Chapter Seven Safe Haven

Castle was waiting. Sterling and his partner were nervous walking behind him with the sun soaking up the ground after the heavy rain storm.

He was raged, struggling with his emotions and his humility to have this happened to him again. "But who knew anyway?" He needed to have his own "Safe Haven" to be home at the loft with his wife and son.

Both men didn't say a word, they kept walking by passing the scouts in the trees high up, the men couldn't see them, it was there chance scanning the area and for there shot.

The scouts were speaking to Captain Auer via walkie talkie very softly. "We have our shots now." Looking through the rifle scopes with their fingers on the triggers. They fired...

Castle wasn't hit accept for the shock seeing both men being hit in their heads splatting blood all over him and every where.

Both bodies dropped to the dirt ground faced down.

"Castle...Was Beckett's only words, when the main group rushed quickly to reached them taking five minutes, the longest five minutes of her life.

He knelt down to check for a pulse on both men, their were none. With both scouts carrying their rifles walked over slowly. "Are they dead?"

"yes, very dead, I was praying for something like this gentlemen."

"Matter in fact our supervisor Captain Auer with his men including Captain Beckett will be here soon."

"Thank god." Taking a deep breath before seeing the others from Safe Haven rushing. He could see his wife walking slowly from her injuries from the crash/turn over.

After a brief moment, she tries to move to reach her husband with a bruising kiss to catch him totally off guard.

"My god Rick, I thought I lost you again." She whispered into his ear almost remembering the same type of words she said to him three plus years ago.

"Never again Kate." He replied, his voice was hoarse. This time he tightened his grip on her asking on whether she was doing okak.

"No, but I have been tolerating it the best I can Rick, with the pain, by the way Ryan and Esposito are on there way over here, no doubt they will be able to take me and Susan to a hospital by helicopter, she's suffering with a concussion."

They separate when Captain Auer asked Castle on whether he was okak or not.

" I am getting there Captain, I never suspected I would be caught again in another hostage situation."

"Next time Castle think, always try to go with your gut feeling is all I am trying to say to you."

"One thing for sure Captain, I still need to calm down at Safe Haven, my nerves are shot, along with my blood pressure and heart is still racing a little."

Kate was able to chuckle a little before bending over with pain from the lower back once again.

"That's it for you, Captain Beckett, I will have my men bring over the truck to take you back to Safe Haven until the helicopter gets here."

"Captain." Before wincing in pain and Castle having to catch her before falling to the ground...and into a darkness passing out...