The next morning isn't anymore forgiving to Kevin than the night before. He calls Kate to see if he can come in to work and she flat out denies him, saying that he's emotionally compromised and shouldn't be allowed near the case. She pulls the same bullshit that everyone else had been saying the day before, saying that he should be at home, spending time with his wife and their unborn daughter.
But Kevin didn't want to do that, no matter what he did he couldn't keep still. He took Jenny to see a movie and out to lunch but all he could think about is why anyone would want to hurt his darling little sister,
"Kev, come on." Jenny put her hand on her husband's arm, grabbing his attention with a pair of worried blue eyes, "You can't let yourself get wrapped up in her death." They are sitting out in a courtyard in downtown New York, next to wach other at a small, round cafe` table with a pair of cream mugs filled with coffee and tea in front of them, "She'd want you to be going on as you normally would." Jenny tries reassuring her husband of his younger sister's wishes.
All Kevin does is shake his head. He couldn't just sit idly by while his sister's killer is out on the loose,
"I have to do something to help them!" Kevin's eyes are darting between one thing and another, looking wild as they study the surrounding area,
"Believe me." Jenny's voice is kind a reassuring as she moves her hand from te crook of Kevin's elbow to his shoulder, "You're doing something by staying away." She pats his shoulder and leans closer to him, kissing his cheek kindly.
This snaps Kevin out of his haze and he looks to his wife, whom is staring back at him with eyes hoping that he'd agree with her. He takes a second before he nods and runs a very tired hand through his hair.
If anyone had seen Kevin right they might not have recognized him. Instead of his usual, snazzy three piece suit he's wearing a dark blue t-shirt and a pair of dark wash jeans, cuffed at the bottom where they meet his black and white converse. He looks almost like a different man,
"I'll at least go say hi and check up on the case." Kevin nods and kisses Jenny's cheek, "You stay home I'll be back at the house in half an hour." And with that Kevin takes a last sip of his coffee, pats Jenny's arm and stands up with her, dropping the money on the table and walking with her back to their car.
The walk isn't long, Kevin managed to find a parking spot close to the cafe` for Jenny. The baby had gotten so big that Jenny had gone from regular walking to the famous pregnant lady waddle. Kevin watches his wife walk ahead of him toward their car and smiles, coming up behind her to grab her in a tight hug and kiss her neck,
"Have I ever told you how adorable you are when you walk?" Jenny shakes her head and turns so she can see the big happy grin on her husband's face,
"Oh you." Kevin nuzzles his nose into Jenny's neck and kisses her cheek,
"Hey, why don't you come into the precinct with me?" Kevin goes around to Jenny's other side and goes for the car door, grabbing the handle and flinging the door open for her, "They haven't seen you since I told them about the baby." The grin on his face grows as Jenny slips into the car. He watches her as she shakes her head at him, rolling her eyes all the while with a kind smile on her face. When he slips into the driver's seat he continues to smile at Jenny, his baby blue eyes watching her face carefully, "C'mon it'll be fun! And you can talk wedding with Beckett!" It seemed to always slip everyone's mind that Rick and Kate are engaged. They never talk about it and Kate doesn't flash the diamond at all,
"Okay, fine. But only for a little bit!" Jenny wags her finger at Kevin and leans over the center console, kissing his cheek sweetly, "You know how you get when you spend too much time there."
"I know, I know. It'll only be a few minutes!" And with that they drive off, in the direction of the twelfth precinct.
Javier and Kate are both in the precinct early, trying to crack something in the case of Teagan Ryan. Javi had tracked down the phone number used to contact Teagan over the months down to a former drug dealer in the area she had been found. The drug dealer's name is Steven Caulfield and his photo is up on the murder board as the prime suspect so far. As Rick saunters in, the usual pair of coffees in his hands, he glances at the murder board,
"Steven Caulfield? Could this be more Catcher in the Rye?" He walks up next to Kate and leans on her desk, setting the coffee next to her hand,
"I don't know, maybe." She takes a sip and continues to stare at the screen of names and numbers in front of her, "So I was talking to Laney this morning and she said that the message was carved in post-mortem." She leans back in her chair and continues to stare at the board, "And she found some trace fingerprints on her wrists along with some bruising, which tells us she'd been restrained." Javier comes over and joins the two of them at Kate's desk, staring at the murder board with them, "You find anything, Espo?"
"Uh, no. Just going through Caulfield's record. This kid has got quite a wrap-sheet. Misdemeanors include: Grand theft, possession with intent to sell, and a few other petty thefts. Nothing this violent." Javi hands the folder over to Kate, letting her flip through the different misdemeanors the suspect was guilty of.
Just as she was putting the folder down a familiar whistle caught her ear from the front of the precinct. The trio whipped their heads around toward the elevator to find Kevin and Jenny walking toward them, Jenny being bigger than ever with the baby floating around inside her,,
"Kevin!" Rick was the first to say anything to the pair, "What're you doing here? I thought you were gonna be at home!"
"Yeah, man, you shouldn't be here." Javi spoke up to, glancing from him to Jenny, "Hey, Jenny. Wow did you swallow a planet or something?" Jenny laughs at him and shakes her head, opening her arms to invite him in for a hug,
"No, you're close though. You know we're having a baby, right?" Javi hugs her softly before, "Well looks like the singular should be turning plural." Everyone in the room takes a second to let what Jenny just said sink in. Everyone except Kevin that is,
"Really?" Kate stands up and walks to Jenny, grabbing her in a tight hug, "When did you guys find out?"
"Just a few weeks ago." Jenny goes back to Kevin's side where he lets his arm rest in the small of her back and holding her close to him,
"Congrats, Kev." Javi comes up and pats him on the shoulder with a big smile plastered on his face,
"Got any suspects yet?" Kevin takes his arm back from behind Jenny and crosses it over his chest, moving over to the murder board with squinted, curious eyes.
"Just the one, Steven Caulfield." Javi comes up next to him, pointing at the photo on the whiteboard, "We were gonna go find him and bring him in now." Kevin nods and turns toward his desk, reaching for his badge and gun, "Woah, woah buddy, you're not going on this one." Javi put his hand on Kevin's chest, pushing him back in the direction of the murder board,
"Come on man, it's my sister, I should at least get to catch the guy who did it to her." He lightly pushes Javi back. Javi shakes his head and pushes him back to the desk,
"And that's exactly why you're not allowed to come with us." Kate continues Javi's sentence and grabs her guns and badge, "Javi, Castle, lets go." Kevin takes a step toward them before giving up and leaning back against Kate's desk.
Jenny comes to Kevin's side and pulls him slightly toward the door, urging him to leave the precinct silently. Kevin lets Jenny's hands slip through his fingers as she walked to the elevator doors,
"You go ahead home, I'll catch a cab later." And with that Jenny walks out of the precinct, Kevin watching her move with a kind of sad gleam in his eye, thinking what if something were to happen to her, the killer having already taken his sister from him. What if they take Jenny too? Kevin takes his eyes from Jenny, whipping them back to the murder board and scanning over each and every little detail scrawled on the whiteboard with a nagging itch inside his heart.