Okay so this idea was roaming around in my head and i just had to get it out. I am feeling like i am loosing steam on my other story so i am writing this to distract myself for a while. I really hope you like it.

Kate walked up to the crime scene, the red and blue lights flashing across her face. Castle watched and waited next to Lanie. Kate felt his eyes on her the whole time. She had been noticing it more and more lately and it seemed to really get under her skin. She called him on it about a week ago and he brushed off as zoning out. She herself tried to just brush it off as well. She didn't want anything to become complicated. The thing is that he seemed to be 'zoning out' a lot lately.

"Hey Lanie, what do we got?" Kate asked. Lanie finished looking at something on the hand of the girl.

"Her name is Kara Lacer. COD is two GSW's to the chest." Lanie said.

Lacer? Something about that name seemed familiar. As Kate thought about this she heard a car door shut behind her. Turning around she saw Montgomery.

"Captain?" Kate asked. She saw the same surprised looks on Ryan and Esposito's faces.

"Detectives." He said looking a little sad. That's when it came to Kate. Lacer was his wife's maiden name.

"Oh my god. Roy, I'm sorry." Kate said. Castle was standing at her side looking quite clueless. Montgomery looked at the body for only a moment before shaking his head and turning away. "Captain how do you want us to do this?" Kate asked.

"Work it like any other case. I will call my wife; tell her to come in so we can tell her." He said.

"Okay. See you back at the precinct." Kate said.

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"Do you know why she was there?" Kate asked. She had waited for a decent amount of time before asking questions.

"No. Kara was supposed to be visiting my mom. She has been there for weeks." Montgomery's wife, Sherrie, said through soft sobs.

"And where does your mom live?" Kate asked.

"She's in a home, in Utah." Sherrie said. Kate nodded and wrote it down. "I don't understand why she wasn't there. Mom called me and told me how much fun they were having every day. Why would she be back in New York?" Kate wrote down that she had arrived in Utah one month ago and had been there ever since.

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"I'm so sorry sir." Kate said. Montgomery was pacing in his office.

"I'm not allowed to work this case. I was called and told this about twenty minutes ago." Montgomery said. Kate's brow furrowed a bit.

"Sir, shouldn't we be letting the police in Salt Lake handle it now. We searched her records. She had a used plane ticket to Utah and all of her last purchases leading up to yesterday afternoon were made in Utah." Kate said. The captain turned and looked at her as if he was trying to make a tough decision. Finally he spoke.

"I want you to do it." He said. Did he mean work the case? She would certainly do what she could but from here that wasn't a lot.

"I can't do much from here. People she may have met in Utah need to be questioned." Kate said. She felt bad that she had to say she couldn't. She would love to be able to bring the captain and his family closure.

"I know. I want you to do it from Utah. When they called to tell me I couldn't work the case I asked if you and your team could. They brought up what you are bringing up but I said I wanted you to do it. That I trusted you and your team more than anyone. After talking for a while they finally agreed." He said. Whoa! Is he saying I'm heading to Utah? Kate thought to herself.

"Sir, the precinct needs me here." She said.

"We will manage fine without you for a couple days. Please Kate; I know that you can figure this out faster and more efficiently than anyone." Kate looked at Montgomery's sad features. He was asking her for a favor and after everything he had done for her Kate couldn't turn him down.

"Okay sir, I will do it." She said. A smile twitched at the corners of his lips but never actually broke through.

"Thank you Kate. It's already arranged, the four of you will leave tomorrow morning." He said and then gathered his things to head home.

"Wait a minute, the four of us?" Kate really hoped he meant Ryan, Esposito, Lanie and herself.

"Uh, yeah, you and the boys and Castle. That won't be a problem will it?" YES! Kate wanted to tell him there was no way she was going on a sort of work/vacation with Castle, but he had already been through enough today.

"No, that's fine." except that it's not.

Kate left Mongomery to do whatever it was he was doing. All three boys were sitting by the murder board but were not looking at it, they were looking at her.

"Road trip." Castle said with a smile.

So i hope you like it. If you did please review and there will be more to come.