AN: There is language in this chapter. Well, one word. Said only once.
Beckett realized at once what the note really meant, although she kept her ideas to herself until the team returned to the station and she tacked the note up right next to the other one on the murder board. Ryan and Esposito came into the room later. After giving information to Lanie about the crime scene and updating the captain. When they walked up behind the lead detective.
Kate had written, 'I have Castle.' Which was probably the simplest version of the message. "Castle is missing," She said capping the marker and carefully setting it down. "He went home at ten last night and the was last we've heard from him, so he has been missing for at least eighteen hours and we have no true starting point to start looking for him."
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Castle went to close his eyes, but was awaken by a slap to the face. His body jerked at the sudden tingling sensation on his face. Samantha glared at him, the woman was only sitting a few inches in front of him, her chin resting on a closed fist, propped up by her elbow on the arm of the chair. With a smile she looked at him, "You fell asleep-" and in an instance her smile faded. "again." She said in a flat voice.
"Well I'm sorry, but I haven't the chance to get any real sleep, coupled with the lack of food and water it is difficult to stay awake." He sneered. "And what time is it anyway?"
Samantha shrugged and lazily looked at her watch. "Almost seven."
Immediately Castle knew that she meant in the evening, it had been far to long to only have been missing for three hours. That almost made him feel better because at this point Kate had to know that he was missing and if not, his mother would wonder where he has been all day.
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Alexis look at the clock on the wall and huffed, she had gotten home from school a few hours ago, she stayed after for the new chess club that just started and she got home around four. When she came home to an empty loft she didn't ask questions. Alexis assumed that her father was investigating some crime scene with Detective Beckett and that her Grandmother was out, doing what ever it was that Martha did during the day.
Except when five o'clock, six then seven came and went she started getting curious. Alexis made herself dinner and punched her father's cell phone number into her phone and let it ring. Immediately she heard his ring tone fill the room, the young red head followed the sound and found her father's phone sitting on his desk. She hung up and the other phone beeped, indicating a missed call. Alexis looked at the screen, he had fourteen missed calls.
Scrolling through the list, one, the most recent, was from Alexis, then the other thirteen were from Beckett, her cell phone and work number. Immediately, that told her that her father was not with Kate. She used her father's phone to call Beckett.
It was officially declared, Richard Castle was missing and somehow connected to the murder of two women. Kate stood in front of the murder board. Esposito was thinking out loud. "Why would the kidnapper tell use that we will never find Castle, then tell us he's been kidnapped?" Everyone agreed with him, that it did seem a bit strange but the whole situation was strange.
Kate sat at her desk while Ryan and Esposito tried to work things out. She couldn't help but stare at her unofficial partner's empty seat. Beckett was brought back to reality when her cell phone started vibrating in her pocket, with haste she fished it out and read the caller ID, 'Richard Castle'. She didn't know what to feel. "I have been waiting to hear from you all day, do you know that." Kate said.
Alexis waited. "Oh- this is Alexis." She said, aware that the detective clearly thought it was her father.
"Alexis-" Kate sighed, not really the person she wanted to talk to. Her reasoning being that, since Castle hadn't called, he was missing. Which meant Alexis was going to want to know where he was and she didn't have any answer for her. "Have you heard from your father?"
The younger Castle shook her head. "No, that's why I was calling." Alexis bit her lip, as she looked at the desk, nothing else was missing and his wallet was sitting in plain view as well. "You- uh, haven't heard or seen him today?"
Being a trained detective, Kate could already pick up the worry in Castle's daughter's voice. Something deep inside her compelled her to make her want to lie, but she kept that feeling pushed away. "No- I haven't. Is Martha there?" Hoping that Castle had called his own mother, at least. Alexis told her she wasn't and also was not aware where she was either. "Tell you what, Alexis, I'll finish up here then head over there okay?"
This calmed the young one down, just a bit. "That sounds good."
Kate smiled, even though Alexis couldn't see it. "Alright, I'll be over with in the hour."
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Castle glared at Samantha, who was still toying with him. Demonstrating these drastic mood swings. She'd hit him, slap him and then apologize and almost break down into tears. Richard was growing tired of her act and he still couldn't remember her. The two had been quiet for the last hour, give or take. Then Samantha broke the awkward silence.
"I just want you to know, that what ever happens, we will always be together." She smiled, the crazed woman did have a nice set of pearly whites. Except she had the look of a psychopath twinkling in her bright blue eyes. Castle went to ask what she meant but she just shook her head and pressed a slender index pointer to his lips. "I have already started getting rid of everyone who would be in our way, the people that would stop us from having a wonderful life together."
The author narrowed his eyes out of confusion and leaned back to get her hand out of face. "Getting rid of?" A quick shake of his head and he went on. "What are you talking about?"
"Don't worry- they won't be around to bother us any more. Never again." The way she spoke genuinely gave him the creeps. Except he realized what she meant, she was killing people so they could, in her messed up world, be together.
"You are fucking insane." Castle squirmed, trying to get free once more, but it was still no use. Samantha clenched her jaw and quickly stood up from her seat and balled her hand into a fist.
"Well, if that is how you are going to talk to me fine." The woman spat and pushed her own chair over. Sitting in the corner was a large bag and she dug through it, Castle only hoped that she wasn't going to pull out any more syringes full of strange sedatives. To his relief she didn't, although she did return with a large roll of gray duct tape. Samantha ripped off a large piece of tapped his mouth closed. "Now you can't talk at all." Well, that was better than being injected with something.
It was almost as if Samantha could hear his thoughts of reprieve, because she introduced a hypodermic needle in front of him. He swallowed as her bright white teeth appeared beneath her spreading red lips. "It's only because I love you, and can't lose you." The end of the needle punctured the side of his neck and she applied pressure to the plunger, injecting his again with the liquid that caused his eye lids to grow heavy and his heart rate to decrease.
Once she was sure the author was unconscious she kissed his forehead and looked at a few photos she had laid out, the first two had red X's and the last three we're unmarked, for as of right now.
