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As Kate took care of Alexis that night, Rick was coming back downstairs from putting the girls and Liam to bed for the night. It didn't take Rick long to see that something was wrong with Alexis. He knew that Kate and his mother wouldn't be hovering over Alexis if there wasn't something wrong. Both Martha and Kate saw Rick right off of the bat as he had started to make his way over to the three of them to find out what was going on.

"I'll tell him, you stay with her." Martha said.

"Okay, thanks." Beckett said.

Martha nodded and headed over to where her son was.

"What's going on? Why is Alexis crying?" Castle asked clearly wanting answers.

Rick and Martha sat down in the living room, Martha sat at the one end of the couch that was near the arm chair that Rick had opted for.

"How do I put this…?"

Martha was trying to find the right way to tell Rick that Alexis had found Kameron cheating on her when she had gone to the apartment to get a few things.

"Just say it, mother."

Rick looked over his mother's shoulder to where Kate was still standing with Alexis. Concern was coming into play for Rick in that moment.

"When Alexis went to her apartment to get some of her things, what she walked in on was something that she wasn't expecting to walk in on." Martha put as gently as she could.

"What exactly did she walk in on? I thought she said that Kameron was working on a group project for his class."

"Let's just say that Kameron was working on something but it wasn't the group project he told Alexis he was working on."

It was then that everything had come together for Rick as he had connected the dots. After the proverbial lightbulb had switched on, Rick went over to where his wife and daughter had been standing since Alexis had come home.

"I'll take over from here." Castle said.

With that being said, Alexis switched from the comfort Kate had been giving her to Rick's comforting fatherly embrace which she had known quite well. As Rick hugged his daughter and talked to her, Alexis's phone rang yet again. It was Kameron trying to get through to Alexis yet again.

"I'll take care of him later." Beckett said after Alexis had showed them the caller id.