His brain is saying "I am dead!" Totally DEAD! I did not even see the gun. She has shot and killed me. That is the only possible explanation for what is happening because his addled brain cannot fathom the fact that Kate Beckett is on top of him and trying to kiss him senseless while the entire time screaming that she will marry him mixed with several 'I Love You's
So this I what it is like to die? He imagines. You get to relive the greatest fantasy you have ever been able to conjure up. That has to be it! He is positive he has died and she is an angel that looks like Kate and this is his eternity. Then he begins to feel her tears rolling across his face as they continue to fall from her eyes.
He is trying to breathe, which is becoming more and more difficult by the minute as he feels Kate's full weight on top of him as she is pressing her lips into his and holding on for dear life.
To say that Richard Castle was caught totally off guard by her actions at this moment would be an understatement
He finally garners the strength to push her up at the shoulders so he can look into her face and draw in some air at the same time
"Kate. Kate!" his words finally catching her
"I'm sorry Castle" she speaks "I'm so sorry for ever doubting you"
"So does this mean we are good?"
"No, we are more than good. We are great. Really great!"
"What happened? What was on the video?"
"That video answered every question I, myself or any woman would ask about her man's feelings about her"
"So I guess I am not going to be on the receiving end of a bullet?"
She lets out a laugh "NO! The only thing you are going to be on the receiving end of is THIS" and she starts back in on his lips.
As much as he is enjoying this unprovoked attack on him, he wants to know more about the reason for this shift from thinking he was going to die to her loving assault
"Kate! Please tell me what was on the video"
She sits up on the bed staying close to him "I am not going to tell you" She says with an evil grin on her face
"What do you mean you're not going to tell me?"
"You just need to enjoy the outcome. OK?"
"But Kate…" She gently leans down to kiss him again halting his questioning
"Shut up Castle and kiss me"
"OK"
Instead of this coupling becoming more heated, these two just bask in this being one very sweet, loving make out session
To use the term 'Saved by the Bell' Castle almost laughs out as the house phone rings breaking them out of their trance
She is not happy to hear the phone ring but Kate is closer to the bedside table and phone than Rick. When she picks it up it is obvious to the person on the other end that she did not want to be interrupted "WHAT?"
After a moments pause "OK...REALLY…You are kidding me? Have you told Brady yet? Go ahead and call him but send the video so Castle and I can look at it. 'll tell Castle and then we will go to the local police station"
"Tell me what?" Between the temperature of the room being raised by the couple's bodies and Kate being still on top of him Castle is still having trouble breathing
Kate grins at her guy "The video from the boat! The murders were in fact recorded and you will not believe what this shows"
"What?" Rick finally chokes out
"Chad was mistaken for Kirk Green"
"WHAT?"
"The two men came on the boat and were looking for Kirk"
"The killers were after Kirk Green and killed Chad by mistake?"
"No. Not a mistake. Tori said the conversation was about dumping bodies and Chad told them that he knew nothing but by the time the two men figured out that they had the wrong people it was too late" Kate tell Castle
"They had already said too much to Chad and Edie" Rick finished the thought
"They only had one choice to keep them silent"
"They had to kill them"
"That means there two are pros"
These two suddenly stop and are looking deeply at each other
"It's a good thing we are a couple now" Rick comments
Kate's face looked puzzled "Why's that?"
"So I can enjoy looking at you"
"We better go check to see if the file has come from Tori" and she stands up and actually runs out of the room
"Hey, what's the rush Kate?"
He can barely hear her reply since she has already reached his study. When he arrives at the desk she has just finished doing something to the computer but she is hiding it from him
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing" she shyly replies knowing full well, he suspects it has something to do with the video she watched earlier
"Are you erasing the video? I want to see it" he tries to reach around her
She slaps his hand away "No. I am not erasing it but you don't need to see it"
"Why? If I didn't do anything bad then why can't I see it?"
She finally finishes her task of locking the file then turns around to Rick
"Castle!" She puts her hand on his chest and stops his actions "If you saw this video you would think I am silly for feeling the way I do about it and second, if you don't know what it is you did on it then you will spend days and days trying to do other things to make me happy"
Wrapping her in his arms again "I will spend all my time working to make you happy"
She smiles
"With or without that video"
She gently kisses him "Good. But right now we need to go to the local police station and get with them"
"OK" Castle huffs out
When they arrive at the station and enter the building they see all the officers, on duty, crowded around the TV monitor looking at something
"Hey Chief Brady" Castle speaks up "If that's porn, I'm in"
The local boss looks at the incoming pair "It might as well be. It is the two victims being murdered" Brady turns to the desk Sargent "Start the video back at the place where the shooters come in"
The officer complies with the chief's orders and begins the video over again. Initially, the video is not unusual. There are half empty drinks on the table. Chad and Edie are sitting on the couch engaged in a very hot make out session.
There is a noise and the two look up from their lip lock and Chad can be hear "hi Jeremy. What are you up to?"
"Just came by to crash"
"Why don't you go home?"
"Cindy and I had a fight and she threw me out…again!"
"Caught you with another woman Huh?"
"Yeah. But I told her that she meant nothing to me"
"You need to quit running around on her and work out your issues"
"I know man. Can I crash here or not? I can leave if you two need some privacy"
Chad points toward the other bedroom "Go ahead"
The man leaves the room in the direction of the forward bedroom and head
Chad looks to Edie "If he doesn't stop running around on her they are going to kill each other"
A man's voice comes from nowhere "Who is going to kill who?"
Two men enter the picture holding guns. The larger of the two men points his weapon at Chad "Kirk, we are tired of you ignoring us"
"Kirk? I'm not Kirk. He's dead"
"Right! kirk! Do we look like fools? The boss has been trying to contact you and you just keep ignoring him and you know how he feels about that?"
"My name is Chad. Chad Braxton. Kirk Green died last year"
"Don't try to get away with this. This boat is the Green Machine Right? That is the boat we were told to find"
In the middle of this man's verbal attack Castle points at the other man in the room "I know him. I've seen him before somewhere"
"Yeah. Me too" Kate comments
Going back to the screen the two suspects have continued to interrogate the couple "You think you are getting away with this?" The larger man continues "The boss needed your services and you did not make contact so he sent us here to settle the account"
Chad is obviously scared as the two mobsters are getting more and more aggressive
"I swear I am NOT Kirk. Kirk Green died in a boating accident last year and I bought the boat from his widow, Sara"
"Stay put" the second man says to the couple then they turn and have a private conversation. It is not possible to hear everything but what can be hears is that one of them tell the other "We need to clean this up" The other shakes his head yes
The two men return focus to the couple "Get on your knees!"
"NO! PLEASE!" Chad begs
"ON YOUR KNEES" the man who appears familiar says and kicks the pair to the deck.
The larger man points his weapon at the couple and in two rapid succession shots the couple are gone
The pair quickly exit the boat but before they move outside the range of the microphones, one of them can be heard saying to the other "The Senator will not be happy about this"
The law enforcement officers can all be heard to gasp at the comment.
The men face the camera for a brief second, Castle recognizes one of the men
"That is the man Sara Green was leaving with to go to Boston. She said his name was Sammy Yates"
Kate looks at Castle "Rick. Your neighbor is involved. And what senator are they talking about?