Chapter 3;
disclaimed.
Kate was trying to connect the dots to how Bracken could even be related to any of these victims.
"Senator Bracken, what a surprise." she thought carefully about her words and to be quiet honest it wasn't a surprise because he always had the tendency to show up unexpectedly but it was because their were two teenage girls standing right in their presence.
"I could say the same myself detective, I just wish it was under different circumstances."
"Senator, I don't mean to sound rude but what are you doing here? Do you have some sort of connection with the victims."
"Could you tell me who the victims are? All I was told was that there was a crime scene at this address."
"Yes, there has been a crime committed at this address, the murders of Elizabeth, Donald and Kristina Hansen."
"Oh god-"
"Senator could you please answer my question. What is your relation to the victims?" she hated this bastard but she didn't want it to show in a room full of detectives, colleagues and especially a young teenage girl.
"Elizabeth was my younger sister." he answered
"I am very sorry for your loss Senator, and I know this isn't a very good time but may I possibly ask your niece a few questions?" she asked, she was sorry though not sorry for him but for young girl that had just discovered her deceased parents and sister.
"Im sorry detective, but I will be taking my niece and her friend with me to my own home for the mean time and you can contact my lawyer for when you would like to speak to her, you may only speak to her when I or my lawyer is present, here is his number." he said slowly pulling out a card with the name Jeremy Marshall typed up in bold. The senator then led his niece and her dear friend outside to his private vehicle which was waiting for him, a plain black SUV with black tinted windows.
"I've always hated his guts, I mean first he murders my mother, then he thinks he can just take a young girl from my crime scene who is possibly a witness." she said to Castle, she was now filled with fury and rage towards the man she had hated ever since she discover the truth about her mothers murder.
"Calm down Kate, we'll find a way to talk to her without him knowing, come on I think Laine has something for us"
Kate walked back into the bathroom where Laine has just finished examining the body.
"What can you tell us about this victim Laine?"
"Well judging by the strangulation marks on her throat I would say that was what killed her but it looks like she was hit over the head with a weird shaped object, but I can't say what the COD is right at the moment."
"Thanks Laine"
"Kate, can I talk to you just quickly?"
"Yeah sure, what is it?"
Laine could see that Castle was eavesdropping, "Girl talk Castle."
"Oh ok I'll just go do.. something.. helpful." he said, unsure of what to do he roamed around the house.
"Kate, don't you think it's a bit weird that girl out there is what, 15 maybe 16 years-old and the fact that she practically looks exactly like you, don't you think it's her?"
Kate hadn't thought of the young girl possibly being the beautiful baby girl she gave up for adoption right until that moment, and Laine was the only one who knew besides her father.
"Laine, I really don't wanna talk about it right now." she said
"But girl we gone be talkin' bout this sometime soon."
Kate had found Castle roaming one of the bedrooms, filled with certificates and awards and also trophy after trophy, she stood in the doorway admiring his interest in all the awards on the walls.
"See something you like Castle?"
"Actually detective, see a lot of things I like, number one on the list is my beautiful wife-to-be" he said winking and moving towards her.
"Castle, what did I tell you we can't be like this at crime scenes." she had said it time and time again but it just didn't seem to sink into his head.
He slowly backed away from her, "We'll save this for later then." he said
"So who's room is this?"
"This is young Katiana's room"
"Anything interesting?"
"Only the fact that she's the top volleyball player not only in the state but in the Tri-state area, and she's also a sophomore on the varsity team. This girl is amazing, she's also the top server, and mid blocker in the state, and has the top most accuracy when it comes to spiking. This girl is a future athlete, and look at all these trophies."
"Wow Castle, your right this is amazing, I wish I was this good."
"Kate, can I ask you something?"
"What is it?"
"Don't you think it's weird that when ever Bracken shows up its always a case related to your mother's?"
"Castle, can we just not talk about this at the moment, we should really get to the precinct now." and that was that no questions asked and buts.
After stopping at Starbucks to get some coffee, they went back to the precinct to find that Ryan and Esposito had already started on the board.
"Hey guys, what do we have?"
"Donald, Elizabeth and Kristina Hansen. Mr Hansen is a high paid lawyer, Mrs Hansen is a neurosurgeon and our young victim Kristina is a college student at UPenn." said Ryan
"Ok... so where do we start?"
Hours past by and all they had was a bunch of dead ends.
"Ok, how about tomorrow morning we all come back together and we can get back to it, I think we should call it a night." the detective then looked at her watch and saw that it 10.39pm.
Yes, I have made Tia a volleyball player, basically cos I love volleyball and because some fanfics I've read Kate's daughter has been quite the dancer so I thought I'd mix it up abit. So that's that chapter, please review
