The better, the merrier as they often called to themselves. And somehow Medina was enjoying by seeing his prey's confusing stare turning up into a pretty shocked one. Ex-Special FBI Agent, Robert Reynolds had gone up all pale when his icy blue eyes were fixing up to meet his chocolate orbs here, and from the way he had stared up to him, must have had recognized up him from a pretty and long background checking up.
And coming from a very dark corner that he had been through, he wasn't even bit surprised that Reynolds had been looked up all stunned up here. No. It made him feel even better and confident than ever and especially that altercation with that woman Veronica Vasquez. Not only that woman was a practicing lawyer, but probably an relative coming from Tori Windsor's very disturbing family, and this woman was willing to protect the only and last member of this cursed family. But for what reasons? Now that the late billionaire Curt Windsor was found dead and long buried under ground, Mrs Vasquez has come up and stepped back into town, for money? Or for wanting to make amends towards the billionaire's daughter now?
Just what the heck was she and Tori were both hiding now?
And asking them all the questions, it just wasn't worth of his time since Mrs Vasquez wasn't going to say anything else. She might not, but maybe Reynolds might be able to give him the answers with a tiny and little push. Medina just smirked back into satisfaction as he watched the silver haired man into the orange jumpsuit pulling up a chair and sat down as he looked up at the agent in uniform who mounted something and showned up his hand with five fingers up before he stepped away giving both Reynolds and his visitor a private moment as they both took up the phone, before the talking conversation could start and Medina could admit he was about to enjoy this moment here.
"I felt like we've have had meet from before. No? And mostly, when you've handled a couples homicides cases along with Hendricks.."
"Only when I was obligated to follow them and when I was supervised back them. By your own best buddy and the very one whom you have gotten tricked..As I can assume.."
"I don't know what you're assuming about. I hadn't tricked anybody since I got locked up here.."But he sure was by trying to seem to be completely unaware of anything that people tried to make him look like.
"You may not, but someone had and under your precious little help.."Medina smirked back at Reynolds's warning glare."Oh yeah. Not only walls do have ears, but eyes as well.."
"Excuse me?"
"You don't read the news behind bars? Heard that the A.D.A. Gabe Lowan had gotten himself arrested, for murder and hiding some important evidence, lately. And only last night.."Reynolds only had blinked once as if he just couldn't believe it for a second.
"Wait..What do you mean?"
"Don't change the subject, old man. You know exactly what I mean..I've read your file. Criminal file." Oh, for Christ's sake. The old man was playing him along, but with the experience of hard work as a cop, Medina wasn't easily fooled by it, anyways.
"I had confessed myself for my crimes and for everything that I've comitted and that's including Tyler's murder-"
"But what happened after you dropped her down into the ground, letting her bleed to death? Reynolds?" Medina had interrupted him in a second that made the silver haired man stunned for a second. "What happened to her body after you left her for dead? Reynolds?"
"I-I.."
"That's what I meant and despite if you had killed her in cold blood or not. It doesn't matter. Someone had taken her away and in only in a couple months later, she was found all stuck up into a cold fridge with all scars marked up to her skin.."
"I have no idea of what to say about that.." Damn. This time, Reynolds really looked like he had no clue about this either and he wasn't faking it, for sure. He even paled at the vision of the defunt woman that he might have had killed her before. But for Medina, the real murder behind all this act was Lowan not Reynolds. And now with Lowan behind bars, he could now focuss on trying to track Cat Chandler down. He tried to talk with Tori, but since she was being unseen and mostly been covered up by her lawyer, Medina could also start on trying to bring her down by using and make someone close to her talk. Robert Reynolds. Her long and lost biological father and the very same man who was sitting in front of him with only the seeing mirror that stood between them for a single distance here.
"Then, answer this simple question here; Where the hell, were you doing after the events and after Tyler Stevenson's death?"
"On June, the 27th? You mean?" Reynolds just scoffed back after he had tried to recover from the shock."Must have been playing some golf, somewhere outside the city-"
"Don't play coy with me. And answer the question. Where the hell, were you going?"
"You've read my criminal file, you can obviously know the whole thing. That I've been doing unrealistic and conspirational things, if you know what I mean."Reynolds followed up as he leaned back to his chair. "That Detective Catherine Chandler had bursted me up into a lie along with the every same A.D.A Lowan, and had me arrested."
"And without a warrant? For listenening into a private conversation between you and Lowan?"
"She must have gotten it and in private for listenening me and caught me into a lie. I don't know, detective. I was pretty surprised when I figured out that they had both known about my plans and that I've planned to run away to Geneva.."But Reynolds had followed back without any second.
"She must have had, I guess.." Medina had cut back up as Reynolds's blue icy eyes gave him a a stern look."Which was to run away with knowing that you've sheed blood into hiding? Pretty good conscience, as I can state for a man who is now serving in jail for comitting and ordering several suspcicious deaths by someone else.."
"Like I said I don't need to talk when you already know my file.."The silver haired looked a bit annoyed here as Medina went along as he had read Reynolds's file from before and all over again as Hendricks told him to do, so many times. However, he just liked it as he let a smirk form up to his features.
"Got arrested by your own daughter, by the way? Pretty personal, I have to admit. I mean it could have been done by someone else.."
"Look if you want to whine about everything going on my life-"
"I wonder who's gonna protect your daughter now that Lowan is behind bars..Don't you find it a little weird behind all this act now?" And once again, Medina watched the silver haired man going a little shocked here. Way back up again. "What?" And the dark haired man was certainly enjoying every piece of it. Looks like Reynolds had no idea or even had learnt that Lowan had been caught up, and now that his precious daughter was on her own and without any protection. He felt like he had doomed or more like damned.
"You know, after the crime arrest scene. The CSU team went to look for the scene while Chandler was being interrogated by the Internal Affairs and especially by Special Agent, FBI and my so-called buddy, Hendricks. Everything went fine, until the CSU team had found a bullet, all covered up in blood. Which both of you had stated to no one was shot and no violence was stated, other Det Chandler's car had ended up crashed into the wall.."Medina followed back as the silver haired man blinked up twice to wake up from his shock as he shivered through his breath.
"Which it was written into the report as Detective Chandler and I both stated-"
"Pretty much the way, despite a different choice of words. I'm no english teacher, since I'm a old and nonesense, hothead portuguese man and had been getting out of a living hell out of messy water before. Which you might not have heard, but I'm not that damn stupid here, or at least I don't look like one here.."
"What are you trying to say anyways? That I made this happen that I mistook or hadn't seen Detective Chandler shooting someone?" The silver haired man had argued back as Medina stopped his blabbering up speech."I have to remind you that both she and I were both uncounscious after we had that crash-"
"A small concussion for her, but as for you with a multiplitical injuries. A couple broken ribs and an internal bleeding. A simple car crash couldn't had possibly had done that and especially when you were at the backseat. It couldn't had possibly had done that and then had come up with that splashing hole at the back window.."Medina had followed with that important line up."Thought I wouldn't bring that up? Thought that a big dog could have had caused up that accident and destroyed up that back window which must have gotten you up and had thrown out like a piece a beef and expired meat? I wouldn't think so!" And even if the window glass was separated them, Medina could had observed that Reynolds had silently groaned. The dark haired detective just sighed back as he followed up here.
"I believe that a third person was involved and that both of you and your delightful daughter had covered up that little tiny piece away from the authorities, and besides I don't buy that idea that a simple dog could have had done this accident with that strong and heavily strength. It must have an really huge dog and even bigger to make it happen..An normal human could have done it, easily."
"What makes you say so?" Or is that so? The old man wanted to challenge him from the entire start, once again as he often had repeated before.
"Isn't weird? First; Your daughter arrests you up. Second; A bloody and lost bullet was found at the crime scene when the two of you had both stated that no one else was there and later on, the same bullet was sent up to be examined to the balistics until it revealed an completely unmatched through of anything. And third: A long lost, Captain Vincent Keller had come out of the shadows after being lost for eleven years to the public media, and mostly recovering from a gunshot that could have had him cost up his own life if he hasn't come up to the hospital, and if he wasn't suffering from blood lost but that's coming from ER emergency doctors's point of view.."Medina had been observing for any reaction coming from the man sitting before him, and getting a little shaky but tense as he looked down onto the table. Shaking like an imbecile had thought back the european detective. He even wondered if he was sweating for a second. Or even getting the old man caught up into his own lie. Even maybe he'll be able to spit out the whole truth behind his daughter's cover and from the way Catherine Chandler looked a little bit lost into the video, it was clear enough that she was in fact lying into the picture.
"A little interesting, don't you think? I mean it all had occured into the very same week.."His own playfull tone had brought up back Reynolds's attention. He got recovered from the shock as his eyes lifted up back, but Medina could tell he was still shaking. The father's intuation as it seems."Think it's possible?"
"I don't believe in coincidences..Old man.." For crap's sake! Seriously?
"So what the hell are you saying now? Think I've lied?"
"Lying for protecting up your daughter? I might say so. I mean every parent would have done it for theirs own child. It doesn't matter it's genre, and I say you might have it done it, anyways.." No doubt to it. Medina would have done for any member of his own family, unless they turned out to be very guilty as sin here.
"I've told and repeated all over again, detective."Reynolds had said by being the most calm person as he could. Even if he wanted to explode."There was nobody else other than my daughter and myself at the crime scene.." Think he could fool him around? Not only Medina was getting of doing this piece of crap, but he was tired to be taken as a fool. It was getting nowhere around as people like Vasquez and Reynolds kept lying to his face.Liar. What a liar like you are, old man and I can sense it. He slammed the table as hard as if he wanted the guards to make the old man stop from lying here. But none was taking good care of it as REynolds managed to show up slighting smirk up to his face.
"Then explain the freaking bullet! How come it had appeared and out of nowhere? Into that crime scene if you say there wasn't anybody else out there, until morning-"
"I don't know Medina..Maybe Hendricks made that thing up, cause I'm telling you and like my own daughter had specified before and right in front of Hendricks, that there was nobody else present out there, and if that Vincent Keller had gotten himself shot, it must have had happened during the time that Catherine had arrested me, during that night. I mean; Who knows what might had happened?"
"Then why did you hide up that fact?" But Reynolds was shaking up his head."I didn't hide anything else and neither did Catherine. She did her job and had done her work like any other cop would have had done..You know that better than I do, detective Medina. Cause you've also ran away from the law once and even if it was by self defense.."Oh crap. He felt anger going through him as he felt trapped for a second as the silver haired man was now taking the pleasure of taking him down, by bringing up an sensitive event up from from the grave. He boiled up with anger as he clutchered up the phone tight enough as it could break into pieces.
"Reynolds-"
"I've also read about you, detective Santiago Medina. Once you were a young promising lawyer that just graduated from the BAR, until you've lost everything and seeking for revenge over the people who betrayed you, and who comes after you've killed someone in self defense? That old pal of yours. Special Agent Hendricks who took you in and exornorated your name out of trouble. Looks like you've owned him something big.."
"You did your homework-"
"Think it's still funny? You said that I might not be able to protect my daughter now that I'm in jail, but let me give you a better answer before I go away. Because my five minutes is up now."Reynolds had leaned up closer to the window as he pointed his finger towards the glass."You better stay away from my daughter, cause if I learn that you have had done anything bad to her and I would know it from deep down of my heart, I would come up to you and punish you. It doesn't matter that I'm locked up here, I'll still be able to find a way to get back at you.."Reynolds had been serious to that statement as he hang up the phone to its place as he rose up from his seat and mouted back to the guard next to him that he wanted to leave before he could do anything unforgiving and it was the same thing for Medina who was silentely boiling up deep down inside as he watched the silver haired man walking away with the guard.
Reynolds might not have told all the entire truth, but he did in fact admitted Tyler's murder even if Lowan had a lot of background checking up, he sure did admitted it. However, he didn't say how the woman's body had ended up into a fridge. Maybe because he didn't known from before. It could be the reason to it. If it wasn't Reynolds or Lowan, then who could have taken her inside of a fridge to keep her organs cold enough? Reynolds looked stunned when he announced that Lowan was in jail for a crime Medina believed had done, but hesitated on what he was doing on that June the 27th this past year. What happened after he had shot dead Tyler Stevenson?
What was he doing? He shook back his head as he put up the phone back to its place and released up a deep sigh. Medina had paid an homeless man who told him that he had witnessed an spetacular event on that same night. Stating that a man with dark skin and dark hair had taken a woman under hostage into an locked up palace and that a strong man looking like an live action of an animation film had been jumping into the house and higher than ever. Medina remembered that time when he was looking for answers and only after, the cops had retrieved Tyler's body, he had talked with an homeless man whom he called Tommy. An homeless man who was into his mid forties and looked like hadn't taken a bath in over years with that long beard and the clothes he had been wearing until the day Medina had meet him outside when he sectretely was working in another case and the very same one that Hendricks had fiorced him to work now that he was back in town.
"That guy, I would always remember is the very same person as of the same man like that Vincent Keller guy. I know it, because I've seen his face from that night until he was brought up to the news today."
"How?"
"Because, everybody was talkling about him and had memorized his face into the newspapers and magazines stating him as a homecoming hero from war. That's all bullshit. He's no hero, cause he had been there at that night. Rescuing that woman and had been taking away by the stars.." Still, it was a brave move to do. However, if he had lied about being taken away for a very longtime..
"You mean by an helicoputer? Stars don't take people away.."
"Then. Bad stars often do. Just like God's willing and working plan. They take the good people away and destroy them until they become bad people with horrible instincts..And Keller is one of them.."
And that homeless man was right. Vincent Keller wasn't what he seemed to be and wasn't entirely perfect as he claimed to be or that Tori Windsor claimed him to be as he had saved her before. No. Keller had a dark past and that nobody wanted him to talk. Medina had almost walked up into that same path before which it almost got him killed. If it wasn't for Laura or for his kids. He played the rules on his own way and it almost got him killed and yet, here he was working with the law enforcement and trying to solve an cold case. Which had involved a female cop who lied up onto an FBI Agent's face. And by the very same man who had him his back ever since. 'Or else, I wouldn't be here today. I would be in jail..No. Medina..You wouldn't be..'
He tried to talk with Reynolds, and it didn't worked back. Unless he could do a better job with Catherine Chandler, unless she was occupied by now..What about Vincent Keller? Think he could remember what had happened to him, by now? On how gotten himself shot? That sory involving with Windsor was enough to by time but stating into the doctors's point of view. Keller would have had died from blood loss if he wasn't brought in and faster into the emergency room.
Catherine Chandler or Vincent Keller, it wasn't an easy choice to conquer. Cause the two of them were both hiding something important and yet something close that could link up to an cold murder case. Medina was sure of it.
...
'A baby? Seriously, Have you lost your mind, already? And in a time like this?' And yet, it felt so unreal. To have a tiny and little one inside all about to take place inside of her tummy. And just scared her and horribly. Tori couldn't say much to this matter as she pushed herself down into a sitting position and towards the corner of the wall and brought up her knees close up to her chin. Looking up like a little girl.
And the very same one who might become an adult, officially as a tiny and unwanted child might come up into this world and all that because of her selfish actions and all that because of a man who practically didn't wanted her in the first place. A baby?
I'll need a test to confirm that I'm actually pregnant or not..It could be just stress and sometimes stress could also make a person go all nauseasous for a second. But if it wasn't it? Oh God. She was such into trouble now. Still shaking, Tori tried to stand up even if her knees were about to buckle or whatsoever, to just think about having a kid. It was still a shock.
And with Veronica under her way, she couldn't just fly away and out of nowhere, cause if she was pregnant and might have to bear the baby if it does or does not happen. It's gonna take for one way or another. People are going to stare and maybe calling her slut, which Catherine would gladly be the first to call her up if a tiny bump would slowly start to show up.
...
Catherine walked back to the club, feeling weird and not so certain of herself. Wasn't she slowly starting to lose herself into the darkness? If so, it did looked real. Was it possible? She had arrested many bad guys before, and the very same people who had commited an unpunishipable crime and had lost completely use of any humanity. Even Vincent was at this close to get himself arrested if she had the guts to come close to it. An tiny chance of him of getting arresting before the hostage event at that night. When he was all vendetta revenging mood, once.
And there he was, still protecting her and protecting the other girls that got themselves attacked by her own her hand. He was becoming more human, than she was becoming more as a monster towards these paid up sluts. And he even had become more scared of her, lately. Her? A tough man like Vincent becoming scared of her? Was it even possible to believe and yet she hadn't been so kind to him and after that one recorded night stand and with Eva's punishement, it was far from being any kind or even showing that she was being gentle towards any men lately.
Let Vincent believe that an simple excuse isn't gonna to take her back into her arms, in any time soon. If he needed to earn her forgiveness, he'll have to try even harder than to let her believe that he has changed. Only the devil thinks he has changed, which he hasn't and might never do so on his own will. No. If Vincent wanted to change in order to become an better man-No, more like an better human being, he should've have had done it before and before he could crash up with the very next slut. Yes. Cat had thought back as she sat down onto the bar stool and to where the bar looked almost quiet as she closed back her eyes and released a deep sigh out.
Yes, Vincent should have thought of that before..And yet that kissing up act as he had stated, didn't mattered if it was by an play act or not, it was still considered as an betrayal mood for her. And with all these sacrifices she took in order to protect and save him, all were for waste, maybe she should've had let him die into her father's hands. After all he only had made her suffer even more and ever since she had meet him from before, he made her life go upside down in all chaos and in many ways. Although, before things have had changed, he sure mentionned that he had loved her and that she had loved him back. The fact he once had told her that he appreciated the cost that she was willing to do for him. All for love. So much that she had sacrificed for him to be saved and yet, it felt like it was all wasted and for nothing.
"May I offer you a drink, young lady? You look like you need one.." Cat blinked twice before turning her attention towards the voice and in only to see an blond haired man with blue eyes who looked back up to her direction as he sat down into his blue scrubs and coming from the hospital. Òliver Àlvarez. He did looked exhausted and coming up from an very long day from the day job or maybe an whole day even..
"Àlvarez-"
"Please, call me Òliver, Aya. So, are you more as like an bourbon person or an as an scotch person?" Àlvarez looked back up as he ordered the main waitress to pour him a drink. And for once, it wasn't Lina doing the drink here."You look like you had an hard day here.."
"Looks, like..I'm getting tired lately..Must be because of the antivirals drugs I'm taking. Makes me feel tired.." She waved back as she took an prescription file out and waved it back to the blond haired man's face."Got my prescription filled for more three months.."An fake prescription that Tess had wrote herself down while the two of them were talking earlier on. Under Dr. Cassandra Rose's care.
"You want to take a break? I can try to talk to Lina on finding up Esperanza or another bodyguard for the night being.."Àlvarez had followed up, looking concerned than he used to be before.
"No, it's okay, I'll be fine after taking a nap for the day being, but thank you for worrying. I appreciate it.." Cat tried to assure him with a smile as he nooded back in understatement when he received back his drink as Cat put dropped her elbow onto the counter when he stared at her back, but mostly at the dress she was wearing today and how far she has taken his breath away, for a second. But Cat kept on focussing up ionto his eyes and from the way they looked, they seemed to be wild even if he tried to control any resistence of jumping back onto her. And how badly, he deeply wanted to do so.
"I can't never understand on how if you're willing to make me go wild for a second..I mean you look so beautiful to look at and to taste at.."
"Excuse-me?" Catherine tried to play innocent even if she had known it wasn't the case. The plan was to make him fall for her and to make him speak his secrets out. So, if the alcohol could help or not..Àlvarez tried to gesture up himself with his hands as he tried to find the right words here.
"You. The you, you're standing here with me is gonna make me go nuts in one day or another, and I feel like I'm betraying Marta's memory and Lena's while she is still lying on down and struggle to keep on living here and not knowing where my daughter might be today is driving me insane.."He took a swallow from his drink as he soberely looked up at her."I feel like I'm betraying both of them here.."
"Òliver-"
"I'm sorry for making you push your bounderies, lately, Aya. I've should've have known that that you've still had some issues when it comes to fall for someone else and especially in your condition."Àlvarez had told back as he focused himself back up to his drink. "I've shouldve known to give you some privacy and some time before jumping onto you.."
"Jumping onto me? Like sucking up my wicked guts, you mean?"
"Yes. I mean I got tested and the tests came out negative from our last evening together, so that's why I've kept my distance at the hospital lately. I did wanted to give you more space, before jumping onto you again and make you feel upset..."He admitted and yet Cat couldn't be sure if he was truly sorry or not. If Àlvarez was an actual real good actor or not. He did say he was sorry for once. But not so sorry for making Yalena and her daughter suffer so much, but what about the others girls like Gretchen, Alicia, Helga who were now both dead? What about Eva and Natasha? Would they both carry on their deepest injuries after that that club is brought up down?
And Vincent? The man had a lot under his shoulders and those sluts to take care and wash theirs wounds away. The wounds that she created and marked onto them, and mostly on Vincent. From the way he had been watching her, it felt like having to watch your own nightmare all over again. His eyes were shocked as he stood petrified when she just sat down onto the ground all covered up with blood. A bitch's was horrified to have had seen her doing things like this these girls...Horrible, but fair punishing things. Cat sighed back up as she tried to move up a little closer to the man sitting here who wanted to tried to drink down his sorrows into a drink after having dealing up with a hard day, today.
"I'm sorry if I've been impatient with you, lately. I just wanted to keep my independance despite the job I've taken here. I mean, being here by my own will and by nobody else, here..To feel free here, for once and without having nobody to look at me like I'm fragile doll, which I'm not.." She sighed back as she touched his free hand that laid onto the counter.
"Never said you were weak, Aya..You're the most strongest and the most stuborn woman I've ever meet till now.."Àvalrez had admitted back. "And not to forget, the most beautiful and sexy woman that I ever meet. A woman that knows what she wants, it's the most beautiful and rarest kind to find for a man's heart to seek for.." And Cat could tell it for sure as onto the corner of her eye she has distingued an familiar figure walking up from the basement and leading towards their direction with its most silent movements.
Vincent Keller was slowly coming to her way.
Time to attack.
So she tried move foreword as she slowly brought her attention right back to Àlvarez as she slowly rose up the back of her hand to carress the trouble man's cheek. Thinking she could try to shake his mind away for a second and especially from the audience coming from behind them.
"It's pretty nice of you to think of my well being, Òliver. Really. There's nothing to be ashamed of and actually, I do like men sharing thoughts, and maybe their most darkest points of thoughts to women, like myself.."She followed up with the act as she played out his locks of hair with her fingers and sighed."But I do like my independance and my own living rules, when it comes to a man who wants to take all control.." And when Àlvarez tried to reply something back, he was surprised on how she took control onto her hands as he felt her body switching up places and sat onto his lap, her thighs and the rest of her legs around his waist. Too strucked to move or to react, Àlvarez had let her take his glass and putted down onto the counter. Too surprised as much as he watched Aya take control like taking his palm and to pressed up to her chest, and quite enough for him to go a little wild here, like a depraved man.
"Unless, I take my own control onto them, first.."
"Aya.."
"Do you want it?" She dared him to do or so as she pooped up her head back at him. She felt his fingers pressing up her breast through the fabric of her dress, and almost a little harder than she expected as she released an excited moan."There is more to give if you could follow my rules and only them under my control and when I'll tell you to stop, you'll stop-"
"Agreed..A-Agreed. I'll do anything you want me to do, Aya. Anything!" The man was being pathatic and under her mercy. Completely depraved as she smirked back in satisfaction.
"Then, I'm coming to you.." She arched her back down and leaned downforth to him with her hands covering up his cheeks and brushed her lips onto his own. Which made him release a groan and brought up his hands to cover her up her back as he felt her move and close to rub over his clothes and where his groin was getting excited. It was just as planned, to make this man fall over her and not giving a damn, if her ex-boyfriend had caught them from behind.
Which Catherine took a chance to open up one eye and and to stare up back at Vincent who stood up onto his spot not moving and seemed to look a little deceived from her actions. But who cares? Nobody did. She was having fun and had any right to do it and especially when she was the one moving and rubbing herself onto the enemy's groin.
And right in front of her ex's deceived and tortured hazel eyes.
...
After he made sure that the sink back at the bathroom was completely at clean and that Eva was being taken care off, Vincent thought he needed to take a walk outside and maybe getting a few medical items at J.T.'s place and snatching himself a cup of strong coffee on his way out. However, as he wanted to run away from the club to take some fresh air, he stopped his tracks to find his ex-girlfriend making a move with his boss. Shocked, but somehow deceived, for a bit as he had expected better from his ex. Damn, she've could have choosen better than this piece of crap.
And to say that Àlvarez wasn't taking any shame on covering his actions or neither was the woman who was all over him like a tigress, and not to mention she looked so beautiful in that traditional red dress. Oh God. Catherine. She had known how to torture him and only to see her into action with another man and sharing her kisses with the very same guy here, it made him want to rip every limb out of his fresh and heated body here. And this time, he agreed his with his beast senses.
But, at the very same time, he had known that he has and had hurted Catherine many times before. So, maybe he deserved the punishement coming from her. However, this thing wasn't her at all and she wouldn't absouletely jump into the next bad guy here, and Àlvarez was just as bad as he seemed to be. Vincent just shut down his eyes as he shook his head in defeat. It just wasn't right. And it didn't mattered if Catherine was trying take Àlvarez down for a mission or a case, Vincent felt it was just wrong and wrong for Catherine to lose the good part of herself in order to trap and stop a bad guy here. if so, then why did he felt like his heart was about to shatter down into pieces? Because you still care for her, you dumbass! And believe she deserves better than this piece of trash here!
Like him? Is that what he tried to tried to say or by convincing himself to be? That he could be better for her, this time? Could he be better, than the times he had been with her when he was this monstreous creature who was out of control and doubtfull from their time on being together?
"Vincent? I was looking for you.."It made him open up his eyes as the an familiar voice was heard and coming to his way. That made him grunt at this sound. And not only because of the sight he was forced to watch but to hear that voice who tried resonate him before. And there she was and with this voice. Lina. The only woman who had been trying to make him open his eyes and make him face the truth about the woman whom he had thought had known and fell for. A monster. Catherine was slowly becoming a monster and as long she was being Àlvarez's favorite cumcubine, she might as well become more worse than ever.
Just like I have had before..You don't need to become a beast or damage your DNA to know how lose your humanity.
"Looks, like someone here hadn't hesitated to get his hands away from its prey. From what I can see with Òliver and with the undying shifts he's been doing lately at the hospital, I can totally understand that having Aya into his mind must have had him driving crazy.." Vincent just turned his head toward the bartender who snorted back at the kissing couple. She turned up to him with a frown."Trust me, what goes around comes around. One day, Òliver would get what he deserves, for the mess he had made.."It looked true coming from her brown eyes.
"How would you know?"
"I just do, and I believe that Aya doesn't know the luck that she has when a man like you strongly loves a woman like her.." Nice words, but how could they compete with the reality of today? Vincent had no idea as he shook his head in defeat.
"How would you know that I might or not love her? You barely know me. Lina.."He turned his attention away from her as she sighed back.
"Well. It's all through the eyes and through the heart, Vincent.."She followed back as she folded her arms across her chest."Any lunatic who hasn't experienced what love seemed to be must know by now.." Damn true. Any lunatic who watched a few romantic comedy movies must have, but have they lived an crazy and life changing movies such as he had? Vincent wouldn't think so.
"Look. I..I must take some fresh air for today. I have to go out from here for the time being.." He tried to change the subject from this awkward conversation here. He really didn't wanted to give the bartendeer any false hopes on trying to want and to be with him in any second, his heart didn't felt like it wanted to belong to anybody else but to be with someone he couldn't be today. Catherine. He needed to do something. If Catherine was too busy on doing something else, he needed to contact J.T. for some others things as he had texted him an hour ago. Giving him something else to think about. He could feel Lina's hand touching his arm, concerned as she sounded like.
"Why, are you sick?"
"No.." Vincent snickered back as he tried to comfort the bartender."It's just been a long night with Eva and the other girls around, and I did a few checks with the inventory here. I need to get some supplies with couple gauzes bandages and a few alcholol bottles for the next couple weeks.."
"I can ask Òliver to get some-"But he declined her help with one hand. He didn't wanted her to make him change his mind or else he'll might go mad and do something he'll might be able to regret forever. And red haired women made his ways worse to control, so imagine Lina being almost an red haired woman could also make him lose control here, which he didn't wanted to happen in anytime soon.
"No. Don't bother your boss..He had enough up to his sleeve, and I know what I'm talking about cause I've done a few tiring shifts as well before I entlisted. I know how it feels to come back and to only want to jump down onto your love one's arms.."
"Vincent-"
"I'll be fine, Lina.."He put on his coat onto his back and put up his strap of bag onto his shoulder."I'll be back before you even know it.."He sighed back as he started to walk away from the quiet bar where two people were still kissing and smiling to each other, and what's worse, it was that Vincent had spotted Catherine smirking back to this bad man and from the way she was carressing him with desire. It made him want to throw up. It may be an way to get back at him for making her suffer, but to see her all over this wanted man like Àlvarez made him want to puke. Vincent watched them slowly standing up from the barstools and with theirs hands locked up together they made their way out and right to the upstairs direction. Vincent would always remember that laughing stare that Àlvarez gave him as he walked up first along with Ayaka who gave him a snickering look but from the way her emerald eyes looked back up at him. They did looked evil. It didn't mattered if her expensive dress was wrinkled or that her tied up hair was slowly losing its knot because of the heating passion and from how her lips looked bruised by the smacked kisses. She looked evil. Catherine looked so different from the first day he had meet her, into the woods and later on at the warehouse ten years later. So unrecognizable and almost like a monster that made Vincent look so sick to his stomach.
If so. Then why did it make his heart feel like it was about to break down? Vincent felt like many shivers went through his spine for a second and left the club as he shook his head. Not giving a damn if it was the poison inside of him that made think things like that or for the fact that he has the vision of his former lover going all into a mad man's arms.
...
Lina looked up to see the couple going up to the stairs and looked back at Vincent's strong form as he walked away from the bar and sadly alone. Poor Vincent. He didn't deserved any of this bad behavior coming from Ayaka and there she was right and doin it with an worn out Àlvarez who was down onto her command and down into her knees. Lina felt anger coming up through her blood and jealousy that started to get into her mind. This man had been hers from the start, he had treated her like a queen until she had this disease and had become his accomplice into his crimes, which Yalena had tried to denounce him before and that was before she had gotten shut down because of her big mouth.
Lina had also known that Yalena had sent her daughter away from Àlvarez, and that this accident, Marta's accidental death was no accident. It's what they stared before, but that was because of the lack of evidence and to say that she also wore the very same red necklace gem and the very same one that Ayaka had into her keeping, today.
What a slut. She may be an hitman, but she was no saint. She was an evil one with bad secrets. However, Ayaka was gonna get what she deserved in one day or another. After Su Li and her assistant left, Lina had followed up with Olga and with the man Olga was going to meet later on tonight. Which was one of Sun Li's girls clients and had assured him that he would get paid for the job he would be doing. An simple one nightstand that would go wrong and that the hitman would interviene like any other night at the job.
Only to fall up into a deadly trap. Su Li would be waiting instead Olga's place at the basement and inside of its cages. And this where Ayaka would jump and get herself locked up into a mess. Lina had liked up the plan as it would certainly teach Ayaka a lesson and a lesson to make Vincent suffer as well.
Oh yeah. Ayaka would pay for sure.
...
Tess walked back to the precinct after a tirying aftermeeting with Cat over at the coffe-bar restaurant only to see an certain and much too familiar Dana trying to look for something over and next to the coffee machine and something had told her that the aent right here tried to escape something or hiding something big here.
Nervous mostly as she was shaking up big here.
"Just to let you know.." Startled up into a standing up position, the blond haired woman had turned around to look up at Tess who dig up down her hands into her jeans's pockets as her head pooped up down at the section that the stunned blond haired woman was searching for."We run out of sugar.."
"Oh. Sorry.."Dana tried to clear up her throat before her voice could come up with a word, but it didn't stopped her shaking through her hands."I could use some splenda instead. I mean some fake sugar wouldn't kill a person for a second.."
"That fake sugar. We do have here..Just down there.." Tess nodded back down as Dana went down onto her knees and had retrieved a few splenda bags out from and went back to her feet as she rippped them off to pour them into her coffee. However, it didn't stopped from her shaking as Tess approached her steps to the woman.
"If you're wondering why I'm still shaking, it's because of the videos.."
"Videos?"
"Don't play dumb with me Vargas. You do know why I'm talking about..I've watched them and under your captain's orders here.." Dana took a straw to mix up the fake sugar and the coffee before she turn her head toward the female detective."It was so violent. That I couldn't even imagine. These girls.."
"So you've watched them.."
"And that sex video between your partner and Keller..Oh God.."
"Both of them were under the influence. A precious gift from a gangster from what Cat told me if not. Then I don't know whatever the hell had happened.."Tess followed back as Dana shook her head in denial and from the way her eyes looked and bloodshot from the horror she had witnessed earlier.
"And yet, with Keller having to watch and look up down to Chandler like that. It nearly broke my heart.."Dana looked stunned so much as her words couldn't deliver."It reminds so much of Sam in a certain way.."
"What? When he had tried to have J.T. and Tori killed? Or even better when he tried to have you killed when the two of you were renewing up your vows? Isn't that what you meant?"
"I didn't meant in that way..I do know that Sam would get punished one day if he gets caught, but as for Chandler..I believe it's all calculated here with her being an hitman, but to come up and using so much violence towards these girls-"
"You want the case to be stopped? Is that what you're trying to say?" Tess had cut off as the FBI agent looked back at her stare that told her to rethink back of her words as the female detective's smirk went away for a moment as she understood Dana's stare. "Wait. You can't be serious here.."
"I'm serious. Detective Vargas..We can't go back from here.."
"You're willing to let a cop, my partner to fall over the hands of a mad man like Àlvarez? Are you insane?"
"I've watched Chandler going undercover a couple times before, and I can tell she is good. Quite like a good actress-"
"It's a different situation that we're talking about, Agent Landon! You're willing to let a cop, a woman to lose her humanity over a gangster here!"
"It's Detective Chandler's decision to go after him and to that club, Vargas. She should've had thought better but she is about to get it over there. I'm telling you. She is as close to get Àlvarez.."
"And you believe that she'll get over it, in one week? A month?"
"I know that we don't have much time, but it's the best we can afford here-"
"What about that ex-FBI Agent of yours? Barnes? You got any contact with him?" Tess had cut off back as she tried to manage with her anger. For Christ's sake, they were talking about a woman's life under the bad tracks here and it didn't mattered if Dana was still shocked about the earlier events she had endured by watching Cat's tortureous actions and being recorded live, she still wanted her to stop Àlvarez in a certain way. But for Tess's situation, it was just too much to handle all at once here.
"Vargas, can't you come up to my office for a second?" And coming up from that male voice up from the stairs, Tess had looked up to see an frowning Captain Ward who stood up outside from his office and into his formal clothes as he pointed toward his office as he watched down the situation with her and with the agent. And it meant bussiness and mostly other buisseness. The thing with Keller's friends and J.T. being put up into a warehouse as she had just came back from this mess.
"I'm sorry, but Barnes hadn't called me back. But I'm still waiting for him to do so and since his wife is the only one who can help us here, I'm still not gonna give on Chandler's work here and even it takes an whole year to stop a mad man like Àlvarez, I'm still not gonna give up.."Dana had admited back when Tess had warned her off with a finger.
"And I think you're selfish enough to believe in fairytales like these.." She let her steps move on their move and whirled around to go up into the direction where Captain Ward had been waiting. She wasn't sure whom to believe in anymore. Cause she was scared of losing up her friend onto the hands of the devil here. And it wasn't Vincent, but Òliver Àlvarez.
And for a second, she deeply wanted to call J.T. and to explain this matter. Cause it was an very much big matter for the heart to bear and to hold on.
...
"Sir, sir, please stop that-"
"I don't give a damn, give me my phone!"
"Sir, for your own security-"
"J.T.? Are you there, man?"
"Vincent? Hey buddy! I've been trying to call you-"
"Call me? But didn't you just texted me back and said you've been taking care off-" However, Vincent couldn't hear any better as the man behind the phone was trying to not lose his control on losing up his frustration over the guard who tried to get his phone.
"Me? No, I haven't, and you want to know why? Because my phone has been taking away since I've been stuck here and with an whinny dog along with the entire S.W.A.T team trying to shut me down!"
"Shut you down? What are you talking about? Where are you?"
"Where am I? Stuck up into a warehouse with Regan, Jef and Ash and not to mention with Ed! I'm telling you if Regan doesn't k now how to get herself together, I'll fly away from the window-"
"J.T.? J.T.?" Vincent tried to call him again, but the connection was taken away from him to answer again. He looked back at the phone in strange wonder. What did J.T. meant by saying that he hadn't texted or talked back to him, because he was being put into a warehouse along with the others and all that because Carl had tracked them down one by one. Something was wrong. If J.T. didn't answered back before then who did?
Vincent hadn't much time to think about it. He needed to be back to the club before the party starts once again and that means in a couple hours before the evening, and couldn't go back up the warehouse for J.T.'s protection or any other of his friends or even Alex's. Or even worse, Catherine's protection. No. He sworned back. If Carl had tried to hurt Catherine in anyway, he would know by now and knowing his ex-girlfriend, she wouldn't let herself being afraid of an abusive and delousional man like him. Vincent couldn't get pass up to his houseboat unless he could try and sneak up the Gentleman Guild to get a few medical items but how?
He couldn't blurr up in front of people's stares here or else, it'll just worsens up his condition and that's why he had been trying to reach up for his friend in the first place. He took a walk out from the club and somehow, things might get even worse than ever. And for a weird second, he felt himself being followed and watched. At the little sound of it, Vincent turned his head around and tried to see if someone was tracking him or watching him from afar. And somehow, it wasn't a beast but an human being concentrated with full of hatred.
In one bet, Vincent believed the person must have been Carl and the same man that not only was after Regan or her son, but was after him as well. He sighed back as he turned back his attention to his direction and started back his walk. Better be a beast than of a depraved and addicted man with a drug habbit. First he needed to focus on his energy. To have a good shower and chage up his clothes and to have a good sandwich and with a great coffee along with it. Try to contact with J.T. if he can.
And then, he'll be able to think more clearly and before he'll go back to the club and face the music along with Catherine, once again. If his hearty could bear with her attacking other people oncew again, unless she is the the victim, this time.
...
Damn, that Keller. That man wouldn't never learn on how to give up and whatever kills the cat was curiosity and the very same thing was gonna get the big animal here. Such a pitiful human being. Vincent Keller had everything ahead of him. A great career and a woman who could had cherished him forever. Alex. Just like he had Regan in another life before anything else had happened.
And had destroyed.
Regan had a tiny secret crush on Vincent Keller which had explained her suttering problem. Until she had meet him in order to forget Alex's fiancee, for good. But the magic didn't lasted long enough and since Regan didn't wanted to disappointed him she had stayed silent had married him and even gave him a son, but that bitch had still named her son after him. Vincent. Which had him enraged in a full blind hatred here. And especially when Keller had spotted him trying to hide his forearms and since the man was smart, he had stood up into his guard in the entire time until he had heard from the television that the twin towers had been blown off and had managed to drop down everything and had entlisted in the first place in order to take revenge over his brothers's deaths.
And it was time to attack. With a short call to make the war hero guy crack down into his pants. And it was enough to make Regan's heart shatter into fear.
As they often said a bitch wouldn't never be able to learn unless something big was taken from them.
...
"So, what you are saying, is that we should try to distract him and put him into a trap? Is that we're you're trying to say?" Sitting into her boss's office, Tess just couldn't believe it all. First with Cat and Dana not wanting to give up onto the Àlvarez's case while Cheng wanted to. On the Regan's case. Even if a child's life was at stake here. The opposite thing as he had explained. Or more like he wanted to give up.
"Is the only way we can try to stop Patrowenski from attacking anybody else other than his ex-wife and son with the San Diego PD couldn't get into it from the beginning. I mean we can't actually guarantee anybody's safety forever-"
"So what you're saying, is that we should jump into the lion's den and without any equipement from the start? Do I have to remind you that not only Regan Bennet's life is at risk but are so with the others?" Tess had asked back to Cheng who had sighed in defeat. "You do know there are more than one person in here? A child's life is also at stake here?"
"So what are you suggesting, Vargas?" Captain Ward had followed back. Tess looked back up to her captain here.
"I'm suggesting that we need more time. We're probably need more time to try understand the guy. I mean, Patrowenski could be on a killing spree and still outside as we speak. We can't let down Bennett or the others without any protection. I mean, all of them are connected to Patrowenski. All of them were his friends-"
"What about Alexandra Salter. A nurse from NY General Hospital that had been reported missing?" Cheng had followed up back as a waking up call which Ward had taken back for a defense mood.
"She's not missing. Salter has been under witness's protection ever since that hospital and domestic issue with one of her patients, Cheng.."Ward had followed up to the male detective's stunned but angered face."As for Keller, he's been unreachable lately.." Tess sighed back at that statement. Vincent may be big build and strong but when it come up to his strong feelings and especially to Catherine and others like J.T., he was almost not as strong he claimed to be and since he had been caught up to protect and guard up Catherine like he had been before. He sure was unreachable to anybody He was on the right path by staying with Catherine and by being a doctor he once had been and far away from Tori who made him more as an monster than he had realized before.
"What I'm saying is that we need to do some background check on Carl Patrowenski and bring his parents, family members or any relatives in order to know with whom we'll be able to fight against.."
"Vargas-"
"Or we can talk and force Detective Ciccotelli to fly over here and work through this together. The incident had happened over there, it's also his case as well.."Tess pushed herself out into this.
"But Patrowenski used to live here. Therefore he should be judged here.." Ward had followed back with a tired sigh. "Alright, let's take the time we both need so that we can learn more with whom we are against with.."
"It doesn't help that Regan Bennett was sent by Alex Salter here in order to be protected by Vincent Keller-"Cheng tried to interrupt back only to be silenced by Ward's tired and annoyed look.
"It doesn't matter if Keller is involved or not. Bennett is one of the many women who are being chased by many mad men, and that we need to protect from."Ward had followed back up before he added up by looking back up to Tess."I'm gonna call Ciccotelli and make him fly over here in order to help us while we're trying to find out more about Patrowenski. So that we'll know more about our Vargas."
"Thank you, captain.." Tess looked relived back as something for once in justice had finally managed to work out for once. But not as much for her friend, Cat who is still outside at the field. However, one of Vincent Keller's friend's life would be spared for once. But Cheng didn't looked so convinced but angered as he jumped outr from his seat under Ward's hard stare.
"As for you, Detective Nguyen, you shall follow Vargas's orders until the very end of this operation and you better from that partner of yours to not sneak around my colleagues.."
"What do you mean?"
"Don't ask me. Just tell him that I don't like being fooled around and the last thing I want is the Internal Affairs messing around with false proofs, over here and judging my colleagues.."What the hell? Medina had already tried to dig through Cat's life by now? Unless he had put his nose into certain things he shoudn't have had from before. "Cops had informed me that Detective Santiago Medina had been to Rikers's section and had tried to get some information out from Reynolds, which he hadn't succeeded.." Oh crap. Medina had already started to gain up some information. Tess tried to stay as quiet as possible as the asian detective tried to justify himself.
"Captain-"
"Have I made myself clear, Detective Nguyen?"
"Very clear, sir.." The male asian detective had stood up with a firm smile as Tess had been told to go away as she was being diminished, but coming from Nguyen's hard stare, she had known she wasn't about to get away as easily as possible. He looked evil to look at it. She only managed to push herself away with a nod towards her captain and left the office as fast as she could.
She may have won a few days on this case, but what about Cat? Would she be able to overcome this case as well?
...
"Going out for lunch?" Tess got startled up by that voice as she put on her coat and whirled around to see Medina walking back into the precinct with hands into his coat's pockets. She noticied that not only his gaze was focus onto her but onto Cheng's stare looked hard onto his partner's own smirk.
"Lunch has already passed by now and my appetite has vanished away longtime ago. If you don't mind me saying.."Cheng had added back up as he adjusted his gun into his hostler hanging by the hig as he put on his coat which had hid up his dark suit. "I'm about to get some Thai food for the awaitening and selfish adults and an hamburger for the kid.."
"Tess?" The female detective shook up her head. With what happened earlier with Dana and with Cheng who wanted to slip away from the case while people's lives were at risk along as Cat's were as it was. Her attention wasn't into food lately.
"Sorry, but I already ate. And like your busy guy here, I'll go back to the warehouse to state if they need anything else than food, or a few burner phones for their safety for the time being.."
"Burner phones?"
"They might need it, for the time being.." And it was quite true since all phones were confiscated for the time being if the guy in question had tried to called them back, they'd probably know by now and since nobody wanted to take chances..Burner phones were a good chance as they would gladly expire in a couple days later on.
"Looks like you guys have got everything under control here.."Medina had stated back as he sat on the edge and corner of Catherine Chandler's lonely desk, which made Tess frown at this sight.
"Pretty much like you were this morning.." His partner had answered back instead of her place. Which had been a bombing shot for the female detective here as she looked back at forth at the men here. While Medina just blinked back as he got himself caught here.
"Excsuse-me?"
"You've heard me pretty clear, numb head.." Cheng got angered back that sentence."Just, what the hell were you doing at Rikers, this afternoon?" The heck? Did Medina had already started his invastigation? Tess had blinked up at that point as her attention was focusing onto the man with the dark and long coat who just shrugged off his shoulders as he tried to look innocent. Which he wasn't. And Tess could have guessed that he had paid Reynolds a surprising and little visit before. In order to make him spit out the truth about Cat and Vincent.
"Nothing special, though. I've just dropped by to visit if Lowan was still in jail-"
"It's a little too early comfirm that.." Tess dropped by as she looked a little startled by this reply."Lowan has still the change to go out if all charges are strong enough to be proved towards a judge.." However, it wasn't enough convincing for the dark long haired man who just snickered back as he traced up his trimmed beard, in a total trusting statement.
"Not for too long, though. He'll be send out to Rikers if they don't hesitate on bringing his case first in.."
"That's too bad that Lowan has a good lawyer defending, he might get away.."Pretty much as she wanted to believe in as Medina followed back."Not if I can find another witness to testify against him. For the murder of his girlfriend..For an example.."
"Like who?"
"Like your partner, Detective Catherine Chandler. I heard that she had been taken against her will by an lunatic guy with dark skin and dark hair and quite had a strong ressemblance to the ex-ADA..I mean she was his alibi..When the murder had happened or later when it did-"Oh Crap.
"You're pretty lunatic, Medina. You have no proof that Chandler had been involved or not and besides she is unreachable, though.."Cheng had dropped out as he rolled up his eyes annoyed. And for the first time, Tess had agreed with him. Despite being a little shocked from what she heard from him as she tried to prove him wrong here.
"Undercover, remember that word? If I were you, I'd drop out the idea of having or even believing that she had anything to do with the murder-"
"How do you know? Cause you were there, Vargas?" Medina had followed back. "Can you tell me why are you still defending her?" Why, was she still defending Cat? It wasn't a choice cause she may as well be stuck into this mess for a little while now.
"Primo, because she's my partner and has better things to do than letting herself be kidnapped and deuxio, she fights like a mad woman, pretty much like that girl from The Street Fighter movie..Wouldn't give up a fight easily-"
"If so, then did she stated to you where she were at that night? On June, the 27th? If you are so sure.." That bastard wanted her to get into wrong topic, and even worse he wanted to make her spit out the truth by telling where she had been the entire day but by saying that, Tess would be exposing not only Cat's life, but Vincent's and J.T.'s and especially J.T. who was the last one to had seen Tyler alive after she had tricked him into her play along act and walked away from his sight. And yet, Vincent's friend was already into trouble as much she didn't wanted him to be harrassed by another cop here who would probably use him as an escuse to testify against Gabe. But only if he gets into trial and that the entire truth about beasts might as well be exposed to the entire world from that wishing day. And Tess didn't wanted that day to happen in anytime soon as she snorted back in a curse word.
"Go to hell, Medina.."She spit out her words as she afjusted her gun into her hostler and grabbed her phone. She turned her head towards Cheng's cold stare."No offense."
"None taken." He replied back as she was the first to walk away from the station, completely exhausted from her entire day. And once she was out of the air, he looked back at his partner. "If I ever heard that you're onto something, Medina and that I'm not aware of it. I won't hesitate on denouncing you to the Internal Affairs. Because I believe you have gone too far.."
"I'd like to see you do that.." But Medina had shown no fear as he had gladly accepted the challenge. Or more, like he desparetely wanted the truth to be out and especially from mouth of the lairs and liars who were good at keeping the truth out from being exposed. And Cheng had known that Medina hated liars from the start of his career.
"This is not over..I'm telling you.."But somehow, Cheng had known that Medina was only beginning to know and learn more about the bad humanity that this whole had created about.
"You got the words out of my mouth, pal.." He snickered back as he watched Cheng gave him a last hard stare before he could walk away. As if the world had already started to chase him around.
...
Oh God. No. Tori looked back at the test she whirled back through her fingers. There it was. Her worst fears about to come true here. Two red lines means it was positive. That she was in fact pregnant.
Oh God. Pregnant. A beast baby by an man whose's DNA had been destroyed and used by her selfish actions. Oh God. Oh No. She wasn't ready and yet, it was growning up inside of her stomach and it confirmed from the two tests she had bought while Veronica had been out from the place. But since the red haired woman wanted to be sure, she sneaked out to buy two pregnancy tests to be sure. Until now. At this very early evening. And it had comfirmed her fears.
All that because, she wanted to keep a man and the only beast close up to her, by fear of losing him to the very first human female woman who had been a rival to her, ever the first day she had meet her. Catherine had been nothing but a kind person who tried to form a good relationship with her, until she had stole her boyfriend. Vincent. So, imagine her reaction if she figures out the fact that his mistress had made him a new born beast daddy? It'll be an hell of a worse to come up..If she founds out by now. Cat might have her killed by now..The red haired woman clutchered her eyes shut at this thought here. It send her many fightenening shivers through her spine.
And Tori might not be able to defend herself when she had no more beast defense into her own body now..And especially when she was sitting on the toilet seat cover by now.
...
"You're sure that everything is all settled by now?" Back at the bar and standing behind it, Lina was trying to speak out loud to the phone as her eyes were looking up for someone. Mostly, for Su Li. Whom she was speaking up with on the phone.
"No mistake. I've already sent the guy and you better come up with the money. Because I don't do any charity here.."
"I don't see the guy here.."
"Don't worry. He'll soon come and like we stated here; The guy comes here to your club with his name a certain Jacob, and will be wearing an nice blue shirt and dark pants. He would also look very pissed along with his dark hair and eyes, and would be asksing you for a refund after he had been disappointed with one of your girls. Olga, isn't her name? The non-speaking english girl?"
"Yeah. I had informed her before.." And only after Ayaka and Òliver were out of sight as they took a day off to take a chance to see each other. Lina had the chance to find the timid and new girl and talk to her about the situation. That instead of being thrown off into the lion's den because of a man, she'll be spared for this time and that this thing was all for an act and in order to teach someone a very good lesson though. For Olga, it was quite a little confusing to offend a man when the man in fact wasn't or even offended by her services when he had never even meet her at all. And since he was one of Su Li's clients, everything must have been arranged from the start. Olga had raised her eyebrows in confusion here. while the ex-dancer put her hand onto the young woman's shoulder for comfort.
"Just play along with the act, and I'll make sure the guy would leave you alone.."
"But Ayaka? What if any word would get into her?" She remembered Olga still standing outside of her room in her blue nightgown that looked too large for her fragile and thining body as her hair were left loose onto her shoulders as Lina wore simple formal clothes. Her freshed face had expressed her young age than she looked to be when she wore make-up before. Almost like a teen and an hella of alike like Nadia had been when she were at the club before. A grey longsleeved shirt with some tight black pants. She pushed an strawberry hair strand away from her face as she sighed back by trying to show up one of her best smile.
"Don't worry. Ayaka would not touch you for something you weren't ready or pushed to do. I'll take care of everything.."And since Olga was new and didn't asked for this unexplained matter to occur and basically cause there wasn't any of it here. It was only a lesson that Ayaka needed to understand before she could take the rules onto her own hands. And Kayla, wherever she was, she'll would be punished and twice as hard than Eva or Natasha had been lately.
"Yeah. Olga understands the situation and won't leave her room, till I say so.." She resumed back the situation as Su Li replied back through the phone.
"That's very good.."
"What about you? How would I know that you've already slid through the club without anybody noticing?" Lina had wondered back in wonder. Of how Sun Li was gonna to enter into the club without making an spetacular entrance. But the bussiness woman just chuckled back like a boss which made Lina feel a little uneasy.
"Don't worry about me, hon, I know my way in like I have had before. What I'm telling you is to focus on the guy and on Ayaka. While I make myself comfortable here and you better have the money ready, darling.."
"Su Li-"
"We've both had agreed on a twenty thousand bucks to destroy that bitch's face if you want Àlvarez away from her and by tonight.."
Unless Vincent would probably show up into that fight and to stop it in any moment. Lina hung up back her phone and looked around to see that the club had already started to fill up here with a few people as the music was starting to get louder here. But what if Ayaka didn't trusted her about the complaint? What if she wanted more, to be proven?
And of course since Ayaka was Àlvarez's new favorite and mysterious toy to play with, it was even tempting for him to resist and the fact it was making the new doctor suffer in silent as if he had already had known Ayaka from another lifetime and if only he had meet her before. It was strtange the way he had felt about her from before. What if Eva was right, what if Ayaka wasn't what she was supposed to be? And coming to a close sight, Lina had somehow had noticed that Ayaka looked familiar in a certain way. How? It was the question here. And from the way that Vincent kept his gaze towards and directly at this woman made her only jealous. Ayaka was a sick woman with a terrible and horrible condition to live for for the rest of her life and it didn't mattered if HIV was an controlable disease and by changing its behavior, it was still a risk to live with it. Unless you have known what to dealt with it. Lina had known about it ever since she was diagnosed with it. However, it felt that Àlvarez had only eyes for this mysterious and beautiful creature here. And threatening too.
She was wearing the necklace. That red and loathening red gem who was glowing up between her breasts. It gave the hitman some powerness into her own position here. Too bearable to hold onto her breath, Lina just fumed with her burning anger as tears were also starting to form up from the corner of her eyes here.
An beautiful creature who took the public's attention and including Vincent's as she stood over there at the public and was laughing along with the custumers as she held an billard stick as she had score a good record along with a few other female occupants who were high clapping her for marking up a victory to their corner here. Laughing Ayaka, was there with a nice blue and simple traditional blue asian dress and scoring up happily here. You were young and beautiful once, and it all took one night a deadly mistake to change it, forever. And somehow Ayaka was playing with fire here. By flirting with danger and risks, but with today's new science and medecine Ayaka seemed to have no trouble with her condition, unless she fakes it to be horribly sick here and with the antiviral medication she's been taking, she must have been very careful which meant changing her eating and less sugar and also less alcohol into her diet as Lina made these changings from the first day.
However for Ayaka, it seemed to the total reverse thing for an example she had been seen drinking a glass of bourbon. Nothing that could make her immune system go wrong here. It looked any drink or sweets wasn't making any effect to her at all. What a bitch. Life was a bitch after all.
"Lina.." An female voice had awakened her from her thoughts which made her head turn around. She saw Virgina coming by wearing a nice green dress which matched her eyeshadow make-up as her curly hair looked so enermous and falling onto her shoulders. She looked so gourgeous here. She walked by to the bar and leaned one of her elbow onto the bar's counter as her maghony eyes were facing hers.
"Virgina.."
"Would the money, be ready?" And yet, Su Li's assistant was only interested into something very important and it was the money, that the three of them had agreed before.
"Coming up soon. A drink?" Lina proposed to the bussiness woman who just declined with a shaking nod. So Lina dropped the important subject here through the loud music."Where's the guy?"
"Close up there and watching over your girl, right over there.." Virgina turned her head toward the dancing and loud crowd as she pointed a guy over away to the crowd who was also whispering something to an woman with with a nice purple short and sleeveless dress. She had long braids and dark skin which made her burst into giggles here. Jacob. He was Sun Li's hired guy. Lina had recognized him from the clothes he had been wearing and the attirance. He was a gorgeous young man and the very same one that had been paid to declare a false complaint to Lina and which it'll go through to Ayaka's hearing.
"And your boss?"
"Don't worry about my boss. She's got everything under control here. If I were you, I'd be focusing on trying to get my attention to my hitman here. As for the guy, everything's been handled.."Virgina had followed back with her look still observing the scene as she and Lina were both watching Jacob kissing his girl's cheek and stepped back as he went up to the bar's direction. He didn't looked like a drunk guy or delirious like Lina had guessed, but a little too much confident though. And that smile. Lina had seen that smile so many times before and it was the one whom any guy would get anything onto his power and to get what he ever wants.
"I'm here to make a complaint.."
"Come and tell.." However Lina had already known what this costumer had wanted as she folded her arms against her chest.
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"Want another drink, Aya?" Had yelled up an dark haired woman through the loud beeping up loud music up here as Cat had declined up her offer.
"No thanks, I'm okay.."Catherine had said loud enough to the other scoring girl standing next to her with a playful smirk as she pushed her brown locks away from her eyes. "Sorry, I'm already drunk here and if I take another glass, I might fall over the table and throw up.." She laughed back as she tried to steady herself onto the pool table. Trying to look drunk.
"Aw, that's too bad.. Kinda wished you could join up my friends and I to a few other drinking shots. Since I'm getting married in two days or so.."
"You're getting married? That's great!" Impressed, Catherine had expressed her joy to the dark long haired woman who wore a blue short dress and high heels along with a short white veil all over onto her head. But due to her melting make-up that was starting to show and fall onto her cheeks, including her mascara. Cat could tell that she had more than one glass, but since it was her playful time and last day as an bachelor, it was better to celabrate before hitching up with the promising guy here.
"Yeah, I know and these stupid guys standing right in front of you, were the pitiful pals that I had to go through with in college. They are very much like a bunch of gay men here.."The dark haired woman pointed back to the other guys as they were trying to walk away from being humiliated until one of them with a weird blond haircut and with a grey shirt and thin like a meercat had justified back.
"Hey, we're not gay!"
"Says the losers here.."The girl had said back with a chuckle as she waved back trying to hold on herself with her other two friends here. As the two other guys were frowning to her teasing face as they both slowly start to leave as Cat tried to hold herself from laughing as she greeted back the girls as they were parting theirs ways. Leaving the empty and drunken glasses onto the playing table. These kids, they had all the time to worry about hard things in the very next future to come but Cat had experienced at a such young age and pretty much like that woman who was ready to get married soon, at what twenty-three? Enough to still be at school, at that age. Unless, she dropped out when she found out that she had gotten pregnant from her boyfriend who would later ask her hand to get married.
And to Cat, who was nearly thirty-one year old and was still reconsidering her private life under strange circumstances and whom had been trying to protect a man with no future along the way for him. For them and not strong enough to defend their couple as she always managed to do so when he was in trouble or kissing the very next red haired woman into the picture. A lot to be taken for granted here for her efforts and strengths and to mention for love. She sighed up back as she closed up her eyes into defeat. No, it wasn't for Vincent. No.
But this time, it was different. Cat was doing it for a friend and not for a lover. Yalena's silent offer counted way better than Vincent's taken affairs here and it would help her to focus into more serious things than to spend her days trying to save a man who didn't wanted to be saved.
"Tired already?" Cat looked around before her eyes landed onto a frowning Lina who wasn't actually dressing up for a party tonight. "Thought you would have had left by now.." And with whom? Àlvarez? A little jealous, already? If so, it was the bartender's own stupid problem here and not hers.
"What's the problem?" Better get into bussiness, as Cat focused her attention back as Lina made herself clear.
"I've received another complain, earlier while you were busy on partying here-"But the dark haired woman waved back and stated that the bartender had just gotten her facts wrong. By defending herself.
"I wasn't partying here, but only giving some pleasure to a friend-"
"Which? To a man or to a woman?" With that sentence, Cat just gave her an perplexed stare as if she just had gotten insulted.
"Sorry, if Òliver and I did make so much noise to your precious discomfort.." Which it was the exact fact as Lina tried to not let herself fall down here.
"I wasn't talikng about your sexuality towards and only men, but that's not my problem here.."Lina wasn't interested about that much to Cat's relief but she could sense that the ex-bartenter wasn't telling the whole truth here. But why? That was strange as she continued to listen up onto the complain.
"Olga is still quite new to the job and as much we had told her to remain calm and confident, she freaked out and left the costumer unsatstified which he demanded an total refund.." Already here. That was a lot to handle, but since rules were rules it didn't mattered if the girl was afraid or not, she had something to have had done and yet she chickened herself out like a kid should have had done from what Cat calculated.
"So we're not talking about a mistake like it had occured with Eva? No?" It was weird to hear, though. Cat folded up her arms against her chest as she gave Lina a wondered up look. Not much convinced one.
"Far from that..I promised him to give his money back but only after Olga gets what she deserves first and wants a snapping picture out of it. For proof.."Lina tried to assure her, but Cat wanted to know more.
"Where's Olga, by now?" As if she had ever seen here around. Not even at once.
"Don't worry about that point.."Lina smirked back with a waving hand."Since she's a very good russian girl, she've taken up her punishement very seriously. She went down into the basement without any force from anyone.."That was quite an surprising move here for Cat to hear. With dealing with Natasha and Eva before with harsh force, it was something to hear that a woman like Olga who would turn herself into the lion's den and to wait there to be punished.
No human being would ever want to endure and wait for such torture to come around in any second. And yet, Olga was waiting for her, downstairs and like a big girl over there. It was strange, but if Cat asked too many questions she'll be treated like a weak failure.
"Aya?" Lina had asked back as Cat shook her head back trying to shake her ideas away.
"Can't blame the guy for being deceived after he had been neglected by an new girl." Cat sighed back as if she wasn't given much choice here but to do whatever she had been asking to do."Consider it done.."
"Good." The bartender just nodded back, but Cat had added something back up that had startled up Lina.
"Just call, Keller." With Vincent that had walked away earlier this afternoon, they might need his services and from the way he she had looked up at him with her tongue that had been occupied by another guy's mouth. He might come. It was a lesson he needed to learn and to be taught. Let him know how it feels to get your heart snatching away and to be broken by the only person who has total control to destroy it into pieces like he had done, so many times ago. But anyways, Vincent might be needed here, at this very moment if someone was about to get injured and this person might be Olga who would be inflected by the wounds that she would make her endure soon. However, the ex-dancer shook her head.
"Everything's all under control here. Just do what you're asken to do and there won't be any trouble here.." Lina had added back as she nodded back up with her eyes looking down as they were fixing the necklace. Precious necklace coming from Àlvarez."And by the way, nice necklace here.." Such jealousy coming from the ex-dancer here as Cat could scent it from Lina's envious eyes. Which she took with a pleasure smile on her face as she waved her long loose brown hair away from her back onto one shoulder here.
"Thanks. A gift from the boss, since he likes his girls pretty young too keep.."Cat had no guilty by espressing her words out as she greeted and wished the bartender an such nice evening before she walked away.
And without knowing whatever was gonna happen next.
The ex-dancer breathed through her nose and blinked up more than one to stop the falling tears out of her view, and they weren't sad tears but angry and frustrating tears. Still standing up onto her unmoving position, Lina whirled around and nodded up to someone who was still sitting up at bar.
Virgina had responded back with the very same nod as her eyes had never left the bartender's and took out her phone from her purse and started to dialed up open and let her fingers shift up and do their work. Probably to inform her boss that things were getting ready now. About to get moving. And while Virgina was working up on her text, Lina turned back around as her back stood away from the bar as she took her own phone out and started to reach out Vincent's number before she put up against her ear as she tried or more like hoped to hear Vincent's voice out. Which failed as she got up onto the messenger's phone.
"Hey, you've reached out to Vincent Keller's phone. Sorry that I'm not here to call back, but leave me an message and I'll call you back!"
Crap. He wasn't answering at all. She groaned back as she hung up. Damn. He might still be out to the woods after dealing up with a hard night like spending and trying to fix up Eva's wounds, and if this bitch ever wakes up soon, she'll gonna get what she deserves from the beginning if she ever gets caught up into a lie, and Lina won't need Ayaka's services but something else though.
Like an dangerous creature's doing to end someone's suffering, but as for Ayaka, she wouldn't need it.
Like them young, huh? Let's see, if Òliver would still like her with a patched up face.. If only, it woundn't be too late although. And then, out of sudden, Lina had an idea. She went back to her phone and started to work up on a text before she could send up into Vincent's phone. Just hope, he'll get it fast..
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Vincent had just come up from a heating up shower and had put up a towel to cover up around his thighs, after he had shut down the faucets and got a hold of his beeping phone that was laid up onto the sink. To see that someone had send him up a text. Still freaking drenched, he walked out from the bathroom as he unlocked up his phone's window and went up to his messengers section and this where he stopped all movement here. His eyes had rose up into anger.
"Another girl is about to get beaten and I'm not talking about any other girls, but Aya. Someone wasn't too happy with her services, lately." Lina. Damn it! Vincent just couldn't take it any of this long enough. Not only, Lina was dragging him into an arranged mess, but Catherine made him want to do as well. Damn it! Damn it! He cursed out though his breath as he thrown up his phone onto the couch and paced around the living room on barefeet as he he covered up his face with his palms. Trying to calm down and not let his anger getting out of control which would possibly lead up to unleashing out the beast's anger. Which he tried to avoid, unless he wanted his condition
And to think, that he only wanted to take a day off and taking some fresh air before going back into the club and maybe trying to stay from Catherine who had been trying push him away, lately. He just wanted to take a walk, got a sandwich with coffee out of the coffee-bar. Watched some TV as he lounged onto J.T.'s empty black leathered and long couch and took a shower trying to stay away from the mirror because of the lacerations that were starting to take over and especially onto his back. Which he had all done. Until Lina had texted up which had awakened up his senses.
Crap. He didn't wanted to rush up there and if he didn't then why did he felt his heart racing up in anxiety whenever it was about Ayaka? No, about Catherine? It's because you're still in love with her, you dumbass! And if he wasn't, he wouln't be walking around almost butt and drenching up naked, at all. Damn it. He stopped his walk and put up his hands onto his waist and sighed as he looked around into the room for something to seek up. Or more like a problem to solve. Damn, where was J.T. when he needed him? His good peep talks had often found its way to calm him down through a hard situation. But since, he was into witness protection against his will and because of Regan-No, because of Carl. That son of bitch! He sure was celebrating once he had heard that not only his soon ex-wife and friends were locked into witness protection because of his stupid ass..
And therefore, Vincent should be as well with them at the moment, but doing what? Staying put into a cage, while the cops would try to stop the bad guy? No. Unlike them, Vincent had known how to defend himself, but when it came to women like Catherine and Regan, he wasn't so damn sure, anymore. And Tori? Oh God. He didn't even apolegized for attacking and nearly had to kill her here into The Gentleman's Club's own bathroom and if it wasn't for J.T.'s drugging him down...Who knows what could have had happened?
Don't even think about it! And besides, Tori was unreachable here for almost a month now and the risk of becoming an evil beast was over now, and yet, he feared that the same thing was gonna happen to Catherine. The more she stays under radar with the evil people, the more she's gonna lose herself and humanity towards them, such like he almost had before. Think, Vincent, Think..
But he didn't had the time to think, cause he had already made his mind by rushing up to his old bedroom and fast enough. And something deep down into his heart, he felt that something bad was gonna happen to Catherine, if he didn't get there into time.
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Meanwhile while Vincent had been pacing around into J.T.'s living room, Catherine was trying to make her way to the basement despite the darkness and the wetting floor and yet, it wasn't so easy go through within the darkness. Lina hadn't told her where Olga was supposed to be found into which cage. But it was the strange feeling that didn't left her alone anyways. It was how confident and quiet that Lina had sounded tonight through her confession. It didn't felt like she was lying but calculating in some ways although.
"Olga? Are you here?" She wondered back as she walked through the dark and looked up from left to right to the six empty cages. It was a strange and tricky feeling here which she didn't liked to feel.
And somehow, Catherine felt she wasn't going to find Olga pretty easily, anyways. Wasn't it, a trap? She couldn't bet on it. What if Tess was right? Wasn't starting to have begun far more dangerous than she thought it would be? This cold case, wouldn't it be better if she surrundered herself and let the cops take over and bring Vincent away from all this mess? She had noticed his bruises all over his back and it did something though. A beast like him would never get sick. It was just impossible, other than surviving, exploding catastrophies and gunshots, nothing else could kill Vincent. No?
Vincent did looked invicible, but not much when someone had tried to eliminate him from before. Like her father once had done before, and when she had shot him without any hesitation. A gunshot that had almost claimed his life, if it wasn't for this bitch spoiled brat Tori who had gotten him into the beast side and that nearly killed him because of her choices. But he wasn't with her anymore, then why the worry? Cat just shook her head as she snapped her eyes shut as she tried to calm down her nerves when she stopped her feet from moving.
Stop worrying about him! It wouldn't do anything better. A beast stays a beast, and Vincent is just one of them. Not better and getting worse than ever. The man you thought he was, is gone and dead. Your father did this to him and had him killed..Had him killed? That was far too much to judge. The old Vincent was still here and himself had tried to justify himself before and even had begged her to believe him, but she didn't. Cat had only stated that the man she had known and loved was gone. Vincent couldn't believe it and was stunned as shock when he couldn't move or do anything to help her out because he had known that everything that had been them the couple they used to be were gone.
"Catherine, don't do this.."His voice and his eyes, were begging for her love and forgiveness. He was there begging for her like an hopeless man while she didn't wanted to hear anything as her decision was made clear. If it was, then why did her heart felt like it was about to explode? Because, it says that it wasn't the right thing to do. However, Catherine didn't wanted to listen to it, anymore. She had better things to do now.
So much lost into her memories that she hadn't expecpted any sudden noise coming afar and from behind her back as the loud and exploding blow that came over the back of her head was an total surprise. Letting out a suprising shriek out of her voice, Cat whirled around into the darkness as she tried to avoid the next blow as she punched hard when her fist had come across into someone's face and even had heard something break mostly her attacker's jaw as both her breathings were heard.
"You bitch!" Had yelled a woman's voice with a thick accent like an banshee as Cat tried to slowly move into the dark getting her fists and her feet ready into the defensing move as she had been taught many years ago into self-defense class. But as Catherine tried to move her leg up higher up to the air to attack up again her attacker, she had been pushed up back with a blinding blow by her attacker's leg that went up faster than she had realized and had dropped her down onto the ground with a hard thump through her head as she had lost complete consciousness.
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Okay. That was it. It was a pretty hard chapter to finish up until now. Something to do while you're being locked up into quarantine, but thankfully, my job is just downstairs of my home and since restaurants are an essential meaning for food and especially for those who feel locked up and alone in Montreal, it's a good place to come up and order something as a take out or delivery. But we'll get through it one day. Sorry for being late and thank you again for your support, beasties!
PS: I hope Vincent would get there in time to save Cat, and looks like Tess might get stucked up with two cases here and with Medina trying to track down Cat and Vincent, it would not be easy. And with Reynolds that had threatened him, Medina wouldn't stop for anything. Happy Easter and I hope I'll see you again, guys..
