Note: Dear God! There are SO many new characters coming onto the show I mean it's gunna be like an entire Bishop family reunion! BUT! Yay I'm finally-ish getting caught up to all these spoilers being released (key word: finally-ISH). Gosh, I love you BATB but golly those spoilers are like: WOSH! Anyway, so another main conflict is slowly being brought into the story woohoo! Wait..does that deserve a woohoo? or a boohoo? hm.. this might get a bit interesting. I quote Jay: "This will change the entire course of the show." But instead of show it's a story...anyway yes Jay Ryan did say that about Beauty and the Beast but why did he say it? What's it about? Is it about Alex? Or something completely different? Hmmm we shall see! 3 MORE DAYS!

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 37

Catherine looked over at Evan who was staring at the computer screen.

"What makes you want this so badly?" Catherine asked catching Evan a bit off guard. "I know this thing saved you but, after you catch it then what? Ever thought about that?"

Evan looked over at Catherine and gave her a confused look. "Well after I catch it I will probably call the FBI or something telling them that there is a wild beast in New York."

Before Catherine could say anything the door flung open.

"Cat you should look at this." Tess said in a serious tone.

Catherine looked back at Evan and gave him a stern look before turning back to Tess. "What?"

"Just come on." Tess said leaving the doorway.

Catherine followed Tess all the way back up to her desk. "What is it?" Catherine asked as Tess logged onto her computer.

"See this guy?" Tess asked pointing to a picture of a man in a military uniform.

Catherine nodded. "Yeah I see him."

"That's Gregg Johnson, the man who was found dead." Tess said before clicking on another link.

"Okay."

"And it says here he worked in the Army." Tess said.

"I kinda got that from the uniform."

"Yeah but check this out." Tess said scrolling down. "It says here he was part of a Government based project."

Catherine felt her stomach do a little flip.

"That's why I would like you to talk to Gabe about this."

"Why can't you? You two seemed to be getting along just fine thing morning." Catherine said.

Tess rolled her eyes. "Clearly you didn't hear what we were talking about. He wanted to know where you were and I told him I had no clue."

"Okay." Catherine said in a bit of an odd tone wondering why Gabe wanted to know where she was.

"Yeah, so if you don't mind." Tess said printing out some files.

Catherine grabbed on of the papers that had a list of Gregg Johnson's past jobs. One name stood out in particular. Operation Murifield

"You okay Cat?" Tess asked noticing the worried look on her partner's face.

Catherine suddenly looked up from the paper and forced a smile. "I'm fine."

Tess shrugged and stapled some papers together. "Here." she said handing Catherine the papers. "Give these to Gabe have him look 'em over. They were both Government so maybe he knows something." Tess stopped and looked over at Joe's office. "In the mean time I have a meeting with the boss."

Catherine looked up from the other papers and asked, "For what?"

Tess just rolled her eyes. "Don't ask."

After Tess left Catherine walked over to Gabe's desk to find him sitting down talking on the phone.

"I promise Kyle, I got everything under control. I swear." Gabe said into the phone unaware that Catherine was standing right in front of him. "I'm telling you I almost have it will you just get off my back about it?"

Catherine heard what sounded like a very angry man on the other end of the line.

Gabe looked up and noticed that Catherine was waiting to talk to him. "Ky-Kyle." Gabe trying to get his attention. "Kyle I got this I promise."

Catherine watched as Gabe made a very annoyed face and finally hung up. "What can I do for you Cat?" Gabe asked smiling.

Catherine forced a smile. "Tess wanted you to look these over with me." she lied. Yes it was true Tess wanted him to look at them but she just made it up that he had to look it over with her. She wanted to know what this guy was planning.

"Well alright." Gabe said taking the paper's from Catherine's hand. He looked at the first page and his eyes widened. "Wow...Gregg Johnson huh?"

"You know him?" Catherine asked.

"I did yes, fine, fine, agent."

"Agent?" Catherine asked.

Gabe nodded. "Yup. He was a good agent in-deed."

"Who did he work for?" Catherine asked.

Gabe looked up at Catherine. "Sounds like you're interviewing me."

"Just trying to find answers. And since you know this guy maybe you can tell us why he might have died."

"Do you have the body?" Gabe asked.

Catherine nodded. "Yes."

"Can I see it?"

"Why?"

"Just curious." Gabe said.

Catherine gave him a questioning look. "Ask Evan."

Gabe nodded. "Alright."

"But before you go." Catherine said. "I need you to answer a few more questions."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, since when did I become a perp?" Gabe said laughing.

"Everyone's guilty until proven innocent." Catherine said sternly.

"Are you questioning me?" Gabe asked.

"I don't know should I?"

Gabe tried hiding the dirty look he wanted to give her. "Should you?" He said trying to get inside her head a bit.

"I think I will." Catherine said staring Gabe in his eyes.

"Very well then Chandler." Gabe said with a small smirk.

"Come with me." Catherine said grabbing the files.

"Alright." Gabe said smiling.

Catherine walked over to the interrogation room and held the door open for Gabe. "And you can drop that attitude of yours."

Gabe continued to smile and walked over to one of the chairs to talk a seat. "This really is ridiculous Catherine." Gabe said. "You're wasting your time."

"Maybe." Catherine said talking a seat. "But what I do with my time is none of your concern."

"Honesty you're wasting your time." Gabe said.

"Let's get to it then." Catherine said taking a seat. "Did you know Gregg Johnson?"

Gabe laughed. "I already told you, yes."

"Who did he work for?"

"I'm not to say." Gabe said crossing his arms.

"See, that's where you're wrong. It doesn't matter who you're working for, when being asked questions by an officer of the law you answer them."

"Funny how I work for the law as well." Gabe said smiling.

"Who did Gregg Johnson work for?"

"I'm not telling you anything. Besides, you don't wanna know."

"Prehaps you're friend Kyle, will be willing to coöperate." Catherine said remembering the conversation. "He seemed pretty upset with you already. I'm sure he won't be thrilled to be brought down for questioning."

Gabe looked around the room. "You don't want to know who Johnson worked for. They were mean, nasty people. Trust me Cat, I'm trying to help you."

"I don't need your held Gabe, I need answers." Catherine snapped.

"It's only going to hurt you."

"Then that's a risk I'm willing to take." Catherine said.

"You're super pushy you know that?"

"Answer the question." Catherine snapped.

"Prehaps we can talk over dinner."

Catherine shook her head. "I'm not going down that road again. Now I'm not going to ask you again, who did Gregg Johnson work for?"

Gabe didn't say anything.

"Answer the question." Catherine said staring at Gabe.

"Fine. Gregg Johnson was a government agent. He was so good that they chose him to be part of an operation. In fact, I think your mother had something to do with it too if I recall. Anyway he was the head of it all while it was in progress."

"Would anyone want him dead?" Catherine asked trying to ignore the fact her mother was brought into this.

"Only certin people." Gabe said.

"Who would those people be?" Catherine asked.

"That's why I need to see the body." Gabe said.

"Give me one damn good reason why I should let you." Catherine said. "I don't know what you're after Gabe, nor do I want to know. But get this, when an officer asks you questions, it's best to answer those questions. Got it? Now I'm going to ask you a few more questions and I want no funny business. Understand? This isn't high school, you're not impressing anyone by being funny or not following the rules. However if you want to play 'rebel' then I'm sure you will be having lots of fun finding a train to take you back to wherever the hell you came from and explain to your fellow co-workers why you had to leave this precinct. You may think you're 'all that' because you work for the government but in this room I don't give a damn who you work for. Do I make myself clear?"

Gabe looked up at Catherine and didn't say a word.

"Good. Now, is there anyone who would what Gregg Johnson dead? Yes or no?"

Gabe's phone began to ring but he didn't take his eyes off Catherine's.

"Give me the phone." Catherine said handing out her hand.

Gabe didn't move and Catherine was about to re-peat herself when Evan entered the room. "Cat?" he asked. "What are you doing?"

"Questioning Mr. Lowen." She said standing up.

"Why?" Evan asked.

"I believe he knows something about Gregg Johnson's death and he's just not talking."

"Have you talked to Tess?" Evan asked.

"I haven't yet."

"Well she is your partner isn't she?" Evan asked raising an eyebrow.

Catherine didn't say anything. She thought about how she should've involved Tess too. "I'll go get her then." Catherine said with a smile.

After Catherine left Gabe looked over at Evan. "Well she can be a handful." Gabe laughed.

Evan just faked a smile knowing there was a reason on why his co-worker was acting like this. He just didn't know what.

"Could I see the body of Gregg Johnson?" Gabe asked.

Evan nodded. "Sure."

Evan and Gabe both made their way down to the lab and Gabe walked over and uncovered the dead body lying on the examination table. "Yikes." Gabe said. "That's a lot of blood loss."

Evan nodded. "Yes, that is believed to be the cause of his death. He seemed to suffered from many lacerations. However, I'm not quite sure from what though."

"Do you have an theories?" Gabe asked covering the body back up with the tarp.

Evan smiled. "Glad you asked. A couple weeks ago if not a month ago I was actually kidnapped by my own intern." Evan paused when he noticed the weird look Gabe was giving him. "Long story." Evan said. "Anyway, he was trying to kill me and during the process..." Evan paused. "This may sound absolutely nutty but uh..."

"Don't worry about it." Gabe smiled. "Sometime's crazy theories are the best ones."

Evan smiled. Even though Tess or Catherine didn't like him so much he didn't see him as that bad of a guy. "Anyway, out of nowhere this animal comes and just rips the guy to shreds. He looked very similar to this body." Evan said motioning to Gregg Johnson.

Gabe slowly nodded. "Any theories on who it might be?"

Evan looked around as if to make sure no one was listening. "I've actually been working on a person project on DNA mutations. The DNA of this man or rather creature actually showed up at some previous crime scenes. He is now classified as a serial killer. But what I don't understand is that why would he kill Peter, the intern, and not me?"

Gabe took a deep breath trying to process the information and then said, "You got a name for this guy?"

"Actually yes, Vincent Keller."

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