Going forward from Target and Hunt, but with a twist.
Castle is hurt trying to safe Alexis. Kate is still in New York and can't get a hold of him.
Taken Down
When Castle is brought to the mansion where Volkov is keeping Alexis hostage he is happy to see his daughter, Little does he know that his father, Jackson Hunt, is keeping an eye out for him. He followed his son over the past years. He knew he had a son, and he also knew Alexis was his grandfather. Jackson told him to get Alexis out, but when Castle got caught the plan failed. At least that was the plan. Volkov needed to think Castle failed, or in this case, Hunt had failed. But that wasn't true. Hunt set up a plan to keep Alexis and Castle safe, but little does he know, Volkov had a back-up plan as well. The plan was that the walkie-talkie exploded, but Volkov knows Hunt better than that and lets one of his men do the talking. At that point, the walkie-talkie blew up right in the face of the man who was talking for Volkov to Hunt. Leaving Volkov to shoot Castle, right in the eyes of his daughter. "Dad? Dad!" Alexis screamed, but she was stuck in a cage and couldn't do anything. Volkov opened the cage and told Alexis to walk. He was taking her away and leaves Castle to die. "Dad?!" Tears streaming down her face, resisting to Volkov. Castle was down and Alexis disappeared again. Volkov and his men leave the mansion and go down South. The plan is to cross the French border so they could enter Spain and leave a dead trail at that end.
"Rick? Rick?" Hunt sat next to his son, on the ground, holding him in his arms. "You can't die you hear me?" Hunt looked like a big man who could overcome anything, but the death of his son would kill him. He holds pressure on the wound while he calls for an ambulance. Than, he grabs Castle's phone and searches the number of Kate. He had followed them so he knew they were dating.
He loved a person once too, and he thought it was the right thing to do to let the person Castle loves know he's hurt.
"Castle? Are you okay?" Kate asks straight away when she picks up the phone. She was standing in the precinct alongside Espo and Ryan who looked worried. "Castle?" Her face had a worried look too, because the person on the other end of the line wasn't answering her back. "It's not Castle." They kept quiet for a moment. You could hear a pin drop. "Kate?" Espo asked, but she stood still. "Who is this?" she said a few minutes later. "I can't tell you who I am, but I can tell you you can trust me."
"Trust you? Why would I do that? Where's Castle?"
"He is.. He's been shot." Hunt thought it would be better to come forward straight away. Kate was a cop so she could handle it. "What? Shot? When?" Shocked by the news, she sat down. She sat down so hard the chair was about to pass out. "Whoa, Kate, you okay?" Ryan asked when he lend her a hand to sit straight and not fall off at the side. "Look, you need to come to Paris, I will explain everything to you there." As soon as he finished that sentence, he hung up. He left Kate stranded. She had a staring look in her face. She just stared. No word came out of her mouth. She was just sitting there, with the phone still in here hand. "Kate?" Ryan asked. "I need to go to Paris." Espo and Ryan look at each other. "You need what? Paris? Kate, why?" As soon as the word Paris came up, Gates walked in to the room. She looked at Kate and she knew it wasn't good. She knew about Castle and Kate. She had to be an idiot not too. "Beckett?" Kate looked up at her boss. "Everything okay?' Kate shook here head, got up and walked out of the precinct without saying a word.