Disclaimer: I do not Castle.
It was the usual morning. He got up and saw the time. It was already seven o'clock. It's still early he thought. He and Beckett always got in the precinct at eight o'clock. He shoved of his comforter and made his way to the shower. He made a quick shower and dressed up. He chose a powder blue shirt and pants. He peeked in his daughter's room to see if she's still sleeping but he sighed when he saw that she already made her bed. He decided to meet the two lovely women of his life. He descended from the stairs and saw the two red heads. "Good morning, Mother. Good morning, Daughter." He greeted them with a smile on his face. He quickly walked to the side of his daughter and planted a kiss on her forehead and he also kissed his mother's cheek.
He glanced back to his daughter. He saw her busying herself looking at a very familiar book that he hadn't seen in years. She was looking at the most memorable photo album. He will never forget all the pictures in it like it was engraved into his mind. "Oh! What do we have here, pumpkin?" He looked at her and put his arm around her shoulders.
"We have a project in school. It was about 'the years of my innocence'" She said it with glitters in her eyes and said the last five words with a dramatic effect. Hmm, like grandma, like mother, like daughter. He thought and furrowed his eyebrows. "Why did they call it like that? Is my darling daughter loose her innocence?" She chuckled because he made a wrong interpretation. She shook her head. "No, dad. I just named my project like that. It means when we didn't know much about the world around us. And I'm finding a good picture of me. Would you help?" She gave him a smile.
"Any picture will do pumpkin." He kissed her forehead again. He was going to turn around when a certain picture of her caught his eyes. "Oh! Why don't you submit this one?" He grinned and pointed out a 2 year old Alexis that is on potty training.
"Dad! That is so embarrassing." She scolded her father as if he was her younger brother but this is one of her father's traits that she loves the most. Though he was – no, is very childish, he could make her laugh even though it was a simple thing.
"But you look so cute!" His grinned grew bigger and he raised his eyebrows twice. She sighed and shook her head. That's when Martha joined in. "Alexis darling," She got her full attention now. "your farther has a lot more embarrassing photos when he was a child." She glanced quickly at him and smiled at her son. "Until now." His daughter teased and giggled. "I'm hurting, you know." Richard frowned and they all broke into laughter. Then his phone rang.
She woke up five in the morning. She did her usual routine. She jogged for thirty minutes. She went back to her apartment and exercised. She took a shower, get dressed and drove to the precinct. But when she opened her door, a huge box was left on her doorstep. She looked at the hallway but no one was there. She picked up her phone and dialled the doorman. The doorman said no one came to drop a package for her and he didn't know anything about a package. She pushed the box inside. She found a note on top. She gasped and dialled the first person that she could think of.
"Castle. Hey, Beckett do we have a body?" He looked like a boy asking for a Christmas present when he asked. "Are you calling me because you miss me, Detective?" Now, the wide smile that was on his face grew wider. "What is it, my lovely detective that got you so worried that you called me?" There was a tease in his voice and the detective on the other line felt that he was smiling. She got it all straight to the point because his ego grew bigger and bigger. "You found a what?" The two women looked concerned at Richard's tone. His grin faded in an instant. His eye brows are more furrowed. "Ok. I'll be there in fifteen. If anything bad happens, call me. If you hear it ticking, get out of there." He looked more worried. He ended the call, bid a quick good bye to the two and head towards the door. He left the two of the three most important women in his life looking for answers of why the patriarch of the family suddenly disappeared through that door.
He quickly got off the lift and hailed the cab. He was so worried. She didn't call him for nothing. It must've scared the hell out of her. He typed a quick message.
You alright? I'm on my way.
He slightly jumped to her quick reply.
I'm fine. The box is not ticking though.
It's a relief for him, knowing that she's still alive and the box may not be a bomb. His thoughts were disturbed when the driver told him there was a heavy traffic. He paid quickly and got off. Though he knows she's safe, he wants to go there quickly and the traffic wouldn't slow him down. He found himself running and the next thing he knew was that he was in front of Beckett's apartment. He knocked twice. He gasped at what he saw when she opened the door.
This is entirely different from "The Package" that I wrote before. The chapters will be longer and I'll add more emotion to the lines and their actions. I'm really sorry about the first The Package. Rookie mistake. It's like I only wrote dialogues. Anyway, I am trying to do better. Sorry, the reviews were also deleted when I deleted the story. I promise to do better this time. Thank you for reading!