Note: This is where the story really starts to come together for its first conflict. Please let me know what you guys think because I want you guys to enjoy reading the story as much as I enjoy writing it. Feel free to let me know what you guys are looking forward to along with any critics/questions you guys may have! Thanks for reading :)

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter Four:

"Ma'am I think you are confusing me with someone else." Vincent said taking a few steps back.

"Vincent, I know it's you." Alex said taking a step forward. "I thought you were dead."

Vincent's heart rate increased and he could feel his blood pumping through his veins. "Honestly, I don't think you have the right person." he began walking away trying to calm himself down but it didn't seem to work.

"Vincent!" Alex called running up to him "Vincent..." she placed a hand on his shoulder. "Vincent, please..."

Vincent turned around to face her. "Miss, I honestly think you have the wrong person." he continued to walk away and rubbed his forehead.

Alex jogged up beside him. "Don't try to play that game Vincent, I know its you. Why won't you just talk to me?"

Vincent heard the un-steadiness in her voice as if she was about to cry. However, he continued walking away.

Alex stayed where she was and placed her hand across her eyes. She took a few deep breaths and Vincent heard her break down in tears. He continued to walk away to where he parked J.T.'s car. He felt horrible for just leaving her there crying but what choice did he have?

Vincent made his way back to the warehouse and stepped inside. Thankfully, J.T. was fast asleep in his room. Vincent made his way up to his room and he rubbed his forehead trying to make his headache go away. It was going to be a long night.

He changed into his pajamas and placed his doctor clothes back in the box underneath his bed. He unfolded the covers and slid into his bed. He closed his eyes but it was no use. He tossed and turned but nothing could settle his thoughts. He got up and got a drink of water and of course that didn't help. He did a few push ups and counted to fifty. He still didn't feel tired. He went over to his punching bag and punched it about 30 times. Again, nothing. He went over to the sink and splashed some water on his face and sat down in one of the chairs next to the table in the middle of the room.

A few minutes passed and Vincent heard J.T. walk up the stairs. "Hey you okay? It almost 2 o'clock in the morning." J.T. made his way over to the table to sat down in one of the chairs.

"I don't know..." Vincent started. "I just don't know."

"What happened? Is Catherine okay?" J.T. asked leaning forward in the chair.

"Huh?" Vincent looked up at J.T. and rubbed his eyes. "yeah Catherine's fine, its just..."

J.T. wanted to explode because he had a feeling about where Vincent was headed with this but he knew he had to stay calm. He never really saw Vincent like this. "You can tell me man, I promise I won't flip out."

Vincent looked back down at the table and got up out of his chair. "I don't know how I could of let this happen. Alex saw me and recognized me." Vincent said walking back over to his bed.

J.T. took a deep breath trying to keep himself calm. He got up and walked over to Vincent. "Did anything happen?" J.T. managed to say even though he was completely flipping out inside.

"We talked." Vincent said rubbing his eyes.

"About?" J.T. asked leaning back on one of the walls.

"I told her she was confusing me with someone else but I don't think she bought it." Vincent said looking up at J.T.

J.T. swallowed hard trying to keep himself as calm as possible. "It will be okay man. Just get some sleep and we will figure it out tomorrow." J.T. said walking towards the stairs.

"J.T. she thought I was dead and then she saw me. How can you say it will be okay?" Vincent asked walking over to him.

"Well..." J.T. turned around to face Vincent. "This may sound completely insane but I think you have to confront Alex."

"What?" Vincent asked with a confused look on his face. "J.T. I can't just walk up to Alex and say: 'Hi Alex, I'm pretending to be dead because I got turned into a super solider during my time in Afghanistan and I'm on the run from the government.' 'Cause I'm telling you right now that is just not going to happen."

"No..." J.T. said pointing one of his fingers at Vincent, "I mean you have to confront her and tell her your not Vincent Keller, you know make sure she knows that you aren't you."

"And how exactly do I do that? We were supposed to get married remember? She knows what I look like." Vincent said still trying to process that J.T. actually wanted him to talk to Alex.

"A doppelgänger." J.T. said as he looked up at Vincent

"A what?" Vincent asked in complete confusion.

"A doppelgänger. It's a person who looks just like you but you have no relation to them." J.T. said walking back over to the chair. "Some people say that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world that's not related to them."

"Okay..." Vincent said still very confused. "So I tell her I'm a doppelgänger?"

"Well...technically no." J.T. said sitting in one of the chairs. "You just have to go back tomorrow and act normal. Because if you don't go back then she will think something is defiantly up."

"So your saying that I have to go back to the hospital?" Vincent asked

"As crazy as it seems, yes. And you have to stay there for a main part of the day." J.T. said feeling very accomplished about the plan he came up with.

"Alright." Vincent sat down across from J.T. "And what happens if she doesn't buy it?"

"Well, that we can't really control, you will just need to go, act like nothing happened, act like a regular doctor doing a regular job." said J.T.

"Okay." Vincent said getting up out of his chair. "I'll give it a go. But I'm going to bed." Vincent said as he walked over to his bed.

"Yeah it's late." J.T. said as he made his way towards the stairs.

As the morning came around Vincent made his way back to the hospital. He still couldn't believe that J.T. actually told him he had to go back and stay there. But he trusted J.T. so why not give it a shot?

He made his way into the hospital and sure enough Alex was at the front desk. She walked up to him and Vincent stopped to talk to her.

"I'm sorry about last night." she started out, "you just look so much like my ex-fiancé..." Alex looked down at her shoes trying to keep herself from crying again. "You see, a couple years ago my fiance left to serve in Afghanistan but he passed away during his time there. I never really got over it and I guess my imagination just got the best of me. I'm really sorry if I frightened you." she looked up at Vincent waiting for him to say something.

"It's okay." Vincent said in a soft voice. He noticed her eyes become red again.

She sniffled, "I'm sorry, I just-" she whipped away a tear. "I guess it was all just too good to be true." she swallowed back her tears. "Anyway, I'm Alex." she held out her hand.

"Nice to meet you Alex." Vincent said shaking her hand. He thought quickly of a different name before she asked.

"Nice to meet you to, uh..." Alex said shaking his hand. "I'm sorry I didn't catch your name."

"Oh...uh" Vincent thought as quick as he could, "Jay." he said smiling.

"Well, its nice to meet you Jay." she smiled back, "and again I am really sorry about last night."

"Don't even worry about it." Vincent smiled

"Well, I have to get back to work, maybe we could talk sometime." Alex said.

"Sounds good, I'll see you around." Vincent said walking away.

He sighed of relief as he entered entered the elevator and went up to the floor where Catherine's room was. He put the mask over the bottom half of his face. The last thing he needed was for another old co-worker to recognize him. He walked over to Catherine's room and listened to see if anyone was in there besides her. As soon as he was sure it was just her he entered the room and walked over to her.

"You know its not good to watch TV while you have a concussion." Vincent said removing the mask

Catherine laughed as she turned off the television. "Nice to see you too." she said patting a spot on her bed telling him to take a seat.

"It looks like I am going to be coming here more often if that's okay with you." Vincent said smiling

"Why?" Catherine asked sitting up. "And of course its okay, I love having you visit me."

Vincent smiled, "Well you see last night I ran into Alex and she recognized me."

"Then isn't it a bad thing to come back?" Catherine asked confused.

"Well that's what I originally thought too but after talking to J.T. he came up with a pretty good point. If I just never showed up again then Alex would have thought it really was me and that I was just hiding from her. But if I continued to come like a normal doctor then she would realize that I, being Vincent was in fact dead and she would not think anymore of it. Because if she thought she saw me than she would continue to think that I was alive." Vincent paused, "It's confusing but as a whole it makes sense."

"I guess so." Catherine said shrugging her shoulders.

After Vincent left Catherine's room about an hour later he went back down to the main floor.

"Jay!" Alex called out by the front desk.

Vincent ignored it because he forgot about his new name but then after recognizing the voice he looked up. He saw Alex waving her hand at Vincent telling him to go over to her. 'Act as normal as possible' Vincent thought to himself making his way over.

"Hi, I was wondering if you wanted to join me for lunch." Alex asked smiling.

"Uh..." Vincent started out. 'normal as possible...'Vincent thought to himself. "Sure." he replied smiling.

"Great!" she said happily "I'll meet you in the cafe right after I check on a patient." Alex grabbed a clipboard and walked down a hallway.

Vincent decided to go outside and call J.T. to let him know that Alex bought it.

"Hello?" J.T. asked

"Hi, Alex bought it she's not even suspicious." Vincent said walking a little bit further away from the building.

"Great! Just keep playing Mr. Normal and hopefully she will leave you alone as soon as possible." J.T. said.

Vincent saw Alex through the door waving to him. "I gotta go J.T. I'll call you later." Vincent said as he hung up the phone.

Vincent and Alex walked down to the cafeteria and both of them took a seat at a table in one of the corners of the room.

"Again" Alex started out, "I'm really sorry."

"Hey, don't worry about it, I don't know what I would have done if I lost my uh..." Vincent paused. "I don't know what I would have done if I lost my girlfriend and saw her." Vincent thought about what he had just said. He told Alex he had a girlfriend, which was a lie but he couldn't help but think about Catherine.

Vincent saw Alex's eyes become red as she whipped away a tear. "I'm so sorry." she said as she sniffled. "I lost him ten years ago and I just never got over it. I thought the new part-time job I started doing would help me get over it, but I guess not." Alex took a deep breath. "You see, I lost him when he was serving in Afghanistan and while I was here one day someone came in and talked to me, and..." Alex stopped. "I'm sorry you don't want to hear all this."

"No, no, It's fine." Vincent started out, "Continue."

Alex smiled. "Well anyway, a few people came in and talked to me and said that they were from the government and explained to me how they were so sorry for my loss and they were trying to come up with a way to limit the amount of the people who die in combat, all they needed was a doctor to help out."

Vincent's eyes grew wide although he knew he had to stay calm, he had a feeling about where she was going with this...

"So I agreed to help." she looked around as if making sure nobody was listening, "It's called Operation Murifield and they are taking ordinary soldiers and turning them into these super soldiers. It's basically to reduce the number of soldiers who pass away in combat." Alex paused, "Just imagine, after this takes place then hopefully no one will have to lose their loved ones again."

So I know this actually turned out on the shorter side but I will try to post more tonight. Basically Vincent just found out Alex is the new doctor for Operation Murifield and also that Murifield is going to continue to try to make the ultimate super soldier. In Chapter 5 we will learn what Vincent's reaction is to all of this, and what will happen when he finds a little bit more about the "New Operation Murifield."

Also I couldn't think of a new name for Vincent so I just used the actor who plays him first name. I hope you guys like it and be sure to let me know what you think! :)