Note: So I went through all the chapters and re-formated it all so hopefully it will be easier to follow along. I really don't mind critics so please let me know if anything is confusing to you guys. This is my first fanfiction so I'm still getting into the hang of things. Thanks for all you reviews and thanks for reading :)
I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Chapter Three (FULL)
Vincent left the hospital after Catherine had fallen asleep. He drove all the way back to the warehouse thinking about what Catherine had said. He couldn't help but smile the whole way back at the warehouse. It was 3:00 AM and he really hoped J.T. was asleep because J.T. needs his "beauty sleep".
Vincent arrived at the warehouse and went up to where their living space was. He opened the door and stepped inside. J.T fell asleep on the coach with his laptop on his lap and one arm crossed over his eyes. Vincent made his way up the stairs but stopped when J.T. said something. Vincent turned around to look at J.T.
"Vincent…" J.T. mumbled. He was talking in his sleep. "Don't touch Sarah she's mine." J.T. turned over knocking his laptop over onto the floor making a smashing noise yet J.T. didn't move. "Jill McManahan" J.T. snored.
Vincent couldn't help but laugh at J.T. referring to their conversation earlier about him going with Catherine.
"Alex." J.T. said as she shifted onto his other side.
Just then Vincent felt like he couldn't breathe. Alex was his fiancé who he met at the hospital before he left for Afghanistan. He started pacing worrying she still worked at the hospital and hoping she didn't see him if she was on the night shift. From what he remembered that was her favorite shift.
Vincent was too distracted about Alex he didn't notice that J.T. was awake.
"Hey you okay man?" J.T. said while he was rubbing his eyes
"Alex…" Vincent said in a worried tone, "My ex-fiancé. J.T., what if she still works at the hospital?"
J.T. sat back down on the couch and Vincent sat down next to him. "Well, if she still works at the hospital, then you know you can't risk going to see Catherine. What if she saw you?"
"Well that's my biggest concern, what if she saw me tonight but didn't say anything?" Vincent looked up at J.T.
"From what I remember dude, that girl was massively in love you with you. I'm pretty sure if you saw you, you would know." J.T got up off the couch and walked over to the fridge. "And you right, you should be concerned about her seeing you. Since that may happen, I'm not letting you go back there."
"I'm still going to see Catherine, J.T." Vincent said following J.T. over to the fridge.
"All, I'm saying is that you can't risk having Alex see you so the best thing would be not to go back." J.T. said grabbing two beers.
"It would be no different from me going to the wedding." Vincent said taking one of the beers from J.T. Vincent knew it was different if Alex saw him verses him going to the wedding but he was trying everything at this point to get J.T.'s approval.
"No, you see that's were you're wrong. Nobody knew you at the wedding besides Catherine. Alex knows you man, and if she saw you there is no way she is going to let it slide. You two were supposed to get married remember?" J.T. took a sip from his beer and leaned against the kitchen counter.
"Look, I know this sounds crazy but I'm going to take the risk J.T. and if Alex does see me, well…I guess I'll cross that bridge when or if it happens. I don't even know if she still works there it has been over 10 years. For all we know she moved, got married, and started a family. Plus, I'm not leaving Catherine. I'm going to continue to go visit her." Vincent said as he made his way towards the stairs.
"Vincent…" J.T. started
"Goodnight J.T." Vincent called from halfway up the stairs.
About noon the next morning Vincent woke up and did his morning exercise routine. After he went downstairs and sure enough J.T. was lying on the couch with about three empty beer bottles on the coffee table next to him. Vincent rolled his eyes and figured that this would be the perfect time to go if he wanted to go see Catherine.
Vincent went back up stairs, took and shower and then grabbed the box under his bed and changed into his doctor uniform. He thought about Alex and how they had planned to get married right after he got back from Afghanistan. It was weird thinking that he actually might see her again after all these years. He thought about the likely hood of her actually still being there. It was very slim but as J.T. was right when he said it was still a possibility.
Vincent walked downstairs and grabbed J.T.'s car keys. Luckily J.T. is still asleep and he is a very heavy sleeper.
Vincent left the warehouse and drove to the hospital. Luckily it was the daytime so that meant he could just go through the normal entrance and not have to deal with the stupid ID card thing.
He eventually got to the hospital and parked J.T.'s car.
He walked through the normal entrance of the building and noticed that Heather was sitting in the waiting room. Vincent made his way to the elevator when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He jumped a bit trying to act like a normal person being surprised even though her heard the footsteps coming closer.
"Excuse me?" a woman said in a small voice.
Vincent turned around and saw it was Heather.
"Um…hi," she continued "Do you know anything about Catherine Chandler? You see she is my sister and she's the one that got shot and I've come by waiting in the waiting room since the accident waiting for the doctors to tell me how she is doing today but nobody said anything today. I lost my mom a few years ago from a gun shot and I couldn't bear to lose my sister too." Heather's eyes began to fill with tears. She spoke quickly yet quietly and Vincent could feel his heart rate increase.
"Ma-am," Vincent stared. It took everything in him to keep himself from bringing Heather to go up to see Catherine but he knew he couldn't. "I'm not exactly sure what is going on with your sister but I can assure you what ever happened our doctors are trying their best." Vincent really hated the fact he had to lie to her but he knew he had to.
"Okay… thank you." Heather walked away with her head down and she whipped away the tears rolling down her cheeks.
He made his way up to Catherine's room and was about to enter when the door opened. He slid behind one of the supporting columns in the hallway.
"Your progress is great Catherine." Vincent heard a woman say. "You'll be out of here before you know it."
Vincent recognized the woman's voice. It was Alex. His heart rate increased but he tried to keep himself calm. J.T. was right it was all too big of a risk.
Vincent then heard the door shut and saw Alex walk away from Catherine's room. He grabbed the mask from his pocket and slid in over this mouth. He walked over to Catherine's room and opened the door.
"Hi" he said removing the mask.
"What brings you here?" Catherine asked as she turned off the TV
"I…uh…came to see you" Vincent swallowed trying to calm himself down. He couldn't help but think about Alex.
Catherine patted a spot on the hospital bed telling Vincent to sit down. "You okay? You seem a bit shaken up."
Vincent swallowed. "What was the name of the doctor that just came in here before me?" Vincent looked down at his feet.
"I think her first name is Alex." Catherine sat up. "Why? Was she one of your old co-workers?"
Vincent laughed nervously and shook his head.
"You can tell me Vincent."
Vincent heard Catherine's heat beat increase. He knew she shouldn't be stress out during her recovery. He sighed. "Well you see, before I left for Afghanistan, Alex and I…" Vincent laughed again nervously. He felt Catherine's hand on his shoulder.
"Vincent you can tell me anything. I won't be upset."
"Alex was my fiancé before I went to Afghanistan." Vincent looked up at Catherine and noticed something rather odd. Her heart rate was back to normal.
"That's it?" Catherine asked surprising Vincent with her reaction. "Vincent you didn't think I would be upset did you?"
"Well uh.." Vincent stared at his feet again. "I just want you to know that I have no feelings for her what so ever." Vincent spoke quickly.
"Vincent…" Catherine stared in a calm voice. Vincent looked up at her.
Just then there was a knock on the door and Vincent jumped to his feet and put the mask over his mouth and walked over to the desk pretending to look at papers.
"Heather?" Catherine asked as Heather did a quick little run over to Catherine's bed with her arms spread out ready to give her a hug.
"I'm so glad that you're alright." Heather said giving Catherine a hug
Catherine laughed "Easy there sis I have a cracked rib." Heather jumped back "Oh I'm so sorry"
"Evan?" Catherine asked as he walked over to Catherine holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand.
Vincent looked over his shoulder to look at Evan but quickly looked back at the papers trying to act as normal as possible. He could feel his heart rate increase he tried to calm himself down.
"How are you feeling Detective Chandler?" Evan asked putting the flowers down with the others.
"Better thanks. And thanks for the flowers." Catherine smiled and then looked over at Vincent who was still sorting through papers. Vincent made his way over to the door but then Evan said something.
"Excuse me, but do you have any idea on when Catherine will be able to go back home?" Evan asked
Vincent stopped in his tracks. He was about to say something when Catherine spoke up.
"I think they said in about four days." Catherine said catching Evan's attention. Vincent took the opportunity to leave while Evan was paying attention to Catherine.
"Oh good." Evan said and then turned around to ask Vincent another question but saw he was already gone. "Huh..." Evan said with a confused look on his face.
"You know doctors." Catherine laughed, "they're always busy." She was sad Vincent had left because she didn't get a chance to tell him what she thought of the whole ex-fiance thing but she knew it was for the better. She just hoped he would come back later that night.
"I'm so glad your okay." Heather said as she hugged Catherine one more time but this time not so hard.
"Me too." Catherine smiled
"Catherine…" Evan started "Do you remember what happened?"
"No, considering I passed out but the doctors filled me in on what happened."
"So you don't remember lying in the arms of some stranger who happens to look very similar to that doctor?" Evan looked back at the door.
"What?" Catherine asked laughing and trying to act normal. "Are you implying that my doctor is the one who saved me?"
Evan rubbed the back of his neck. Heather burst out laughing. "Evan you can't be serious. You think that Cat's doctor is the same person who saved her? That's ridiculous!" Heather sat down on the window bench still trying to control her laughter.
"Evan that is a little bit far fetched don't you think?" Catherine said and Evan leaned against one of the walls.
"I know it seems crazy but I'm the only one who saw him and I swear they are the same person." Evan rubbed his chin while Heather continued laughing.
"Evan, it was pitch black out and we were all so nervous." Heather said as she picked out a piece of fruit from a fruit salad that someone dropped by earlier.
"Heather is right." Catherine said "It was really dark out and the middle of no where. I think your just a little stressed out. How about you go get some water?"
Evan just nodded while he rubbed his chin and left the room. As he was leaving Tess walked in.
"How are you doing partner?" Tess asked as she entered the room.
"Good thanks. How's work?" Catherine said as she patted a spot on her bed telling Tess to take a seat.
"Good. Nothing that new. We got the body of the psycho who shot you. Joe decided to open up a case about it. The lady's lawyer is level-headed which is good and we are saying it was self-defence. However we did notice something weird about the crime scene." Tess looked over at Heather who was still eating the fruit salad. "The door on your car was ripped off." Tess looked back at Catherine with a worried face.
"It probably got torn off when Heather's care flipped." Catherine said. She still didn't talk to Vincent about what exactly happened.
"But-" Tess started but was interrupted by Heather
"This fruit is fantastic!" Heather said while taking another bite.
Catherine laughed at Heather while she gobbled down the fruit salad. "Yeah, Dad dropped it by earlier." Catherine said watching Heather stuff her mouth.
Tess looked down at her phone as it vibrated. "It's Joe, I have to go back to work but we are not done with this conversation." Tess said and she got off the bed.
"Okay" Catherine said trying to sound normal. She had a pretty good idea why the door was ripped off.
Tess left the room and Evan entered again and just stood in the door way. "Heather, I'm going to take you home 'cause I have to go back to work. I'll bring you by again later tonight."
"Okay!" Heather said as she grabbed more fruit and put it in her paper bowl. "Bye Cat, see you later!"
Evan and Heather both left leaving Cat alone. She liked having them visit but she could use the peace and quite to think. She closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Vincent got back to the warehouse and entered the room seeing J.T. standing right in front of him.
"What the hell Vincent?" J.T. shouted "I thought you had more common sense than this, how could you have done this?"
"J.T. I'm sorry." Vincent said in a calm voice. "I wasn't just going to leave Catherine at the hospital."
"So you thought you would just go back and make me worry like crazy? After I very specifically said not to go back..." J.T. sat down on the couch. "It's just to big of a risk Vincent, what if Alex saw you? Then what? She thinks you're dead and then she sees you and then BAM! We are back on the radar like no tomorrow!"
"J.T." Vincent started
"No, Vincent...I don't want you excuses. You really could have messed up. You're just lucky nothing happened." J.T. walked away and Vincent followed him.
"Look, J.T. I really am sorry I left without you knowing."
J.T. didn't say anything he just opened his laptop and began typing
"J.T. would you please just listen to me?" Vincent pleaded
J.T. looked up at Vincent. "Look, I will be willing to let this slide if you promise not to go back there."
Vincent swallowed and took a seat. "Don't worry J.T. I wont be going back for a while... I-"
J.T stopped typing and looked up at Vincent. "Oh god, what happened?"
"You were right. I saw Alex." Vincent said as he looked down at the table
"Please tell me she didn't see you..." J.T. said "oh god Vincent, please, please, please tell me she didn't see you."
"No, she didn't but she is Catherine's doctor." Vincent looked up at J.T. and J.T. looked like a deer in headlights. "And when I went in to see Catherine after Alex left I told Catherine about Alex."
"What? Why would you do that?" J.T. shouted
"Because she needs to know." Vincent started. "Because it would be easier to tell her right off the bat than wait for something to happen.
"What do you mean by 'than wait for something to happen?'" J.T. asked looking confused.
"Well from what I remember Alex liked to talk...a lot, and if she ever brought up the fact about having a fiance who died in Afghanistan to Catherine..."
"Wait...you don't think Catherine would tell her anything do you?" J.T. asked nervously
"Of course not!" Vincent said "She would never do anything that could harm us in any way."
J.T. just nodded in agreement and then looked back at his keyboard.
"But...I will need to go back there." Vincent said causing J.T.'s head to shoot up.
"Okay, weren't we just talking about how you can't go back there?" J.T. asked
"Look, I didn't get a chance to talk to Catherine about it that long so I'm going back later tonight just to talk to her a bit." Vincent said waiting for J.T. to explode. But to Vincent's surprise he remained quite calm.
"Tonight." J.T. said "Tonight and that's it Vincent. After that you can't go back anymore. Understand?"
Vincent smiled and thanked J.T. and J.T. just rolled his eyes knowing he was going to regret it but something told him Vincent just wasn't going to give up.
Alex walked into Catherine's room and walked over to her bed.
"How are you feeling?" Alex asked
"Much better thanks. Do you know when I should be able to go back home?" Catherine asked hoping she could leave as soon as possible.
"Um..." Alex said as she flipped through some papers on a clipboard. "I would say about four to five days"
"Okay." Catherine said as sat up in her bed.
"How is your head and your rib?" Alex asked still flipping through papers
"I still have a headache and my rib doesn't even hurt that bad." Catherine said placing a hand on her side were her rib was cracked.
"The headache will last a few days, maybe weeks so I suggest when you do go back home you take a few days off work and try to limit the amount of television your watching. As far as the rib goes, that's good, there is a very small crack so that's good it doesn't hurt to bad."
Catherine couldn't help think about how her doctor was supposed to marry Vincent. It felt so weird to her knowing that the person in front of her was his ex-fiance. She looked over at the clock and it read 5:00.
"Oh" Alex began again, "Just to let you know I have a night shift to so I will coming back in a checking on you during the night tonight."
"Okay." Catherine replied.
Alex left the room and closed the door behind her. 6:00 is when visiting hours ended so she waited for Evan to bring Heather back. Catherine stared out her window and thought about Vincent. After a couple minutes passed Catherine's eye lids began to get heavy and she fell asleep.
A few hours passed and Catherine opened her eyes again. She stretched her arms above her head and sat up. She noticed a note on the small table besides her bed and she opened it up.
Hi Cat!
Evan brought me over but you were sound asleep so I just wrote you a note. Anyway, I hope you're feeling better and I hope you don't mind but I took some more of that fruit salad. It is soooo good! You should try it! Evan says hi and we will stop by tomorrow! Sleep tight and I love you!
Love,
Heather
Catherine smiled and looked over at the fruit salad which was nearly halfway gone. She could help but laugh.
"Whats so funny?" Vincent asked as he entered the room.
"Vincent!" Catherine said as she looked over in his direction.
"Hi, sorry I left earlier and thanks for covering for me." Vincent said as he sat down on the edge of her bed.
"No problem, I'm just glad you were able to get out without Evan saying anything." Catherine said as she moved her pillow from behind her back.
"About Alex..." Vincent began "I just want you to know...well, lets just say that if I had to choose between normal Vincent Keller and Vincent Zalanski, I would choose Vincent Zalanski any day." Vincent grabbed Catherine's hand and they both smiled at each other.
"I'm glad you told me Vincent." Catherine said while holding his hand
"Me too." Vincent said giving her hand a small squeeze. "I hate to say this but I should probably get going. J.T. was nice enough to let me come tonight and I don't want to be out to late."
"I understand" Catherine said smiling.
They let go of each other's hand and Vincent made his way over to the door. "Goodnight Catherine." Vincent said before closing the door behind him.
"Night" Catherine said smiling thinking about what Vincent said.
Vincent shut the door slowly and made his way towards the stairs. He grabbed a clipboard off of the desk in the middle of the hallway so it made him look more normal and he began walking down the stairs.
Alex was talking to one of her co-workers when she looked up and saw a man with a clipboard walking down the stairs. She reconized him. She didn't know how it was possible but she didn't care. There he was right in front of her.
"Vincent?" she called out
Vincent looked up and saw Alex he casually walked down the stairs trying to act as normal as he could and walked down another hallway.
"Vincent Keller!" Alex called out louder.
Vincent slid behind a wall and closed his eyes. He felt his heart rate increase but he slowed his breathing and took deeper breaths. He waited until he was sure she was gone. He listened for her calling out his name but he didn't hear anything else. He slid back into the hall and looked behind him making sure she wasn't around. He turned around as he bumped into somebody.
"It really is you." she said in a surprised voice.
Chapter Four will be up as soon as possible. I hope you guys like it so far and please let me know what you think and if there is anything you are hoping to see in the second half of the season. And to answer the question on how I found out what the ex-fiance's name is I googled "beauty and the beast bridget regan"and it was the first link. I will update as soon as I get enough feedback from chapter 3. chapter 4 will include what Alex has been up to these past ten years! :)