'Castle carry her to the car' Kate ordered as the rest of the back up showed to document the area they had rescued her from.
Castle took the girl, who was sitting on the ground, in his arms and carried her to the car while Kate walked behind them. He set her in the back of the car and got in the drivers seat. Then he turned to Kate to talk to her as he could sense her overload of emotions.
'How could he'
Lee had confessed. His motives were that he had previously dated Zoë's deceased older sister Mandy. Mandy had been forbiden from seeing Lee and had ran away with him. Later they found out Mandy had cancer and she came home. Mrs. Johnson didn't let Lee see Mandy before she died and Lee had planned this for two years. He hadn't planned on killing her but his rage had increased on the sight of her and it lead him to killing her. He had always planned on kidnapping Zoë though. And she wasn't the first girl he had abducted. Each and everyone of them was force into doing something, like Zoë's singing, to entertain Mr Tench and only one person had entertained him and had won his freedom. This girl died a month later of suicide from the stress of worrying he was going to come back for her. After he had been put behind bars Rick had told Kate he should come to his apartment for dinner so they could talk things over. This had become a more frequent q in the last couple of months and Kate gladly excepted. They were sitting on the couch in comfortable silence when she finally spoke up. The quiet outburst startled Rick.
'Huh?'
'How could someone do that. Kill a person for no reason other than pure unjustified revenge and then kidnap another person. How could he kidnap all those girls, force them into performing for him and then kill them. I've faced a lot sickos, jackasses, murderers, and a whole bunch of people who are messed up but Lee is the only one who has done something for such an unjust reason. No reason is a justified reason to kill but sometimes i can at least see where the murderer is coming from. He said he never even loved Mandy how could he kill people over his grief for her?'
'I don't know and I don't think we ever will. But I hope that Zoë is going to be ok. She's in a foster home right?
'Yea. I told her to call if she needed anything...'
They sat there and Castle could see the wheels in her head turning. He was about to say something when she blurted out
'Rick, I'm worried for her. What if her foster family isn't nice, what if they don't understand how she needs to deal with this.'
'Kate, you can't absorb yourself with worry if something goes horribly wrong you'll hear from her.'
At that moment Kate's cellphone rang and the Caller ID read Zoë...