It had been a month since they had laid all their cards on the table. A month since they took the weight of their secrets of their shoulders. A month since they told each other how they really felt. A month since they had finally been together. It was the best month of either of their lives.
"Kate?" She hears in her sleeping state. She flutters her eyes open to see her Castle standing in front of her with 2 cups of hot, steaming coffee in his hands.
"There are those beautiful brown eyes I love", he says along with a good morning smile. She smiles back a sweet, flowy smile. Then she turns her head to the digital clock on Castle's antique, blue nightstand. 5:02am, the clock read.
"So, what's the reason for waking me up so early?" She questions, still smiling.
"We got a murder! He replies, oh too happily as he thrusts the second cup of coffee out to her. He kisses her forehead.
"Get dressed, my love"
As the duo arrived at the crime scene, the sun was just peeking over the tall, city buildings. Gorgeous reds, yellows, oranges, and pinks mixed together in the morning sky. They walked arm in arm to the ally, breathing in the smell of the sweet, spring morning air. Alas bringing them back to the land of death and killing, they catch sight of the mangled body, sprawled out on the ally floor. The body had 3 bloody slices across his body, one on his knees, another across his chest, and the one that finished him of, a slit across his throat. His ear was sliced of and appeared to be missing and blood pooled around him. Kate catches sight of the body and a wave of nausea washes over her, something that has never happened to her before, upon seeing a body, no matter how distorted. The feeling subsides quickly, so she shakes it off.
"Are you ok?" Castle asks after catching a glance of the strange look on his baby's face. He could always tell when something was wrong. That was one of the things that she loved about him, but also one of the things about him that got on her nerves. She could never mask her feelings from him.
"Oh, yeah, just a little tired", she lies, trying to smile a smile that says she isn't, but she knows it comes off crooked and awkward.
"I didn't really lie anyway. I am kind of tired and it is nothing… right?" She thinks. But really…hopes.
"What's the time of death?" she stutters to Lanie, trying to get off the topic off her strangeness. Lanie gives her friend a questioning look before answering her question.
"The distance of the blood pool and the amount of drying of the wounds puts the time of death between 12:00am-3:00am. Ryan is questioning possible witnesses right now, and espo is looking for traces of the murder weapon /which, judging by the depth and angle of the incisions is most likely a knife of some kind. Also, as you can tell, his ear was sliced off and is missing that might mean something…"
"Maybe the CIA stole his ear to use to clone him, because he is some super human!" Castle interjects, crazily. Kate thinks he joking, at least mostly, but she never knows for sure.
"Yeah, I'm sure that's the case, even if it was, why his ear?" Lanie teases.
"Maybe he had super hearing", castle concludes.
"Yeah ok, anyway when I get back to the lab I can narrow down the field of possible knives, and checks for DNA or finger prints."
"No need for the DNA test", Castle observes, as he points to the leather wallet and driver's license strewn a way down in the ally.