**I DO NOT OWN THIS SHOW OR THE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW, I AM JUST BORROWING THEM**

-Gabe's Apartment-

"Cat, calm down! We'll find him. I mean how do you know that he was even kidnapped? For all you know he left town and some hobo broke in and trashed the place looking for something valuable."

"Your seriously wanting me to believe that? Tess, I know something is wrong! I just have this feeling that I can't shake that something bad has happened to him."

"Alright. But I think you need to take 5 to help clear your head. We will keep looking. I'm sure Vincent will find him if we can't. The guy has been tracking whoever did this, and if he found anything, Vincent would call."

"I guess I could go long enough to get a coffee. I'll be back. Let me know if you find anything, or Gabe."

"Sure."

-The Walk-

As Catherine made her way to her car, a flashback of the dungeon ran through her mind. "Oh, no! Gabe!" She quickly jumps into her car, and calls Tess. "Tess, I think I know where Gabe is….I think he's at the dungeon with Sam."

Catherine hangs up the phone and guns her way onto the road towards the dungeon. "Come on dammit! Pick up!" she said as she tried to get a hold of Vincent. Still no answer.

-Dungeon-

"Vincent…..Vincent wake up!"

"Huh?...Wh..What?"

"Vincent I need you to get up. You need to get out of here and warn Catherine that Sam is going to try to kill her. And anybody that gets in the way."

"What's going on? Where is Sam?"

"He left briefly but he will be back….look you have got to go! Sam, he…..he injected me with the serum JT made and he wants me to kill anybody trying to stop him. Please! Get out of here while you can."

"Gabe I am not leaving you here. Catherine would never forgive me and I wouldn't be able to forgive myself neither. Come on."

"Go…he's coming!"

Footsteps came closer and closer…louder and louder…then they stopped. Vincent senses exactly who it is instantly. Catherine. He heard her heart race in fear. He looked at Gabe and noticed he was changing. "Gabe you need to calm down, let me get her out of here."

"DO IT NOW!"

Vincent tries but sees his leg has been chained.

"Gabe? Its me…Catherine. Are you in here?"

A beastly growl came from the shadows. "Get away from me!"

"Gabe?! Is that you?"

"I said GET AWAY FROM ME!" Gabe lunges at Catherine with a roar while Vincent breaks the chain and grabs Gabe and slings him against the wall. Vincent lets out a growl, then says to a stunned Catherine in a beastly tone, "Go!" Catherine stands there in shock. Not able to move.

Gabe gets back up and runs towards Vincent. He grabs him and throws him at Catherine knocking her into the concrete wall, and causing her to go unconscious. Vincent gets back up, grabs Catherine, and supercharges out of the dungeon to get her to safety.

Gabe snaps back into his human form, tears running down his face.

"I see our guests came sooner than I thought."

"How could you do this to me? I would rather die than to live this way…to be beast."

"Your going to be very useful to me. And your going to kill Catherine…..and her beast."

"I won't do it. I'll let him kill me first before doing anything to satisfy you."

"Oh but I think that is where you are wrong, my friend. No need in explaining how it works to you since you were beast before."

"I promise you Sam, when I get out of here I will kill you….you hear me?!"

"I'm looking forward to it. Be back soon."

-House Boat-

Catherine wakes up to Vincent rubbing a cold rag on her head. "You okay?"

"I'm fine. It's just my head hurts a little." She tries to sit up but Vincent intrudes and lays her back down. "I have to try to help Gabe."

"The only person you need to worry about is yourself Catherine. I'll deal with Gabe. Just promise me you will stay here and rest. You hit your head pretty hard."

"But…."

"Please Catherine. I can take care of this. In the meantime you need to rest and stay safe."

"Fine."

"Thank you!"

Vincent gets ready to head down the stairs of the house boat when Catherine calls him back. He sits on the bed next to Catherine. She grabs his hand drawing hearts on it with her finger. "I want to say that I am sorry for how I have been acting since we….since we kissed. I told you that I was still in love with you, and I meant that, but I haven't really been showing much interest in us working on our relationship. With Gabe being kidnapped and all I just…"

"You don't have to explain. I get it. I understand that even though you and Gabe broke up that you still care. That's what I love so much about you. You try to help everybody in their dark moments. It's what makes you so amazing as a person, and as my girlfriend."

Catherine looks down with a slight grin. "Girlfriend, huh?"

"Only if you want to be?"

Catherine looks up at Vincent. They both stared into each others eyes. Catherine scooted closer to Vincent on the bed and kissed him on the forehead. "I would be honored to be your girlfriend…only on one condition."

"What's that?"

"You have to agree to be my boyfriend too." Both let out a laugh.

"Now you need to lay down and rest. I'll be back." Catherine grabs Vincent by the wrist as he got up off of the bed. She pulls him back down onto the bed next to her. "Please stay. We can work on finding Gabe tomorrow. Just stay with me."

"We?"

"Okay fine. You can work on finding Gabe tomorrow, but tonight I want you to stay here with me."

Vincent laid down next to Catherine and began kissing her. Their kiss deepens as it had always done. Intense breathing and slight moans came from them both. Clothing thrown all over the room. Catherine clawing at Vincent's back which had sent out of him a beastly growl. The kisses got even more intense. Vincent's beast was longing to come out. He knew he could not last much longer without turning beast, yet they kept going anyways. Vincent placed both hands on her hips, picked her up, and sat down sitting her right on top of him. A climax was near and they both knew it. They both let out a huge sigh of release, both still breathing heavily. Vincent looked into Catherine's eyes and Catherine's into his. Both in love with the fire they saw burn in each other….both in love with each other.

…to be continued