Okay so I lied... It seems like this story has taken on a life of it's own (thanks to such postive response) and have grown past two parts. now sorry if this part seems a bit choppy, but I'm going on no sleep thanks to the release of the newest mass effect. Plus I really want to concentrate on the relationship between Alexis and Kate. Hopefully this chapter isn't as disappointing as it seems to me, but I keep writing, deleting and writing again. This is the tenth time I've written this and I'm just going to post it and hope for the best.

Beckett found herself on the phone with sex crimes from station 8 just after five in the morning. The attack on Alexis was being connected to a string of rapes that had being committed in the area. It appeared that six have taken place in the last three weeks all on identical days and in the same time frame. Protocol frowned the detectives form the 8th from sharing any info on a case that Beckett wasn't authorized on. But once they learned the circumstances they threw caution to the wind. So where she was just as the sun was rise position in front of the white board with marker in hand. The board was covered in everything she had gathered, surveillance photos from nearby cameras were posted, and now all she had to do was connect the dots.

"Detective Beckett you're here nice and early."

Beckett froze and wondered if she had time to flip the white board only to realize that it was too late. The Captain was already rounding the divider and had full few of her handy work.

The older woman squinted at the board, "I wasn't away that we had any open cases." Gates set down her brief case and coffee with a grim look upon her face. "Or the fact that we somehow switched departments and are now investigating sex crimes."

Beckett set her jaw trying to keep control on her words. With so little sleep and coffee, her mouth wanted to start spitting words that should not be spoke to her superior. "No Ma'am nothing has changed, it's just this victim-." She turned back to her desk to pick up a photo. Beckett didn't want Alexis's face displayed for the world to know, she wanted to keep this quite as possible for as long as she could. "Demands my special attention."

Gates was about to open her mouth about personal agendas in her station, then Beckett flipped over the photo and she found herself looking down at Alexis's bruised face. Her dark gaze snapped up to the young woman's, "Let me know if there is anything you need or if I need to light fires under some ones ass."

Beckett tried not to gap at the woman as she shook her head, "Thank you."

Gates paused for one more moment, "Is she okay?"

"Shaken, but she fought back."

"Good for her." With that Gates went to her office.

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By nine her body was screaming caffeine and her lids were growing heavy. Beckett turned in search for her coffee cup and was surprised to find it already filled with steamy dark liquid. "No you're not dreaming." Laughing, Castle took his seat by her desk and pushed the cup closer to her.

"What are you doing here?" She demanded. "Why aren't you with Alexis?"

"She wanted to come in today to work." Castle informed, "Believe me I tried to talk her out of her over breakfast, but she's stubborn."

"A trait she got from her father." Beckett grinned taking a long swig of the refreshing liquid trying not to laugh at the face the writer made. "She doesn't want to let this affect her, to make her feel like a victim." Something that she could understand. "How she doing?"

"She's in a lot of pain, but won't admit it. Something I think she picked up from you." This time it was Beckett who made the face. "I want to thank you again. She told me that you stayed with her and sang until she fell asleep."

The detective shrugged as she turned her attention back onto her computer, "It was something my mom always did when I had a bad day or was upset." Talking about her mom had emotions clogging her throat. "I wanted to do anything I could to make her pain go away and it was the only thing I could do."

Castle's face softened in awe, "You're going to be a great mom, you know that."

Beckett didn't know what to say so she only smiled as the boys arrived for the day. "I'm going to go see Alexis."

"Yo Castle what are you doing here?" Esposito asked dropping his coat on the back of his chair, "There is no body. Did you just come to stare at Beckett?"

"Because you know that is kind of creepy dude." Ryan added with a teasing smile. "Morning Beckett where are you off to?"

"Down to see Lanie about something." Beckett snagged her cup from Castle's seeking hands before heading towards the elevator, "You boys don't cause too much trouble while I'm gone."

"Yes mom." The three sang in unison.

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Upon entering the morgue, Beckett found the red head with her face buried in a mountain of files Lanie left on her desk. "You should be at home." Beckett pointed out.

"This is what I've been trying to tell her since she got here." Lanie remarked, her face grim as she glanced at the teenager's discolored face.

Alexis looked up from her paper work and watched as Beckett did her best to school her features. It would seem that her makeup had done a poor job of covering up most the damage. "For the record I'm fine." She assured, "Plus dad was driving me a bit crazy-."

"So you dumped him off on me." Beckett threw up her hands dramatically causing the teenager to laugh. "Thanks for that."

"Better you then me." Alexis smiled, "I hope you didn't come all this way to check up on me."

Beckett took a seat next to Alexis, "And what ifI did?"

"Dad said you left right when he got there. Did you-." The teenager paused for a moment trying to keep her voice steady. "Anything?"

Beckett brushed a stray lock of hair off the girl's pale face, "Not to much."

"You're lying."

Well it looked like both Castle's could seem to read her like an open book. She glanced at Lanie who was kind enough to give them a moment alone. "The man who attacked you may be the same man who is being connected to a string of rapes over the last two weeks in that area. It seems like his attacks are calculated, though his victims appear to be random."

Alexis tightened her grip around her pen, "So there are others?"

Beckett reached over to release the girl's death hold on the pen, "Yes."

"Does Dad know?"

"No yet, but knowing your father is has already gone through all the notes on my desk. He just wants to catch this guy." Beckett tried to explain before Alexis could even think about getting mad at her father. "It's his primial need to protect you."

"I know."

"I have something for you." Beckett dug into her coat pocket and with drew a slightly warn gold bracelet. "I know it's not like the one that your gram gave you, but I figured that this one will do until we find yours."

It was a simple box chain link with deep green jewels ever other link in the shapes of hearts. "It's beautiful."

Beckett smiles as she clasped the bracelet around Alexis's thin wrist, "It was a gift to my mother for her last mother's day." At the revelation the teenager began to refuse the gift only Beckett held her hand in place. "No you don't."

"It was your moms-."

"It's only a loan." Beckett reminded with a smile, "Plus it's been collecting dust in the bottom of my jewelry box."

"Thank you Detec-." Alexis caught the glare and corrected herself, "Kate."

"If you're up to it I could use you upstairs. I've got a few things that I want to go over with you and I figured you could use some coffee yourself." Beckett suggested.

"Sure. I mean if it's okay with Lanie."

"Of course it is sweetie." Lanie waved them off, "Bring me back a cup when you come back."

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"Richard Castle."

At the sound of his ex-wife's voice, Castle turned from the white board and found his blood already boiling. How dare she just come waltzing in here as if nothing was wrong?

The red head all but floated across the station floor with a thousand dollar hand bag on her arm and wrapped in some of the finest clothes. "How dare are you not answer your phone?" The woman demanded oblivious to the rage that was brewing inside of the writer.

With her arm linked with Alexis's, Beckett stepped off the elevator and her face dropped instantly once she caught site of Meredith in the middle of the bull pen. Alexis sensed the change in the detective's demeanor and looked up.

"How dare you make me come all the way down here on a Saturday to pick up my daughter?"

"Mom?" Alexis called following the detective around the divider and stopped her father from uttering a word because she had a few choice words she wanted to say first.

"Alexis honey why haven't you been answering your phone?" Meredith turned and found herself almost nose to nose with the female detective. "Can I help you with something?"

Alexis placed her hand on Beckett's arm to wedge herself between the two women, not for her mother's sake but for Beckett's. "Mom you were suppose to meet me last night at the hotel."

Meredith waved the statement off and swore Beckett's eyes turned red. "No I wasn't. I told you that I was coming in this morning." She said in a matter of fact voice.

"No we agreed on last night." Alexis tried to correct not surprised that her mother hadn't even noticed her bruised face or the wrist that was in a cast. No it took something like a big diamond or gold to get her mother's attention.

"Never the less it doesn't matter-."

"Doesn't matter!" That had Beckett's control snapping. "Doesn't matter? Look at your daughter. Look!" She screamed gathering the attention of the entire floor. But she didn't care. God she wanted her hands on the rich snob. Beckett wanted to make the woman pay for the pain that she put Alexis through.

Meredith held Beckett's gaze in a challenge until she finally shifted to finally look at her daughter. "Alexis what happened?"

"What happened?" Beckett slowly began to back the woman into a corner. "What happened was that your daughter waited for you until after midnight for you to show. Bad enough that you couldn't take a day to see your only daughter graduate, but you couldn't even give her a call to tell her you delayed another day."

"Detective Beckett I don't know who you think you are-." Meredith stopped when the back of her legs brushed against a desk. She swallowed, "But Alexis is my daughter. And just because you happen to be screwing her father doesn't give you rights to talk to me like this."

Beckett let out a small laugh, "you're daughter." The word felt like dirt in her mouth. "If she is your daughter then where the hell were you when she was beaten and nearly raped four blocks from the hotel you were suppose to be at? If she is your daughter then why didn't you drop everything and get here when she needed you? A mother isn't suppose to just show up every once and awhile. A mother is suppose to be there. Always and no matter what the circumstance. A mother never wants to see their child suffer and would never put their child in harm's way. Your neglectfulness caused you're daughter so much pain and I'm just not talking about last night. You were suppose to be there for her from everything from a bad grade to a bad break up. You were suppose to be there to wipe away the tears and pleading with god or the devil to make the pain go away, even if it mean bargaining your soul. A mother-."

Meredith's hand came up fast and hard snapping Beckett's head to the side as her open palm connected with the detective's check. The entire room took a sharp intake of breath and Meredith found she had just pissed off a sleeping dragon. Beckett lunged and found several pair if hands dragging her back. "You're not a mother. How on earth can you tell me what a good mother is?"

Alexis once again put herself between the two women when she really wanted to hug the female detective. Beckett was saying everything she had ever wanted to tell her mother. "Because she's been more of a mother to me in the last four years then you have in my whole life." The words stung and Alexis was glad to see pain flare across her mother's face. "And she has no ties other then being my dad's friend and she still cares enough about me to come see me graduate even though we weren't on the best of terms. Came to comfort me at two in the morning. You're my mother and you didn't even try."

"Mr. Castle." Gates voice startled the room out of the silence it lapsed into, "I believe it's time to get your ex-wife out of here before I press charges for assaulting an officer."

Castle, stunned by the turn of events, grabbed Meredith by the arm and dragged her towards the elevator.

After assuring the boys that she was fine, Beckett found herself being freed from Ryan's and Esposito's grasp. "Sir." She struggled to straighten her coat ashamed by her actions. "I apologize for my actions and will face any-."

"Detective Beckett." Gate snapped the detective into silence, "Why don't you take a breather and then get back to work." She glanced at the growing numbers in the bullpen. "That goes for all of you. Back to work the show is over."

Beckett started towards the break room, "Thank you sir."

"You've got a hellva lot more will power then I do." The corner of Gate's mouth lifted in a half hearted smile, "I would have had the woman flat on her back."

yeah like I said I'm not happy with it, but here it is. Hopefully it isn't to disappointing. I wanted an all out cat fight between the two woman but figured that would be way to OTC for Beckett... So what do yeah think?