So, here is chapter two. I hope you guys like it.
I do not own Castle and the other characters.
Beckett went to the Hamptons house and changed her clothes: she would need the dress clean later. She didn't tell the guests what had happened. With lucky they could still have their marriage in a few hours. She didn't intend to take long to find him. Instead, Kate told all the guests that Rick had called and said that he needed her help with something in the city and that they wouldn't take long to solve the issue.
"You sure you don't want any help?" Esposito asked as he watched Beckett grabbing her coat.
"Yeah, I need to do it alone, Espo" said Beckett, looking for her car keys.
"Kate, this might be dangerous. You may need some backup. Ryan and I want to help. He is our friend too." Beckett found her keys and was already walking towards the front door.
"Espo, I know you guys can help me but I feel like I need to do it alone. I'm feeling kind of responsible for what happened. I should've gone with him to the city before coming here." She had stopped with her hand in the doorknob. She turned around to face Esposito for the first time since the conversation started.
"I will not accept any excuses…" He stopped when he saw that she had tears in her eyes "Kate, it was not your fault." She was sobbing. "You couldn't know that this was going to happen. You needed to get ready for your wedding and that's why he offered to go there alone. He knew you needed more time to get ready for him"
"Thank you, Espo. But I can't help thinking that if I were there with him, he would not be in this alone" she walked to the outside of the house, cleaning her face, before he could say anything else.
Waiting in front of her car were Martha, Ryan and Lanie, wanting to wish her good luck in her search for Castle.
"Oh, darling! I know you will manage to find him. If anyone can do it, it's you!"
"Thanks, Martha," Kate hugged her future mother in law.
"Beckett, if you need any help don't hesitate to call. We will stop whatever we are doing to go and help you with it"
"I know you will, Ryan." She was feeling the tears coming to her eyes again. Everything that happened in those 72 hours was really messing with her emotional.
"We will take care of everything here, girl," said Lanie while she hugged Kate. "Go and find your writer boy." She whispered this last part in her ear so no one but her could hear it.
"Thanks, you guys. I don't know what I would do without you," Kate said, approaching her car
When she was almost entering her car to leave, Alexis came running.
"Kate! Wait! I want to go with you."
"Alexis, it may be dangerous. Your dad would not want you to put yourself in danger because of him."
"Kate, he is my dad. I need to do this. I can't stay here while he is out there lost. And I can't let you do it alone. You may need help and I can be your help this time when my dad is not here. He wouldn't want you to put yourself in danger either. And I know I am not the first person you would choose to go with you but I can be very useful. I've learnt a lot with my father. Please, Kate, let me help you."
Kate gave up after this speech. "OK. You are right. If it was my dad I would want to help too. But you need to promise to do exactly as I say. I wouldn't forgive myself if anything happened to you."
After Alexis made her promise, the two of them went to the accident scene so they could look for clues that might lead to Castle. When they got there, Beckett wanted to look for objects that survived to the fire in the car. But before she could start looking to the inside, she found his phone dropped in the ground. She couldn't believe she hadn't noticed it before.
She saved the fallen phone and began her search. The first thing she noticed was the smell of fuel. "So it wasn't an accident at all. Someone started the fire." When she figured that out she looked properly inside the car. All that was there was burned. She recognized the shoes she had left in the back seat when they went to the Hamptons right after work on the month before, but they were destroyed. She managed to identify a book, maybe a copy of his last one, but it was also burned. There was nothing besides it. There was nothing that could lead to him. She left the car and started to look around for another clues.
While Kate was searching the car, Alexis was looking for clues in the road. They wanted to be sure if it was an accident or if someone else caused the incident. There were strange marks on the ground. Marks which indicated that there had been a hit between two cars and that Castle's car ran off the road. It looked like it had been intentional. Someone had made Castle lost control of his car.
Alexis knew her father wouldn't lose control of the car. He had always been a good driver. But now they needed to find out who did it to him and why would anyone want to stop him to arrive to his wedding. And a good way to start would be to search for the car model based on the tire tracks and on the distance between them.
"Kate, I've found something", yelled Alexis when she saw Kate uphill.
"Yeah, me too", answered Beckett with a frightened voice and a terrifying look on her face.
Jerry Tyron himself was standing there, looking at Castle in a predatory way as if he was a lion that was going to have his meal. He had a sarcastic smile on his face. He seemed to find it all a big joke. But Castle knew it wasn't. He knew he was in a pretty big trouble. A psychopath that already hated him had caught him alone on the worst time ever and he couldn't expect help. No one was going to find him in this strange abandoned factory.
"Who else could it be? After all you did to me? After you stopped me from disappearing? Don't you think I'd want revenge? There is no better way to get it. I've just stopped your wedding with that silly detective and now I'll kill both of you", said Tyson still grinning.
"Both? If you haven't noticed I'm the only one here."
"Obliviously, you're right. But your fiancée will soon join us in this lovely meeting", 3XK said in a mysterious tone, already living the room.
"What do you mean? Kate will be here? How do you think you will catch her in front of all our wedding guests? You will never manage to do it", Castle said, trying to catch Tyson's attention but failing miserably.
Castle was left alone again but this time he was even more scared. It was Tyson who did it. The same guy who killed a lot of girls, the psychopath that almost caused his arrest because of a murder he never intended to commit, the crazy man that faked his death and cleared his criminal history so he could start killing again. And he was planning on take Kate there too. Castle would never forgive himself if anything happened to her.
Even though Castle was frightened a lot, he still couldn't think properly. He was still really confused about what had happened. He didn't know how Tyson brought him to this place. "Think, Castle. You need to think" he cogitated "What's the last thing you remember?"
The truth was that he had no idea. He needed to concentrate for what seemed over an hour to remember what had happened. "Ok, so I was driving to the wedding and… and I called Kate and I told her I had solved all the issues. I was twenty minutes away from the Hamptons house. But what happed then?" It was all foggy. He remembered a suspicious black car approaching his own car. And there was a crash. His car went out of the road, down the hill. There was someone wearing a black mask that didn't look like a man. He remembered the feeling of a needle on his back and he knew he had thought that she had some kind of experience with that. The last thing he could manage to remember was the strong smell of fuel and the feel of his sleepy body being taken to another place for much less careful hands than the ones that have given him the injection.
And all of a sudden he knew how Tyson would manage to bring Kate there. He had faked an accident with his car. And Kate would know it was faked. She would know he was in danger and she would come after him. She would look for clues in the crime scene and she would certainly find something that would lead her straight to this nasty place.
3XK was not going to catch Beckett and bring her forced to there. She would come willingly to try and save him. She would come directly to death. And the moment she walked through that door they were both going to die.
I would love to know what you think.