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It wasn't long before Alexis had arrived at the crime scene. One of the uniforms recognized Alexis from her days as Lanie's intern and he let her pass the barricade. Alexis quickly found Kate standing near the car that she and the boys had come in. Kate had just gotten off of the phone with Kevin who had told her what they had found so far.

"What's going on?" Alexis asked once she came up to Kate.

"Not too much at the moment."

Alexis could see the worry in Kate's eyes, it was the same worry that she had in her eyes.

"Who called you?"

"That was Kevin, he called to tell me what he and Javi found."

"What's the next step?"

"Well I'm about to go in as a paramedic. One of the hostages had an epileptic seizure and passed out in front of the other hostages."

"So you're going in to scope things out undercover."

"Pretty much."

Alexis then went to hug Kate. "Be safe."

As they parted from each other, Kate remembered when Rick had asked her to keep an eye on Alexis if anything happened to him. A tear came to Kate as she changed into a paramedic uniform before heading into the bank with a gurney.

Alexis took a few steps back and watched Kate go into the bank. As Kate went in to the bank, Kate's nerves were running overdrive. She was trying with every fiber of her being to not think of what life would be like for her, Alexis and the kids if thing went south.

"Search her." 'Trapper John' said.

"She's clear." 'Dr. Quinn' confirmed.

Kate wheeled the gurney over to where Rick was with the hostage that had the seizure. Just as Rick hands Kate the note he had written for her.

"Make it quick?"

"How's he doing?" Beckett asked.

"Not good." Castle responded.

After that Rick told Kate all the pertinent information about the hostage. Kate wheeled the hostage out with Rick's note in her.

Once she was back outside of the bank and the hostage had been taken to the ambulance by the real paramedics, Kate heads over to Alexis.

"He's okay. They're both…"

Kate read the note as she talked to Alexis.

"Okay. Oh God." Beckett said.

"What's wrong?" Alexis asked.

"Alexis, I need you to go behind the yellow line, now."

Kate then instructed the uniform that was nearby to take Alexis behind the police tape. Once Alexis was safe, Kate went to tell Captain Peterson that there was explosives in the bank.