Okay, so i want to say right now that the rest of the story (maybe not this chapter) might seem a little bit impossible or like it would never work but we must remember that he is smart and of course that this is fiction.
Kate walked up to Castles door. She had been here in months. What would she do if Castle opened the door and didn't know anything about what was going on? What would she tell him? Hey guess what your being framed for murder. That wouldn't work. Well, she had to knock eventually so why not do it now. She waited for a little bit and there was no answer. She had two choices. She could leave. But if she did he could have been kidnapped and she wouldn't know. Choice number two was to get his spare key out of its hiding place and do a quick search of the apartment. She decided on choice number two.
She unlocked the door and slowly crept in. "Castle? Are you here?" She asked the empty apartment. She looked through the bottom half of the apartment and, finding nothing out of the ordinary, made her way upstairs. Alexis's room had two unpacked bags on the floor but everything else was normal. Martha's old room was very clean. It didn't look like the door had even opened in a while. Now she had to check his room. She grabbed the door knob and, half expecting to find someone on the other side, opened the door. Nobody was on the other side though, just a messy room. Clothes were thrown everywhere. His bed wasn't made and he had food wrappers on his nightstand. She had never seen his room this messy.
After deciding his house was empty Kate locked up and left. She climbed into her car and was about to start it when she felt something hard push against her temple. She looked in the rearview mirror and saw him. He was in a Zorro mask but still she knew it was him.
"Hello Katherine, I've decided we should play different this time."
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"Did you get a hold of Beckett?" Esposito asked Ryan.
"No not yet. She should have been back or at least called by now." Ryan said. "She wanted us to call her if we found anything out and we did and now she isn't answering."
"Something isn't right. I know Beckett; she would have been right by her phone, waiting for our call. We know she can't be with Castle because he is in New Jersey." Esposito said.
"Do you think something happened to her?" Ryan asked.
"I don't know, I think we should go over to Castle's, to see what she maybe found." Esposito said.
"Alright, I'll tell Captain." Ryan said and headed to Montgomery's office. Esposito gathered his stuff. He had a bad feeling that something happened. He shouldn't have let her go alone.
The ride to Castle's was silent. Esposito and Ryan were both worried about there partner. It had been almost two hours since they had last heard from her. When they pulled into the parking garage they saw Beckett's car. There was blood on the steering wheel and her cell phone and gun were in the passenger seat.
"Damn! Shit! Fuck!" Esposito cursed kicking the ground. Ryan's phone was ringing.
"Hello." He said and waited. "Are you serious?" He waited. "Can we get a hold of Castle yet?" Another pause. "She's gone sir. It doesn't look like she left willingly." Another pause. "Yeah, I'll tell him.
"What?" Esposito asked. He didn't want any more bad news but from the way his partner looked bad news was about to come.
"Alexis is gone. They had sent someone to look after her at school and when they got there they said she went off campus for lunch and didn't come back. No one kind find her."
"SHIIIT!" Esposito said wanting to punch something.
"That's not all. Once they determined that Alexis was gone they sent someone over to Martha's new place. She's gone too. Chet said she left around noon and didn't come back."
"We need to get to Castle." Esposito said.
"Yeah, the captain said we should to head to Jersey." Ryan said and they both climbed in their car.
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"Again, really sorry to have taken up your time." Detective Rain, the thin blonde woman said.
"No problem let me know if I can be of any assistance to the case." Castle said. They had checked his alibi and he was at the Princeton going away party until around eight. Detective Nickels was murdered around seven thirty.
"Will do." She said. She had seemed kind of rude at first but after they found him not guilty she admitted to being a huge fan.
Castle left the precinct and decided to get lunch before heading back to New York. He was exiting the restaurant when something caught his eye. It was a piece of paper with a Zorro mask drawn on it and an arrow under it. He looked in the direction the arrow was pointing and saw another. He followed them to an alley. He looked down the alley and decided he wasn't going to be stupid today. He was about to turn and walk away when something hard shoved into his back.
"Walk." The voice said. When they got to the end of the alley Castle saw the man holding the gun to his back. It was Daniel Simon. "Mr. Castle you really made that too easy."
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