I borrowed the title from the song 'don't cry' from guns'n'roses. I love this song I in some parts this title just fits :) ... I would love some reviews, to know if I should continue this story.
enjoy reading :)
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Detective Beckett entered the apartment and took in her surroundings. There was a big, open kitchen area in front of her; but it was empty and clean like no one ever actually cooked in there. To her left there was a small, short hallway, ending in an unfurnished room; it looked like to be meant the living room. To her right was a larger hallway, ending in another room. It looked bigger than the one opposite but it could just be an illusion, she was not sure. She saw three more rooms lining the corridor, one of them obviously being the crime scene.
When she turned in the other direction, she was not even sure why she did that; she saw her best friend and NYPD Medical Examiner Lanie Parrish leaning against the wall. She obviously had been waiting for Kate because she pushed herself off the wall and started towards her.
Wasn't she supposed to be in the room with the dead body? Come to think of it shouldn't they all be in there? But glancing around no one was even near that room.
"Hi Lanie, what's wrong?" It was clear to see that something was.
"All I know is that the victim's young, female, has multiple stab wounds." Lanie crossed her arms over her chest; waiting for the question she knew would come.
"Then why aren't in there?" There it is, Lanie thought.
"Her daughter's in there, too!" She gave Kate a 'look-for-yourself' look before she followed her friend down the hall into the master bedroom.
Sure enough there was a little girl, not older than 3, sitting beside a woman, who probably was her mother. The girl was dressed in a pink Disney princess pajama and had her head buried in her pulled-up knees. She was clutching an old teddy-bear to her chest, her long black curls hanging loosely around her thin body.
"She wouldn't let anybody take her out off here." Lanie said in a low voice. Kate blinked back the tears that welled up in her eyes and approached the girl. Of course every murder was hard but when there was a child involved Kate took it more personal.
Upon hearing someone come closer the girl slowly lifted her head and adjusted her gaze on that person. Her eyes widened and there was a new tear that escaped her eye.
"Katie?" she asked in almost a whisper. Ryan, Esposito and Castle entered the room just to catch the look on Lanie's face. Kate turned to ask if anyone had mentioned her name earlier but they all told her no.
'Who cares?' she thought, 'I'll figure that one out later.' Right now it was more important to gain that little girls trust and get her away from her mother.
"Yes" Kate gave her a smile while kneeling down beside the bed. "Want to tell me your name?" The girl frantically shook her head and looked over at the four people in the doorway for the first time.
"It's okay, honey" She reached out to wipe away the tears that were drying on the girl's cheeks and she let her. The others just watched, too stunned to say anything. Before Kate no one even got that close to the bed without causing painful screaming.
"Do you want me to take you away from them?" Kate glanced over her shoulder, indicating to her friends. "So it's just the two of us for a while?"
When the girl nodded she gently lifted her up from the bed and she immediately wrapped her legs around Kate's waist, crossing her feet for support. Her head was buried in Kate's hair and sunk even deeper when she sensed anyone other near her. Kate took her free hand and placed it on the back of the girl's head, shielding her from looks.
Outside the bedroom were noises everywhere – people finally getting to work, yelling orders. It probably wasn't the best place for a scared two year old – but what else could Kate have done? The little girl stiffened and Kate could hear her sob.
"You don't have to cry, honey. No one can see you right now, you know!"
"Really?" the girl asked into Kate's shirt.
"Yeah, you're invisible!" Immediately Kate felt the girl relax.
"Who are you talking to, Katie?" Castle asked, having heard their little conversation.
"See, you're invisible." Kate said with a smile before she turned to Castle. "There's this adorable little girl but she doesn't want to be seen, Ricky." She flashed him a teasing smile.
"That's sad. Because if she really is that adorable I would have bought her ice-cream later." Kate shot him a look that clearly said 'she's three at the most' but kept her comment to herself when she felt a weight lifted from her shoulder.
"Ice-cream?" It was shy but it was more than nothing.
"As much as you want."
"You promise?"
"Anything for you, beautiful!" he replied.
Kate was fascinated by the girl warming up to Castle that easily. And all it took was the promise of unhealthy desert. On demand Kate let her out off her arms and watched as the girl took both of their hands and dragged them into another room.
It was the only one except for the master bedroom that had furniture in it. There was a bed covered in Disney princess, a shelf with what looked like every Disney book ever released and another one full of toys and teddy bears. There was no question whom that room belonged to. Kate just hoped she could keep all this stuff with whoever the girl had to live now.
Kate sat herself on the bed, folded one of her legs underneath her and sat the girl in her lap. Castle sat next to her, closer than she normally would allow. She put her hands around the girls waist from behind and smiled when she leaned herself against Kate's chest.
"Do you want to tell me your name now, honey?"
"Chas" the girl stated. Then she held up three fingers as to answer the question no one had asked yet.
"You're a mind reader. Wow!" Castle said, tipping Chas nose with his index finger, what made her giggle.
Then she suddenly got out of Kate's grip and off the bed, walking over to her teddy shelf. When she turned around, she had picked up her old teddy off the floor as well as two others from the shelf. She handed one to Kate and one to Castle before she hopped onto Kate's lap again.
"Now we friends!" she declared, sticking out her bottom lip just a little and looked at them with those green eyes. Castle couldn't help but notice that they reminded him of Kate's and when he looked up at her to confirm it he knew she'd seen it, too.
Kate abruptly stood up, sitting Chas in Rick's lap.
"I'll be back in a minute" she said and walked out the room. Lanie, who just entered the room, gave him a questioning look but Castle just shrugged his shoulders.
"I might know who she is!" Kate said after taking her first look at the victim and noticing how much alike she looked to herself.
*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*