Disclaimer: Only a few of these characters are mine but the others belong to ABC and the amazing Andrew Marlowe (who recently tweeted me btw! [I fangirled hard])

A/N: This whole longer chapters thing is hard. I've been trying to teach myself guitar lately [not working too well I've already broken two strings] and had a final exam to get done with for my summer class. Anyways here is the next chapter for you! As always please review!

"Petturi?" Castle said with the shock written on his face also evident in his voice. "What are you doing?"

"Isn't it obvious writer? You should understand the story," Petturi answered with a sneer. He had a twisted grin on his face as he kept the barrel of his gun pressed into Ryan's back to keep anyone from trying anything.

"If you want the contact list that can only mean that you're working with them. You're working with the people who kidnapped Kate," Castle said with growing anger towards the new situation.

"Correct you are Mr. Castle well done," Petturi said. He then stated, "You move your hand another inch towards your gun and I will shoot him," as in the corner of his eye he saw Esposito's slow but steady attempt to get his gun out.

Esposito moved his hand away from the gun and turned to a new tactic of trying to talk down the traitor, "Okay man, why don't you just let my partner go, we get the Detective back, you turn in your friends down there, and you get quite a reduced sentence?"

Petturi snorted to this suggestion. "Do you really think that's going to work Detective Esposito? I've been undercover for long enough to know that this is your standard bluff tactic. You wouldn't be able to find me and our group if you tried. And you know that which is why you want me to turn them in. I won't do that because they are like my family."

"Well heads up Petturi; your family kidnaps and kills innocent people," Castle said with a tinge of annoyance.

"We do what we must to make the world a better place," Petturi responded coolly.

"And how do you do that?" Gates asked, finally speaking up calmly.

"We rid the world of groups that shouldn't exist. And since I will be leading you all into that house and to your deaths I may as well tell you exactly what it is we do since you will not be getting away. Maybe I can even get you to see that what we do is not wrong. You see, we go after people who are members of secret societies that sometimes function above even the government. Such groups go against all American ideals and our democracy," Petturi said and his voice rose as his passion for the subject showed through.

Ryan slightly shifted his position which caused Petturi to regain his composure and say, "Don't move. I will shoot." After a slight silence, he asked, "Where is the list? Give it to me."

"Now here's a plot twist for you undercover man," Castle said, "we don't have it. We didn't bring it with us."

"What?" Petturi yelled in outrage. "The plan was to bring it! What would you have said to them if they had a gun to your precious Detective's head and you had to trade it for her life?"

Castle had a sad expression on his face that was mirrored by Esposito, Ryan, and Gates.

"You would not have given it to them?" Petturi said still with anger running through his voice.

"We weren't going to let it come to that," Gates said. She then nodded at Castle.

"Hey Petturi?" Castle asked.

Petturi responded with fury, "What is it? What do you want?"

"Your shoe is untied," Castle said pointedly. What happened next occurred very quickly.

Petturi, caught off guard by Castle's statement, looked down for a moment to look at his shoe and before he realized he had been tricked, Ryan jerked his head backwards into Petturi's nose and broke it. This gave Ryan time to maneuver away and Gates to pull out her gun and aim it at Petturi.

"I-" Petturi stammered with one hand up to his nose trying to stop the flow of blood.

"Get up," Gates said in a harsh tone. Petturi slowly stood up and Gates put out her hand towards Esposito who handed her a pair of handcuffs which she then put on Petturi.

To the three boys she said, "We'll take him with us. He can be our leverage to get Detective Beckett back without them wanting the contact list." They all nodded in agreement to this.

Once Castle and Esposito were sure Ryan was okay, Castle lightly laughed and said, "The funny thing is that his shoes don't even have shoelaces and he still fell for it."

"Then why did you choose to go with that line Mr. Castle?" Gates said while glaring in his direction.

"First thing that came to my head," Castle muttered to himself as the group restarted their walk towards the house where Kate was being held.

"Petturi," Gates said with her gun still pointed at him, "what kind of defenses are we facing in that house?"

"Like I would tell you," Petturi retorted.

Esposito moved close to him and said, "If you don't tell us what we'll find in there, we'll just call for backup and tell everyone to shoot on sight. If you do, we may be more inclined to spare the lives of the people you call your 'family'". He almost spat out the last word in disgust.

Sensing that complying was probably the best way, Petturi stated, "All I know is that there will probably be one or two snipers outside of the building and that there will be movement detectors inside the house. I wasn't told much about the setup in there before I was told to capture you all and bring you here."

"Which you did a great job of," Castle said mockingly.

"Just admit how shaken up you are that I managed to get into your little circle and stay there undetected as a spy Mr. Castle," Petturi said.

Castle both could not think of a response to this and ran out of time to do so as they came near the house.

Esposito had the most training in sniping so he could tell where the most likely places they would be were. "Up there on the top right of the roof is one and another is behind a bush close to the gate to the back of the house," he said after he quickly surveyed the area. "I don't think there are any other ones beside those two."

"How are we going to get past them to get in there?" Ryan asked while he turned to face Gates.

After a few moments of silence, Castle slowly said, "I have an idea. But I don't think you guys will like it."