I do not own Castle and the other characters.
Here is chapter three. I would've posted earlier, but the game between Brazil and Chile prevented me from doing so.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it.
"What have you found?" Alexis asked, starting to panic when she saw Beckett's face.
"I think it will be better if you tell me what you've found first." Beckett decided, starting to recover from the shock caused by what she had found.
"OK! Look at those marks," began Alexis, "It looks like another car pushed my father's car off the road purposely. And, looking at the size of the tire tracks and the distance between them, it seems as if the car was big, like a truck or something. It wasn't an accident after all."
"Yeah, I figured that too. There is a smell of fuel in the burned car. And it's not coming from the car itself. Someone started the fire after getting Castle out of it. I'll call CSU and ask them to process those marks and search by the car's model," added Kate, already picking up her phone.
While Kate was in the phone with CSU, Alexis couldn't help but feel a little more hopeful. They were finding clues that could lead to where her dad was and to who had caught him. However, the look on Beckett's face before prevented her to start celebrating her dad's rescue. "What the hell did she find?" she thought while she walked in circles looking to nowhere, "It was probably something serious. I know Kate Beckett. And she doesn't get scared easily." Her cogitation was interrupted by Kate, who had finished her call and was coming back to where Alexis was.
"So, I called CSU and they were already on their way. Ryan or Espo probably called them after we left." Beckett's voice was calm, but Alexis could tell that it was faked. She knew Kate was forcing herself to remain calm for her. "Anyway, we must wait for them so we can tell them what we need."
"So… what do you…" Alexis tried to ask Kate what she had found once again.
"What do I think?" Kate concluded the question for her. "Well, analyzing these marks, based on my experience in scenes like that, I can tell for sure that he was followed for a while, probably since he got in the car, and…"
"When he was approaching that bend in the road, the driver accelerated and pushed him out of the road," added Alexis unable to refrain herself.
"Castle was unconscious…"
"Or maybe dizzy…"
"And whoever abducted him took advantage of that to tie him up," her voice failed in the word "whoever", what made Alexis think that maybe Kate knew who did it and she was too terrified to share with her.
"And then he or she threw him on the trunk of the car."
"That was weird. I usually build theories with Castle," Beckett smirked.
"Yeah, I've heard of that brain sharing thing of yours," Alexis smiled, remembering the case she worked with her dad and almost forgetting that she needed to ask Kate to tell her what she had found on the car. "So… what have you found? You didn't tell me yet."
"Oh, yeah, that" Kate couldn't find a way to tell what she had found. So she was trying to make Alexis forget. But apparently it didn't work. It was too terrifying and she knew Alexis had already discovered that. She didn't manage to hide her desperation.
"Kate, please tell me. I need to know."
Kate figured that there was no escape. She needed to tell her. "Well, actually I found three things," Beckett started, biting her lower lip in a nervous way, "They were all outside the car. Everything inside was burned. The first thing I noticed was his phone dropped in the ground, near to the driver's door," she gave the phone to Alexis.
"Did you find something strange in the phone?"
"No, nothing unusual, but I think we should keep it so we can return it to him."
"Sure, he loves this phone," smiled Alexis
"Yeah, he really does." Beckett agreed with her. "The next thing I found was this discarded needle. I think he was probably drugged," she gave to Alexis the bag with the needle inside.
"So that's how they managed to take him to the other car. They put my dad asleep".
"Yeah!" Kate hesitated. The last object was the one that almost made her panic. She didn't know how Alexis would react to it.
"And… what's the last thing you found?"
Kate took a deep breath to calm down before answering that question. "I found this," she took something out of her pocket and gave to her.
"What is this? A rope? Why is this so important? Why were you so panicked? It's nothing that's worth panicking. It just clarifies with what he was tied up." Alexis didn't understand why Kate was so terrified. It was just a green and white nylon cord. There was nothing special about it.
Beckett took another deep breath, this time to prevent the tears to fall from her eyes. "Alexis, this is his old M.O." she said with a shaky voice.
"I…I don't understand."
Kate hoped Alexis would recognize the rope and, as long as she didn't, Beckett was trying to say that number and that two letters but she couldn't. If she said it out loud she would make it true. She would've to recognize that Castle was right, that he wasn't dead, that he was back and that he had abducted the love of her life.
"Alexis," began Kate, feeling the tears she was trying to hold back running down her face, "It's 3XK M.O. Jerry Tyson is back and he abducted your father. Rick was right. He didn't die when he fell from that bridge" she was trying to calm herself again. "He left us this. He wanted us to know that it was him who did it."
"3XK? The guy who killed all those women, the guy that almost sent my dad to jail and murdered the man who looked like Esposito and the woman that looked like Lanie?" Alexis couldn't believe. This guy was crazy and he was the one that had caught her dad?
"Yes" said Kate in an almost inaudible whisperer.
"Oh, my God, Kate. What are we going to do?" Both women were crying.
"We will go and find him," Kate exclaimed after a couple minutes when she managed to calm herself enough to say something. "I am not giving up on him."
Castle was left alone for what seemed a long time. But an hour or just a minute could have passed. He wasn't able to tell precisely. His body was aching. His muscles were getting tense due to lack of circulation. He was unable to stretch his arms and legs. The rope was immobilizing him. He was forcing himself to concentrate on anything but the pain. "C'mon Castle. Every pain is just a psychological thing. It's not real. Your brain is making it up to confuse you," he thought, "You need to get out of here alone. You can't let that insane guy bring Kate here. And when you get out you will teach her how to play laser tag with you. Oh, my God. I'm going crazy. I'm talking to myself in the third person. I'll get out of here and they will put me into a mental institution."
These nonsensical ramblings continued until he started to try and move his hands to the front of his body, which took all of his concentration to be accomplished. He was starting to celebrate when he saw with what he was tied up: that green and white nylon cord. The same kind he used to kill in the past. "He is definitely sending a message. He is saying without words he will do with me the same he did to those girls."
In that moment he heard steps once more. His heart accelerated. He knew he was coming. The sound of footstep grew louder and louder. Tyson was slowly approaching. Castle heard another noise. A chair being dragged across the floor. "Excellent! He is planning to stay longer," he thought with sarcasm.
"What are you doing here?" asked Castle before Jerry could say anything.
"Do I need a reason? I was feeling lonely. I sent my girl home," answered 3XK with that annoying smile on his face. He sat on the chair, so he'd come face to face with Castle.
"Oh, so that creepy doctor was here?" It confirmed his feeling that a woman had given him the injection.
"Sure. But now it's just you and me," said he with a mysterious tone on his voice.
Castle decided that his best option was to keep Tyson talking for as long as possible. "Why did you send her home? You are bringing Beckett here, aren't you? We could have a double date."
"Well, I didn't want anyone messing up my fun with you and your girl," enunciated Tyson, ignoring the last part of Rick's speech.
"Oh, don't be silly. She wouldn't mess up with our fun. The more the merrier" said Castle as if everything was just a conversation between two friends.
"I've been planning this day for a long time," began 3XK, once more ignoring everything Castle said, "I watched you. I found out when would be the wedding. I looked into Beckett's life and found out she was already married. I found out where Rogan lived. I organized his kidnapping. Everything that happened with you two in the last three days was because of me." Tyson said, with a maniac look in his face.
"Everything led you to that road. Everything I planned aimed that moment. That moment when you were alone in that road, when I could finally begin my revenge," continued Tyson. He was getting really excited by now. "And now all I need to do is wait for that detective to come here with help. I will give her help. Actually, I think she is already investigating your kidnapping. My girl has been keeping me informed," laughed Tyson.
Castle became increasingly terrified. This guy had a psychotic obsession with him. He would do everything to turn his life into a living hell. And he understood he would have no peace until Tyson was arrested.
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