LAST CHAPTERS AND NEW BEGINNINGS (a castle fan fiction)

Last Chapters and New Beginnings is a fan fiction set on season 3 episodes 16 and 17, so on of TV-series Castle. If you want to find out how I changed the story please feel free to read it :D

Things about Castle´s past will be revealed and the relationship between Castle and Beckett will be explored.

PS I do not own Castle although I wished I did.

At the precinct

Castle made his way to Beckett with the usual coffees in his hands. He sees her talking on the phone which he immediately assumed that it was Josh she was speaking to. The smile he was wearing suddenly faded at his assumption. Josh and Beckett have been together for a while now and Castle had tried his best to not show how much it really bothered him. He had just broken up with Gina in the hope that maybe that would have meant anything to Kate but it seems like it didn´t. He didn't expect her to break up with Josh just like that even though he secretly hoped so but he just wished for something, anything to happen between them.

As Castle came closer to her desk he could see the less than happy face that of Kate Beckett as she hang up her phone and put it on her desk but as soon as she saw him only a meter away she did her best to put on a smile, but Castle didn't buy it for a second.

"Hey, everything ok?"

Castle said while handing her the cup of coffee.

"Yeah, everything´s fine"

Beckett replied.

They shared a brief moment of silence which was disrupted by the sound of Beckett´s phone.

"Beckett…. Okay we´ll be right there"

She said turning to Castle who knew what the call was about and just gave a simple nod as a respond. Beckett grabbed her coat and her cup of coffee she had yet to finish, and together with Castle they headed for the crime scene.

At the crime scene

The crime scene was literally out of nowhere and it smelled like a Beckett/ Castle murder from a mile away. Outside the warehouse a strange yellow cab was found, it looked like it had been stripped of its parts.

"What´s with the stripped cab?"

Beckett asked as she saw Esposito next to it.

"Security guard wondered about the same thing, until he came across a body"

Esposito said.

"Who´s our victim"

Beckett asked while giving a quick glance at the cab.

"Amir Arjabi, a taxi driver"

Esposito answered.

Castle and Beckett looked at the cab which was obviously missing a lot of parts, even the carpet was missing.

"Okay, contact auto theft and tell them to have a look out for these stolen car parts"

Beckett said to Esposito who had already done it.

With a last glance at the cab the three of them headed towards the body, by it stood Lanie examining a man that was probably once warm and alive.

By the corpse Lanie did her usual routine and told the detectives and the writer the time of death, cause of death and other necessary information for the case. By the information Castle and Beckett heard from Lanie and Esposito it seemed like a robbery gone wrong but at the same time wasn´t. One thing was although for sure, this case was definitely Castle and Beckett flavored.

At the precinct

"Amir Arjabi, a real immigrant success story, came from Syria and moved to the US a couple of years ago"

Ryan said while putting up the picture of a man in his late 30´s on the murder board.

Castle looked at Beckett briefly noticing that she was extremely distracted. Seeing her like this made him worry but also curious of what it is that seems to be bothering her.

Beckett felt his eyes on her and made eye contact and then looked at Ryan who apparently was also looking at her.

After a tense and somewhat awkward moment between the three she finally spoke up, telling Ryan check for witnesses, track down whomever he could have had contact with that night and all the usual stuff they do for every murder. While her and Castle go talk to Amir´s wife. Before they left Ryan also showed them a piece of paper with C4121652 written on it and obviously sparked some crazy Castle theories, at first he thinks that it´s a phone number which where C stood for the name to whom the number belonged to, but it wasn´t since Ryan had already tried that. Beckett called his name ordering him to catch up with her.

Flash forward

After following leads all day, Castle and Beckett were eventually led to a storage room rented by the victim where they found what appeared to be a bomb exposing them to high levels of radiation. And after Kate called for emergency services both were dragged to a room.

They sat there for what seemed to be hours and Castle wanted to talk but didn´t really know what to say but eventually he managed to get some words out.

"Umm, so how´s Josh?"

Just by saying his name made Castle´s heart ache.

"He´s on his way to Haiti"

She answered, seeing the surprise on Castle´s face.

Castle asked why and she told him everything before continuing saying.

"I just wish I had someone who would be there for me and I can be there for him, and we can just dive into it together"

Hearing these words made Castle want to tell her how much he cared for her and how much he wanted to be that guy. He could be the one for her. The guy, who gives her a goodnight kiss every night, makes her breakfast, tell her how beautiful she really is and hold her when she feels as though the world was going under. He loved her so much and in so many ways that he couldn´t possibly put it into words. At the same time he thought about these things he also thought about the fear of being rejected, what if she didn´t feel the same way, what if it's a risk not worth taking.

He had guarded his heart for so long since that awful day. The day that changed his life forever, after that day he began involving himself in relationships he knew wouldn´t last, Meredith, Gina. But had always been waiting for someone real to come into his life again, not to replace the life of the love that he lost a long time ago but so that he can write the last chapter of that life and finally begin a new one which has a happy ending.

The day Castle met Kate he knew that she was the one he had patiently been waiting for all this time, he got to know her better, her weaknesses, her strengths but most of all her story. After spending years working with her he felt somehow whole again, the void in his heart was starting to heal. So many chances he had missed to tell her his feelings because of fear of rejection, well that and other factors like Demming and now Josh.

Thinking about all those chances Castle looked at Kate for a brief moment before returning back into his thoughts.

No more lost chances, no more missed moments. She is a risk worth taking. I want her to be happy. He told himself.

Castle looked at Kate again making eye contact and as he was about to speak he was annoyingly interrupted by a member of the emergency team letting them know that it was safe for them to go. Kate started to walk away and that´s when he knew that he had missed another chance but still the next time he gets another shot, he had already decided to dive into it and say what he truly feels no matter the consequences.

As they were about to exit the room where they had been stuck in for hours they were surprised to see Captain Montgomery approaching.

He told them about the situation about how this may not be a false alarm and that an agent from homeland security was at the precinct waiting for them to come back so that he can explain what was going on more accurately. Later on all three in a hurry made their way to the precinct.

At the precinct

"Hey, guys. So glad you´re okay"

Ryan and Esposito said in unison, one could see the sign of relief in their faces.

"Close one though"

Castle said not only about the "bomb" they found but also about the other thing.

"Anyway, Captain told us that an agent from homeland was going to debrief us, you guys know where he is?"

Beckett asked.

"He should be here at anytime now, a fair warning though he´s very… how do you say it, by the book"

Esposito answered with a sigh.

"Well, I just hope he´s not an ass"

Castle said giving a small chuckle but immediately stopped when he heard a voice behind him. A voice he knew all too well.

"Well, I hope not. Alex"

Esposito, Ryan and Beckett stared at the man standing behind Castle with puzzled looks mostly wondering about who this Alex is.

Castle turned around rapidly after his real middle name was called.

"Mark?"

Castle said with shock and confusion painted on his face.

TO BE CONTINUED

Chapter 2 will be up tomorrow :D