my friend tweeted me a BTS picture of Castle, on happy friends day. It was a picture of "Beckett and Lanie standing in front of a dead man's body.' she wrote a couple of lines to go with the pic.

"Happy friends day, Beckett." Lanie calls as Beckett enters the morgue door.
"You called me down here to tell me that?" she glances at the dead body rolling her eyes.
"What we have seen dead bodies before,"
"Yeah, a little to many." Beckett turns to leave her friend to her work of cutting the man open.
"Well, they need friends too."
"Whatever...bye..." she sings waving at Lanie and the dead man.

The picture stuck in my head along with season six finale where Castle in his car says he has the papers, and that she free but not for long. so I wrote the following Fanfic to go alone with it. Sorry, it's another continuation to 623. I know that a lot of people didn't like the season end but maybe this will help!

Warning: sad story but with a happy ending!

Final words
by Fibbermegee
8/10/14

"And Kate... I love you."
"I love you, too."
Their last words to each other before the unthinkable happened. The teary eyed Kate Beckett jumps out of the car that the newly weds were to leave in, only to see her worst nightmare. Police cars, ambulance, firetrucks and a black van at the scene. With the bottom of her wedding dress fisted in her hands, rushes past the police cars ignoring the yelling, to see what happened to his car, her lover's car. Her heart was pounding a mile a minute as she glances at the scene in front of her. Edging closer to the edge she held her breath. The smoke shot through the air and the heat of the flames over whelmed her. Her lover's car had crashed and the car's on fire. What was she going to see down there?

Kate Beckett stares for a few seconds than collapses to her knees placing her head in her hands, letting the tears run down her face. This time not caring who saw her. Her friend, partner and now lover was now, in her eyes gone. How was she going to move again? How was she going to smile again? His last words rang out in her mind. "And Kate I love you." She didn't get to hear those words to often. Why did I wait this long to experience his love...She glances up towards the sky, wishing all of this was a nightmare that she was going to wake up from any minute. "Why, now we just met... and he's never gonna know, my secret."

"Kate," She hears a female voice call at her.

"What an angel? Why would?"

"Beckett," calls another familiar voice. "Come back from the edge, there is nothing we can do!"

"Ryan,!" She lifts her head and glares at him. "Just leave me alone! I..." seeing the look in her eyes a death look. Ryan backs away letting Lanie console her friend. Shaking his head as he passed Esposito.

"Honey listen," Lanie comes closer to her. "We are doing all we can...it's just." She kneels down next to her heartbroken friend, who places her hands over her eyes and starts to weep. "Why did he leave me, Lanie, we were happy...I was." she sniffs.

"Sweetie, I know that you were in love, still are but..." Tears run down Beckett's cheek.

Briefly glancing up at her friend, "Lanie," she looks back down, in the direction of the crash. "What am I supposed to do? He was..." her voice trailed off when Ryan and Esposito place their arms under her shoulder and left her up to her feet.

"Easy now. Nice and slow bro." Esposito warns Ryan, like he didn't know any better.

"I have..." she sniffs, rushing into Laine arms, wrapping her arms around her friends neck a little to hard.

"We can't... They say it's not safe." Ryan goes on talking. Lanie glances over at Ryan and shakes her head slightly.

"Lanie what am I suppose to do? Give up and let him..." her voice was in short puffs. Beckett looks back at the black smoke shooting up to the sky. "Lanie help me." Lanie pushes Beckett back some to look her friend in the eye.

"Come this way." She takes her by the hand slowly gliding Beckett away from the crash sight.

"That's." a man calls, point in the direction of Beckett.

Lanie, not knowing if Beckett heard or not, nods to the man. He tilts his eyes to a van, shaking his head slightly, and mouthing the words 'sorry'. Lanie could feel her best friend's tears soaking her shirt. She too had tears flowing from her eyes, just getting the silent news that there was a body recovered from the crash.

"Let's go." Lanie suggested, not wanting Beckett to feel any more pain. Especially, not to see his body, in that van on her wedding day. His, what she believed was going to be a blacked bloody burned up body.

"I can't...not till I know something." She was back to being Kate Beckett NYPD.

"Kate, there's..." Lanie swallows not knowing how to explain this to her best friend that, there was nothing they could do for Castle now.

"Katherine, darling is everything okay. Where's Richard?" Martha races up to Beckett with Alexis a few feet behind her.

"Oh, Martha," Beckett sniffs, grabbing her. "His..." Beckett swallows still not all that sure what was going on. Alexis joins in on the hug.

As the three of them hug each other Lanie slips away from them to go see what's in the van. She had seen many bodies in that van before but this one was going to be one of the worst. She never wanted to see this in her life time. See any of her friends like that, but she had to know. If it was him, Beckett needed to know. I wish that I didn't have to be the one to tell her that her fiancee isn't going to make it down the aisle. To hold her on her wedding night. She sniffs then looks at where the man pointed with only his head. There was no van anywhere.

What a van just doesn't vanish? and I didn't hear it leave. How is that even possible? This is not one of Castle's crazy theories. She shakes her head, trying to shake the tears. Sure she thought his theories were far out there but that's what make her laugh at the two of them. And him finishing Beckett's sentences was so cute to her. I'm going to miss that the most...with another shake of her head. She glances around.

Beckett glances at Lanie's confusion, "What's the word...anything?"

"Nothing haven't found out." Lanie lies to her friend. "No one." she smiles, "I'm going to find out what the boys might have heard." She sees Ryan and Esposito walking around. Both of them have been crying to.

"They just took what they believe to be Castle's body to the morgue." Ryan calls to her as she approaches them. Esposito automatically slaps Ryan in the back of the head. "What was that for?" he gave Esposito a dirty, how dare you look.

"Beckett doesn't need to know that yet."

Beckett watches the three of them talk. Even though she can't hear every word being said, their body langue tells her they're sharing a secret.
"They don't know that for sure bro. It might not have been him. I didn't want her to know just yet. Till..." Ryan cut him off looking at Lanie when he says,

"They want..." he points to her.

"Me?" she's taken back. "They want me to ID him, why me?"

"Like Ryan says they want the best..." Esposito adds, without looking at her. She swallows then glance a quick two second look back at Beckett, shaking her head. They want me to id my best friend's fiancee, can this day get any worse? She sighs, "Let's get this over with." she lowers her head some. "I think it's going to be a long night."

"We didn't want to tell her till..." Ryan tries to smile but couldn't bring himself to. He just could have possible lost one of his best guy friends.

"We get positive an id on the body..." Lanie responds, "I get it...I just." wipes away her tears. She too like Beckett has to go from being a friend to work partner.

"I'll go," Esposito volunteers seeing how shaken Lanie was getting.

"No I will." Ryan chimes in.

"I'm older I'll go." Esposito counters back.

"Stop it you two," Lanie wiggles her fingers at them. "You too fight like brothers. No one is going to see the body yet." Lanie shouts a little to loud, just enough for Beckett, who was walking up with them, to catch the words 'the body.'

"Lanie there's a body?" Beckett stops her eyes rolls back in her head and she starts to collapse. Once again the boys jump into action racing to her catching her. "Beckett," Ryan gently calls holding her up so she doesn't hit the ground. Martha and Alexis gasp at the sight more than what had been said.

"Is it true?" Alexis turns to her mother, "That there's a body?"

"A body, where?" Apparently Martha was aware of what had been said.

"All I know is that a body was recovered." Lanie tries to explain to the two of them. Alexis grabs her mother tightly crying her eyes out.

"Is it..." Martha, couldn't even finish her sentence before she too was balling her eyes out.
Martha holds on tight to Alexis.

"I don't know all that much. The body of a male was brought to the morgue a few minutes ago." Everyone stares at her. "But that doesn't mean..."

"But it's a possibility it could be!" She was hoping the Lanie would be reassuring her that it wasn't her father in the morgue.

"I don't know sweetie. They have asked for my assistance."

"Then that seals it." Alexis buries her head into her grandmother's shoulder. "It is him," she peers up slightly, "And they want you to id him. So his family doesn't have too." Alexis again buries her head weeping loudly. Her grandmother moves her granddaughter's head against her chest, than lowers her own head closer.

"Oh, kiddo..."

"Where's the body..." Perlmutter slaps his hand over his mouth, when sees Beckett in a wedding dress. Why is she here at the crime scene in a wedding dress or any dress for that matter. Although she does look sexy. He shook the thought. I shouldn't be thinking that way. He told himself. She's in love with that none detective, Castle guy. And asking about him where is he? He's usually right in center...Perlmutter glances at all the people there, have they been crying oh no, it wasn't...if it was than why call me. I'm...He looks at Lanie who is also dressed inappropriately for just a normal crime scene.

"I'm sorry I..." Perlmutter turns away not really wanting to get involved with this. That's why I work with the dead and not the living. I don't have to feel or see emotions.

Lanie places her hand on Beckett's shoulder. "He didn't mean..."

"I..." Lanie steps in front of her friend embracing her once again.

"No you don't...I know what you are thinking."

"Lanie, I need to do this...if I..." she stares over at Perlmutter who is standing talking to other cops.

There is no way in hell that I'm letting her go to the morgue and id what could be her burned fiancee on her wedding day.

"Honey listen to me. You don't want to see or remember him like this..."

"Lanie, I can't walk away, you know that." Beckett steps back. "He wouldn't walk away from me. He wouldn't leave me and I won't leave him."
Lanie sighs, she now knows that she had to let Beckett do this or else. Else she might lose her best friend. Beckett wouldn't never forgive me if I don't. She shakes her head, what other choice do I have?

"Okay," with a nod and a sigh, Lanie agrees. Maybe making the biggest decision of her life. "We do it together." Beckett tears up just from the words that she used, 'we do it together', that's what Castle always wanted her to do. He wanted them to do it together. Maybe he was just chicken but she thought he just wanted to be with her always. 'Always' another word that took on a new meaning in her life. How am I going to face the world now without...she swallows. Can I? We were partners, we were each other's lifelines and now...

"Go wait for me," Lanie whispers to her so that Martha or Alexis doesn't hear them talking. "by my car." Beckett nods slowly, turning away. She didn't want to let go of Lanie either. She just wanted to be held, till all her emotions were settled. Would that ever happen? Beckett slowly walks to Lanie's car.

"How is she?" Gates asks coming up to Lanie. "This can't be easy on her..."

"Not all that good. I just..." Lanie hearing the faint rumble of what she believes to be thunder, glances up. "I'm going to take her home." Still watching the sky as fast moving dark clouds rolls across the sky.

"Than you better hurry, it looks bad. Like a storm is settling in." Gates rushes off.

"Javy," Lanie waves at the boys, "Take Alexis and Martha to the precinct." Ryan scans the area.

"Where are they?" Ryan calls.

"Oh no, they must have heard my plans with Beckett." Lanie responds. "Great," she says under her breath. "Just what I need more people there in my morgue." Did I just say my morgue?

"In the morgue?" Ryan questions confused.

"You were taking her there, on her wedding day!" shouts Esposito. "That's just cold."

"Lanie you can't do that." Ryan waves his hands about. "If you..."

"Either I do, or she will do, what his family is now, going on her own." Lanie walks past the guys to her car. "I don't want her to be alone. I don't think she can handle that right now."

"We,"

"Find Alexis and Martha. Before..." Before she got the last of her sentence out, the bottom drops out of the clouds in one big gush of pouring down rain. "Go now!" Lanie rushes over to her car as quick as she can wearing a dress. Beckett stood there drenched standing in the rain.

"Kate, I..." Beckett looks up at the sky, letting the water hit her face. She wanted to erase all of today away alone with her tears. This time there would not be a second chances.

to be continued...