Reaching Out And Reaching In
He fell first and she watched as she too fell to the ground in the kitchen of the loft from Caleb's shots to her core. My God. She thought to herself as she crawled over to him. Castle was so far away, but still so near. She reached her hand out to him and grasped it. "Castle? Castle?" He didn't respond verbally, but squeezed tight. "Castle! Please you have to call someone…"
"… I'm pregnant." She tried one last time giving it her all while she lay on her back, placed her left hand on her abdomen and stared up at the ceiling right before she watched not only Caleb, but Castle fade out of consciousness.
Alexis was the first to discover her father and her blood curdling scream caused Martha to become the second. Though just as Hayley closed her eyes inhaled opened them and began to usher the women into the safe room Castle started to whisper a few words, "Hurry, Becks' preg…"
Alexis was already on the phone with Ryan when she paused to take notice that her father was still alive.
"Dad?" She knelt down beside him with Hayley.
"Kate…?" He asked hopefully.
"Dad!" Alexis smiled, but Hayley touched her shoulder and looked to Rick.
"Rick, is Katherine pregnant?" asked Hayley now extremely worried when he nodded what he knew confirming Hayley's suspicions. She swallowed found a pulse on Beckett then exhaled, "She has a pulse!" Hayley yelled to Alexis to relay everything to Ryan and call Lanie directly to let her know what was going on.
Alexis did as told as Martha looked up to Hayley, "I need blankets, clothes, anything to cover her wounds and Kate needs a blood transfusion if this baby is going to make it."
"Kate's pregnant?" asked Alexis paralyzed mid sentence.
"We don't have all day, Alexis!" Hayley yelled at the young woman who had become much more like the little sister from another mister to her.
Suddenly, what Martha thought sounded like a shot rang throughout the loft and Alexis was quickly reminded of Caleb. Had Hayley checked his pulse? When Alexis looked up Caleb was dead. It was only the police breaking down the door. Alexis had been too caught up in the moment to realize that Ryan had hung up on her long ago. The apartment was full of cops, and others related to the case. That scared Hayley and Esposito alike.
Hayley, Alexis, Martha, Ryan, Esposito, Lanie, and Jim took turns pacing the waiting room and getting updates from staff as Jenny took the kids to their Auntie's for the night so she could be with everyone at the hospital.
"Kate?" Jim was the first in his daughter's room when she woke.
"I'm preg…" She started.
Jim smiled, "I know. You told Castle, and he told Hayley who found you. He managed to come to and call someone Katie."
"I knew I was supposed to keep him around for some reason." Kate smiled, but Jim smiled a sad smile. "What?" Kate tried to sit up a bit, but Jim shook his head no.
"I'm confused." Kate said her voice trembling.
"Katie, he lost a lot of blood as well. He slipped back into a coma. We're waiting now." Jim explained as Lanie walked in to find Kate shaking her head no as tears streamed down her face.
Kate's eyes hung on her fathers and then she looked at her abdomen almost curiously as if she was discovering she was pregnant for the first time. She looked to her father and Lanie as more tears fell, "No. No…am I still…?"
"You didn't lose the baby and statistically speaking Castle should be fine." Lanie reassured her best friend.
"I really need to see him." It was more of a plea than a request.
Lanie looked to Jim and then Alexis walked in the room with someone whom had become her sidekick.
Alexis didn't know if the baby had made it so she didn't bring it up. Though, that didn't seem a problem for her sidekick, "You may want to see him, but the only place this new Mum is off to is dreamland and I don't plan on a dreamland 2 ;)" Hayley stated.
Kate looked up to Hayley who smiled in return, "Thank you, Hayley."
"Don't mention it." Hayley smiled.
A few days had gone by with Martha at Castle's bedside. Though, today, well today was a bit different. Today her son's eyes started to flutter open.
Martha ran and got a doctor as Rick coughed from surgery, tubes, and a dry throat. He painfully sat up vaguely aware of his surroundings he reached out for the ghost of her hand, "Kate?"
He had just seen her lying beside him. She was right over there, right? She had just told him she was pregnant. Oh God. Kate. Slowly he started to remember everything, everything. A tear fell and he felt more start to form as he closed his eyes and wished they could pretend in some sort of a distorted reality like they use to do so easily. If only.
Everyone go see the movie The Big Swim and The Rendevous this year! Well I said I was going to write a series finale fic...now, should I continue? I know I'm going to continue with the Alexis centric one so no worries with that... and my finger is as good as it's going to get...Yay! Also, I was not able to see the series finale to answer questions that I don't owe anyone. I just watched it recently. ;)