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holding my heart
Chapter 4
ESposito walked into the precinct. He found Ryan going through videos of surveillance, through the window to the conference room Ryan was pacing the room. "yo frustrated bro," Esposito called as he enter the room carrying his notepad.
"Yes," there was a little anger in his voice. "There is nothing out of the ordinary on these tapes. Just people going in and out. Any of them could be a person of interest. I mean come on." Ryan threw up his hands. "I even saw Beckett a few times. Looks like she was bring Castle dinner." Ryan smiled. He was secretly hoping that some day the two of them would get together but...that might not happen anytime soon.
"Well, I might have something."
"Oh, do tell." Ryan went over a pushed pause on the tape machine, I'm sick of watching these." he faced Esposito now showing concern on his face, "How do you think Castle's holding up?"
"I don't know, he had a total break down." Esposito shook his head. "I would too though, I mean...anyway the doorman remembers that about he thinks anyway about two weeks ago. He saw some kids sitting on the porch across the street playing with..."
"Matches,"
Esposito laughed, "No with some binoculars."
"You mean they were spying? on their neighbors?"
"He doesn't really know but it's worth checking out." Ryan gets his coat and they both leave to talk to the people in the building across from Castle.
Castle looking around paced the floor, paced the floor of his daughter's room trying to imagine what his daughter went through. What she might be going through right now, where ever she was. All kinds of situations went though his mind, none of them good, nothing that would help them right now. He sighed,
"What was so important she had to come back up here for?" he asked without looking to see whose footsteps he heard on the stairs, he know those high heels anywhere. he wondered how she was able to walk in them. Even though his heart was breaking over his daughter he knew having Beckett around would help him...focus, he sighed again.
Beckett stood behind him. He could almost feel her...He inhaled her scent, the scent of strawberries. He swallowed he just wanted this moment to last. That in its self was his comfort. Focus Castle, he reminded himself. Your daughter needs you. He walked around the room again, looking for anything that might help them find his daughter. What did she see. What did she feel. Terror that's what, who wouldn't. He sighed heavily as he sat on the edge of her bed. Tears started down his face again.
Beckett hesitated this time, for being alone with him, with a bed of all things, she didn't know what he or, she for that matter, might do.
She sat next to him. She put her arm around him. She was shocked when he laid his head down in her lap, he turned into the little boy again, one that needed comforting. "Castle, I..." She was going to say she was sorry but something stopped her. This time she wiped her hands down his face, trying to take his tears away. She started rubbing his face, his hair, so soft she thought. She could feel him falling asleep. Maybe that's what he needs to rest. "Castle..." she whispered. He stirred, then his eyes rose to look at her.
She just stares into his eyes, those eyes. Those mesmerizing eyes. He sat up, looking to her anyway, a little refreshed. His hand reached out and touched her neck, sending a tingle down her spine. He leaned forward, they were so close to kissing each other. Her mind told her that this was not the right moment for this, not here, not in his daughter's room. "I..." Castle started then stopped.
Beckett blinked, tearing her eyes from him. "We need to focus." She said and got up. Castle just hung his head, she's right, I know she is but...He slid his hand down his face. Just then her phone rang.
"Beckett," she answered. Then there was the look. The look that Castle knew to well, one that told him that someone, whoever it was on the line knew something. He swallowed, did he want to know what that "something" was. He braced himself, well the best that he could anyway. what did it matter she had already seen him cry. Cry like a baby, cause my, Castle closed his eyes, my baby...my only baby.
"Castle," Beckett waved her hands in front of him. "We need to go." With that all kinds of thoughts went though his head, what if...what if they found...don't say that, don't you dare.
"Esposito and Ryan think that they might have some info. Now come on," She took him by the arm and litterly dragged him up. "But..." He protested.
TBC...