These series of stories will deal with the aftermath of Richard Castle having to been critically injured by Adam Lane. Please be advise in what happens with the first story for when Castle is released from the hospital three weeks later, and is placed in a rehab center an hour away from his wife Kate and friends.
Chapter one SHADOWS OF MY MIND
Castle having been in the Jamieson Rehab nursing home, placed by his wife and family, since he was not ready to come home, and live a normal life at this time.
Richard Castle, was no longer the person that you knew for the past 47 years of his life. His life as it was , now lived in the Shadows of his own mind, deep beneath the pain and torture that Adam Lane had put him through.
He could not tell the difference on what was real, fantasy or otherwise, due to the very fact that he has placed himself to hide from all of the agony, he can not face after what Lane had done to him.
When his wife Kate Beckett, who had saved his life just a few seconds before Lane was going to end his life, she was able to the pull the trigger from her weapon to shoot Lane in the nick of time, but the aftermath of what he did to her husband was a total forsaken nightmare, after finding his body for which Lane had broken beyond repair.
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Dr. Jerome Middleton having to been working for the rehab nursing home, was called into the case for Richard Castle, to try to bring him out of his lost of will, to live into a real life, instead of his own mental reality.
Dr. Middleton in his late fifties, has dealt with these kinds of cases for the last twenty years, and just about 75% of his patients have recovered to live a normal productive life.
Dr. Middleton having just arrived at the gate of the rehab center, he showed his I.D. at the gate with the security guard. He is waved on by the guard, to drive on up to the center's parking lot.
He walks into the main reception area, Sandra the main receptionist working for the center ten years. She informs the doctor that Mrs. Richard Castle is here to visit her husband, along with wanting to speak with you in regard to his treatment.
"Thank you, Sandra, where is Mrs. Castle at the moment?"
"She's in the main waiting area to speak with you before going to visit her husband in his room."
"Very well, Sandra, I will talk with her before anything else, I have a full case load, for when it comes to seeing the patients, including Richard Castle. He says before moving off to the first level waiting room.
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Kate Beckett Castle was a total mess, her life has become so complicated now that Adam Lane has screwed it up, and now that she had found out that she is pregnant as well, only makes it just as worst, she is not able to share the happy new with her husband.
She had found out the news only a week after, Castle had been found by her, having to kill Adam Lane.
Beckett was running back and forth to the Manhattan Medical Center, where he was taken only a few miles from the Ebony rehab center by ambulance, taken right away into emergency surgery.
It was during this period, that she was starting to feel sick to her stomach and other signs, she had asked Lanie to go with her to see her medical specialist Dr. Anderson in his office to confirm her suspicious that she just might be pregnant after all.
She and her husband have been trying for awhile, since she decided to come back to her husband, and restored there marriage. They had decided to try to go for a baby once, she was able to stop all birth control devices including the pills.
When she had told him weeks later after getting back together, she wanted to try to have a baby, despite all of the issues going on with Loksat, Vikram, Castle lost memories having to be coming back once again.
She was thrilled that her husband was all for it, it wasn't until weeks later, when they had found out that Adam Lane was released from jail with help from his lawyer, along with having to be sent to the Ebony rehab center.
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Kate Beckett with coming here, after the doctors had told her with what was going on with her husband's mental state after being tortured, even if it would take time physically to heal, with the damage was done!
When she hears her name, she looks up at seeing Castle's therapist Dr. Middleton.
"Dr. Middleton, I am sorry, I didn't realize, you were calling me in the first place."
"That's all right, that happens to the best of us! He says with a chuckle, but he could see that she was not laughing.
"Is he getting better? Confused some what
"I can only say that Richard Castle is making some progress having to be here among the patients, he's been coping some what better at times when his medication is working in his system, otherwise I have a feeling once we find that connection, I will be able to bring Richard Castle out of his black void."
"Dr. Middleton, when you say connection, does that a vocal point to have his mind set on that particular scenario?
"Yes!, if you can help me, maybe we will be able to at least have him think otherwise that main focus in his mind, it just might have him start to recover from nightmare."
"I have something that I share with my husband, I know for the fact that both us love each other a great deal, and for fact that I am now carrying his child." She was in tears and shaking, as she continues with her words.
"I know that Rick, will understand by what I am saying to him, he's been wanting to find out on whether I would be able to become pregnant with my past health issues."
"Well then , we will start at this point now, when we go into his room to speak with him.
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Inside Richard Castle's room, he was sitting in a chair looking out the window and just staring with blank nurses of the rehab center, has felt sorry for the author, in regard to what had happen to him in the first place.
The doctor and Kate Beckett Castle stopped at the main desk on level two, to let them know that he will be checking with his patient, along with issuing orders for a syringe just in case to calm the patient down.
He goes to take the syringe from the nurse, placing it into his pocket of his white jacket.
When they walked in. Castle was facing the window, his health physically was much better, even though the scars were there to see from his surgery underneath his hospital gown.
Dr. Middleton grabs a chair for Beckett to face her husband looking out the window.
"Now remember, go slow with starting to talk to him about what is on your mind."
She goes to take his right hand into hers, with her voice ready to croak already even before beginning, she takes a quick breath before beginning.
"Rick, it's Kate, your wife, I have something to tell you that's very important for the both of us."
He looks at her with a look that was scaring her at the moment."Kate!
"Yes, It's Kate, can you hear me?" Dr. Middleton could see that his patient was trying to focus on her words. "Rick, I need to let you know, your going to be a father again after all this time, I am going to have your child, after trying for awhile, when I decided to continue on with our marriage, do you remember?
Castle started to cry very hard when he said the word "Baby", to make Beckett fall to pieces at the moment.
This is when Kate goes to hug her husband into her arms, while taking one of her hands taking his as well, to placed onto her stomach, when he can at least feel the connection between the both of them.
Dr. Middleton, could not believe that his therapy was starting to work, it showed a mark improvement in his patient's eyes and over all respond. He tells Beckett to let go, telling her that it worked, and for which he was on his way to the road to recovery, even though he still had a ways to go with therapy.
"Rick, I need to go, I will be back soon to talk with you, hold you, and let you feel the baby from within my body, I love you, with all of my heart, please get better for me, the baby, Alexis, Martha and most of all your friends that miss you dearly, including James Patterson your rival." She laughs for the time in weeks.
She places a gentle kiss onto her husband's lips, for which he returns for the first time in awhile.