Notes:

Thanks so much for your reviews! Just a note, I am boycotting Season 8 of Castle until it ends! Then I'll binge watch it skipping the stupidly unnecessary angst in the process. So I would appreciate it if there were no spoilers in the reviews for Season 8.

Again thanks and here is the next chapter. Enjoy!

Jordan Shaw = Susan Bones

Martha Rogers = Minerva McGonagall

Chapter Four

For the rest of the Dunn case he spent his time helping keep the peace between Kate and Susan until they reached a mutual understanding. It was when the threat to her life became more imminent though that they truly started working together.

He kept Kate company the night after he met Susan, the wards he put on her apartment ensured that no one disturbed them the whole night. He and Kate hashed out their differences regarding 'Agent Shaw'and he got to witness a jealous Kate Beckett for the first time!

When she went to sleep threatening him not to open her door he cast all the security spells known to wizard kind on it and settled in to keep watch over her.

In the morning he cast freshening charms on his face to get rid of the fatigue and set about making breakfast only to realise that Beckett was completely dependent on take out and didn't bother to shop for home cooking. Even the milk and eggs had gone bad.

Having no intention of leaving her alone he conjured the items necessary for pancakes from his own pantry at the loft and told Beckett that those were the only ingredients available in her kitchen.

He felt the push against his wards register the moment Beckett picked up her coffee and under the guise of getting the paper he open the door. And in fell the next victim. All in all it was a very harrowing experience.

When they had to watch from the outside as they finally made a move on Conrad only to have him commit suicide, he longed to just apparate over to the apartment and stop him just as he knew that Susan was probably wishing to do. But their hands were tied in front of so many muggles.

So both witch and wizard had to stand by as he and Beckett watched Conrad kill himself. Only he hadn't killed himself, in fact he wasn't even the suspect they were looking for; Ben Conrad had merely been the fall guy who their real killer had used as a patsy. He had staged Conrad's suicide, in order to catch them off guard.

He only realized this after he gone home to the loft. He was going over the crime scene photos when he saw the gun Conrad was holding was in his right hand while Beckett and him had witness him holding it in his left hand. The minute he realised that they had been duped he told Minerva to call the 12th precinct and dashed out of the loft.

Outside his door he turned on his heel and disappeared with a soft pop, appearing outside Beckett's apartment door. He took out his phone and called Beckett hearing the ringing in the apartment. It went to voice mail and he dialed again. He heard the shower shut off and knew there was nothing for it, he cast Disillusionment and Muffliato and disapparated, apparating inside her apartment in time to witness the glorious sight of Kate Beckett walking across the room wet and in a towel. He ignored his baser instincts as Kate picked up his call.

Muffliato allowed him to talk freely while in the room so he told Beckett urgently that the real killer was still alive only to hear a horrible croaking voice speak from a blinking light near her couch. "Goodbye Nikki! Goodbye Nikki!"

Kate realised just as soon as he did and turned on her heel running full tilt out of the room back into the bath room. He had just enough time to cast an impervious and sealing charm on the door of the bathroom before the brownstone exploded. With him still in it.

It was lucky that he had experimented enough with magic and Ancient Runes these past few years. His shield bracelet lit up around his hand flaring brightly against the flames as the magic surrounded him engulfing and protecting against the deafening blast.

Once the blast subsided he allowed his shield to dissipate shaking his cuffs over his bracelet and walking over to the bathroom yelling Beckett's name. The charms he had placed on the door held it together. Unfortunately the walls around the door wasn't as protected by the charms and had blown through. Pushing through the door his heart in his throat, he choked on the smoke filling through the house and rasped out Beckett's name again as he took in the wreckage that was once Beckett's bathroom.

Just as he felt as if his entire world was destroyed, soot covered fingers reached up and gripped the edge of the bath tub from the inside. Beckett coughed out his name and he stumbled forward eagerly only to realize that she was naked. Holy God! Oh Merlin! He had died and gone to heaven as he glimpsed that split second of skin before Beckett's screech had him turning around.

When everything was said and done Beckett's house was completely destroyed. He did manage to find her father's watch in the wreckage and a mumbled Reparo fixed it right up.

Searching Ben Conrad's apartment again, they found a hidden room and concluded that the killer had been hidden in there the whole time they were searching. He cursed himself that he hadn't thought to use Homenum Revelio to search for anybody else in the apartment, his oversight had almost cost Kate her life.

What followed was a frantic search for the real killer. Susan profiled him as someone who probably like to watch his crimes take place along with another dead body who he killed out of anger because Beckett was still breathing. The man that they spotted in uniform was identified by Susan's facial recognition as Scott Dunn.

All surveillance was pulled in search for him with Beckett chomping at the bit for any lead available until finally Susan and Montgomery both had enough and sent her home to which she responded that she no longer had a home.

He instantly offered his own and after a little firm cajoling she accepted his invitation. As it was they were barely home long enough when they received the call that Shaw had been abducted.

This time he didn't mess up. When him, Beckett and Avery put their heads together to find the place she was being held, he cast the Human Presence Revealing spell surreptitiously figuring out that neither Susan nor Dunn was in the building, using Susans profile he deduced that Dunn was probably in the adjacent building watching his trap spring into action. He came up with a convincing but still convoluted theory which he fed to Kate in order to get her to search the building next to their supposed location.

Casting the spell again determined two bodies located at the top floor one sitting one standing. The confrontation was swift but Dunn managed to escape with Kate chasing after him. He quickly untied Susan using his ring but she insisted that he get to Kate. Nodding he cast the Homenum Revelio a third time and disappeared on the spot appearing right next to Kate and Dunn only to find her on the floor at gun point.

He raised Kate's extra piece and fired a shot straight at his head, watching in sick fascination as the bullet sailed towards his head, then a twitch of his ring finger caused it to turn at the last minute and hit Dunns hand causing the gun to skitter away from them and allowing Kate to arrest the son of a bitch.

When Kate congratulated him on the perfect shot, he shrugged saying honestly that he was aiming for Dunns head and with Susan and Kate securing their collar they walked out of the building grateful that finally this whole ordeal was over.

End Notes:

A little short but the next one is longer, I promise! Again please no spoilers for Season 8 in the reviews. Thanks so much for reading!