Note: Woo, 50th chapter. This chapter is where 'Cold Turkey' starts to tie in.

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 50

"So how'd it go?" JT asked as Vincent walked through the door.

Vincent shrugged and sat next to JT on the couch who was watching football. "Honestly..." Vincent paused and looked over at JT. "I think you were right."

JT looked over at Vincent and gave him a confused look. "Huh?"

"JT what if I still do having feelings for Alex and I've...I just have been avoiding it."

"Wait? You seriously think you still have feelings for her?"

Vincent sighed. "I mean maybe, we were planning on spending our lives together and I don't think I ever really got over it. Like you said I've just been pushing it away and not really facing it."

JT nodded. "So what are you gunna do? Did you tell Catherine?"

Vincent slowly nodded. "Mhm."

"And?" JT asked.

"Well before I even got to say anything about it she told that um...she told me she wanted to be with me."

JT's eyes grew a bit wider. "Well what did you say?"

"I told her the only thing I could've, I told her that my choice wasn't all that clear and I needed time to think because I didn't want to hurt her."

JT sighed. "So what are you going to do?"

Vincent sat back on the couch. "Well I mean I don't want to hurt her and she already is sending her precinct on a wild goose chase just so she can protect me...I don't know."

"Sounds like you need a vacation." JT joked.

"Actually..." Vincent said.

"Vincent...I was joking..." JT said as Vincent stood up.

Vincent put a finger up towards JT. "Well you don't have to be..."

"In case you forgot, we just went to New Jersey only to come back to a pissed off Catherine. You seriously are going to do that again? Because if you think that's gunna fly, I clearly need to hit you upside the head with my baseball bat. DNA or no DNA."

"Well what if I tell her?" Vincent asked.

"What?" JT asked in a confused tone.

"Well what if I just tell her I've been thinking about going to the upper part of New York, Murifield with their fancy DNA thingy will just still say I'm in New York which won't change anything, and I'm going up there to just think things over."

JT shrugged. "I dunno, talk to her."

Catherine stepped out of the bathroom and into her room getting ready to go to work. She thought about what Vincent said to her last night as she heard a light knock on her window frame. She turned around to face him and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I have a question to ask you." Vincent said making his way into the room.

Catherine turned back around and began to brush her hair. "Better be quick I gotta go soon."

Vincent sat on the edge of her bed and looked over at her. "I was thinking that I should uh...go to upstate New York to re-think things."

Catherine didn't say anything she just finished brushing her hair.

"Not about our relationship but about my feelings towards Alex. Once I sort those out, then hopefully me and you can uh...move forward."

Catherine walked over to grab her gun. "Because until you do that..." Catherine slipped the gun in the holister and looked at Vincent. "Isn't this all just a fairy-tale?"

Vincent swallowed and looked up at Catherine. "I-"

"Vincent you don't have to explain, she was you fiance, you planned your life together for 6 years and an entire childhood. I can't compete with that. And to be honest, it's really none of my business. I guess we will just stick to working on cases..." Catherine said as she put on her badge.

Vincent slowly nodded and watched as Catherine left the room. He couldn't decide if he did the right thing or not but it's not like he can take back what he just said.

Vincent made his way back to the warehouse and opened the door.

"So how'd it go?" JT asked putting down his pliers.

Vincent shrugged. "Fine, she told me to go."

JT looked up and gave Vincent a confused look. "Really?"

"Yeah."

JT leaned forward in his chair. "So now you got that sorted out, where the hell are you gunna go?"

Vincent sat on the couch. "I know a place."

"That place is?" JT asked giving Vincent a weird look.

"The cabin." Vincent said.

"What cabin?" JT asked. "Vincent I thought you were going to upstate New York, not back to New Jersey."

Vincent shook his head. "No, remember, I bought it as a vacation home with Alex."

JT pointed a finger at Vincent. "So let me get this straight. To figure out your feelings, you're going to a place where you and Alex were going to spend a bunch of time together. That makes no sense."

"It's the only other place I know of in New York."

JT sighed. "Alright, when are you going?"

"Tomorrow after I tell Catherine."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." JT said waving his hands in the air. "You're going to tell Catherine that you're going to a place where you and Alex were going to spend your lives together. You're nuts."

"I'm not lying to her again JT!" Vincent snapped.

"Okay." JT said putting his hands up as if to say he surrenders.

"Thank you." Vincent said standing up.

Catherine headed out of the apartment complex and unlocked her car doors.

"Hey." A familiar voice said.

Catherine turned around to face him and gave him a confused look. "What are you doing here?"

"I need to tell you something." Vincent said walking closer.

She crossed her arms and leaned on her car. "Better make it quick or I'm gunna be late."

"I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be spending some time in upstate New York for the weekend to um...think."

Catherine shrugged her shoulders. "Okay."

"And I just figured I should let you know in case um...you need uh...help with a case or something."

Catherine forced a smile. "I have a partner I'll be fine."

Vincent slowly nodded. "Right, well, I just wanted to let you know. It's not that far away it's just a small cabin that I bought for me and uh..."

"Vincent you don't have to explain, it's fine. I get that you need time to think." She forced a smile even though she knew the cabin was for him and Alex.

Vincent focred a small smile. "Right, well have a good day at work. I should be back around-"

"Vincent," Catherine said cutting him off. "It's fine. Take the time you need, you'll be back when you're back, I understand."

After Catherine arrived she walked into the precinct and walked over to her desk. "Hey." she told her partner as she sat down.

"You okay?" Tess asked noticing Catherine was some-what upset.

"What? Yeah, I'm fine." Catherine said taking a seat. "Any news on Eliza Flinn or anyone for that matter?"

Tess shook her head. "Nothing, it just seems like a constant dead end. Like we are no where even near the right path. I mean the man's neck was crushed and the only one who thinks he knows the answers is Evan. Speaking of Evan he is going nuts in the lab of his."

Catherine nodded. "I'm surpised he didn't move in down there." she joked. "But yeah as far as this case, I'm at a dead end of theories."

"I mean maybe Evan's right." Tess said leaning forward in her chair. "Like what if there is this monster in New York?"

Catherine gave her partner a weird look. "Really Tess?"

"Well look at this." Tess said pulling a photograph out of a folder. "Thats the man's neck."

Catherine made a disgusted face. "God."

"And this..." Tess said pulling out another photo. "Is a result of a bear attack."

"Oh god!" Catherine said looking at the picture.

"So unless there is some grizzly bear walking up and down the streets of New York...I don't understand. I mean look at this man's neck. It's flesh Cat, he is basically decapitated."

Catherine swallowed. She had a very hard time believing that Vincent was the one who caused that damage.

Tess put the photo's down on her desk. "Okay enough cases talk, what's wrong?"

Catherine forced a smile. "I told you there is nothing wrong."

"It's a guy." Tess said.

"Tess..." Catherine said.

Tess smiled. "Oh come on spill."

Catherine sighed. "Well there was this guy I was kinda into but it turns out he had feelings for someone else."

Tess made a sympathique face. "I'm sorry."

Catherine sighed. "And I think I sent him into a cabin in the woods with her." She partially lied. Yes she did send him into a cabin in the woods by saying she understood but the 'she' was dead so not really with her. But there was no doubt he was going to be constantly thinking about her his whole time up there.

"Girl's night?" Tess asked.

Catherine sighed.

"Come on it'll be fun. We'll go to a bar, get a couple drinks." Tess watched as Catherine looked down at her desk. "I'll buy..."

Catherine smiled. "Now how can I say no to that?"

Tess laughed. "Don't get used to it."

Now time to write the next chapter.

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