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A/N: So I am alive despite multiple questions and messages sent to me lol, have no fear. The question does come up though why I haven't been writing at my normal clip. Well there is a multitude of reasons but essentially they boil down to this: Work is busier, real life had a time consuming situation, and the show has lost some of its sparkle to me. Work just got busier nothing to be elaborated there. Real life I recently purchased a new car and had to acquire new loans, insurance, and was busy negotiating the best interest rate I could get with the banks. Never having done this before I must say it takes quite chunk of time out of a persons day lol. For anyone curious I purchased a 2008 Saturn Sky Redline and it is one hot car that I am completely in love with and that I got for an incredible price. As for the show well if anyone frequents the Castle official boards you can see all my arguments for how the show has lost some of its sparkle for me (I post as MigalouchUD). If you are curious pop over there and see some of my rants, agree or disagree its up to you lol.
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Chapter 25: That is Hot!
The handle of the door slowly turned before being gently pushed open, allowing enough space for two glove clad people to squeeze through one at a time. Weapons raised the pair began to mechanically sweep the rooms for any threats of signs of life. Quietly and efficiently the house was swept until one of them stumbled upon the bathroom upstairs.
"Dammit! Castle get over here I found him," Beckett called towards the spare room that Rick had ducked in moments before.
Coming up behind her into the bathroom Castle saw what Beckett had found. Rueben Wallace, the owner of the car that Kate had identified their suspects driving away in, was lying in his bathtub with a bullet hole in his head. Sighing in absolute disgust over such a needless death Castle knelt down next to the tub in order to inspect the body.
"As soon as we are done here I am going to call this one in," Beckett said as she squatted down beside him scanning for any signs of evidence.
"No argument there. We should probably leave this room alone so the boys can process it without having to worry about us messing with any of the evidence," Castle said in complete agreement.
Doing one final sweep with their eyes and coming up empty the pair stood and carefully exited the bathroom, being certain not to step on any potential evidence.
"So they break in, kill the homeowner, and then steal his car? That just doesn't make any sense to me," Beckett said clearly not following the logic behind the entire matter.
"Exactly! They just got off a boat probably hours before coming here, how would they know that he didn't have friends or family that would check on him? I mean maybe they assumed they would find me in a short time but still that is leaving a lot to chance," Castle said trying to work out the scenario mentally.
With that Beckett's face lit up in the way that let Castle know she had just thought up a great idea. "What if they knew him?" she asked, excitement in her voice.
Receiving a perplexed look from Castle Beckett elaborated, "Think about it Castle. We're already dealing with a former Russian spy maybe he knew Mr. Wallace before he came over. Maybe Reuben Wallace wasn't always Reuben Wallace."
"Kate are you saying what I think you are saying? Is Kate Beckett seriously implying that Rueben Wallace may in fact be a KGB sleeper agent and that is why our suspects knew to come here?" Castle asked with complete awe and excitement, slowly leaning closer to Beckett the entire time.
Moving right into his personal space Kate got a small grin on her face, "Well Castle if the shoe fits."
"God that is hot," Castle said before quickly moving in to close the gap. His mouth was suddenly attached to hers and Kate found herself quickly moaning in appreciation allowing his tongue to slide against her own. Grabbing his hair she felt herself melt against him, completely forgetting for the moment exactly where they were.
Time lost its meaning and Kate couldn't tell if it was seconds, minutes, or even hours before she felt him pull away causing her to whimper slightly. Opening her eyes, which she had no memory of shutting, she saw Castle looking at her with a slight smirk of joy on his face.
"I don't think I will ever look at theory building the same way again," he said slightly breathless.
Laughing at his statement, she couldn't even begin to argue against it because he was completely right, theory building would never be quite the same.
Smacking him on the arm while pushing him away playfully she said, "Ok Casanova lets go see if we can find any evidence in the house before the body starts smelling." Turning she walked away making sure she swung her hips a bit more than usual knowing exactly what he was looking at. Smirking Beckett could almost feel the large smile growing on Castle's face, he really was too easy sometimes.
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About ten minutes later, as they were poking around the newest victim's office, Castle was the one to hit pay dirt. "Found something," he called.
Turning around from the bookshelf she was currently looking through she saw Castle crawl backwards out from under the desk where he had been searching. Seeing his head pop up with an impish smile he slowly raised a thin manila folder into view. Beckett, seeing that he had something tangible, left her search to come stand beside him at the desk.
Flipping open the folder the duo were met with old documents that were all written in Russian. These definitely didn't fit with the life style of the everyday American citizen Rueben Wallace. "This isn't fair," Castle said with a pouting tone.
Arching her eyebrow Kate couldn't help but ask, "What isn't fair Castle?"
"It's not fair that the very first crazy theory you come up is absolutely right," he said looking at her with a sad face that looked like it would be home on a seven year old child.
Laughing she smacked him playfully against the chest, "I guess I'm just that good Castle."
Turning her gaze back to the document Beckett realized her ability to read Russian was seriously rusty. Even though she couldn't read most of it she was able to get the gist of it and realized that this paper was written at least a decade ago. Turning to look at Castle she shot him a slightly confused look.
Seeing her confusion Castle didn't mention it as he began to fill her in. "Looks like this guy really was a Soviet sleeper and has been here for about 20 some years. That makes sense why he hid it in his desk, back when he was trained he wouldn't have known about portable x-rays that can be used to scan desks for hidden documents like the false back he had in his drawer."
Flipping through more papers Castle took a minute before giving his analysis. "Looks like he was just a low key agent that was just intended to gather general info on the United States, these types of agents aren't really that uncommon and he probably was never meant to infiltrate any high ranking government agency. Mainly these papers are just reports of the financial situations of the New York state government with some more detail than you would find on the news, nothing too dangerous," Castle concluded still flipping through the folder.
"So our mystery spy may have known him and if that is the case then it explains how he knew that he could come, kill him, and no one would come looking for the body for awhile.
Castle nodded his head slowly as he mulled over the idea, "That would explain a lot time frame wise. Our mystery spy had to have been around the same time as me, and this sleeper probably was deployed to the US shortly before or after the collapse of the Soviet Union."
"So what's our next move?" Kate asked.
"Not quite sure actually, we definitely have them on the ropes with only four of them left. However, nothing here seems to be able to give us a lead as to where exactly they are and how we can find them," Castle admitted with a shrug clearly not having come to an answer yet.
Deciding to pick up the slack that Castle's background hadn't covered Kate came up with the next idea. "Well let's get the boys involved. We can call in this murder and notify them the car is missing and the possible spy connection. They can put out and APB on the vehicle and maybe even track it down if it has a GPS or tracking system in place," she said.
"Sounds good but we just have one slight problem," Castle said in a serious tone.
Looking at him in surprise Kate waited until he continued.
"Ryan and Esposito are going to want to take my head off when they see me," Castle said with a mock look of panic on his face.
Chuckling to herself Beckett smacked him in the shoulder before walking past him. "What do you mean we? That's your problem Castle, not mine," she said smiling to herself as she listened to his squawk of protest as she began to dial the boy's number.
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The boys were sitting in the bullpen looking through the windows of the Captain's office and cringing at what they saw. Roy Montgomery was completely and utterly going off on some young beat cop and by the looks of it the kid thought he was going to die in that office. Needless to say Ryan and Esposito were finding the whole thing not only justified but hilarious as well.
Lanie was just walking up when she saw the boy's attention riveted on what was going on in the Captain's office. "What is exactly going on?" she asked just coming up to the scene.
"Captain finally found the guy who leaked Castle's arrest to the press," Esposito said very shortly.
"And he isn't letting him off lightly," Ryan added with a look of glee at the young guys misfortune.
Snorting in irritation Lanie slid up next to Javier and leaned against the desk and him. "Serves the little punk right for putting us through all of this crap. I swear if he doesn't come out of that office in tears I will make sure he doesn't leave this floor with a dry eye," she said not only irritated but also furious with all the trouble this dumb guy's mistake had put them through.
Chuckling in appreciation of Lanie's ferociousness the partners were cut off when a cell phone began to ring inside Ryan's jacket. Looking at each other they both quickly got up uttering a quick "got to go" to Lanie before heading towards the back stairwell.
Completely confused by their actions, and now standing at their desks alone, Lanie hurried after the duo wondering why exactly a cell phone ringing would cause such strange behavior. Just as they were entering the stairwell she jogged the last few steps and slipped through the rapidly closing door and right in front of the pair.
"Lanie!" Esposito cried out in surprise to find that she had followed them so quickly.
Ignoring his exclamation she just nodded towards Ryan's hand which now held the ringing phone, "You gonna answer that or do I have to do it for you?"
Looking at Esposito and shrugging in defeat Ryan activated the speaker and answered the call, "Ryan."
"Ryan, I got another body for you and Esposito," Kate stated not even bothering with a greeting just rattling off an address before hanging up.
Shifting their gazes from the phone to Lanie they could tell the ME was absolutely pissed. Kate, her best friend, had been doing god knows what with god knows who and this entire time she hadn't contacted Lanie once to let her know she was ok. The last Lanie had heard was that she went overboard a container ship into the Hudson with Castle. Sure she knew she was alive because of the suspect she had heard Castle and Kate had left for Ryan and Esposito but still that didn't exactly count.
Turning her gaze towards the boys she let her glare show that she was not in the mood for any type of compromise. "I am going with you two and I swear if Kate is still around when we get there I am going to smack her so hard her dad is going to get knocked out," Lanie said her anger and frustration seething out of her.
"I'll meet you in the parking garage," she said before she spun around and exited the stairway probably on her way to collect her bag from the morgue.
"Dude should we warn Beckett?" Ryan asked still slightly terrified of their small but deadly ME.
"Are you kidding? Watching Lanie go off on Beckett will be like watching the entirety of shark week in fifteen minutes. Epic dude, purely epic," Javier said with a hint of amusement in his eyes. Turning the two headed down the stairs towards the parking garage.
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