Hi guys! I'm sorry its been a while since I've updated; school is crazy right not but I promise over the next couple of months and when I get out of school in April I will update a lot more and post more stories. This story will most likely be wrapped up in 3 or so chapters! I hope you've enjoyed the story so far! Here is Chapter 9...
Castle and Beckett walked into the bullpen and stood in front of a large crowd of police officers. She put Zora's picture up on the white board and began to speak,
"Listen up. Zora Wilson, last night she was kidnapped from her home up in harlem. Around 2 am last night I received a call from her boyfriend wendall saying that the apartment was trashed and there was blood on the floor. Multiple suspects have came up but we were following up on a suspect-" She threw zachary's picture up on the board "- Zachary Monore. He was last seen with his sister Eloise Monroe on the night of her murder. We will be going to question him right now, in the meantime everyone will search everything; bank records, telephone records, school, family life, everything there is we will look at. No stone will be left un turned. We will find her and bring her home safely. In the chance that Zachary is missing as well we will search for him as well but for now we will look at other suspects. Now, go out and help bring Zora home safely." She said. Everyone nodded and went to work. Kate turned to Rick and spoke,
"Castle listen-" he cut her off
"I'm going with you no protest." He said. She nodded
"I know. I wouldn't be able to do this without you but if you get out of hand even once I am sending you back here and you will be watched by an officer so you don't go on a rampage. Understand?" She said sternly. He nodded. They walked out of the precinct and walked towards the car and they made their way to Zachary's house to talk to his parents again. Once they got to the house they knocked on the door but it was slightly opened. Beckett drew her gun and quietly made it up the steps to the living room. She peeked in and saw two people tied up in chairs with blood all over them. It was Jacob and Nancy Monroe. It looked like they were tied up and shot in the head execution style. Beckett put her gun away and ran to the couple. She checked their pulse and shook her head.
"They're gone Castle. I'm going to call Esposito and Laine, we need to get a team down here fast." Castle bowed his head and stood there as Beckett began to dial her phone. A forensics team arrived with Esposito and Laine and they began to work fast but steady. Castle, Beckett and Esposito stood around the bodies while Laine examined the bodies.
"I place time of death around midnight to 2 am. Lacerations around the wrists and ankles suggests they struggled against the rope. I believe they were tied up for hours and they tried to free themselves but the rope was too tight so all they did was cut into their skin." Laine said. Kate nodded
"Any sign of Zachary?" She asked. Laine shook her head
"His body hasn't been found and the scene suggests that there are only two people that were tied up here." Kate nodded and thanked Laine. Forensic techs finished their sweep and went back to the precinct to work fast on everything they collected. Beckett called another meeting.
"Okay, we have two more victims Jacob and Nancy Monore. They were found in their home bound, gaged and shot in the head. Zachary was not in the house and what the scene looks like it suggests he wasn't tied up with his parents either. We will break up into groups and work on different things; group one will stick to all the suspects we have in this investigation, go through everything you have and look for more clues. Group two, search through Zora's information, throughly go through everything. Group three go through the parents information; I want to know everything about them, past jobs, past babysitters, past and present employees, I even want to know when they lost their first tooth, I want everything. Group four, go through everything on Zachary and Eloise; go through past schools, past friends, jobs, volunteer work, everything we have and everything we don't. We don't have much time so we need to work fast." Kate said. Everyone nodded and went to work. Castle looked at Beckett and gave her a weak smile. She grabbed his hand and gave him a reassuring squeeze. She desperately wanted to hug him and tell him that everything was okay.
"Detective Beckett!" Officer Murphy yelled. She rushed over to group three and took a look at the young officer.
"Recent purchases on Jacob Monroe's credit card shows that rope was bought at a hardware store three days ago, duct tape a day after that, a tarp a day after that and contractor bags yesterday morning." He said.
"Okay get the name of the hardware store and we will go down and get the security footage." She said. He wrote it down and gave her the name. Castle and Beckett rushed out of the precinct and drove as fast as they could to the store. They walked in and went to the cashier. It was an old woman with the name tag of Betsy. She smiled
"How may I help you two?" She said nicely.
"Detective Kate Beckett NYPD. Do you guys have security cameras?" She asked. The woman shrugged.
"Let me get my son, he's the manager and he will be able to help you out." She said. She paged her son and a middle aged man showed up.
"Can I help you?" He asked.
"NYPD Do you have any security cameras?" She asked. He folded his arms and spoke
"Got a warrant?" He said smug. Castle, in a fit of rage, grabbed the man by the shirt and threw him against the wall
"Listen here buddy, a girl is missing and records show that the kid who took her came into here and bought items used in the kidnapping and a double murder so now you are gonna grab the those tapes from this past week and we will be on our merry way. Understand?" He said. The man nodded his head in fear and went to go get the tapes. Beckett pulled out her phone and pulled up the picture of Zachary and showed it to the woman
"Did you see this man in here?" She asked calmly. The old woman nodded
"Yes, he came in here everyday for the past 3 days or so. I figured he kept forgetting things. He seemed pretty frantic but he always smiled and told me to have a good day." She said smiling. The man came out with the tapes and gave them to Beckett. She thanked them and they rushed back to the precinct to look through the tapes. Once they got to the precinct they gave the tapes to the analyst and they went around seeing if anyone has found anything. No luck until they got to group 3 and talked to a young officer by the name of Darcy.
"Detective I think I found something." She said. Kate rushed to her side.
"I was looking through old jobs when I found out that Jacob Monroe used to work at St Agnes Hospital in Westchester. It closed down in 2005 and the Monore's moved to Manhattan. Zachary was born in 1999 and he would have been 6 years old." Beckett looked up at Castle and spoke.
"Zachary would need a place to keep Zora. He would take her to a place he knows, a place he was familiar with. Darcy, was Mr Monore a doctor at St Agnes?" She asked. Darcy answered
"He was the Chief of Medicine." She said. Kate sppke
"That would suggest that the kids were at the hospital often. He went somewhere he was familiar with. We need to know that they are there though. Right now its just a man hunt with no real evidence that Zachary took them there." Kate said. Esposito walked to Beckett and spoke
"We checked the footage and Zachary was the one who bought all of the supplies." He said. She nodded and yelled out
"Okay everybody. We have evidence that Zachary is the one who took Zora so now we will be looking through everything that has to do with he Monroe family. Past, present and future information will be throughly looked at. Do not leave anything out. Work fast people. We don't know how much time we have." She said. everyone nodded and worked fast to find Zora. Castle joined in and searched everything. They needed to find Zora alive.
Zora's head hung. She was exhausted and all she wanted to do was go home and forget about everything. She felt a hand grip her hair and pull her head up. She was full of blood and bruises.
"Zora. Stop lying to me. Tell me where it is." Zachary said. She turned to him and spit blood into his face.
"Go to hell." She said. He wiped the blood and slapped her so hard he knocked her into unconsciousness.
Here we go! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I will write and pst more soon! See ya on the flipside guys! -J.A.
