For Family and For Love
Sequel to 'When the Partnership Ends'
A/N: You need to read the first story…When the Partnership Ends to get all the AUness and the O/Cs. Immy looks like Jennifer Lawrence…but in this story Jennifer isn't the actress who plays Katniss...yup. Enjoy. OH! AND! Don't own Castle or the Hunger Games. (:
Bit of Background Info: Castle knows about Kate lying but hasn't confronted Kate about it and is just acting strange and parading around blonde bimbos and acting like a jack arse…. Also Immy got cast as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games movie and is between LA and NY for filming and all that great stuff.
Enjoy this chapter :)
Chapter One
Immy looked around the lounge room as she placed her two duffels down beside the couch and went off in search of her aunt. She walked into the study to see Kate sitting there looking at her laptop screen as she went through her e-mails and finished off her paperwork. Immy stood in the door and just watched and waited for Kate to realize that someone was standing in the doorway.
Kate could sense someone standing behind her and slowly turned to see Immy standing in the door way. Kate's face instantly lit up and she was so glad to have her beautiful niece back in New York. Kate stood and wrapped her arms around her niece and kissed her head.
"Immy! I have missed you so much!" Kate said holding Immy close to her chest. Immy relaxed into her aunts arms and rested her head on Kate's chest snuggling into her comfort.
"I missed you. I am so glad to be home," Immy said as she released Kate and smiled. "I may or may not have also missed my nice big bed…" Immy said with a grin. Kate rolled her eyes and laughed. Classic Immy. Kate smiled and she pulled Immy towards the kitchen and got her a bottle of water.
"How was the flight?" Kate asked. Immy sighed and looked at her aunt.
"Longer than normal. Glad it's over," Immy said with a smile. Kate smiled.
"Well, we have to have a chat. About the house," Kate said. Immy looked at Kate confused. Why did they have to talk about the house?
"Um, okay…?" Immy said with an almost questioning tone. Kate smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Stress less Imm. It's nothing bad. I was just thinking that maybe we should move to a safer area. There have been a few break ins around here and when you're in LA or doing whatever it is that you have to do and I am working late, there's no one here to look after the house and I know there is a lot here that you wouldn't want stolen with it being from your mum and dad and then Jordana and Jax," Kate said. Immy nodded her head.
"Well that does sound reasonable. Any places in mind?" Immy asked. Kate nodded her head and pulled out a paper from the stack on the kitchen bench. She unfolded the paper and showed her a beautiful modern two story house that looked beautiful.
"Kate, that house, looks amazing!" Immy said looking through the pamphlet Kate had picked up on the house. She looked through and saw that it had 5 bedrooms which meant there was one for Kate, Immy, Ian and Dakota and then a spare room. It had a large backyard with an outdoor entertainment area and a pool.
"It's in the best area in New York and it's new and modern and I thought that we could maybe have a look through it today if you feel up to it…?" Kate said with a hopeful look in her eyes. Immy smiled and laughed.
"Okay. On one condition, you let me know what's going on with you and Castle," Immy said. Kate sighed.
"Immy…" Kate said. Immy shook her head.
"It doesn't have to be today. But, I just want to know about what's happening. You can't be shutting me out Kate. We're family and we are all we have left," Immy said. "Well, there is Dakota and Ian and Gramps and the boys and Lanie but still…we are family Kate."
Kate laughed and smiled at her niece as she wrapped an arm around Immy's shoulders in a one armed hug. Immy was exactly right. They were family and there weren't many of the Beckett/Levi/Riley family left anymore. They had to stick together and she knew Immy would probably be good to talk to because she didn't have any pre-conceived ideas about herself and Castle unlike the boys and Lanie.
"Okay, it's a deal. I'll talk about what happened but tonight, over dinner," Kate said with a smile. Immy nodded her head. Kate smiled and hugged her niece. She loved her like she would love a daughter and she knew that Immy loved her like a second mother.
CASTLE
Immy and Kate had looked through the house and had decided to buy it and put theirs on the market all in one day. They were headed towards a small quiet secluded restaurant which Kate knew Immy absolutely loved and had booked a table two weeks in advance so they were garneted a spot there.
"Kate, I love this place!" Immy said as they sat down in their booth. Kate smiled.
"I know, that's why I booked it two weeks ago when you told me you were coming home for a month break," Kate said.
"Thank-you. This is just what I needed. I haven't had a decent meal in ages," Immy said with a grin as she looked over the menu.
"How has it been so far?" Kate asked. "Is it all big and exciting?" Kate asked with a smile. Immy nodded her head.
"Yes. LA and the set and the cast and crew, they're all amazing! I love the cast, Josh Hutcherson is so nice and so fun to be around and Liam Hemsworth, a fellow Aussie, didn't take us long to bond," Immy said with a grin.
"I still can't believe you are starring in The Hunger Games! You are playing Katniss Everdeen! Immy, I am so incredibly proud of you right now!" Kate said with a smile. Immy smiled back. She couldn't believe it either. She had no acting experience and she just audition for fun because her school got asked to send a couple of people to audition and she was the one that ended up getting cast in the role of the lead female, Katniss Everdeen.
"Now Kate, enough about me…what's going on?" Immy asked. Kate sighed.
"I honestly don't know. One day we are fine acting like normal and the next he starts parading around blonde bimbos and is just being a complete jerk towards me and he won't have a decent conversation with me about what's going on or about anything really," Kate said as she let out a frustrated sigh.
"Oh Katie B!" Immy said as she gave her hand a squeeze. "I will slap that man! You know I will!" Immy said with her serious face on. Kate chuckled.
"Thanks Imm but I think I will just figure it out somehow. I mean, it'll pass yeah?" Kate asked Immy. Immy shrugged her shoulders.
"I honestly, have no idea Kate. I really wish I did but I really don't have any idea what will happen. All I can say is just keep persisting and find out why he is acting so horrible towards you and if you can't figure it out and it doesn't change…kick him to the curb. You deserve someone better who will treat you right. Wether that be a partner, best friend, friend or lover," Immy said as she gave Kate's hand a squeeze. Kate gave her a small smile and squeezed Immy's hand in return.
Immy was right. She did deserve someone who would treat her right but that person was Castle …well at least, before everything changed between them. Kate just wanted everything to go back to how it was. To how it all was before everything changed.
CASTLE
Richard Castle sat at his desk and looked at the blank document and the unmoving cursor that was blinking at him encouraging him to type something into the document. He had no inspiration after everything that had been happening at the 12th. He knew what he was doing to Kate was hurting her but she deserved it after lying to him for a full 12 months.
If she was going to reject him the least she could have done would have been to say it to his face instead of lying about it for a full year. He still loved her and knew that it would most likely never stop but he knew that if he wanted to let go off all the feelings he had felt for her, he had to serve all ties with her. And this, this was going to be the very last Nikki Heat book ever. No matter what happened. This was the end of Nikki all together.
At last the words started to flow out of him and onto the paper. He was not going to make it terrible but he was going to make it like how he wanted their relationship to have ended and not how it was currently fizzling out. It didn't seem fair to kill Nikki off again so he decided that he was going to be nice and fair about it. But it was going to be the end and he was going to tell Kate that he was severing their partnership.
CASTLE
Castle walked into the 12th with one thing on his mind. Telling Kate it was over. This however did not go to plan when he walked in to see Immy sitting at Kate's desk talking to Ryan and Esposito and Kate talking to Gates. He walked over carefully.
"I can't believe you were the one to get cast out of everyone that auditioned for the role!" Esposito said. Immy smiled.
"I know. I still find it hard to believe myself. I am in awe of it all!" Immy said with an excited smile.
"What's it all like?" Ryan asked.
"It's amazing! Everyone is so nice and they are just welcoming me with open arms and showing me the ropes and helping deal with everything. They are just all so nice," Immy said with a smile. You could tell she was on cloud nine.
"Oh, hey there Castle," Immy said almost shyly. She didn't know how he was going to act.
"Hello Imogen," Castle said with a slight nod before looking at where Kate was talking with Gates. He watched as Kate signed some papers and then handed them back to Gates and headed out to where Immy was sitting. She picked up her coat and bag.
"We are free to go Imm," Kate said with a smile. "Ready?"Immy nodded her head and stood up.
"We're free if you girls need help," Esposito said with a smile.
"Well, maybe we'll call you when it comes to the furniture," Kate said with a smile.
"Are you moving?" Castle asked. Kate looked up.
"Um, yeah. Just moving houses," Kate said. "Come on Imm! We have some shopping to do," Kate said with a smile looking towards Immy. Immy grinned and headed for the elevator with Kate right behind her. Castle sighed. Looked like he wasn't telling Kate that their partnership was over today.
A/N: do you like? review and let me know please.. I promise you, it's going to get WAY better! I have big plans of bike accidents and things like that :) let me know if you have ideas too!
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