Chapter 2:
"Okay then, Congratulations!" his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Now don't you have a wedding dress to go buy?" Before Kate had a chance to say anything she was lifted up by her fiancé and carried back over to where her dad was still sitting with Sarah. John had another call he 'had to take' so she stood in front of the mirror alone staring at the dress.
"You still think that's the one?" Lanie asked skeptically.
"I'm not sure."
Lanie got up and walked over to Kate's side. "The dress or the guy?"
She gave the simplest answer she could. "Both."
Back in her hotel room Lanie Parish was wondering one thing. What the hell did Castle mean when he asked her what she really knew about John? Yah, she spoke Italian too. Not that anyone knew it but she took an online course in high school and it actually helped her quite a bit. And besides; it had looked good on her college application. But enough of that, Lanie thought she knew what Castle was hinting at so she decided to do a little snooping of her own.
"Hey can you do a background check on John Horton?"
"And why would you need that?" her boyfriend sounded skeptical.
"Because Kate's going to marry the guy and I want to make sure he's not a psycho. That a problem?"
"Not at all, I can probably sneak one in when the Captain isn't looking but that might… Hey!"
"Hello?" A voice that was undoubtedly the Captains spoke this time. "Who is this and why does bozo here have to sneak around to do something?"
"I don't think he has to sneak around to do anything, besides he would trip over a chair and cause a racket anyway." she reasoned.
"Lanie… may I ask what exactly you asked him to do?"
"Run a background check on Kate's fiancé, I don't know something doesn't seem right and Castle hates him more than he should." Come on, she had expected writer boy to be jealous if he ever found out, but he looked about ready to take the poor guys head off.
"One second I'll do that for you… and did you say Castle?"
"Yah, ran into him buying a dress… okay that came out weird, and Castle in a dress… not a pretty picture, although that would make awesome blackmail… but back to the point he was with Alexis buying her a wedding dress so Kate was talking to Alexis and well let's just say when writer boy and Mr. Creepy got back things were not pretty.
"Well I ran background check. He is a journalist for People, changed his name back in 02' and under John Roland he…" he swallowed in his throat "… three armed robbery charges, two assaults, and had charges dropped on criminal threatening."
"Sounds like he wasn't so perfect after all. Anything else?"
"He was also a suspect in a shooting at a nearby college a while back but was cleared for some reason."
"Which college?"
"NYU about 15 years back."
"Why does that sound so familiar?"
