Hey so I decided to start a new story! My other stories were like the first fanfic I've ever written and I didn't really have any idea where I was going with them. And I learned the hard way that its easier to pre write chapters so I'm always ahead of when I publish them. But I've been reading a lot of young Alexis stories and I really wanted to write one. It was actually really fun, me and my best friend write together sometimes so we planned it all out and I started to write. She probably will just weigh in on other storylines and stuff. Oh and thank you to FadingInTheNightSky who I could rattle some ideas off of and she also gave me an idea for this story like of how I wanted to start it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Castle, if I did, there would be Caskett babies!

It had been a quiet week, Kate was sitting at her desk just filling out others paperwork . It had been strange. While every other division was slammed with cases, there seemed to be a lull of homicide. They had completed a case 2 weeks ago and hadn't had one since. So they had all been assigned other paperwork from divisions that were too backed up to finish their paperwork.

"Beckett!" Espo came running up to her.

"Espo unless its a case, I don't want-"

"We got a case." He said a hint of excitement in his voice

"Really?!"

"Well its not really a homicide, more like a possible homicide." Kate stared back at him. "We got a call from a small child, said she was 3 and that her dad was taken and shes scared and she needs help."

"Oh my gosh." Kate said as she grabbed her coat and walked with Espo to the elevator.

"Look Beckett, since Ryans gone and were short I thought I would just stay here and get started on finding suspects and other family."

"Sure" Beckett said staring into space.

"I'll text you the address."

"K" She respond, he patted her shoulder and turned around.

She got there as fast as she could and ran up the stairs which she thought were faster to the sixth floor and walked up to his apartment. The door was open and she could hear sobs coming from inside. She slowly opened the door and saw a little head pop out from behind the kitchen island. The little girl quickly looked away when she saw Kate. Slowly walking up to her she knelt down to the little girl who had her head in her knees.

"Hi. I'm Kate."

"Please don't hurt me." She sobbed and curled up tighter.

"Oh sweetie, I'm here to help. I work for the police and I'm trying to find your dad." At that the redhead glanced up at her, stared into her eyes for a second and flung herself into Kate. Her sobs grew louder and louder. Kate didn't know what to do so they sat together on the floor and Kate held her as she rubbed her back. Once she was done crying Kate let her go.

"Can you tell me your name sweetie."

"Um Alexis"

"Alright Alexis, can you tell me exactly what happened?"

The little girl nodded. "I came downstairs, daddy and I were gonna go to the zoo today and there was this guy here and he was scary and he was shouting at daddy and I ran up to daddy but the scary man hit me and then he pushed me on the ground and took daddy away." She said as she pointed to the place where the man had hit her.

"Okay well the doctors are going to come and get you checked out and then we'll call your family."

"NO!"

"Alexis you're bleeding you need a band-aid to-"

"NO please don't call my mom. I don't want her to take me away." She whimpered as her bottom lip started to quiver.

"You need to stay with someone until we find your dad." Kate said as she rubbed the girls arm.

"I don't want her to take me away and she doesn't love me and she isn't any fun."

"Hey!" Kate interrupted. "I bet your mom loves you very much. But how about we worry about that later."

"K" Alexis said as she crawled back into Kates lap.

The paramedics came in with Espo and the other officers. Kate looked down at Alexis who was clinging onto her shirt.

One of the paramedics came over to Alexis and started to pull stuff out of his bag. Kate lifted Alexis out of her lap and started to stand until she felt little fingers wrap around hers.

"Please don't leave me." Kate looked down at the little girl. She had big blue eyes that were red and filled with tears.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to leave you." Seeing Alexis was still unsure she ended her sentence with a quick "I promise."

"Thank you." Alexis looked up at Kate with a sad smile.

"I just have to go talk to my partners and then I'll be right back okay?" Alexis nodded and Kate made her way over to Espo. "So, what did you find?"

"Man abducted was Richard Castle, that mystery writer guy." Kates stomach twisted. Richard Castle, the Richard Castle the ones whose books had kept her going after her mother was murdered, the Richard Castle who signed her book and said that she had beautiful eyes, the Richard Castle with whose daughter she had just spent the past half hour with.

"Oh ya, I've um hear of him, anything else?"

"Went through a pretty nasty divorce about a year ago with a Meredith Castle, only other family is his daughter Alexis Castle and his mother Martha Rodgers." Kate sighed. "I'm assuming that little girl over there is Alexis. I can get started on calling family."

Kate knew the little girl didn't want to call her mother but Kate thought it would be better than her ending up in the system if her dad wasn't found.

"Ya. Um call his mother first and then his ex-wife."

"You got it boss." Espo went back to talk to the other officers who were taking pictures and samples. Kate made her way over to the little girl. The paramedic had bandged her cut.

"She seemed to have sustained no other injuries besides the nasty scrape which will heal in no time." He said as he pulled a lollipop out of his pocket and gave it to Alexis.

She took the lollipop gave him a sad smile and lifted her arms up to Kate. Kates heart fluttered. Grabbing her under arms, Kate picked her up and balanced heron one hip. Alexis held the lollipop out for her to take.

"You can have it."

"You don't want it?" Kate asked.

"No, this is for coming to get me and making me feel a little better and helping to find my daddy."

Kates stomach knotted up.

"Thank you so much Alexis." Kate said as she took the lollipop in her hand. Alexis laid her head on Kate's shoulder burying her face in Kates hair. Kate glanced down at her. She knew she had to get back to the precinct. They were short already. "Would you like to come back to work with me." Kate asked softly. Alexis nodded

"Please don't leave me." She yawned.

"I promise, I'm not going anywhere." Kate whispered as they walked out the door

Once they arrived at the precinct, Kate laid the fast asleep girl on the couch and she sat at the table next to her going through the case files. So far they couldn't get a hold of either Martha or Meredith though they had left numerous messages.

And they had no leads on any suspects. Sighing, she glanced over at the red-head. The steady rise and fall of her chest, her hair splayed all over the pillow, her little hands tucked under her head.

"Hey Beckett." Espo whispered as he walked in glancing over at the little girl fast asleep.

"Hey, found anything?" Kate asked

"Ya brought in his publisher for questioning which I need you for and then we can go through phone records."

"Okay, um, shes here now, the publisher?" Espo nodded. "Okay well I'll get an officer to keep an eye on her." She said as she glanced over at Alexis.

"Alright then lets go," Espo said as he pushed out of the room and motioned for one of the officers to come over and told him to keep an eye on the kid inside.

The woman brought in was gorgeous. She had blonde hair, an amazing figure. Kate watched her through the interrogation room window, observing her as she glanced around and looked down at her phone.

"Alright, lets do this." She said to herself as she left Espo to watch from behind the window

"Ms, Cowell." She said as she glanced down at the file. "I'd like to ask you a few questions about Richard Castle."

"Oh RIcky, ya I've like called a billion times and he's not picking up his phone. Where is he because we have a meeting tonight with-"

"Ms. Cowell, he's missing."

"Oh well, then find him."

"Thats what we're trying to do." Kate said not breaking eye contact.

"Then if why do you need to see me?"

"When was the last time you talked to richard."

"We talked about 3 days ago about the meeting today."

"And did anything seem off about him?"

"Not really. But he tried to cancel the meeting, said he had something important to do."

"Do you know what this important thing was?"

"No, I only get involved if its going to effect the press and he said this was just something his daughter had at school so I dropped the subject."

Kate sighed. "Okay, thanks, just stay close, we might have some more questions to ask you."

"Can I leave now?" She said sassily

"Yes, well have a cop escort you out."

"Oh no need, I know my way around."

Kate glanced back at her, she would do a check on her. And with that she walked out to talk to Espo.

"So?"

"It could be but I don't think she had anything to do with it. But lets find out who he called over the last few days, see if we can find out what he was doing."

"On it." Espo said as they started to hear shrieks. An officer ran out to Kate.

"Shes calling for you. We can't get her to calm down."

Kate sighed. This little girl had already gotten attached to her and she had gotten attached to Alexis. Where is this going? Kate wondered