So this is a scene set during "Cops and Robbers" between Martha and Alexis. We didn't see any Beckett/Alexis interaction after Castle and Martha were rescued and since we haven't heard anything to the contrary, there was no animosity from Alexis towards Beckett at dinner that night. I felt a scene was needed where Alexis was forced to see things from Kate's perspective and Martha seemed a good vehical to achieve that with. So this scene would be after they are saved from the bank but before Castle and Kate come to the loft for dinner.
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"Why doesn't she care? Can't she see he loves her?" Alexis asked her grandmother as they settled onto the couch in the living room after an emotionally draining and all around terrifying afternoon.
"Oh, she cares. Probably too much. She just doesn't know how to handle it. She has trouble showing her feelings. The love. Because she knows what it's like to lose. She has lost too much of what she loves. So she pretends. Because she believes that if she acts like she doesn't love him, then he won't leave her. That he won't be taken from her."
"He wouldn't leave her. He loves her too much," Alexis admits, although reluctantly.
"But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't be taken away," Martha sighs a little at her own fear of this possibility. Today, especially today, Alexis realized how close she had come to having everything taken away from her.
"She lost both of her parents at 19. One of them eventually did come back, but it was never the same." How would you feel if, at your age, today, even, if your father and I had died, and you had no one? You were left all alone to deal with this tragedy. Would you be quick to love again?"
"So she's protecting him by pretending that she doesn't have feelings for him?" Alexis' conclusion sounding more like a question.
"Well, she's trying to pretend. You see the way she looks at him. She's not doing a very good job of hiding her true feelings all of the time. Mostly happens when she doesn't think anyone is looking."
Alexis gave her a quizzical look.
"At the bank. When she found us, you would have thought that he was the only one in the room, the way she was looking at him."
"But they've already been through so much together. How many more near death experiences do they need to have before they realize that they are only wasting time? Why can't they just stop pretending and be happy?"
"They still have obstacles to overcome. Both of them. Individually and together. Secrets need to come out. They still have a ways to go." Gathering up the strength to deliver her last line in dramatic fashion, not because she is a diva, but so that her grandaughter will remember this important lesson. "But that is what the great love stories are about…beating the odds."
"I hope they do," Alexis says with a soft smile.
"Me too, kiddo. Me too."
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