Ascending into darkness
Chapter 19th
Castle had gone upstairs to wake Sergeant Javier Esposito. When he had found Esposito in the first bedroom, he was sleeping on top of the purple quilt. Castle chuckled silently with the way the Sergeant was looking and laying on his right side.
Needing to wake him softly without having to scare him. Castle moved to the other side of the bed to touch his shoulder nudging him. He was able to hear the undercover officer moan before slowly waking up his sleepy eyes.
Castle waited a moment to try it again. Otherwise Esposito awaken looking up into the face of Richard Castle mystery writer with an odd expression on him. "Don't worry Castle, I am awake. I just need to throw some cold water onto my face before heading outside to meet Kevin. No doubt he's chomping at the bit waiting for me?"
"Actually he is to a certain extent Sergeant. Beckett has made some hot coffee for you and Ryan outside while searching the grounds." Castle replied with moving out of the bedroom to head downstairs to try and get some writing done on his laptop. Though he's going to keep his revolver close to him while in the kitchenette.
Esposito moved off the twin bed to head into the hallway bathroom to finish up his chores, along with the cold water on his face. It had woken him entirely placing the blue cotton towel back into place. Checking his weapon that was inside his pants, he needed to be sure he was going to be ready for any thing that might happen outside.
Walking downstairs. Kate Beckett in long silver sweats and a short sleeve black cotton top and slippers, handed him the container of coffee and a small bag with some goodies that she told him to open it later. "It's no longer raining outside, but it has gotten colder."
"Thanks for the warming Beck, and the coffee. I have better get outside before Ryan comes to look for me." Esposito opened the front door of the loft telling Beckett the usual warning about keeping the door locked.
Kate walked over to her husband sitting at the kitchen counter typing away on his laptop. "We should know soon on whether Darcy and Frank tries to show their faces on the grounds?" Castle exclaimed with Kate Beckett needing a hot cup of coffee to try and calm her nerves with the possible intrusion.
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Two hours later...A block away from Broome Street.
Darcy and Frank stopped their black SUV a block away from Castle's loft. Ron Darcy pulled out his forty five gun checking the barrel for bullets, along with his steel knife. Frank did the same not saying a word for a moment. "Are you ready Frank? Take no one alive with orders from Carey, he told me on the phone yesterday. This Jordan needs to be silent no matter who gets in our way. Understand?"
"Sure I do Darcy, but we are taking a huge gambit going tonight to try and take him out." Frank replied with the shake of his head.
"We needed to do this as quickly as possible with getting rid of the witness, and besides our photos are all over the tv, cable and Internet ever since the sketch artist was called in by the precinct." Darcy had announced with moving out of the driver seat turning off the engine and locking the door, as with Frank needing to do the same.
They quickly began to move towards the complex making sure not to be seen. Taking five minutes moving behind a large garbage bin. They waited for the older man smoking to move away, when in fact it was one of the undercover officers.
Ryan and Esposito sitting on the grey bench not to far from the garbage bin. "Jones is moving away having finished his smoking, he's going to head back to the underground parking lot." Ryan said softly into Javier's right ear.
"I see him." Esposito responded when all of a sudden he heard a noise. "Stay here Kevin, I need to investigate the noise." Moving up from the grey bench. He placed his hand into his pants pocket getting ready to pull out his gun.
Darcy and Frank didn't noticed Esposito. It was almost too late when Javi cried out telling the two to stop where they stand. He had pulled out his weapon from his pants pointing his revolver into Darcy's line of fire. Ryan ran over after hearing his partner call to him.
Just as Ryan arrived on the scene. Darcy tried firing his weapon at Esposito. However Javi was quicker with the quick firing two shots into him hitting his chest killing him instantly. Esposito fired his weapon in self defense and this is what exactly his partner Detective Kevin Ryan had seen as well. Esposito bent down to check for a pulse, while Ryan got on the walkie talkie to call for an ambulance and other police officials to come to the scene.
"Don't bother with the ambulance Ryan. He's dead! I suggest the coroner needs to be called to the scene." Esposito announced with Ryan talking on the walkie talkie, while Esposito pulled out his cuffs to place them on Frank and his rights. Other undercover officers on the grounds ran over to the pair seeing the body on the ground with two bullets to his heart.
Moments later the area was filled with police cars and the Coroner's van pulling up with Doctor Lisa Anderson with her tech Melanie. Captain Kate Beckett and Richard Castle were called upstairs in the loft about the shooting and finding the body of Ron Darcy being placed on a stretcher.
Beckett shaking her head, didn't believe this was going to happen. There was going to be an investigation into the shooting of Darcy and just what exactly happened.
