Okay so, I'm sure some of you want to strangle me but I'm sorry I've been super busy and today was my second day back to school and we had a bomb threat so we had to evacuate and all sorts of BS that you don't want to go through on your second day of school. -.- anyways I hope you enjoy

When she opened the door she saw him sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for her with bright eyes and a wide smile. "Hey" she said softly,

"Hey" Kate walked forward to stand in front of him. He grabbed her sides and pulled her closer so she was standing between his legs. Kate smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck as she quickly glanced down at his lips. He leaned in and place a kiss on her stomach through the shirt she was wearing. Kate blushed slightly as Castle smiled up at her.

"Can I ask you something?" he asked softly, eyes full of curiosity and wonder.

"Sure" Kate said, expecting him to ask her if he could kiss her or something but his question totally threw her off guard.

"How'd you get those scars on your arm?"

"I, uh…" Kate's smiled dropped. She pulled the sleeves of the shirt down and slightly backed away from him, his words bringing back memories of her friends asking her the same question. "How did you…" Kate lifted her sleeve a little to see what he was talking about. "They're barely there, Castle… how did you see them?" Castle's look of curiosity turned to concern.

"I am observant and that was the first time you rolled up your sleeves since you got here." Kate looked at him in the eyes then looked down at the ground.

"Oh. Yeah, well… they're not important… they're just… stupid teen stuff… Ya know?" Kate moved to sit next to him. He grabbed her arm and pushed the sleeve up to get a better look at them, running his fingers along the extremely faded white lines.

"Kate how did you get them?" he asked again, this time a little more forcefully.

"I… I, um—" Kate was interrupted by the sound of her ringtone. Kate got up and took her arm back from Castle as fast as she could. She answered with her normal 'Beckett' as she searched the room for a pad of paper and a pen. Castle opened up the drawer in the nightstand she was standing in front of and indicating what she was looking for was in there. She grabbed the pen and a stack of sticky notes and wrote down an address.

"Okay, I'll be there in 20." She said before hanging up. "A…uh… a body dropped." Castle nodded as Kate went to collect her clothes. "I… I umm, have to go to my apartment and get another pair of clothes… Want to meet me at the crime scene?" Rick was grabbing a suit from him closet.

"Can I just come with you? It'll only take me 5 minutes to get ready." He said softly.

"Yeah, sure. I'll wait for you." Kate said as she slid off the boxers she was wearing to pull on her jean shorts.

25 minutes later they arrived at the crime scene. Kate and Castle walked into the small home surrounded by cops. Once inside one of the uniforms told her which room the crime scene was.

"Hey Espo," Kate says as she ducks under the crime scene tape, held up by another uni. "What do you have for us?"

"Kelly Tampner. Just turned 16 last week."

"Damn it"

"The man you walked past on the way in is the Father, Orville Tampner, found the body about an hour ago." He stated, pointing towards the door where a distraught man stood, staring at his daughter.

"What was the father doing up at 3 in the morning?" Kate asked. She turned to the uni at the door and asked him to escort Mr. Tampner downstairs away from the body. She walked, Castle following a little too closely, towards Lanie, who was hunched over the young girl on the bed in the middle of the room.

"Work. He works at a foundry on the other side of town. He said he always comes in to kiss his daughter goodbye before leaving for work." Kate felt a flood of emotions come crashing down over her. She remembered her mom doing the same thing to her when she was alive. Kate swiped at her eyes and reclaimed her composure.

"What does it look like Lanie?" Kate asked her voice sounding clear and normal but Lanie could tell something was wrong. When she looked up she saw her best friend with her arms crossed over her chest, like that was the only thing preventing her from collapsing to the floor. Lanie gave her a sympathetic look. "From the looks of it, I'd say blood loss but I can't tell from where till I get her back to the lab." Lanie was worried about her friend. "Kate if you can't—"

"Lanie I'm… I'm fine." Kate said softly as she started walking back towards the door. "Espo do a canvas of the neighbours, see if they saw or heard anything last night. I'll go talk to the father.

Kate and Castle made their way downstairs towards the living room where Mr. Tampner was now seated. Kate sat on the love seat across the table from the small chair the middle aged father sat in, Castle right beside her. Their legs flush against one another. Kate looked up at him and saw the worry in his eyes; she knew it wasn't about the victim either.

"Hello, Mr. Tampner" Kate spoke softly, returning her attention to the victim's father."I'm Detective Kate Beckett. I have a few questions about your daughter." Mr. Tampner nodded quickly and started sobbing. Kate grabbed the Kleenex box off the coffee table and handed it to the man. Kate realized he kinda looked like Rick. Middle aged, about 40. Prominent jaw line. Scruffy, dark brown hair that's not super short but not on the verge of being too long.

"Did Kelly have any enemies? Any problems at school? Anybody who would want to hurt her? Maybe a boyfriend or ex boyfriend?" Mr. Tampner looked up at saw how caring Kate was.

"You have such caring eyes detective… I can tell you were in a similar situation before." He wasn't flirting just observing. Kate smiled softly as he continued, "No Kelly didn't have many friends actually. She wasn't very social anymore. She had one really close internet friend she would send things to and talk to all the time and another friend she'd spend time with occasionally but other than that she didn't spend time with many people. Especially, since her mom died.

"Two summers ago, we hit a rough patch. Her mom was out of work, I had an alcohol addiction and Kell... well she has— had… an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa? You know the one where a person starves themselves…" Mr. Tampner took a deep breath. "We were about to lose our car, our house, everything… So, Candice killed herself… ODed on her sleeping pills. Kell was all I had left…" He sobbed.

"I'm so sorry Mr. Tampner… I promise we'll do everything in our power to find out who did this to her."

"Thank you" He said, as Kate stood, shook his hand and left the room.

Back at the precinct Kate had set up the murder board while Castle watched her intently.

When she finished she sat down in her chair. She linked her fingers together and rested them on the mouth while she studied the board. "Who would kill a teenage girl who kept to herself, and didn't have any friends?" Kate looked at Castle, hoping he had some wild theory he could spin to make it all make sense in a way that is so truly Castle, but he just stared back at her with a look that told her he had a theory but she wouldn't like it. "What is it Castle? I know you have some pretty wild theories, so whichever one is bouncing around inside your head can't be that bad."

Castle looked at her; he hesitated but decided to speak. "I know this is really crazy but…" he trailed off, not wanting to seem like more of an idiot than he has in the past few days.

Kate leaned closer and placed a hand on Castle's knee, "Rick, I won't judge you…" I love you, "tell me what it is." She said calmly. He looked at her, his eyes filled with sadness. For the victim? For her?

"I just…" he ran a hand through his hair, "Maybe this isn't a murder…" He whispered so softly that Kate almost didn't hear him.

Kate looked at him confused, "what do you mean?" she asked softly.

"Well, Lanie still hasn't found out where she was bleeding from… maybe she… did this to herself…" he said slowly as if the words didn't sound right. Kate looked at him incredulously.

Her eyes widened and her face paled at memories from long ago flashed through her mind.

Blood... there was a lot of it. She remembered how it felt, the way her body went numb and her vision blurred, it was a good feeling, a great feeling but she knew it really wasn't good at all.

"Kate... I was just suggesting… I told you it was crazy…" Castle trailed off as he broke her reveries. She looked around to make sure they were alone before she grabbed his hand and looked him straight in the eyes.

"It's not crazy Castle. It actually makes perfect sense!" she exclaimed as she got up and grabbed her coat. "Let's go" she said, as she bit her bottom lip and headed towards the elevator.

"Where are we going?" he asked trailing along behind her.

"The morgue" she says in a matter of fact tone. As they get onto the elevator Rick still feels like an idiot even though she likes his theory.

"Kate, I… it isn't a stupid theory?" he asks. When has he ever been this self-conscious around her?

"No, it was a great theory! I could kiss you!" Castle slowly moved closer to her, his eyes never leaving her face.

"Why don't you?" he asks, a hint of sadness in his voice. Kate looked up at him.

"Because I'll want more." She said simply.

"So?" He asked as his hand brushed against hers. Kate took a few seconds to think about his 'so?'

She saw the intensity in his gaze. He really loves her doesn't he?

"Ah, what the hell." She said as she grabbed his face and kissed him soundly.

Okay so that's it for this chapter! I'll try to update soon! Sorry for being so bad with updating. I feel like I let you guys down :/ thanks for reading :) please review!