This story happens two days ago before the first chapter…

Beauty & the Beast doesn't belong to me, if does Jay Ryan would be shirtless a lot more and Vincent would have been the same of the first nine episodes. The Cw you better get us season 2. English is not my first language, so any typo or grammar mistakes (I don't use google), please let me know. Enjoy!

Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope in the words of children, in the bars of a song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you're lucky, and if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.(One Tree Hill)

Vincent couldn't breathe...after he read Catherine's message he couldn't think clear "Don't come back to the hospital, it's not safe. What happened? Evan was hunting the Vigilant again? Muirfield had come back? He didn't say anything to JT; he just made his way back to the hospital. He already had failed in protect Catherine from Sabrina, he wouldn't fail again.

He found Catherine near a wall; he let out the air he didn't even know he was holding. She was ok. He pushed her to the empty room, Catherine with a worried expression.

"What are you doing here? I told you it's not safe." She asked.

"What's going on? Evan is trying to hunt down the vigilant again?" Vincent could not hide how Evan bothered him. He was jealous of the doctor but he didn't have time to think about it, because Cat was saying something.

"More like my nurse, you might know her… Alex Salter." Vincent looked away; he didn't want to bring more problems for her. He almost lost her two days ago for God's sake!

"Earlier, when I came to visit you, I was leaving the hospital and she saw me. Alex…Alex is my ex fianceé."

"Well, that explains it… she was a wreck." Catherine said and she could see pain in her eyes, but there was something more that Vincent couldn't understand at that moment. Would it be…jealousy?

"No, you must be misreading her… It's been ten years… She saw a ghost." It couldn't be possible, Alex should have move on.

"No, Vincent, I'm not misreading her." She said and took a deep breath "I have to go back, Heather will come back in a minute."

"Listen, I'll deal with this" he said holding her hand "You please take care of yourself."

She smiled "I will, be careful, ok?"

Catherine left and Vincent stood there for a few more minutes, he needed to do something…but what he should do?

Maybe it wasn't the best idea, but he went to Alex, to explain what he could, not giving a lot of details. It was difficult to him, see that Alex hadn't move on, but, he hoped that now she could finally found her own way. He went back to warehouse just to find a shaken and worried JT.

"Where the hell have you been? I tried to call you but your cellphone was dead, Catherine called me and I could do nothing… now I'm calling her and she didn't respond. Are you guys trying to give me a heart attack?"

"JT calmed down, my battery was dead, and I told you I would talk to Alex. What's wrong, Is Catherine ok?"

"Alex has reporting a break in on her apartment, someone has been following her. Nothing was missing and Catherine thinks it…it might be Muirfield." JT said at once.

"What about Catherine?" He asked already thinking about all things could be wrong.

"I don't know she doesn't reply her phone and I called the hospital and they just said she is missing."

"What?" Vincent asked panicking "Where is she? What they did her?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" JT screamed and that moment his phone rang.

"It's Catherine" JT said and Vincent took the phone from his hand.

"Where are you? Are you ok?" he asked desperate

"I'm fine, I'm at Alex apartment. It wasn't what I was thinking." Vincent sighed in relief until Catherine continued "but Alex is in trouble."

"Where are you?"

"At her apartment" Catherine said and groaned in pain.

Vincent's heart sank Catherine was in pain because of him.

"Give me the address I'm on my way."

"Vincent you can't…"

"You are hurt Catherine, we can make this in a easier way or not, it's your choice."

Catherine sighed and he knew he had won. She passed the address to him and as soon as he could he was knocking at Alex door.

Alex opened the door and threw herself into his arms, Vincent hugged her, but all he could think about was Catherine. "I thought I would never see you again.

'That was my plan' he thought "Are you ok? Where's Catherine?" Vincent asked walking in the apartment.

"I'm fine!" Catherine responded sitting on Alex's couch.

"What the hell were you thinking? Checking yourself out of the hospital? You almost died two days ago!" Vincent was pacing around the room

"I thought, you know what had come back and had got you and her." Catherine answered a little scared, she had never seen him like that.

Alex watched them confused, Vincent hadn't been clear to her about his relationship with Catherine. She assumed she was his handler, but now it seemed a lot more than that.

"What happened anyway?" he asked sitting next to Catherine lowering her blouse a little, examining the wound.

"Alex had been stalked by some guy. He attacked her when she was leaving the hospital."

"She saved my life, Vincent!" Alex said.

Vincent smiled towards Catherine "Always saving everyone."

"I asked Evan to look for the prints the police of 86 made the favor to not even analyze. I have to go now, and I'll be back in a few. You should stay with her." Catherine explained and the stood up, almost falling in the process.

"Are you kidding me? You have to go back to the hospital, right now." Vincent said. Alex didn't miss the worried on his face.

"Vincent "I'm ok. I will be back in a couple of hours."

Catherine left and Vincent suddenly felt really uncomfortable next to Alex.

"Is she your handler? She is the one protecting you from the guys you told me?"

Vincent shook his head "No, she…" What he is supposed to say? She wasn't his girlfriend, but she wasn't just a friend either.

"It's…complicated." He finally said "Alex I…"

"You are in love with her." She said simply.

His mouth dropped It was that obvious?

"And she loves you." Alex said sitting in the same place Catherine sat a few moments ago.

Vincent looked at his shoes "I don't know about that."

Alex laughed "always blind. Vincent a girl doesn't just left a hospital, after an almost death experience to save someone if she didn't care and love this person."

"Maybe you are right" Vincent said "But that doesn't change the fact that ,my life is not normal and I can't ask anything to her."

"Maybe you should let her decide; after all it's her life. The same way you should have come to me, years ago."

"Alex…I'm so sorry, for what I did to you. But believe me it was the best option."

She didn't respond and they just talked about who the stalker could be. One hour later Catherine came back.

"Do you recognize this man?"

"Oh my god!" Alex said shocked "I treated him a few months ago. He said I was in love with him, but I told him, I…already had someone in my life."

"We need to find a way to get him" Vincent said and Catherine looked at him, she didn't miss the we part.

"He has invaded my email, I can say I'm leaving town with the man I love and he will show up."

"No, it's too dangerous!" Catherine said.

"No, you two will protect me."

"Are you kidding me?" Vincent said angry "Have you seen her state? Catherine can't be involved with all of this."

Catherine could see Vincent losing control, so she came near him and touched his face "Vincent I'm ok. I'm here. I told you, I'm not going anywhere."

Vincent took a deep breath "Are you serious considering all of this?"

"Actually I am. But you have to stay away, go and I'll deal with this." Catherine said and smile "Its just another day in the office, I'll be ok."

"You can send the message, Alex." Catherine said.

Alex smiled and started to type, Vincent took a deep breath and left the apartment. He wasn't about to let Catherine hurt herself because of him... so he did something that later Catherine would want to kill him, but now her safety was his number one priority. He took his phone and called someone

"I would like to talk with detective Tess Vargas."

"Vargas speaking, May I help you?"

"I'm Vincent Zalaski and I'm Catherine's…boyfriend."

"Catherine's what?" Tess asked in shock, why Catherine did not tell her?

"Listen we don't have much time, but you need to help Catherine. I'm out of town and Catherine just checked herself out of the hospital. Apparently some nurse that helped her is in trouble, a stalker or something and Catherine is helping her. The last time I talked to her I could swore she was in a lot of pain. So, please don't let her do anything stupid."

"She must have some kind of trauma or something" Tess murmured "Don't worry, Catherine will be at the hospital in the next hour. You know, I didn't even know Catherine had a boyfriend, but I'm already like you. Hope Cat introduces us soon."

"Thank you Tess, maybe next time I'm on the town;"

Vincent waited in the roof, he could hear Catherine screaming on the phone and seconds later leave the building. "I'm going to kill you" He read in the message that he just received. Vincent laughed at least she would be safe and sound.

Vincent came back to Alex's apartment, he needed to finish their conversation.

"Catherine is not here" Alex said and he could see, she as angry.

"I know it's not right I appear now in your life, especially after 10 years you thinking I was dead. But Alex, you need to move on. What we had… was ten years ago. I'm not the same person."

"Neither am I" she said "I don't know. It's just see you coming back… I thought I could have that life again. But clearly your heart is with her. You don't even care about me anymore."

"Don't say that. Alex, you will always be special for me. I will always care for you, but after tonight we can talk to each other again. You need to forget about me. It's not safe for me, but it's more dangerous for you."

"You keep saying that but I don't understand." She asked truly confused.

"It's better if you don't" Vincent said and it was time to say good bye.

"Take care of yourself Alex; I will be at the hospital, just in case. But please, move on. I don't want to live with that guilty anymore."

They hugged each other, and before he left Alex gave him something.

"What is this?" He asked when she gave him a bag.

"Our letters and photos. Catherine said it might be dangerous if someone saw them."

"Thank you!" he said truly, even when he didn't want he brought problems for the person he cares.

"You know all of us have our first love, sometime we overcome them. I always want to leave the country and help people. Maybe I finally can let you go."

"I wish you all the best."

Two hours later Vincent was at Catherine's he was a little surprised that she was there and not in a hospital, but he soon understood when he heard Evan's voice.

"I should arrest you for this." Evan said in his ridiculous british accent.

Catherine laughed "It was not a big deal, she needed help and I was there. The doctor said it was fine for me to recovery at home."

"After I guarantee I would look after you." Evan responded "And don't you dare say otherwise, because since your boyfriend is out of town, I will be checking you for the next days. By the way, why did you lie to us? You said that Vincent Zalaski didn't exist."

"We had a fight… and why are we talking about him?" Catherine asked "I promise I won't leave the apartment, besides Joe took my badge and my gun. Now, thanks to Vincent, everyone think I have a serious post-traumatic stress."

Vincent could tell she was mad at him, but what he was supposed to do? Let her walking around after been shot and have a car accident? No way!

"I'll come tomorrow to check on you, please take care of yourself." Evan said and a few minutes later he left the apartment.

He waited, Catherine was in her bathrrom changing her clothes, he heard when she gasped in pain…

"I can help you with that, I mean the dressing part if you want…"

"Thank you…" she said "but I'm ok!"

She came to him, and he could see she was not ok.

"Tess called, she got the guy and Alex is ok."

Vincent smiled "I know"

Catherine nodded and thought 'of course he was there'

He noticed something on her pocket "What do you have in here?"

"Nothing!" she said shyly but Vincent wasn't buying it.

"Let me see" he grabbed and saw a picture of him.

"Did you get this?" he said with a big and bright smile 'please say yes, say yes' he thought.

"No, it was an accident."

Vincent smile faded but came back the second he noticed her heart beating fast; she was lying.

She took the picture from his hand "I don't know, I wanted to know him…

He put his hand on his pockets "That guy isn't completely gone, ok?"

Catherine just stared at him and changed the subject "Thank you, by the way. Now I'll have to face a shrink and give Tess, Evan and a lot of people a bunch of explanation about a boyfriend I don't have."

Vincent could not stop the laugh "I know you are mad because you have to stay at home, but I came really closer to lose you. I'm not taken any risk again."

"I…" she took a deep breath her shoulder was hurting "You don't have to look out for me 24/7 at day, Vincent. It's too risky."

He nodded, why she sounded so upset "Let me look at your shoulder, you skip a breath every time you move your arm.

"It's ok, Evan already checked it. Maybe you should go see Alex."

That hurt him, but this time he wasn't leaving without say everything he was feeling.

"This is your way to dogging you and me?" he asked "Think about it, why you and I are still stuck here, why we don't move forward?"

"It's complicated!"

He shook his head "I think it's convenient that it's complicated. Did you forget that I've been looking after you? I know your patterns. You like to pick bad boys, because that way you can keep your distance. And I guess I'm the ultimate bad boy…The truth is I'm not really an option for you, am I?" he said and he was holding his tears.

"You want me to believe that your ex showing up doesn't change everything?" Catherine was trying not to show how jealous she really was.

Vincent took a step forward "It doesn't change us."

"Maybe you are right" she looked away "Maybe I don't remember how to be close to somebody. But you can look me in the eye and say you don't have feelings for her?"

Vincent took a deep breath, so that was it? She was scared that he was going to run away back to Alex? He held her face with his hands making Catherine face him "I care about Alex, but I don't have romantic feelings for her. I don't want her. I don't love her anymore."

A tear fell on her face and Vincent wiped it. "Don't push me away Catherine."

Catherine hugged him but didn't promise anything and that, didn't go unnoticed by Vincent.

If I can not make you the happiest person
I'll get closer as possible
All inconveniences in our favor
And yes differences, but
Never higher than our value

(Charlir Brown Jr - Vicius e Virtudes - Vices and Virtues)

I have one more chapter, but I don't know when I will update, hopefully before Thursday. Thank you so much for all of you that reviewed, put this in your favorites or/and alert.

Oh by the way, i don't think Evan accent ridiculous, that's just something that i can say Vincent thinks all the time. For me is really sexy!

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