Disclaimer: As much as I wish I did, I do not own Castle, the TV show or any of the characters. Now Enjoy the story!
Chapter 1
"Hey dad" Alexis said as she walked into her fathers office. "How is the book coming?"
"Ok, you're stuck in a 4 ft square closet with your hands and feet tied, tape over your mouth, no handle on the inside. All there is in there is a coat hangar...how do you get out?" came the reply from behind the computer screen of Rick Castle's laptop.
"Do you mean if I was stuck in a closet or if Nikki Heat was stuck in a closet?"
"Well assuming you never end up in that situation, Nikki"
"Well if there's no handle, that means no lock to pick, so the hangar is pretty useless. The only way out is to kick the door down."
"I knew you took after me sweetheart." Castle said amid a flurry of typing.
"Thanks dad, I'm going out with some friends from school. Ill be back in a couple hours."
"Sure sweetie, have fun."
All of a sudden there was a crash from the other room. Castle got up and rushed out of his office to see what happened. He got into the living room to see Martha standing with a tennis ball in each hand and looking at another one on the ground amidst shards of broken lamp.
"Uh mom, do I want to know what's going on here?"
"Oh I was just trying to teach myself how to juggle dear, sorry about the lamp, I'm fine though" she rattled off, setting the tennis balls down and starting to pick up the pieces of the lamp.
"Learning…to…juggle?" Castle asked with a confused look on his face, helping her to sweep up the mess.
"Yes, it's for a part in this play that's coming around soon. Something about a feisty middle aged woman who ran away from the circus."
"Sorry I asked" muttered Castle as he finished cleaning up and headed back to his office, leaving his mother to her juggling lessons.
Just as he got back to his desk his phone rang. He looked at the caller id before smiling and picking it up.
"Castle" he listened to the voice on the other end for a second.
"I'm on my way."
Meanwhile….
Detective Kate Beckett rolled over and looked at her clock. 10:27. She sighed happily and said a quick prayer for Saturdays, her one day to sleep in. She decided to spend the rest of her morning on her guilty pleasure: reading Richard Castle novels. She felt even more guilty about it now that they had been working together for so long, but she couldn't help it. She loved them too much to give them up because all of a sudden she was friends with the author.
She got out of bed, grabbed her favorite one off the shelf and curled up on the couch, still in her pajamas.
An hour later her stomach told her it was time for some food. She closed the book and put it back on the shelf. Opening the refrigerator she realized she had forgotten to go to the store. Crap. Searching the cupboards she found a box of macaroni and cheese and decided that it would have to do for now. She looked at the clock again. 11:48, less than an hour before she had to be at the precinct. While her lunch was cooking the detective got dressed. She grabbed her badge and credentials, inhaled a bowl of mac and cheese and headed out the door of her apartment, grabbing a taxi once she got to the street.
She walked over to her desk and was about to take her coat off when her partners, Detectives Ryan and Esposito entered the room at a fast pace.
"Don't bother" they said in unison
"We got a case" said Esposito.
"Female vic found dead in her hotel room" finished Ryan.
The three of them races out the door as Beckett reached for her phone and dialed the, by now, familiar number.
She smiled a little bit as she heard the voice pick up on the other end.
"We have a body. You coming?"
Well, that's the end of chapter 1. please review and let me know what you thought!