Chapter 5

Catherine didn´t know how to react, did not know what to do, she was just surprised to see him at her door, looking at her with so much intensity in his eyes, making her nervous. She wanted to pinch her arm to see if this was true because she didn´t believe it.

But he was there himself, Vincent Keller, and he stood at her door, staring back at her in silence.

For a second, after she had opened the door, he was convinced that all of this was a mistake: coming here would only make this situation between them worse, more complicated than it had to be. „Catherine..." his heartbeat mirrored hers, quick yet unsteady, making him feel as if his chest was about to explode. He thought that listenign to her heartbeat would help him to calm himself down but he became more nervous than ever.

„Vincent, what are you doing here?" half of her hated him but the other half was still madly in love with him after all those years.

„We need to talk, are you alone?"

„I´m not! Vincent, you need to go and please dont come back!" firmly she tried to close the door in front of him but he put his foot in to stop her from pushing him away like that.

„Come on, Cat! I´ve seen Noah leaving on my way in! Stop lying! If you don´t want me here, tell me and I´ll leave."

„You have five minutes." she opened the door to let him in and he followed her into the living room.

He looked around and a huge bouquet of roses on the counter made him think about all of that.

„He really … loves you!" he stated and in his voice she couldn´t detect any sarcasm or bitterness.

„He does!" she answered and being here with him suddently wasn´t scary but just like talking to an old friend, who knew you better that most people but still had moved on with his own life.

„But you didn´t come here to tell me that?!"

„I came to appologize!" She was about to interrupt him but he wanted to say what he came for.

„No, listen Cat! I mean it! And I kind of figured that we will propably see each other more often. I really don´t want this to be awkward all the time between us, you know?"

„You mean with all the wedding stuff and that our best friends are about to get maried, too?" she laughed silently, not because he was right but because she didn´t want her past to ruin her friends future.

Her decicion would define their future too and she was well aware of that. „Thank you! Thank you for coming here, for apologizing! That means a lot to me."

They sat in silence, finally comfortable around each other, time hadn´t change their compatibility.

„Does she know?" she suddently asked. Ever since she had found out about his past, that time she hadn´t been part of, she wanted to know.

He looked up at her, surprised about the question, caught off guard. „She doesn´t!"

„So you will spend your life - „

„With someone who doesn´t accept all of who I am? Yeah, right, I remember our discussion about Alex! You know, JT keeps searching for – let´s call it ´solutions´! Things have changed! My DNA has changed, which is why things are easier now! You allways said that this was a part of me and you were right. But all of us have things we don´t want to share and that part of me, it becomes smaller with every day."

He waited for her reaction, patient to find out how she would deal with the news.

She picked her words carefully: „ You had to make that choice and if it works out for you..."

„Yes, things have changed and for once I´m good with it the way it is right now."

They had said everything that had to be said and Catherine got up to fix tea. Tess had tried to call her several times in the past hour and while she aimed to call her back she stumbled across the carpet in the process.

She managed to catch herself with her arms and slided down the wall.

„Are you ok?" Vincent got up to help her, just when she started laughing uncontrollably about her own fail of coordination and after Vincent was sure that she was ok, he joined her laugher.

"Dont laugh!" she protested. „Remember when you slipped in the boat house after I cleaned the floor? That move was could have made a perfect appearance in an action movie!"

„Or a comedy!" he answerd, coming from the kitchen with a glass of water.

„Are you ok?" he asked again and she couldn´t help but coment on his concern:"Playing the doctor, are you?"

„Yes, practicing medicine again, it has changed me, if that is what you are trying to say!" But he couldn´t elaborate that thought further.

„Vincent... something is wrong..." was all she managed to say before everything went dark around her.

Hey guys, I enjoyed a lot writing this chapter.¿What do you think Vincent attitude ?, So think about this chapter ?, tell me what you think of this chapter. Please review. Thank you dear, Julchen.