Shout out for Ceziah and who reviewed the last chapter. Sorry it took so long for me to update. Ok I think this will be the last chapter, but after this I'm thinking of doing another story about Castle father and his sister's mother in the same style as the blue butterfly.
"Oh god, Rick its 7 AM I need to get ready for work." Kate said lifting her head to catch a glance at the clock next to the sofa.
"Hey, I'm already here." He said. He was laying on the back seats of his car one hand holding his phone to his ear the other rubbing his thumb over a picture of Alexis with the other. Little did he know that he was a mirror image to Kate who was flopped on her sofa holding a picture of Castle, Alexis and her, she held the phone to her ear with her shoulder, a skill she had perfected in high school when she needed to paint her toes and talk on the phone at the same time. "Hey, would you mind stopping by my apartment to get me some clothes?"
" Sure, meet you at the 12th."
"I'll be there."
"Well Miss. Alexis it seems that times up. By the look of things it seems that your father has failed to find you and it's not like I didn't give him a chance. Five full days I gave him in order to find you, and many clues, but his time is up." Alina snarled tapping her gun against the corner of her leg as she paced back and forth."
"Please, please let me live, I'll do anything." Alexis begged. She sat with her chine pressed against her knees. She shock uncontrollably as tears fell done her cheeks.
"Darling begging won't help now, but since you've been such a good girl and listened to me so attentively, I'll give your dad and that detective of his, another, hmm, let's say half an hour. You're very lucky that I'm such a reasonable person."
"You monster!" They'll eventually find you, even if you kill me." Alexis shouted at her. "My dad won't stop looking for you neither will Kate." She added in a voice little more than a whisper,.
"Now, now Alexis that is no way to talk to your aunty Alina. Is it?"
"You're not my aunty, you bitch."
"If you're trying to extend your life this is not the way to do it."
"Hey." Said Ryan as Castle entered the prescient. "We're putting a missing person report on the 8 o'clock news."
"Thank you." Rick said sincerely trying to hold back tears.
"How are you holding up?" Ryan asked
"It's not me you need to worry about." Castle admitted.
"I'm going to take a shower, Beckett will be here soon." Castle added breaking the silence
FBI offices Washington D.C
"Mr. Ford, you have a meeting at nine."
"Thank you, umm." For the life of him he couldn't remember her name. She was just another meaningless clog in a barely functioning machine. He had stopped learning the names of his sectaries years ago and he had no reason to start now.
"Laura." She told him interrupting him from his thoughts.
"Thank you Laura." He said with a gruff smile.
He walked in his office and checked his watch, it read 7.58. Almost time for the New York news he thought and sat himself down behind his desk turning the TV on remotely. The usual headlines ran across the screen, there was a homicide in Queens, the mayor promises to try and encourage reading in schools and the Yankees lost last night. But the next news item caught his eye, it was a BOLO for a missing girl, normally he wouldn't think twice about things like this there was too much evil in the world to read about every sob story. But there was something about this girl, something about the way she looked, something that made her stand out, she looked familiar.
"Laura." He called out, surprising himself by remembering her name.
"Yes, Mr. Ford." She said rushing in.
"I want to know about this girl, the missing one."
"Alexis Castle?"
"Yes, yes her. Print out everything you can find on the system."
"Yes sir. Anything else?"
"Cancel my nine o'clock. Tell them I'm sick or something. I have something to do."
"Hey." Kate said greeting Ryan as she entered the prescient. "Where's Castle?"
"He went to shower."
"Have you been up all night?" Kate asked. "You should go to bed; you're no use to me half asleep." She said. She was silently thanking him, and he knew that, but getting mushy wasn't their thing.
"Yes, I was just about to go but I think I found something."
"What is it?" Kate asked.
"I was messing around with the data and I discovered that if you take the first four numbers of all the dates that we found on the body and put it on a map it forms the consolation Orion's belt."
"And?" what does that mean?" Kate asked impatiently.
"I'm sorry, I don't know. It could just be a coincidence. The word Orion does that mean anything to you?"
"No. Try typing it into a search engine."
"There are lots of businesses called Orion in New York. Does that help?"
"I don't know what are they?"
"There's The Orion car hire, Orion apartments, Orion Theatre, Orion…"
"The Orion theatre, the week before my mother was killed I went to see a show with her." Kate said. "What's happening there now?"
"It's being redecorated." Ryan answered.
"We have to check it out there might be something there."
"What's happening?" Castle asked appearing through the door with wet hair and the musty smell of ancient after shave.
"I think Ryan found something. Grab your coat I'll explain on the way" Beckett said.
"Something was just posted on the file. I think it's important." Laura said it had been ten minutes since she had printed off the reports. "A team is going to check out a theatre on Broadway. They found a pattern in some old cases that they thing the girl's disappearance is connected too."
"What old cases?"
"Some cases from the 90s where five lawyers were murdered."
"Did they ever find the killer?"
"No, the cops believe it was a random stabbing at the time, but a cop started to look into it a few years later, and this case has everything murders, dirty cops, escaped prisoners, abandoned choppers. But listen to this last year the cop who started looking into the case was shot, and she nearly died."
"What was the cop's name."
"It was um; let me see, Kate Beckett. Hold on that's the girl from those books by Richard Castle."
"Laura get me a car, make sure it's something fast." Mr. Ford ordered.
Once Laura had left the room he opened the top draw of his desk and pulled out his gun.
"We think they are holding her at the Orion theatre. My mother went to a play there the week before she died."
"Shouldn't we have backup?"
"Castle, you are my backup."
They arrived at the cinema in five minutes even with New York traffic.
"Castle wait." Beckett said.
"What?"
"Some ones already here." She said pointing to a car.
"and it has diplomatic plates" he added.
"Well then they can't be that bad." She said before throwing in a bullet proof vest and trying to find the best entrance.
"Alina, put the gun down."
"Who's there?" She asked turning quickly to point the gun at Mr. Ford. "Dad?"
"Alina, you don't have to do this." Mr. Ford repeated.
"NYPD, put the guns down." Kate Beckett yelled. Running down the stairs with Castle hot on her heels.
"Dad!" Alexis yelled running towards her father but being stopped by the metal bars of the prison stop her.
"Alexis!" Castle replied instinctively.
"Everybody put the guns down." Kate yelled over the noise of the room.
"Richard Castle we finally meet, I guess you don't know who I am." Alina smirked.
"You're the bitch that kidnapped my daughter."
"You really don't know who I am? Do you?"
"No and I don't want to."
"Please can we all just put the guns down?" Mr. Ford pleaded.
"Not before this." Alina said pulling the trigger but, before she could Beckett tackled her to the ground as the gun and the bullet managed to find its way into Alina's heart.
A week had passed and Alexis had started to get her strength back she had visited Lanie yesterday and they were know sitting around the table in the loft.
"Alexis, the DNA test came back on the woman who was holding you hostage and…" Castle trailed off.
"She was who she said she was, you were related to her and that man Mr. Ford he was your grandfather."
Well I ashamed by that chapter, but I had to finish the story. Do you still want that sequal? I'll write it if you do. So please review.