Beckett
"Busted" Esposito whispered to Castle with a smile as he was leading Jackson onto the elevator.
"Ok." I said once they were gone, "What happened?" They both started talking at once, so that I could only hear tidbits of what they were saying. "Whoa, whoa," I said, holding my hand out to signal for them to stop, "One at a time. Jessie?"
"As soon as you left he got out of the car and you told me to make him stay so I followed him to try and make him come back but he wouldn't listen and go back to the car so I tried to make him stay on the elevator but he picked me up so I kicked him." She said all of this very fast.
"Is that what happened Castle?" I asked, turning to face him
"Yeah, but I just wanted to see what was going on with Jackson up here. What did I miss?" He had stopped hopping and was now standing on one foot with his hand on the wall to hold himself upright.
"He pointed a gun at us, and then we got him to confess, but that's not the point" I said, "How hard did she kick you?"
"Very hard for how little she is." He said, "I had no idea it was even possible to kick that hard!"
"Wimp." Jessie muttered. "But I think the boots helped." She showed Castle the heel on them and I rolled my eyes, walking toward the elevator.
"Come on guys." I said, "You can walk, can't you Castle? The little girl didn't hurt you too bad, did she?" I mocked
"Very funny. I can walk." He said, limping over to the elevator. I saw Jessie smirking behind him.
"I can't believe you made me miss a confession." He said to her.
"I can't believe you still tried to go after you tried to pull my arms off." Jessie countered. I smiled to myself. It was funny how they were bickering just like brother and sister.
"I can't believe you kicked me."
"I can't believe it hurt you so much." Jessie replied immediately. They continued like that halfway to the precinct; until Castle ran out of things he couldn't believe she'd done.
"I can't believe… oh, I know there are more things, but I just can't think of them!"
"Yes!" Jessie said, "I win!"
"I didn't know it was a competition." I said
"It was." They both said at the same time.
"Dude, what's wrong with your leg?" Ryan asked. We were back at the precinct and I was doing paperwork. Ryan and Esposito were supposed to be doing paperwork too, but they weren't. Castle had just gotten back from the bathroom.
"He was crippled by a 14-year-old-girl." I said and Ryan looked at Jessie.
"What did you do?" he asked, not even bothering to confirm it was her that did it.
"He wasn't listening, so I kicked him." She said simply.
"Don't mess with her." Castle said knowingly, "She kicks hard." Jessie smiled.
"I prefer to hit, but you were holding me so that my hands couldn't reach you." She said
"Beckett, I think your daughter is threatening me." Castle said, almost whining.
"You deserve it." I said, looking up from the papers on my desk, "Maybe that kick will teach you to listen to me." He thought about that for a minute.
"Probably not." He finally answered.
"Then I give her permission to do it again if she needs to." I said. That was clearly not what Castle wanted me to say. He turned back to Jessie and said,
"Exactly how hard do you hit?"
"My friend once had a bruise for three days." She said plainly, and then continued, "It was in the shape of my hand though, it was so cool!" The look on Castle's face was priceless. It was a mixture of fear and amazement that such a small girl (she was only 5 feet tall and about a hundred pounds soaking wet) could hit so hard.
"Not the smartest thing to say in front of a bunch of cops, but why'd you hit your friend?" Castle asked
"She told me a TV show character I loved deserved to die." Jessie shrugged, trying to act as if it didn't bother her anymore. There was two beats of silence, and then she took a deep breath. "Why did Jackson kill Christina?" she asked Ryan, Esposito, and I looked at each other, not knowing what to tell her.
Jessie
I didn't like the look on their faces when they looked at each other.
"What?" I asked, wanting to know what had caused that look
"Jessie…" Beckett said sadly
"What?" I asked louder than before
"Jessie," Beckett said again, "He has delusions. Hallucinations." She paused, "He thought he was killing his wife." My heart broke a little inside me.
"So she died… for no reason? He thought he was killing someone else?" I looked at them, willing them to tell me it wasn't true. Nobody did. Castle and Beckett stood up at the same time. Beckett gave him a look that said "what are you doing?" and he sat back down. She came over and hugged me tightly, and only then did I realize how hard I was shaking.
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Beckett and I were sitting on the couch in her apartment. At the precinct, Captain Montgomery had come by as I was shaking violently and Beckett was holding me tight, trying to comfort me. He told Beckett to leave and to get me home. I don't know why, but it didn't really hit me that Christina was dead until I knew why Jackson had killed her.
I had my feet up on the couch and had my arms wrapped around my legs. My chin was resting on my knees and I was just staring into space, not really thinking about anything.
I could tell Beckett was worried. She kept asking if she could get me anything to eat or drink, or if she could do anything for me. Her phone rang on the coffee table and my eyes darted to it and then away again. The caller ID said it was Castle. Beckett picked it up and answered it, her eyes only leaving my face for a fraction of a second.
"Beckett" She said, and I could hear Castle on the other end.
"How's Jessie?" he asked. Beckett got up and went into her room, but I could still hear her end of the conversation.
"She won't talk to me. She won't eat or drink anything. She just sits on the couch and stares at nothing." She sounded worried. There was a pause. "No, Castle, I don't-" her voice had changed for her orders (that Castle was obviously not listening to… again) pause "I'm fine you don't need-" pause "No , really, I'm fine." Longer pause. "Castle…" her voice had gone from stern to worried again "I'm really scared, Castle. I don't know what to do. I'm really worried about her" pause "Ok."
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