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Kates POV

I walked into the break room with my phone to my ear and Castle tailing behind me. I heard the phone ring and ring continously but no one on the other end picked up. I rang a second time and I finally got an answer.

"Hello?" I heard the voice say breathelessly.

"Tia, are you okay?" I asked her, she sounded tired and exuahsted.

"Oh hey Kate, I'm fine, just finished our volleyball training. Is everything okay?" Tia sounded worried by now.

"Yeah I'm fine, Tia, its you I'm worried about." I admitted

"Why? I'm totally fine." Tia replied

"Tia I want you to stay with Rick and I from now on, I want you to be safe with us, its just this is a really dangerous case and I want you to be safe." I told her

"I don't know Kate, they told me that it wouldn't be safe. You know, me staying with you and you being a cop. I mean don't get me wrong your my birth and biological mother and I want to have a relationship with you. Thats what I told them, but they still told me that it wouldn't be ideal nor would it be safe." She replied to me and I could hear the hurt in her voice, and I could tell that the tears would start falling soon enough.

"Tia baby, where are you now?" I asked all concerned.

"I'm walking to the hotel at the moment, I'm just walking down the road near Starbucks, I might stop there to get something though." She told me

"Starbucks Manhattan? Rockefeller Plaza?" I asked

"Yeah that one." She replied to me

"Okay, you go in and you wait there for me okay? And you don't talk to anyone do you hear me?" I told her.

"Yes mother, don't you worry a bit." Tia said sarcastically. I knew it was her being sarcastic but I couldn't get over the fact that she called me 'mother.' I was lost in my thoughts when I heard Tia's voice speak up again. "Kate, are you still there?" she asked me. But this time I detected some fear in her voice.

"Yeah, don't worry sweetie I'm still here, I'll be there as soon as possible, don't you worry where are you now?" I asked.

"I'm still on the same street, I'm a few minutes from Starbucks." She replied back to me.

"Okay, you go over to Starbucks and you go in and you wait for me to get-" I was cut off by a car screeching, a door sliding open, and very loud footsteps. "Tia? Are you still there? Baby, please answer me." I said desperately. I listened carefully to the other line and hear muffled noises and heavy breathing I put it on speaker, so that Rick could hear it. I pulled him out of the break room and we went to see Tori.

"Hey Tori, do you think you can trace this ongoing call for me, I need an address now." I asked her

"Yeah just give me the number and I'll keep in contact with you and Rick using his phone." she told me. While we were still on the phone with Tia we heard her call out my name and it just gave me the urge to find her and just wrap her in my arms and never let anyone hurt her.

"Thanks Tori." I said as I walked out, " I stopped by Ryan and Espo on my way, "Guys, follow us, Tia's in trouble." I commanded, they quickly understood how much she means to me and gave me a quick nod and followed us down to the car.

Tia's POV

I was on the phone talking to Kate, when I suddenly felt the urge to check my hair and my make-up, again. It was the third time since I had left school. I started to notice that there had been this guy following me ever since I had left school. It was weird but then again it could've been a coincidence. I started making random turns while I was on the phone talking to Kate. I started to stray away from where I was supposed to meet her, now that I was making random turns. I think the guy behind me sensed that I knew something about him was off, because after a few randoms turns his pace started to fasten. I got worried when Kate suddenly gpt quiet on the other end, I was never one to admitt something like this but I was scared. I wanted Kate to get here now. Just as Kate began to speak up again, I was about to cross the road, until a dark coloured van suddenly stopped in front of me. I thought that I was too busy on the phone to be focusing on the walk way and the empty roads, but once the door of the van slid open, I knew for sure it wasn't my fault that I had almost gotten run over.

I could hear Kate giving me instructions to do with going to Starbucks and then all of a sudden she became so worried, obviously she must have heard the chaos going on on my end of the line, I decided to put the phone on speaker and Kate spoke up again after I had heard a gasp and a long pause. "Tia? Are you still there? Baby, please answer me." I heard her say. But because I was caught off guard, they had caught me, but I wasn't going down without a fight at all.

I fought and fought, the man following me tried to hold me down, while the other man tried to inject something into me. I hated needles, so there was no way in hell I was going to let them put that thing in me. My skin met with the sharp point, he injected a quarter of the tube into my blood, he had stopped a quarter of the way when I started to kick and scream.

"Kate! Help! Please Kate help me! Kate!" I started screaming into the phone. I grunted in frustration as I tried my best to fend off my attackers. "Get- the hell- off of me." I screamed out and kicked him in the groin, he didn't flinch a bit, he just groaned and got more mad. I had another attack move that I was taught, but it was bound to either break my nose or give me some sort of head injury.

I had made my choice while I was fighting him and scratching his face constantly. I had to time my move prosically. The driver of the van was yelling at the men to hurry up, but the other man thought I was just going to give up so he laid back a bit on hurting me. While this was all happening I could hear Kate calling out to me for the other end of the line, thats the one thing that was keeping me going. The fact that I had someone like Kate who actually cared for me surprised me to be honest. I knocked myself out of my thoughts when I saw one of my attackers get distracted by something out of ordinary.

Suddenly I heard Kates voice reappear, "Tia, baby, I'm almost there, okay? You hold in there for me, okay baby? I'll be there soon." I heard her say. "Just stay on the phone, sweetie. Take your phone wherever you go, okay baby. Stay with me okay?" Kate continued to speak.

"Get her in. Now!" The driver called out.

"I'm trying to get her in." The masked figure replied. He lifted me up off the ground and he started walking to the van thats when my screams became louder and louder and my cries for Kate became more desperate.

Kates POV

As we got closer to the location we heard Tia's attackers become more agressive over the phone. We kept hearing them yell at her.

"Calm down girly, or else your mother gets whats coming to her," we heard him say. "This is all your mothers fault anyway, yours as well, showing that tape to her was not an ideal decision at all. You little bitch." He screamed at her. It sounded as if she wouldn't calm down and thats when I heard the sound of a fist coming into contact with a body.

"Tia, baby, I'm on my way okay? Stay in there baby." I cried out over the phone. I drove faster and faster as we got closer to the scene. I didn't realise it but Tia's phone was located at the entrance of an alleyway not far from Starbucks Manhattan. But thats not what worried me, it was the fact that this very alleyway was the same alleyway my mother was murdered in. I knew I couldn't let the facts get to me, I had to save my daughter. Even if it killed me, I had to. No, I needed to. God, if I lose her I swear I would never forgive myself for what happens to her. I know I gave her up once, but seeing her that first day and then finding out she was my flesh and blood made me want to go back and never let her go, especially all that hurt shes has gone through with her adopted parents and her family.

Right now she was putting up a damn good fight, but I could hear her suffering and getting punched harder and harder throughout the struggle, and the sounds automatically made me break inside.

I turned onto the street of the scene and down the street is where I saw it all, he was on top of her fighting and she was coming back twice as hard. As soon as I turned the corner and they heard the sirens they rushed to get her into the van and they began lifting her off the ground.

I sped faster and made it just in time as the gunshots started up. Tia had gotten tired and I could see she only had a little bit of energy left in her, but she was using all that she had left in her. Thats when I saw the syringe appear while I was timing the shots. Seconds later, Tia's eyes widened at the appearance of the syringe. She began to cry out to me, "Kate! Help me! Kaaaaate!" she screamed as the syringe got closer to her skin. She let out a high pitched scream, as he injected the fluids into her body. Her fight was over by now, the drugs had kicked in straight away. But now was my time, time to fight for my baby.

Gunshots were still going when Ryan, Espo and backup showed. I had already hit the driver, now there was the guy in the back of the van and guy who injected the fluids into her. Several more shots rang out until Espo hit the guy that was in the back.

The last man standing had Tia held close to her and I could see she was barely breathing. He stepped from behind the van holding her to his chest. "Stand down guys." I said immediately. I walked forward to him and surrendered my weapon, "Please. Just take me, but please leave my daughter." I begged him.

He held her up closer to his face, the site of him even near her made me cringe. I wanted to be the only one right now holding her. She had passed out by now, and she was unconsious. He pulled her away from him, and he threw her to the ground. He grabbed his gun from his waistbelt and pointed it his head, we heard a loud bang and then his limpless body dropped to the ground.

I immediately ran over to Tia who was lying on the ground, while Ryan and Espo checked the others for pulses, but they were all goners. "Call a bus!" I yelled out to everyone. I held her to my chest and whispered soothing words to her. I felt her wiggle in my arms and I looked down at her small body, her hazel brown eyes squinted open and she spoke.

"You did come for me." She whispered

"I told I would and I promised you that, so why wouldn't I?" I questioned.

"I don't know, but I love you." She said like a tiny four year-old. I gushed at the sound of her saying that, but yet again it must've be the drugs kicking in. She faded in and out of consciousness when the ambulance finally got here. They hooked her up straight away to an IV tube and put her in the back.

"Are you a relative of the patient, detective?" the paramedic asked.

"Yes, shes my daughter, can I ride with her?" I asked.

"Of course you can, she'll need you there." He admitted.

"Okay, thank you so much." I said to him as I jumped into the back before telling Castle to pick up a few things from the condo and the hotel.

Tia's POV

My body felt weird, it was like it was going into shutdown mode. I could hear everything that was happening around me, beeping noises, sirens, and even Kates voice. I tried my best to keep awake but my best efforts weren't enough. Man, were these fluids were really kicking in, and they were strong. Moments later, I just felt myself shutdown completely and as much as I wanted to fight I was just so tired and I couldn't get myself or my body to keep up the fight. The last words I heard were, "Baby, its me, I love you okay. Please keep fighting." And once she spoke those words I knew I couldn't go down without at fight.

Kates POV

The ride to the hospital was short and fast. Which was good seeing as paramedics had told me that Tia was in for the fight of her life. Straight away, they rolled Tia on the stretcher and took her straight to ICU. An hour past by when Rick finally got here, and yet another half hour past when the doctor came out.

"Family of Katiana J." He called out, we stood and we walked over to him. "And what is your relationship with the patient?" The doctor asked me.

"I'm, uh, I'm her, her mother. Can you just please tell me whats going on?" I asked him.

"It seems as if you daughter was injected with steroids and was close to overdosing," I gasped when he told me, but I could tell he wasn't finished, "Your daughter is very lucky to be alive right now, while we tried to get the fluids out of her system, she experienced a severe seizure in which resulted in us having to take to get an xray performed incase she had epilepsy, which fortunately she doesn't. She just had an allergic reaction to the near overdose which is perfectly normal. We did have to also take her into surgery for her injuries." He stated. I tried to take it all in as he spoke.

"And how is she now? After the surgery?" I asked him.

"Shes doing fine now, but she has two fractured ribs, one of which chipped and that little part of the rib got caught in her lung and punctured it, causing us to have to operate on that part of her body. But what also concerned me were the more minor injuries, that looks like she had suffered from her younger years growing up. I do know of her current situation with her adoptive parents so I must let you know that she has severe bruising in many parts of her body, some parts that I can't imagine how they got there." I stared in shock as he told me and I couldn't let myself breakdown, not just yet.

"Can I see her? Please?" I begged.

"Yes, of course you can. But just to let you know because of her injuries, the near overdose and her current state we decided it was best for us to put her into a Medically Induced Coma because the drug injection did begin to effect her brain functioning." He said as we began walking to her room, "We have also put a tube down her throat, this is to help her with her breathing while she is deep in her coma after what happened to her lungs. But please follow me." We kept walking, my hand intertwined with Ricks. "Shes just through that door, press that button the wall if you need anything." He explained.

"Thanks doc." Rick spoke up, the doctor walked away and Rick could sense I was nervous and on the verg of tears, "Hey whats wrong?" He asked as he looked me in the eye.

"Its just, I can't help but think that shes lying there like that because of my actions, I mean Rick didn't you hear that phonecall, most of it was my fault, all of it was my fault. God Rick, if she doesn't make it I will never forgive myself for it." I blabbed on.

"Hey, stop thinking like that, this isn't your fault at all so don't you start. Okay? Lets just go in there and see how shes doing." He said, but I couldn't bring myself to look at her, all I would see would be guilt and pain, all caused by me. "Kate, stop it, its not your fault, it'll be fine, she'll be fine. Hell, we all will, but just give it time okay?" He said as our fingers reintertwined. My hand was clutched onto the door and I opened the door. I let go of Ricks hand and rushed off to my daughters bedside. She took her daughters had and whispered comforting words.

"Hey sweetie, its me, its Kate. Maybe you can't hear me, maybe you can. But I just want you to know that I love you so much. From the very moment I first laid eyes on you , I knew you would always be my baby. But I loved you from the very first time I heard your heartbeat inside of me. But that day I gave you up was the hardest day, and I still think about it to this very day. I have many regrets but giving you away was the biggest regret, seeing you that day I wish I was the one who raised you all those years ago, but I knew that if I raised you I wouldn't have been able to give you the oppurtunities that you have today." I paused for a minute amd realised I was now baling my eyes out and it was all out of my control but I continued. "Please baby, I know you can fight this, I just know you can." I said to her as I squeezed her hand and rested my head on her hands.

The days past by, three to be exact and still Tia hadn't woken. I would stay with her every night and visit her on my lunch breaks. Gates suggested I take time off, but I just couldn't I needed to find the people behind the attack. We obviously knew it was Bracken but without evidence we had nothing at all. I was filling out paperwork when I heard a moan coming from Tia's direction. I looked up from where was sitting and I could see she was struggling to open her eyes. I rushed over and pressed the button to alert the doctor.

"Hey baby, its me. The doctors on his way so you stay tight, okay?" I said as I held onto her hand, there was no response from her just her struggling to open her eyes.

"You pressed the button, Mrs Castle?" The doctor said unaware of the current situation.

"Yes doctor, my daughter is awake." I told him.

"Oh wow, okay." He said as he approached the young girl and a young nurse followed him in. "Tia, I'm Dr. Young, Nurse Teresa is going to remove this tube okay, so you need to give us a big cough and then she will remove it, squeeze my hand if you understand." He said and waited for a response. While her hand was still intertwined with mine she squeezed both her hands. She took in a deep breath and exhaled with a cough and the nurse immediately removed the tube. She coughed and coughed as a result of the tube being removed. Dr. Young and Nurse Teresa exited the room a few moments after, but before they did they talked to me about her recovery and medication she would have to take and I nodded in understanding.

I walked back to the bed and sat down in the leather chair. I could tell that Tia had gone back to sleep and she was now awake, no longer in her previous condition but now just asleep. I knew she would pull through. She after all was a Beckett.

OH MY GOSH GUYS I AM SOOOOOO SORRY YOU GUYS HAD TO WAIT SOOOOO LONG. There shouldn't be any excuses but yes I am so sorry. I've been overseas at the moment in Samoa(My home country) and I had the time of my life and seriously so sorry it took me so long to update. I didn't forget about you guys so please forgive me. And remember to review :P x