It had been 16 hours since Detective Katherine Beckett had been in surgery. Everyone was sitting in the waiting room, Alexis was huddled against Martha tears flowing down her face, Esposito had his arm around a distressed Lanie who still had her best friend's blood on her hands and clothes even jenny had been crying against Ryan. Jim was sitting next to Martha sitting forward arms on knees, the worst was Richard Castle he had no said a word since Kate had gone in to surgery he was just standing by a hospital window looking out at the streets of New York as if keeping tabs on the killer.

"Excuse me family for Miss Beckett?"

Everyone stood up, Rick made his way over to the doctor and stood beside Jim and out the corner of his eye he saw Josh at the nurses' station with a smile on his face.

"How is my daughter doctor?" Jim asked voice shaking with so much emotion that hadn't been like this since Johanna was murdered.

"Miss Beckett is a very lucky women, the bullet just missed her heart only by inches I would say, for a minute we thought we'd lost her in there but she managed to pull through and we expect her to make a full recovery. She has been taken into a private room and hopefully should awaken soon."

When Rick heard Kate would make a full recovery tears poured down his face and he ran into the men's room, everyone had noticed this and felt sorry for the writer, Jim followed him but turned around and said to get him if Kate woke up.

"Rick?"

"Yeah I'll be out in a minute"

Jim heard the toilet door unlocked and a tear stained writer walked out.

"Rick, you should be happy Katie's going to make it" Jim smiled

"I am but she was so close, I couldn't imagine it if she..."

Jim would never have hugged someone who he didn't know very well, but from the way Kate talked about him he just about had him figured out so he wrapped his arms around the writer and hugged him like a father son moment. They stayed like that for a few minutes when Ryan came bursting through the door yelling that Kate had started to wake up both Jim and Rick ran past Ryan who followed closely behind into Kate's room, Josh was already at her side stroking her hair saying he was here for her. The words Kate Beckett spoke surprised everyone.

"D..a..d?" Jim ran to her side pushing josh out the way to grab her hand

"I'm here Katie, I'm here"

It was the second word Kate muttered that caught the attention of group and one angry looking doctor.

"Cas...t..le, where's Castle?"

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