reoppened? Or more like the dead coming back to life, after the Bureau had failed?"Barnes shivered through his breath as he stared back to the dark letters. His eyes widened into shock as his own heart was beating up, like mad over."You better not be kidding me.."But the young officer's head shook as he stated that everything he just said by now was the truth, here.

"I'm not. It's all over the news today on TV..So beware of the media wanting to interrogate you, later on."Wait a minute, here..It couldn't possibly meant that people would start on suspecting him now.

"Say what?"Barnes stepped back from a foot as he looked back up. Still looking like he had seen a ghost.

"They managed to dig deeper to an older case back to Àlvarez, from two years ago..Where the FBI was working onto that case. Case that Àlvarez was actually taking over sold women to make them prostitutes and take over theirs organs, illegaly. Human and organ traffic, all at once.."The young officer looked up to him as he followed up."Even said that the media that your name came up. That you were the undercoving agent who took a bullet as he had tried to save a callgirl, back then. Lieutenant Barnes, is any of all this true?"Crap. Who the hell had the guts to spit out all that crap to the media? Barnes felt like he had been exposed, even if he hadn't comitted any crime at all.

"Inform the other guys and women to not say anything, at the moment."Barnes ripped out the newspaper from the officer's hold and looked backed up again, before he headed into his office."Has the commissioner, been informed onto this?"

"Might be furious by now. The old guy is an morning dude and usually gets his newspaper on the way back home after a workout. So, he must know by now.."With the news spreading all over Channel 6, it'll be an hella of a nightmare and for Barnes as well. Because, it would an start of an old nightmare coming back to life.

And not only for him, but for Leah as well. After he reminded the young officer to keep his mouth shut, Barnes headed towards his office as loud footsteps and the sound of an very slamming door was heard from the people who worked into the precinct.

Barnes walked behind his desk, as he dropped his coffee onto the desk but slammed the newspapers hard enough onto it as he wanted to kill a stupid fly. He growled hard. And boy hard enough to unleash out his anger, like a madman would do. He really thought this case was over and the federal departement would get theirs hands onto Àlvarez and to stop him, which they didn't. Trying to calm down, Barnes put his fingers through his long black hair and closed his eyes shut, as he breathed in and out.

A case where he had meet the woman of his life, an held prisoner from Àlvarez's and Esperanza's hold. Where he went there as an undercover agent as the FBI believed to get their hands onto Àlvarez as they had suspected him, to be responsible on the number of deaths and prostitutes, who ended up dead as their organs were ripped out. Their naked and exposed bodies were later found into dumpsters, buried deep down into the ground and somehow, left out onto the streets where birds and rats would eat them with their skin still intact and their blood still fresh and hot, at the very dark and hauntening nights, as Barnes could recall when he studied the murders along with the others agents.

And Leah was one of the few who got away from them, luckily and alive right after he took a bullet from Esperanza. One night, when she was being tortured after a client stated that she didn't satisfied him remembered the pain and the shot that went through his clothes and skin when Esperanza's bullet went through him as he tried to stop the hitman from attacking the poor and defendless woman as he stepped right in front of her as bait.

He could still remember Leah's shocking gasp, from that moment. Severly wounded, Barnes managed to fight back like a animal as he put his body as he attacked the hitman when Leah tried to untie herself from the ropes. It didn't mattered if Esperanza was a woman or not, he still fought like an animal and especially after he had witnessed many tortures over here in that awfull underground. Didn't mattered if he managed to hold on strong as an bodyguard or not, his ached for these women who took violence as a waking call or as an warning of an death sentence. Until it had came up to be Leah's turn to suffer, Barnes had known that one day or another he would probably snap and probably blow his cover in order to save once the hitman had lost counsciousness as she collasped down onto the floor, Barnes almost fell down onto his knees, about to lose balance and as his head started to feel heavy on its on hold, he felt a small and delicate hand that held him back from falling down. He looked back up to that person as his cold iced blue eyes stared right back to these green orbs ones. Leah. Covered up in blood as she forbid him to fall over and especially when he had managed to save and free her, mostly, on this horrible night.

She made his heart racing up and even wider than he had ever felt from any other women he meet before. This emotion and pull was even powerful, that he couldn't step back as he had watched her getting tortured. The need of doing something important like defending and saving her, mattered the most before he could put any other thought. Leah mattered to him and the most precious thing that ever had happened to him, from that night.

"Please, don't fall down..Hold onto me.." She whispered back into a shaken voice as she shivered back with sobs coming out from her throat, instead of the wounds that were marked up onto her naked body and where her long blond hair looked like a mess with these bloodstains and wounds from Esperanza's attack.

However, she still looked beautiful and delignited when he had come up to her rescue when he shouldn't have to.

"We need to get out of here and get you fixed. Or else, we're both going to die here.." And she was right. Not only, they escaped from the club and got into a close hospital, but they also managed to flee away from the city and from the club, for good. Barnes's boss was furious over the results and especially when the ex-FBI Agent told him so when he was lying into his hospital bed along with a very frail and bandaged and fully clothed Leah who held his hand as he finally told his boss the way the case had took a plot for the worst. They needed to leave or else Esperanza, Àlvarez and Lina, that awfull recruting bitch were going to get into them and especially when Leah was still under contract. They took no chance and left NYC. They managed to get married as Leah took his last name for protection and went back into medecine as a doctor, just like she had started back then at General NY Hospital and where she got kidnapped, later on. And right after as he tried to recover from the gunshot wound from his chest, Barnes managed to resign himself from the Bureau after the case had almost killed him and Leah. It was an hard decision, but it was worthy, anyways as he wanted to share life with his wife and a safer life, far away from danger. To build up a life, together. And leave that case away and , the cold case was being reopened by the NYPD Police departement and the FBI, after three bodies were found, after two years of being away from the city. And not only that, but Àlvarez's wife, Yalena Sandler ended up being attacked after that as well. Which raised questions. No wonder his name had come up into the case and mostly, Leah's past would probably show up too. Reviving a nightmare that remained locked up, until now.

Barnes pushed his chair back and sat down before his desk, as he took the phone. Not the one that was placed onto his desk, his own phone, dialing Leah's phone's number and hoping that she would picked up by now. Despite her crazy hours at the hospital, he really needed to warn her about the news who would probably show up to any television by now, but didn't picked his call after two temptations to get her over her phone.

She needs to know, before it blows up to her face. Ours faces..

Barnes groaned back in frustration when he felt that Leah wasn't going to pick up her phone, but changed his idea when another idea had crossed his mind. He just hoped he still had her number into his phone. He looked and went through his phonenotebook as he searched foreword to the number he was trying to find until, his research ended up to his statisfaction. Dana Landon's phone number.

Nothing better than calling back an old friend.

...

Early at noon and dressed up for work, Veronica Vasquez was pouring herself a warm cup of coffee as she stood up to the kitchen counter as she looked back up at the window as she watched New York's city and people never stopping working life. A life that she had been forced to leave and was quite never able to forget about it.

Especially when a wealthy and horrible man had to told her to mind her own buissiness when he caught her eavedrosping through the awaiting hall. When he and his wife had an horrible fight the night before and which he had had transformed himself into something that Veronica couldn't even or imagine that could ever happen from her entire life.

"One word about it and I'll have your neck twisted.." Curt Windsor had blackmailed her when she was poor and miserable. The only babysitter to his only and living daughter. Tori Windsor, whom had no resembence to her viscious father. But the genes that she carried before, were from himself. A curse that she couldn't escape from, until this day. Where both women had exchanged a single look after these years from being apart from one another. Once she had heard that Curt had been killed and in such horrifying way, Veronica had first jumped into the first plane and could not waited any longer to finally meet her in person, but had hesitated when pictures of her and an certain war hero guy had first come up into newspapers. From the way the pictures were taken looked quite fake and prepared in advence as if it was a way to cover someone's ass. Vincent Keller's ass, probably. The man had come out of nowhere, recovering up from a gunshot wound as he was being treated at the hospital as he had rescued the ex-heiress a few days before. And what's worse? He suffers of a longterm memory loss.

Tori must had something up into her sleeve back that moment. Times where she hung up into Keller's arm, were over now with the kidnapping involving an certain biolochimist professor with too many secrets. And yet Curt Windsor's ennemies were around and had got their dirty hands onto her which had almost cost her life. Tori's life as she had come up to the rescue saving the man and Keller's bestfriend. She was being far too human than she thought she would have been. Much like her mother once was. But after many years had passed, Veronica had comeback as a stronger person as a lawyer and powerful woman than she used to be, now that Curt had been murdered and may be able to connect with her best friend's daughter. And yet Tori had no idea who she was really and neither did Veronica. She took out a deep sigh dragging her long blond hair away to her left shoulder and whirled around to stare down at the table. Filled with papers and uncounting scrubbing notes and papers. And heavy books about psychics, mediums, near-death experience, etc. That was just insane.

Mostly the red haired woman's writing as far she could see. Not only Tori decided to live with her, but also wanted to know more about two special and important things. Psychic books and old letters. Psychics? No. That was simply nonsense. Veronica was maybe relieved that Tori no longer crried any beast genes now, but how to explain this? Her bestfriend's daughter acting up strange and being a psychic?

And there was something that caught Veronica's attention as her eyes went on onto three particular names written onto some of the papers here. Rebecca Reynolds, Alistair Mcgregor and Ingrid Tatiana Windsor..A name that certainly looked familiar. Veronica pulled off some of the papers away until she could see old archives and very old archives coming up from 1853. Exchanged and lost letters and a couple and dark pictures. Including a woman with long curly and loose hair falling onto her shoulders wearing an expensive gown and wore an hauntening necklace.

That somehow had stucked up down onto her skin like poison. That woman looked a lot like Tori in a very certain way which was very strange as Veronica read down the name under the picture which almost made her droop her coffee mug from her hold as she continued to read the paragraph right after Ingrid's name.

Ingrid Tatiana Windsor. Daughter of the most powerful count of Boston city, Andrew The third Windsor, may have been the possible carrier an mysterious and deadly disease. Which had left a thousands of unexplicapable deaths, was burned at stake, this morning. And not only because she was burned at the stake for murder, but for also being a beast, from the long line of the Windsor family.

"Is it coffee that I smell here?" The blond haired woman had looked up to see the very interested person that came up into the kitchen wearing only a long sleeved green t-shirt with blue shorts leaving her skinny legs exposed and bare feet on the cold floor. Her red long and curly hair in all mixed up places, Tori rubbed her sleepy eyes off, like a kid. Despite only being twenty-seven year's old, she somehow still acted up like one."Is it?"

"What's the meaning of this?"

"Meaning of what?"

"All this? What were you thinking of doing, Tori?" Veronica gestered the table that had an quite of mess as there were many papers on it. And yet, the red haired woman had no words on how to explain herself and especially when she felt like she has been caught into trouble. Like a troubled teenager as Tori looked down onto the mess of papers. All she wanted to know was the true origins of her family and the reason of why her father kept an beast skeleton into his antique store, like he had known something from many years ago and without even telling her anything about beasts.

...

"Please, Gabe. Tell me you're not involved into Tyler's death-"

"I'm telling you. I'm not."Tess tiredly sighed back as she stood here in Rikers with Gabe who was still into his clothes from yesterday after he had been caught up into Medina's hold and had arrested him for a crime that many people believed he had done. Torturing and murdering his girlfriend. Tyler, the one who tried so hard to save him from his beast side.

"And how come, Medina, had shown up to your place with a warrant to arrest you?"

"Probably from somebody who told him everything.." Gabe looked back to Tess as he went on."It was probably a longtime ago or maybe a year before I meet Vincent and Catherine. Time when I was still an uncontrollable beast and probably scarred Tyler.."

"What?"

"Maybe I have done it.."

"You scarred her? You've done these scars? Like that one on her bare back? Gabe, you are seriously-" But Gabe went on fast as he cut her off.

"I'm telling you, I don't remember any of it! Tess, the only thing that I remember was seeing Tyler lying down on the floor and losing most all of her blood. I was the one who called the paramedics and-"

"And probably with a little digging and research, Medina managed to find the perfect culprit which turns out to be the boyfriend, like most of the domestic violence cases that I've seen, and especially when a woman turns out to be dead, the boyfriend is the perfect suspect as they often say.."Tess dragged back as she rolled up her eyes when Gabe looked up at her and hard as he felt like she was judging him to be a bad man.

"I'm telling you, Tess. I didn't killed Tyler.."

"Then who did?"

"Reynolds. He was the one who had admitted this fact to me when I came down here to confront him and Tori came along-"

"What the hell is that bitch keeps on coming back, over and over again?"Tess just mocdly scoffed back as the red haired won's name made her want to puke and really didn't wanted her close to her heart.

"Because she was looking for answers from him and-"Gabe tried to look away as she pushed him on telling more about the so-called bitch.

"And what? Ripped his heart out? You've better not be joking here.."But he wasn't as he looked back to her hard eyes.

"I'm telling you the truth. Tori demanded answers from him and when he didn't, she just grabbed his arm and stood silent.."

"Why?" Tess demanded back as he tried to find the right words even as if he was the one who had left Tori alone into the rain, before all the mess had happened, lately. What would have happen if he kept an close eye into her instead of leaving her alone and on her own.

"I don't know. She just looked frightened and scared and ran away, but I'm telling you that something is very wrong with Tori and I don't know how to explain her new behavior into other words.."

"Pretty much like Cat is doing lately.."She sighed back into exhaustion as Gabe looked back at her with an confused look as she followed back." Cat's been under pressure lately with that new job as undercover into that club. Almost bad as I didn't realized when she first stepped in with Vincent.."

"What do you mean, with Vincent?"

"Not only she's been attacking those girls, but she had slept with him."Tess had admitted back as Gabe stood up stunned and silent as if someone had ripped out his heart, in a certain Catherine wasn't waiting for him anymore. She was clear onto her decision."She slept with Vincent, Gabe.."

"How do you know?"

"There were cameras into her room and everywhere into the club. So most of the precinct and those who were watching it, including Captain Ward had seen it.."Oh God.

"Including you.." Gabe had added back still into shock from the news as she nodded back.

"I had, this morning..And only after Ward called me back to come up at the precinct.." She revealed back after she had received an angry call from her captain at early morning to tell her that she was needed to the precinct and all, she only gotten herself an three hour of sleep after what had occured last made an effort to take a quick shower and change into other clothes as she rushed back to the departement. She walked inside Ward's office and was shocked to see Cat and Vincent making lusting and love sex to each other after their so-called date at the opera and how things had turned out to be very revealing with the pushings and moanings all over the place. And later came on with Eva's torture after she had tried to cover up for an non existant girl, named Kayla and when Eva kept on denying on knowing or covering this girl, Cat would attack and torture her, all over again.

It was insane. Completely insane to do or so. And even hard to watch as it was for both of her and Ward who looked away from the recordering video as he looked both angry and disgusted. As Tess seemed to be and especially when Eva had almost blown up Cat's cover as if she almost had recognized the woman in one second as the hitman had almost lost its nerve and went on attacking her, once again. But way wider and with such force that an revengeful woman would have done for any slut like Eva.

And probably to Tori, if she had switched places with Eva and Anna, Cat would have gone way disastrious than ever. Like an animal, like a beast. Tess even remembered her captain's order to take away Cat from this case and fast, before it could absorb her and deeply, but without Dana Landon's consent, they couldn't as much as they wanted to.

"Oh God.." Gabe looked lost into those thoughts and from the way everything had occured, like Catherine betraying him with Vincent. Whenever it was into purpose or not.

"And not only she had slept with Vincent. On the same time and only after a few minutes away, she was on Eva and had brutally attacked her, when she didn't answered all the questions that Cat had asked her back.." She couldn't possibly reveal the existence of another and unidentified girl named Kayla which was the reason of the why Eva refused and denied to know as Cat demanded her answers, coming from the video. She'll probably have to catch up with Cat and ask her whatever had happened last looked back up to him as she watched him fall back down onto the bench, looking completely shaken and distraught. Way more for Catherine than he was for Tyler."I'm sorry, Gabe.." She couldn't tell much about it. Unless, her partner would maybe confirm and come up clean, soon or later.

"You have to get her out of there, Tess, or else it's gonna end bad and not only for Catherine, but for everybody and especially for Vincent.." Gabe urged her back as she put her hands onto her hips with a frown, as if she had nothing else to do now.

"That's what Ward had said too. He thinks that Cat is going too deep into that case and she needs to be taken away and fast. He also thinks that she'll probably lose control..But he can't do it without Dana's permission."After all. It wasn't only an NYPD case, but also from the FBI as Dana promised help both of them. Cat needed to be taken away from this case, or else the worst might occur if she goes into a directoion that might end things badly. Not only,she would be putting others in danger, but her life as well when Àlvarez would find out the truth behind her identity.

"And she might, and with Vincent into the picture, it might be even worse..She'll kill him.."Had revealed the ex-A.D.A back as a terrifying matter back as Tess stared him, strangely.

"How can you know?"

"Pretty much with what had happened with Tyler."Gabe declared back with a sigh. " She stood up and defended me at no matter what costs. Which it cost her life, by trying to save me..And Vincent might get, at the very end, if he stays with Catherine, at this ugly state.."

"Cat is not a beast, Gabe.." Tess made sure of that as the darked haired man had added this back."No, she isn't."He shook his head with a frown."But you don't need to be a beast, when you know what it feels like to lose your humanity.."

"I know what it is like.."The female detective sighed back, trying to hold on her what she had seen this morning, it was an understanding."I just hope that Cat won't lose it and not only because of this case, but for another problem that came up.."

"What do you mean?" He asked back, not knowing where Tess was going now which she explained."Right after you were dragged away, Medina told me that he would probably dig a little bit deeper into Cat and something tells me, that he's not working alone.."

"You think Internal Affairs are behind her back, again?" Gabe narrowed up his eyes at that question. Not only Medina ended up tracked him down, but he might as he well try to track Cat down, in a certain way. And digging out past demons and past sins from the grave.

"It could be..I know that you managed to destroy the matched evidence at the crime scene, Gabe so that Cat would be exornorated and have her badge back. However, Agent Hendricks wasn't to pleased to learn that fact and knowing how dirty Medina can be, he probably begged him to work onto Cat's background and trap her into a bunch of lies, here."She had from this fact that Medina would never give up onto something important. Her brothers had mentionned her to this kind of dirty cop who could act up like a cowboy when the law wouldn't agree into his terms, he'd go for more than ever. After all, he had come up from a very promising past as he planned to start as a lawyer and working alongside with his father, until everything had blown up for him.

Pretty much with what had happened with Cat when she first had meet Vincent, back at the wood. Where everything had changed for the worse, but also for the better. Until now.

"She had to cover for Vincent-"

"While that jackass was bleeding and hiding away into J.T.'s place along with that wrenchful bitch and made J.T. steal blood-" Tess had exploded back as she had insulted on Vincent's and Tori's names and putting J.T. for an victim. A victim that his so-called bestfriend made him do, even if J.T. thought of the other way around, after that he had put Vincent's name onto that stupid Murfield's list, once before.

"Catherine had lied for Vincent, even if she didn't wanted, she still had done it and to protect him back.." And yet, Gabe managed to defend Cat even if he got himself betrayed by the only woman whom he secretely loved.

"Only, so he can screw things up again. Remember, Rebecca's gem? Or how scared you seemed to be after she ended up into trouble with these russians dealers?" He leaned back to the wall for an answer. He did still remembered that day when Cat had fought back these russians thugs and from the way she put her life at risk when she cut connection through him, which left him frightened for the first time of his life. He closed back his eyes at this memory.

"Anything else, that you need to tell, as you're in it?"She shook her head denying anything else including the situation of where J.T. was in trouble with all that ex-psycho boyfriend stuff with Regan and her friends. Gabe didn't needed to know that anyways.

"What about your lawyer? Does he even know, that you got yourself locked up?"

"He does and told me to not say anything else, until he could find a way to drop the charges against me.." Tess just sighed at this fact or mistake that Gabe himself had volunteerdly revealed and out loud. Didn't mattered if there were working up cameras here.

"It's gonna be hard, Gabe. Cause, you're not the parent one here, and you're probably don't know what it feels like to bury your own child. Which might be the exact reason of why you are sitting here and behind bars, today..Tyler's parents may found out their way to heal as they would finally mourn their daughter by putting her murderer behind bars.."She sighed again."Which what Medina had proved lately.."

"I'm willing to fight for my innocence, Tess. Just get Catherine out from that case, before it feds her up to the very end.."

...

"Pizza is alwas the best breakast, huh?" Rui was chewing up his last all dessed pizza as he watched Medina who was into his dark clothes, writing something onto the board and under an tapped picture."So, what's on your mind, Santiago?"

"Pretty much old stuff." Standing on his feet, Medina frowned as he looked down on the ground where he stood with his friend Rui who was sitting onto the bed from the motel room. He decided to to make a plan by using up a white board with pictures coming from the crime scene and pictures he took and taped them onto the board with their names under them as he had identified every picture. And to check at the crime scene once again, but with a more planned motel room was small and dirty enough with an old fashionned TV sitting on the floor as an small table board was to the front and from where he used it for the evidence he had kept for his second case."With Lowan in jail and Cheng off of my back as he agreed to work with Vargas for another case and Hendricks pissing off my back, I'm doing okay.."At early of the morning, Medina didn't shown up for work today as he decided to stay into his motel room and called his bestfriend, the ex-hacker and the informaticist, Rui who had accepted his offer and had come up to his room with a box of pizza and straight fresh from Joe's Pizza. And the two of them started to work. After last night when he had arrested Gabe, Medina had started to come up with a plan on catching Chandler. However, the list was long and as long as the hanging tableboard which was full of pictures and names. Unfinishing.

"But?"

"Your idea didn't turned out to be bad.."

"Like?" Rui wiped the food away from his hands onto his purple loose and leggings.

"Like making a theory coming from Chandler's case."Medina sighed back as he folded his arms against his chest as he stepped back from the hanging board." First, Chandler comes to arrest her father. The Ex-Special Agent Bob Reynolds of comitting conspiracy of murders as he had the perfect sings coming from a car accident, causing by a dog as Chandler stated to her report.."

"Must have been a pretty big dog to cause a accident.."

"A small concussion coming from Chandler, but nothing biggie to worry. However, for Reynolds's injuries, he did looked like there must have been a fight from the way he looked that night. Being thrown out from the car, but from behind. Someone had shattered up the back window.."He nodded back to the picture were Cat Chandler's car got caught up to a crash. Rui wipped off his hands onto his purple leggings and stood up to examinate the scene as he walked up to Medina's side.

"You think that someone else than Chandler and Reynolds, may have been there as well. As a third witness, I mean?"

"Looks like it..Reynolds was thrown out of the car by someone. Fell onto the ground, got kicked to the guts and got himself pushed up to the wall as he was being strangled by force.."

"Say what?" The dark haired man looked back to his secret partner's shocked face as he repeated back his answer with no emotion showing up to his face.

"Reynolds, Rui. He had marks on his throat." He gestered with his hand almost covering up his own throat, as an example. "Signs of strangulation were all over his throat as someone with tough claws held him back. And Chandler doesn't look like she has an appereance of a vicious monster. I mean, by the way she looks, she might pass for a tiny kitten but with anger issues.."He kinda had let this joke out as he turned his head back to the board. Rui sighed as he shook his head.

"You know what they say-Don't judge a book by it's cover, would be surprised.." He blurted out as Medina followed back with the resume of the crime scene.

"The next day and after the arrest, CSU finds a bullet covered up with blood at the crime scene which had left Hendricks completely stricken, cause none both of Chandler or Reynolds had revealed that there may have been some fire shots taken out there or that someone and a third witness had been involved and to be shot due to the arrest scene. And a bullet coming from an nine mil from a detective's gun. Chandler's..But after it got checked, it was revealed that the bullet wasn't a match..Which this guy up there, comes up into the picture.."

"Christ sake, man..That's delousional.." Rui made a hissing sound as he shook his head as Medina pointed back up Gabe Lowan's picture as an answer revealing the real culprit behind the switching evidence."Lowan had crossed a fine line by destroying an important evidence for Chandler.."

"You tell me. Chandler was lying about something or someone but for what reason I don't know, until comes Vincent Keller out of the blue, I mean. After ten years away, he comes out and identified himself to the public and media who were waiting at the hospital. And you know what else? The guy was recovering from a gunshot wound and just a few days after the arrest took place.."The ex-hacker narrowed his tired eyes as he tried to guess from the way the cop was trying to make see things more clearly.

"So you mean.."

"You were quite right back then, Rui. I don't think it was by a stupid dog that got Chandler and her father into an accident, but something else.." Medina frowned back as he inhaled the air out from his nostrils." Or else, a dog's DNA would have been found and nobody would have gave a damn, about it..Or maybe Keller has an bordeline disorder and couldn't possibilly remember from how he got himself shot, didn't mattered if he saved Curt Windsor's daughter or not."He suggested the two most important options to consider. A dog wouldn't have had survived this shot and it wouldn't matter if he or she was a pitbull or not. However for a muscular and big tall man like Vincent Keller, it was another story to tell.

"Yeah. But the world is also changing as they start to see animals becoming more than of a simple object.."Rui had stopped as he looked back to Medina's direction where he kept on looking onto Gabe Lowan's picture."But how did you know, that Lowan had something to do with it?"

"Let just say that I have asked an homless man who had been there at the crime scene as I was searching for answers before. He kept saying that he had seen something, during and at the same time where Tyler was being murdered. He stated that he had seen two figures walking into a haunted and strange house. A man and a woman through the dark. The woman was walking onto the front like a walking prisoner when the man was standing right behind her was holding her up with a must have her had in hostage, back then or so.."

"And?"

"A woman who has the appereance of a fragile and tiny girl with kitten features. Almost asian. An mixed genre. It's Catherine Chandler, here.." Had added up Medina back as Rui kept on going with his questions.

"And Lowan?"

"The guy told me that the unknown man had a messy dark and long haircut with an unshaven beard and wrinkled and formal and expensive clothes. Hunger look. That was Lowan, back there.." He sighed in defeat."Tyler's parents had once told me that he had that hunger stare whenever he had laid eyes onto her and with a very possessive sare as he gotten her into his possession."

"Think, he had told you the truth-"

"I've paid him forty bucks to make him speak that damn truth, of what he knows, you know..That stupid homeless guy." Which made the ex-hacker roll his eyes up and annoyed as if he hadn't expected this answer to come up."Think he had hired an accomplice? Lowan,I mean?"

"Don't know about that point." Medina pointed up the taken and darkened picture of a rifle and of a lost and big black paperback down to the corner of the board."The rifle that was found lost into that house was left unused despite being loaded. Couldn't be the art of the crime here."

"And Vincent Keller, in all this?" What about the ex-soldier? Did he had something to do with Gabe Lowan's obsession, as well?

"That's where his fingerprints were found. Onto the rifle's hold.." Medina revealed back as he pointed the picture up to Catherine Chandler's left side. Vincent Keller's new picture from the media."After, Cheng and I walked out from the haunted house. The CSU team managed to take all evidence and everything they could find and cleared all the work, until they come up with Keller's fingerprints onto that rifle and now that he is exposed to the living world of today. They had analyzed it and had it confirmed."

"That it was Keller's fingerprints?" Rui widened his eyes into shock as he looked back from the picture to his friend. "Are you kidding me? That dude wasn't even and officially declared as alive through papers, many years ago!"

"It wasn't. Until a few months after he camed out.."Until his name pooped out from the lab. Which it was a shock cause right after he had arrested Lowan, he had a call from the lab and saying that they've gotten the results. That they had Lowan's and Chandler's footprints, but they also had gotten Keller's from the rifle gun and paperback. Which meant that he had been walking around back then and before he had come out to the puplic. The evidences could have faded away, but they didn't after many months ago..

Because the haunted place had been left and abondoned after a very longtime and under the cold dust. Until now.

"But why all the hiding for? What do you think he hid himself, from all those years ago?" Good question or it was the question to ask. Medina just shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know, maybe he did hid himself away from the army he had sworn to protect. Frightened to come out for some unknown reasons, until he had no other choice after he was proclaimed as Tori Windsor, the late bussinessman and millionare's daughter and heiress, her own savior.."

"Another way to be scared of coming out.." Had spat Rui out under his breath as Medina was shaking his head, not getting at something he couldn't manage to fix.

"It's just doesn't click."

"Of what? Being Windsor's savior?"

"Not wanting to got to the hospital if his gunshot wound was that serious. The doctor I had interrogated before, told me that if Keller had waited another day to come, he wouldn't have had survived as an artery was torn and ripped as the bullet made its way out from his back, which would have made him bleed to death.." Medina followed back."And then, Catherine Chandler had come up to the scene not as a person or friend but as a cop to the hospital. Despite not having her badge onto her."

"Because she got suspended by Hendricks.." Rui added back as he tiredly sat back onto the edge of the bed as he pushed the half empty pizza box away from his seat.

"And got exornorated after the bullet was taken as an unmatching evidence. Lowan must have been around of it. Somewhere.." Followed Medina once again with a frown.

"You've told him?" The european detective must have had, as he sighed and growling out his frustration.

"I did, but nothing camed out of good. He kept on denying on trying to destroy an important evidence as I was completely mad about it..This is where I caught him and right there. Guess the guy has feelings for the troubled detective." He remembered the time when he asked if Gabe had anything on solving Chandler's case after she got herself caught by lying and right in front of a very pissing off Hendricks and that he had an idea to to help her out of this mess, which he had denied as he coldly stared back at the man whom just had him arrested for a crime he believed hadn't commit. But from the way Gabe looked up at him, it was by an challenging stare and tirying look as his eyes were bloodshot from the sleepless nights he had spent. Well, good for him.

"You think it's true? That she may have been his accomplice and by killing Tyler? And for in exchange, he did her a favor by going to the lab and destroyed the evidence?" No. That was far too much, but Medina believed that Lowan had used Chandler to get away and for using her as an alibi so that he wouldn't get caught. But if Vincent Keller's fingerprints were also there, it meant something, but what?

"No, but I think she has a good alibi. No, but two alibis, Lowan and Keller in a certain way..I mean she was with both of them during that night. Tyler's death.." Medina looked back to Rui with a convincing frown."But I still think that Lowan had put his hands onto her and had abused her, which doesn't makes him look like an angel of mercy.."

"Nobody is..You know it better.."He sighed back." If your homeless man was sure, about this point. Then, how do you explain the exchanging favors? And I mean, the bullet?"

"I don't know. But I do know that from that report coming from the cops who had taken the shooting prodicual from the paramedics and doctors that had taken care of Keller. They said there was no bullet when they found an very bleeding and nearly slumping Vincent Keller lying onto the floor, holding up his injuried side with Windsor sitting next to him, when paradimedics rushed to the antique store.."

"Antique store?"

"Chelsea Curios. Quite a stupid name. Anyways, the paradimedics came over, took Keller to the hospital who nearly was ready to die on that stupid strecher as doctors rushed for surgery with Windsor who had never left his side, until he woken up..But you know what else intrigues me, Rui?"

"What?" Medina managed to turn around with a smirk forming up to his features."That back at the antique store. There was no bleeding bullet onto the ground. None of it.."

"Unless, the guy ran-Wait a minute.." Rui's eyes blinked up at this stunning realization as Medina nodded back.

"I think, he had been involved into Reynolds's arrest scene and that somehow, Catherine Chandler had shot him.."

"For what?"Still stunned, Rui shrugged back his shoulders like a tiny little boy that got lost in the middle of the forest.

"It may be an theory. Just an idea, Rui. But I think that he had some unfinished buissiness with Reynolds, but for Chandler as well. I think. No wonder she looked a little bit lost from the recordering video that Hendricks made me watch, over and over again." Medina guessed back as an idea."She lied on record as she covered up for Keller. Almost like she had known him, from before.."He pointed his thumb back to the board, again."And when Hendricks had caught her up to a lie after that stupid bullet was foun. He had confronted her, once again and demanding to tell him the truth. So, kitty girl went back into the interrogation room with Hendricks and you know what else? Lowan followed her too.."Which explained the possibility of Lowan willing to protect Chandler from losing up her badge and even after she had lied for one person who could be linked to Tyler's death, as well.

But why keeping her stuck into a fridge? That was another story to ex-hacker tried to play back all the resume back into his head with his waving hand, until it could finally click in.

"So that might explain the way about the destroying the evidence which made the old guy call you and to finish up his work, while he's out of the case.." Who had known that even the feds could become attached into one case that they had failed to complete once?

"For becoming too personal, it might be right.." He heard that Hendricks got himself out from the case as he was slowly starting to let this case go too much personal for him and that's where he called him to step in. All that, because Hendricks made him a favor many years ago from stepping away from prison.

"You think that Keller had PTSD, from coming back from the army? Or that Reynolds had anything to do with him being away, for almost eleven years?"

"Or bordeline disorder, it just doesn't matter.I don't know about Reynolds, if he had anything to do with it and causing a hundred of dead soldiers as he was involved into the conspiracy thing with Keller. If Keller ever was with him."Medina turned his head away as he stared up at the board. "I mean, not all soldiers have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, ordinairy people have it as well, from traumatic experiences. Take Chandler who had witnessed her mother's brutal murder back then at fall 2003.." As a young law student, Medina remembered reading the article way back many years ago and how bad he had felt for this teenage girl that witnessed her mother's death and right in front of her eyes. And stating that she was saved by an 'beast' which was completely absurd. To sae himself from misery, Santiago Medina had to fight on his very own and without any help to get out and to be free. There wasn't any stupid beast back at Morraco who was willing to save him. However, maybe it Laura's unselfished love that probably gave him enough to give him the will to save himself from his demons and to live.

"Yeah. I remember that article on the newspapers when it first came , who can forget that..That poor little kid..I just can't imagine.." Rui sighed back as he hung his head down as the floor looked better to stare at as Medina agreed back and sighed back with his friend.

"And from that moment, she switched her career path from being law student to the law enforcement, by becoming one of the greatest detectives of NYC.."

"Reminds of someone that I know here.."

"Who?" Intringued, Medina turned away from the tableboard as he started back at Rui who gave an odd but expressing knowning stare back. "You. You went from being a promising lawyer kid onto becoming a cop, after all the mess you've been through, fourteen years ago.." That lifetime had left the dark haired cop lost into his thoughts. And dark thoughts, depression and betrayal, he went through, many years ago. It still looked fresh, like it had happened familiar like Chandler's path..

"I had almost died, once. Left alone back there, in left Laura completely alone with our unborn baby boy back then and into the hands of a very fine bastard.."

"Your once bestfriend. Rodrigo..You remember?"

"Damn right, I still do. But all of it is in the past as I move foreword.." With bad memories and unforgettable dramas that went along.."I know what revenge looks and makes you feel like..It consumes and feeds you whole.." He sobered up as he turned back to the tableboard, as he tried to hide his emotions like a man should do."But all belongs to the past now. I chose to go foreword while Chandler refuses to let go of the past.."

"What are you going to do now?"

"I'll find a way to make her speak the truth.." Which his friend had objected.

"But she's undercover at the cannot speak to anybody, not even her friends or even her partner or else she'll put herself into danger. Why the rush?"

"It's even better to make her speak the truth while she is still undercover. She'll have her cover blown up, by mistake. I even heard that her captain wants to put an end to this case, but can't do it without Special Agent Dana Landon's permission, though.."

"And Keller?"

"I'll save him for the desert. I don't believe that Tess is willing to lie when it comes to cases, but to her partner's. It might be an consideration." Which Tess might deny, knowing her from her four brothers, he'll find out a way to break her down. "Reynolds is in prison which I don't have access into and I can't talk to J.T. Forbes. Cause's that guy is into witness protection along with friends and with Keller, who was supposed to show up, but didn't. It was from an old cold case coming from L.A. The psycho boyfriend thing that Cheng had agreed to work and solve with Tess. I even heard that they both got the green light for a warehouse.."

"Why?" Rui wondered back as Medina scoffed at that answer.

"You mean Keller? Because he wasn't there with them. He was into Chandler's arms and was screwing up with her for the entire night, from what I've heard.." Oh, creepy crap..

"Wait! So you mean?" Rui gulped hard as he imagined the so incridible scene into his mind as Medina rubbed back his eyes, trying to not look disgusted either.

"Yeah. Let's just say that they've made things up and had sex. It's all over the recordering videos, back at the station. It looked more arranged, if I believe it."

"Oh, creepy crap.." Rui grimaced back like he felt the shaming thought of an old couple that may have been involved into a woman's death and haven't said a word about it. To save faces. And yet, Medina seemed so convinced about his next plan.

"So, I think they might be up onto something. So, either I talk to Reynolds or Windsor." He suggested back as he turned around."I mean, after the girl was into Keller's arms from when he decided to expose his face. She might be able to tell us what happened and how he ended up saving her.."

"Which you don't buy that creepy crap.."Rui pointed back up to the tapped pictures of Tori Windsor who was placed at Keller's left and at Reynolds's who at down of Cat Chandler's picture.

"Not anymore, buddy..Not anymore.."No. He didn't bought that crap and Medina loathed those who made him feel like a fool. Just like he had stated for Keller, he'll save Chandler for the meal as two people were the special of the two entries he most favored off. He'll watch Tori Windsor twist up her thoughts and make her spit her so-called truth out and he'll go ahead with Reynolds, but only if he'll get himself lucky with the security system which was why he called Rui to come up here for."Hey buddy.."

"Yeah?" Here where the fun part was going to he got Rui's full and annoyed face to his face.

"Before you leave, I might have to ask you just a little and tiny little favor.."

"What the hell, you want from me, again?" The-Don't mess-up-with-me, expression were all over his features.

"Give me the best excuse-No. The better way to give me an-"But the ex-hacker held both of his hands as he stood up from the bed and stepped away from him, like Medina had the plague all over him. Exasparated, he exploded back and he wasn't holding back onto his hard words.

"Oh shut up, you jerk! Just sign yourself as a visitor if you want to see a prisoner..Just do it, on your own.."

"I'm a cop and working on two cases here-"

"Sign yourself as an idiot. Use the normal and usual procedure thing. Gosh. " Rui covered up his face with his hands as he could feel Medina's smirk turning into laughing smile. He sighed."You're way worse than Ventura used to be, and way before he married your wife's sister.."

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Here we go again. I know it's not a lot, I know and I'm sorry for not being able to update before. But I had family issues, but I did finished this chapter even if it did took time, even though.

So, what do you think? Think that Vincent will give Catherine a chance to their love? Or not? Doesn't think so with what he had witnessed right through the video that Lina made him watch. Cat attacking and torturing an innocent and tied up woman in cold she's getting worse as it seems? Would his vision of her change, after watching this traumatic experience? Looks like Gabe is heartbroken here about learning that Cat had others plans and none of them are involved with him. Since she has mixed up feelings about Vincent, which might change if Cat keeps on acting up bad. Would Vincent be able to stick up with her through bad and worse, like she had done for him, before? Will love conquer all of their problems?

Tori has started to look a little deeper into her families's anscestors just like Catherine was starting to do so, before Lena came back into her life and Medina might juggle things up with the information he had learned about Cat and Vincent and way back when Vincent was still into the dead and hiden world, now. Would, Medina be able to bring up the truth out to the world and expose and end Cat's career up into the system and Vincent's reasons of staying away from the living world and how he gotten himself shot. Because, Medina might have a little something up onto his sleeve, now that he knows what he knows and behind the scenes.

Thank you again for the love, patience and support and for the amazing reviews, Beasties, you're the best fanclub ever! Stick around for next chapter and maybe watch Vincent suffer a little bit more here, cause Cat is not gonna make things up easy for him, any longer and I quite like writing and describing Cat being a little more bad and meanier to everyone, including Vincent, even if it's breaking his heart now to see his beauty fading away as the beast starts take things over now into the club.

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