He tries to push her out of the way but his too late the bulet has gone into her chest when his on the ground her eyes are close to closing.
On his knees he rushes to her he picks her up and holds him close to him, he can feel her heavy breathing against his neck.
"Stay with me" He pleads but it's not enough he doesn't feel her breath against his neck.
Rick picks up Kate and walks out of the warehouse were Epso and Ryan are.
"Helps on it's way bro" Epso tells him.
The tears drip down his cheek.
"She's gone" He whispers.
The boys try to hold back their own tears when their friend starts to break down and hold his wife dead body to his.
Later that day Lanie knocks at his door with tears of her own.
"I wanted to give you this" Lanie opens his hand and places her wedding ring he closes his hand and walks away and calls the study door behind him.
He grabs a glass from the dark cart and pours himself a drink he can't look at the ice cubes at the moment.
He finishes his fourth drink while walking into his lounge room and pulls open a drawer he has heaps of DVDs labeled Kate on them.
The first one he puts in is her singing blue eyes.
"I love you Babe" She finishes on the DVD he pauses the DVD on her smile and then leaves the room to go to their bedroom.
It smells of her still and the bed is not made Rick lays on her side and hugs her pillow that smelled like her and couldn't help but think that this morning she was breathing and fine. It brings him back to this morning.
He wakes up before her he strokes her soft curly hair Kate wakes up a couple of minutes after him.
She looks up to see him grinning.
"What are you grinning about?" Kate asked him.
"Just how perfect my life,my wife is a cop" He starts and she rolls her eyes.
"I very beautiful cop,I have a perfect daughter,a wonderful mother and great friends"
Kate press a kiss to his lips.
"Your so cute when your sappy" she tells him he smiles and rolls her so his on top of her she giggles a little and little did he know this would be the last time he would make love to his love.
When Alexis was little he used to read her fairy tales with happy endings and he would wonder where his happy ending.
He thought this morning he had his happy ending but he lost that happy ending. His beautiful wife was dead,Alexis was too scared to go near him,His mother was looking after Alexis and his friends well I guess he still had them.
Happy endings are for fools.
This is life now how he falls to sleep with the help of a drink not her warm body cuddled up to him.
He feels himself wrapped up in sheets on his back he hears the front door lock. Alexis is at a spa with her grandma trying to recover.
What if his woke up in the future and his moved on to someone new. He hears the door open and pretends to be sleep while thinking up a plan.
The person runs their fingers through his hair it feels so familiar and then kisses his temple.
His eyes open as soon as the person goes into the bathroom to change.
They have keys to his place and they kissed him. Oh this is more serious then he thought.
Rick goes back to sleep and hears the mystery woman enter his bed. He opens his eyes in the dark it looks like Kate but can't be cause she's dead.
He grabs his phone of the bedside table and turns on the flashlight only to see in the light it is Kate.
She groans and opens her eyes.
"Babe what are you doing?"
"Kate,how?"
"How what?"
"Are you alive"
"Castle what are you talking about?"
"I had this dream you see, that you had died so when I woke up I thought I woke up in the future and had moved on"
"What did I tell you about sugar before bed Castle, it gives you weird dreams" she turns over and goes back to sleep.