Alexis Castle sat on the edge of her hospital bed as she waited for Dr. Lanie Parish finish filling out the correct paper work to get Kate out of the hospital. Kate was working on Alexis's because a-they couldn't find the teenager's grandmother and b-she was still a minor and according to her father's wishes, Kate was responsible for her if Richard Castle and Martha Rogers couldn't be reached.

The fact that Martha Rogers was very much unreachable and currently MIA, scared Alexis to no end. Kate was great and all, but there it was something else when you had family close by.

It wasn't that Kate wasn't family…it was just… well…yeah.

Alexis wanted her Daddy.

Or Gram.

She'd take either right about now.

The teenager flinched when Dr. Parish touched her cast free arm. It didn't faze the older woman.

"Sorry."

"Sweetie, I'm gonna smack ya if you keep on saying sorry like that."

Alexis rolled her eyes.

"You've been hanging out with Kate Beckett for too long, Honey, if you're rolling your eyes like that." Lanie patted Alexis's arm before turning to the woman in question. Alexis shook her head in confusion. Adults say the damnest things sometimes.

"Leave Alexis alone, Lanie." Kate said, handing the Medical Examiner a stack of papers. "Can we go now?"

Lanie shook her head. "I'm gonna go turn this stuff in and bring Jenny back with me."

"What's Jenny doing here?" Kate asked, confusion written across her features.

"The boys are all worried since they can't find Mrs. R. Plus it doesn't help that your place and Writer boy's place was tossed pretty good." Lanie told her. "According to Javi we're supposed to stay together no matter what."

"We'll see about that." Kate glared at Lanie as she exited the room.

"Well, don't shoot the messenger!"

"I'm sorry Alexis. She shouldn't have said that in front of you." Kate said crossing her arms. "Hell, she shouldn't have said that in front of me."

Kate and Alexis sat in silence for a few seconds before the teenager broke it.

"Who's Jenny?"

"Ryan's gir-well, fiancé now."

It clicked in Alexis's mind. "Honey-milk?"

Kate shot Alexis a small smile. "Yeah."

The pair fell silent again.

Alexis took a deep breath and glanced down at her right arm, which now had a cast covering it from palm to elbow. It was blue, as was Kate's.

Her father's favorite color.

Tears started to fill the teenager's eyes. Alexis heard Kate stand and limp over to Alexis. Kate sat down next her before speaking.

"Your dad would know what to do to make both of us smile."

Alexis laughed. "Yeah. I know. Dad would." She wiped tears from her eyes and made eye contact with Kate. "Where am I going to go? What if he's gone forever?"

Kate carded a hand through Alexis's long locks before answering. "With me. I'm not going to leave you alone. Not now. Not ever. Whatever happens-you have me. Got it?"

Alexis nodded. "Love you too Kate."

The older woman smiled and pulled her into a hug. "We're going find him." Kate whispered into Alexis's hair. The teenager nodded and signed. "We're going to find him and we're going to love him alright?"

Alexis nodded against her shoulder. "Right."

They broke apart wiping away each other's tears. The knock on the door made Alexis flinch and Kate slid off the bed to step in front of the teenager.

"Sorry." Lanie was in the doorway with Jenny and a pair of wheelchairs.

"If I can't say it Dr. Parish, then you can't either." Alexis crossed her arms, or at least tried to, and stared pointedly at the sputtering woman. Her phone going off saved Lanie from replying.

"Nice one Little Castle." Jenny gave Alexis weak smile and moved farther into the room. "Jenny O'Malley."

"Alexis Castle. Nice to meet you." Alexis shook the blonde's hand.

"Time to go, girls. We got a car to catch." Lanie announced suddenly, snapping her phone close dramatically. "Ryan and a couple of uniforms are outside waiting to take the four of us to a safe house."

"I'll have to talk to him about that." Kate said, crossing her arms.

Jenny raised an eyebrow. "Fat chance of that happening actually, Detective. You have a broke shin bone."

"So? Esposito-"

"-was an idiot about that brace incident. Him and Ryan both." Lanie said, with a glance at Jenny. "Sorry. They were."

Jenny should her head. "Trust me I know. Remind me to tell you about the Cheese Incident."

"Cheese?" Alexis asked for the other two clueless women.

"Castle was there, too." Jenny grinned as Lanie started giggling. Kate raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Oh, God. Maybe I don't wanna know." Alexis smiled, shaking her head at what she could only imagined happened.

"That's probably a good idea actually." Jenny blushed, as flipping open her phone. "Kevin is wondering what's taking us so long."

Lanie took charge. "I need an ass in this chair please!"

"Ditto." Jenny added quickly.

Alexis and Kate traded looks before helping each other stand. Kate lowered herself into Lanie's chair as Alexis sat gracefully in Jenny's.

"Hey Dr. Parish?" Alexis asked as Jenny started to guide the chair out of the room. The Medical Examiner followed with Kate.

"Lanie, Little Castle."

"What are we going, Lanie?"

"To the elevator. Car. Then I'm guessing a safehouse." She answered as she and Lanie pushed Kate and Alexis down the hallway to the elevator. "After that? It won't be up to us."

Kate pressed the down button as soon as it was in reach. "I wanna talk to one of the boys before we go, first. See what they have-"

"I want to go home." Alexis said suddenly. She had to see what happened to her home. The teenager needed to see what she had left of her father.

The three adults trade looks before Kate replied to Alexis's statement. "The loft is a crime scene."

"So is your apartment, Kate." Alexis pointed out. Lanie and Jenny pushed their wheelchairs into the elevator and this time, Lanie pressed the button. "We have to go somewhere."

"You-We're going to a safe house."

"How are we going to find my dad if we're going to a safe house Kate? Wish him there?" Alexis shook her head. "No. We're going to the loft."

"Lex-"

Kate's reply was cut off as the doors pinged open and Jenny and Lanie pushing their chairs out of the elevator. The two standing women made short work of exiting the building where Ryan was waiting as promised with a few uniforms and a car.

"What took so long?"

Jenny stopped Alexis near the male detective before giving him a peak on the cheek. "Girl talk, Kev."

Ryan rocked back on his heels. "Maybe we can wait with that until we get gimpy and limpy safe?"

Alexis and Kate glared at him.

"Let's go girly." Lanie said, taking Kate's arm. The female detective grunted as the medical examiner helped her stand and into the car.

"Alexis? Can I ask you a question?" The teenager's attention was driven away from her father's girlfriend at Detective Ryan voice.

"What?"

"Do you know if Martha knew any kind of hand to hand combat?"

Alexis's eyebrows rose. "Gram? I once saw her cry over a broken nail. Why do you ask?"

Ryan looked away darkly. "Why don't you let Jenny help you into the car, Alexis." He looked worried as he pulled out his cell phone.

The blonde smiled at her gently before taking her cast free arm. "He means well, you know."

Alexis nodded and shook her off to slide into the back seat of the car where Kate was waiting. She and Lanie had a whispered conversation before Kate had entered the car.

A small part of the teenager wondered what it had been about.

The detective was trying to look anywhere but at the teenager.

But Alexis could make an educated guess.

Said teenager glared anywhere but that the detective.

It made for a long and silent car ride over to the loft. Ryan and a uniform sat in the front seats and Kate and Alexis in back. Two more uniforms, Lanie, and Jenny followed in a car behind them.

Ryan's phone going off broke the silence of the car as the uniform pulled up to the curb.

"Ryan….Yeah. We'll meet you up there. I have Lanie and Jenny too…. Alright…You okay?...Fine!"

Alexis stole a glance at Kate. She looked worried.

"Your grandmother is upstairs, Alexis." Ryan opened the car door. "I have my orders to take you and Beckett up to your loft." He exited the car with a glare at the uniform behind the driver's seat. The man quickly exited the car.

"Something's wrong." Kate whispered, glancing out the windows. Alexis followed Kate's line of sight. Ryan was talking with Esposito and a couple of uniforms.

"I thought that they couldn't find Gram."

"I know. But something has changed that." Kate opened her door. "Ryan! Esposito!"

Alexis's jaw dropped when the two detectives glanced at one another before moving farther away from the car.

"What the hell! I'm their god damn-"

"I'm the god damn boss, Detective Beckett."

Kate jumped violently and spun to face the new voice.

Alexis actually screamed.

A middle age man was sitting in Ryan's former place in the front passenger seat. He had blonde hair and was wearing a cheap poorly fitted suit. If it wasn't for Kate's broken leg, Alexis guessed that she might have attacked the man.

"What do you want?"

"The same thing that you want loves-errr-Detective. Ms. Castle. To find the man that you know as Richard Castle." The man said.

"To find the man that you know as Richard Castle?" Alexis parroted back at the man. "What does that mean?"

The man blushed. "Gai Si, Ai Ya. Umm…I mean. You, me, and the Mrs go up stairs. We see what the Handler has to say then-"

"Castle and I aren't married."

"Bi Jweh! Kaylee was sayin' that you'll was married like me and Zoe. Yu Bun Duh Alliance!"

Kate and Alexis glared at one another; the older woman pointed to her open car door. Alexis slid closer and started to help Kate stand.

"Oh okay." The blonde man was out of the car and around to help Kate before Alexis or Kate could say anything. "Come on, I'll get some help-"

"Tze sah ju yi, I'm tellin' ya."

Kate was pulled out of the car with out another word.

Alexis was pulled out quickly after the older woman.

"But me down you son of a bitch!" Kate screamed as she fought against the burly brown haired man that had swung her over his shoulder. Alexis was too shocked to fight against the blonde man who had tugged her to his side.

The two men started to head to the front door of the building.

"She ain't cussin' right Wash!"

"Be careful you Lio Coh Jwei Ji Neong Hur Go Deh Yung Duh Buhn Jah! The baby!"

Alexis nearly fainted when the burly man holding glared at the blonde.

Baby?

"What-? I don't understand!" Alexis yelled just as they entered the building. She stole a glance behind them. Ryan and Esposito were staring. Lanie's and Jenny's car was pulling away from the curb.

"Let us go!"

"Can't do that-Owwww!"

"Mal's going to kill ya if you keep on handlin' his girl like that!"

For the second time in so many hours, Alexis's world went dark.

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So, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I hope that it wasn't too long. And I hope that the characters weren't too OOC. lol Anyway, I have a favor dear readers. Anyone know of a site or someone were I can get help with the Firefly side of things? Thanks for reading! :)