CH50

Kate rode her bike home, however no one met her at the top of the ramp. Kate went downstairs and dropped her stuff in their room and went to Alexis's bedroom and found her inside, asleep.

Kate kneeled down and stroked her hair. "Alexis? …. Pumpkin?" All Kate got was a little movement and a moan. "I'm sorry I missed it pumpkin. I'll make it up to you somehow." Kate kissed her head. "I love you."

Kate moved back to their bedroom and striped down and changed into something comfortable. Seeing the laundry bag full she moved it to the washer and started a load and then went upstairs.

Castle wasn't in the kitchen and there was nothing in the warmer. Not that it mattered she had eaten enough mini-subs, a bag of chips and had practically chugged the bottle of water Castle had sent them. Just one more reason in a long list to love him.

Kate moved on to the living room and still didn't see Castle. So Kate moved to the open doorway to his office. Just as she reached it she could hear the almost rhythmic clicking of the keys on his keyboard.

Looking inside Castle had his laptop in his lap and was madly tapping on his keys. Kate just stood there and watched for a while. She could see different scenes roll across his face as he typed. One second he was smiling, then she thought she heard a chuckle. As she watched something serious must be happening because he looked serious.

He was writing! Kate was afraid to close the door in case the sound of it disrupted his thinking, so she left quietly. Kate sat down on the sofa. "Now what do I do?" Kate couldn't turn on the TV. She couldn't risk the noise. What did that leave?

Kate walked to the stairs and went up to the roof. It was a little cool but not bad. The fruit out on the docks was still available. Well most of it anyway. Kate could see the lights of the city. Nothing was moving in the harbor since it was dark.

She could hear the sound of horns being honked. Most were short blasts, probably waking someone up and drive instead of what they were likely doing IN the car and not paying attention. Others sounded like someone was pissed since they were laying it on thick and heavy.

A little later was a siren. "Hhhmm, sounds like an ambulance. Now we just need a fire truck siren." Kate smiles when it was next. "Hopefully just a bumper to bumper tap."

Kate waited and listened then went all the way downstairs to move her laundry from the washer to the dryer. Kate stopped at Castle's office and listened to him tapping away on his keys.

Kate watched him lean to one side while still madly tapping away at his keys. Then he stuck his tongue out and held it there, trapped between his lips. Kate could almost see the face of little Rickie working on something for school that was so very important to him.

Smiling wide she went back up to the roof deck. This time taking a glass of wine with her.

Kate had no idea what he was writing and likely wouldn't know for months yet. She just knew that she was going to get to read it first before anyone else.

Kate had finished her glass of wine and went down to the kitchen to rinse out her glass and put it in the dishwasher. Finding it full she added a soap pod and turned it on, then went down to fold her laundry after taking it out of the dryer.

Back upstairs she watches Castle type for a while, when suddenly he looked pissed and slammed his finger on the backspace key, erasing what he had just typed. Then went back to madly typing away.

Castle was lost in his mind and Kate felt good about it. Going downstairs to take a shower and slip on a night shirt, Kate went to bed. But she was restless. Castle typing away meant he wasn't down here with his arms wrapped around her.

How was she supposed to get to sleep in a bed all alone?

It took a while but Kate finally made it asleep.

Kate blinked her eyes awake. It was a perfectly good dream and she was wet and hot and ever so close to an orgasm. She was even moaning and squirming all over the bed. GOD IT FELT GOOD!

She was close, ever so close. Kate moved her hands to hold the head that was locked between her legs. Kate ran her fingers through his hair. SO CLOSE.

WAIT! She WAS awake, and Rick's head was held securely between her legs. Kate's moans were becoming more vocal. Please God don't let him stop!

A few moments later she was screaming with her back arched with her butt lifted high off the bed as her orgasm crashed over her. Rick never stopped and she was soon thrashing all over the bed just moments away from her second orgasm.

It was only later after Kate was calmed down while snuggled up close to Rick. "Hhhmmm, I could learn to like waking up in the mornings like that." Kate reached in and kissed Rick's nose.

"You were busy typing last night." Kate snuggled in closer, looking into his eyes. Like she could avoid them or would ever want to.

"I had inspiration and I had to get it all down before I lost it." Rick explains.

"When did you come to bed?" Kate was curious as to how long he stayed up typing. Was the empty bed last night worth it?

"I only just got here. You looked uncomfortable. You were making all these faces and you didn't look happy, so I lifted you shirt and pulled off your panties and tried to make that look go away." Rick explains, leaning in to kiss her lips lightly.

"The bed was empty last night and I didn't enjoy it much. … Wait, you stayed up all night typing? Just how much did you type Castle?" And why wasn't he tired?

"I got six chapters typed out last night." Rick whispers into her lips.

Kate's eyes opened wide. "Six Castle!? That's amazing." Kate used a hand to hold his head in place and kissed him deep, tasting herself on his lips. Then used her tongue to stroke his lips and when he parted them she dove in. Kate loved the taste and smell of them after sex. It was her new addiction.

Then the stupid alarm clock went off , alerting Kate to the fact she needed to get up and get ready to go into work. "Damn it!" Kate moaned. "Remember our place when I get home tonight." Kate gives Rick a quick kiss and rolls out of bed.

Kate makes it upstairs to find Alexis sitting at the bistro table eating a healthy breakfast this time. They must be out of her cereal. "Hi pumpkin." Kate kisses her head and sits next to her. "How was your first day of school?" Kate wanted to hear everything.

Alexis however only says. "Ok." But doesn't look up at Kate.

"Pumpkin I really am sorry I got home late last night. A lot happened yesterday. There were a lot of bad guys out there yesterday. I had to catch them all. If I didn't someone might have gotten hurt.

I'll make it up to you on my next day off. How about a safari at the museum, or maybe big game hunting at the zoo? You can bring your camera and put your best pictures up on your wall." Kate offers.

"Feed the animals?" Alexis started coming out of her funk.

"OF COURSE! How can we go and not feed them? We can spend the entire day there. Stop for lunch, get you a t-shirt with your favorite animal on the front." Kate would gladly buy her one.

Kate finally got a smile out of her. "That's my girl. I love you pumpkin, even if I am late from work sometimes. That's never going to change, even when your brother or sister gets here." It reminded Kate of a topic she needed to talk to Castle about.

This time both Rick and Alexis met Kate at the top of the ramp to see her off. "Bye mom." Alexis was happy again.

"I'll see you in a little while Kate." Rick kisses her cheek.

"You were up all night Castle." How are his eyes even still open?

"I have to come in and give my statement still." Rick points out. Though he also has other ideas.

"Right." Kate had forgotten, being more concerned about his lack of sleep.

Kate waved as she rode off to work.

Kate got off the elevator with her leathers in hand so she could stuff them into a lower drawer of her desk. "Detective Castle." Jordan Shaw greeted her.

"Agent Shaw. What brings you here?" Her and 5 other FBI guys.

"I heard you caught Hal Lockwood. I'm here to take him off your hands." Jordan hands over the paperwork.

"You don't waste time. I haven't even had a chance to talk to him yet." What Kate really wanted to do was beat him to a pulp. Problem was she was a cop.

"I promise to forward anything he tells us. Look on the bright side, Simmons and the other two are all yours." Jordan smiles. "Besides if we keep moving him around, it makes it harder for his attorney to keep up with him." Jordan's smile looked a little more predatory this time.

"Fine, he's all yours. He's in holding." Kate turns for that direction, only to see Lockwood in wrist and ankle cuffs attached by a chain being led away by 3 FBI guys who kept a hold of him. With one on point and another bringing up the rear.

"I promise Kate, he shot your husband." Jordan took her leave and followed her team and went to the airport where an FBI jet was waiting for them.

Ryan and Espo walk in. "I see the FBI was here. What did they want?" They saw them downstairs in the garage.

"They came to collect Lockwood, but left us with the others." Kate tells them, still put out by it all.

"FBI!" Espo growled it out.

"I'm going to the hospital and check on our, guests. Find out what you can on those two and arrange for a new team to take over guarding them. Especially Simmons. Someone wants him dead, which means we need him alive.

First I'm going down to Lanie to see if she has anything. … Oh and find that Williams guy and bring him in." Kate gets back into the elevator.

"Lanie, you're up bright and early." Kate was back in a good mood after Jordan took the guy she wanted most.

"Hi Kate, what's got you so happy?" Lanie was suspicious. It wasn't even 7:00 am yet and Kate sounded more chipper than normal.

"I just am that's all. …. What do you know about Simmons?" Lanie was supposed to check in with the hospital and find out what they knew.

"Vulcan Simmons." Lanie picks up her notes and steps over to Kate. She's about to start reading when she stops and looks at Kate.

"You are happy this morning aren't you? I don't suppose Rick has anything to do with the happiness?" Lanie questions.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Kate feigns innocence.

"Don't give me that girl. You are glowing, and there is only one way to look like that. So when is the next Castle baby?" Lanie knew that glow and knew she was right.

"I need to talk to Castle about that tonight after work actually." Kate really did want to talk to him about it.

"Good, Vulcan Simmons. He's likely to never walk again with only his big toes left to walk on. Every finger on both hands are broken as well as having his fingers nails removed. The hospital has him scheduled to go into surgery to repair the nasty cut that was the start of removing his, ..." Lanie pauses.

"Why the wait? Is it not life threatening?" Give him a few stitches and good as new.

"They need to put him under, it was more than just a little cut. Their blood work on him came back with something weird." Lanie tells her.

"Weird, how weird?" Did that mean he had nanites? Kate instantly rejected that idea.

"He had a massive amount of Scopolamine in his blood." Lanie explains.

Kate's mouth falls to the floor and her eyes bugged out. "THE ZOMBIE DRUG?"

"In small doses it can make you look and act stoned. Kind of mind numb. Larger doses if it is based off the person's weight, it is likely to cause the person to answer questions truthfully for the most part.

With the massive amount he has in his blood stream it would leave him susceptible to suggestion." Lanie explains.

Kate had seen it on one or more of the zombies upstairs. "How susceptible?"

"He did pretty much anything he was told to do." Lanie explains.

"He would have answered any question he was asked." Kate talks to herself.

"More than that actually. If he was asked to draw a map of something, he would have done it. If he had been told to put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger, he was likely to have done it. Especially if he was told it was something else in his hand." Lanie tells her. "And he would have believed it."

"So why send someone to kill him AFTER you have already learned all you wanted to know?" It didn't make sense. "Why not kill him then and there? Not let him get found by the police and THEN send someone to kill him." Kate still didn't get it.

"Unless we are talking about two different groups. He works for one group, got captured and pumped full of Scopolamine to tell them all he knows. Then we get him and the group he works for doesn't want us to know, so they have to kill him." Kate tries to reason out.

"So who does he work for and who picked him up? …. I have to get to the hospital." Kate turns to leave. "Thanks Lanie."

Kate made it to the hospital and parked her car. She started off with Simmons. Kate watched the guard hold his hand on his weapon while Kate approached, and checked her ID and badge number and then checked his list. Only then was she allowed into the room.

Kate found Simmons alive and still hooked up to machines and watched his heart beat on one of them. However he was still unconscious.

Kate left Simmons and moved to Ross and got the same treatment from the uniform at his door.

Kate stepped inside and found a male nurse getting ready to inject something into his arm. Ross was lying in bed hooked up to a machine and had an IV in his arm. Both of his shoulders were all wrapped up since he had been shot twice.

"What's that?" Kate asked the nurse with the needle.

"Antibiotics." He answers and starts to push the needle in.

Needle! Arm! Something wasn't right. In a lightning move Kate pulls out her weapon. "STOP!" Kate yells at him.

"It's just a shot." The nurse tells her.

"Remove your hands, NOW! Or you'll be in your own ICU bed shortly, after a trip to surgery." Kate watches him pull his hands away with the needle still in Ross's arm.

"OFFICER!" Kate yells out, and watches him enter the room and pull his weapon on the nurse mimicking what Kate was doing. "Cuff him." Kate tells the officer.

The uniform officer puts his weapon away and pulls out his cuffs and turns the nurse around and cuffs him.

It allows Kate to move over to Ross. Kate pulls out the needle. "Antibiotics huh. So why is the only thing in it AIR?" Kate holds it up for the nurse to see.

"You don't understand, I had to." The nurse tells them.

Kate puts her weapon away and pulls out her phone and calls for more uniforms and Ryan and Espo to come collect the nurse.

Kate moves over to Morgan next and found him asleep but otherwise fine. His shoulder was also wrapped up since that was where Rick had shot him along with his head where it impacted the front windshield.

Kate ordered the uniforms to check everything from now on. Including the staff. Check them and everything they take into the room.

Finding out from the doctors that talking to any of them wasn't going to be today, Kate went back to the precinct. They were supposed to have answers soon.

Kate walks up to her desk. "Espo?" Meaning give me an update.

"The nurse is Chris Herndon. He sang like a canary as soon as we got him back here. Seems he has made some questionable financial choices when someone suggested he could earn some money. All he had to do was stick a needle in someone." Espo explains.

"He say who?" Kate asks.

"He didn't know, it was just a voice on the phone. He did however find a note at home telling him what would happen if he didn't agree." Espo tells her.

"Find out how he got paid, if he got paid. Pull his financials, and have CSU turn his apartment inside out" Kate tells him.

"We got ballistics back. The weapon Castle got off Lockwood was the one that put a round in Morgan's shoulder. … Not you Castle, the other Castle." Ryan looks embarrassed.

"Relax Ryan, I know who you meant." Kate gives him a break.

"Anyway, CSU has traced the rounds that struck the car. Seems both of you are good shots, every round you both fired hit the car. One of yours entered Ross's left shoulder while one of Castle's entered his right shoulder. …. The other Castle, not you Castle." Ryan makes a face not sure that came out right.

"Speaking of the other Castle, he came in while you were out after we came back here with Herndon." Ryan spills the beans.

"Castle was here? Where did he go?" Kate turned to look at Roy's office and saw it empty.

"Captain Montgomery left with him." Ryan tells her.

Kate knew he was going to come in and make a statement about yesterday, but why would Roy go with him?

Kate shakes her head. "Where are we on Morgan and Ross knowing Simmons?"

"Still working on that, so far nothing." Espo answers her question.

"We really need to interview those three." Kate moans.

"Yeah, before someone finally succeeds and kills them." Ryan tells her.

"Don't say things like that bro, you'll jinx us." Espo counters.

"So you're superstitious now are you Javi?" Ryan teases.

"ME? Definitely not! It just pays to be careful and cover all my options." Espo counters.

"Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that Espo. One day you might actually believe it." Kate sits at her desk.

Kate is sitting at her desk when suddenly someone is nibbling on her earlobe. "That better be you Castle, or I'm going to shoot you were it hurts most."

"Good information to know." Rick tells her as he stands up. Then watches Roy walk up behind Rick.

"Castle here is your new shadow Castle." Roy makes a face not sure that came out right.

"SIR!?" Kate's mouth falls to the floor.

"He was with you during that incident at the hospital yesterday and he says he needs to do, research. So he's going to be following you around for a while." Roy explains, liking this idea.

"Sir, I don't think, …." Kate is interrupted by Roy.

"The Mayor called and made the commissioner happy, and when the commissioner is happy, I'm happy, and when I'm happy, …." Roy trails off.

"How long sir?" Kate didn't like this idea.

"That's up to him. He's already filled out all the paperwork. He's ALL yours detective." Roy walks off and into his office, but leaves the door open. This 'otta be good!

"CASTLE!" Kate was going to take Rick apart, piece by piece.

Espo hangs up the phone. "Castle, we've got an incident at the hospital at Simmons room."

Both Castle's look at Espo. "Damn it! I just left there." Kate pulls out her gun and holsters it and starts for the elevator.

"You coming Castle or what?" Kate had her orders.