Evening Blues Chapter Seven
A week had gone by since Castle and Beckett's date, they seemed to touch more, it wasn't overly PDA but it was more than anything they were used to in the past. Beckett was in the break room making her and Castle a cup of coffee. Castle was sitting at the table watching her as the stirred in creamer. Beckett walked over to castle, handed him his coffee and sat across from him at the table. From the bullpen Ryan and Esposito were sitting at their desk watching the partners as they drank their coffee, laughing and occasionally touching each other's hand on the table.
Ryan sat back in his chair and crossed his arms "hmm I wonder what is going on between those too lately".
Esposito sat up in his chair "I don't know bro but I have never seen Beckett giggle so much in one week".
Beckett walked back to her desk to notice how the boys were watching her, she sighed
"are you guys gonna stare at us all day or are you gonna finish up your paperwork?"
Ryan shrugged "we already finished boss".
Esposito chimed in "besides you and Castle are more interesting today". They boys chuckled as Beckett walked up to their desk
"well since you have nothing better to do, here" she plopped two very thick folders on Ryan's desk. "Organize those ".
Esposito groaned as he took his half of the files and took them to his desk. Beckett walked back to her desk and sat down in her chair.
Ryan watched until she was far enough from her to hear "dude did you catch that?"
Esposito looked up from the files with a confused look on his face "catch what?" Ryan smiled a smug look on his face "she said US instead of ME", a smile washed across Esposito's face as he quickly went to text Lanie.
Castle walked back into the bullpen to sit down in his chair, Beckett was typing up something on her computer as Castle pulled out his phone to play Angry Birds. Beckett's phone started to buzz; Castle quickly put his phone away waiting for her to say it was a body. Beckett answered her phone and wrote down the whereabouts of the crime scene, as she hung up the phone Castle was sitting on the edge of chair tapping his fingers. Beckett laughed at him as she put on her coat
"Come on Castle, a body dropped".
Castle jumped from his chair, put on his jacket and yelled at the boys "a body dropped let's go!" Beckett and her team walked to the elevator and stepped on and rode it down.
Beckett pulled up to the crime scene, turned off her car and stepped out. It was an older apartment building, the grass was a bit overgrown, some of the windows were broken, and the main office door was worn and fading. Beckett walked up to the apartment where the crime scene was, ducted under the tape and walked in. She stopped as she examined the living room, on the coffee table had a few clothing magazines that were scattered across the table, a wine bottle, two wine glasses, and a plate with crumbs and two forks.
"Looks like she had company, let's pull the prints from the glasses and forks". Beckett walked back to the bedroom and saw the body lying on the floor face down, before she stopped to look at the body she studied the bedroom, the sheets and blankets that were on the bed were in a tangled mess, there was a few blood splatters, a lamp that was lying on the floor was caked with blood, the lamp shade was thrown across the floor and the only the screw part of the bulb was left
"looks like we found our murder weapon".
Lanie was kneeling over the body writing down her notes as Beckett walked up
"Hey Lanie, we got an ID?"
Lanie stood up and flipped thru some of her pages on her clipboard
"We have Naomi Kinnly, Caucasian female, early twenties, she has a gash on the back of her head from blunt force trauma, bruising patters on her arms, hands and legs, she has a few cuts on her face and pieces of glass in and around the gash on her head".
Beckett walked over to where the young women's body was lying and kneeled down. "Do you have an estimated TOD?"
Lanie wrote down a few more notes "it's hard to say but I'm guessing between 12:00-3:00 this morning, I can give you more of an accurate time once I get her back to the morgue".
Beckett stood and walked over to Ryan "Thanks Lanie!" Beckett wrote down some notes in her note book
"See if we can get prints off the murder weapon and you and Esposito start knocking on doors to see if her neighbors heard or saw anything".
Ryan put his notebook in his "Right boss" and walked over to Esposito.
Castle walked over to Beckett and looked at the body "Well I guess the killer didn't come over to read her a bedtime story",
Beckett rolled her eyes and swatted Castle on the arm, "Let's go".
Once they got back to the precinct Ryan and Esposito starting placing pictures of the crime scene on the murder board. Beckett went her desk and started to write down the notes she took at the crime scene in her folder. Castle went to the break room and started making and Beckett a cup of coffee. Beckett walked over to the murder board and studied it for a while. Ryan and Esposito started to check into the victim's friends, family and if she had a current job. Castle walked out of the break room when he saw Beckett standing in front of the murder, he watched her for a few minutes as she studied the pictures and timeline, she had one hand on her hip and her other hand under her chin. He studied her face and she furrowed her eyebrows in concentration. Beckett could feel someone's eyes on her, she looked at the boys and they were on their phones, she turned slightly and saw Castle leaning up against the break rooms door frame holding her cup of coffee and he took a sip of his, she fell heat rush to her cheek as she smiled. Castle walked over to Beckett and handed her the coffee cup.
"Thanks Castle" she said as she took a sip.
He smiled as he sat down on the edge of a desk "your welcome, so have you found anything?". Beckett leaned back against the desk beside Castle, their shoulders almost touching
"well the boys are looking into her friends and family so we can bring them in"
It was about 1:15 when Castle came strolling into the precinct with a sack of food from Remy's and a drink holder with four sodas. He unloaded the food onto the break room table as Beckett and the boys walked in. Ryan and Esposito grabbed their burgers and sodas, walked over to the couch and turned on the TV, scrolling to find the sport channel. Beckett and Castle sat down at the table and started to eat their lunch. Ryan and Esposito were yelling at the TV after opposing team made a touchdown. Castle turned to watch the boys, Beckett leaned forward to see the TV a bit better
"Did they just make ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN?" she said in an annoyed voice.
Castle turned back around to see Beckett very interested in the game now, he watched her expressions as she watched the game
"Why Detective Beckett I didn't know you were a football fan" he said in a cocky voice.
She smiled and leaned back in her chair "well I used to only like baseball but those two crazed fans got me into watching it a few years ago".
After they finished their lunch and watched the last part of the football it was time to get back to work. Ryan had gotten a lead on their victim's job and went to bring her co-workers so they could be asked a few questions. Once Ryan got back he put them in separate interrogation rooms and notified Beckett. Beckett walked into the first interrogation room and saw a women sitting at the table, she was about mid-twenties, brown chin length hair, pulled back in a messy bun, she had on a pair of faded jeans a few rips in the knee, a red t-shirt and a pair of low cut sneakers. Beckett sat down at the table and introduced herself "Hi Ms. Stark, my name is Detective Beckett and I need to ask you a few questions about Ms. Kinnly", Beckett started to ask questions about her whereabouts of the time her victim was murdered, and if she had seen her the day on or before she died. Castle was watching in the observation room as Esposito walked in from finishing the interrogation with the second co-worker
"Well I checked into Mr. Whiles alibi and its solid" Castle sighed "dang I was sure it was him".
It was about 8:30pm and the team finally wrapped up the murder of Naomi Kinnly, Ryan and Esposito were filing away the rest of the contents from the murder board into a banker's box to put in storage. Beckett went to the break room to pour out her cold coffee and wash her cup out before leaving. Castle watched her walk into the break as he sat back in his chair when his phone started to buzz; he looked at the caller ID and answered. Beckett was drying her coffee cup as she placed it on the espresso machine, she wiped down the counter and was about to throw away the paper towel when she Castle walking up with a smug grin splashed across his face,
she grinned and she threw away the paper towel, "what Castle?".
He leaned against the door frame "I just got a call from my Agent Paula, she set up a book signing party for tomorrow night".
Beckett leaned against the counter "and you're telling me this why?"
Castle smiled as he stepped closer to Beckett, he grabbed her hand, smiled a cocky grin and said "So how about that second date detective?"
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