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I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 16

The next day Catherine entered the precinct and rubbed the tiredness away from her eyes as she made her way over to her desk. She logged onto her computer when she saw Gabe walk by with a coffee mug in his hand. He glared at her.

"So how did your date go?" Tess asked smiling.

Catherine groaned. "Please don't remind me."

"That bad?" Tess asked in a surprised tone. "What happened?"

"Nothing." Catherine said moving papers around.

Tess gave her an I don't believe a single word you're saying look.

"He's just not my type." Catherine said shrugging her shoulders.

"Oh?" Tess asked. "And what is your type?"

"Chandler!" Joe called from his office.

Catherine smiled at Tess. "Gotta go." Catherine said as she got up.

Tess let out a sarcastic laugh and Catherine ignored her.

"Do you have a minute?" Joe asked.

"Of course." Catherine replied.

"Come on in." Joe stepped out of the doorway to let Catherine enter his office.

She saw a man sitting on the window sill giving her a weird look.

"Um..." Catherine started out. "Hello."

"This is Dr. Brendan Hines." Joe said looking over to the man.

"Hello." Brendan said holding out his hand.

Catherine shook his hand. "Hi, I'm Catherine. Nice to meet you."

"I've heard much about you Catherine." Brendan said. "Joe here told me you made a great detective.

"Oh, why thank you." Catherine smiled.

Joe motioned the both of them to take a seat in front of his desk.

"Catherine, Dr. Hines is a psychologist. He is here to talk to some employes." Joe said leaning back in his chair.

Catherine nodded. She was slightly confused.

"As you know, Evan has been working on a personal project dealing with the death of his intern Peter and a cross DNA sample he had found at some crime scenes." Joe looked over at Brendan.

"Yes he has been taking some of the events that has happened quite seriously." Catherine said thinking about Vincent.

"Well, yes that is why Dr. Hines is here. It has come to my attention that some employes have not been completely trusting others and I will not tolerate that." Joe gave Catherine a sincere look.

"I'm sorry?" Catherine asked confused.

"I have a few employes that suspect you have something to do with the break in that occurred a few days ago." Joe said giving Catherine a confused look.

Catherine thought about dinner with Gabe. "I'm sorry Boss I don't know what your talkin about. I take my job very seriously and I would never do such a thing."

Joe leaned forward in his chair. "I agree, that's why I haven't confronted you about it until now." Joe looked over at Brendan. "Well anyway Dr. Hines is going to be with us over the next few weeks or so."

Catherine nodded. "Okay."

"Mainly for Evan." Joe paused.

Catherine nodded agreeing that Evan needed to talk someone because it wasn't good for him keeping all the stuff inside.

"And for you." Joe finished.

Catherine's head shot up. "Me?" she said in disbelief. "What do I have to hide?"

"Well according to some employes you're hiding something." Joe paused and Catherine continued to stare at him in shock. "I'm not saying you are hiding something I am just taking the necessary precautions."

"Joe honestly-" Catherine started out.

Joe put up his hand telling her to stop talking. "Catherine, its just business.

She swallowed and took her eyes off Joe. She looked over at Brendan and back over at Joe. "Thank you for letting me know." she said standing up.

Joe stood up as well. "He is going to be doing a mandatory check-in with everyone at the precinct staring in a few hours after he settles himself in."

Catherine looked over at Brendan and smiled. "With all due respect, my shift ends in half and hour."

"Then we will just have to do it tomorrow." Joe said.

Catherine smiled at Brendan one more time to be friendly and then left the office. The minute she got out she rolled her eyes on walked over to Tess.

"Did you know about this?" Catherine asked pointing to Joe's office.

Tess gave her a confused look.

"The psychologist guy." Catherine said with an angry look on her face.

"Oh yeah!" Tess said. "Yeah, Gabe told Joe to hire him."

Catherine looked around angrily making sure no one was close to them.

"You mean to tell me shower-boy told Joe to hire a psychologist?" Catherine asked in a frustrated tone.

"Okay shower-boy has a name and I believe you call him 'boyfriend'." Tess smiled.

Catherine glared at her. "Enough Tess, I'm not in the mood."

"What's got you grumpy? The step mum giving you trouble?"

Catherine rolled her eyes and put a hand on her forehead. "No I'm just pissed Joe would actually hire a psychologist."

"Why do you care?" Tess asked confused.

Catherine took a deep breath. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Tess gave her a weird look. "Don't know my butt." Tess said. "What's making you so mad Cat?"

Catherine rubbed her forehead. "It's just the last time I really talking to anyone it after my mom died and they all called me crazy so I'm not to thrilled on having to do it again."

"Well you did think you saw a beast."

Catherine looked up at her and immediately thought of Vincent. She looked over to the clock and surprisingly her shift was over.

"I gotta go." Catherine said walking over to grab her coat.

"Oh, and were are you off to?" Tess asked crossing her arms. "Another date with Gabe?"

Catherine walked up to her. "Stop talking about it, 'cause there is nothing going on between us. I went to dinner with him as a work thing. To get to know each other a bit better."

Tess shrugged. "Then why wasn't I invited?"

Catherine grabbed her coat. "Maybe he just doesn't like you." Catherine laughed.

"Oh yeah? Just don't come crying to me when he dumps you or cheats on you like the others." Tess walked over to her desk.

Catherine rolled her eyes. "We're not dating Tess. Why won't you believe me?"

"'Cause that's what everyone says when they clearly are dating someone." Tess looked over to Catherine.

"Whatever." Catherine laughed. "I'll be back tomorrow"

Vincent woke up to the feeling of someone wiggling his shoulder.

"Wake up!" J.T. yelled. "Wake up Vincent." J.T. shook his shoulder harder.

"J.T?" Vincent asked confused.

"Good you're awake." J.T. said standing up. "You made me nervous."

"Wha-What time is it?" Vincent asked sitting up.

"About noon." J.T. replied looking at the clock.

"Noon?" Vincent asked. "I was out until noon?"

J.T. nodded. "I tried a few times to get you up but you wouldn't budge."

Vincent stood up and rubbed his eyes.

"You were out like a light. What happened last night?"

Vincent walked over to his bed and sat on the edge. "I don't know. I couldn't get to sleep so I threw some punches to the bag."

"Do you remember what you were doing when you passed out? 'Cause you weren't near the punching bag." J.T. said.

"I was heading to the bathroom and I had a massive headache and the next thing I knew I was on the floor." Vincent rubbed his arm.

"You must've fell pretty hard."

Vincent looked up at J.T. "Nah, I'm fine." Vincent paused slowly gaining memory. "What about you? How you doing?"

"I'm fine. I surprisingly I slept like a baby." J.T. smiled.

"You took some knock-out meds didn't you?" Vincent asked.

J.T. put to fingers close together. "Maybe a 'lil."

Vincent rolled his eyes.

"Why do you think you passed out?"

Vincent was lost in thought. He remembered what happened.

"Vincent?" J.T. asked. "What happened? Do you remember?"

Vincent shook his head to clear his thoughts. "Nope. I was just heading to the bathroom." Vincent lied. He hated lying to J.T. after all he has done for him but he couldn't tell him he was showing symptoms of PTSD. He wanted to wait a little longer to see if it happened again. And if it did, then he would tell him.

"Your girlfriend called." J.T. said crossing his arms.

Vincent gave J.T. a confused look. "My what?"

"Catherine, she called to check up on me and you. You were still passed out but I just told her you were asleep still."

Vincent slowly nodded. "She's not my girlfriend." Vincent said looking up at J.T. "She's just a friend."

"That's how it starts Vincent..." J.T. teased.

"No, I'm serious. Just a friend, nothing more." Vincent said staring at J.T.

"Okay..." J.T. said sarcastically.

"J.T.?"

"What?"

"Drop it."

J.T. rolled his eyes and walked back downstairs. Vincent sat on his bed thinking about what happened last night. He didn't remember everything but he had a pretty good idea on what happened. He remembered seeing all three faces, and even hearing voices. He froze when he heard a car pull up outside.

Catherine walked over to the warehouse door and knocked. She always knocked before just going in because she didn't want to get hit with J.T.'s bat especially while she is still trying to recover.

"Catherine?" J.T. asked

"Hi, how you feeling?" Catherine said looking at J.T.

"I'm fine. I feel like nothing ever happened." J.T. smiled.

"I think you're lying." Catherine crossed her arms.

J.T. sighed and stepped out of the doorway to let her in.

She followed him over to the table in the middle of the room and sat down.

"This morning, I wasn't completely honest when I said Vincent was asleep..."J.T. said.

Vincent walked down the stairs trying to keep J.T. from finishing what he was going to tell her. She didn't need to know. It was probably just a one time thing.

"Catherine?" Vincent asked. "What are you doing here?"

It took a few seconds before Catherine took her eye's off J.T. Then she looked up. "Hi." she forced a smile wondering what J.T. was going to say. "I stopped by to see how you two were doing."

"We're fine. How are you." Vincent asked.

Catherine thought about the psychologist and how dinner went with Gabe. She wondered if Vincent knew anything about dinner that night. "Good thanks." she lied.

"How's work?" Vincent asked knowing she was lying.

"Um..good." Catherine forced a smile. "Everything's good."

Vincent faked a smile wondering why she was lying. Then again, he was too in a way.

"So..." J.T. stared out making both Vincent and Catherine look at him. "I heard you went out to dinner with a work buddy, how did that go?" J.T. asked trying to act as casual as he possibly could.

Catherine's heart raced a bit and she could tell Vincent noticed. "It was um...okay thank you."

"What did have steak or chicken?" J.T. asked laughing.

Catherine laughed and Vincent let out a small chuckle.

"I had chicken." Catherine replied. "Oh and J.T..."

J.T. looked up at Catherine "Yeah?"

"You were telling me Vincent wasn't asleep this morning?" Catherine asked giving J.T. a confused look.

Vincent stared at J.T. and Catherine must've noticed.

"You guys can tell me." Catherine started out. "I guess I should be honest with you guys too, dinner went horrible I ended up throwing water in Gabe's face."

J.T. grew wide-eyed and Vincent didn't say anything. "Why did you do that?!" J.T. asked.

"Well he was being rude." Catherine said leaning back in the chair.

Vincent looked over at Catherine wondering what exactly happened that caused her to do that.

"Vincent called me and told me you were in trouble and then why I tried to leave he wouldn't let me."

Vincent looked at Catherine. He didn't like Gabe at all from what he was hearing.

J.T. nodded.

"What do you mean he wouldn't let you leave?" Vincent asked.

"Oh.." Catherine said looking up at Vincent. "He was just threating to take away my job and uh..." Catherine stopped and bit her bottom lip remembering what he said about Vincent.

"And?" Vincent asked.

Catherine sighed and spoke quickly. "Okay you guys need to know this because it involves you...alot. But please just stay calm about it okay?"

J.T.'s eyes widened. "What?" He yelled. "What is it!"

Vincent looked over at J.T. "Calm down it's fine." Vincent said in a calm voice.

"Gabe knows about Vincent..." Catherine said holding her breath.

J.T. flung his arms up in the air. "You told?!"

Catherine sat up straight. "No of course not! I would never do that!" Catherine protested.

"The how did he find out?" J.T. yelled.

"J.T..." Vincent said calmly.

"What?!" J.T. shouted turning around to face Vincent who was the calmest one of all.

"J.T. Catherine didn't tell him he knew before he even met Catherine." Vincent said.

"Oh, and how do you know that?" J.T. spat.

"J.T. the guy works for the government, of course he knows about Murifield and of course he knows about me." Vincent said.

J.T. sat back in his chair knowing Vincent was right.

"He was probably the one who sent that guy here to come kill you." Vincent said.

Catherine stood up. "No! Gabe said J.T. would be off the hook if I went to dinner with him!" Catherine said in a frustrated tone.

Vincent sighed. "The government says a lot of things and most of the time they don't even mean it."

Neither J.T. or Catherine said anything.

"The only thing we can do it just keep low and stay calm. Gabe thinks J.T's dead."

Catherine and J.T. both stared at Vincent in disbelief. "What?!" They both said in unison.

Vincent nodded. "I sent a text to Gabe from that guys phone after I shot him saying the task was complete and J.T. was dead."

"Vincent, why would you do that?" J.T. asked. "If the government thinks I'm dead then I lost my job and since I lost my job I can't pay for anything we need! And, and, and, what about Sarah? Do I have to be dead to the world too?" J.T. flipped out.

"Look J.T. it's going to be just a few more days until they figure out you're not actually dead. Then you can return to work after we wait a few more days until some things settle down." Vincent said.

"I'll help." Catherine said causing both guys to look at her.

"What?" J.T. asked.

"I'll work a few extra shifts to get some more money. Then I can help pay for some stuff until this blows over." Catherine said looking at Vincent and J.T.

"Catherine this might take a few weeks if not months." Vincent said. "Once they figure out J.T.'s alive, they are going to want him dead."

J.T. started breathing really heavy.

"J.T. why don't you go take a nap or something and me and Catherine will continue to talk upstairs." Vincent said. "I don't need you passing out to." Right after he said that he realized what he just said.

Catherine gave him a confused look.

"Okay..." J.T. sighed. "Do we still have the Tums?"

"Yeah, you went out a few nights ago and bought more. Remember?" Vincent said trying to keep J.T. calm.

"Oh yeah..." J.T. said getting up and silently walking over his room.

Vincent watched J.T. leave and motioned Catherine to follow him up the stairs.

Both of them walked up the stairs and walked over to the table in the middle of the room.

"What did you mean by saying you don't need J.T. to pass out too?" Catherine asked giving Vincent a weird look.

"I wasn't asleep when you called, I passed out last night." Vincent said.

"Oh my god. Why?" Catherine asked.

"I was just tired and stressed out. Nothing major." Vincent said shrugging his shoulders.

"You sure?" Catherine asked concerned. "What if it was something more? What if-"

Vincent put his hand on one of Catherine's making her look up at him.

"I'm fine." Vincent said. "I promise."

Catherine sighed. "Okay."

"Now." Vincent said taking his hand off Catherine's. "Now, what exactly did Gabe say?"

"Well, he said he knew about you and talked about how it would be good for his career if he brought you to the government dead or alive." Catherine said.

Vincent nodded.

"He offered me to help him and explained how it would be good for my career too but obviously I turned him down." Catherine said.

"Huh." Vincent said. "It would be good for his career so if that's what he's after then he's not going to stop."

Catherine nodded knowing Vincent was right.

"Vincent?" Catherine asked.

"Yeah?"

"Can I ask you something?"

Vincent gave her a confused look. "Of course."

"What did you do-" Catherine started out. "What did you do with the dead body?"

Vincent sat back in his chair. "I buried him in the woods. Why?"

Catherine sighed. "I was just concerned because once the government finds out he died then they are going to want to figure out why."

Vincent nodded knowing she was right. "I guess we will just have to cross that bridge when we get there."

Catherine nodded in agreement. Then she let out a small smile.

"What?" Vincent asked noticing her smile.

"I was just thinking..." Catherine started out.

"About?" Vincent asked confused.

"Nothing." Catherine shook her head. "Now's not the time. We have to focus on this."

Vincent nodded. He was a bit disappointed she wasn't going to finish.

"I would never give you and J.T. up." Catherine said catching Vincent off guard.

Vincent looked up at her confused. "Huh?"

"I would never tell anyone about you two. J.T's like my brother and you're like...you're like." Catherine stopped talking.

Vincent raised an eye brow. "I'm like what?" He asked smiling.

Catherine couldn't stop smiling.

"What?" Vincent asked letting out a small chuckle.

Catherine put her hands over her face trying to hide the awkwardness.

"What?" Vincent laughed.

Catherine laughed in her hands feeling as stupid as ever.

"What is it?" Vincent asked smiling.

Catherine looked up at Vincent and sighed. "Let's just say we need to figure out a time to go on that first date." she blushed.

So the psychologist is one of the new character's that's coming onto the show in the second half of the season. I don't believe he has a name yet or at least not that I'm aware of so I'm calling him by his actor's name: Brendan Hines. If you Google, 'Brendan Hines beauty and the beast' you should find a few articles talking about what's going on with his character.

I decided to end this chapter here because I thought it would be a good place to stop. I'll update as soon as I can however it might not be until Saturday but I will try my absolute best. Please review to let me know what you guys think! :D Thanks for reading!