Kate sat staring at her feet while sitting in the waiting room; she was numb of all feeling. Esposito sat to her left and Ryan sat on her right.
"Kate!" Alexis exclaimed as she wrapped her arms around Kate. "What happened?"
Looking up into the blue eyes that were webbed with red from crying, she placed the girl on her lap. Ryan got up and moved so that Martha could sit next to Kate. Martha took Kate's cold hand in her own, "Please Kate what happened to my son?"
Taking a deep breath, "We were in Central Park and Rick saw a boy fall through the ice on the lake. He ran over and jumped into the cold water. He searched frantically for the boy as I called for help. Your dad found him and handed him to me. I started CPR on the little boy and when I turned around to see if your dad was ok he wasn't there." She felt the tears start to well up again. "I tried to stop him. I tried." The tears over flowed from her eyes like a river whose banks could not contain a flood. Alexis held Kate in a warm embrace as Martha rubbed Kate's back, "It's not your fault dear."
After calming herself down, Kate thought to herself, "What is taking them so long? I need to find out how Rick is." Alexis was still sitting on Kate's lap, "Alexis do you mind getting up? I need to go to the ladies room."
As Alexis removed herself she asked, "Kate do you want me to come with you?"
"No Alexis, but thanks for the offer." Kate walked out of the waiting room and down the hall to a set of double doors. She pushed them letting them swing open as she started running frantically looking for Rick.
"Mama, Mama, a voice called you can't be back here."
"Where is he?"
"Mama you can't be back here. Please return to the waiting room. Someone will be out to talk to you as soon as they can." Kate's eyes were wild as she walked up to the nurse and put her face mere inches from her, "I'm only going to ask one more time nicely, "Where is Richard Castle?"
"I'm sorry mama I can not give out private information. Now please return to the waiting room before I have to call security to remove you."
Kate grabbed the nurse by the collar of her scrubs and shouted at her, "Where is he?"
The nurse screamed, "Someone call security," as another doctor rushed to aid the nurse. Kate let go of the nurse with a shove and started walking away.
"Don't want to help me find him. Fine! I'll find him myself. I'm a detective so it shouldn't be too hard." Just then two security guards came through the double doors.
"Where is she?" The nurse and doctor pointed down the hallway toward Kate. Just then a nurse ran out of a room down the hallway, "We need more warm saline solution in here STAT."
Kate took off running and pushed her way into the room. "Rick," she said breathlessly as she saw him laying there being worked on by a team of doctors and nurses. "Mama you can't be here you need to come with us."
Kate turned and looked at the two security officers. "Sorry fellas, don't think so. I'm not leaving." One of the security guards stepped in front of Kate and put a hand on her shoulder pushing her back out of the room. Kate out of instinct put her hand on top of the guards and spun him around. Before he knew what happened to him, his arm was behind his back and Kate was forcing it upward. "I said I'm not leaving." The other security guard quickly lifted Kate off of her feet as he held her around her waist. "Let go of me or I'm going to arrest you for the assault of a police officer," she shouted. The guard carried her down the hallway as she continued to scream at the top of her lungs. "This is assault put me down. You can't take me away from him, you can't." She managed to wiggle her body to the right angle where she knew the guard was off balance she shifted her weight suddenly in his arms and the guard started to fall. Kate took advantage of his momentum and broke free from the guard and ran back toward Rick's room.
"I think I should go check on Kate. She's been gone awhile," Alexis stated. Just then they heard shouting coming from down the hall. "Oh that does not sound good." They watched as three security guards ran down the hall.
"We better go check it out. You two stay here and don't leave," Ryan said as he and Esposito ran out of the room.
"NYPD what's going on?" Esposito shouted as the security guards crashed through the double doors. "Out of control female trying to get into one of the rooms," a guard shouted back before the doors swung shut.
"You don't think it's her do you?"
"It can't be. Beckett doesn't lose her cool." Esposito and Ryan stood in shock at the sight they saw as they pushed open the double doors.
"Beckett! Kate! Oh man she's kicking the guard's… Man, did she just cuff the guard with his own cuffs?"
"She's lost it man. This is not going to be pretty."
"Beckett! Beckett! Kate! We're going to have to take her down."
"That is not going to be an easy task with her being out of control like she is."
"Beckett!"
"Not now Esposito!" she shouted as she ran back to Rick's room again.
"Beckett you are only making things worse. You need to stay out of the way."
"I can't lose him. I can't."
"You ready for this?" Esposito asked Ryan
"I never thought we would have to take the boss out."
"Me either bro." They both grabbed Beckett and drug her from Rick's room.
"Guys! Let me go! Let! Me! Go!"
"Sorry Beckett you left us no choice." She stopped fighting them and let herself be carried. The two detectives decided to put Kate's feet down so she could walk, but as soon as they did she ripped herself free from their grasps and started running to Rick's room. Running after her, "she tricked us."
"Should've known."
Esposito tackled Kate before she reached Rick's room, but she was not going down without a fight. It took four people to hold her down. Esposito sat on her upper back holding her hands while Ryan sat on her hips with his hands holding her lower back. The two guards that were helping each pinned down her legs. She finally stopped trying to get away as the energy drained from her body. Laying on the cold linoleum hospital floor facedown she began to cry. She let out sob after sob as they continued to hold her down.
"Kate just clam down and we will take you back to the waiting room with us. You have to calm down though so you don't scare Alexis and Rick's mom." The sobs continued for a few more minutes until they came to an abrupt stop.
"Beckett you ok? Beckett? She's not breathing," Esposito said.
"What?"
"I can't feel her breathing anymore."
"Get off of her chest."
"I haven't been putting any weight on her chest since she started crying."
"Everybody off," Ryan said. "Did you hear anything break when you tackled her?"
"No, I didn't hear any of her ribs break," Esposito replied. "We need help over here! She's not breathing!"
"Oh God!"
"What?"
"Her heart. Do you think this was too much stress on her heart?"
"Did you say she has a heart condition?" the doctor approaching asked.
"She was shot over a year ago and had heart surgery."
"We need you to return to the waiting room now. We will update you as soon as we can."
Esposito and Ryan walked out of the double doors toward the waiting room where Martha and Alexis sat waiting.
"What are we going to tell Alexis?"
"We have to do what Castle would, tell her the truth."
Hi everyone. I started writing this in September and got writers block. I finally figured out where I'm taking these characters so I decided to post the first two chapters. I will update when I can. Hope you have enjoyed it so far. Temporary Escape
