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Her green eyes slowly glazed over. The figure stood, in the cold, dark night, silently watching the body that lay before him, sprawled across a small alleyway
The figure stood, in a trance, staring at the woman. A look of disbelief shot to his face but was quickly wiped off. Nothing else seemed to matter at that point. The city traffic noises, not too far away couldn't provide a distraction to the state of the figure. Cars rushing by, honking horns yet the figure did not move.
His eyes were full of envy, hatred and strangely, desire. Like ice they pierced the scene of crime, boring holes through anything and everything.
The figure's watch beeped, signaling his time to go. A quick note was left before his footsteps broke the silence in the alleyway.
Beckett's eyes roamed around the room for any sign of an attacker.
"Clear" She said, and lowered her weapon.
"Hey Castle, can you check those draws please?" she paused waiting for Castle to move out from behind her, "Castle?" She whipped her head around to find Castle not behind her but on the floor bleeding.
"Castle! No this can't be happening," her screams filled the apartment they were searching.
Respo quickly came to Beckett's aid, shocked at what they saw. The quiet shrill of a phone started but no-one answered. The noise became louder and louder…
The ringing of her phone woke her up. She sighed thankful it was only a dream and quickly answered her phone.
"Beckett" She answered in a slightly annoyed tone.
"We have a body," Esposito said into the phone, "and it's a weird one."
"It's 4am, did you think it would be normal?" She replied sarcastically.
"Actually boss, it's creepier on a visual level than weird." Ryan piped up, obviously with his partner at the scene.
"Alright, where is it?" Beckett asked.
"Alleyway off 24th" The two said in unison.
"Now that's weird. See you in 20 boys." She ended the call and immediately began a new one to Castle.
Three rings and he picked up the phone.
"Hey Castle, we got a murder, it's weird and creepy. In an alleyway off 24th, you wanna come or have your beauty sleep?"
"Detective Beckett, hello to you too," he replied groggily, "I'll be there. It's New York, I know murder never sleeps. See you soon."
The phone beeped to say the call had ended and Beckett put it back down and went to get ready to leave.
Detective Kate Beckett crossed the yellow tape into the crime scene once again, still feeling the pain of her mother's murder, with Castle hot on her heels.
"I wonder how weird it's going to-." He stopped as they reached the body. His expression turned from mild excitement to absolute horror. The body before him looked very similar to the woman standing next to him. He did a double take just to make sure she really was still standing there.
"Huh. Guess, uh... that answers my question," For once, the writer was short for words.
"Alright, Lanie what do we have here?" Beckett crouched down beside Lanie to get a better look.
"Apart from looking creepily like you, our vic here suffered from one GSW to the chest and several knife wounds to the lower abdominal region." Lanie pointed to some markings on the body.
"She looks like she put up a fight" Castle pointed out.
"Mmhmm, these are defensive bruises, but I'll be able to find out more once I get her back to the lab." Lanie said.
"Anything else we know about her?" Beckett's face became more curious.
"There was no wallet or id on her but all her jewellery is still here, so it's not a robbery gone wrong. The lab's running down her prints now. The boys should be back soon with results."
"Thanks Lanie." She got up and started to leave.
"Hold on, Detective. What's the note in her hand?" Castle put on some gloves and pried the girl's hand open and grabbed the note. He started to read aloud...
"To, my dearest Detectives & tag-a-long friend...
An icy night and a murder to match.
Have fun with this one...
I'll see you sooner than you think."
"Get that to the lab as well, run it for prints or traces of anything we can use as a lead," Beckett turned and walked to the car as the boys turned up with results from the lab.
"The vic's name is Brianna Masterson, she is 22 and works at the Café across the road. Her parents are Alex and Steve, they don't live too far from here and she has a younger brother. " Esposito read off the sheet in front of him.
"Ok, that's a start. Get CSU to canvas the area for any of her items seeing as they aren't on her body, Ryan, you and Esposito can ask around at the Café, while Castle and I head to the vic's house." She wrote down the address and headed back to the car with Castle in tow.
Next was the hardest part, telling the family.
A/N: First story, be nice. Constructive criticism appreciated. I like smiley faces.
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