Note: Hopefully this chapter will be a bit more interesting! I'm now going to be writing on the weekend but I just post a chapter each day until Wednesday or Thursday depending on how many chapter I wrote during the weekend.

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 49

"Okay you look like your dead." JT said as Vincent walked through the door.

"Funny." Vincent said taking off his jacket. "I'm just tired."

JT put down his science tools and walked over to the fridge. "Really? 'Cause you didn't get out of bed until like 1 yesterday so unless you upped your exercise routine I think you're lying."

Vincent didn't say anything and sat on the couch as JT handed him a beer.

"Hows your eye sight? Any hallucinations lately?"

Vincent took a sip of his beer and leaned back on the couch. "Honestly, nothing, it's weird. They've just stopped."

"Well maybe it was just a random bump in the road for the experiment. We don't really know what to expect." JT said before taking a sip of his own.

Vincent shrugged. "I guess so."

"But." JT said standing up. "I have been working on something."

"Oh?" Vincent asked.

"Yeah I decided to do a mini project on the human eye vs. the common animal eye. And I have to say there are some crazy differences."

Vincent leaned forward on the couch taking another sip of his beer. "Like what?"

"Well like the goat, human's can only see around 185 degrees but goats can see a maximum of 330 degrees."

"So what are you saying? I'm becoming a goat?"

JT shook his head. "No, but since there is obviously something going on with your eyes then something must be mutating. Like your range of vision."

"So I'm developing eye's in the back of my head?" Vincent asked giving JT a confused look.

"Come here." JT said.

"What?" Vincent asked in a confused tone.

"Just come here." JT said sounding a bit annoyed.

Vincent did as he was told and made his way towards JT. "What?"

"Lean down a bit." JT said.

Vincent gave him a confused look.

"Just let me see your pupil."

"What?"

"Just, come on."

Vincent shrugged and did as he was told. He watched as JT grabbed a flash light and turned it on pointing it into his room-mates eye. "What are you doing?" Vincent asked squinting.

"Huh." JT said switching off the light.

Vincent stood up straight and rubbed his eye. "And the point of that?"

"Well it says here that goats have rectangular pupils which gives them that ability."

"I could've just looked in the mirror." Vincent said as he continued to rub his eye.

"Eh...more fun my way." JT said looking back at his laptop. "So how was Catherine?"

"Fine." Vincent said taking a seat back on the couch.

JT nodded. "You knows it's weird..."

Vincent gave JT a confused look. "Whattya mean?"

"It seems like you'll be down in the dumps and then you'll go see Catherine and you're magically fine again."

A smile formed on Vincent's face. "I guess thats what happens when you care about someone."

"That's not really where I was headed with it." JT said with a straight face.

Vincent laughed. "Then what did you mean?"

"I hate to say this but are you sure you're not just using her? Like whenever you seem down about Alex you just go see her."

Vincent gave JT a confused look. "What?"

"Like don't get me wrong man, it's great she makes you happy and all but-"

"Do you think I still have feeling for Alex?" Vincent asked giving JT a weird look. "JT, Alex is dead."

JT shrugged. "Just because someone is not longer with you, doesn't mean your feelings are gone too."

Vincent didn't say anything.

"I mean I don't know, just a thought."

Vincent remained silent.

"Just be careful okay, try to figure out your feelings about Alex before you try to move forward with Cat. I know it's been while but sometimes our feelings aren't always so clear."

Vincent looked over at JT and finally said, "What talk show have you been listening to?"

JT's face remained straight. "None, I'm not saying you're gunna end up hurting Catherine, I'm just saying you might want to sort out your feelings before you make any decisions thats all."

Vincent took another sip of his beer and bit his bottom lip. "Well it's not like I can be with Alex."

"What I'm trying to say is just don't think of Catherine as a second choice. Just pretend Alex is in the picture. Would you want to be with her? Or would you want to be with Catherine? Just think about it okay? I'm not saying that's what your doing but it just seems like to me you may be using her a bit. I mean you didn't even really think about it after she died you just went off with Catherine."

Vincent didn't say anything.

"But then again, maybe I'm wrong and just saying gibberish." JT got out of his chair and looked at Vincent. "Who knows."

After JT left the room Vincent thought about what he just said. Yes he did care for Catherine but was JT right? He never really did think about his feeling for Alex. Did he even still have feelings for her? He already hurt her and he wasn't about to hurt her again.

Later that night Catherine slipped into her bed ready for a long night sleep. She turned on her side when she heard a light tap on her window. She sat up and looked towards her fire escape. Sure enough there he was. She got off her bed and quitely opened her window. "What are you doing here?" she whispered remembing Heather was just across the hall.

"I needed to talk to you." he said as he slid through the open window.

"Alright, what's up?" Catherine said crossing her arms trying to shield from the cold breeze.

Vincent turned around to close the window. He turned back around to face Catherine and motioned for her to sit on the bed.

Catherine gave Vincent and confused look but sat on the bed anyways. "Everything okay?"

Vincent sat down on the edge of the bed. "About the wild goose chases-"

"You don't have to say anything." Catherine said cutting him off.

"No please let me..I never really apologized for just leaving you like that and you risk your job for me and JT...and even if I was going to be with Alex, and even if she was still alive, you're willing to protect me unconditionally and no one-"

"I wasn't fully honest with you..."

Vincent gave Catherine a confused looked. "Whattya mean?"

"I can't compete with the life you were going to have with Alex I mean, you two were planning to spend your life together for who knows how long and I just can't compete with that."

"Six years and an entire childhood..." Vincent said.

"But I don't want to give up on us. I wanna be with you, Vincent."

Vincent sighed thinking about what JT had said to him earlier.

"and I-" Catherine started out.

"I um..." Vincent said cutting her off. He hated saying this but he knew JT was right. He had to figure things out and where he stood with Alex's death. "I don't know if my choice is so clear."

Catherine smile fell and she gave Vincent a concerned look.

"I really miss who I used to be, you know Vinny Keller, the doctor, the normal guy, and I think...I really think I can be that person again. I know Alex is dead but-"

"And while you're with me you would always be what? Not normal?" Catherine asked.

Vincent swallowed. "I just don't want to hurt you."

Catherine forced a smile. "You're not going to hurt me Vincent. I know very clearly that you can't always have you're happiness depending on other people. And if your happiness is trying to get your old life back then it is what it is."

Woo, another chapter done. Cool. I wanted to include those two conversations from 'On Thin Ice' because it will help me take this story where I want to take it. Onto the next chapter I go...the next chapter will begin to include 'Cold Turkey'