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I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 43

"Where have you been?" Tess asked as Catherine sat down at her desk.

"I went down to the shooting range for a bit."

"Why?"

Catherine shrugged. "Just to practice."

"Chandler, Vargas!" Joe called walking over to the both of them. "I just wanted to let you know that I'm giving Wolanski the case about Alex Reagan okay?"

"Actually Joe." Catherine said. "Do you mind if me and Tess actually take this one."

"Well considering the facts, how she wanted to shoot you, I think it would be beast for me to give it to somebody else."

"I know but I would actually really appreciate it if I could be a part of it. I just want to find out myself why she would want to shoot me." Catherine said. She knew Alex wasn't shooting at her, she was going to shoot Vincent. But she still wanted to find out more about it.

Joe sighed.

"Please Joe, I would really appreciate it."

"Fine." he said.

"Thank you."

"Here is the address to her apartment. If you change you're mind just call okay?" Joe said handing Catherine a piece of paper with Alex's apartment address on it.

"I will." Catherine smiled.

"Very well, off you go then." Joe said.

Catherine and Tess both stood up and put on their jackets.

"You sure you wanna do this?" Tess asked.

Catherine nodded. "I just want to know and I want to see evidence for myself."

"Okay." Tess sighed. "Lets go."

After a couple minutes they arrived at Alex's apartment building.

"I'll get the key from the front desk, you go find the apartment okay?"

"Okay." Catherine said heading up the stairs.

After a couple minutes Tess arrived to where Alex's apartment was.

"Is this it?" Tess asked.

"305, yup." Catherine replied looking at the address.

"Alright." Tess said pulling the key out of her pocket. "You sure you wanna do this?" she asked before opening the door.

"Positive." Catherine smiled.

"Alright."

They both entered the apartment. "I'll look this way for anything, you go that way way."

Catherine nodded. She walked over to the bedroom and opened the door. She searched the bedroom for anything out of the ordinary. She found nothing and opened up the closet. She moved some of the clothes around and searched the shelves when she found a small shoebox. She took it out and placed it on a small table. She began flipping though old envelopes that were from Vincent back from his time in Afghanistan. She grabbed some old photo's and flipped through them. She realized how happy they looked together. She saw one a letter and pulled it out. She began reading it and realized how much Vincent really cared for Alex and how thrilled he was to spend the rest of his life with her. Was she going to shoot him? Yes. Did she? No. Why? Because she killed her. She killed the woman Vincent loved. Even if she was going to shoot him she still loved him. They still loved each other.

"Find anything?" Tess called.

"No, not yet!" Catherine yelled. She continued flipping through old pictures of Vincent and Alex when Tess called out to her.

"Uh Cat?!"

Catherine quickly put everything back in the box and stuffed it back into the closet and made her way towards Tess. "What is it?"

Tess stared into a towel closet when Catherine came into the room. "Wha-" She then paused noticing what was in the closet. "What is that?"

"Medical equipment." Tess said.

"Why would Alex have medical equipment?" Catherine asked.

"My guess is as good as yours."

Catherine then looked around the bathroom and noticed a small medicine cabinet. She went over to it and opened it up. "Tess." she said grabbing one of the bottles.

"What?"

"Morphine." Catherine said handing Tess the bottle.

"Maybe it was prescribed." Tess said grabbing the bottle.

"Do you see her name on there?" Catherine asked.

Tess shook her head. "So what, was she on drugs?"

Catherine looked back into the cabinet and noticed other un-prescribed medicines. "Either that or she was a dealer. Call Evan and ask him if he found any drugs in her system."

"On it." Tess said taking out her phone.

"Put him on speaker."

"Hello?" Evan asked.

"Hi Evan, it's Cat." Catherine said into the phone. "Did you find anything in Alex's system? Any medicine perhaps?"

"No why?"

"Well we found a bunch of un-prescribe ER drugs." Tess said.

"I haven't found anything but I can check again if you want." Evan said.

"Yeah that would be great. Call us back okay?" Catherine said.

"Sure." Evan replied before hanging up the phone.

"So what do you think?" Tess asked.

"Well if she had no drugs in her system then maybe she was a dealer."

"Okay so we found out she has drugs and medical equipment but if she wasn't high why would she want to shoot you?"

Catherine shrugged. "Maybe she thought I was a threat to her."

"A threat?" Tess asked.

"Well I mean if you were a drug dealer and clearly stole medical equipment from an emergency room and you saw a cop and had a gun, what would you do?"

"Well I don't think I would want to shoot them." Tess said giving Catherine a funny look.

"Wait, there was another guy there remember?" Catherine said.

"The guy with the busted neck?"

Catherine nodded. "What if she killed him, then saw me, and that's what made her try to shoot me."

"How did she crush his neck then?"

Catherine shrugged. "And that's where the dead end is."

"I'm calling Joe to tell him what we found. Maybe we can talk to whoever worked at the hospital to see why Alex would want to steal this stuff."

"Okay. I'm going to continue to look around." Catherine said.

After Catherine left Tess to continue searching for any evidence her phone began to ring. "Chandler."

"Hey Cat, it's Evan. I checked Alex's system again. She was clean."

"So she must of been a dealer then." Catherine said.

"Maybe. Did you find anything else?"

"Just some ER equipment. Not entirely sure what she would want that for."

"What type of equipment?"

"I think there was a cardiac monitor, some empty syringes."

"I'm not quite sure why she would have the cardiac monitor but the syringes, those could be linked to the drugs."

Catherine nodded. "Are there any reports of missing equipment from New York General?"

"I don't think they would make it public but I can look up some workers for you that you could talk too."

"That would be great." Catherine replied. "I think the drugs might have something to do with why she would want to shoot me." Catherine lied. She wasn't even going to shoot her at all. She just was keeping her from shooting Vincent. But she thought this would be the best way to make sure Vincent doesn't get dragged down in this. Plus she was interested in why Alex would steal drugs and equipment from the hospital.

"I found the manager of the hospital, Eliza Flinn."

"Great where does she live?" Catherine asked.

"Um.. she lives in Broadside Apartment Complex Apartment number 5."

"Okay great thanks. I'll call you later." Catherine said before hanging up.

Tess walked into the room where Catherine was standing. "Find anything else?"

Catherine shook her head. "No, I just was talking to Evan."

"Did he find anything?" Tess asked.

"No, her system was clear which means she wasn't the ones taking the drugs."

"Yeah, but some of the bottles were half empty."

"She must of been dealing them then."

"I'll call Joe back to let him know to hand this one over to precinct 86."

"Why?" Catherine asked confused.

"'Cause it's a drug dealing problem, not exactly special crimes."

"Yeah but Tess, its evidence." Catherine said.

"It's Joe's call."

Catherine sighed. "Fine."

Later that night Vincent grabbed some old video's and put them into the television.

"What are you doing?" JT asked rubbing his eyes. "It's like 3AM."

"Found some old video's and I decided to watch them."

JT looked at the TV screen. "Oh my god is that Alex?"

Vincent laughed. "Yeah."

"Look and there's you!" JT said pointing to the screen. "We were all so little."

Vincent sighed. "Yeah..."

"Wait what are you doing?" JT asked taking a seat on the couch. Both of them sat down looking at the TV screen trying to remember what they were doing that day. They watched as ten-year old Vincent pretended to propose to Alex. "Oh my god!" JT said laughing. "I remember this!"

Vincent forced a laugh.

"And wait for it..." JT said leaning forward.

The next thing that happened on the screen little 10-year-old JT came up behind Vincent and poured a bucket of water over Vincent's head. JT began to laugh uncontrollably. "Oh my god I remember that!"

Vincent forced a smile. "So do I."

"Your brother's dared me to do that just to let you know." JT said.

Vincent laughed. "Sounds just about right."

Before either of them could get another word out a different video popped up onto the TV.

"Hey what's this?" JT asked staring at the screen.

Vincent didn't say anything as he watched the screen. His eye's grew wide remembering what was about to happen. He watched the screen as his mother was filming him coming back to visit from Afghanistan.

'Close your eyes Alex!' Vincent's mother said as a car pulled up.

Vincent watched as Alex was laughing as she covered her eyes.

'Welcome back Vincent!' Everyone said.

'Vince!' Alex yelled running up to him. Vincent watched the TV screen as Alex ran into his arms and he picked her up spinning her around. He watched as they both closed the gap between their lips. He couldn't even recognize himself in his full army uniform. Scratch that, he didn't even recognize himself, period.

JT looked around the room trying to act like nothing awkward was happening. He faked a yawn and stretched his arms above his head. "Wow." he said yawning. "It is getting late."

Vincent didn't say anything, he just continued to stare at the screen watching how he and Alex interacted.

"Night Vincent." JT said quickly leaving the room.

Vincent remained silent watching the TV as he and Alex kissed once more. He watched as he hugged his brothers and his parents. Everything came crashing down on him once more. All he wanted to do was to go back to that very moment and re-live it over and over.

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