Genre: Romance, Family, Humor, Supernatural
Rating: M for sexual situations and language
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters featured on the show Castle, they belong to the creator of the show, ABC and the others who do own them.
A/N #1: Since this is a shorter prologue I'll be posting the next chapter in a few hours so if readers want to they'll be able to check it out soon!
A/N #2: The title of this story is two lyrics from two different songs. First is a lyric from the song Your Song and the second lyric is from the song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road both by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the first song is from Elton John's eponymous album and the second is from his album the same name as the second song. The title of this chapter is a lyric from the song Thriller by Rod Temperton, from the Michael Jackson album the same name as the song.
Something Evil's Lurking
"Are you okay?" Castle asked, jogging up to Darnley.
"Yeah, I went too fast," the detective replied before they were both silent and looking around. When there were no sounds other than the natural ones from the trees around them, he said, "Where's Kate?"
"I have no idea," Castle said. "Either they turned it off or they're not paying attention to it so who knows where they are on that hill."
"We better go back," Darnley told him.
"Yeah," Castle replied though they were both shooting looks around them as they started to head back to the field where they'd come from.
"I'm so confused," Darnley said.
"It's happened to us before," Castle said. "I'm calling Kate, tell her to come back from wherever Skye took them." He got his phone out and dialed the investigator's number rapidly as he knew she had it before it went straight to voicemail. "She doesn't have it on," he told his wife's friend.
"Damn it," Darnley said. "I don't want them out in the middle of nowhere while the shooter's out here."
"Did Skye have a walkie-talkie?" Castle asked.
"If she was smart she would have taken it," Darnley said before he was grabbing his. Just as he was about to press the button so he could talk, there was a shot from above them into the ground ahead and they both ran to the cover of the trees and he was looking up. "Where the hell was that?"
"I don't know," Castle said. He saw movement from the branches above them and called out, "There!"
"Stop! Metro PD!" Darnley was yelling, his weapon on where he thought the shooter was. But he was having a hard time tracking them and said, "Where are they?"
"There…" Castle started to say before there was another shot.
"Shots fired; shots fired!" came over the detective's walkie-talkie.
"Lewis! Lewis! Call backup into the trees," Darley was yelling as the shots kept continuing. When there was no response from the officer he looked down at his device and said, "Lewis?" There was still nothing from the officer and he was quickly changing the frequency before saying, "Sumner?"
"Darnley, what is it?" his partner said on the other end, sounding tense.
"We're below the suspect," the detective said, speaking in a low voice as he was looking up at the trees. "And we need backup, it's only me with a weapon."
"I'll be there," Sumner replied.
"Castle," Darnley said, watching his friend's husband as he was looking up the tree. "Castle," he said again, that time sternly as the writer was going to try and climb up it. "If you do that I'll break your ankle," he said when the man was looking at him.
"Kate will hurt you," Castle replied, still looking up as the detective was soon doing as well.
"After she hurts you," Darnley said. He knew; though he couldn't see; that the writer was nodding and they were quiet, listening and waiting for backup.
Only a few seconds later, Castle heard movement next to him and turned to look at Darnley, seeing the man was moving around the tree trunk. "Patrick," he whispered to him, trying to make sure he got his attention. "Don't…" he said as he was looking up at the branches again.
Just as he turned his head down to Darnley, Castle heard the explosion of the shot a second later. Everything seemed to go grey in his shock and a yell of pain echoed around them in the trees as they were falling back to the forest floor in unison.