"Listen, your precinct isn't the only one who has been bombed. We're out of help. We need them."
Not the only one? How?
He checked his watch, hoping that he was wrong about all of this. About losing his family. If it was 12am – then there was a chance their family was at lunch, somewhere safe, but it was – it was 1.15pm.
Damn it.
The image of his Kate, his strong, beautiful, fierce Kate slumped lifeless – nothing ever hurt so much to him since they kidnap Alexis.
But no, he wouldn't give up. For her, for him, for his daughter who was just getting attached to her, and for their family.
Because he would never give up on life, and she was his life.
Castle was really bummed that she didn't listen to him. How many times he had to remind her of how precious and important she was to him? Why didn't she listen to him and the reasons why he didn't let her go home?
He was done trying to convince her after she started to say that they weren't even officially married yet and he already tried to control her. So he let her go. Praying that whatever she tried to do, God agreed with her and protected her.
Because he couldn't handle losing her.
"Mr. Castle, are you hurt?"
Huh?
"No. No, I'm not. But I'm pretty sure people in there are. Just send the help ASAP. I need to go inside."
"Mr. Castle, you need to stay-"
Castle disconnected him.
He stepped at the building. The building that was his home, his comfort, had been blown.
Karpowski was the very first one he saw. Castle knelt over her to check on her pulse, but there was nothing. He shook her body, swallowing tears. If this happened to Kate too – then he was done. What was he living for, anyway, if it wasn't her and Alexis?
After trying for what it felt like the 100th times, he did a thing he'd never do on her Kate – giving up. So Castle took Karpowski's gun, and then took it with him. Just in case.
He continued trying to find his team.
"KATE!"
He coughed from the smoke filling his lungs.
"RYAN! ESPOSITO!"
He slowly jumped through a big material that was still burning from the explosion in front of him. His leg hurt like hell, but he didn't care anymore. As long as his Kate is still fighting and waiting for him to rescue him.
The emergency stairs wasn't that far from him. His family was supposed to be downstairs in this exact moment – he meant – the break was just over, right? They still had a chance.
That was when he heard moves. His eyes travelled the whole room.
"BECKETT?! KATE?!"
"Castle," someone breathed his name.
"KATE?!"
Please let it be Kate. Please let it be her.
" 's Ryan…..over..here…"
"Ryan, where are you?!" He waited for a second before a sound of something hard dropped. He was smart enough that it was a sign from Ryan.
Ryan was near the elevator. His hand was gripping something that looked like a phone to Castle, and he gripped it tight. Very tight. When he tried to approach Ryan, someone grabbed one of his leg.
"Help."
He looked down to find someone he didn't know who – but he met this guy almost everyday.
Castle studied his body for a pretty long time. No significant damage, only a few bruises. This guy could wait.
"They're on the way. Just hold on, ok?"
He earned a nod from the guy, and it comforted Castle somehow, because there was still hope for his fiancée.
I'm going to find her alive, and that's final.
He nodded to his own positive-thinking.
He heard another loud thing.
What was that -
oh. Ryan. Ryan.
Castle approached him quickly. His head was bleeding. He didn't know exactly from what, but Ryan had never seen so much weak to him than he was. He was ghostly pale, Castle could tell he was having a hard time to open his eyes.
Castle knelt down and sat Ryan up.
"How are you, bud?"
"Jenny…. tell Jenny and my child I love them…tell them, Castle. Tell..tell them." Said Ryan with all his strength left.
"No. No you don't get to say that, at least not until you're old and gray, yeah, bro? Jenny needs you. Do you hear me? Jenny. Needs. You. Jenny and her baby inside her. They need you. You have to hold on for them, do you understand?" Castle gave him a small pat on Ryan's back. When he got Ryan nodded, Castle stood up. "Wait here, ok? I'm gonna find Kate and Javi. You stay here."
"I saw her, Castle." Ryan hissed from the pain.
"She wasn't far from us. She was still alive…still alive at the second explosion. S – something got through her skin at the first explosion. She was-" his voice wavering, "-bleeding so much, Castle. She was bleeding so much – I don't think it was from the bomb."
Castle was about to ask where Ryan's opinion came from when he answered his unspoken question.
"I heard two gunshots. You need to find her, Castle. For – for me. For Javi and I – you have to find her. She was so scared."
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