Alright so, maybe I should have shared in the last chapter when the time setting should have been. This is taking place in like sometime in season 4... before Castle and Beckett are officially together. Be prepared for a tragic past to resurface and a trying times for Detective Kate Beckett.
Castle went over and opened up the door to see who it was. He saw that it was in-fact Lanie finally making it to the glorious party at his loft.
"Nice of you to join us for such a glorious party here at my loft, Doctor Perish," said Castle enthusiastically. And at this notion Martha leaves to her room, leaving the others to themselves.
Lanie just sighed deeply and said, "Sorry everybody I am so late in getting here. There were a couple of slight problems going on at home I had to take care of first." And at that being said, she went straight to work and took a look at the body.
"So what can you tell us about this man Lanie?" Asked Beckett.
"It appears he was stabbed with a serrated knife of some sorts. It looks as though the killer wanted to let the poor man suffer because they obviously knew what they were doing and yet he was able to escape without dying right where the actual crime scene should have been. It also looks as the killer is a copycat killer of somebody who was shot and killed about 2 years ago, Beckett at the precinct, Dick Coonan."
The others were just stand there looking at each other with shock over what they just heard. Castle could tell by the look on Beckett's face, he knew what her mind was going through right now. He so wished that he could do something for her to help calm her down right now. But now was not the time or the place, especially not in front of all of these witnesses.
After composing himself, Esposito asks, "Is there anything you can tell us? Does he have an ID on him to give us a clue as to who this is?" Knowing that nobody bothered with that detail until the ME had the time to examine the body and everything they needed to do, as is the protocol.
"The ID here says that his name is Doug Hightower." Lanie said handing over the victim's wallet to Esposito.
Castle could hardly hold the excitement down when he heard the name-he was still ashamed for not knowing the victim's name before-hand-and even more so now than before. At this, Beckett took a glance over to Castle, 'What is he doing over there' she thought to herself, but just lets it go, for now.
By this time Lanie stands up, looks at everybody seriously and says, "Well, this is all I can do, I'll know more once I get him back to the morgue to examine the body a little more thoroughly." She looks over to Beckett and just shakes her head in a rather apologetic way.
As everybody is leaving, Castle all of a sudden grabs Beckett by the wrist for her to stay so he could talk with her alone.
I'd like to thank y'all for the follows reviews, and everything. I sure wasn't expecting much from my first time ever doing something like this. Since I got a lot of positive things... I suspect I'll be doing a lot more of these things in the future.