fighting for my family
chapter 28
5/4/16
Inside warehouse:
"Please put that away," Castle begs, "I have to much..." Castle waves his hands about. Ryan lowers his gun, while Espo still has his aiming at Castle. Castle stares at Espo for a few seconds, then watches him to lower his gun. Castle swallows. "Thanks guys,"
"When did you?" Espo asks, turning his head away from Castle. "When do you start to defend Perlmutter."
"I'm just saying..." The phone that Castle has pings telling him that he has an new incoming unread text. "Maybe he has..." Castle wants so bad to tell them that Perlmutter was working on Hayley. Castle puts his own hand up to his mouth to keep his own mouth shut since Beckett wasn't there to do it for him. I can't tell them, not yet.
"He's just to lazy bro." Espo calls shaking his head. "The guy never did anything for anyone." Castle lowers his head now, that's not true he keep to himself. He balls up his hands wanting to punch something. This was eating him up inside not to just spill the beans about everything.
Hayley's phone that Castle now has in his pocket pings again. Castle slides his hand down in his pocket feeling for the phone. He ends up gripping it hard, as he sees that Ryan was watching him.
What can be so important that Castle has to check on right in the middle of a crime screen. It's not like whatever it is can't wait. Ryan shakes his head, hoping that Castle would see him and get that Castle was doing something that wasn't up to his approval.
Castle hides the phone against his chest. "Seriously, you are checking your messages now!" Ryan gives Castle another dirty look as he comes closer. "Come on Castle we are your friends." Yeah right Castle thinks, "Tell us what's going on." There was hint of begging in Ryan's voice.
"Look guys," Castle backs up. "It' nothing." He holds up his hand.
"It's the same woman as before." Espo steps forward. When Castle didn't answer, "It is isn't it bro." He shakes his head at Castle. "Your disgusting, at least do your love life somewhere else then here." Espo walks away. "We got real work to do."
"Keeping secrets, not cool." Ryan calls as he walks past Castle too. Castle sighs lowering his shoulders, Great now they hate me more. He lowers the phone to check what the text says.
Taken her to morgue, she's here... safe sound... you owe me favor.
Castle shakes his head. Why does everyone think cause they do something for me that I owe them a favor. But I am more the grateful. So I'll take what I can get. He text Perlmutter back. We got a deal and thank-you. You don't know how much this means to me, to my daughter and yes to the boys, that I'm with right now. Castle closes the phone, slides it back into his pocket and catches back up with the boys.
"Bro I count three over on this side." Espo calls to Ryan. "What do you got,"
"And I see four over here," Ryan pauses to count on his fingers, "That makes," he sighs, "A total of seven dead bodies." He checks his latest one. "And all of them have that tattoo, right?"
"All the ones here do which..." Espo stops what he is saying after seeing Castle staring at him. He continues on like he wasn't there. "Which is kinda odd given that there are over a hundred gun shell casing."
"That's impossible guys. We been shooting then down left and right way more then seven."
"We don't know that." Ryan steps picking up another dusty shell casing.
"Sorry bro that's all we see."
"I don't..." Castle didn't understand their findings. He has been firing his gun more then that. He's even been watching bodies fall dead left and right. Now Espo say there's only seven dead people. What's really going on? Where did all the bodies go?
"Are you sure Castle?" Espo glares right at him folding his arms across his chest. "I mean, you have known..."
"What you don't believe me?" Castle questions unbelieving what he was hearing.
Espo shakes his head, "Nope I don't." a pause. "Maybe this was a stunt to make you look good."
"Well, did it?" Castle snorts back, then turns away from them and starts to walk off.
Ryan gave Espo a death stare,
"What, bro?" Espo threw up his arms. "What did I do?"
"That's not what, what he's saying Castle." Ryan calls after Castle.
"You don't believe me either do you?" Castle can't believe that the boys would do this to him after all these years working together. I guess it really is the ones that you are closets to that you don't know at all. Well, I know what I saw and what I did, so go screw them. I don't need them. He sighs, but thing is I do.
"The evidence begs to differ." Ryan says to add more insults Castle's way. He couldn't take talking to them anymore he just wants to be left alone. Alone, that's how he feels. He was all alone in this. Now with no Beckett, Lanie and Hayley who really was on his team. He glances upwards, then blinks.
"I don't need this," Castle stomps off, shocking the boys. He walks to the spot where Hayley took her last breath and sits down.
"Don't you think that it's just odd that all the dead bodies here, the ones that were found anyway, have that tattoo. And Castle just happens to be there to see them?" Espo makes the comment to Ryan.
"What are you saying Javy? That Castle," he points in Castle's direction, "Is the one doing the killing of these people?"
"Well, it's just strange and look at him." He snorts, "He's hiding a phone call from us... and what he says about the others...I don't see them. Why?" he shakes his head, "And then there's the covering of the evidence. It's..."
"Don't say that, he's not..."
"What a killer, anyone can be bro, but what I was going to say is...it's a little too convenient that it's more then one, it's like he knew..."
"Like it was trap set up by Castle," Ryan laughs. "You think that he would really do that? Really stoop that low, to set up the perfect murder."
"Then why did I find this." Espo unfolds a piece of paper from his pocket. "It's a list of names. I bit if we ran these it would belong to the dead bodies." Ryan sighs he can't explain that one.
"Where did you?" He asks his partner.
"Yo where else do you think I got it? Out of his very own car when we were being chased."
"You stole it from his car?"
"Yeah," Espo shrugs his shoulders, "I thought it might come in handy." Ryan grabs the paper from him.
"Give that back," Espo shouts but Ryan takes off running. Castle turns to see what all the commotion is about.
To Be Continued...
