Disclaimed.

Busted

"Mom?" Ava choked out as the blood rushed to her cheeks. "How did you –"

"I said stop talking," she reprimanded her daughter.

Ava had never seen her mom look this way. She was in one of her 'boss-ass bitch' suits and she had a stare that could make a grown man cry. I guess her being in an interrogation room was pretty natural for Kate Beckett, but there was a completely different woman in this room than her mom Kate Beckett married to Richard Castle, goofyball father. The woman in this room was Captain Beckett coming to rescue her screw-up of a daughter.

"I'm quite sure you have an incredible explanation as to why you're questioning a minor without legal counsel or guardian present detectives."

In this moment she sounded like a lawyer, not like a cop and most definitely not her mom. In this moment Ava was proud and very, very intimidated.

"I'm unsure how regulation is handled up here at 30th, but I'm almost positive it's universal across all NYPD platforms," Beckett continued. She had the other detectives in the room on their toes, now standing up with their arms in their pockets, heads bowed, like two dogs getting punished for peeing on the couch.

"So let me ask this one simple question," Beckett continued, "Are you going to release my daughter now or shall I run this through 1PP and wait until they bring IA in here and search through all your cases?"

Hell yeah mom, work them.

"Captain Beckett, I uh, we didn't know she was your daughter. Her file only brought up the last name Rodgers," the female detective finally spoke. "We can get her paperwork filed and have you two out of here within the hour."

"That would be wise," Beckett stated. She still stood tall within the room, making her superior presence known.

"Actually," the male detective spoke, "We aren't going to release her."

Kate looked at the man as if he has suffered a stroke. Her eyes narrowed at him and she crossed her arms before saying, "Excuse me?"

Ava noticed the tension in the room increase to an insurmountable level as she began to speak, "Come on dude, you're not going to win this –"

"I told you to stop talking," Beckett retorted.

"But –"

"Avalyn Jo you need to listen to me and stop talking. Now," her mom said to her with determination in her eyes.

Ava shut up and tried to listen to the conversation taking place in front of her, but she was lost in her thoughts. She was grateful that her mom was here now, but why was she here? Uncle Kevin should have been able to handle this without calling in the cavalry.

It wasn't until her mother mentioned her name again did she start to listen.

"Understood Clarke. Now do you mind if I have a moment alone with my daughter before we begin," Beckett asked.

With that the other detectives left the room and Ava witnessed her mother's mood and stance transform back into the woman she grew up with and not the cop that she was at work.

She sat up as her mom pulled a chair around to sit next to her. She was afraid to look her in the eyes, to see the face of disappointment stare directly back at her. It wasn't until she felt her mom's hand on her cheek did she realize that she had start to cry.

"Oh Ava, baby," she heard her mother's soothing voice. "Please tell me what happened."

It sounded like her mom was pleading with her. It sounded like she couldn't comprehend the fact that her kid was sitting in an interrogation room on the wrong side of the law.

Ava wiped away some of her tears, "Wont they be able to hear us though?" she said nodding towards the mirror. She once visited her parents at the 12th when she was in middle school as some sort of career day learning experience. Her uncle Javi took her into the monitoring room so she and Ella could see their parents at work.

Her mom wiped a tear from Ava's cheek before she grabbed her hands and said, "No they can't. This is technically privileged information," she informed her daughter. "And besides I have your uncle Kevin in there making sure that there is no other cheating happening in this precinct."

Ava looked at her and saw a small smile form across her mom's face at her little joke, so Ava tried to smile back.

"I messed everything up mom," Ava blurted out. "I didn't know I was going to get caught. Kennedy texted me earlier and told me that I needed to pick up the bag and drop it off in the mailbox near Rucker Park, but when I got to her house Cooper answered the door and he had a different plan. I know I shouldn't have done it in the first place, but Ken said that I needed to trust her and that after this night she would stop and we would go back to normal. She told me I needed to do this for Cooper that if I loved her I would help her brother out."

"Oh honey," was all that her mom was able to get out before Ava jolted herself into her mother's arms and continued to cry. She felt her mom place soothing circles on her back as she just whispered that it was going to be alright.

"I thought," Ava sobbed, "I thought she really loved me and that she would stop, but – but she just used me."

"It's alright, it's going to be alright," Kate repeated to her daughter. "But you need to listen to me and really listen, no smart remarks no trying to play it coy, just listen."

Ava nodded her head as her mother continued.

"Your uncle Kevin talked to a couple old friends and the detectives that were interrogating you were telling the truth, they don't want to charge you with anything serious at this point. But you're going to have to tell them about the pills and how you got them from Kennedy and Cooper."

"But mom I can't just throw her under the bus!" Ava yelled as she pulled her hands away from her mom's hold and sat back in the chair. "Kennedy was just a pawn in Cooper's game, just like me."

She waited as she watched her mom think through her next statement. It was apparent that her mom was keeping something from her and she didn't want to be coddled at this time. She just wanted the truth to come out and to be able to go home. She continued to stare at her mom with a determined look.

"I didn't want to bring this up, but Ella told me before we left that she found Kennedy taking the pills the other day," Kate said.

"Taking as in what, stealing them?"

"No babes, as in ingesting them. She was using."

Ava's heart stopped. What. No. No she would have known if she had been dating a user. No, Ella must have been wrong. Kennedy would have told her about the drugs that she had been taking them too. No, this was simply a game to them – an adrenaline rush, nothing more.

"Now your uncle and I have worked out a deal with the DA's office and the detectives will drop the chargers if you tell them about Cooper and Kennedy's involvement. You will have to complete 6 months of community service under my supervision at the precinct, but on your record it will simply show it as volunteer work," her mother finally said, breaking the panic that settled in Ava's body.

She didn't even have time to think everything through before the detectives were back in the room and taking her statement, the same statement she told her mom just moments before. Her mom had stayed in the room with her the entire time, simply holding her hand and giving the necessary push to make sure Ava told the whole story starting from the beginning.

The whole thing took nearly another hour before the paperwork was filed and Ava was able to leave the room. She was met out the door by her dad and uncle. She gave him a hug and thanked him for everything he did, even though calling her parents wasn't a part of the plan.

"Hey there's only so much a guy with no badge can really do," he said.

"I know on the phone I was a brat, but I'm really thankful that you helped me out uncle Kevin," she apologized. "And just so you know if I ever need a secret service agent you are on the top of my list."

"Yeah yeah" he smiled pulling her into another hug. "I'm just glad you're okay, and I know you're gonna hear a bunch of this from your parents in the near future, but you were reckless tonight and it nearly ended in a different way so be careful out there Ava, you're not invincible yet."

She let a small laugh leave her before she said goodbye to her uncle and went to face her father. He and her mom were signing a few more forms and chatting about the situation when she decided to approach them. He simply gave her a small smile and pulled her into a hug and kissed the top of her head, "You're okay baby bird."

Even though at this moment all she felt was guilt she still knew that her parents loved her. It was just going to be hard to get the look of disappointment in their eyes to fade.

"Come on kid, let's get you home," he said making sure to keep his arm over her shoulder thinking that at any moment she might bolt.

And as soon as she saw Kennedy and Cooper walk out of the elevator with their father, bolting was the only thing she wanted to do.

A/N: Well there you have it folks, the second part to the bulk of this teenage tale. Tell me what you think on here or on tumblr.

New chapter every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

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