I had the idea from that book 'The book thief'. This is a pre-sequel for my other story that I finished Written Words (that I am editing to make it better), but you don't have to read it to read this one.

Here the Death tells the story of a Katherine after her mother's death, the story will be told from the Death point of view and in first person, the first chapter will show you how I will write it. I am melancholic writer who doesn't know how to write happy stuff, so, this story will be sad.

Read it, see if you like, any questions please ask, it is something different that I never read at the fandom; my Katherine is very out of character, but I hope you like her.

I probably will write about heavy stuff like abortion, cheating, drug abuse, cutting, maybe violence (let's see this one) and everything I can come up with during the Holidays, it always make me extremely melancholic, and usually Katherine will be the one making this stuff, so, I don't want complains that my Katherine is too out of character, I am tired of the good Kate and I want to write the other path Kate could have took when her mother died.

If you have problem with the subjects I will bring up, please don't waste your time reading, it will make you uncomfortable and me sad that I made you uncomfortable.

Like I said in the summary, Castle will appear only at the end, this story is about Kate, not about Kate and Castle. I will put their relationship that I wrote in my first story, but it won't be the focus of this story, the focus is Kate.

Have a good reading and please say if you like or not, I don't want to waste my vacation time with something nobody likes or cares about.

Hello dearest, I am the Death, nice to meet you, how are you?

Please don't be afraid, I don't go around snatching random humans' soul and taking from this world, everything is much more complicated than that, so... no need to worry that I would take your soul from your fragile body. I am a nice person, but you humans made me out like a horrible monster; let me tell you, it hurt! The Death its part of the cycle of the life, I don't know why you guys are so afraid of me.

Also don't be like your stupid society and think I have a gender, I have not. After a few decades trying to think what gender I was, I came with the answer that I am a sexless being, so, you can imagine me in any gender, any face that will make the reading of this story easier for you, since I aim to please.

Before reading this story that I am about to tell you, I have only two wishes:

First, please, please, never think that I am a monster, when people fear death, they don't fear me, they fear the thought of never seeing their loved ones again; I am a gentle being, I never hurt anybody, the circumstance of how I meet the souls may be violent, so it is not me who is violent.

Second, this is a sad story, about a lost soul with a broke mind. Don't waste your time, and mine for the matter, reading this story if you are going to judge; you humans have this stupid little habit of judging the unknown or the different, so I ask that you don't judge Katherine, she is a gentle soul who met a pain that she didn't know how to handle.

Now that everything is out on the open, let's moves on and starts the story, I am sure that you are not here to hear about my pathetic "life" or how I don't have a gender or how much I like to take gentle soul from this world because I can chat with them for a while.

Okay, okay, I will shut up. I am sorry if I talk too much, but being the death is a lonely job and I sometimes miss company, so when I decided to start this story I thought that maybe it would help me heal this extreme loneliness, but the jury it's still out about that.

Now, let's start with the beginning of this story.

On January 9th of the year 1999, I met Johanna Beckett, the poor woman was murdered in a horrible car accident, when I got there to bring her soul with me, she was calm compared of how usually the souls are after their death, but she was extremely worried about her baby girl, if you heard her talking about her daughter you would think that the girl was 5 years old instead of 19.

We talked for a bit, since I was with time I even let her go to her funeral and say a last goodbye to her family, and there was the first time that I really met Katherine.

During her life time, I visited her family a few times, first her grandmother than her grandfather and a few relatives not really close to her, but when you are the Death, you keep your distance from souls that don't belong to you, yet.

At her mother's funeral, Katherine was extremely sad, it was painful to see, but she handed all in silence, the only time I heard her voice was when she had to make a small speech right after her father, cleaning her throat a few times she walked towards the front of the church, looked around and said:

"I don't need to say who my mother was, or how great she was, if you are it means you knew her in some way and anybody that meets her, knows how special she was. I only want to thank everybody who came at the funeral; it's good to see that we are not suffering alone her death. Mother, if you somewhere where you can hear me, I just want to tell you that I love you and I hope that I will make you proud. I love you and thank you for loving me. Bye." She finished and walked towards her dad and sat by his side, her father was crying like a baby and Katherine appeared to try to hold on the fort since she wasn't crying, she appeared to be almost numb. Johanna by my side was crying, trying to reach her baby girl but she couldn't, they weren't in the same dimension anymore.

I told her that was time for her to really leave this world, I even said I was sorry that I had to take her; my job is and was extremely difficult, some people that dies doesn't deserves to go yet, and Johanna was one them; she still had so much life ahead her that was cut short because she was at the wrong place at the wrong time and some stupid guy thought that drinking his weight in alcohol and then driving was a good idea.

When we were arrived at the place where I was going to leave her, she asked me:

"Could you please look out for my baby girl?"

"ME? Are you crazy? You want the Death to look out for your girl?" I asked trying to make sense of what she asked.

"Yes, please? So I can rest in peace."

"Yeah, sure, of course I will look out for her."

"Promise me that you will."

"I promise Johanna, I will look out for your baby girl."

"Thank you." She said, and with that we said our goodbyes and she left our world. It was sad to see such a nice soul leave this world, it needs so much of nice souls like hers.

Until this day, I don't understand why Johanna asked me to look out for her baby girl; I am the worst being that she could ask, but she did and I never liked to break a promise. So, from that day on, I looked out for Katherine, I fell in love with her, I loved her and this story is about her and her broken soul.

Thank you for reading, have a good week!

For the ones that read Written Words: The story will go until the end of the other story when Kate says "I love you" to Castle but in a different way, I will not repeat any dialogues Kate had with Castle or any part of that story, since it will have a different point of view, will change all the relationship since in Written Words you read the point of view of someone inside everything, this is out. Probably their relationship will use just one or two chapters.