**I DO NOT OWN THIS SHOW OR THE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW, I AM JUST BORROWING THEM**
~Catherine~
I opened my eyes and began to smile when I saw the melted candle wax dried upon my furniture. Words couldn't even begin to describe my night with Vincent last night. It wasn't just sex…..we made love….several times to be exact. I really don't remember what time it was exactly when we fell asleep, but I do know we had dinner at like 2 this morning followed by more love making. I hated to have to leave Vincent for work after our eventful night, but the bills here won't get paid any other way.
As I slip out of bed and pull on my robe, Vincent turned over and smiled me. "Good morning."
"Morning." I retorted as I bent down to give him a quick kiss.
"How are you feeling this morning? You okay?"
"Yea…never felt so good in my life. Unfortunately, I have to go to work, then I have classes tonight so, this is sort of a bittersweet moment for me. I'm really going to miss you Vincent."
"After last night, I think I might miss you more. Are you sure that you were a virgin?"
"Well, I'm not now but I think you already know that, but yes, I was a virgin. Why do you keep asking me that?"
He smiled as he sat up in the bed watching me find clothes to wear and he said, "It's just, I have been with a few women in my life, not saying it proudly, but none of them were as wonderful as you in bed."
"Wow…is that a line to get me back in bed?"
"Is it working?"
"No….well, maybe. Or maybe we could move things to the shower?"
"You don't have to ask me twice."
"I'm kidding Vincent. I actually need to be getting ready for work."
Vincent hopped out of bed nude and walked over to me from behind. His arms snaked around my waist as he began kissing and growling on my neck.
"Vincent…..If you keep doing that to me I'll never get ready for work."
"Mmmm, that's the idea of it." And he continued placing kisses on my neck. I dropped the clothes in my hands and spun around facing him as we began kissing. He picked me up and I hooked my legs around his waist as he pushed my robe off of my shoulders til it fell to the floor. He carried us to the bathroom and turned the shower on. We continued kissing under the heated pressure of the water as he pinned my body between his and the wall. Water poured down our bodies as he entered my sex driving me completely wild. His touch. His kiss. His love and passion for me were all combined together with each thrust.
As I walk back into my bedroom after our 100th time of love making, Vincent walks in soon after. I really couldn't help it, and I yanked his towel off playfully. I laughed when he jumped from the shock of me doing so and I continued to get dressed. Finally the dreadful part came, we had to part from each other until the weekend. I locked my apartment, then hand in hand, we walked down the stairs to my car without a word.
"This really sucks. I really wish I could spend the day with you Vincent….but we both know that I can't. I'm really going to miss you."
"Ditto. But as the old saying goes, 'Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder'. We have the rest of today, then all day tomorrow to suffer through…but it will be all worth it in the end. I love you Catherine, and I will miss you too. Are you coming to the club tomorrow night? Or am I having JT take my place and I take you out to dinner…for real this time?"
"Ha ha very funny. You know you liked it Vincent."
"Is it possible to have liked it too much?"
"I'm sure it is, but for now…I'm headed to work. I'll meet you at the club tomorrow night. As always, I love you."
We kissed and I hopped into my car and left.
~Vincent~
For the love of God last night was truly the cherry on top of a fine sundae. Never once did I see that coming, not that I'm complaining. She truly is full of surprises. I hated that she had to go, but I understand too. Heather moved out with a job offer in Chicago soon after Catherine came back, which left all the bills back on Catherine. I helped when she would let me, but most of the time she wouldn't. Shes very independent when it comes to stuff like that.
The club had been making really good progress and it wasn't that uncomfortable to be there anymore. I mean sure the memories didn't die out, I still miss my brothers, but I had everything where I wanted it. My phone began to ring and when I looked at it I didn't recognize the number. "Hello?"
"Vincent?"
"Who is this?"
"Vincent…its me, Tori. Wait! Don't hang up…please. I need your help."
"What is it now? Jealous that things are actually going good for me? I'll pass Tori…go call your boyfriend and ask him to help."
"Vincent please! I can't do that….he hit me. Please I'll do anything! I need you right now as a friend. You know I don't have many friends that I can talk to."
I couldn't trust Tori as far as I could throw myself, but she sounds sincere and I wouldn't wish that off on her. It just wasn't like me.
"Alright fine…where are you at?"
"The condo. Please hurry, I'm scared that he might come back."
"Tori, I'm doing this for you, but for myself. Try anything with me and I will leave faster than you can say bitch. Got it?"
"Yeah…sure. Whatever you say….thank you!"
I have the feeling that I'm going to regret doing this but if I don't try to help, then it will be on my conscious and I can't have that.
As I arrive at Tori's condo, I take the elevator up. Something keeps telling me that this isn't right….like I shouldn't be here. Maybe it was because of Catherine. I didn't tell her I was coming here and now that my gut is telling me something isn't right about it, I kind of wish I did. When the elevators open and I make it to her door, Tori swings it open and lays her head on my chest crying, "Thank you so much for coming Vincent. I didn't know who else to call."
"Yeah…"
We entered the condo and Tori closes the door behind us, wiping a few tears away.
"So I hear your with a lawyers daughter."
"I am."
"Is she good to you?"
"More than good, actually. She is something else….amazing."
"Do you love her?"
"Yes…why? What's it to you anyways?"
"Vincent…I have been thinking about us lately and I realized some things….I wasn't that nice to you and I was controlling and I should have loved you like you deserved. I hate myself for being the reason we broke up and honestly I just wanted to say that I was sorry for everything I have put you through. I understand why you hate me now."
Ugh! Now I'm feeling bad.
"I don't hate you Tori…I just hate your ways of handling things. But its over now, so don't worry about it. I'm happy now."
She walked over to the counter and poured us a cup of coffee, turned around and handed me a cup.
"Thank you, but I need to get going. Are you going to be alright?"
"Yes, I'm feeling much better now. Thank you Vincent for coming over."
"No problem."
As I walked towards the door, Tori grabbed my wrist and I turned around she kissed me. Within seconds of her placing the kiss onto my lips, I pulled away quickly.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
"Vincent we should be the ones together. I was too blinded to see that you were my soul mate. I love you, please don't go. I'll do anything….I'm in love with you."
"I'm sorry Tori. My feelings for you were real at one point. Not anymore. I'm in love with somebody else that actually treats me right. You had your chance and you blew it along with breaking my heart. You…me….were done here."
As I open the door she shouted, "She will never love you the way I love you. NEVER! You hear me?"
I turn around and retorted, "Your right Tori…she will never love me the way you love me…she will always love me even more." And I left.
Tori shuts her door, tears falling from her face. She began smiling as she said to herself, "If I can't I have you Vincent Keller, then nobody can."
~Catherine – The Next Day~
"Dad? A Mrs. Peters is on line 3. She said that it has to do with a private matter?"
"Oh, yes. I'll take it."
I think that the private matter my dad was about to take care of had nothing to do with a case. I couldn't help but laugh at the thought of it, but hey, it could happen, right? My mom has been dead for a while, so it could be a good thing for my dad to start living again.
As the day came to an end at the office, I began putting files back into the file cabinet when I hear a knock on my door, "It's open."
When I turn around to face my visitor it was a tall female with red curly hair, and blue eyes. "Do you have an appointment? Because we are about to close and…."
"No…no appointment. Actually, I came here to see you."
"Me? Why me? Do I know you?"
"You probably have heard of me, I'm Tori…Vincent's ex."
"Oh…OH! Hi! Uhm…I'm sorry…." I extended my hand out to Tori as I continued, "Catherine Chandler. Nice to meet you."
"I wish I could say the same, but under certain circumstances….."
"Wait…circumstances like what?"
"Oh nothing big really…I was hoping maybe you could tell Vincent to stop stalking me."
What is she talking about? Is this some kind of sick joke?
"I'm not sure I'm understanding what your saying, Tori."
"Well he's been stalking me recently. I have a new life now…and ever since I got a new boyfriend, Vincent has been parked outside of the condo building every night and its beginning to freak me out. If you could be a darling and pass the message, maybe he will listen to you."
"This is a mistake. Surely he wouldn't do that."
She pulled out some photos of Vincent's car out in front of the condo building and I started to feel like the very life was slowly being ripped from my body.
"You see? I didn't want it to come to this Catherine, but he has made things difficult for me. And if this doesn't stop him, then I will have no choice but to press charges against him, along with a restraining order."
"I understand." I said as my eyes burned by the sudden buildup of tears.
Tori walked towards the door then turned and said, "I'm sorry that you had to find out this way. I hope this doesn't ruin anything for you. Thanks for understanding."
She left and I felt like I couldn't breathe. How could he do this to me? Especially after my surrender to him. I knew it had to be too good to be true, but the slight feeling of denial still lingered in my mind and I just knew that I had to talk to him myself and get his side of the story.
Time had come to head to the club, Tess came over to my apartment so that we could ride together. At first, I wasn't going to go…but decided I might as well get this over with and face Vincent with what Tori had told me and even showed me. I dressed casually in a pair of blue jeans with a silk dark purple tube top and I pulled my hair up into a clip with it slightly dangling on each side of the clip in a sort of pony tail, followed by fixing my make-up. It was supposed to be chilly tonight, so I grabbed my black leather jacket and we headed out of the apartment.
The crowd was wild, the music was pumping and the bar didn't have one single stool open to sit down. Me and Tess walked over to a table where I hung my jacket on the back of my chair. I was getting nervous at the thought of bringing up my conversation with Tori, but I had to get it off my chest. "Tess, I'll be right back. I'm going to the bar to see Vincent, okay?" I shouted over the crowd and she nodded. I took a deep breath and walked my way over to the bar and waited til he finshed with some of the customers. While sitting there waiting, I couldn't get Tori's words out of my head. I felt an arm snake around my waist from behind me and I jumped from being startled when I saw that it some drunk guy that I didn't even know.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. You wanna dance?"
"No, sorry. I'm taken."
"Doesn't mean that we can't have a harmless dance. I'm sure your boyfriend won't mind."
"Sorry, but not interested."
"Oh come on baby….make me a happy man tonight."
"I said NO! Now get your hands off me!"
Vincent approached us and boy did he look pissed, "He giving you problems, babe?"
"So this must be your boyfriend?"
"Yeah! I am! And if you don't take your filthy hands off my girl, then me and you will be having some serious problems buddy."
"Alright…alright. Fine! Your loss sweetheart."
As the man walked away I look at Vincent and said, "Can we talk?...Like now?"
"Why? What's wrong? You okay?"
"Privately? Please." And I walked off towards Vincent's apartment, him soon after me.
"Catherine, what's going on?"
"You tell me….."
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you."
"Tori came by my work place this evening…."
"What?"
"She told me that you have been stalking her and she even showed me photos of your car parked outside of her condo….Why were you there?"
"She called me last night and said that her boyfriend had roughed her up and that she needed a friend to talk to, that's all. She must have took the photos when I first got there. Catherine believe me when I say that I am not stalking her."
"Why would she take the time to take photos of you outside of her condo?"
"Well, when I got ready to leave…she uh…..she kissed me and…."
"Unbelievable!" I said as I stormed off and out of the club. I guess I'll be walking home tonight.
~Vincent~
I chased after Catherine and ran up to JT and asked him to cover for me til I got back. He agreed and out the door I went. "Catherine! Wait!" I said as I jogged up in front of her to stop her.
"Catherine…listen to me. I can explain everything."
"You know what? Save it! I trusted you Vincent….I surrendered myself to you and I thought we was something special…."
I cupped her face as tears began to fall down her cheeks, "We are something special, please let me explain…..I went over there as a friend that's it. I didn't stay long and as I was leaving she kissed me and I pulled away instantly. It meant nothing to me because I'm in love with you and you only. Nobody will mean as much as you do to me…please you gotta believe me!"
"So it meant nothing?"
"Absolutely nothing."
"You swear?"
"On my life!"
"And you weren't stalking her?"
"No! Never! I would never give her the pleasure of it."
We locked eyes then Catherine wrapped her arms around my waist and laid her head on my chest. Then as she pulled away and looked up at me, as I looked down at her, we began kissing.
"I'm still mad at you for not telling me you went there…."
"I know, and I'm sorry."
"But, I forgive you. Your always trying to do the right thing Vincent, and I love you so much for that."
"You know, the night is still young and JT is covering for me at the bar if you wanna go 'hang out'."
"Hmmm….sounds tempting. But, I came here with Tess and she's probably worried about me right about now, so…maybe later?"
"I'll hold you to it then."
I took Catherine's hand, webbed my fingers with hers and we walked back to the club together. When we entered Tess rushed up to us, "Where have you been?"
"Went out for a stroll, no worries Tess. Vincent was with me."
The DJ announced for everyone to grab a partner and get ready for a slow dance as he began playing Say Something, the exact same song that played the night I confessed my love to
Catherine at the airport. She looked up at me with big eyes, knowing that song had played that night and I smiled at her as I said, "Dance with me."
We walked out onto the dance floor along with the other duos and Catherine wrapped her arms around my neck as I placed my hands on the small of her back.
"Say Something I'm giving up on you."
"I'll be the one if you want me to."
"Anywhere I would've followed you."
"Say Something I'm giving up on you."
"And I…"
"I'm feeling so small"
"It was over my head."
"I know nothing at all."
"And I…"
"Will stumble and fall."
"I'm still learning to love."
"Just starting to crawl."
"Say Something I'm giving up on you."
As the song started to die out, I bent down and began kissing her. It felt like we were the only two in the room at that moment. I pulled from the kiss leaving our foreheads together while I breathed in her sweet scent as she said to me, "I love you Vincent."
Everytime I hear those words come out of her mouth, my knees felt so weak, my soul shivered to her touch, and my heart raced to every kiss we had ever embraced. Life would be worthless to me without her in it….how would I be able to function? I cringe at the thought of her not existing and yet our story had only just begun. How could I have fallen so deeply, so fast? It seems impossible to happen, but here I am living proof of it. In that moment of her telling me that she loved me made me feel proud to be in her life. She showed me how worthy I was to have her….."I love you too, Catherine." And we began to kiss yet again.
**A/N: Hey darlings! Thanks for your lovely reviews : ) they are what keep the story going. I am really enjoying writing this story so much because every bit of what I have been writing, I can picture in my mind as I'm writing it. Makes it all the more easier, along with your reviews to keep going. I am sorry if the whole kiss from Tori bothered you, but it had its purpose for the argument near the end of this chapter, along with future chapters as well. I'm sorry if I ever bore you with any of these chapters, but not everything is meant to be perfect, right? Lol. I hope that you liked this chapter as much as I did writing it. Now the question, What do you think Tori's plan will be after finding out VinCat are still together? Please share your answers in the review box and also let me know what you think about this chapter. Love you ALL so so so much! Thanks for being awesome fans! XOXOXO!**