Authors Note: Okay guys here goes, this chapter is super case related and I hope you guys like it. Stick with me and keep sending reviews as well as prompt ideas for hopefully my next fan fiction.

Disclaimer: Castle is not mine all of these amazing characters belong to ABC

Kate was finally beginning to relax on her couch with her DVD collections of Temptation Lane when there was a knock on the door. It was the last person she expected to see, Richard Castle. He was fully dressed and he had clearly left the hospital AMA. It had only been a day since she last saw him, but the man in front of her was completely changed.

"Beckett," there was a look of fear in his eyes and his tone of voice had gone from the playful happy tone to which she was accustomed to a shaky bass riddled with stress. "Get dressed and grab your gun we need to get out of here."

"Castle what the hell is going on?" She asked as fear began to creep into her voice. She suddenly looked at where his hand was resting and realized she was carrying a gun, "Castle a gun? When did you get that?"

"My permit got approved last week; I bought it because of this case," he looked somewhat guilty, "Just get ready Beckett."

She complied and within ten minutes they were in his car driving as Castle hurriedly explained things to her, "I left the hospital because I felt something was wrong. I went home and sent Alexis and Mother to the Hamptons." Castle stopped and took a quick breath before continuing, "I drove to the warehouse on Lexington where I was supposed to meet Remaro, and I found him there." Beckett put a comforting hand on his arm, "He was dead, shot straight through the heart. He survived three tours in the Middle East only to get home and get shot because of me."

"Castle you don't know it was your fault!"

"Dammit Beckett yes I do!" A shocked look crosses her face but he continues anyway, "There was a note, pinned to his jacket. It said, 'Sometimes you can know too much about a bad thing. You better watch out writer boy you and your detective know a little too much.' So yeah Beckett it was my fault."

"Rick, there was a note," Kate started but suddenly in there was a yellow and red blast in front of them. Castle swerved the car and it flipped on its side toward the empty sidewalk. Castle snapped out of it quick only to find Beckett unconscious on the passenger's side. He ran around to the other side and pulled her out, "Kate c'mon wake up," he pleaded as he pulled her out of the car and dragged her to the doorway of the nearest store, raising his gun to the unseen threat that he was sure had planted that bomb for them.

It seemed like it had been hours as Rick crouched in the doorway of the store with Kate under one arm. These past few months he had felt as if he were living a double life, being the normal funny charming Rick Castle during the day and being the adventurous lovesick murder solver at night, although Rick has to admit Beckett taught him well. He looks down at her bruised face and the gash along her cheek that is dripping drops of blood every few minutes, and he regrets dragging her into his double life. But she had given him this life hadn't she? Wasn't he out till ungodly hours searching for clues in her mother's case? Didn't he have the right to bring her into this?

"Rick?" Kate was finally coming to. He clutched her closer and thought no, no he didn't. "God, Rick what happened?" She said taking in his beat up face and the cocked gun guarding them.

"There was a bomb, Kate. But we're fine, we're both okay and I don't think the bomber followed us. We can get going now."

"Rick, where are we going?" He ignored her question and helped her to her feet.

"Can you walk?"

"Yes, but,"

"Then let's get going." He tried ushering her along.

"Dammit Rick, you tell me what the hell is going on or I am not moving another inch away from wherever the hell we are." Kate looked up at him an attempted to fix him with one of her famous glares, a rather painful act given her current physical state.

"We, detective are going to get information before someone else gets killed." And with that he pulled her up off the pavement through her arm over his shoulder and they slowly began to walk the remaining half block towards their destination.

Super short chapter sorry everybody. Hope you liked it. I promise there will be more tomorrow. Again please review! Until next time ~Cate