So, I have had exams all week and writers block so I have finally written this chapter. So hope you will all enjoy this next chapter. Also thanks sooo much for all of your reviews.

Chapter 11 – Reliving the Moment

"Kate," Rick said smiling, "You're okay." He whispered as he moves her hair away from her face.

"Yeah." She said trying to sit up. "No." she winced at the pain and clutched her side. Rick reached over her and pressed the nurse's button; he sat back down and took her hand again.

Moments later the nurse came into the room and gave Rick and Kate a friendly smile. "It's nice to see that you're up Ms Beckett. Are you in much pain?"

Kate just nodded and squeezed Castle's hand.

"Okay, so I will give you a bit of morphine so your pain decreases a bit but that is all I can do at the moment." The nurse said.

"Thank you." Kate whispered. She looked over to Castle to see him looking at her with a giant smirk. "Castle, I love ya, and all but that looks kinda creepy." She smiled.

The hospital bedroom's door opened up and Jim waked in surprised to see his daughter awake. He slightly jogs over to her and gave Castle his coffee so he could have a free hand to hold Kate's other hand.

"Hey, dad?" she said sleepily smiling.

"Hey, yourself." He said with tears welling up in his eyes.

"Dad, are you crying?" she said smiling, but slightly concerned.

"No," he looks at her ad slightly smiled. "I was just so worried I would lose you, I am just glad that you're okay."

"I'm fine dad." She gave her dad a sympathetic smile. Because she didn't want something to happen to her, since he turned to alcohol last time. "You're not gonna get rid of me that easily." She said as she squeezed his hand.

He just smiled and squeezed back.

Hours past and in that time Jim went home, Ryan, Espo and Lanie had visited and she thanked Espo for saving her life.

After a big day Kate fell asleep in her hospital bed, with Castle by her side holding her hand and his head resting on his arm along Kate's bed.

Kate gasped as she woke up. She sat there wincing at the pain in her side and trying to find air. Rick was alerted that something was wrong when he felt her grip on his hand tighten, killing his hand.

"Kate?" he said quietly, close to whisper, "What's wrong?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." Her hand loosens from his but she leaves her hand tangled in his.

"Kate, what is it?" he said with a stern but shaky voice.

"It's nothing." She said unconvincingly. Castle could see right through her.

"Kate." He gave her a stern but loving look. She folded.

"It was just a nightmare." She said looking down into her lap. She tried to lean back into her bed and he jumped up from his seat and helped her. She used the bed remote to adjust the bed to fold up for her to sit up.

"Oh, was it about your attack?" he asked she simply nodded. "Well," he continued. "Don't worry. You have me to protect you." He said smiling.

She gave him a 'really' look. "What with vast arsenal of rapier wit?" she said smiling. They started laughing and then she winced in pain.

"Ooooh, are you okay?" he could tell how much she was in pain by how hard she was squeezing his hand.

He reached over and pressed the call button for the nurse's station.

"Rick. I'm fine." She said still holding her side.

"You sure about that?" he asked cheekily.

Moments later the nurse that came in before reappeared through the hospital room doors with a smile on her face. She could tell just by looking at Kate that she was in pain.

"Still in pain are we?" she asked once she got to Kate's chart.

Kate just nodded but Castle spoke for her. "Yeah she is she doesn't really like to admit it but yeah."

Kate shot him a look then he went quiet.

The nurse just laughed at Rick and looked back to Kate. "Okay, well I will give you some more morphine, and you need to not sit up as much because you are stretching your stitches and that could lead them to rip so you just need to relax."

"Ha!" Rick accidentally let out.

Kate gave him THE stare and he bit his lip to stop his laughter.

"I'm sorry Kate, but you and relaxation, don't usually get along." The nursed joined in on Rick's laughter and Kate couldn't help but smile. But she quickly held it back before Castle could see the grin.

"I can't help it!" she protested, "I have to keep busy, it's a habit." She looked over to Castle and he gave her a playful smile and squeezed her hand. She squeezed his hand and smiled back at him. The nurse looked at them and gave them a smile.

"May I say you two look adorable." The nurse said smiling at the happy couple.

They just smiled at each other and said thank you to the nurse as she turned to leave. The nurse was about to leave the room when Ryan, Gates and two officers entered the room.

The nurse gave them a smile as she left. Ryan smiled when he saw Kate smiling looking at him. She looked better since the last time he saw her, when she was unconscious bleeding out.

"Hey, Ryan." She said smiling.

"Hey, Beckett, how are you feeling?" he asked, he couldn't help but smile when he saw Castle holding her hand.

"A bit better." She said smiling.

"Glad to hear it." Gates said with what looked like a smile. "I hope you don't mind Beckett, but we came here to ask you a few questions, if you're up to it."

"Sure." Kate said holding her smile. Rick and Ryan could tell she was trying not to show how afraid she was to relive that moment, just like when she was hanging of the roof, the first time her and Maddox fought. "Where should we start?"

"Well, how about the beginning." Gates said.

Kate tried to sit up again; Castle jumped up and helped her. Ryan could see that she was in a lot of pain, but didn't say anything. "Um, okay." She breathed as she settled back into her bed.

"We could always leave it for later." Ryan said, looking from Gates to Kate and back.

"No, it's fine." She quickly said.

"Okay then, when you're ready." Gates said with a sympathetic smile.

"Okay," Kate breathed, "well, I just got off the phone with Esposito, because he wanted to talk and I told him to meet me at my place in fifteen." She stopped to look at Gates and Ryan and continued. "Fifteen minutes later, there was a knock on the door and I thought it was Espo, I opened the door and there he was Maddox was standing there with his gun pointed at my face."

Castle takes her hand and he can feel her squeeze back. He looks at her with a concerned look on his face. This is the first time he has heard her say what happened and he's bracing himself, for what's coming up. He squeezes back to reassure her that he's there for her.

"I tried to shut the door, but he stopped it and forced it back open. I backed away with the gun still pointed to my head. I kept backing away but I was stopped by the wall. He asked me if I had anything to say and I said yeah, this and I grabbed his hand, rolled into him, I stepped on his foot then elbowed him in the face. He was vulnerable so I took the gun off him and pointed it at him and he started backing away into the kitchen." She stopped to look at Gates and Ryan, Ryan was taking notes in his notebook and Gates had a stern and worried look.

She looked at Rick and he was giving her a sympathetic smile. He pulled their joined hands to his lips and kissed her hand.

She continued, "He had blood gushing out of his nose, he was still backing away and I was trying to psych him out. I didn't notice him grabbing the knife, everything just went so fast."

"How were you not able to get the knife off him?" Gates asked.

"I was too close at that point, I didn't notice until the knife was in me."

"What happened after that?" Rick asked.

"I fell to the ground and he was coming closer, I pulled myself to reach for the gun that was knocked out of my hand. I grabbed it and three rounds left the gun and into his chest." At this stage she couldn't stop the tears rolling down her cheeks. She wiped the tears from her face and fought the other tears by biting her lip.

"Thank you Detective Beckett," Gated said, "I know that was hard for you and it was much appreciated."

"Is that it?" Castle asked hopeful.

"For now," Ryan said with a sympathetic look on his face, "hey, get better soon." With that he gave her a smile and he and Gates exited the hospital room.

"I am glad he's dead." Kate turned to look at her Rick. That means this is close to over, I mean that's one less person after you.

Kate nodded. "I am never going near this again." Her voice was shaky when she said it, but Castle knew she meant it.

"You know I'm here for you, you don't have to do this alone." Kate heard him say those words before, a few days, possibly a week ago when their murder investigation was connected to Montgomery's death and her mother's murder.

"I know." She said as she squeezed her hand and gave him a sweet smile. "I can tell you one thing though," she said. He looked at her confused as he tilted his head. "That is one moment in my life I won't be reliving again." She continued.

He smiled at her weakly. "No, not as long as I'm around."

I have finally finished this chapter it took me a long time to finish it, but I made it. So I hope you all enjoy it.

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