So this is one I thought of during one of my friends AMAZINGLY RANDOM OCD MOMENTS (details later) I hope it works out
Castle hadn't expected to show up at the precinct that day. Having not had a case in awhile had been nice. He had time to work on his book and to catch up on some reading. He walked along the corridor to where Beckett sat and set her coffee down in front of her. She had her cell in hand.
"I was about to call you. We gotta case."
"Perfect I was running a little dry on the imagination department." He took a sip of his coffee and they walked to her service vehicle. Driving up to the crime scene Castle knew for some reason it was different. The atmosphere about it seemed off. They got out of the car and Lanie spotted them then gave Beckett a look. Beckett waved her off with a tell you later hand movement. They made their way to the body and Castle knew it was wrong. They walked up into the older looking house. Not much was too different yet. Until they entered the kitchen and looked at the table. The girl was laid out in nothing but a bra and underwear. She looked as if she just fell asleep, well besides the blood and bruising.
"What happened?" Beckett asked clearly puzzled as well. It wasn't every day that they had a case like this one.
"Well looks like she was going to bed and someone came in to rob the place when she intercepted them and –"
"Ended up getting robbed of her life." Lanie shot him a look.
"- as I was saying, she was shot at point blank at the temple and from the looks of it she tried to fight back. There was a knife or something in her hands and from squeezing so hard," Lanie lifted the girl's fingers slightly. "It left a indentation pattern. I'd say TOD about 8 last night from the color of the bruises."
"That's a new one." Beckett hated to ask this, but the signs were obvious.
"Was she raped?"
"No, I know that's what I thought at first too." Good she wouldn't have to hand this over to SVU. Castle was looking around and stopped in his tracks.
"Did you guys hear that?" They both looked back at him and shook their heads. He waited and pointed a finger up. It took a minute later, but the noise came again. Crying. Castle raced up the flight of stairs and listened again. Beckett was following behind him. He went into one of the rooms and Beckett stopped at the door. It was a nursery. An occupied nursery. No wonder he flew up those stairs. Fatherly instincts kicked in and took over. He looked over what looked like a crib and picked up the crying infant. Beckett, eyes wide held her spot at the door. Then called down to Lanie to come up. Castle was holding the baby in his arms and gently swaying back and forth. He walked over to Beckett and when he looked up she was scared for a second. The look in his eyes was feral. "We have to find this guy." Beckett nodded as Lanie was coming into the room to stop right behind Beckett.
"Why didn't uniforms find him?"
"Her."
"Her sorry."
"She must have been asleep." He looked around and checked the whole square inch of the room. He didn't find what he was looking for. "New mom. No baby monitor." Beckett was looking at the infant with a fascination and also as if it was part alien. This was going to be an interesting case.
"We have to find any relatives, or guardians." Beckett backed up and let Castle walk out. Ryan and Esposito finally arrived and stopped at the top of the stairs. They looked around Castle at Beckett with a the hell look. She waved them off mouthing "Tell you later". They moved around Castle as they looked around upstairs for anything else. Castle, Beckett, and Lanie walked downstairs Castle avoiding the body, for the baby's sake.
"Car seat." Castle said absently.
"What?"
"You're car doesn't have a car seat. She needs one." He held her in one arm as he waved to her car. She looked over at Lanie and Lanie motioned for Ryan to come down. He was there instantly and Lanie told him that he had to find the car seat. He raced back up the stairs and came down in a few minutes following. He handed Castle the car seat in trade for the baby. Ryan held her at arm's length as though she had an infectious disease. Lanie set her stuff down and grabbed her.
"You can't hold her like that." The baby cooed at Lanie and in reply she gently bounced the baby just enough to make her squeal in delight. Ryan and Esposito stayed away; probably afraid they would be a bad influence on the young child. Castle was done and motioned for Lanie to bring her over. He gently strapped her into the seat and softly sang a song that wasn't ringing any bells to Beckett. She caught some of what he was singing,
"…Now hush little baby don't you cry, everything's going to be alright. Stiffen that upper lip up little lady I told ya I know mommy not here right now and we don't know why it may seem a little crazy pretty baby but I promise momma's gonna be alright…" His voice faded as the baby closed its eyes and fell instantly asleep. He turned around and the crew was looking at him. "What? Can have her in my arms while we search the house, now can we?" He walked past them and soon followed in suit. He put on some gloves and looked around the house. He was sorting through papers and notes strewn around the house. He saw a picture that caught his eye. He saw the frame was broken and the glass was cracked. "Beckett, look at this." She walked over as he pulled out the picture. It was a picture of a family. The child sat in the middle of the mother and a young looking man. The faces above them had been what looked like burned out.
"Looks like relatives' are out of the picture." He looked at her.
"Subtle."
"Thank you." She said looking at the picture closer. She turned it over in his hand and a date and name was on the bottom corner. 4/16/12 Angelica Hart. "Mom or daughter?"
"Daughter looks like. I have pictures like these of Alexis. Minus the burned out faces. But what I don't get is why is it all beat up?"
"Maybe she was angry and threw it?" He shook his head.
"Look at the impact on the picture looks like it was," He broke off and looked around he searched the room not touching anything just looking. The pillows were shoved around the couch and the rug's corner was pulled up. "She fought maybe the parents wanted the baby, or dad wanted her back?" Beckett nodded and told one of the nearby uniforms if they could get a name to the face. They nodded and headed off. Castle was looking at all of the pictures lining the walls. Most of Angelica some of her mother. Beckett tapped his shoulder.
"Come on we should go Lanie's got this." He nodded taking off his gloves and heading to her service vehicle. Instead of his normal occupied spot in the shot gun seat he climbed into the back and checked the restraints again and watched the child from his seat next to her. "We'll get this guy Castle." Beckett was driving off.
"Not the worry, she's only about four months and already lost her mother, her father is MIA, and looks like her grandparents had bad blood with her." He looked at her through the visor mirror. She looked back. "She needs someone." He had a tone of voice that gave Beckett the notion that if they didn't find someone to look after Angelica, New York wasn't going to take too kindly to an infant. Castle looked back at the newborn and sighed. He began up his lullaby again only softer. Beckett could still hear it though. "…And if you ask me too daddy's going to buy you a mockingbird imma give you the world imma buy a diamond ring for you imma sing for you I'll do anything to see you smile. And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine imma break that birdies neck, I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it too ya and make him eat every karat…"
"Choice song for an infant."
"Suited well. For her current situation." Beckett was going to say something, but bit her tongue afraid of the lashing she would get. "It's metaphorical."
"What song is it anyways? I don't recognize it."
"Older song, 'Mockingbird' by Eminem. I used to sing it to Alexis after hearing it when it first came out."
"Thought maybe rock-a-by-baby for the Rodger's family? Not what I expected."
"Like you strike me as the rock-a-by-baby type either detective." She shrugged turning the last corner to the twelfth.
Okay so AROCDM by Shelby = Amazingly Random Obsessive Castle Disorder Moments when Shelby goes off and while listening to music DM's me scenes she wishes she would see with that song (you can thank JBs new album for this one) The song that he is singing is bits and pieces from "Mockingbird" By Eminem from Singles (i think that's the cd) DO NOT OWN THE SONG
