Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance, Family, Humor
Rating: M for sexual situations and language
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters featured on the show Castle, they belong to the creator of the show, ABC, and the others who do own them.
A/N#1: The lyrics in this chapter are from the songs Walls written by Tom Petty and is from the soundtrack album to the movie She's the One, I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne and is from Tom Petty's album Full Moon Fever and You Don't Know How It Feels by Tom Petty and is from his album Wildflowers.
A/N #2: I was very happy getting the feedback I did so will have to get to my thank yous for that! TORONTOSUN (Great to see you thought it was good writing for everyone in the chapter, I did want to make it that though there was the case. And of course, I was pleased you liked how the kids were so happy, I wanted to show the case wasn't really touching them. Speaking of the case I thought it was interesting when you said that Kate came alive when it came to the case though I'm glad you liked that. Also, nice to see you enjoyed Brad's reaction too!) and
vetgirlmx (I wasn't surprised seeing your reaction to the threat or warning; you're right there's a thin line between those two. And yeah, thinking an ex is involved is normal in investigation and I'm not surprised you figure he could be with the pictures and attempted break in. But I'm also not surprised you don't think it looks like a hate crime yet. You're also right about the murder by injection being very carefully planned though it wasn't a surprise you're wondering what was in the syringe though it's nice to know you're waiting for the pathology report. And I'm really glad you enjoyed Julia's time with the Fosters, I thought you might 'cause you're right Mari's usually over at Josie's house so I thought to do something a little different with that. So great that you liked the change! I was wondering what readers would think of Julia wanting to really help her parents with the case and it was nice to see your reaction to that and I like that you think she's going to be exactly like them when she grows up. So great you enjoy this chapter a lot and that you want to see what's happening next and now you don't need to wait for that!).
Thanks so much for the reviews, I loved reading them of course and am grateful for the time taken to write them out and send them to me!
A/N #3: The title of this chapter is a lyric from the song Deceptively Yours by Peter Malick, from The Peter Malick Group album New York City featuring Norah Jones.
Had Found Another Love
"So much for the idea of talking to him at the nursery," Castle commented to his wife as they were waiting in observation.
"After hearing that it wouldn't have worked," Beckett said with a smile, looking at him from the man in the other room.
"Are you waiting for a theory?" Castle asked when he saw her smile. She just looked at him so he breathed out a little hard and stood up before he said, "Okay, so… if she was trying to see us at the field then obviously her killer was there. But I would have remembered this guy."
"So you think that he hired someone to kill her," Beckett stated.
"That would come to mind," Castle said. "Since he has a business and his employees would note him being gone. Unless he didn't work that day in the first place."
"What about motive?" Beckett asked.
"He was okay with her coming out but finding out she wanted to become a man he snapped," Castle told her. "He was the man and he wanted it to stay that way between them. So he had her killed."
"I don't think so," Brad said, coming into the room. "According to Ms. Yearling the vic never really kept in touch with her ex after the halted wedding."
"Is that the ME report?" Beckett asked as she saw the file that he was holding.
"It is, he wanted to finish up the toxicology scan though he might have a fingerprint. That'll take more time to process so he sent what he has so far," Brad replied. "And you two were right, she was injected with strychnine. A lethal dose that would have killed her quickly," he said.
"Did they find anything in the closet? Any evidence?" Castle asked.
"No and the security camera footage outside the men's changing room's a bust. Only workers who've been checked out and you four on the team were in and out," Brad replied.
"So the question now is how exactly they got into the closet if they didn't come in the only entrance and exit there is," Castle said.
"They can't go through the windows," Beckett said quickly. "The windows are very thin and you'd have to really work to get even half your body through and of course there aren't any in that closet."
"I wasn't going to say the windows," Brad told them. "What I was going to say is we'll need to go out to the room and see what there is in that closet. And I've got Hutchinson to start looking into how to procure strychnine and besides that…"
"The daughter?" Beckett said.
"Her name is Tracey Russ and I didn't get very far going over to talk to her," Brad replied, shaking his head. "So I don't know about her. I sent Wade over to her to try and talk to her."
"Why is she there?" Castle asked.
"She stabbed her foster mother," Brad said. "She's there for attempted murder and she'll be there for a while as they were able to prove that she'd planned it."
"I wonder if she's even aware of who her parents are," Beckett said.
"Her mother is Andrea Morgan," Brad replied. "After the birth of the baby she headed to the city and she's still there, unfortunately she's paralyzed from the waist down after an accident in a cab four years ago. Wade will ask Russ if she's aware of her parents but I highly doubt it."
"Is there anything left?" Castle asked. "Well, besides the killer of course."
"Mr. Cora," Brad said, nodding over to the room. "You can both come with me."
"Thanks," Castle said slowly.
"You don't want to talk to him?" Brad asked in slight surprise.
"He does, he's just thinking about how you're going to handle this," Beckett told the chief.
"Okay," Brad replied. "Come on, we need to talk to him now just in case he might be our killer."
Walking after him, Beckett went into the room ahead of her husband and watched as Cora looked up at their arrival.
"Mr. Cora," Brad said. "I have my consultants here, Ms. Beckett and Mr. Castle, and we'd like to ask you some questions."
"Yeah, I got that when you were taking me away from my work," Cora said angrily. "What is this about?"
"Do you know this woman?" Brad asked as he slid the picture of the vic towards him.
"Of course, she was my fiancée, Eileen," Cora replied. "Why?" he then asked suspiciously.
"She was murdered about three hours ago," Beckett said first.
"What?" Cora said, his eyes growing wide. "But… how?"
"I'm wondering where you may have been between eleven and twelve earlier today," Brad said instead of answering.
"I was at my nursery of course, we opened at twelve and at eleven I was there already to get everything ready for opening," Cora responded.
"What can you tell us about your relationship with her?" Castle then said.
"We never saw each other after she ended our engagement," Cora said simply.
"We heard," Beckett said. "How did you feel when she did that?"
"I wasn't happy of course," Cora replied after rolling his eyes. "Especially since she did it just a half hour before the ceremony was supposed to start. But she told me she was gay so I realized she probably gave the two of us a gift. There's no way she could have kept from me she wanted to sleep with women… really wanted to."
"What do you mean?" Brad asked after sharing a look with Castle and Beckett.
"She had an affair about six months before we were going to get married," Cora said simply. When he saw they looked startled he said, "She did, she was staying out at night and I noticed on her bills charges at a hotel the next town over. There was a pattern to them and the next time I knew she would go I went and saw her with another woman."
"Did you confront her?" Beckett was the first to ask.
"Of course, but not there; didn't want to make a scene; I did that at home," Cora replied. "And she said she might be bisexual so she couldn't help experimenting. She felt bad; I could tell; and she swore she would never do it again."
"Did she?" Castle said.
"No," Cora replied firmly.
"What makes you so sure?" Beckett inquired.
"The woman she was having the affair with came to our house and tried to get her to come outside to talk to her," Cora answered.
"What was her name?" Brad said, pen and paper at the ready for that.
"Judy Fletcher," Cora replied. "She told me her name," he quickly added as he guessed they might ask. "Eileen did."
"And have you heard anything from her since that time?" Brad said.
"No," Cora said. "I did see her once at the nursery but when she saw me she literally ran off."
"When was this?" Beckett said.
"About… two months ago," Cora replied.
When Brad motioned out of sight of the man to them Castle and Beckett left the room and went to the chief's office.
"Interesting story," Castle said.
"You don't believe it?" Beckett asked him as they sat down in front of the desk.
"Oh no I do, I'm just wondering his calm," Castle replied. "If it were me I'd be having a good long look at her sexuality before we got married."
Looking thoughtful Beckett then said, "Maybe he had no reason to disbelieve her when she said she was bi."
Nodding Castle said, "That had crossed my mind. But he's very calm being dumped and that soon before the wedding."
"Then he could have had his doubts," Beckett said. When her husband looked at her she said, "If his alibi checks out."
"Which we're doing right now," Brad said as he walked into the room.
"Anything after we left?" Castle asked his friend.
"Just taking him to holding," Brad replied. "Since it won't take me all that long to check on his alibi."
"Need us to do anything?" Castle said.
"No," Brad said with a smile. "Just wait and then we'll go from here."
With a nod, the two watched the chief make the call and as soon as he'd hung up Beckett stated, "They said he was there."
"He was and they're going to send me security footage from outside the door to his office; that's the only way he can get in and out," Brad said.
"I get the feeling there won't be any sign of him leaving," Castle said.
"Yeah, and that one door to enter and exit makes me want to check out the changing room," Brad told the two as he stood. "We'll go after this."
"What about the mistress?" Beckett said as she and her husband got up from their chairs.
"That we'll deal with after, Bernier searched for her and let me know she lives in the area," Brad answered as they left the office. "He'll pick her up and bring her here."
"You're putting her in the interview room, right?" Castle asked him.
"Yes, he will," Brad said simply.
They left the station then and went in separate cars over to the polo fields and Castle said to his wife, "Think the mistress might be involved?"
"It's something to consider," Beckett replied. She became thoughtful and said, "She could have come to hate the vic because she dumped her. But that was about five years ago."
"Still," Castle said. "Maybe she lured her there to the polo fields." He then said, "Wait, we're looking at her hiding in the closet as trying to see me… or us both. What if she was just trying to hide?"
Beckett thought that over for a while before she then said, "It's possible, maybe it was the note she wanted us to see."
"Which is why she gave it to Hutchinson," Castle said.
Nodding once then Beckett said, "We'll have to tell Brad."
"Does that mean she's going to be moved to interrogation?" Castle asked.
"Maybe," Beckett said. "We'd have to leave it up to him." They were parking next to the chief then and when she got out she wasn't surprised when her husband was immediately telling the man what they'd discussed in the car.
"That's a good idea," Brad said after he'd thought over what his friend had told him. "Alright, I didn't think it was necessary but yes, she'll have to go into the box."
"Will you let us go ahead of you?" Castle asked as the chief was getting a walkie-talkie from his belt.
"No, stay here," Brad told him seriously.
Walking a little away from them Beckett said to her husband, "I know what you're thinking."
"About what?" Castle asked though he was aware what she was talking about.
"You're thinking there's going to be a secret doorway or something somewhere in the building," Beckett said, pointing over to where the changing rooms were.
"It makes sense," Castle said.
"The Old Haunt influenced you too much," Beckett told him teasingly.
With a smile Castle nodded before he noticed that Brad was still on the walkie-talkie. "I wonder if there's something wrong," he commented to his wife.
"No, he might be getting more information on the case," Beckett said. She then reminded him, "The security footage."
Castle gave his wife a nod before he saw that his friend was putting the walkie-talkie back on his belt. "Well?" he asked once the chief was close to them.
"He was there and didn't move from around the office," Brad said. "Let's go in, you have the gloves I gave you?" When the two nodded he then led them over to the building and on the men's side he went inside first, going straight to the closet.
"Good thing our next game isn't until next year," Castle commented.
"Wait out there Rick," Beckett told him as she slipped into the closet past Brad.
"You're no fun," Castle said teasingly.
"What?" Brad asked him.
"We were talking about there being a secret doorway or something here," Beckett told him.
"You know he might be right," the chief told her.
"We'll see," Beckett said simply before she saw he was moving. Sighing she said to her husband who had come in with her, "Have fun with the door."
"Thanks, I will," Castle said before he then proceeded to feel around the three walls of the closet to see what he could find.
Brad watched the two, trying not to smile, as they were looking at things from two completely different directions. He wanted to tell Castle, when he started to knock on the walls, that he wasn't going to find anything when he heard something different in the back wall before he and Beckett looked over at it and she spoke first.
"Empty space," Beckett told him.
Castle shook his head and then felt around the area with his knuckles before he felt something shifting. With a nod, he then pushed the wall in hard and when it collapsed on a tiny room he glanced at his wife. "Ní ba chóir duit amhras na ballaí," he told her, laughing when she shoved at his shoulder.
"What did you say?" Brad asked his friend when he came to stand with her.
"You shouldn't doubt the walls," Castle replied before she stepped out of the room. "Is there a doorway on the other side of that?"
"You might want to go around the back of the building to check," Beckett told Brad. "There's a doorknob."
Watching the chief leave then Castle stepped inside and he said, "You know this building is old, right?"
"I was aware, it's right on the scoreboard they built this in 1904," Beckett said. "I'm assuming that goes with this building too."
As she opened the door Castle said to Brad who was on the other side, "Is someone here you can talk to?"
"Yeah, I'll need to check on that…" the chief said before he left them.
Walking out to the locker room Beckett sat on the bench nearest the closet and she said, "You didn't know about it."
"No clue, for all we knew this was a janitor's closet," Castle replied. "But I wonder if something like this was on the women's side."
"Can't be," Beckett said. "It's an add on since women didn't start playing here until… the fifties at least."
"That's right, you can tell," Castle said thoughtfully.
"I wonder if I should ask what's going through your mind," Beckett said, watching him.
"What if," Castle said as he sat next to her. "The killer was someone from the family that used to own these fields." He wasn't surprised when his wife looked at him in confusion and explained, "The Thornes built the field but they ran into money issues really soon after it was finished and they had to sell it. What if a descendant came back to kill her because it turns out this daughter is another one and Eileen was going to go to the-"
"It's not going to work," Beckett said, pressing her hand to his chest. "I know where you're going with that but it's getting too long winded."
"I had to try," Castle replied. When his wife nodded he smiled and then frowned before looking at the smaller room past the closet. "It has no use."
"No, it does," Beckett corrected him. "Some use but not one we can see."
"What if they snuck girls in here?" Castle asked.
Beckett was going to protest that but then paused before she said, "Maybe."
"Guys," Brad said to the two as he stood in the doorway. "The owner is here."
With that Castle and Beckett got up and followed him outside as the chief told them that he'd called in CSU to go over the small room. They then turned to the owner that they knew, Randall Roth, after greeting him.
"I can't really go into detail about the history of this field," Roth told them. "But I realize you know a little bit about it since we informed you when you went with Mayor Foster to register your team," he directed to Castle. "But I've heard about the room you mentioned Chief Davis, it was thought to be just a rumor."
"What's been said about it?" Beckett asked.
Sighing Roth said, "I'd heard from the previous owner that people might try to find the mistress' room once I had it. From what's been said the elder Baylor Thorne built that room for his son's mistress to slip into the changing room while he was there for games."
"Baylor Jr. was captain of the Hampton Bay Riders," Castle said. "I've known about him since I moved into the Hamptons. He was essentially chased out of town when he tried to destroy city hall to build a castle. And I mean that literally, he went on to build Black Shade Palace up north."
"He's right," Roth said. "And he had a number of mistresses so I suppose I should have said the room would have been for plural women. But again, no one knew that it was real… can I see it?"
"From the outside," Brad said as Castle and Beckett looked at him.
"What do you know about the palace?" Beckett whispered to her husband as they followed the two men a bit behind as they were going around the building.
"We've been there," Castle said. "You know its real name, Thorne Hall."
"Then why Black Shade?" Beckett asked.
"I don't know, I told you Thorne Hall because I was hoping you wouldn't want to use it for a book of ours," Castle answered. When she just stared at him he said, "Stupid reason I know but Connelly used that for a past book of his, way past. But there's a story about Black Shade I think you heard earlier this year when I was in DC; it was on the news as well as the story about Bracken."
"Of course, the orgy where nearly everyone died from Spanish Fly back in 1921," Beckett said with a nod. "Baylor Junior survived, didn't he?"
"He did," Castle replied. "And he escaped to Europe and stayed there."
"You just discounted your theory, didn't you?" Beckett asked as she recalled the mention of the current heirs to the man living in Germany.
"I didn't really have much put into it," Castle said with a shrug as they looked ahead and watched Roth looking into the room.
"It's deteriorated," the man commented. He then stepped back and told the chief, "What goes with the stories about this room is that it was lavishly appointed even if it was just going to be used as a waiting station."
"Was it ever used?" Beckett asked.
"I guess it was," Roth said thoughtfully. "Since there are stories of teammates chasing off women inside; but they were never connected to the room."
"You figured it was how the rumors about the room got started," Castle said.
The owner nodded and then sighed saying, "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"No, thank you for what you have done," Brad told the man. "Wait," he said quickly.
"How many people knew about this room?" Castle asked.
"A number," Roth said. "Whoever is connected to this will have heard the rumors. But I will stress we always thought they were rumors."
After saying thank you again to the man Brad looked over to the parking lot that was in view and waved to CSU before he turned to Castle and Beckett. "That broadens our number of possible suspects," he told them.
"Of course it does," Castle said. He glanced inside and said, "Roth was right, this was a stunning room at one point."
Looking at the faded and deteriorating fabrics on the two seats across from each other and the ripped and faded wallpaper Beckett said, "I thought you said that Thorne lost the fields?"
"He did, but that didn't mean his son stopped playing polo," Castle said. "Which is why the women still showed up."
"Weird that no one tried to find the room if it was known here," Beckett commented.
"You know what's weirder," Brad said. When the two looked at him questioningly he said, "That you weren't fully aware of it."
"I'd heard things here and there," Castle said. "But more that it was over at the club house, not the changing rooms. It wasn't until later I'd heard it was for the mistresses and thought it was a building that wasn't here anymore. Maybe I didn't want to think about mistresses."
"You have to now," Brad said as they watched CSU go into the room. "Go ahead to your car, we'll talk there."
"So, two 'secrets' hidden by walls," Castle commented as they walked away. When his wife looked at him he said, "I can't get that song Skye performed with her band out of my head now."
Beckett shook her head, though she was slightly smiling, and said, "I'm not surprised."
Castle expected her to say more but when she merely walked up to their car he realized she was recalling too. He followed her and they leaned against the car, waiting for Brad to rejoin them.
"How's your voice doing?" Beckett asked with a smile as she stood with her friend next to the table where the drinks were.
"Surprisingly well," Skye said. "Getting later in the night though."
"Does that mean you're going to stop playing?" Castle asked, with them.
"Not yet, we still have a while to go," Mary said, joining them. "Paul has a request grá; after hearing us play the Wilbury's song."
"Oh?" Skye asked her. When her wife murmured the song into her ear she said, "Any reason?"
"I think he just wants to see how much we can play," Mary replied.
"Maybe this is an audition," Castle commented.
"For what?" Skye said, looking at him.
"A concert maybe, or a recording," Castle suggested after thinking for a moment.
"We'd only be so lucky, excuse us," Skye told them.
"I wonder what song he asked for," Castle mused as he and his wife walked closer to the band.
"I think we'll hear soon," Beckett said, looking at him.
Castle merely nodded, watching as the five then began to get their instruments ready, Skye talking to the other three members of the band. He looked over to his left seeing Paul standing there with Ringo and he was tempted to ask them what the song was when Skye began to talk.
"A request from Paul," the woman said, smiling at the singer. "This one is called Walls, by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers." After a few people applauded she waited for Mary to start strumming her acoustic before Barry played the opening on his drums and soon after she started to sing.
Some days are diamonds
Some days are rocks
Some doors are open
Some roads are blocked
Sundowns are golden
Then fade away
But if I never do nothing
I'll get you back someday
Feeling her husband's hand holding onto her a little tighter Beckett looked at him and smiled before she murmured, "You're going to sing the chorus, aren't you?" as she knew he enjoyed that song.
"I won't drown her out she's doing a great job," Castle replied before Skye, Mary and Raj began the chorus.
'Cause you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
Watching Skye's fingering on the neck of her guitar Beckett then glanced at Paul, seeing he was looking at that interestedly. She had to wonder if her husband was right, and looking back at her friend she hoped he was.
And all around your island
There's a barricade
It keeps out the danger
It holds in the pain
Sometimes you're happy
Sometimes you cry
Half of me is ocean
Half of me is sky
When the chorus began again Mary and Raj echoed some of the lines that Skye was singing and Castle was swaying with his wife though he could tell she wasn't really involved in it, instead listening to the song.
But you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
Playing the guitar during the short instrumental Skye forgot who exactly was watching her and she walked back and forth in the space she had. She heard a whistle to that as she was playing her guitar in a very focused way and going back to her mic smiled at Beckett when she started to sing though she soon glanced at her wife.
And some things are over
Some things go on
And part of me you carry
Part of me is gone
Beckett wasn't surprised to hear Skye's voice breaking a little at the end of that verse or that she quickly touched the pilot's wings hanging from her necklace before she launched into the chorus.
But you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
Baby you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold on forever
Even walls fall down
They fall down
The song ended with an instrumental until Skye was on her own, playing her guitar before she let it fade out to the applause from the audience. She smiled when finally she stopped and made a quick bow with the rest of the band. "Thank you," she said quickly.
"Think I might make a request?" Ringo then asked.
"Sure," Skye said with a smile. She was surprised when the drummer walked up to her and she and the rest of her band listened to his request and she looked around at them. "I think we can do that," she said with a nod and a smile before they went to change their guitars that would be needed for that song.
"One of his songs?" Castle murmured to his wife.
"I highly doubt it," Beckett said, trying not to smile.
"Alright, we have another request so we'll sing it for you here," Skye said to the audience in front of them. "It's called I Won't Back Down, we hope you'll enjoy."
Watching as Mary began to play Beckett quickly placed the song and she murmured to her husband, "George played in this one."
"And Ringo was in the video," Castle whispered before Skye sang.
Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You could stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down
"Now we know why he asked for this one," Castle commented.
"I don't blame him though, he's seeing how they do," Beckett added before they stopped when Skye moved to the next verse.
No, I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down
As the chorus began then the rest of the band proceeded to sing with Skye though she would take every other line.
I won't back down
Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
I won't back down
Hey, I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
Beckett glanced over at the two singers, seeing they were whispering to each other every so often, knowing they were watching the guitars and the drumming. She could see they approved of the performance and she looked to Skye to see if she noticed. But she wasn't really surprised to see the investigator was focused on her singing, doing so very quickly again.
Well you know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down
As he had been watching his wife Castle had seen what she'd been watching and just before the chorus started up again he squeezed her hand, smiling as Beckett looked at him questioningly. He shook his head just barely before they turned their attention back ahead of them.
I won't back down
Hey there ain't no easy way out
I won't back down
Hey, I will stand my ground
I won't back down
And I won't back down
Skye began to play slide guitar at the break and she stepped towards her wife, smiling at her as she could just barely hear her calling out to her in encouragement. When she needed to go back to her mic she winked at Mary and went quickly back before she would have to sing.
I won't back down
Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
I won't back down
Hey I will stand my ground
I won't back down
And I won't back down
I won't back down
I won't back down
And I won't back down
The song ended there and after the others had applauded Skye thanked them and took off her guitar saying to her wife softly that she needed a drink.
Castle expected them to take a break seeing the band was starting to move away from the instruments when suddenly Marie and Kathleen were rushing to their mothers and whispering to them both. "Now what?" he murmured to his wife in Irish.
"I would guess another Tom Petty song," Beckett replied, her voice low as well.
"Alright, well, we've had a request here," Mary said, smiling as the two girls went back to stand with Castle and Beckett. "Another song from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You Don't Know How It Feels; we hope you'll enjoy."
Skye began playing after checking to make sure that Raj was prepared to play and after her opening he was joining her on his harmonica before the rest of the band joined in. They kept that up for a bit longer and she then stepped up to her mic to begin singing once more.
Let me run with you tonight
I'll take you on a moonlight ride
There's someone I used to see
But she don't give a damn for me
Beckett was startled when; at the last line; Skye stared at Mary, raising her eyebrows before the woman was stepping up to her.
"Like the music video," Castle whispered to his wife rapidly before the chorus could begin. "When the woman makes-" he continued.
"I know," Beckett interrupted him before the two women were singing together at the same mic.
But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint
And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud
You don't know how it feels
You don't know how it feels to be me
With a slight smile on her face Beckett watched Skye playfully kick Mary back to her mic but they were mouthing words to each other. She knew they were in another language but couldn't guess which it was before the investigator was singing once more.
People come, people go
Some grow young, some grow cold
I woke up in between
A memory and a dream
Before the chorus began Mary strolled to her wife and they were singing together, smiling at each other as they could hear their daughters clapping for them.
So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint
Let's head on down the road
There's somewhere I gotta go
And you don't know how it feels
You don't know how it feels, to be me
Raj began to play his harmonica again as the instrumental break began and Skye played her bass heavy handed. Mary broke in with her Rickenbacker, almost playing slide to get her notes as high as she needed to and Raj came in again before Skye sang the next verse.
My old man was born to rock
He's still trying' to beat the clock
Think of me what you will
I got a little space to fill
With the last singing of the chorus Skye and Mary went into their lyrics hard, pressing very close and Beckett had to wonder what the two would end up doing if they were singing that same song alone together. She felt her husband squeezing her back and she glanced at him, realizing he was thinking the exact same thing, and she smiled slightly before they continued to watch the two women's performance.
So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint
Let's head on down the road
To somewhere I gotta go
And you don't know how it feels
No, you don't know how it feels to be me
When they'd played out the song for nearly half a minute Skye thanked everyone and told them; after their applause had went down some; that they would be taking a break. Paul stopped her and Mary from walking away from their instruments and they spoke seriously for some time before they were allowed to go.
"You were perfect Mummy! And you too Mommy," Kathleen said first when the two had joined them when they'd reached their table.
"Thanks, we don't often practice those two," Skye commented as she hugged Kathleen while her wife hugged Marie. "Ne khorosho?" she asked with a smile.
"Did you just ask if that was no good?" Castle asked in mock annoyance. When the two smiled at him he said, "You might want to show Tom Petty your performance. In fact, I will because that was awesome."
"Despite the fact that you won't be able to send anything to him," Skye began. "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
"I have to ask; did you speed up Walls?" Castle asked.
"We feel more comfortable with it faster," Mary answered.
"Good touch, it did work better for the two of you," Castle said with a nod.
"How much can you play from him?" Beckett asked. "And that was a fantastic performance by the way, both songs," she added in Russian.
Nodding her head Skye said, "A number of them, we do play more than just The Beatles and their solo works."
"Are you going to play more?" Castle said. "Any songs."
"We may," Skye said. "But for now, I think we'll be getting something to drink," she continued and with that she led the way to the table, humming the song she and her wife had just performed as her daughters joined in with her.