TAKES PLACE DURING SEASON 4. This is my first attempt at a story, so I hope I have dotted all my "T"S and crossed all my "I"s in the right places. I don't own any of these characters.

"I have a package for a Detective Kate Castle" announces the delivery man. Everyone in the 12th snickers at the announcement. Everyone but Beckett that is. on the outside she is just seething, but on the inside, she just beaming, having another one of those "I am really loved" feelings. Granted, being handcuffed to him was not the best way to possibly start a relationship, oh but how she loved having an "excuse" to be able to hold his hand.

She wonders, what has HE done now? They are more than just partners now, but not a couple either. She does admit that it does have a nice ring to it though, but why would he do this here?

"Over here" she announces, "and it's Beckett, not Castle".

"Are you sure Detective?" asks Ryan? If looks could kill, the stare she is giving him would have him dead before he was even born!

The envelope has Castle's return address, but it is typed out on a label and so is the 12th address. Not his typical hand written addressed mail. ("Have to keep that to myself" she thinks. She is not ready to reveal about all those cards he sends to her apt.)

"FOR YOUR EYES ONLY" marked on the envelope. He is really asking for it when he gets in this morning. I am just the one to give it to him she grins to herself. She goes off to one of the interrogation rooms to review what Castle has sent her.

She opens the package, and there four folders on the inside, top one is marked RICK, next one marked MARTHA, one ALEXIS and the other her Dad. She looks at the one marked Alexis first and just drops the whole thing on the table. Inside are several 8 x 10 color glossy pictures and on each one, right in the middle of the teen's chest, is a rifle scope centered on her heart. She finally stops shaking long enough to look at the other three and finds the same target on each one. Now she is just plan mad! What a sick joke MR. CASTLE! After she calms down a bit, she realizes that he would never, ever do this to her, so she examines the package a little closer.

Inside is a lone, one page letter typed out.

Dear Detective Beckett,

We agreed with Capt Montgomery that we would leave you alone and let you live as long as you stopped looking into your mother's, um, untimely death. He did a real good job of keeping you on a short leash. Too bad now your writer boyfriend had to go and get you going again. We made another "agreement" with certain parties to leave you alone as long as you don't push it. You seemed to have backed down, but it seems lover boy is pushing again to find answers. You have 48 hours to get him to stop and hand over EVERYTHING he has on this or one of them will pay, and best of all, you get to choose which one takes your place this time. No, you can NOT take their place. If that doesn't work, then every 24 hours after that, you will choose someone else to take YOUR place. Talk to NO one other than your boyfriend.

Choose wisely or you will never make it to Detective Castle

What, how can Castle still working the case after he told me to take it slow?

She remembers the conversation they had after she came back after the shooting.

I promise you, we will figure this out. We're gonna find them and we're gonna make them pay. Just not today.

So why are YOU still investing this? You looking for a new angle on a book? You want the publicity of solving MY mystery? Could her "One and "Done" actually now be "Done" before they even ever really got started?

She kicks herself for even thinking that. Yes, maybe after they first meet, but not now, not after she has gotten to know her writer guy. She looks out towards the bullpen and see him sitting there with two coffees, just like every morning. Today, she is not in the mood for coffee.

"CASTLE, GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW"

Ryan and Esposito try to hold it in as he walks past him on his way to Beckett. Ryan hums the Death March as Esposito adds, "Oh boy, ARE you in trouble"

Castle walks in the room and all she can say is "How could you?"

She tosses him the package and all he sees is the address to Detective Kate Castle.

"I swear, I didn't do that" (but oh how I love that sound of that).

"Not that, THIS….." as she hands him the letter. Shock, anger, worry and then a petrified look come across his face as the weight of all it hits him.

"You claim that you love me. (You answer with "Always" and I melt.) How can you tell me you love me as I lay there dying and still do this to me?" She realizes that she just let it out that she knows. She covers her mouth and now she is the one with the worried look on her face. Maybe he won't notice the slip. Fat chance with her hand covering her mouth.

"You remember?" He is overcome with joy now that he knows that she knows, then anger starts to creep in because she never let on that she did. "

How long ago did you start to remember and why didn't you tell me?"

"I…I… never… forgot. I heard you above me in the cemetery. I so wanted to tell you that…..WAIT, I brought you in here to talk you about going behind my back! WHY? EXPLAIN THAT ONE! NOW!"

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