Hey guys today (march 7th) is my birthday so here is a gift from me to you. My new story Ties in Between. Most of the OC characters are based on someone in my life. Bonus point if you can guess which ones. This main part of this story is a two part episode and the rest is a continuing theme on Castle.

Kate Beckett was at her house. Which was unusual, she was at the twelfth precinct most of the time. But it was 2 am so she had an excuse to be in her bed asleep. The only reason she wasn't asleep was because she had just been woken from her slumber by her cell phone ringing. She quickly grabbed the phone and said into the receiver

'Beckett'

'We got a murder' she heard Ryan's voice from the other end. 'And you aren't gonna like it. 1 dead, 1 missing. Castle should be by to pick you up soon.' She hung up with Ryan and got out of bed. She then heard the intercom buzz and Castle's voice came over the system.

'You ready Beckett?'
She hit the button and said

'Ummm, I just woke up, and I'm still getting dressed so why don't you just...come on up.'

She ran to the bathroom and brushed her teeth threw on a bit of make-up threw her hair up in a messy bun and then she heard a knock on the door. She looked down at her tank and pajama pants sighed and rushed to the door threw it open and before Castle could say anything, though he wasn't quite able to do so anyway, the sight of her in her p.j's had him speechless, she ran back to her bedroom and yelled

'I'll be ready in a few minutes. Go ahead and sit down.'

Three minutes later Detective Kate Beckett was ready for some bad-ass bad-guy ass-kicking (see how I did that with the bad and the ass!:•D) wearing her signature boots a pair of skinny jeans and a dark-blue long-sleeved t-shirt with a white blazer on top. She had her gun and badge in her hand. She ran past the couch where Richard Castle, author extrordinare, her partner, and the man who was staring there with his jaw on the floor at the sight of what he thought in his head was a (not that we disagree:•D) goddess in front of him, was sitting and grabbed his arm pulled him up and sped out the door, only stopping to lock the door. They then ran to his car. Kate leading and Rick being pulled along like a rag-doll which he truthfully didn't mind because he got to ogle at Kate without her knowing.

When they got to the car Kate was in such a rush she didn't even bother ordering Castle to let her drive she just got in on the passenger side and told him to step on it. Even with their amazing rush to get out of the apartment and the lack of obeying the speed limits it still took them 30 mins to get to their destination.

Castle took the time to fill Kate in on the case. A girl living with her single mom, was abducted by the same person who killed her mother. He said cautiously looking over at Kate for any sign of sadness. Kate meanwhile pushed all thoughts of the sorrow from her mom's death and started worrying about this girl, and how she would take it. For the girl Kate hoped she was either really young, 4-6, or significantly older 18-20 because that was easier. At 18 you are slightly independent. And the memories fade if your young enough. Her mom had been shot in the head and immediately died. They had investigated the evidence and found it had no connection to Beckett's own mother's case. Then the hard part came. 'There is significant evidence of the mom being sexually abused before her death, as in she was almost nude, and we think the same might happen to the little girl.'
'How little' It was the first thing she had said since she had gotten in the car.
'Huh?'
'How old is the 'little' girl Castle?' She said with a tone of steel.
'14 today'
They had arrived and the last thing she said before she got out of the car and slammed the door was 'Great birthday present'

Hope you liked it thought it was really short.

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Have a great day and Happy Birthday to you 'if it's your birthday when you read this'
-1hopelessromantic

aka

Paulina