Note: Thanks for all your reviews and support I really appreciate it! Here is Chapter 56! *ALSO IMPORTANT NOTICE: I changed Eliza Flinn's name to Nikki Flinn. I was reading some other stories and I came across another character named Eliza and I didn't want to cause any problems or anything so from now on Eliza Flinn is Nikki Flinn. I also wanted to apologize to the author of that story. So incase you forgot Nikki (Eliza) is the New York General ER manager. A few chapters back Catherine and Tess went to her apartment to ask her questions about Alex's medication stash and Nikki just flipped out. Really sorry for any confusion and once again I would like to apologize to the author that had a character named Eliza. Thanks for your cooperation and sorry for any confusions.

I DO NOT OWN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Chapter 56

"Don't move or I'll shoot!"

Catherine turned towards the woman in the doorway. "Nikki?!"

"You're moving!" Nikki said pointing her gun at Catherine.

Catherine put both of her hands up in the air. "Nikki drop the gun."

"You're still moving!" Nikki yelled even louder.

"Nikki, listen to me, killing me won't get you anywhere..."

Nikki took a deep breath. "Drop your gun."

"Nikki..." Catherine said taking a step forward.

"I will shoot you!" Nikki yelled as she put her finger on the trigger. "Drop the gun or I will shoot you!"

Catherine did as she was told and bent down to place her gun on the ground as Nikki followed Catherine's every motion with her gun.

She slowly got back up to her feet as she put her hands a bit higher than her head. "Listen to me."

"Shut up!" Nikki yelled as sweat dripped down her forehead.

Catherine swallowed. "Nikki..."

"I said shut up you whore!"

Catherine lowered her hands down to her side and took a deep breath.

"This is all your fault!" Nikki stared out. "If you didn't shoot her, she would still be alive! Now you must die too!"

Catherine sighed and looked at Nikki. "Alex...she got herself wrapped up in some pretty dark stuff Nikki..."

"You didn't even know her!" Nikki shouted.

"Then how about you tell me about her." Catherine said in a calm voice. "Why don't we talk about it?"

"You don't deserve to talk!" Nikki shouted as she took a step forward towards Catherine. "You killed her." She whispered.

"Nikki, put your gun down." Catherine said as she saw tears form in her eyes. "Come on."

Nikki didn't say a word she just continued to cry.

"Come on Nikki, hand me the gun." Catherine said holding out her hand. "Just give me the gun."

Nikki looked away from Catherine but continued to point it level to her chest.

"Nikki..." Catherine whispered.

Nikki cried louder as her grip loosened from the weapon. She let go of the gun with both hands and then covered her face with her hands as she fell down to the couch.

Catherine cought the gun as it fell from her hands and quickly un-loaded it before sitting down next to Nikki Flinn.

"I-I'm s-s-orry." Nikki said between her fingers.

Catherine put the gun on the coffee table. "It's okay..." she said. Even though it was a lie and Nikki would probably go to jail for theatening to shoot an officer, that wasn't really on her mind. "It's okay Nikki, I know how hard it is to loose someone you care about."

"You killed her." Nikki whispered.

Catherine sighed. "I know, but if I didn't she would've killed others."

"You don't know that." Nikki cried.

Catherine slowly nodded. "Unfortunately I do. And thats my job, I have to protect people from harm."

"She's dead...she never would've killed anybody. Ever." Nikki cried harder.

"I'm sorry Nikki, I truely am." Catherine said.

"Why did she want to kill people? She was such a sweet girl! That heart could never kill anyone!"

"People do weird things Nikki, some people just don't think straight. It's a tough world full of tough people."

Nikki sniffled. "Who was she going to kill? Why was she going to kill someone?"

Catherine sighed. "I can't tell you, I'm sorry. That's classified information. But I will say, sometimes people don't mean to do things, they don't want to do things, but...they do it anyway."

"I didn't want to kill you." Nikki whispered.

Catherine nodded. "You see that's my point. Maybe Alex didn't want to kill anybody, but she was gunna do it anyway."

Nikki swallowed and sat up straight. "Are you going to arrest me?"

Catherine sighed, "That's not my main focus right now."

Nikki sniffled once more. "That wasn't a no."

"Nikki..." Catherine started out. "I want you to just relax okay? But I will need you to stay here while I search the apartment."

"Search?" Nikki asked. "Search for what?"

"Like I mentioned earlier Alex was stealing medicine and equipment from the hospital."

"I-I don't understand, Alex would never do such a thing."

"I'm sorry Nikki I really am but she did. And right now we are trying to find out why."

"I-" Nikki started out but then quickly stopped herself.

Catherine gave Nikki a confused look. "What is it?"

"I might- I might know."

"What do you know? I could use as much help as I can get."

"She had a boyfriend, a few years ago. I knew him, excellent doctor, very caring, nice, nice man. Couldn't ask for a better ER doctor."

"And?" Catherine asked.

"He lost his brothers. In 9-11. It was horrible seeing him go through so much pain. He eventually left for the military and passed away. Alex she was...she was depressed. I would find her crying in empty rooms during the night shifts, it was so painful so see Dr. Keller and then Dr. Salter go through it. You may not know this but they were engaged. Such a cute couple. They just seemed to have that connection you know? Like you could just look at them both for a second and you could just tell how much they loved each other. It was really quite something. When Alex found out that Dr. Keller had in fact died in combat she was so mentally unstable. I would actually have to send her home at some points."

Catherine nodded. "So you think she got addicted to the drugs?"

Nikki shrugged. "I have no idea. All I knew was that medicine and some equipment was disappearing."

"And you didn't talk to anybody about it? No other employees?"

Nikki sighed. "I did talk to some of the doctors but nobody knew a thing."

"Did any employee's have a history with drugs?"

Nikki swallowed. "Only Dr. Keller, but he was clean I swear! We tested all the employee's none of them had drugs in their systems. Yes, Dr. Keller used to have a drug addiction but when we tested everyone he passed with flying colors. I can print it out and-"

"Nikki when did Dr. Keller leave for the military?" Catherine asked even thought she already knew.

"Right after his brothers died in 2001." Nikki replied.

Catherine took a deep breath. "You said that you tested all of these employee's right after the missing medicine was filed right?"

Nikki nodded. "That's correct."

"The medicine wasn't reported missing until a just a couple years ago, it was left un-solved."

Nikki nodded once more. "Yes, because all of our employee's where clean."

"Nikki..." Catherine started out. "You just said that the medicine was filed missing after Keller left for Afghanistan. So how could you have tested him while he was in combat."

"The-the military, they told us he was clean." Nikki paused. "Why you think he's responsible?!"

Catherine sighed. "We found the missing drugs at Alex's apartment. Which means clearly she was the one taking them. But you say that you tested all of the employee's after Keller's death because thats when it started disappearing. Keller was already filed dead before the medicine was even stolen."

Nikki began to breath heavily and Catherine could tell she was struggling to calm herself. "Y-yes I'm sorry it's all just, so much has happened and-."

"It's okay, I understand..." Catherine lied. "However, can you please print out the testing records and bring them by to the local precicnt tomorrow, say around noon?"

Nikki nodded. "Absolutely."

What do you guys think? Do you guys trust Nikki?