This is my Firefly/Castle crossover fic. I have never done a crossover fic before, so I decided to give it a shot. For Castle, it will be set towards the end of season 5. Before the D.C. thing, and after Castle saves Beckett from the bomb. For Firefly, it will be set after the BDM. One major difference though, Wash is alive in this story. I tried to write him out, but I couldn't find a way.
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Gunshots, explosions all through the air. The sounds of the soldiers under his command, the screams of terror and battle surrounded him. "We Can't die Bendis", he tells the young soldier, "And you know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die." His hopes only to be crushed a mere minute later, the air fighters destroy everything in site. Castle woke up with an enormous jolt. In this he woke up the woman sleeping next to him.
"Castle, what's wrong?", Beckett asked looking worried. Castle wiped the sweat from his head and looked back at her.
"Sorry Kate, bad dream. A real bad dream."
"It must be, your side of the bed is soaked.", he looked and saw that his entire upper body was drenched, "What was it?", she asked putting her hand on his shoulder. Castle new he couldn't tell her, so he told another lie.
"I don't remember. I'm sorry.", he said giving her a small kiss. Just then her cell phone rang.
"Beckett... Where?... Ok, we're on our way.", she looked back at Castle.
"Either the precinct misses us that bad, or there's a body.", she grinned at him and gave him a quick kiss.
It was around nine in the morning and they were on the way to the crime scene. Castle didn't say anything on the way there, Beckett thought this highly abnormal for him. That being said, he seemed really shaken when he woke up, so she didn't bother him. They came to a street where a body was lying down on the sidewalk. As Castle and Beckett arrived, Esposito came to greet them.
"What do we got?", asked Beckett.
"Male, late 20s, Caucasian.", replied Esposito.
"Cause of death?"
"Gunshot wound to the chest.", replied Lanie.
"Ok we got a time of death?"
"An hour ago.", replied Ryan. "Witnesses state that a man literally came out of nowhere, shot our vic, and just disappeared."
"What do you mean 'disappeared'?", asked Castle.
"Just that, before anyone knew what was going on, the guy vanished."
"Hmm... I'm goin with either teleportation or invisibility.", Beckett just rolled her eyes.
"We got an ID on the vic?"
"Robert Johnson. Wallet and watch was with him, so it doesn't look like a mugging."
"We get a description of the shooter?"
"About mid-40's, Caucasian, six ft, brown hair, and an eye patch over his right eye.", replied Ryan.
"Hey check this out.", Esposito carried a plastic bag with a bullet shell in it. He opened it up and pulled the shell out. Beckett took a look at it and noticed something engraved running down the shaft of it.
"Are those Chinese characters?", asked Beckett. Castle heard this and walked up next to her.
"Can I see that?", Castle looked at the shell closely, "They're numbers: 4862."
"Wait you read Chinese?", asked Esposito.
"Mandarin mostly. Got it from a TV show I used to love.", he lied once again.
At the precinct, Beckett was putting everything up on the board. "Ok so our victim's name is Robert Johnson. He's a student at Columbia university. He has stayed the night at his girlfriends apartment and left at around 7:50 AM. Estimated time of death was around 8:10 AM."
"So anything on our teleporting Chinese assassin?", asked Castle.
"You know, only you could say that out loud and say it so nonchalantly." replied Beckett. "We get anything on the girlfriend?"
"They're bringin her in right now.", replied Ryan.
"Good.", Beckett looked over and saw Castle sitting in his chair, not speaking all of a sudden. She went over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "Hey, you ok?", Castle looked up at her and smiled.
"Yea I'm fine. It's just, the way those characters were on the shell. It seemed familiar." Just then Beckett's phone rang and Lanie called them down.
"So I dug the slug out of our vic and... Well look.", Beckett looked at the slug under a magnifying glass and noticed a symbol on it. A symbol she didn't recognize. "Huh, what is it?" Lanie just shrugged. Castle walked over and looked over her shoulder.
"Is it another chara-", he stopped dead in mid sentence. Beckett then noticed something was wrong. Castle's eyes grew very wide and his breaths became shorter.
"Castle? What is it?", he didn't even reply. He just turned around and started walking fast to the elevator. She managed to stop, the elevator doors from closing. "Rick, what's going on?"
"Kate, I can't explain right now. I just need to leave right now." Kate got in the elevator with him.
"Can't explain what?", he tried to look away but she cupped his face in her hands, "Rick, talk to me.", he let out a long sigh. "Ok, ill tell you but, I just need to go for a walk. Just to clear my head.", she was unsure but let him out. She got to her desk and sat down.
"Where's Castle?", asked Esposito.
"I don't know, he just left."
"Umm, well the girlfriend is here. You want me to talk to her?", Beckett got out of her haze and shook her head. After about half an hour of talking and comforting the distraught woman. Beckett went back to her desk. She was becoming more worried that Castle hasn't shown back up. So she decided to go looking for him. "Ryan, make sure the girlfriend alibis out, and get a hold of the parents. Espo, come with me."
"Where are we going?", he asked.
"To find Rick. I'm getting worried.", Gates ended up walking up to her.
"Why are you worried about him?", she asked.
"Sir, something's wrong him.", Gates held back a grin.
"You're just now figuring that out?"
"I mean he just barged out. He looked scared too. I think something's wrong." Gates sighed.
"All right, be back within half an hour."
He tried denying it to himself, but he knew he couldn't. That bullet was Alliance ammunition. Right down to the serial number on the shell. He had hoped that this was some weird coincidence, but the second he saw the symbol on the slug, he knew. For thirty years, he had been living on Earth-that-was. Thirty years, living as a different man, in a different time, in a planet that was extinct. He didn't what happened, he didn't know how they found him. He hadn't told Alexis or Kate about his past, his true past. How could he? But now, he had no choice. He was going to tell them both tonight. As he was walking aimlessly. He a heard a voice behind. It sounded like someone was saying his name. He turned and saw Kate and Espo coming towards him.
"Rick, what are you doing?"
"Kate I told you, I'm just goin for a walk."
"It's been almost an hour, I got worried.", he smiled and pulled her into his arms, holding her closely to him.
"I love you Kate, you know that right?", he broke away looking at her.
"Of course I do. Why are you even asking?"
"Because I need to tell you something, and I don't know how."
"Well just tell me."
"Perhaps I can help.", said a voice coming from the alley next to them. They walked into it and noticed at the end of the alley stood a man. But this man matched the description of the shooter they were looking for. Mid 40s, Caucasian, eye patch, everything. But Kate wasn't expecting what happened next. Rick walked behind her and drew her gun and began walking towards the man. When he was about five feet from him, the man drew his own gun and they both pointed their guns at each other. Espo drew his gun and began yelling at them.
"Castle what the hell are you doing?", he yelled at him.
"Get back Javi, NOW!", Rick yelled at him. "You too Kate."
"Rick what's going on?"
"Just stand back Kate."
"I would listen to him.", replied the man. They both just stared each other down until the man spoke. "Hello again Captain Reynolds.", Rick just glared at him.
"What are you doing here Dobson? It is Agent Dobson correct?", Dobson just let out a small laugh.
"So, you remember me then?"
"Oh yea, in fact I seem to recall shooting you in the head on Whitefall."
"Well as you can see, didn't work out so well."
"Like I said, what are you doing here? The warrant for the Tams was dropped."
"I know, It's you they want this time Captain. Ever since the Miranda broadcast, things have stirred up. You remember?"
"You bet your Gorram Pi Gu I remember.", Dobson just smiled. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device.
"Well now there's a bounty on you're head the size of your ship.", he looked him over one more time. "You know, you look good for a sixty year old." He pushed a button and light started to surround him. Then he disappeared. Rick lowered his gun. Kate and Javi ran up next to him.
"Rick, what the hell is going on?", asked Kate.
"My past just came back to haunt me."