Title: Don't Let Go
Author: CRene
Rating: T
Summary: After an accident, Detective Kate Beckett has to start over, will her past come back to haunt her or will Rick save her from herself?
*Notes* I am starting another story which is now the third one here on . I must be crazy or so full of Castle stories that I can't stop because if I don't get these written they will bug me for days. This story takes place after Season 4 Episode 9 (Kill Shot), but anything after that has not taken place.
Prologue:
Detective Kate Beckett stood in the middle of the empty warehouse with her gun drawn. Looking around the warehouse she couldn't see anything except her partner, Castle, on the other side of the warehouse.
"Nothing," Castle whispered shrugging his shoulders looking over at Beckett.
"Damn it," Beckett stated walking towards the exit. "Where are they?"
The partners located the warehouse realizing it was the last known address the suspects had bought several months ago. A child was missing, a mother dead, and two suspects were nowhere to be found.
"Castle, come on," Beckett shouted as she exited the door onto the parking lot.
Beckett walked towards the standard issued Crown Victoria as her cell phone rang. Castle exited the building seconds later and caught movement on the right side of the building. He looked over to Beckett on her cell phone then over to the where he had seen the movement. A black Escalade that was empty when they arrived at the scene earlier was now barreling down the parking lot towards his partner.
"Kate!" Castle screamed knowing there wasn't enough time.
Beckett turned her body as soon as she heard Castle she dropped her cell phone and pulled out her gun firing a shot before she jumped out of the way of the vehicle. Yet it wasn't fast enough, the driver's side hit her sending her flying back towards the Crown Victoria and hitting the ground with a thud.
Castle ran towards Kate, the woman who held his heart. Suddenly he flashed to another moment months ago when she was shot in the chest at Captain Montgomery's funeral. He held her in his arms watching her slip away from him that day. His heart began to break once again watching the woman he love hurt.
"Kate," Rick said picking her head up off the ground. He instantly felt the sticky substance on his hands and realized it was blood-her blood. "Oh god, Kate, wake up."
Castle grabbed his phone from the inside of his jacket dialing 911. After telling the operator the address of the warehouse, he swept her auburn hair out of her face and noticed her eyes fluttering for a moment.
"Kate, come back to me," he pleaded. "Don't leave me again. I can't lose you."
"I heard you," she mumbled putting her hand up to his cheek. "I love you, too."
In an instant her eyes closed and her body went limp in his arms. The moment he had waited for had just happened, to hear Kate admit that she had loved him and now she was gone.
"No," he screamed looking up and his heart was breaking losing the only woman he had only truly loved.
