Hey people...
I'm back and I brought the sequel of A brother nobody knew about with me. Yay. I finally found a way to bring back that person I was talking about so I had to write it. And post it. That story takes place four years after the end of the other one.
Also, I think I forgot to mention Bracken's involvement in Johanna Beckett's death in the other story. I just wanted to say that Tony knows about it.
I hope you like it.
Enjoy.
Hope and Tali were growing up way too fast for their parents' liking. They were already five years old. Both were starting kindergarten a few months later. The two families spent every holiday together and tried to see each other as often as possible in between. Both teams were like one big dysfunctional family. It was amazing. Tony and Kate had explained the meaning of the girls' locket a few months ago and since then; Hope and Tali never took it off. They loved it and it was always with them. It was like the ring on Kate's chain around her neck; she was wearing it every day, too.
Kate had told Tony everything about Bracken's involvement in their mother's case and the deal she had made with him and, together, they decided to let it be until something came up on its own. It was bound to happen someday. That case hadn't been a problem for almost three years now and Kate couldn't believe she had been able to stop digging for a while. Neither of them knew that was soon going to change though.
Hope was currently out with Alexis. She loved to spend time with her big sister and Alexis loved to spend time with her too. They had made plans to spend the entire day together and were now in Central Park. Kate and Castle were home, alone. It was the middle of the afternoon and they only had to go to the precinct if they caught a case, which until now, they hadn't. They were watching a movie together and fell asleep on the couch. At around four o'clock they woke up when they heard the door slam. Kate jumped off the couch and reached for the gun that was normally attached to her hip, when she realized that she was home and the gun wasn't there.
"What happened?" She asked Alexis who was holding a crying Hope in her arms. When she saw her mom she jumped into her arms and cried even more. They walked to the couch, where Rick was waiting for them, clearly worried.
"I'm sorry mommy." Hope whispered when she'd stopped crying. She didn't say anything else so both parents looked at Alexis for an explanation.
"She lost the locket when we were in the park." She said sadly. They all knew how much that locket meant to her. Alexis and Hope had already spent a couple of hours looking for it and couldn't find it.
"Ohh sweetie it's okay. We'll go back to the park and look for it. I'm sure we can find it." Kate reassured her daughter, but knew that there was a slim chance to find the locket again. Right then Kate's cell rang.
"Beckett." She answered, "Okay, we'll be right there." She hung up and sighed. This was so not the moment to go work on a case. "I'm sorry, but we have to go to work. I promise that when we get back we'll go look for the locket okay?" Hope nodded, looking down. Rick then had an idea.
"Hey, why don't you and Alexis go make some cookies together?!" he suggested and that instantly brought a smile back to the girl's face and she nodded enthusiastically.
"Let's go then." Alexis said and they walked to the kitchen together. Kate and Rick smiled and then got ready to go to the crime scene.
When they got there everybody was already working. Castle went to talk to the guys to see what they got and Kate went to see what Lanie got.
"Hey." Lanie greeted her when she saw Kate coming.
"Hey. So, what do we have?"
"Woman in her sixties. Cause of death appears to be a gunshot wound to the chest. Time of death is about three hours ago. I'm surprised she was found so fast. I'll know more after the autopsy." Kate thanked her and joined the boys and Castle to ask them what they knew.
"Hey guys. Did you find something?" Kate asked Esposito and Ryan.
"Yeah her purse was emptied. The killer was apparently looking for something. It wasn't a mugging though, 'cause her wallet was still there. Her name's Jennifer Davis. She was from Chicago." Kate could see there was something they were holding back.
"Something else you wanna tell me?" She asked raising her eyebrows. The boys looked at each other and Ryan answered, "Yeah we found this in her pocket." He handed her an evidence bag with the locket Hope had lost earlier in it.
"Hope's locket!?" Rick whispered and then added louder, "She lost it today in the park."
"Yeah, but why would she have it?" Kate wondered out loud. She looked at the boys.
"We'll find out." They both said and walked away.
Kate and Castle then drove to the precinct, both wondering why their victim had their daughter's locket in her pocket. They stopped to buy coffee on the way and when they got there Esposito and Ryan were already at their desks and came to her when they saw them. They started talking before she had the chance to ask anything.
"We looked for a next of kin. Didn't find any." Ryan said.
"Okay get the list of phone calls she made since she's been in New York and find who she last talked to. Castle and I'll go through her financials and find out what she's been doing here."
An hour later Ryan and Esposito had found something.
"So we found the person she last talked to. A woman named Josephine Miller. We called her and she said she'd be here tomorrow morning."
"Alright. Thanks guys. You can go home. There's nothing more we can do before she gets here." Kate told them and then packed her things too and they all left the precinct.
In Boston, getting ready to leave for New York, was a woman, dreading to go back to a city she hadn't set foot into in nearly sixteen years.
Voilà.
I know I haven't really mentioned NCIS yet, but that'll come in the next chapter. I can't wait to update, because now that I have the beginning I need to write what's coming next. I'll start that right now and probably update tomorrow.
I hope you liked it and would love to know what you thought about it so, Review?! Please.