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I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 22

Later that morning Catherine and Tess walked into the precinct when Gabe walked up to them.

"Good morning ladies." he said smiling.

"Hi Gabe." Catherine said trying to act friendly.

Tess didn't say anything, she didn't like him since the day they "met".

"How are both doing this fine morning?"

Tess took a sip of her coffee and walked away without saying a word. Just something about him got on her nerves.

"Alrighty then." Gabe said refuring to Tess's attitude towards him.

"What do you want?" Catherine said crossing one of her arms over to stomach while holding her coffee cup.

Gabe's face light up like he just remembered something. "Ah, yes. Evan told me to tell you he wants to see you."

Catherine nodded taking another sip. "Alright."

She made her way down to the lab and Evan was sitting at his desk.

"Gabe said you wanted to see me?" Catherine said entering the room.

Evan looked up to face her. "Yes, I have something important to discuss with you."

Catherine took another sip of her coffee. Without her coffee she would literally be dead in the morning.

"So as you know I've been working on the DNA." Evan said sitting back in his chair.

"Evan..." Catherine started out. "Look I really do appreciate you going to all this trouble and including me in your findings but to be honest I would rather just not know about who or what saved me that night. I just like to think someone or something was watching over me that night."

Evan didn't say anything.

"I'm sorry." Catherine forced a smile thinking about Vincent.

Evan sighed. "Well perhaps you might want to know this."

Catherine gave him a weird look.

"After the car crash the night you got shot, I went back to the car crash scene."

Catherine gave him a shocked look. "You what?"

Evan nodded. "I went back because I saw someone holding you almost as if they were waiting for help to arrive. But something caught my eye when I returned."

Catherine raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"

"The door on the side of the car, it was ripped off." Evan paused.

Catherine shrugged her shoulders. "The car did flip. It probably happened then."

Evan shook his head. "Well according to my calculations and which direction the car flipped and how to door came off it looks like it got torn off after your car flipped."

Catherine didn't say anything. She was too afraid she would say something she would regret later on.

"So when I went back I found a piece of a black tux jacket that looks like it was caught on the door during the process of it falling off."

Catherine just looked at Evan trying to act as normal as could be.

"I ran the piece of the tux through DNA and guess what?"

Catherine shrugged her shoulders and held her breath.

Evan clicked a few times on his computer. "This is him."

Catherine walked over to the computer screen and saw the same picture of Vincent from the Ashley Webster case. "Doesn't look familiar." she said taking another sip of her coffee. 'Oh god, Evan please just let this go...' she thought.

"And get this." Evan said in an excited tone.

'Oh no...' Catherine thought biting her bottom lip.

"When I pulled up files from the crime scene Keller was involved in it said he was dead."

Catherine didn't say anything; she couldn't.

"But here is the even more strange thing." Evan said clicking his mouse a few more times.

'Dear god why is there more?!' Catherine mentally shouted.

"It says here his room mate was JT Forbes." Evan pulled up a picture of JT.

Catherine could feel her heart plummet to her stomach.

Evan pulled out the sketch he had of J.T. from a while back when she let him into the lab. "Tell me this isn't the same person." he said as he held up the sketch besides the image on his computer.

Catherine sighed. "Alright Evan, look's like you win..."

Evan gave Catherine a confused look.

"I know him." Catherine said.

Evan grew wide-eyed. "You know him and you didn't say anything? Cat, he broke into the precinct!" Evan shouted.

"Evan, calm down."

"Calm down? calm down? you're saying you know who he is and you're seriously telling me to calm down?!" He stood up out of his chair.

Catherine nodded. "Kinda yeah."

Evan took a deep breath and sat back down. "Sorry I-" He looked over at Catherine. "I just didn't think you out of all people would've lied to me."

Catherine gave Evan a confused look. "I didn't lie to you in anyway, I just said I knew him."

Evan didn't say anything he just stared at the computer screen.

"Evan?" Catherine asked noticing he was in deep thought. "Evan?" she said again.

"Vincent..." Evan started out.

"Huh?" Catherine asked trying to stay calm even thought she was about to explode.

"Yeah, Vincent Keller..." Evan pointed to his computer screen. "This is the man who got you out of the car, who is JT Forbes room-mate." Evan looked back at Catherine. "You know Vincent Keller don't you?"

Catherine gave Evan a weird look. "In case you haven't noticed Vincent Keller's dead." she pointed to the word deceased on the computer screen.

"Is he?" Evan asked. "Or does he just want people to think that?"

Catherine nodded. "Yeah, he's dead. Don't you see the word deceased?"

Evan looked back to the computer screen. "Nobody would have that amount of strength to pull off a car door." Evan paused. "And no one can just rip flesh."

"What?" Catherine asked confused even though she knew exactly were he was going with this.

"This man, is the same thing that saved me down in the tunnel that night Peter tried to kill me." Evan swallowed. "And it is the same thing that saved you."

Catherine put on her best confused faced. "So let me get this straight." Catherine paused. "You're taking a man who has been dead for about 10 years now and saying he has this some sort of super power that gives him the ability to rip car doors off the hinges and rip flesh?"

Evan's face lit-up. "And crush human necks."

"What?" Catherine asked.

"The night you shot the lady, Alex Regan, you claimed it was self defence. But there was also a man with a crushed neck. Who I think is the same thing that saved you and saved me." Evan paused. "Name one person who has the ability to rip off car doors, rip flesh, and crush a neck so hard it turns the bones into dust."

Catherine shrugged her shoulders. "Superman?"

Evan turned towards Catherine again. "Exactly!"

Catherine laughed. "Who isn't real. Come on Evan I think you need a break from all this."

Evan shook his head. "Okay, so what's your theory then huh? You still want to think of it as someone watching over you? Making sure your safe? Well try this on for size, this same 'thing' also ripped Peter apart, literally, torn off your car door and held you like you were the love of his life or something, and then goes and crushes a man's neck."

Catherine didn't say anything.

"Not to mention he is JT Forbes room mate who you say you know."

Catherine mentally kicked herself for saying she knew JT. "Okay first, JT has nothing to do with this okay? He did me a favor a long time ago," she lied. "and he teaches a college course and need access to some equipment he didn't have so I-"

Evan cut her off. "So you decided it would be a dandy idea to let him into the precinct without even asking?"

Catherine shrugged her shoulders. "Okay look Evan I know I messed up but he really need it."

Evan suddenly seemed relaxed. "Why didn't you just ask me?"

Catherine shook her head. "I don't know I guess I just panicked and now the whole precinct thinks there is a bugler or something on the loose."

Evan smiled.

"What's so funny? I could lose my job!" Catherine exclaimed.

Evan shrugged. "You won't lose your job."

Catherine gave him a weird look. "How can you be so sure?"

Evan smiled. "I'll take the blame."

"How?" Catherine asked upset. "You're the one that was going all crazy to find him and you can't just turn around and be like: oh sorry guys false alarm I let him in." Catherine said in a sarcastic tone. "'Cause that's not gunna fly."

Evan shook his head. "No, I'm just going to first take the blame for not securing the lab correctly before I left and then second I am going to talk to Joe and tell him there was no damage and everything is still knock-knock good-good."

Catherine couldn't help but smile at what Evan just said. But then she remembered something. "What's the catch?" she asked remembering what Gabe did to her.

Evan gave her a confused look. "What catch?"

"You know what do I have to do? Clean the lab for a month?" Catherine asked.

Evan laughed. "No, and trust me you don't want to do that."

"Then what?"

Evan put on a thinking face and then finally said. "Dinner with your sister?"

"No, no more dinner's I'm sick and tired of dinners." Catherine snapped remembering Gabe. She didn't realize he said with her sister.

Evan gave her a confused look. "Why the grudge against dinners?"

Catherine put a hand on her forehead. "No reason."

Evan smiled "Oh, come on I'm sure you can share with a fellow co-worker."

Catherine glared at him.

"Another date gone wrong huh?" Evan asked trying to hide a smile.

Catherine gave him the death stare. "Doesn't matter back to covering for me." The sooner she got everything sorted out the sooner she could go home and see the person who she actually wanted to be with.

"Right, so all I would like in return is dinner with Heather." Evan smiled.

"Wait, Heather?" Catherine asked in surprise

"Yeah, why did you?" Evan asked smiling.

Catherine felt stupid thinking he was talking about dinner with her. But then again he did flirt with her non-stop and even kissed her at her party.

"You thought I meant you?" Evan asked awkwardly.

Catherine shook her head. "Dinner with Heather is great, she would really like that but I have to ask, what does that have to do with me?"

Evan just smiled. "Well it wouldn't be a date if you were there" he smirked.

Catherine nodded in agreement. "Okay I'll stay out of the apartment for one evening." She blushed slightly knowing were she would go. Luckily Evan didn't notice. "But mark my words Marks, if you hurt her in anyway..." Catherine threatened.

Evan put up both hands saying he wasn't a threat. "I won't I promise."

Catherine crossed her arms. "You better promise." she snapped.

"Relax Cat." Evan smiled. "Now that we have this settled I'm still not convinced you have nothing to do with Keller."

Catherine rolled her eyes. "He is dead. Can I go now?"

Evan shook his head. "No, in fact you can take a seat." He pointed to one of the chairs in the corner and Catherine walked over to it.

"So as a detective, Joe wants you and Tess to make this your prime case. And he doesn't want you two to stop until you figure this out." Evan said.

"Why are you telling me this?" Catherine asked.

"Because Joe actually couldn't come in today because his wife was complaining all last night about how they never spend time together and-"

Catherine cut him off. "Got it."

Evan just nodded.

"So why me and Tess? And what about the other homicides?" Catherine asked wanting to somehow find a way out of this.

"Because he feels that since you actually witnessed when most of these crimes happened and the other detectives will be working on the other cases." Evan said.

Catherine didn't say anything because she was in too deep of thought. 'If it's me and Tess who work on all the cases that have to do with Vincent then in a way that's a good thing. That way I'll be able to know what exactly is going on in the precinct and so will Vincent and JT.'

"Cat?" Evan asked. "Everything all right?"

Catherine shook her head. "Yeah, everything's fine. Just a lot of stuff to think about."

Evan nodded. "Alright, well I have to get to my psychologist meeting." Evan rolled his eyes and stood up out of his chair.

Catherine nodded. She actually liked the psychologist a lot more than she thought.

"Now before you doing anything you're gunna regret you sure you want to talk to Evan?" J.T. asked watching Vincent put on his coat.

"I'm not going to talk to Evan JT I'm just going to ask Catherine if she wouldn't mind talking to him about it."

JT sighed. "He's going to think Catherine has something to do with it."

Vincent looked over at JT who was crossing his arms. "No, he is just going to think she was interested in finding out who saved her. Think about it this way, if you didn't know me, and just some random person shot the guy in front of you wouldn't you want to know who saved your life?"

JT shrugged his shoulders. "I guess."

"See?"

"But that still doesn't solve the problem Evan might get suspicious. The minute she set foot into that precinct people probably started asking questions about that night and who knows what she said just to get them off her back." JT said causing Vincent to think about this a bit more.

"I suppose." Vincent said. "But it doesn't hurt to ask her."

JT sighed. "Vincent?"

Vincent looked over at his room-mate. "What?"

"Well, what happens if we do find out more about this DNA mutation thing and your hallucinations and there is nothing we can do about it? What do we do then?"

"Well..." Vincent started out slipping on a base-ball cap. "We will cross that bridge when we get there." Vincent was hoping JT and himself were both wrong but he had to find out for sure.

JT was about to say something but before he could Vincent already left.

Evan walked into Joe's office that was now more like Brendan's office.

"Evan, Hi." Brendan said smiling.

"Hello." Evan said taking a seat in one of the chairs. He wasn't a fan of this psychologist thing Joe set up. But maybe it will help.

"So, I heard you were working on a DNA project is that so?" Brendan asked.

Evan nodded. "That I am."

Brendan looked down at a few papers. "So, the DNA project, it has to do with a hybrid of some kind?"

Evan took a deep breath. "Um...that's correct."

Brendan put his pen down and locked his fingers together on the desk. "So tell me about this project a bit."

Evan bit his bottom lip. He wasn't a fan talking about it because it had to do with Peter. "Well..." he began. "I was kidnapped by my own intern and he was going to kill me and then his beast-like thing just tore him to shreds." Evan thought about what he just said, he sounded absolutely nutty but what else could he say? That's exactly what happened.

"Huh." Brendan said putting his pen in his mouth. "Then what happened?"

"Well I was very shaken up and some of my colleges told me it was just PTSD or whatever but then I came across this DNA from a pervious case a couple months ago and it matched the DNA on my attacker. Also, I am sure you know this, but one of my co-workers, Catherine Chandler, she was in a horrid car crash and got shot. When I showed up at the scene I saw a man holding her and the car door was ripped off it's hinges." Evan said.

Brendan nodded. "Was anyone with you when this happened?"

Evan nodded. "Catherine's younger sister, Heather Chandler."

"Did she say she saw what you saw?" Brendan asked. "Did she see the man holding Catherine?"

Evan nodded. "Yes, she did."

"So what else happened?"

"Well, a few days later I re-visited the scene because it was a crime scene for an attempted murder and also self defence homicide, and I studied the car door that was torn off and I found a small piece of a tuxedo jacket that had the same DNA on it as the person from the case a few months ago, and also the person that killed my supposed intern, Peter." Evan hated talking about it. He was nervous Brendan would call him crazy like how Catherine mentioned a while back.

"So why haven't you confronted this man?" Brendan asked. "I'm sure there are people here who could track him down."

Evan sighed. Here was the hard part. "Well he seems to be dead."

"Dead?" Brendan asked confused.

Evan awkwardly nodded. "Yes."

"Uh huh." Brendan was really concerned for Evan at this point.

"He has a death certificate he supposedly died in the military." Evans said fiddling with his thumbs trying to hide his nervousness.

"How long ago what the death reported?" Brendan asked with a little bit of hope this would make some-what sense.

Evan swallowed. "About nine-ish years ago."

Brendan raised an eye-brow. "Nine years ago?"

Evan nodded. He hated this so much. More than words could say. "Yes."

Brendan took the pen out of his mouth. "Is there anything else I should know?"

Evan nodded. "Well you see Vincent Keller, the guy who is supposedly dead, he had a room-mate, JT Forbes and a few days ago he broke into the lab and used some of my DNA equipment."

Brendan slowly nodded.

Evan remembered what he had told Catherine earlier. "But you see it was my fault, I hadn't closed the lab properly and nothing was damaged. Catherine, my co-worker, said he was a friend of hers who work as a biochemist at a college near by and need access to it for an up-coming lesson." Evan said quickly.

Brendan nodded. "Don't you think that is a bit weird that he was...Keller's?" Brendan asked forgetting Vincent's last name.

Evan nodded.

"Yes, don't you think it is a bit weird he was Keller's former room mate?" Brendan asked suspicious.

Evan shrugged his shoulders. "At first yes but I talked to my co-worker and she said it was part of a lesson and I trust her."

Brendan nodded. "Just my opinion."

Evan smiled. "I thought the same thing originally."

"So back to this project..." Brendan said.

Evan nodded. "Ah, yes. Well you see I believe the DNA of Vincent Keller is mutating in someway."

Brendan gave Evan a weird look. "Mutating?" he asked.

Evan nodded. "Yes. He has DNA that is both human and animal. I don't know how that happened but he does. And so when I did research on it and keeping a close eye I noticed something." Evan said in a curious voice.

"What was that?" Brendan asked.

"The DNA seems to be becoming more animal. Almost as if the animal half of him, or it, I'm not entirely sure on his current condition. But is seems that if the animal half in some way is slowly taking over the human half and as a result he slash it is just going to eventually become an animal."

So a few things, what do you guys think of Brendan? Do you think he is good at his job or making matter's worse? Catherine seems to like him. What do you guys think?

Also, what do you guys think of Vincent's theory, and well I guess it's now Evan's theory too in someway.

Thanks for reading you guys are great! And Happy New Year everyone! It's January woohoo, we are almost there guys! :)