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Day Twelve.
The asset spent the morning writing in a coffee shop downtown, and I was meant to meet him at his loft at 2pm. Some suspicious activity on our surveillance cams meant I went over early, unfortunately bumping into Castle in the lobby as I arrived, so I wasn't able to do much investigation when I got up there. The perp was only in the loft for a few minutes, but in that time they managed to completely trash the entire living space, as well as Castle's office. They broke into his safe, although they don't seem to have taken much more than a little cash, and overturned just about everything.
I checked as well as I could on all our bugs and surveillance equipment, but it was all so well hidden, none of it seems to have been disturbed. The intruder was definitely after something specific, though, which means our enemies somehow know Castle probably has the intel, which will put his whole family in danger.
Also, under a lamp in the living room – about the only piece of furniture left undisturbed – I found a bug planted that is definitely not one of ours. Ryan's running an analysis of it now.
On a more positive note, I was able to meet Martha and Alexis briefly. They're both very open-hearted, welcoming people, and my being there to support them through a home break-in can only have a positive effect on building trust. It does mean that I wasn't able to "interview" Castle again today, but he was more than happy to set up a new time.
In the spirit of full disclosure, before his family got home, he asked me out on a date – his innuendo implying that I'd learn more about his writing methods if I slept with him. I turned him down, though. Sleeping with him will make me simply another notch on his bedpost, here today and forgotten tomorrow, and I need him to trust me more deeply and lastingly than that.
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Not that I'm thinking about sleeping with him. Ever.
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