Note: It was a tough choice whether or not to kill off Lafferty. I actually wrote and re-wrote Chapter 31 about four times. Anyway, here is chapter 32 and I wrote a link down so you guys can see (if you haven't already) some of the stills from "On Thin Ice". Let's just say the name of the episode finally makes sense to me...sigh. Anyway take a look, let me know what you think. And as always, thanks for reading.

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I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 32

"What?" JT asked.

"What if I killed her when I threw her into that damn wall."

"Vincent come on man, you can't be serious."

Vincent looked at Lafferty. "Well it was obvious she was alive before I threw her."

"Vincent..." JT started out. "I honestly don't think you killed her."

"Then explain why she is dead."

"She died in that cage. There is no question about it, she had no pulse. But when she "Came Back." JT said making little bunny ears with his fingers. "She wasn't her normal self, when she died she was."

Vincent gave JT a weird look. "What are you saying?"

JT let out a big sigh and finally said, "I don't think you killed her." JT paused. "I think you might've killed the Beast."

Vincent gave JT a look like he had three heads. "You seriously think that's what happened?"

JT nodded. "As crazy and how stupid it may sound, yeah. You said yourself, who knows what Murifield really gave you guys."

"JT, no offense but that just sounds way out there." Vincent said. "I mean I suppose in a weird way-"

"Vincent just look at it this way." JT interrupted. "She is...well...was, obviously much farther in the mutation as you are and she kept beast-ing out at any random time. Remember one of birthday-boy's theories? It just snaps and it just consumes you like no tomorrow."

Vincent took a deep breath and then pointed at Lafferty. "We have to figure this out."

JT watched as Vincent got up and walking over to the front door. "What? Now? Vincent it's like 2AM!"

He paused and turned around to face JT. "I'm not just going to sit around wondering."

"What does that mean?!" JT yelled watching Vincent open the door. "Vincent you can't just leave me here with-" Before JT could finish Vincent was already out the door. He could continue to yell at him because he knew Vincent would hear him loud and clear but he decided not to. "Sure, leave me here with a dead person..." JT mumbled under his breath forgetting Vincent could probably hear that too.

Vincent sat down on Catherine's fire escape and pulled out his phone. He hated waking her up at 2AM but he knew it would be better in the long run for her to know right away, especially with the case. He looked down at his phone and sent a text message to Catherine. 'Fire escape.'

In only a matter of seconds Catherine opened up her window. "Vincent?"

"Hi." Vincent said putting a hand up. "I hate to wake you but-"

"It's fine, what's up?" she asked while climbing out of the window.

Vincent sighed. "Catherine you should sit down."

Catherine gave Vincent a concered look as she sat down on one of the steps. "What happened are you okay?!"

"I'm fine." He said in a calm voice. "But you should know that Lafferty..." Vincent stopped talking and looked out to the skyline. "Catherine...Lafferty died."

Catherine grew wide-eyed. "Oh my god Vincent I'm so sorry, I-"

Vincent shook his head causing Catherine to stop talking. "It's fine, it was more painful watching her struggle."

"What do you mean?"

Vincent looked back at Catherine. "Remember Evan? Talking about how one of his theories was that the Beast would just basically consume your humanity like a light switch, and all the sudden everything would just snap?"

"Yeah, I remember." Catherine started out. "Do you think that's what happened to her?"

Vincent nodded. "I think so."

Catherine grabbed Vincent's hand in hers. "I'm sorry Vincent. I really am."

He took his thumb and gently rubbed the back of her hand. "It's okay. Honestly, seeing how she was I think she is in a better place." Vincent swallowed thinking about what JT said.

"You sure you're okay?" Catherine asked.

"Well you see, she sorta died...twice." Vincent said.

"Twice?" Catherine asked giving him a weird look.

He slowly nodded his head. "Yeah. She woke up a few minutes after you left and she said she need to talk to me but then she just died. She had no pulse so I went to grab JT to let him know but then she attacked me."

"Wait, I thought she was dead." Catherine said in a confused tone.

"She was. She had no pulse, when I went to get JT. When she attacked me I threw her into the wall and when I went over to her she had no pulse again."

"How does that happen?"

Vincent shrugged. "I have no idea. But JT does have a theory which personally I think is just crazy."

"Well what is it?" Catherine asked.

Vincent sighed. "He thinks Lafferty's humanity died first. But then somehow the Beast was still alive, so when I threw her into the wall then that's what killed the Beast."

Catherine slowly nodded still slightly confused.

He noticed how confused Catherine looked and then added, "Yeah I have no idea. Again, it's just a theory. I personally think that something Murifield injected us with saved her first but then I just threw her into the wall and killed her."

"Wait, you're not blaming yourself for her death are you?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "Well it is my fault. Any chance we had at helping her or getting answers is now gone."

Catherine moved up a few steps to sit closer to Vincent. "Vincent, you cannot blame yourself for what happened. From my understanding it was self defense. Besides, if JT is right, that her humanity died first? Then that means you had nothing to do with it." Catherine paused. "Sometimes when we are defending ourselves, people don't make it."

Vincent slightly smiled "I just have to figure out what exactly happened to her."

Catherine gave Vincent's hand a small squeeze. "We will."

"How? Thats the question. We don't have the right equipment to look into what caused her death."

Catherine sighed. "Where is she?"

Vincent looked back towards Catherine. "At the warehouse why?"

Catherine took a deep breath before saying, "What if we could get all the answers we needed?"

Vincent gave her a strange look.

"I know none of us want to do this but Vincent...we can't let the same thing happen to you." Catherine paused. "Your right, we need to figure out exactly what happened to her. We need Evan."

Vincent gave her a look like she had three heads. "Are you insane?!"

"Vincent just think about it! Evan is our only chance on finding out what happened."

He quickly shook his head and replied, "No it's to risky. And no way would JT go for it. Heck, I'm not even going for it."

Catherine sighed as she looked out to the skyline of New York.

"I'll just bury her body in the woods and that'll be it." he said standing up.

Catherine stood up too and gave Vincent a concerned look. "Vincent..."

"I have to go." Vincent replied. And with that he leaped off the fire-escape leaving Catherine alone in the middle of the night.

Vincent entered the warehouse and threw his jacket aside, sat in one of the chairs and buried his head in his hands.

JT walked over from were he was standing next to Lafferty and crossed his arms. "You okay?"

Vincent rubbed his face and sat back in the chair. "She thinks Evan is the only way at finding answers." He said in a low tone.

"WHAT?! Has she over dosed on crazy pills?!" JT shouted.

Vincent put a hand up telling JT to calm down. "Relax okay? He's not going to find out."

JT didn't say anything he just took a seat beside his friend.

He looked over at Lafferty and then said, "I'm going to go take care of her okay?"

JT nodded. "Just remember to sun will be up soon."

Vincent walked over towards Lafferty and carefully picked her up. He grabbed a shovel and made his way out of the warehouse.

After he got a few miles into the nearby woods and gently placed Lafferty on the ground and began to dig a hole. After about 5 minutes the hole was finally deep enough and he turned to look towards Lafferty. He gently picked her up and placed her in the hole. He swallowed to keep from showing him emotions and before he was going to begin to bury her he noticed a small piece of paper was sticking out of her pants pocket. He bent down and grabbed it pulling it out. He didn't want to be snooping around but something told him to do in anyway. He took a deep breath and then noticed it seemed like a letter. He slowly unfolded it and grew-wide eyed when he realized what it was about.

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