Note: I apologize it took a while for an update so I tried to make this chapter longer which in a way I guess made the wait longer but whatever. Thanks for reading and please review! Only 2 more Thursdays without BATB! :D We can do this guys!

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 29

"So, you are implying that who/whatever killed Gregg Johnson, also killed the man with the broken neck?" Catherine asked her partner.

"Yup." Tess said looking pretty pleased with her self. "Also not to mention possibly the same thing that killed Evan's intern."

Before Catherine could reply Gabe walked over. "Catherine?"

Catherine slowly turned around to face Gabe. "What?"

"Can I have a word?" Gabe asked taking a sip of his coffee.

Catherine turned back around to face Tess who was getting up to walk away but she grabbed her arm making her sit back down. "Sit." Catherine whispered.

Tess rolled her eyes and did as her partner asked.

"Well?" said Gabe. "May I?"

Catherine took one last look at Tess before turning around to face Gabe.

Tess just looked at her with no emotion. She really hated this guy.

Catherine sighed and turned back around. "Sure." she said standing up.

Gabe smiled and began walking towards an empty conference room. He opened the door and stepped inside.

"Here?" Catherine asked.

Gabe didn't say anything he just held the door open for Catherine.

Without taking an eye off of him she slowly made her way into the dark room. "What's this about?" Catherine asked crossing her arms.

Gabe shut the door and turned around to face her. He sighed and she gave him a weird look.

"Well?" Catherine asked.

"I wanted to apologize." Gabe finally said.

"apologize?" Catherine repeated. "Seriously?"

Gabe nodded. "Um...yeah."

"So after grabbing me, blackmailing me, and not leaving when I ask you, you think you can honestly just drag me in here and apologize and expect everything to be fine?"

Gabe sighed. "Well, maybe if I explain this to you in a detective sorta way maybe you will understand a bit better."

Catherine gave Gabe a confused look. "I'm listening."

"Think about it this way...I'm basically the detective here and you're the witness whose no talking."

"Excuse me?" Catherine asked.

"Like a detective I'm just trying to do my job. I'm given a 'case' and told to find answers. I'm just looking for answers Cat."

Catherine didn't say anything.

"I'm looking for answers that you have but I don't know."

Catherine pointed a finger at Gabe. "So you think you can bring me in here, apologize for your acts, and then ask me for answers about something I don't even know about?"

"Well I'm trying to do this the easy way actually." Gabe said crossing his arms as well.

"What do you mean easy way?" Catherine asked concerned.

"I have many way on getting the answers I need. You were just one of them and well...clearly you're not talking." Gabe began to make his way back to the door.

"Wait." Catherine said stopping him.

"What do you mean other ways?"

Gabe smiled. "I see I got your attention now."

"Look, I told you from the start I don't know anything except the fact my friend JT Forbes need access to the morgue for an up-coming lesson. I know I did something bad and I knew there would be consequences. But hear my words Gabe, I have nothing to do with whatever you want."

Gabe tilted his head a bit. "You made your choice Detective Chandler, I tried to make this easy. But I see how it is." With that Gabe left the room leaving Catherine standing along in the dark empty conference room.

Vincent sat on the couch waiting for JT to come home. He didn't exactly know how to say, "I'm going to go out and search for Lafferty through out New York City." because he knew that would just not end well. He grabbed his phone and checked his messages or missed calls. Nothing. He wondered if Catherine found anything yet.

After about a half hour passed with still no sign of JT coming home Vincent just decided to leave. He knew he couldn't waste time looking for his old friend.

He fixed his base-ball hat as he made his way over to where the woman got hit. It was hard to track Lafferty because he hasn't seen her in nine years and forgot mostly what she even smelled like. However, he tried his best. He took out the ID card from his pocket along with his phone. He stopped and dialed JT's number. He figured it would be better to have this conversation over the phone.

"Is everything okay?" JT asked in a worried tone. "I'm sorry I wasn't back earlier I'm stuck here grading papers."

Vincent looked around. "I'm trying to find Lafferty so I might not get back for a while."

"ARE YOU INSANE?!" JT shouted through the phone. "What if she is with someone? What if she hurts you? What if-"

"JT, I really need you just to relax and hear me out okay?" Vincent pleaded.

JT didn't say anything but Vincent could still hear his heart beating a mile per minute.

"If I find her, she most likely know's things we don't. That means things about Murifield, about the mutations, etc." Vincent said trying to follow Lafferty's scent. Luckily he got some of it off her ID card.

"If you're not home by morning I'm coming and looking for you!" JT stated.

Vincent rolled his eyes. "Relax JT I-" Suddenly her scent became stronger. She has been right were he was standing not long ago.

"Vincent?" JT asked.

"Huh? Yeah, sorry." Vincent tried to focus on his conversation without losing Lafferty's scent.

"Just...don't...die." JT said into the phone.

Vincent rolled his eyes. "Don't worry I already have a death certificate."

"Just be careful." JT said harshly.

"I will." Vincent said hanging up the phone. After he put his phone in his pocket he continued his way until he got to a set of woods. He made his way into the woods after he got about a mile in he stopped and looked around. He noticed his adrenaline was pumping and he began to start breathing heavily. He had a bad feeling about this.

He took a few more steps forward until he heard movement up in the trees. He looked up and saw a branch shaking. He let out a small growl. He heard a louder noise and then he fell to the ground. He felt the weight of something on his back and he tried to get up. Whatever was on his back grabbed his neck and pushed down. Hard. He used all his might to escape the hold of whatever was on his back and he got free. He turned around to face the creature that attacked him. And he let out a growl. It growled back. The creature jumped on top of him once more and sinked it's claws into Vincent's arm. He growled louder and quickly spun around to pick up the thing that was attacking him and threw it head first into a near by tree knocking it unconscious. He slowly walked over towards the lifeless body while trying to re-gain control of himself.

He kneeled down next to the creature and his eyes grew wide. He found her.

Suddenly to his surprised her eye's shot open and were bright orange. She leaped onto him catching him off-guard and pulled on his arm trying to tear it off. He quickly let beast take over and threw her off of him. He grabbed his arm trying to reduce the pain. She quickly got up and bared her teeth making her way back over to him. The beast growled and she grabbed at his throat increasing her grip.

Catherine made her way back to her desk.

"That's a happy face." Tess jokingly said putting down her newspaper.

Catherine glared at her. "Are we allowed to shoot him?"

Tess laughed. "If we were then I would have done it a long time ago."

Catherine laughed. "True."

"Chandler." Joe called from his office.

Catherine rolled her eyes and stood up from her chair. "It's always something..."

Tess smiled as she picked back up her paper.

Catherine walked over to Joe office and entered only to see Brendan sitting next to an open lap top.

"Um...hi." she said as Joe left the room.

"Hello Detective, have a seat." Brendan said pointing to the chair.

Catherine did as she was told.

"Care to explain this?" Brendan asked making a video-clip pop up on the laptop.

She felt her stomach flip when she saw a screen shot of her and Gabe talking in the conference room.

"Let me play it for you, and then we can talk." Brendan said hitting the play button.

Catherine sat and watched the moment that hadn't happened long ago. In fact it was about fifteen minutes ago.

She watched as she saw both herself and Gabe walk into the empty conference room. She then remembered that the security camara they had in the conference room recorded sound.

"Here?" Catherine heard herself ask. "What's this about?" Catherine watched as one word was replaying in her mind. 'Shit.'

After the clip was over she looked over at Brendan.

"Care to explain what this is about?" he asked.

She sighed. "Gabe is working on something for work and thought I had the answers when I didn't." Catherine said. She didn't lie, she just gave him the short version.

"You mention Gabe, blackmailing and grabbing you." Brendan said leaning forward in his chair. "Care to explain."

Catherine didn't say anything.

"I can't help with you don't talk Catherine."

"Yes." Catherine said instantly regretting it. "Yes he has."

Brendan nodded. "What was he black mailing you about?"

Catherine bite her tounge. "He just, knew a personal story of mine and threatened to share it if I didn't go out to dinner with him. So I agreed and when I had to leave due to a family matter he wouldn't let me go."

Brendan nodded. "Is the personal story in danger someone?"

Catherine didn't respond.

"Because if it does I need to know."

Catherine shook her head. "No, no it doesn't."

"Is there a reason why you didn't want him to share this personal story of your? How did he find out?"

Catherine looked at Brendan thinking his questions were a bit weird. "I'm sorry but I really prefer not to talk about it."

Brendan nodded. "I understand. Anyway, what do you mean by he wouldn't let you go?"

Catherine sighed. "When I told him I had to leave he threatened to tell my story."

"And the grabbing?" Brendan asked. "Has he been sexual harassing you?"

Catherine had two options she could say yes and most likely Gabe would get kicked out of the precinct and maybe lose his job. Or she could say no and hopefully avoid any further questioning.

"Well?" Brendan asked. "I need to know Catherine so I can address the situation."

Catherine sighed. "No he hasn't he has just been..." Catherine paused. In a way he was, he would make comments about how she looked and wouldn't leave when he asked but she knew she couldn't get tangled up with all this.

"Catherine..." Brendan said. "You can tell me, it's what I'm here for."

Catherine forced a smile. "No he has not been sexually harassing me."

Brendan nodded. "If it happens again thought you are to come straight to me. Understand?"

Catherine nodded. "I understand."

The beast gripped onto her hands around his neck and forced her to release. He took his right knee and kneed her in the stomach causing her to fall backwards. He didn't want to hurt her but he had no choice.

She got up and made her way back to where the beast was standing. He quickly grabbed her and pushed her against a tree and placed his arm across her neck cutting off some air. He watched as she struggled to get free but it was no use. He knew what he had to do. He slowly tried to relax himself. If Lafferty saw him as him maybe she would remember.

As she continued to struggle, Vincent changed back into his normal self and her strength over powered him instantly knocking him to the ground. He knew if we wanted her to recognize him then he would have to look like his normal self.

She continued to try to rip him apart but he did his best to fight her off. She continued to growl and dig her fingernails into his body but he knew he had to stay human. She attacked him once more and he trapped her against another tree. As she was struggling he continued to try to hold her back. Suddenly he felt nothing pushing against him anymore. He looked Lafferty and let go as her body fell to the ground. She changed completely back to normal. He bent down to check her pulse. Her pulse was fine so she must've just passed out. Question is...from what?

He picked her up and began making his way back to the park. About 5 minutes later he was back at the warehouse.

"WHO THE HELL IS THAT?!" JT yelled as Vincent walked in with Lafferty in his arms.

Vincent didn't reply he just walked over to the cage that he was kept in during his blackouts. He gently placed her down and went out of the cage and locked it.

"Seriously dude?! Some answers would be nice right now!" JT said watching Vincent.

"I need you to watch her." Vincent said walking away from Lafferty. "Wa-wa-watch her?!" JT asked looking at Lafferty. "You just storm in here with a unconscious woman in your arms that I've never even seen before, then you lock her in a cage and tell me to watch her?!"

Vincent slid on jacket and looked over at JT. "Look man, she shouldn't be walking up anytime soon. I'll be back as soon as I can okay?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, where the hell are you going?!"

Vincent slid on his baseball cap. "To Catherine's."

JT's jaw dropped and pointed to Lafferty. "Now's not romance time dude!"

"JT just relax okay?"

"I won't relax until you at least tell me who the hell she is!"

Vincent looked over at Lafferty than back to JT. "Fine...Lafferty, JT. JT, Lafferty."

"Wait...that's Lafferty?!" JT said pointing towards the unconscious woman.

Vincent nodded. "Yeah."

"And you're leaving me here alone with her?" JT asked shocked.

"Fine." Vincent said shrugging his shoulders. "You go get Catherine."

"Well why can't we just call her?" JT asked.

Vincent pulled out his phone quickly and put in on speaker. After he pressed send the other line went straight to voicemail. "That's why." Vincent sad putting the phone back in his pocket.

JT shook his head. "Well why do we need her here anyway?"

Vincent looked at JT. "Because, she is the one with the field journal that maybe has answers on why Lafferty just collapsed in the woods."

JT sighed not even wanted to ask questions about was Vincent just said. "Fine, I'll go get her."

Vincent wrote down Catherine's apartment number on a piece of paper and handed it to JT. He watched JT storm off out of the warehouse and suddenly heard Lafferty move.

He walked over to the cage and watched her toss back and forth.

"Lafferty." He said in a soft voice.

She suddenly opened her eyes and they were bright orange she lunged towards Vincent but the bars stood in her way.

"Lafferty!" Vincent said louder.

She continued to try to attack Vincent but she couldn't get through the bars. After Vincent's little mishap during his black out's he had JT replace the bars.

"Lafferty." Vincent said again. He watched as she stood up and smashed her fist against the wall. "Laffety!" Vincent said again trying to keep himself calm.

She continued to move around and growl. Vincent looked around trying to find any useful to calm her down. He saw JT's tranquilizer and picked it up. He pulled the trigger and shot her in the leg causing her to instantly fall down. 'What the hell was wrong with her?' Vincent thought.

JT made his way up to Catherine's level and took a deep breath before knocking. After he calmed himself down a bit the door flew open and Heather was standing in the door way.

"Can I help you?" Heather asked giving JT a weird look.

"Um...yes, is your sister here?" JT asked nervously.

Heather raised an eyebrow. "CAAAAAAT!" Heather yelled causing JT to rub his ear. "SOMEONE IS HERE TO SEE YOU!"

JT smiled at Heather. "Thank you."

"Who are you?" Heather asked.

"I'm a friend of your sisters." JT said.

"Have we met?" Heather asked.

"I don't believe so I-"

"JT?" Catherine asked walking towards the door.

"Hi." he said waving.

"What are you doing here?" Catherine asked.

"I came here to tell you...that uh..." JT mentally kicked himself.

"Heather will you please give us a minute?" Catherine asked her sister.

Heather shrugged. "Whatever, I'm going to go rip up some old photo's of me and Josh." With that Heather happily walked down the hallway back towards her room.

"Sorry about that. What's up?" Catherine asked stepping out into the apartment hallway.

"He found her." JT whispered.

"He what?" Catherine asked.

"He found Lily."

"Lafferty." Catherine corrected.

"Yeah whatever..." JT said rubbing his forehead. "Anyway, he found her and she is currently unconscious."

"Okay..." Catherine said.

"He wants you to bring your mother's green journal to see if there is any side-effect that includes randomly passing out." JT said.

"Well was it a black-out?"

JT shook his head. "No, she is literally unconscious."

Catherine nodded. "Okay just give me a minute." She slipped back into her apartment and about two minutes later she came back out. "Let's go."

After about five minutes JT and Catherine both arrived at the warehouse. They both went over to where Lafferty and Vincent were and JT sat down and began looking at the notes in the journal.

"Is this Lafferty?" Catherine asked looking at the girl lying on the ground.

Vincent nodded. "Yup."

"How did you find her?" Catherine asked.

"She found me." Vincent said.

"When she found you was she..."

Vincent nodded. "Yeah, she didn't want me there."

"Did she hurt you?" Catherine asked.

Vincent shook his head. "No not really, she just really wasn't happy someone found her."

"Does she know it's you?"

Vincent shook his head again. "Nope. She hasn't even said a word. She's only been the beast."

Catherine nodded then turned back towards JT. "Find anything?"

JT shook his head. "Not yet."

Catherine went over and bent down next to the cage. "When will she come to?"

"Well, she already did but she tried to get out and so I shot her with the tranquilizer."

Catherine nodded. "So in a couple minutes she should come to."

"JT?" Vincent asked.

"Nothing yet." he said continuing to flip the pages.

Catherine sighed and walked away from the cage.

"You okay?" Vincent asked following her.

"I think Lafferty killed Gregg Johnson."

Vincent grew-wide eyed. "How?"

"Well he was found with multiple crushed bones. Much like the man's neck." Catherine said. "So everyone thinks the person who killed the man is the same person who killed Gregg Johnson."

"Catherine..." Vincent sighed. "Gregg Johnson wasn't just one of the men who took Lafferty away..."

Catherine and JT both looked over at Vincent.

"He is also the person who tried to kill your mother in Afghanistan." Vincent said.

Catherine looked at Vincent. She never knew her mother almost died during her time in Afghanistan

"He drew a gun on her so I attacked him. He pointed a knife at me and well, that's how I got my scar."

Catherine looked at Vincent.

"I just thought you should know." Vincent said.

While the three of them sat in silence Lafferty slowly began to wake up. Luckily she was back to her old self. She looked around nervously and Vincent saw her eyes begin to change. He quickly walked over to her.

"Lafferty, it's okay, it's me Vincent Keller." Vincent said smiling.

Lafferty didn't say anything. She just continued to breathe quickly.

"Lafferty, calm down, it's okay, you're safe." Vincent said trying to calm her down.

She started at Vincent as her eyes slowly went brown.

"Keller?" She asked giving him a weird look.

"Yeah." Vincent smiled. "It's me."

"How- how are you- I thought you were dead." Lafferty said waking up a bit more.

Vincent shook his head. "I got out."

Suddenly Lafferty rose to her feet and looked around frantically.

"Laferty, you're okay I promise."

"No!" She said shaking her head. "No, no we are not okay!" She screamed.

"Lafferty calm down!" Vincent said.

She began breathing heavily and JT walked over to her. "Dude what the heck?" JT said.

Vincent grew wide-eyed. "I dunno, she just started flipping out!"

Lafferty began to quickly move around and Vincent could hear her heart pounding.

"Lafferty, calm down!" Vincent said once more.

Catherine watched from a distance not wanting to cause any more stress for Lafferty.

"Let me go!" She yelled as Vincent placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Lafferty, come on you're safe I promise."

"No, no, I'm not... Johnson...he's...he's after me!"

Vincent shook his head. "Lafferty Johnson's dead."

Lafferty started hyperventilating.

"Lafferty please." Vincent begged. "Just calm down and I'll explain everything."

"Who is he?!" Lafferty snapped looking at JT. "He's gunna kill me!"

JT quickly walked away towards Catherine. "I think it would be the other way around..." he whispered to Catherine.

"Lafferty, he wouldn't hurt a fly, I promise. You're safe here."

Lafferty didn't take an eye off JT.

"He's my friend. He understands. Just please calm down."

Lafferty seemed to be calming down so Vincent slowly stood up and walked out of the cage. Just as he was about to shut it behind him he heard a small growl and Vincent felt hands around his neck.

"No!" Catherine screamed. As she was about to walk towards the two super-soliders JT grabbed her arm.

"Stay here." JT said not letting go of her.

As Lafferty gripped onto Vincent's throat he allowed the beast to take over. He turned around to face Lafferty and threw her against the hard cement wall knocking her once again, unconscious.

Vincent slowly turned back to normal and looked over to Catherine and JT. "You two alright?" he asked out of breath.

The two both slowly nodded. "What the hell is wrong with her?" JT asked.

Vincent locked Lafferty in the cage and walked over towards the two of them.

"I have no idea." Vincent said. "But I think she is farther ahead in the DNA mutation than I am." Vincent paused. "Which mean's this is what is going to happen to me."

Again, I am soooooo sorry for the late update but a lot of stuff went on in this chapter so hopefully that makes up for it a bit.

Anyway please let me know what you guys think about Lafferty and her um...'troubles.' and also let me know what you guys think Gabe's next plan might consist of. :)