Alone in her room, Olga sat onto her bed looking to be pretty startled. She couldn't helped herself but to feel this way and even lying in order to punish another woman who had just done her own job as she been told do so. And Ayaka was getting punished for having to do her own job by hitting up Eva who had only kept their secret safe from being exposed to Lina and Àlvarez.

Kayla was just as young as she had been and yet was away in order to be safe from all the tortureous stuff that had been planned for her from the start. Not all girls went into this club by their own will. Not all all of them were like Gretchen or Eva or even nicer like Alicia and Natasha. Oh No. And yet, this what they were obligated to do for a living for as long as they could live and hopefully not ending up to go through a such a hard and dying fate like it had been for Helga, Alicia or even Gretchen who crossed the point of no return and with Eva and Yalena's lives hanging into a very tight balance. Olga snapped her eyes shut as that name so much as she wished she could spit onto it. Yalena. Why did she had to be such a sneaky bitch? Why had she done that to herself, putting herself into such pain, to bring Àlvarez into trouble?

The man had done nothing wrong. Olga believed so. Yalena had been nothing but a noisy bitch. Unless she had been trying to expose his real nature. No. It just couldn't be.

Many people would start to ask questions here. How the club had started its bussiness with what kind of money with theft or with blood money here. She heard rumors that Lina or even Àlvarez had been involved with organ traffic from before or even with human trafficking as they had all the control neccesary to order and bring over innocent people from the outside world for work. Like it had been her situation. She could barely speak any perfect english and yet she had been ordered to come up here into USA for a better job and for a better living in here.

Boy, she was wrong from the start.

She had been ordered and told to replace another woman who had mysteriously disappeared from a very longtime. An worthless and inacapable woman whom they had once called Nadia. People had said that she had mysteriously ran away and must have had died from her injuries and later the same thing had come up with Helga, Alicia and Gretchen and maybe for Eva and Yalena. They might even die. That new doctor and famous hero of war, Vincent Keller didn't understand the situation or even the why all the girls were forced to go on into this way and simply because when they had no choice or so and simply when their own families were poor and had possibly nothing else to earn, mostly it was the case for Olga's family. Poor russian people. Her father and mother had both ran out of money and had been looking and seeking up for work in the cold winter back up there in Russia in order to feed their five children. Two older daughters much as herself and three young boys. And whenever she could and find the money she had earned after a very long week, Olga would send to them like a total and best exemple that a great illegal immigrant would have to do to feed her family she had been away from.

And yet, she felt so ashamed. It wasn't supposed to be like this. Just. if her loving family had known what she had been doing for these three months away from home? Would they be able to still love her, as they had before? Or would they let the guilt go deeper into their own hearts, for letting her down and letting her force to take such awfull job that no woman would want to take? Vincent Keller was new to all this mess and yet he was gong to bear all suffering that any escort would have to go under their own hitman. It was their destiny. To any women who worked under Àlvarez's name and club. It was sad but it was the way they had agreed from the first place. However, it still wasn't fair to the other people much like all others doctors that had went in to take care of the girls and without saying any word. But not much for Vincent Keller, although. He was a man whose own mind wouldn't certainly not go on without finding its own truth. He was smart and stuborn and also very determinated. He would definally have his word be out with the events that had occured lately with Ayaka's work being done. Oh God. What a horror to have been a witness to these tragic mesures. As much like Ayaka was making the nightmare happening and might be the be living it by now. Oh God. But what about Lina, in all this? Despite her fragile appearence and silent behavior, Lina could also be evil despite her show off well manners and especially when the people of her own entourage had been hurt...Wait a minute, here. Olga blinked up back at that thought, completely stunned as the puzzle was finally making much more sense now.

Oh Crap!

If Lina was doing all this by setting up this plan by making up a fake excuse like a costumer that wanted to get his money back and get the girl attacked, it was only for one thing which she couldn't put her foot onto the exact answer to specify it. But Olga had known that it all started back after Eva gotten herself beaten for covering up someone who wasn't even here to begin with and took the blame for it. But something else had happened along the way. Being silent and obidient as she was told to do when she was working up into the club, Olga had noticed from a certain distance that Lina was looking up to Vincent Keller not only as a professional way but with desire and envious from afar. However, it looked like his own heart was racing up for Ayaka, who was moving all over and getting Àlvarez's desire attention here. Almost heart broken as Lina watched him wasting his attention away for a bad woman with bad enfluence. It all made sense here. It was about revenge and Lina had somehow wanted to make Ayaka pay for the mess she had made-

A knock was heard from outside which had awakened her from her thoughts. Gathering up all the courage she had, she stood up onto her feet and went up to open up the door to reveal an petrified Natasha standing on the doorstep and still into her black and silk nightgown. And to be petrified she was sure as scared as well. Olga tried to speak out on a perfect language, but her accent came out through the woman's name.

"Natasha!"

"You need to come over with me and now!"Oh God. Natasha looked like she was about to explode out as the blond haired woman had stepped back looking uncertain as she looked back behind and back up to her friend as she pointed back from behind her back.

"But Lina told me to stay-"

"Forget what Lina had told you!" The dark haired woman breathed through as rushing words had come out from her mouth and without any hesitation here."It's Eva!" At this name, Olga's own eyes had widened up into shock.

"What happened?" However, Natasha shook her head for answer. "She woked up and demanded us to come over to her room! I think she knows something about Ayaka's real identity!" Ayaka's real identity? What was supposed to mean? That she was being a prick or that she had managed to trick them all from the start? No. It had to be a very fictionized thing coming up from an delusional Eva. They often said that the truth often comes out from the drunk of a child, unless Eva is still under the drugs that Vincent Keller had been given to her recentely..

The truth often comes out. And especially if it had anything to do with Lina being jealous over Ayaka, if she knows something about the hitman, it just might be it.

...

Tess made an grunting face as she pushed back the door of the warehouse with her heel while her gloved hands were holding-not clutchering up the bags that she and Cheng had ordered from that Thai restaurant they've been through earlier and until the guy decided to leave her on her very own way.

What a true gentlemen.

And to consider how cold the weather had been tonight, he was no use. It was only after they've waiting for their order to come up around, Cheng had received up an call and mostly from the precinct station stating that he was needed to the front coming up from Captain Ward as he proclaimed with a frown and had appolegized to Tess as he stepped back from the waiting line.

"No, it's fine.."

"I'm very sorry, Vargas-"

"Don't bother. Just go.." She had cut him off with a waving hand as she gestured him to move away."I'll handle it. And besides, it might be important maybe Ward had an important information gone up like Ciccotelli from SDPD had finally shown up.." Like an cop would definally show up late from the airport. In a time like this. If it was possible. But Cheng had only shook his head looking like Bruce Lee would have done or so into his younger years.

"Once again, Vargas, I feel so sorry to leave you all the mess to you to handle.."He appolegized back and without hearing her say anything else, he had backed away as he had pushed the door as if the devil was looking out for him. Shh. That guy was still a pure mystery for Tess other than knowing Medina from her brothers. Cheng Nuygen was a man that Tess herself couldn't probably trust and it didn't matter if they worked up together to solve up a murder, he still wasn't worth trusty and he even had that look that makes you wonder if he is a bad person or not.

And for Tess. He sure wasn't. She leaned back up to the door and closed up her eyes as she let out a deep sigh. All men looked weird and untrust worthy for her, however not so much when it came out for J.T. Forbes. The guy had just come out from a non existent relationship with a collegue because of Vincent's departure coming up from Murfield and had confided her a terrible secret and the only reason of why he had felt so demanding to solve every problem when it came to Vincent's own safety. He put him up into this mess and made him who he was today. Condemining him to be a beast because of his own fault.

It was J.T.'s fault, but also Vincent's. Had he known better, he woudln't have had jumped up into this mess and wouldn't have had saved Cat, if it went the other way. Cat would have been killed and Vincent would have had married Alex, if this mess hadn't had happened. She wouldn't have had meet her partner and bestfriend either. Oh God. It made Tess go all weird also, poor J.T. That he had to take all the blame for Vincent's mistakes which she hated him for and made Cat take the guilt onto her shoulders. Which she was now doing some undercover work in order to forget her ex-boyfriend. However, when Vincent had followed up to keep her safe, it only made things way worse. But lately, ever since he broke off with Tori, Vincent seemed to be more in control with himself, like he had before. He seemed like he really cared for Catherine, this time and how hurted and heartbroken he looked like whenever his ex-girlfriend was taken pleasure on attacking these sluts as they often reminded her of the way her relationship with Vincent had ended up. Because of mistresses. Because of Tori. Cat and Vincent had everything under control and were finally had found their way to get back together as they used to, until Curt Windsor's innocent and spoiled and stupid daughter had come out along. At first, it didn't bothered Cat, but after that stupid kiss and from the way that Tori had a bad influence into Vincent which had made him look more worse. It was just enough for Cat to bear..

"You came up late, pal.." Tess opened up her eyes to see both J.T. and Ash walking down stairs with Ed walking by from behind J.T.'s footsteps. The two of them were exhausted pretty much as she was when she stood up into the ground. And only J.T. had noticed her tiredness through her features though.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Just a little tired.."Tess waved back with the bags she held up."I brought some food. Hope you like some Thai food.."

"Oh. God. I'm starving up here. Thanks for passing by.."Ash had replied first as he took the bags from her hands."Here, let me help. You look tired, detective.."

"Been a long night.."

"Busy at the precinct?"

"You know me..Manhattan never sleeps.."She grumbled back with her words too much for J.T.'s hard stare as her brown orbs shifted up to meet his and then to Ash's."Everything's okay here? No problems?" The warehouse looked desert with two floors. Kitchen and living room with a flat screen TV with a coffee table. While upstairs, it had four to six bedrooms. Seven with only one bathroom where the bathtub was non functioning but an useful shower was doing its work for the meantime.

"Quiet pretty much. I kinda miss butchering up a few bodies and the work at the precinct. I mean just started there after Evan passed away. I kinda got attached to it, you know?" Ash had followed back as the female detective nodded back."Other, then having to deal with Jeffrey's sarcarsm and Regan's kid being all silent which gives me creeps and with Miguel looking up like a wolf with a rifle to his hold. It still gives me creeps.."

"Sorry?"

"Yeah. Regan's boyfriend used to be a cop and a bodyguard a longtime ago back there where they've had meet. Guess old habits die hard though.."

"And Regan?" Tess followed back as Ash wanted to answer back but J.T. had cut up back. "She's okay. Just do her own grocery shopping when she has to go out, a cop keep on following up onto her every move and everywhere she goes. So, if you're asking if we had seen Carl around here. Nope.." He sighed back."And I haven't heard any word coming out of her saying that she wanted to take care of Carl on her own, either.."

"Okay.." Tess followed back. Damn. One less problem to take care off. Unlike the situation with Dana whom still wanted Cat to take care of the investagation despite if it was all of a mess that could cost up Cat's own sanity though and humanity. Damn, she hated that case and it was hurting her friend, not only physically but emotionally as well. And probably Vincent too. The way Cat had handled him was horrible though and especially after she had to beat up Eva and from the way, it had been recorded through cameras. Tess was gonna have a few nightmares and sleepless nights after Àlvarez would be passed through handcuffs. She was tired and wanted to go away for a while. And even worse, she wanted to bursts down into sobs which it was so much unlike her and for a weird thing thing, J.T. had noticed that she needded as well. Something to release up from her chest and from all these mixed up emotions that were taking place here.

"Uh, Ash? Why don't you go upstairs with the food? Tell the others, I'll join them up soon, okay?"

"Sure thing. I'm starving like a horse anyways. I'll leave Ed with you, though.." The dark haired man had followed up as he took the takeout bags and turned away as he jogged up onto the stairs leaving the professor and the female detective along with the dog whom had slowly went to Tess's dark boots as he put his head to her leg and whinned as he demanded a little scratch from this brave lady here. She looked down to the golden retriever with a brave smile."You have a nice dog, buddy.."Her fingers went to patted up Ed's head before they went to scratch up his ears. Feeling up her heart like it wanted to explode here and in out of nowhere here. And somehow J.T. had figured out that she wasn't doing any okay, either. If the moon had a short time through every winter, she must be crying at the moment.

"You okay, Tess?"

"I'm alright. I just need to go back to work and watch the tapes through the club.."

"You need a break. You can't keep going on like this-" She shook up her head but he wasn't dumb enough like Ed had known that something was bothering up with her as well.

"You don't understand. I have too! For your buddy and Cat-"

"Regan is fine here with us-"

"It's not Regan I'm talking about!" She cut him off as her eyes looked up to J.T.'s eyes as she breathed through her nose."It's Vincent and Cat here. Both of them, that I can't get my mind away.."

"Tess-"

"I can't keep on watching Cat hurting other girls like this. It's like she was taking back on Vincent for what he done to her before. With Alex and Tori-"

"You do know that with Alex, he had no other choice but to pretend to play dead in order to for her to be saved from Murfield,. Damn it. Tess, he couldn't even say goodbye until last year! Don't you understand that? But with Tori.." J.T. had interrupted back trying to defend Vincent but not much for the other red haired woman here. Tori had only made him become a monster and took him away from Cat who was supposed to be his savior from the darkness and yet she had let him down. Which it only made him worse, until Vincent managed to step away from Tori's bad influence. It was hard enough but he did overcome it and reclaimed his humanity and his memories back. All this on his own."But not Tori. She made him worse and nobody had noticed it or prevented from happening it. I didn't even. I supported it because I was too upset after Cat had shot him but now that I know.."

"And Goddamnit, she had good reason to do it, or else he wouldn't be the only human being to take all the shattered pieces and to fix them up because of her doing.." Taking all the pieces for Cat? What the heck Tess was talking about? J.T. took a step toward her as he took ahold of her arms, not too tight but enough for him to shake her as his eyes went wide with full of worry.

"What are you talking about? What happened to Vince?" The female detective shook her head as she tried to control the awaitening shaking sobs from her throat as she stepped back from his hold.

"It's Cat. She is the one who is hurting him and it's not only the situation about the girls, but also with his emotions here. I know it, because I have seen it."Tess added back up as she ran up her fingers through her hair as she looked back up at him. With ushed tears. "I think, she's losing it. For sure when it comes to attack the girls as a revenge to get back at Vincent. However, this time, I think it's Vincent whose taking the blame for her."

...

The falling water dropping was the awakening call that had made Cat wake up as her eyes fluttered up open through the darkness. Everything was pitch black here and yet so unfamiliar than she had figured out here. And. Oh boy, her head ached so bad. The back of her head as she tried to prop herself to her elbows and winced at the grunting pain when she rose up her palm to the back of her head which she had felt an bad bruise onto her touch and through her hair.

Just what the heck had happened?

Cat was trying to recollect the past events that had happened earlier. She had been called to fix up something as Lina had told her to do so, which she had done by going downstairs. However, Olga wasn't there. Nobody was there at the cage or any cage and since it was so dark out there, she couldn't destinct anything else. And then came out the blow. As it someone was sent to attack her from Olga's place here. And then nothing. Something bad must have had happened. But what?

Through the darkness, Cat tried to pierce up through the place but to see nothing but an empty place filled up with bars and a small space with a trashy and unfonctionned and bad scent of a toilet throught the tight corner which was a couple centimenters away from her sight. She was locked up into a cage. A very similiar one close up to the underground cages where prisoners were left to die alone and very far from the ones she've taken pleasure but to hit when it was needed and ordered to do or so. A lost way out to the light and mostly when there were no light or even cameras around..

Wait. No cameras? How come?

With a wincing grunt as she shut down her eyes in pain, Cat sat down and looked up to the ceiling and noticed that there were no cameras or an flashing up light hanging up there. At all. It wasn't the basement. The club's basement. No. Somethiing was very wrong here and it wasn't natural. It was so unknown with nobody watching over her anymore. Unless, someone must have her blown up her cover-No!

"Get a grip, Cat.." She cursed onto her breath to herself. It was impossible that someone must have her had blown up her cover. Unless it was Eva or maybe Vincent. A word could have had slipped up by mistake. No. Not Vincent, but Eva? She could forcedly remember the woman that had recognized her from before and must have had said something before and if she did, it only meant revenge. Even by dying into her sheeding blood. But by whom? By Eva or Lina? This woman had been jealous ever since the day she had started to get Àlvarez's attention and had somehow managed to get her nails under her skin. Oh Crap.

"It is such a pity to ruin up a such pretty dress, like yours here.."An unfamiliar voice was heard through the background as her ears pearked through the sound. A female voice with a accent. A thick accent, asian maybe? Cat whirled her head through the sound to distinct where the voice was coming from.

"Who are you?"

"So your name is Cat? It fits you more than Ayaka here.."The voice laughed back at her shaken breath as Cat realized that she was about to be diqualifed by the first person who had managed to get her blown up by her own reckless mistake. She was shocked. Damn. Someone must have her had heard about her cover or maybe told about her cover. Damn, that stupid Eva. It was all about revenge for sure and Lina had gotten the last word of it.

"Well. I suppose the impostor isn't going to talk any longer.."

"What do you want?"

"Let's say I was paid off to destroy that pretty face of yours. So that Àlvalrez wouldn't even bear to look up at you anymore.."A click up sound was heard as the door of the cage was being pulled up open and as a few footsteps were heard as they walked in close to her direction."I'd like to see his reaction when he'll discover you all bruised up here.."

"Unless, it is your face that he'll see it first..."Cat had muttured back through the dark as she slowly stood up onto her feet here when a flashlight had appeared throught the place and through her sensitive eyes as she brought up a hand to the light as she tried to block up someone and someone very bad that many people of her kind have recognized from. An elegant woman with dark long hair that had been held up unto a messy and loosen up bun who was wearing nothing but a white and tight up but shortened up dress to her thighs had been but nothing and wickiedly stared up at her worried up face as she held up her flashing up phone as Cat could distinct up her amused and darkened eyes and with her bruised up lip through the light.

Su Li.

...

He scent the supscious look coming out from Lina's dark eyes as she had managed to create the perfect plan to get rid of the hitman. And especially after she had texted Keller through her hiding corner and through the crowd. What a bitch. One way or another, Keller was going to find that Lina was nothing more than of a jealous freak with a ugly past. She wasn't a victim to her actions, not saying that getting HIV was her own fault, but for something else that was undeniable. Someone setting up for a murder, she like had planned Gretchen's murder.

She wasn't an innocent person but bad through everyone's eyes. Including his own.

He wasn't the one being fooled as everyone else had been just Keller had been, but he had known that someway or another, the ex-soldier would always come up to rescue the girl. Ayaka or Cat..

Yes. He had known who Ayaka actually was. Someone with a mystery and new eye that would probably blown him over if she ever stepped into his way if she crossed his path. She wasn't dumb and especially, he had been noticed that ever since she and Keller had looked to each other's eyes back at the police station before.

He growled through his throat as he walked away from the basement and fast as he made himself invisible just as he stormed into the club before. He had something to fix up before someone else's curious stare had even had the chance to check it up.

And Catherine Chandler's partner had a precious and careful eye to check up at.

...

Cat blinked up but twice as she looked up at the woman standing in front of her. It told her something, but who was this woman once again? All elegant and gracefully beautiful? She had no clue until that small and little cicatrix on her big chest had told her something. No. It wasn't Sabrina. Cause that wickied matchmaker had been shot and killed by her own gun. Cat had remembered after getting herseelf into a crashing car accident as she had tried to catch with Vincent.

But that woman? She could only meant...Oh! Wait a minute! Cat shook back her head. She narrowed her eyes as she had examined the scar. It wasn't her who had took the shot, but Tess. Tess was the one who was taking the chase first by catching the an prostitute who had been rumoured to have had killed her ex-husband and sister as she had tried to push the evidence to another sex worker who looked as innocent like a doll, almost six years ago. She had remembered that incident when she and Tess had been the only and first female police officers as they had both chased back a woman who was barely naked and was running onto her feet by when it was only near winter time. Cat remembered trying to come up to the chase as Tess had finally managed to catch up the woman back at some lonely hallway through the bronx had fought like hell as the two women were onto each other until a gunshot was heard.

Tess's gun had been heard as Cat catched up back to see a shaken Tess standing up onto her feet and backed away from the woman who was lying up down with an gunshot wound onto her chest.

"Tess, are you okay?"

"Call an ambulance, Cat.."Tess managed to talk as her hand which held the gun was now shaking terribly as Cat approached back by observing her friend's face. Her lip was trembling as the lying woman remained still onto the ground with blood."I think I've killed her.."

"Don't think so..Su Li is still breathing here.." She shook her head as she pressed her friend's shoulder with comfort. Her shaking shoulder, she almost had added back. Tess turned up to look back at her as she shivered but with fear? A tough woman shouldn't be afraid of killing or taking a shot to a villian to stop its chase from two chasings cops.

"Calm down and give me the gun. I'll check her up. Joe, would rather be glad that we managed to stop the real culprit and even if it means that one of us had to shot her up to stop her from hurting anybody else anymore.." Damn. Poor Tess..Right. That woman's name was Su Li Zhang. And the very same one that was standing right here in front of her. But how come she had gotten herself out from prison? How? Unless, she did had some good conections, which meant this nice meeting here. Wasn't for revenge? Su Li did aged good through the last six years when Tess and herself crossed paths before. She did some jail time, until she had gotten away from behind the bars..

"Hey, I'm right here!" Taken up back by an surprising slap that went accross her cheek, Cat had almost fell back onto the ground, but held on onto her feet. Damn. That was such a hard slap that made her head spin. Her attention went back to Su Li whose reaction was fuming but angrilly as air went out through her nostrils. "Have you heard that staring at someone was rude, Chandler?"

"You know my name?" Catherine managed to speak out as the tall woman snickered back. "A pretty face like yours is hard to forget and especially when you tried to console your stupid bestie, after shooting me, six years ago.."

"After you've killed your husband and sister together, right.."Cat wipped off the blood from her lip."You've tried to put the blame onto another woman's name-"

"That bitch had nothing better to do but eyesdroppng up at my actions and my coins. I was an escort and managed to make my way up to create my own bussiness. I had to cover my actions-"Su Li fumed back. "But you and your sneaky partner managed to blow up my cover.."

"What can I say? Female power had always a better impact than guys have.."

"That bitch. If only it had been Vargas had been your place, I would have shot up to her bitchy ass-"But Cat had blocked up her reply as she swung up her leg right through Su Li's face as the woman fell down by surprise. Blown up by the sudden attack, Su Li rose up by her elbows as her blood trail was shown up to the corner of her face. However, Cat stood up with her fists up and pushed her left leg back putting up herself into fight mood as she had been taught to do from defensive classes.

"I think you talk way too much here, and besides I'm a better fighter than that Vargas girl. Now, get up and fight me.." Cat had challenged back and trying to not let any fear come to up to her head as she deeply wanted to gain back control onto her own life and it wasn't an ex and expired stripper who's gonna make her go weak even if it meant into one night.

...

Through the loud crowd that was stinging up his ears lately, Vincent pushed himself away through the drunk and dancing people. Even, if he still wasn't much comfortable with it after being a longtime away from the public. Or more was making his way out or in. Damn. He needed to make his way through to Catherine. Didn't mattered if she hated him or not, a part of him wanted her to be saved and somehow, he felt that Lina had been behind it. That useless bitch was somehow behind it.

Cause her message seemed to be too weird, in a certain way. Now that he had taken some time to think about as he had made his way up here. He believed that the ex-stripper had something to do about it and jealousy was the mean reason. With the way she had warned him to stay away from Catherine as if she had known better to judge some stranger which she wasn't. He had known Catherine better than she did as he had recollected most of his memories back. Lina seemed to be too calm through her words. Hitmen were known to have had ennemies from work, but for Catherine's situation, she didn't had any and from the way that Lina had been staring up at her. It did looked like it was jealousy. It hell, sure was. Vincent groaned back as a drunkie stranger had almost fell into his way which he pushed away as he continued his way out of the crowd. Jealousy was a pure sickness that had no cure to be rescued from and had always ended up bad. However, for Lina it was much more. She had romantic feelings for him, but he doesn't.

Because, he didn't had any sentimental feelings for her. Just like it had been for Tori. For Lina, it had nothing but compashionship and understatement, but nothing more. But for Tori, it had been worse, as if she had eating up and surroundding up to his beast side even more which made things worse for him to deal with. And somehow, Lina wanted more than being a bussiness friend kind. But with Cat, it was way more and good to keep on going up on living. Oh God. Vincent grabbed his temple as he shut his eyes concentrating up onto the recent pain he felt from before. It frightened him, horribly. Life onto tracking. If he still had some tracked up time on living. He noticed that his own heart beating felt like it was blocking up as he had been running up from J.T.'s club to the bar. He felt his heart was about to block or having an attack and made him want to clutch it up into pain. He felt like it wanted to stop.

He needed to find a way to stop it. But how? How, could he manage to stop something invisible that only him had the knowning? He was poisoned and from what? From Catherine's red gem. Not Rebecca's green gem, but an unknown gem that he has no control over. He has to warn her before she could lose herself to the darkness, or else he may have to blown up her cover if she goes far too far. Either Tess or J.T. may have the right to know because Catherine has gone too far now.

"Lina!" He shouted back up at the crowd where he spotted the strawberry haired woman who was standing up behind the bar. She seemed to be into her job or focused to her own doing as she served a client a drink before she looked up at him as he stepped over to the bar.

"Vincent! You want a drink?"

"Drop the drink. You told me to come over which I have by now." He dropped out quick before he could catch himself. His feelings were almost getting in the way and hoped it wasn't showning up to the barmaid's face."Where's Ayaka?"

"I don't know what you're talking about.."

"You do know. You sent me a text and told that Ayaka has been into trouble. So, I'm not gonna ask you again. Where the heck is she?"

"Like I said. I don't know what the heck you're talking about.." She was trying to play ignorant here as if she had no idea, but unless she wanted him to sneak around until he could find Cat, but lying up onto her own blood. It was definately revenge and from the way Lina had been trying to warn him off of staying away from Ayaka. From Cat.

"That's two different meanings you've said here. By 'the I don't know what you're talking about' to 'the I don't know what the heck you're talking about.' So. Don't try to mess up with my words here.."Vincent had pushed back through her own words, and getting irritated. He didn't tolerate on being fooled at and especially by an red haired woman, even if Lina didn't looked like one, though.

"Why is that?"

"Think again.."Vincent had released up a deep sigh as he dropped up a sigh and dropped down his phone onto the counter, revealing up her message that she had send a hour before. But for the ex-soldier, it seemed more than hour but a lifetime as much as his heart who seemed to block up the blood from going in made worse for him to bear.

"Vincent.."

"You've seemed too calm to me, when you've texted me. It sounded weird and yet, you're denying it where Ayaka is by now.."

"Hitmen would always have its back checked, as if it was a curse and you should know about it.."Lina breathed up as she put her hands onto her hips as she fumed over him as her heartbeat did tell him what he suspected from her to believe. It was beating too fast as if she was afraid to be caught up to lying. And yet. Vincent wasn't playing dumb when someone was lying here and especially when Catherine might end to be in danger. But knowning her, she'll be able to fight back but for how long?

"Last time. Where's Ayaka?"

"I don't know.." Her heart was beating as she was sweating through her brow as the dark haired man had been observing. He was getting tired of being of her games and of her lies. He wanted out and out of this nightmare of her club.

"This is where you're lying.." He felt like getting angry here. Even felt the beast rising up from deep inside of him. Lina was playing around with him and he had known it. She was trying to play with him and wasting time as well. As she looked up away as she tried to make up another drink.

"How would you know?"

"I know when someone's lying to me.."He looked hard as his fists clutchered up into white."And you're lying up to my face, here."

"I'm not lying-" Damn right, she was as she tried to move away from the bar as he got grabbed her elbow and a little harder and tighter as if his nails and growling clawing nails. Of a beast were almost clinging up to her which had startled her up from his sudden movement. Lina tried to move away as Vincent had clung up to her and tight until he could hurt her for real. "Let me go. You're hurting me, Vincent.."She dropped out as a weak revealation but he remained his move onto her.

"If you weren't then why, wouldn't you look up to me, if you say so?" She looked back at him to glance up at his cold eyes. Cold hazel eyes who were staring back at her and might have stripped her out her heart out from its ribcage if she dared to lie once again to his face. Beast or not, he looked just as terrible if she dared to attack him back. "Lina.." He growled as she almost snapped out when threatenening tears wanted to come out from the corner of her eyes as she tried to move her elbow but couldn't.

"Maybe because you deserve better than dating up with a monster.." So, it was true. Lina did consider Catherine as a threat and even through, his ex-girlfriend was playing the bad guy here to get information on the soon ex-husband of an friend. She had to be taken for a bad guy here. Even if she had to lose her humanity to make it look convincible and might break up his damaged heart by her tracious behavior as she was slowly starting to embrace as he had been witnessing it from that time onto the basement after she had attacked Eva and Natasha.

"Excuse-me?"

"Ayaka is a monster, Vincent and no matter what you're trying to do won't change or turn her into a saint. So stop dreaming, Keller-"

"It's not gonna work if you making up thtreats to me or try to even reasonate me. I can tell you're lying here and it's all over your face.." It was damn real here. And it didn't mattered if she tried to save him in a certain way. He didn't wanted anything of it. He was old enough to decide with whom he wanted to be with and he was certain that it wasn't by being with Lina was gonna change it.

"So, what are you gonna do? File a missing person? And expecially an hitman, do you really think, they're gonna buy it?"

"I'm like a sort of hero figure to the cops over there and a few wanted me to work as a consultant for them after the hostage situation."Vincent followed up back as he dropped her forearm away from his hold."And, if a hitman's body is shown up onto the street, there's gonna be a lot questions whispering around and cops showning up to the club for negletting some important evidence. So you better come up with the truth.." It made Lina fragile at this sentence. Tremble even as if she had gotten trapped into her plan. She looked down onto the floor as she brought up her injured arm to rub the invisible pain away like a child or trying to look innocent like one.

Which she wasn't at all. Because everything coming out from her was just a buch of an undying lies as Vincent could smell from her and especially when she was looking away from him.

"I don't know where's Ayaka..So, don't waste your breath, Vincent. You're better than being with her-"

"I do know.."Alarmed up by that tiny voice which he had been able to hear and to Lina's stunned and gasping sound. Both Vincent and herself turned theirs heads over the owner's voice.

Olga.

"Olga. Just shut the freak-" Lina tried to shut the girl as the blond haired woman decided to speak up for herself and stood up bright and aloud here despite the loud screaming up music. Vincent could hear her just perfectly as his attention dropped away from Lina to the woman with the tiny voice here.

"Su Li has Aya. Eva has awakened up and told me. Su Li has her. To her club.."Olga. That little girl with the blond hair who had little english speaking was managing to speak a few words to Vincent as he felt his breath being all getting caught up through his throat. But in relief.

"Olga, I just told you-"Lina had followed up again as Vincent moved to the little girl's height, with concerned eyes. Feeling his heart beating wanting to come out of his chest. He needed to know where was Catherine and now.

"Who is Su Li?"

"Olga's afraid of Su Li. She is an very bad woman and is going to hurt Aya.."Olga managed to spill out as she watched the strong man's eyebrows raising up into worried mood. It made have many wrinkles through his forehead as if worried thoughts came right through his mind here in a second.

But also for herself, cause it didn't mattered if she was helping a person or not she had known she would get herself punished by Lina as the barmaid glanced up an horrible stare back at her which meant trouble. However, she has known that it wasn't destiny that has chosen her to go through that path, but herself made these risky choices to save someone's life. And if Vincent Keller could get there in time to save Aya or maybe Catherine as Eva breathed from her lying bed out a few minutes ago, it'll would be better as well. A life would be spared into this living hell as well.

And it looked like Vincent Keller was actually carrying for this mysterious woman, like Catherine Chandler and enough to want to save her and away from Su Li's evil crutches. And probably from Lina who was still looking up at her, evily than ever from the corner of her eye.

...

Damn it. It was her entire fault! If she hadn't gotten up into a panicking or crittical mood, none of this would have had happen and yet, Regan felt that Alex had pushed her in. Into the arms of a man she might never have since she had already made up her life with someone else and even add it up a kid into the ugly picture. Her son wasn't a mistake, but her choices were even worse and the little boy had suffered and been aware of it. No wonder, he refused to talk or even whisper a word. As if PTSD was the original part of it.

All of her friends, including J.T. and Vincent were into this mess because of her. A woman who had taken the vow to love and to protect a man who had taken her as a wife and had abused and hurted not to almost had her killed once. Until she had walked away from it. All of the lies and Carl's addiction, if it wasn't for Alex or Miguel's supportive love effort, and especially Miguel who loved her and whom she loved back had swored he would protect her for as long as he should live. If Miguel had been there first instead of Carl, none of this would have had happened, but regretting my boy? Never..

No. Her son wasn't a mistake. But putting up her friends and boyfriend were a deadly risk as she made herself small at the middle of the staircase when she peaked out J.T. trying to comfort a woman along with Ed who sitting down to the couch and was putting his muzzle onto the woman's lap.

...

"I don't think, I'll be able to take this much longer if this takes much longer, though.." Tess sighed badly as her chest had hard tight adjusting up the mess that she had been dealing with. She shook up her head away as she tried to sat back onto the couch as the dog rose his head in wonder on why she had waked him up for. But for J.T., he certainely had idea for him and especially when that guy was Vincent's best buddy here.

"You mean, you're going to denounce Cat? Your own friend?" If it goes too far. It might be. However, he couldn't just believe it. But J.T. had known that Tess wasn't lying to that fact as she ran back a hand through her hair in frustration as she looked back at him. "Tess, you can't do that!"

"If it's goes too far. I might be. I stepped away once after Cat had stole away evidence in order to save your buddy and his ex-fiancee before. But I think, it's much more out of control now that she has taken pleasure on attacking women. Escorts who reminded her of the women that she lost power over and especially when Vincent took them over before her.."

"Tess, you really don't mean that point-"But Tess cut him off as she decided to let anger go through in.

"Oh! You think I don't? Then, you should try and watch up the video tapes I've had viewed before and tell me, if you really understood my point of view..!" She had exploded back."And tell if she isn't going full beast mood here!"

"Look, Tess, I didn't mean-"But J.T. was once cut off again as her own phone had finally decided to ring up to save her from exploding in any else matter anyways. She grabbed her phone from her coat's pocket and brought it up to his annoyance as she answered it.

"Hello? Yeah, that's me, Vargas..Whose's calling?"The female detective stepped away from J.T. as she furthered and listened to her phone feeling almost relieved to drop her exploding anger down like denouncing her own friend for a second. Oh God. Could she ever do that? Tess tried to shake up that idea away until she dropped one word out as whatever she heard from line had froze her up."What?"

"What do you mean, by everything is pitch black down there? Where's Cat?" She demanded answers from the guy behind the phone line.

"What?" Tess turned back to see J.T. almost as shocked as she was. Oh crap! Did she just talked out loud, here? She turned back as she cleared out her throat.

"Don't touch anything. I'll be on my way.."Tess argued back through her breath as she hanged up. "Hopefully, if it wasn't wasn't one of the girls who had the idea to turn off the electricity..Or Tori, even.."

"What?" Damn. That jackass was still standing here? Unbelievable.

"Some of the guys from the precinct had lost complete track as he had been into lunch break. He lost sight of Cat through the installed cameras. I'm heading up over there to see what have had happened into my own disguise, again." She winced through that thought. Thinking she'll have to go as 'Dr. Cassandra Rose' Eww. Damn, Cat really needed to come out with better fake names into the near future if she has to run away, if that day ever happens.

"What? You think that Cat has been taken?"

"You know with practicing an hitman's job is never safe. It's always gonna end up bad. One way or another."

"Tess-"

"I gotta go..Watch over that blondie friend of yours, before she'll do anything drastic. Cause if she does. It's gonna make my plans go much more worse. So, unless, you could traq her down if she goes all nuts. It'll be a great thinking.." Tess turned back from the corner of her trained eye as she had figured out that a certain curious blond haired woman was silentely watching the two of them from a far. Probably thinking that she had caught her up and hearing her saying that she was a complete nut case to go after her ex abusing husband and by putting her friends, boyfriend and son at risk. Just J.T. was at risk by staying up here along with Vincent at this warehouse.

Only. Vincent wasn't here with them but has been trying to help and watch over Catherine ever since she had agreed onto this undercover case. With a groan, she walked away without saying goodnight and rushed up to her car.

...

Catherine awakened up by yelling out from pain as she heard an horrible sound cracking up through her ribcage or more like someone had kicked up with such an horrendous move. She crawled down into tiny form onto the ground through the darkness. All bruised and bleeding up and feeling herself cold as she laid onto the floor.

But as for Su Li, it wasn't even better. The woman's hairdo was into a mess and was barely hanging up and her dress was almost as a disastrous mess and ripped out from a cat's clawing nails that had almost left her naked as much as her face, or more like her once beautiful face been left with scratching marks from down of her right eye onto her nose and right down of her chin. Bleeding up but looking furiously mad.

"Get up, bitch! Come up and fight like a real woman!" Su Li was mad as hell and especially when her face had been bruised and marked forever by a young and beautiful woman like her. Cat had out smarted her with her fighting and kicking moves. No wonder she had kept herself into good shape for many years and especially after she and her partner had put her away into bars.

And now that she was back in town, she could finish up with what she had started. However, she wasn't getting younger any longer and was getting tired up with old age. Which she hated back and envied Cat for it. Even if that bitch had a few bruises up to her face, they would slowly heal away unlike her own scratching marks.

"Get up, kitty Cat!" She hurried up back as she kicked up once again but back up to the lying woman's bare and exposed back over and over as she heard Cat coughing out of air and spitting out blood from her mouth. Feeling hopeless as her body refused to move here which made Su Li release a chuckle out. Which had startled the young woman undercover.

Crap. How this woman could even laugh out at this moment, like this? Cat had wondered back as she shut her eyes down when she had heard the standing woman behind her saying.

"That's how they both looked like, when they caught me killing them."The woman behind had revealed back as Cat had actually caught up the meaning behind of that revealation. Su Li had referred to both of her husband and sister's actual murders. Stating that she had done it without feeling any shame or guilt even. A story that Su Li had never got the chance to explain after Tess and herself had chased her away before, and especially after she gotten shot and that the official detectives took over while Cat and Tess had gotten a real clean check-up and for Tess who had been but shaken all night after the event. "I trusted my husband Warren for so many years and how blindly I was to love him and to have had stayed up with him, for so many years." Su Li had started back with a first reply."I was the hardworking person into the relationship, had always been the one who would bring up the food and hard liquor into the house and money away into storage for a better future."She followed up with a sound a of spitting sound. "What I didn't know it was that he had been fooling me around with my younger sister Charlene. One night, I got home home early and discovered what my eyes had been blinded to see. You get what I'm saying, right?" But Catherine remained silent as her she kept on breathing up and making sure that she was having enough air through the darkness as Su Li followed when she had no answer coming out from the impostor.

"I totally blackened out into a vicious and unexplained rage. And without thinking back, I had ran and grabbed the biggest kitchen knife that I could find at the kitchen as I've ignored Warren shouting back at my ear and ran back to him and to his whore..And the rest followed up until my hands were covered up with blood.."

"His whore? You mean, your sister?" Cat managed to croak back as Su Li snorted back for answer. Oh, God. How could a human being like the ex-stripper could go and even kill her own sibling? Didn't she had a heart, even? Cat couldn't even had done it to Heather anyways. No matter, how crazy her little sister had made her feel many times before, never in the word she would have had done that. Never.

"She wasn't a sister of mine anymore! And besides, no sister should have done that kind of betraying thing to her elder and respected sibling. I had known, that she had to be eliminated without a second with the act that she had done and even it meant that she had to be killed with her lover. Not my lover toy. You know?"

I get that feeling..But Cat barely had the strenght to answer back. Or wouldn't give the pleasure to give her back as she felt Su Li crouching down and whispered back to her ear.

"Ever felt betrayed by the man you thought had trusted and loved, Aya-Cat? By a bestie or a sister?" She sure did. That scene where Vincent had been caught up kissing Tori and took a different path with her as he had stated that it was only because he felt like he had no other choice or else let her father denounce her to the authorities. It didn't mattered if it was by protection or not, it was still a stupid move to prove his love out to her. But she did felt that pain that she had been betrayed more than once by the very same man and yet she was willing to let him go away and without any harm. Didn't it ever mattered to you, Cat? That you wanted to hurt Vincent back for the pain he made you endured?

And yet. She didn't do it, until now.

"N-Once.." Damn it. Her stomach was hurting here. Her ribcage felt like burning. Something was broken in there. She was probably bleeding from the inside. Hemorrhaging even. Oh God. She couldn't see anything at all! Wasn't it, her long locks of hair blocking from any view or that the entire place was as dark as the sky? She felt her head spinning around. Maybe from the many times she had been hit by the ex-stripper who an incredible strenght for her age.

"Then, you do know what I'm feeling and for why I've put the blame to another woman's name. Until I've been caught by you and your partner, but that was the past and today is the new present.."Su Li had ended up back. "You know there's a saying that by an vicious revenge and hatred mood, asian women often cut off their husband's mistress hair and tear off their clothes in order to make force and force her to walk up the walk of shame onto the street filled up with may strangers. Just like that gal in that TV show. Game Of Thrones. Ever watched that show? No? Well, I had. When I was prison and while I sat with my fellow mates." And by an such suprising and forcing move from her raising arm, she grabbed Cat by her long hair as the silent woman grunted up in pain as she had been raised up by her hair.

But she didn't expected to feel the cold sliccing kitchen knife up close to her throat. And close up to cut up deep. Cat held up her breath and kept herself from gulping up as the woman behind her was smiling wickedly. Cat didn't had to see her, but she felt it from her back as Su Li tightened up the hold of her hair way up to the air.

"It wouldn't kill to go through it again, for one last time. Wouldn't it be sweet? Don't you agree with me, Cat?"

...

Tess bursted up away through the precinct as she made herself walk through Ward's office. The man sitting behind his desk was trying to get through his laptop and was pissed when he couldn't get access to the cameras placed up into the club as everything looked dark.

"Got any news from the guys, Vargas?"

"Really couldn't say any better than you do.."She winced back as she watched him type up something onto the keybord in frustration and fast as it would move or light up or anything else."I've talked to Special FBI Agent Dana Landon on my way in and right after I left the guys from the jeep. They are almost as stunned as I've left them.." And almost as determinated to fix up the unfunctionable system that has been taken down by someone unknown to them.

"How did Agent Landon had sounded, when you had called her?"

"Strucked to say the truth, sir. She's even coming up right here as we speak-"

"Well, she better well be. One of ours has gone missing because we've had listened to her on letting the case going on for many more days than we should!" Ward stepped back with his chair as he looked up at Tess with a worn out but angry look."Should have had known better than to let Chandler go on with that case and especially when it's personal.."

"Look, sir. Before we could judge anybody else, let's figure out how the cameras went down and where Cat had been gone to. It must have had been someone who had known where the cameras had been put or maybe had known where she had been working undercover.."

"Like someone from us? Don't tell me if it's one of a cop who had known? Not Medina?" Hopefully not, or else Medina would be grilled like burdened toast out from the toaster by tomorrow morning. If he had anything to do about it.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that. But let's figure out where's Cat, at first. To see if she had gone missing or not.."

...

Su Li had been running wobbly out from the room while many other strangers where coming in and out from the rooms and walked up onto the stairs under Virgina's horrified dark eyed stare, almost running out of breath and running away from the devil himself as it had been marked up to her scratched bleeding face and her ripped off and bloody dress. Traumatic stare.

"Oh God, Su Li-"

"Where's the money? Did that bitch had kept her word?" In horrible mess even, the dark haired woman looked around as if she felt being watched as Virgina stepped over to her height and by keeping up onto her guard. Her assistant had done what had to be done after the little arrangement between her boss and Lina by trapping Aya down to teach her a lesson after going way too far, on one of Àlvarez's girls.

"Lina said she'll transfer the money by tomorrow morning, but-"

"Don't worry about me, just get the damn money right on, I-"Su Li had breathlessly taking the time to catch up her breath as her bare feet reached up the floor as she almost fell down onto the floor. It would had been if Virgina hadn't had catched her up."Su Li-"

"Damn. I had no idea this bitch could fight and struck me up out of nowhere! Damn it! She can fight like a evil feline lost into a forest!" Su Li had angrily stated back as she clutchered up her hold on her bodyguard's dark skin. Her dark and shaped eyes had been looking up with wild and fear."Tell Lina, that she can go right straight to hell. That Lucifer is waiting out for her.." However the poor woman had really no idea of whatever her boss was talking as she clung up onto her arms, shaking up horribly. Until Virgina had figured out as she looked over Su Li's shoulder as her her eyes had widened into shock at the struckening sight.

A blooded knife was planted through her back and Su Li was in the break to lose consciousness.

...

Laying down onto the floor, Catherine felt tired and hoplessly barely onto holding on to her own. Everything felt so cold as she laid down onto the ciment ground. No other deadly instrument other than the kitchen knife that she had taken out from Su Li's hold was seen into this cage other than the annoying toilet at the corner.

And the darkness. Damn it! She couldn't see anything in here. Where is that freaking light? Where is the world around here?

Cat had fluttered up her eyelids open to see the cold floor and the situation where she had put and laid onto. She was still stuck into the cage just like she had been when she woken up in the first place after getting beating up by Su Li by surprise. Damn that bitch, was just as a tough cookie to have had managed to make her go scared like a leaf and nearly trying to cut and slice up her throat as she had pulled up her hair and this is where it gotten her up into thinking.

She remembered how to break up from her fragile state and had managed to use her head and found out a way to reverse the attacking mood by using up her free elbow and punched her out to her ribs, once or maybe three times. Some little strength but as she often had heard from people-Never understemate little women, they may look weak by the sight, but carry much stronger vital points. And Su Li had thought she had won but didn't got the chance to savour it as Catherine took a chance by punching her away and managed to make her drop the knife from her hand as she took back the fight and as she gotten herself lost into it as she beaten up the tall woman but as soon she tried to kick her up to her face again, Su Li had blocked up her move and pushed her down once again onto the floor, and laid facedown and close enough to the glowing knife.

And the rest came out of nowhere. Catherine couldn't possibly remember what happened later and how she've taken up the knife to put and stabbed Su Li into her back, cause everything went so fast. Su Li lunged at her fast and Cat took the knife and-Stabbed her in the back. Fast enough as she thought back. It was self defense. There was no other way to explain it. She cursed back to herself as she shut her eyes.If you have hadn't done it, you could have died. Su Li could have had killed you..And for what? Revenge? Get a grip, Cat and get up!

Oh she did tried by pushing up onto her elbows with much effort as she could, but strength wasn't onto her side anymore as she dropped herself down, once again which made her release a grunt into pain as her head hit down. But it wasn't her head that made her worry, but her hands drenched up with blood, mostly Su Li's blood, and from the way she had shivered when she got caught up with the cold floor, it only told her that she was lying up down and naked. Exposed and naked like a slut. Much like she forced Eva and Natasha to go like this in order to get tortured and punished from desobeying from the men whom had ordered services from them, but had only ended up disappointed. Cat had a job to do and she had done it without asking any questions, but as it looked for now. She wasn't so sure if it was a payjob or that someone had ordered some hitman to get attacked and punished. Wasn't possible? Who could have had done that?

"Hey man, look what we got!" Cat got startled at the unfamiliar voices coming along the way as footsteps were coming along the way into the darkness and right up the cage as she could see three forming and talling heights towering up her lying position and through her messing up view from her locks of hair that was blocking up her sight.

She could figured out that they were male and drunken voices. Three men, to be exact. She tried to stay quiet as she could from her lying postion and tried to not move as she could hear them approach. Could they even open up the door? Unless, they've stolen up the keys.

"Dude, could have asked better myself! A free and cutie chick! I wouldn't need to pay a couple dollars to screw this one off" One of them pushed the door open as they made their way in. Oh Crap!

"Even if she smells bad? Oh boy, look all that freaking blood right here..Damn, she even pissed off on herself." Oh God. Did she? With everything that had happened? Did she actually peed on herself and without noticing? How humiliating!

"Doesn't matter, anyways! She smell bad, but just wait until she'll be splashed up with beer! It'll be even better!"

"Better with vodka!"

"How about this?" Had suggested the third as a clicking sound was heard as it perked up her ears. It was lighter clicking sound as a strange scent went through her nostrils which had almost made her panic or worse her heart accelerating in fear and yet she couldn't move a limb or anything as she laid facedown onto and the floor and complete nude.

Were they about to burn her for fun? Burn her alive and down here?

...

"Dude, you've completely freaked her out here.." Cat rose her head up as her frightened stare was focused to the flickering light that was bouncing around through the darkness. The guy in question didn't mattered as he lightened up a the long branch he held with his other hand as his drunken friend next to him freaked out a bit.

"So what? You'd thought by drowning her with vodka, wouldn't had made things better? I think it might. Too bad we didn't bring up any explosives here.."Had revealed back the same man who held the lightening branch as he exchanged a look to his friend before he looked back to her. With pure hatred green eyes were glowing into the dark as Cat stared up at them with fear."And besides, it's her own people who made them and with the uncounting viruses rising up here in the states. No wonder, she's afraid and precisely when she knows what's gonna get to her."

Trembling like a leaf and not taking a damn care of her exposed condition, Catherine pushed herself away from the floor, rolling up and as her glance couldn't get away from the three men and especially from the one who held the lightening branch. She pushed herself back by her elbows and her legs as the three men and especially by the one who took a a very good peek at her nudity.

"She's a hell of a cat here, even way wilder and dirty.." And from the way he looked up at her, it only made her feel disgusted as her long messy hair managed to cover her breasts and her sensitive nipples. However, other than the dirt spots onto her legs nothing else was covering her exposive and private parts from hiding.

"Stop talking man and go grab her.." But the drunken man couldn't even budge as he stood there petrified and shaken. So, the leader of three pushed the other guy by a slap."Come on, Matt, go and grab her!" And with this order being told, Cat hurried faster back behind but to only reach up the back of the wall as her chest heavied out the shaken breath out of her lungs. Usually, she would have had fought them back without no haste but with her current condition, it was no freaking use.

Damn it.

"Come on, Matt!" The man was now standing over her height as he managed to grab a hold of her hair as she let out a shriek out of her lips. She felt herself being lifting up as she groaned and by her own suprise she did something that she hadn't expected to do. But to grab the man's foream with her dirty hands and bite it and hard as she could.

"Argh! Damn it!" Matt had grunted back in disgust as he let her hair go, but this wasn't only the last of his humiliation here. He got himself surprised when she managed to kick his hidden groin with her foot. "Goddamn it. Bitch! She's a beast!" He spitted back to her face as Cat tried to wipped off the saliva out of her features away from Matt's pain expression as she sat down once again.

"You spunk! Can't even grab yourself a cunt!" Had angered the leader as he punched Matt onto his face. And then, he looked back at Cat who looked back at him with defiance or tried to look tough as they often say."I'll show you, cunt.." And with that, he grabbed her arm as he forced her to stand up as much Cat tried to resist back trying to stay onto her sitting position and as she refused to get manhandled by a man, an racist mostly but the leader was much rougher to his hold into her as he lifted her up to the air, despite her resistance and strength. She always considered herself as a fighter and yet to be manhandled her made her feel like a failure to her promise to never become a victim or worse a victim of rape.

"You're a pretty tough one, aren't you?" He snickered back to her angry features and from the way his eyes laughed back to her had only made her want to smack him hard if she had the strength. But managed to spit at his face. He groaned to that action as he tightened up his old onto her arm and gave her a punch to her face as it made her head fall back behind and as her hair dragged off away from covering up her breasts as she grunted back in pain.

And screamed in a way hell of pain as she was being the one tortured here. The fire that was up onto the branch. It burned her onto her right shoulder. He had burned her! Oh God. Cat never felt so much burning pain until now.

"Oh Damn.."

"Uh..Xav.."

"So, how does it feels to be the one hurting and screaming up here? Uh? And especially, when you are being hunted for a good screw up?" The man named Xav. Xavier, mostly laughed back as Cat rose back in anger at the invisible creature into the darkness, as her lips were held back into a firm line as she tried to hold back another scream. She wouldn't want to give him another pleasure, anyways. If only it wasn't of her bruises and the blood on her hands she would have gotten rid off of him and quickly. He snickered back evily as his white teeth glowed up into the darkness.

"Let's see if a cunt like you can handle another blow.."Once ahain he raised up his lightening branch up to the air as Cat closed up her eyes tight as she waited for the other blow to come but only to hear Xavier scream in agony. Into the darkness, Cat snapped her eyes open as she watched the man yelling in pain as the fire was in fact burning up onto his bare back by someone else cause none of the other men in here was actually doing anything but remained onto their spot. Her eyes shifted up from the person behind Xavier and with these angry features that looked familiar, only one name came to her mind as she stared at the strong figure behind Xavier.

Vincent..And he looked angry here, almost boiled with frustration as he was the one who action here.

How did he managed to get himself in here? Who told him to find her? Unless, he went onto his own? And there he was burning this jackass's back away as Xavier's hold had loosen up onto her and Cat backed away to the wall still looking stunned as she watched the ex-soldier coming up to her rescue. Her Vincent. Coming up to her rescue as he often used to do before.

He was here to save her in these hopeless situations as she had been like tonight. Cat held back a shaken relief sob from coming out as she watched Vincent punching hard enough Xavier to his midsection until this evil asshole could spit out blood from his mouth and had gotten himself pushed back but to his head as the evil man lost balance and fell down onto the floor, uncounscious.

"Son of a bitch!" Had cursed the man named Matt as he tried to defend his friend back as he lunged himself towards the attacker. However, Vincent growled back as his eyes glowed out through the darkness as Cat could see and turned around as he dropped the branch down to his feet and whirled around to push the man away only to kick him out to the wall and hard as he coughed out being breathless and as for the third guy here. He only was too chicken to fight back just as he had seen Vincent glowing out as he had roared out as a monster he took leave even before the beast could get to him. Much as shocking for Catherine as she slid down from the back of the wall and cracked up onto sobs once after the nightmare was finally over. She could have getting herself killed with these men, cause who else they could have done to her? If she wasn't as bruised up and frightened, she would have had attacked them without no problem and Vincent wouldn't have needed to come to her rescue, at all. Oh Goddamnit, it..She could still hear him roar from his spot after he dropped Xavier to the ground and attacked Matt as he still rored out like a beast. A monster who was thrusting through for hunger as he crounced down to take an uncounscious Xavier up by his collar and as he was about to twist his neck in pure uncontrollable anger-

"Vincent.."She sobbed out hopefully for him to hear her tears coming out from her voice. God. She was crying and couldn't stopped herself from crying as she was shaking terribly. She watched him stop his move as his head whirled back to her. As she sat there crying out her tears like a child.

Vincent took a chance to relax as he released Xavier from his angered hold and calmed himself as he transformed back to his human self. Blinking out away the beast control as he breathed out and whispered her name.

"Catherine?" From the way he breathed out her name had almost made her want to come up to his arms and to embrace, but she couldn't as she hadn't budged from her sitting position as she brought her knees together by putting her arms around them, by trying to hide her exposed naked form as if she was ashamed. But for him, he wasn't as he walked and crounched down to her height after he calmed down from any anger and hurtfull doing that the beast had made him to do or so.

"Vincent-"

"They're gone for now..Are you alright?" He wondered back as he looked out for any injury as he winced when he pushed her legs away and down as he grimaced at the sight that made her feel ashamed.

"Did they-" He tried to say if they had the chance to violate or anything else but Cat denied everything. No. They didn't raped her. They just were out here to play with a so -called priceless chick.

"No, they haven't gotten the time to do it..I took care of it.."She breathed out as she watched his expression going up shocked as he stared up back at her. Worried and stunned. "You did, what?"

"She beated me up. I had to defend myself back.." She showed up her opened and bleeding palms up to him as he narrowed his eyebrows in confusion as she explained the other story with the hitman. Su Li and as for her clothes, they must had been ripped during her fight with the hitman. "It's not mine, I can tell you that I've defended myself once I was dragged up here.."

"You know whose blood is this?" He took up her hands to his as she was shaking her head. Denying all facts as he sighed back in relief.

"Su Li's. A hitman's."She had replied back as she retieved her hands away from him as he moaned as if he was disappointed from her sudden gesture. "Call me crazy, but I think that someone had ordered a hitman to kill me, but I don't know why.." Cat explained back as she looked up to his eyes through the darkness as he looked around to see if the two lying men had moved which they haven't after he had them attacked and knocked them out. Both. She could tell that he was frustrated by them and felt like he could had done much more worse if she hadn't managed to calm him down from doing something unthinkable.

"Vincent?"

"Yeah?"

"How did you figured out?"

"Figured out, what?" Was he trying to play innocent, here? With the hearing or the beast visions he has, it was almost impossible to avoid any contact from anybody hiding up with any truth. And away from lie detector like him, though.

"Where I was being taken and held?" It wasn't unknown to her, but she wanted to know if it was by instinct or not that he had managed to find her. Just like he had been before by always being near to any place from a far and to where he would always find himself to her. He rubbed his temple as he sighed back as she waited for him to answer."I've just known." Vincent looked back at her with promise coming out through his hazel eyes as they glowed their true color. Human color."Like I've always known from before.." And then he looked up at her injuries with a worried look. As they looked bad enough. "We have to take you up to an hospital-"

"No."

"Cat. Your injuries look bad-"However, she didn't wanted to be taken over there and to the very least of the places where people might blow up her cover.

"I can't be taken up after this attack. People would start asking questions of how gotten myself into this,blowing up my cover, for an example." She tried to resonate him as he shook his head.

"Better than ending up bleeding up from inside.."

"You've hid yourself away and even when you were bleeding out-"

"It was a total different situation and I was being dragged out to the hospital but only after I had no other choice to save yours and my ass.."He reminded her back with a wince as he didn't really wanted to go back on how they had left things off and badly as he had slowly started to side up with his beast side back then and how jealous he had been when he seen her kissing some dumb guy at some bar way before."Let's just say that it was either that or that I could have had ended up dead.."

"Let's wait for one day, and we'll see. Let me call Tess. She has to know where I am at the moment. I can't let Àlvarez see me like this.."Cat had followed back by being firm enough for him to understand as he growled back as he disagreed with her idea. But went along with it as he took a few breathings out as if he had no other choice. After all, he was dealing with a stunorn woman like her and who wasn't willing to change up her mind in any time soon."Vincent-"

"One night, only and tomorrow, I'll be taking you out to an hospital. Whetever you like it or not.."He decided back as he shrugged off his coat out from his shoulders and put it around onto her shoulders. In a gentle matter as she looked up at him with concerned eyes."In the meantime, let's go to an motel. I'll be taking care of you.."

"How?" She whispered back and hopefully if nobody were as smart to hear them from here. And besides, they looked to be locked up down into some lonely basement that has been left for many years and being uncared for it. Nobody had come over here, until she and Su Li were the first. Along with the three bastards and with Vincent who come over to her rescue.

But how would they be able to get out of here? Cat looked back at Vincent as she held up his coat even tighter to her hold as he smirked back. A smirk that had often told her that he had an idea behind his head.

"Just trust me. I do know what I'm doing.." And he looked confident enough. Meaning, nothing not even a tiny little thing could possibly be hiding from a beast's acknowledge. Yup, Vincent had an idea somewhere inside of his mind as Catherine was sure of it.

...

So, how it was was? Not too frightening? I'm not too sure if people are still reading up this story, but I keep on trying on coming up with new ideas, anyways. Now. So. Glad that Vincent had come to Cat's rescue as she wasn't ready for it, even. Damn, looks that Olga might be in trouble now that Lina knows something about it and with Eva is awake, but for how long? Is Su Li dead? What about Tess and J.T.? Or even Regan? Now that she knows and has overheard the female detective calling her a nutcase?

What's gonna happen? Would Cat manage to overcome her injures? What's gonna happen with VinCat? Would they get a chance to be together for one night, or would Vincent blow up her cover? Hopefully not! Stick around and you'll see, beasties!

Once again, thanks for the support and love! I always appreciate it!