Chapter 7: Things just couldn't Get Worse

Vincent eventually went into the house and by then he was soaking wet. He felt like his life had been ripped from under his feet like a rug and now he is just stuck. He took a hot shower to make sure he didn't get sick from standing in the cold rain. In a t-shirt and sweats, he lay on the bed staring at the ceiling struggling with his mind and reality. Vincent really just wanted to go back to where he was before, his life with Catherine and JT. Even if it was on a boat house at least he still had Catherine in his life. Now that she is gone here along with seeing her face when she saw Vincent with his family he knew he lost her. How could he even begin to mend that relationship he had no damn clue. He fucked up big time and he had no clue what to do. For the first time in a long time, he got down on his knees and prayed. He prayed that God would send him back to his old life and everything would be back the way it was before all this happened, back with him in a relationship with Catherine and Alex gone, but then he stopped and thought about Ryan he had no clue what to do about that situation. Ryan was his son yet he didn't know how he felt about leaving him. Ryan was a part of him and he somehow loved him since the day he met him, it didn't take long Ryan was a sweet boy who adored Vincent. Vincent didn't even finish his prayer because he ended up at a crossroads. Didn't know what to do no outcome seems to be a good one. Vincent's brain hurt just trying to think of something to do, anything but he came up with nothing his mind was completely blank.

Vincent was exhausted but couldn't sleep he lay in bed the whole night wide awake. The sun was coming by the time he actually felt his self finally able to sleep. By then his alarm clock started ringing and woke him back up. Soon as he hit the dismiss button his cell started ringing it was JT.

"Hey V. Alex called me last night and told me what happened," JT says sounding concerned

Vincent sighed. As if he needed more remembering of how bad he messed up. "Go ahead and tell me you told me so, so I can get dressed for work already," Vincent says grumpily.

"Vincent as much as I would love to gloat about being right that seriously is the last thing on my mind. I didn't want to be right about this, but I am worried about you Alex didn't take too kindly with what you did"

"I know JT she hit me a few times as a result. My mind is just mentally and physically exhausted I don't have the energy or the patience to figure out what to do next" Vincent confessed.

"Well you better get your story right because Alex will probably be there soon," JT tells him

"She told you that?" Vincent asks jumping out of bed he wanted to hurry and get dressed so he can avoid her. He walked over to the closet and grabbed his scrubs.

"Yep, she said something about getting you help. I asked her what she meant but she wouldn't tell me. Maybe she is going to force you guys into couples counseling or something. She is not ready to give you up"

"JT I already told you I don't belong here, I can't be with her," Vincent says walking to the bathroom and then washing his face before grabbing his toothbrush and brushing his teeth.

"Well what about Ryan?"

"I don't know" Vincent confessed "that's one thing I am still trying to figure out"

"And what about Catherine?" JT questioned

"Now that one is hard... I feel like I already lost her to the point of no return" says regretfully

"I haven't known her very long but I think it is probably for the best that you just leave her alone. She seems like a tough girl I am sure she will be ok. She took you down I heard" JT chuckled

Vincent slightly smirked thinking about how Catherine did that move on him twice. One thing he always loved about her was that she was a fighter she could definitely hold her own if need be. Now that he wasn't a beast, she could definitely kick his ass.

"Yea she can definitely kick my ass" Vincent admitted as he struggled with his clothes as he held the phone and put them on at the same time.

Vincent was just now putting on his scrubs when he heard something downstairs.

"JT hold on a sec I hear something," Vincent says slowly walking into the hall to listen.

"Vincent what is it?" JT says on the line but Vincent didn't respond he kept walking trying to listen. He heard a noise downstairs and also what sound like footsteps heading up the stairs. He thought maybe it was Alex so he called out to her

"Alex," he said but got no response. The footsteps kept approaching up the stairs, as Vincent listened whoever it was had very heavy feet maybe had on boots. Whoever it was Vincent knew for a fact it wasn't not Alex, his guard shot up instantly.

"JT something is up if I don't call u back in ten minutes something happened to me and call the cops," Vincent says hanging up on JT before he can respond.

"Who is there" Vincent called out hoping it was Alex or even Ryan for that matter but still they didn't respond. Vincent inched his way toward the corner leading to the stairs and the footsteps stopped. Vincent listened and didn't hear anything anymore. He was confused whoever it was had to be upstairs by now why they hadn't come around the corner he didn't know. After a minute he tried to peek his head around the corner, as soon as he did he saw a masked man and before he could react the guy hit him hard over the head. Vincent fell to the ground trying to get his bearings struggling not to lose consciousness. He heard Alex's voice.

"I told you not to hurt him I am trying to help him not kill him stupid" she snapped at the masked guy.

"Alex?" Vincent says before everything goes black.

Vincent slowly started to awake and it was then the pain started to shoot through his head, as he opened his eyes and they adjusted to the light all he saw was brightness and white. Is this heaven? He thought as his vision tried to become clear. Once he opened his eyes completely and focused he realized this was no heaven. He tried to move but couldn't he looked down and saw he was in a stray jacket. What the fuck? Vincent thought. He looked around the room realizing everything was padded. Only one place can be like this an insane asylum or a mental hospital he couldn't believe it. Alex has him put into a mental hospital just my luck Vincent thought.

Vincent sat laying on the ground trying to wrap his head around what was happening to him and again he couldn't think about what he did that was so bad in his life that would give him the luck he was having. Then he thought maybe in a past life he did do something wrong because things just keep getting more and more worse. For a second Vincent started to contemplate if maybe he was crazy. He doesn't remember the life he has now and the life he does remember isn't here. What if everything he thought he knew was all made up in his mind and he was some kind of schizophrenic. The possibility of him being a schizo frightened him to his core. I can't be crazy, no way, I am not crazy I can't be he said to himself.

After sitting there for almost an hour trying to rationalize with himself he tried to get up without the use of his arms. It turned out to be a task since he was not used to it. He used the wall to push back on and slide himself up then stood up. Vincent walked to the door that had a small glass window. He looked out into the hallway seeing nurses and doctors and patients walking past. He yelled to get someone's attention to explain to him what is happening but he was in a soundproof room no one heard a thing. He eventually gave up and sat back down he was stuck and had no way of helping himself he just hoped maybe JT could come to his rescue.

Vincent had fallen asleep eventually, not having much sleep last night he was exhausted enough to fall asleep there on the floor. He woke when he heard the door being unlocked, he immediately opened his eyes. An older white-haired man walked in with a clipboard in his hand along with a nurse and this big tall security guard.

"Vincent Keller, Hi I am Dr. Rowe I need you to come with me," he says as the big security guard effortlessly picks Vincent up with one hand. Vincent looked at the bodybuilder-looking guy not really fond of him touching him. He gave him that don't touch me again look but the guard was not intimated by Vincent at all.

"Why am I here" Vincent asks following Dr. Rowe and the nurse out of the padded room.

"We will discuss that in my office, Mr. Keller," he says as he continued walking.

As they walked Vincent looked around the place it was very well kept and clean but the weird noises of my mental patients could be heard from every direction as they walked past doors to the rooms they were in. As he walked into a big room which appeared to be some kind of rec room he noticed a patient weaving his hands all around him swatting at what you would think bugs only there weren't any. Vincent frowned this could not be real. He watched as the guy started to scream panicking and swatting his hands all over the place. Vincent looked away and continued walking he just knew he had to get out of this place there was no way he was staying here. All four of them ended up getting into an elevator and going up a floor before he walked into the doctor's Office. The security guard stayed out in the hall while the nurse sat in a seat next to Vincent the doctor sat at his desk and took out a file.

"What is going on," Vincent asked growing impatient.

"Your wife asked that you be brought here as you are a danger to yourself and others around you," Dr. Rowe says as he put on his glasses.

"Please tell me this is joke" Vincent says starting to get pissed off.

The doctor looked up at him with a serious face letting him know this was no laughing matter.

"Listen I don't know what Alex has been telling you but I don't belong here I am not a danger to anyone including myself this is some kind of mistake" Vincent explains.

The doctor didn't respond to what Vincent said, instead it looked as if he ignored what he said altogether.

"Mr. Keller did you or did you not tell your wife that you are from some other lifetime" the doctor questions him.

Vincent didn't want to answer that question because he knew how that sounds to most people even if it is true who would believe something like that.

"I didn't exactly say it that way," Vincent says trying to downplay it. He knew if this guy thought he was a nut case he would not get out of there.

"Explain what you mean by that Mr. Keller," he says leaning to his right side and resting his head on his chin.

Vincent sighed getting frustrated.

"Listen I told her that only because I was trying to justify cheating on her" Vincent says using Alex's words he had to find some way to downplay the whole from another lifetime scenario it wasn't a good look.

"So everything you told her about being from a different alternate life and you not married to her and without a son was just something you made up" the Dr. Questioned jotting down something in his file.

"yes I made it up, now let me go I need get out of here," Vincent says " you can take this jacket off of me as well I don't need to be in this"

"Vincent we just want to help you, but we can't do that if you are not being truthful. Did something traumatic happen to you over the past week to make you suddenly feel like you are not supposed to be in this world?"

"Listen I told you I made it up, now let me go"

"Mr. Keller I am afraid I can't do that because you are not cooperating, we can't perform a psychiatric evaluation on you. So until then you will remain here"

"What? This isn't right you can't hold me here. You have no proof that I am a threat to anybody or myself you just going off what someone told you. That is not fair, if that was the case I could tell you Alex is crazy as well she has illusions that I actually like being married to her" Vincent says with venom. He was beyond pissed and if he didn't have on the stupid stray jacket he would have bashed the doctor over the head and got the hell out of there.

The doctor looked over at the nurse and gave her a head nod. Vincent looked over at her as she got up and went out into the hallway he was trying to figure out what was going on.

"Do I at least get a phone call?" Vincent says

"this isn't jail Mr. Keller" the doctor says.

"Could have fooled me" Vincent says "you guys hit me over the head kidnapped me and then have me locked up in this stray jacket. You won't believe anything I say and to top it off you won't let me call someone to get me out of here. I swear I am going to sue the shit of this hospital"

"Vincent," a voice said from behind him. Alex walked in hearing the last part of what he said. She looked at him with concern, she had never seen Vincent this angry before.

"Alex what have you done," he asks annoyed.

"Vince I knew you wouldn't come here voluntarily I had to find a way to get you some help," she says taking a seat next to him and putting her hand on his knee. Vincent snatched his leg away.

"I am not the one who needs help Alex" he hated her for being so gullible, again she betray him in two different lifetimes. That just goes to show the kind of woman she really was.

"Vincent I didn't know what to do, I don't want to lose you she says as tears wield up in her eyes.

"You lost me the day you decided on this plan," Vincent says with hate. "I will never forgive you"

Alex stood up and slapped him "How dare you act like the victim Vincent, don't forget you were out there cheating on me. This is your fault, not mine I am fighting to keep our family together what are you doing huh?" the nurse and security guard came over grabbing a hold of Alex in case she tried to hit him again. "You are so selfish Vincent," she says with fire in her eyes.

As mad as he was for being in the situation he started to feel bad instead after hearing what Alex said, he knew she was right. Vincent was definitely in the wrong whether he felt like he was or not. Alex stormed out to the office, leaving Vincent back with the doctor and the nurse.

"Mr. Keller how do you feel about what just transpired here," Dr. Rowe asked him.

Vincent didn't respond.

After a few minutes, the doctors said "guard, take Mr. Keller back into his room"

"Wait when do I get my phone call? I need to call JT" Vincent asks

The doctor ignored him as the guard grabbed him up and escorted him out the room. Vincent tried to get away but the guard held him tight dragging him down the hall.

"Get the fuck off me" Vincent yells at him struggling to get free. The guard just keeps walking dragging the kicking and struggling Vincent down the hall. The nurse walked to a room and unlocked the door. This room wasn't padded like before it had a bed in it and nothing else. The guard pushed Vincent in and pushed him down on the bed. The nurse came in beside him with a needle and injected something into his neck. Vincent immediately started feeling funny before he could even figure out what was happening he was out.

Whatever they gave Vincent had him out for almost 12 hours, by the time he woke up it was late at night. Vincent's stomach started to growl as he realized he had not eaten all day. He forced himself up still not used to having to get up without the use of his hands and arms. When he got to the door he looked out into the hallway from the glass opening of the door. His eyes immediately lit up when he saw JT. Oh thank god, I am saved Vincent thought as he watched JT talk to the doctor and nurse from earlier. Their discussion didn't look like it was going well. JT had a frown on his face and seemed angry about something. Oh no Vincent thought. I hope this isn't about me not being able to get the hell out of here. After several minutes of back and forth finally, the guard came over and opened to door to his small room. JT looked at him in shock as he saw Vincent standing there in a stray jacket he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"What the hell Alex has gone too far" JT says as the guard escorts them to the cafeteria. The guard sat Vincent down in a chair and then finally unhooked the stray jacket off of him, as much as Vincent want to beat the shit out of the guard for what he and the nurse did earlier he held back he needed to hear what JT had to say.

"Bad news V. I can't get you out of here"

"What!" Vincent says in disbelief

"I don't know what kind of pull Alex has here but what they are doing can't be legal" JT says.

"They are holding me here against my will, they kidnapped me that's who was in the house earlier when I was talking to you. Alex had someone hit me over the head and I woke up here"

"Dude, you sure know how to pick them. What the hell has gotten into your wife? This whole mess has gotten out of hand I can't believe Alex would do this to you V" JT says feeling sorry for Vincent.

"Me either, she keeps showing me more and more every day why she would never be the woman for me in this lifetime and the other" Vincent says shaking his head.

"So what do you want me to do, because these people are not letting you out of here no time soon," JT says

"I need you to go to Catherine" Vincent says

"Oh hell no! No way you hurt her remember. She had a badge and a gun she is not afraid to use"

"JT that is the point she has a badge, she can get me out of here. That has to be more pull then what Alex has. She is a cop she should be able to just walk and here and take me out" Vincent says.

"Now why would she do that when she hates your guts"

"JT you have to convince her to do this for me or I will never get out of here, please she is my only hope" Vincent pleads

"Ok ok, but if she tries to kill me I am leaving your ass in here" JT says

Vincent chuckles in spite of things "she won't trust me I know Catherine"

"You know your Catherine this Catherine isn't your Catherine" JT laughs at how the sentence sounds he just said.

Vincent laughs "as weird as that sounds it makes sense" Vincent says then turns serious "JT we have got no time to waste you have to go to her now"

"Yeah right it is like 1 in the morning she is probably sleeping" JT says

"This is an emergency I can't stay here these people are against me I am not safe here. They drugged me earlier" Vincent says

"Whoa, fine I will go, but like is said if she tries to kill me I am leaving you here," JT says standing up.

Vincent noticed the Vending machines in the café and asked JT for some change. After JT gave him some change he went off to get Catherine to help him and Vincent. While Vincent sat in the café eating chips, candy bars, cakes, and any and everything five bucks would buy he thought about Catherine. He hoped and prayed that she would see pass the hurt he cause he help anyways. The worse she could say was no and then he really would be stuck here. He had faith that Catherine would come to his rescue like he told JT he knew Catherine even when she wasn't herself she managed to be herself.

AN: So do you think Cat will come to the rescue? or will JT have to find a way save Vincent?