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A/N: To clarify: Ryan was married to Jenny for 5 years. He has two children who are 4, Kate and Roy. Javi and Ryan have been partners for 6 years. Little confusing, but PM me if you are still confused.

A/N 2: Gets kind of fluffy at the end, but its team fluff. Besides, who doesn't like a Beckett, Ryan, Javi, Castle moment?

Summary: This is a different way of Still. What if it wasn't Beckett who stepped on that bomb? Javi/Ryan friendship.

It should have been an easy pickup of a suspect. Javi would never think that this would have happened.

It started last month, during their weekly Madden game. Ryan was losing, 3-9 and Javi was in a good mood. Ryan wasn't really paying any attention to the game, he looked lost and scared. Javi didn't look around his partner's apartment until his brain felt something a little off.

"Honey milk not here tonight?" He asked, not taking his eyes off of the television. He didn't hear Ryan's answer and looked over at him. "You ok, bro?"

Ryan nodded, but Javi didn't believe him "You sure? You know you can-."

"She left. Last month. Divorce just went through. Was mad at me for staying late," was all Ryan said to Javi. He looked around, noticing the lack of woman decorations. He suddenly felt guilty for not noticing his partners' pain as the divorce went through. Suddenly he realized that his partners' kids weren't there.

"Jenny took your kids too?" he sounded mad. They were amazingly adorable, Roy sticking up for his sister in kindergarten and hearing the stories Ryan told him over beer.

"Yeah, she said that I can see them on the weekends just because I'm a cop."

"When'd it start?"

"Month and a half ago," short answers again. "We started fighting because of her ridiculous reason of wanting to move to Connecticut and then again when I found Morgan. She called him a 'dirty, weird, midget person.' As if that isn't me? Then when we started fighting in front of Roy and Kate, we both had enough." Javi let Ryan rant. He needed to.

Ryan's phone rang, but he ignored it. Javi sighed and glanced at the caller id. Beckett. Damn. So much for a Madden night in. Javi nudged the cell phone over towards Ryan and the Irish detective answered it with a 'Ryan'. Javi heard a blob of words and saw his partner jot something down. "Ready to go? I'll drive."

"Bro, you still can't drive after what happened."

"Yeah but who's got the address? Me."

"Not anymore."

Javi ended up driving to the apartment, he still didn't trust Ryan after that one time he ran over a mailbox, three dead birds, and hit the suspect. After that, Javi banned Ryan from driving the cruiser.

Beckett helped the boys get their vests on as they swarmed the apartment yelling "NYPD!" Ryan and Javi took the front while Beckett and Castle took the back of the apartment. If Javi could see into the future, then he probably would have gone first instead of Ryan taking the lead. He heard his boss say something and a quiet click under Ryan's feet. He glanced over at his partner, and saw the same scared expression on his face.

"Javi," Ryan started.

Oh, cliffhanger! Oh how everyone hates them but the writer! You guys are lucky, my dad had to wipe the computer (again) and I got this on my flash drive. Also, I'm posting this while I'm supposed to do my history paper. Please review! It makes my day!