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Spoilers if you haven't seen through episode 2:13 Sucker Punch

Kate's Double Sucker Punch

by Tanas Bartowski

Dick Coonan was enraged, he saw blood, figuratively and literally. The asshole broke my nose, he thought, as the finger he touched to his nose became stained red. With a deafening blast, the gun went off. A spay of scarlet draped the squad room around where Castle had been standing, he had been hit. Kate fired back at Coonan as he charged at Castle, but was a moment to late.

She felt the shock to her system as he collapsed. Dropping to her knees, Kate mustered her body to inch forward, it disagreed. A sickness in her gut arose inside her when she saw Castle, blood was outlined around his lips. If it had been a different moment, he would have joked about it. The bullet took his breath away. Castle took a large gasp of air, the bullet had entered his lung. Blood pooled inside, finding any orifice to fill. Kate ripped off her shirt, not caring about modesty only about the man who lay dying on the ground before her, and placed it on his wound. She pressed down firmly on his wound, he winched. He looked at her with his now bloodshot eyes.

"Castle...I."

Castle took another gasp of air, "Kate...I...screwed...up...I..."

Kate smiled at him, sadly. "Shut up."

He bared his teeth at her, hoping to smile. "I..."

"Castle!"

Castle's body fell limp.

"Castle, Castle!" Kate checked for a pulse, it was faint, but existed.

Kate glanced over briefly at the man who had caused her so much pain. Dick Coonan was lying lifeless only six feet from her. She had just relocated what had happened. He shot Castle, and she got her revenge. Her mother would be proud of her, where ever she was now. Kate began to weep.

A gasp for life, stir Kate from her thoughts. Castle had regained consciousness, blood trickled down his mouth.

"Kate..." Castle sighed, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Don't you...cry...for me...I don't...deserve your...com...passion...I'm...just...a...man...in...lo..."

"Castle, I told you to shut up," Kate smiled as she replied.

Castle shut his eyes, dropping his hand from Kate's cheek. His body lie still once again.

"Castle, no Castle, no. Don't you do this, don't you die on me."

Kate pushed on his chest, counting slowly to herself. She leaned in and gave him the first last kiss she would ever give him, the kiss of life. She breathed into him, he wouldn't respond. She continued to push on his chest, over and over again, until a hand was clasped on her shoulder.

"Kate, that's enough, stop." Montgomery voiced.

She couldn't stop, she couldn't. He would be gone if she stopped, Richard Castle would be dead.