BB The Silent One

Chapter 1: Awakening

Pairing: Catherine/Vincent/Beast

Genre: Angst, Ship, Hurt/Comfort

Rating: R

Warning: Language/Mental Mayhem/Violence

Spoiler Alert: Season 1 Ep 1-7

Summary: The Beast within Vincent only knows loneliness because even the man he is trapped inside does not know he exists…for now.

A/N: I started this with a feeling that Vincent has another self within who might want to come out and play. What better predator to play with a beast than a confident cop.

He came to himself aware that he was in darkness. He struggled and was not even able to open his eyes. He screamed and yelled, but no sound left his lips.

Confusion. Panic. Fear.

The sensation of being lifted by careless unkind hands took over his senses in the abyss.

Voices in the distance started to get closer, but the sounds did not mean anything. He felt himself drop onto cold metal. His head banged and instantly he knew his body was being strapped down in the cool room.

Convulsions. Pain. Frustration.

Of their own accord, his eyes started to open. Piercing pain seemed to lance his eyes with their brightness sending shocks of pain into his head. A throbbing sensation in his spine seemed to spread out as the convulsion ceased.

Lights and forms flashed over his head.

He became acutely aware that the skin on the tips of his fingers were cut as it felt as if something under this skin inside his fingers slid outward. He fought again to move or close his eyes to the pain. Nothing seemed to work.

Concentration. Perseverance. Fortitude.

Darkness and silence gripped him again ripping him out of consciousness farther down into the abyss. Passage of time had no meaning as there was nothing to use to mark it.

No light, no sound…no physical senses.

He returned to himself again with a thunder of adrenalin. It was as if he were peering out of someone else's eyes. The intensity of sound coming from all sides and light that flashed around him sent every self preservation instinct into high alert.

His mouth was moving and sounds were yelled. It was a voice unknown to him.

He became immediately aware of every movement of his body and the fact that he was in a flat out run headed toward a barrier. Explosions and fire surrounded him as he dove for safety cutting and scratching his skin.

He had no control over the unfamiliar body he was inside. His body moved toward another man who was wearing camouflage. The man was wounded and trapped under a large slab of concrete amongst the rubble.

He felt his hands grip and pull, but it didn't move. He wanted to look around to see where he was, but his eyes only focused on the man on the ground.

He recognized and didn't recognize the man at the same time. It was as if somewhere next to him that memories were being played like a movie. He felt that he should be concerned for the man as if someone else was conveying it to him. He saw flashes of images of the man laughing and smiling under happier circumstances.

He then concentrated again to try to use his arms and yelled out even though sound did not leave his mouth again. The weight did not move. The man was dying.

He put more force and effort into it as he felt his hands start to grip again. The images that flashed were those of the man potentially dying.

He growled out his frustration and energy that caused a tremor in his spine and a buildup of pressure in his eyes. The growl escaped his lips and exploded in his ears like a detonation as it turned into a roar.

Instantly, energy coursed through him that seemed to merge with the body he was in, and the heavy concrete lifted as if it weighed nothing. It flew into the air. He let go of the intensity of his concentration, and he no longer felt the connection to his body.

Hours later, he listened to sounds that he was making with his mouth and was able to feel close to him what the sounds meant. He listened to the other men and women talking and started to understand what each word meant.

Eventually, he listened to himself talking with his comrades in arms about his ability to activate within himself that part that gave him a burst of energy. He knew that the words he was saying was describing him. He was that part of the body allowing it. He had willed it to happen by concentrating.

They called him by a name. At first, he thought it was killer, but knew now it was Keller.

He heard his mouth say. "Damn. It was like some type of beast took over me. Hell. It was like being possessed."

Another man who was sitting at the table getting his wounds tended to shook his head up and down. He felt the understanding enter his consciousness to know that it meant an agreement.

The man glanced at him and spoke again when the nurse was done bandaging the wound. "Yeah. Since that first time, it seems like it's easier to activate when I'm in life and death situations. It happens faster, and I get more energy for longer periods of time. Feels like being a god."

The nurse smiled. "Hercules. Hu?"

The men chuckled and continued to talk, but he was no longer paying attention.

He thought about the words that his body spoke knowing now that he was trapped inside of another's body with no hope of escape.

Over the next few months, Beast was able to push his energy into Vincent Keller when he was in danger. It was becoming easier and easier to transfer the energy that was strength. Beast was even able to now push his sensitive hearing abilities into Vincent. In hand to hand combat with the enemy, Beast was even able to force out his claws to shred the man apart.

Eventually, Beast pushed back panic with the hope that one day he would be able to communicate some other way then growling on occasion. The thought seamed to calm him a little. He was resigned to his existence of silence for now.

He was the Beast.

A/N: I watched the first ep and thought about the Beast being his own self. I watched ep 7 with the blackouts and knew that he could be his own entity. And for anyone who uses Livejournal, I have started a fandom community for BATB called BeautyBeastFans. Come on over and join! I am in the middle of making icons right now for Season 1 Ep1. :) I just love this show!