How is it like to miss someone? How is it like to lose someone you cared about? Will you still have the strength to continue life if the reason you live will be taken away from you? Will you still be able to find happiness if you needed to hide? Will you try to turn back time and wonder, if only...?
Come as I take you inside the life of Rick and Kate, a writer and a cop fighting crimes in New York. A newly-wed couple who just started their lives together and found themselves in a middle of huge decision that they needed to make that will entirely change their lives.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story. All characters based on Castle belong to their creator Andrew Marlowe, the Castle Production and ABC Company alone.
Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 8:00 am
It has been a month since he got to see her the last time and heard her voice, it was since he left the city for some major book signing across the country. Thinking of their last conversation back then, he started worrying, started feeling the pain and the longing. He misses her a lot and in a terrible way.
He couldn't reach her phone, he thought that she must've left it at her desk or she might be at the break room talking with Ryan and Esposito or maybe at the lab working with Lanie.
He run through his computer for emails every now and then, looking into his phone for any text messages whenever he can, but nothing has changed. She hasn't called nor left any messages at all.
He tried scrounging foods on the refrigerator and found himself comfortably lying on the couch while checking on the afternoon news on his television. He wanted to call her yet his eight-year-old-ego says that she has to be the one to make the call. He waited until his phone rung, excited as he was he run from the kitchen into his bedroom where he left his phone. He picked it up in a hurry as he was to take the call, a smile drew wide across his face. He was so happy his heart was bursting with excitement.
He unlocked his phone and went to open the voice message and his heart was beating faster, and then he saw the name pop, it was from the person who he misses a lot, it was from her. His Kate.
"Rick, I don't even know where to start but, I ... I just ... I just wanted to tell you that..." her voice was really shaky as she paused and continued, "I miss you a lot, terribly I guess and I'm so sorry if I haven't got the time to answer any of your calls or even your messages, it's just that this case we have now it's quite complicated, it has been a lot difficult not having you around." Her voice sounded deep and serious, but what he only cared for is at last he heard her voice.
His heart stopped for a second and then all that he can think was how come he couldn't be there in times like this, in times she needed him the most.
The voice continued and said, "But I just want you to know that..." she paused again with a deep breath and continued in a trembling voice.
"This case we're trying to solve ... it has to do with ... 3XK, but Rick ... we got this. Don't worry, ok?. I'll be home late, prepare for a long night, K? I really miss you. Now I gotta go, Espo said we got a lead, hope this lead us to something. See you later and Rick, I love you."
As he looked at his phone he realized so many things. First was that he terribly missed the tone of her voice and the way she calls him. The way she would tell him not to worry at all and that she'll be home. That he just wanted to see her, to give her the tightest of embrace, to hold her hands and to finally be able kiss her again.
He missed everything about her, even the smallest things. He was so happy to be able to hear her voice again. He felt the relief, until he realized the last part of the message.
His heart's pounding. He cannot stop it on beating too fast for the fact that he was shocked to what his Kate has told him, that the guy who tried to kill him twice, the guy who almost killed his Kate is back and that he was still out there. His lips fainted as he thought of all the possibilities. He was afraid for he knew, that the guy will still be hunting for him and much more he was afraid of what this guy would do to her, to his Kate.
His hands were shaking. He went to the kitchen to get some water on the refrigerator and took a big gulp of it and started to calm himself.
"Rick calm down don't be such a little boy." He whispered to himself as he tried to put down the glass of water in the table.
"There is nothing I can do now." he muttered, while he walked through the kitchen trying to think of what he should do. Back and forth in the kitchen he walked just trying to think about what he can do to help them out and what he can do to help himself.
"Nothing." he whispered again. Now he sat down on one of the chairs around the table at the kitchen counter. There was a long moment of silence in the room. In the room where he is alone and doesn't know what to do. Martha and Alexis were at the Hamptons spending their one week vacation and that made things a bit easier for him he thought . He doesn't wanted them to know about the situation, because he was sure that it would just complicate things even more.
He shrugged and said with a deep sigh, "This is better." He stood up from his chair trying to sort his thoughts out and focus and with all the mystery and fear surrounding him he was able to come up with the best possible solution.
The first book of Maria Stacia III FOREVER: A LETTER FOR HER. The story is a mere projection of the imagination of the writer. This is a work of fiction. The writer only intends to entertain the readers.
Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely accidental. The author would love to hear your thoughts about the story. Feel free to leave your comments.