CH51
Things were quiet in the car while Kate drove to the hospital, until she couldn't take it anymore. "Ok Castle, talk! What the hell are you doing?"
"Kate, …." Kate however cuts him off.
"Don't Kate me Castle. Answer my question, I want to know what you think you are doing. Why are you in my car? Following me around Castle? …. Why?" Kate tuned to look at him quickly that told Rick he was a dead man.
"I was blocked Kate, really blocked. I killed of Derek Storm without knowing what to do next. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I was tired of him, he was going stale so he had to go.
Then that day at the hospital with you gave me the inspiration I needed. It gave me an idea for a whole new character, and I started writing. But I need you to finish it." Rick explains, praying it wouldn't make her mad.
"ME? Castle we're already married, what more of me do you need?" The fact that she loved him and didn't or couldn't live without him wasn't enough somehow?
"I know that Kate, but my new character is based off of you. You are my inspiration. I need to do research and see you in action. I need to understand and see what you do, so I can create her with realism." Rick tries to explain.
"Your new character is me?" Kate looked at him, not sure how to take that. "You're writing about me as your new character?" Kate was pretty sure she didn't want her life written in his books.
"YES, … well no, not technically. It's not about your life or what you have done. It's not a biography about you. … Yes the character is female, yes she is a homicide detective, but that is where the similarities end." Rick starts trying to explain his character.
"You're using me, but not writing about me." Kate tries to understand.
"Right, she's talented, hard working, driven, very pretty, exceptionally sexy and a little slutty." Rick explains her basic personality.
"You're writing about me?" Kate can't get past that.
"About you no. Based off of you yes. She's had her trials and troubles in her past, just not yours. They are different and not even remotely what you have gone through. She doesn't have a child, isn't married and goes through guys like candy." Rick tells Kate.
"Seriously Castle? Now you've made me a slut that will bed anything that comes along." Kate was mad now and glares at Rick briefly, before putting her eyes back on the road.
"She's not you Kate, just the idea of her is based on you. And I did mention she is kinda slutty." Rick was grinning. He thought the idea was genius.
"And you want to follow me around to give you inspiration?" Kate tries to understand.
"Right! …. In fact you already have. Those 6 chapters I wrote last night are all you. Well not you, but based off of you. And no it wasn't what happened at the hospital but it was action packed showing casing what you can do." Rick hoped that made her feel better about his idea.
"Those 6 chapters last night were because of me?" Kate wasn't sure how to take this.
"Right and to keep going I need to be around you and see exactly how things work. It needs to be realistic or no one will believe it." Rick thinks Kate is getting to like it.
Kate parks at the hospital and exits the car. "This is not done Castle." Kate had lots of questions and wanted to figure out how to talk him out of it. But she did want him writing.
Walking up towards Simmons room, Kate started seeing the problem. "What's going on here?" Kate asks approaching the room.
"You in charge of this Neanderthal?" I guy dressed as a doctor asks with venom in his voice.
"Correct, and you are?" Kate was in charge.
"Josh Davidson, Doctor Josh Davidson, and this is my patient that your mindless peon here will not let me see." Josh tries standing over Kate, since he was much taller than her.
Kate ignores him and turns to the uniform officer on the door. "Has he been searched and is he on the approved list?"
"No ma'am." The uniform officer responds.
"Not pre-approved after a complete background check which is mandatory, and even after that you will be searched along with anything you bring into the room." Kate looks up at him un-intimidated by his height or his manner.
"I'm the doctor and you and your Neanderthal don't have a say, he's my patient and you have no right to keep me from him." Josh tries again.
"Until you have a security clearance you are not setting foot in that room, period. And I have all the right I need to keep you out and I'm using it." Kate counters.
"This isn't over yet, I'll go over your head to your superior." Josh starts to walk off.
"Good luck with that." Then Kate turns to the uniform officer. "If he tries to get back in again without clearance, arrest him by any method necessary. If he resists, SHOOT HIM!" Kate glares at Josh who was still close enough. Then watches him walk away huffing as he went.
"Yes ma'am, thank you." He had been wanting to get rid of Josh ever since his first attempt at entering.
Kate and Rick are walking back to the car. "Glad he's not my doctor, his bedside manner needs a lot of work." Rick tries to lighten up the moment. It did get Kate to grin.
"Kate, it's not about you. … Ok, that's not true it is about you, it's just not about your life. And you get to read it first just like always." Rick points out.
"And if I don't like it?" Kate didn't want her life on display for everyone to read.
"Then you get to press the delete key, but it's going to be great Kate. Really special." Kate was in.
"What about Alexis, Castle?" Kate still had one card to play.
"I pick her up from kindergarten as always and take her home, and occasionally come back to the precinct for our training sessions. We get to see more of each other. … Unless you want to be away from me." Was that one of the reasons she was fighting back so much.
"NO Castle, it's not that." Just what did having him follow her around do to them, or would it do anything? Would it drive them apart or make them closer?
"Except for the academy I've had training so I can handle myself. I got Lockwood and helped you with those two at the car. Maybe I don't know all of the procedures or used them like you do. But I did help you study for the detective exam." Rick points out.
Kate had to admit he had a point. And she didn't have a partner since Royce put in for a transfer when Kate had tried to make detective. In fact she hadn't seen him since then. Kate had no idea where or what Royce was doing now.
"Fine Castle, as long as Alexis isn't left behind or hurt by this plan of yours. She's our daughter, I don't want her hurt by this. … And you do what I tell you when I tell you Castle. This is my job, not yours, and I'm the one that's armed.
You may have nanites, but if you get yourself killed because of this plan of yours, I will shoot you." Kate glares at him for a moment while driving.
"It'll be great Kate, trust me." Rick was in!
"And how are you still awake anyway Castle. You spent all of last night typing." Tired people make mistakes.
"You inspire me Kate, what can I say. … I love you and I have a new character because of you. Maybe even better than Derek Storm ever was or could be." Rick smiled at Kate.
Kate shook her head. It was dirty pool using the 'I love you' card, but she knew he did and she loved him too.
"I love you too Castle. This better work out." Kate was convinced she had gone mad to let him do this.
"Why was Captain Montgomery with you wherever you two were?" Kate was curious, now that Rick was in.
"I bought up the idea with him first and he was all for it. Something about wanting to see what a husband and wife team would do for the precinct. Then he took me downstairs to one of their lawyers and had me sign a bunch of papers." Rick explains.
"Did you let my parents look those papers over?" What had he signed?
"I did that and they would have tried to talk me out of this. That wasn't going to happen. I don't need them to keep me from getting into trouble, only to get me out of trouble." Rick knew they would try and stop him if they read those papers.
"MY PARENTS! … how am I going to explain this to my parents?" Her parents might shoot both of them.
"Very carefully?" Rick offers half joking.
"Oh funny Castle." He was a big help. Kate gave him another quick glare.
Kate and Rick stop onto the 4th floor. "Espo, there is a Josh Davidson at the hospital who is trying to gain access to Simmons. Check him out, go through everything." He seemed to want in bad. Why?
"And his girlfriend, wife, sister, parents." Rick adds. Then sees the look on Kate's face. "He wanted into that room. Maybe whoever wants them dead got to his girlfriend, wife, sister, children or parents. Or maybe they have already gotten to them." Rick points out.
Kate was smiling. "Add them to the list Espo. First hired killers, then pay and threaten a nurse. Someone wants them dead. They may be scum, but they're my scum and I want to know what they know."
"They paid a nurse to kill them?" Rick hadn't heard that before.
"$30,000 to put an air bubble in his blood stream." Kate tells him.
"That is a very painful way to die. He would have groped and fought to live. He would have had to watch that after injecting that air bubble." Rick points out.
"A nurse is trained to save people not kill them." Kate points out.
"$30,000 to go against what you have trained to do. How did THEY know he needed the money? I assume he needed it." Rick asks Kate.
"Ryan?" Kate calls out.
"On it." Ryan responds back and starts looking through his notes before making a phone call.
"$30,000 for a nurse. … How much for a doctor?" Rick talks to himself out loud.
"Ryan?" Kate calls out again.
"On it." Ryan calls out again and picks up the phone finding the number he wants.
Kate was smiling, Rick and his questions just might prove useful. Lord knows he knows how to kill people. In his books anyway. Plus the bad guy always gets caught.
Espo was standing at Kate's desk. "What's Castle doing in the interrogation room?" Espo was convinced he was going to go mad dealing with two Castle's.
"He's writing up his statement about the shooting at the hospital yesterday. He's a writer so he should be good at it." Kate was hoping he was good at it. She didn't want to write it for him. "What have you got?" Kate noticed he had a folder in his hands.
"Josh Davidson. He's only been at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center for the last 3 months. Before that he spent 6 months at Bellevue Hospital Center. Before that he was at the Staten Island University Hospital for 2-1/2 years before he requested a transfer. Before that he was out of state." Espo concludes.
"So he gets around. See if you can get anything on him about why he left Staten Island. Then see if he had the same reason for Bellevue." It sounded funny to Kate. A good doctor would be wanted by the hospital wouldn't they, not let him hop around like a jack rabbit.
"Ryan, where are we on financials for Davidson?" Maybe there was a clue in there somewhere.
"Just got them." Ryan was looking at his computer.
Kate hopped up and moved over to his desk.
"Ok, he makes doctor's money. Not much surprise there." Kate continued looking.
"This is interesting, he has a deposit of $50,000 just yesterday." He had gotten paid his salary just 2 days before that.
"Trace it, see where it came from." Maybe Castle was right. $30,000 for a nurse and $50,000 for a doctor.
"Can't, it came from an offshore account in the Caymans." Ryan points out.
Kate didn't like the sound of that. "Go back to when he was at Bellevue."
"There, another $50,000. See where it came from." Kate was sure she wasn't going to like the answer.
"Same place, same account in the Caymans." Ryan points out.
"Now go back to around when he left St. Lukes." Was this going to be the nail for his coffin?
"Stop! There, a deposit of $50,000. Go back some more. …. Stop! Another $50,000. Find out where they came from." Kate was itching to get her hands on this Davidson guy.
"They all are from the same place, same account." Ryan tells Kate looking up at her.
"Espo, find out if anyone died at these hospitals on these dates." Had she just found a hired killer who was also a doctor?
"What are all these payments here?" Kate points to the screen. "They're all to the same place. Looks like what, $2 million worth." Kate tries adding in her head.
Ryan brings up google. "High end furniture store."
"He spent almost $2 million on furniture? Where does he live?" Kate was curious now.
Ryan googled it too. "High rise condo, midtown." Ryan answers her question. Then Kate watches him google the building. "There are some units for sale now. $6 million to $24 million. Depending on size and what floor they are on."
"$6 million on his income is stretching it a bit." Kate speculates, reminding her she needed to talk with Castle about their own finances. Especially if they were buying a house in the Hamptons.
"Not if he is bringing in money on the side as a hired killer." Ryan points out.
"Extra $150,000 a year. Could make living the good life just a little nicer." But he was a doctor, wasn't he? A doctor of death now maybe?
"Got it!" Espo is looking at his computer screen. "There were two deaths six months apart at his first place." Espo watches Ryan and Kate look at Ryan's computer again.
"His $50,000 deposits are almost 6 months apart. The last one was 2 weeks before he left." Kate points out.
"I've got one at his next place just 2 weeks before he left for this hospital." Espo points out.
"Bingo! Find him. Get units over to his condo and get another uniform on each of our three at the hospital. …. Find him!" Finally, a hired killer that wasn't lying unconscious in a hospital bed.
"And get a bolo on his car and put him on the no-fly list. I want him." Kate tells them and then watches both of them hit the phones.
"Castle! I've got a hit. He just used his card at an ATM machine at the airport." Ryan calls out.
"Damn it! He's on the run and headed out of our jurisdiction." Kate had missed him.
"Who's out of your jurisdiction?" Rick asks having stepped into the room. "Someone yelled Castle." Rick shrugged his shoulders.
It got Kate to smile. There were now 2 Castle's in the building. "Doctor Davidson is at the airport now, probably trying to get out of town. It looks like he might be a hired killer." Kate explains.
"That jerk that wanted into Simmons room? That's what, the third time someone has tried to kill him after you found him?" Just what did this guy know? "If he's in the air that means he is fleeing from state to state. Isn't that were the FBI come in?" Rick just stood there hoping that wasn't a stupid question.
Kate smiled and pulled out her cell phone. "Hi Jordan, I need a favor." Kate starts off with.
Kate was off the phone. "Jordan will have some local FBI guys in Miami waiting for him, find him and bring him back." Kate started typing on her computer.
"What are you doing now?" Rick was curious.
"Typing up a request for a warrant to get into doctor Davidson's condo in midtown." Kate explains.
Rick whistles. "Being a hired killer must pay pretty good."
Kate prints it out. "Now I just need someone to sign it." And Kate grabs her gun, badge and cuffs and starts walking for the elevator. "You coming Castle?"
An hour later with a signed warrant for a search in her hand, she finds the guys and 2 uniform officers waiting for her at the door.
"Open it." Kate tells the building owner with the keys.
"Gloves people." Kate pulls out two pairs and hands one to Rick.
Rick is walking around while snapping on his gloves. "Yup, being a hired killer pays pretty good." The place looked nice to Rick's eyes.
Rick took the bedroom along with Kate. Kate started with the bed while Rick took the dresser drawers. "Did someone bring a black light?" Kate calls out. Getting Ryan to walk in and give her one.
"Kill the lights Castle." Getting Rick to hit the light switch.
Kate pulls back the comforter. "Looks like our boy has been busy." Kate notices the stains. "See if you can find any hairs and get CSU to take the bed with them." Kate moves to the closet as Rick turns the lights back on.
"Kate!?" Rick calls out.
Kate twists from parting clothes in the closet. "Find something?"
"I don't know yet." Rick can feel Kate now standing next to him.
"This drawer won't pull out all the way." Rick pulls and it stops, like something is stuck.
Rick moves his hands around and soon has his fingers on the underside on each side. "Lift the drawer a little for me."
Kate reaches across Rick and lifts the front end while Rick moves his fingers. "There I think I got it, now pull."
And Kate pulls the drawer out. "Well, what do we have here?" Rick moves the drawer so the back of it is facing him. "There are two bottles taped to the back side of it. Drug bottles." Rick works at removing the tape and holds the bottles allowing Kate to put the drawer down.
"Scopolamine." Rick reads the bottles.
"The zombie drug?" Kate takes one of the bottles and looks for herself. "Why does he have the zombie drug?" And why was this stuff all over the place lately?
"Why do the killing yourself, when you can get someone else to do it for you, and not remember anything later." Rick points out.
