Here is the next chapter, will be posting one more for this story and then on to the next episode. Disclaimer, I do not own Castle, I am only borrowing the characters for my own entertainment.

Aftermath Chapter 10

"Put it down, Wilder!" Esposito shouts as he, Ryan, and several other officers have their guns drawn and aimed at their suspect. With the way this day started, this was not how they wanted it to end.

"No! I can't do that!" Wilder shouts at the top of his lungs. All he wants is for her to understand, for all of them to understand.

"Why do they all say that?" Ryan mumbles under his breath. Esposito just rolls his eyes at the comment. They have Marlene on the floor of the car, with her head down. There was no way that he was going to get out of this.

"Wilder, look around you. There are cops everywhere, there is no way this is going to end well for you." Esposito shouts, he doesn't want to do this, not today. He doesn't want any more bled sheed today. The last 24 hours have been a nightmare and he, along with Ryan just want the damn thing to be over with.

Wilder stands in front of Ryan and Esposito the weapon point at the car. The detective see the desperation in his eyes. Ryan and Esposito knew that they were going to have to shoot this guy. That's when it happened, the police baton flew out of nowhere and hit Wilder in the wrist, successfully knocking the rifle out of his hands. The next thing they knew, Wilder was being taken down by small, blonde, feisty officer, then being joined by two more. Ryan and Esposito watched as Wilder was being read his Miranda rights and getting handcuffed. The taller officers led Wilder away to another vehicle and Ryan went to check on Marlene. Esposito walked over to the blonde officer.

"Hey, Janko. That was a hell of a chance that you took back there. What were you thinking?" Esposito wants to be mad, he tries to look it, but he's just glad nobody else got hurt.

Officer Eddie Janko stands and turns around to face Esposito, "I saw an opening and I took it. I wasn't going to let him take half a dozen cops with him." She uses all of her 5'4'' height to size up against him. He's got about seven inches on her and she not intimidated by him in the slightest.

"Still, you're lucky no one else took a shot at him." Esposito admires Janko's effort, she's a force that to be reckoned with.

"I figured the day we've had, we should end the day on a good note." Janko states as Esposito's phone goes off. He nods at Janko as she walks over to her squad car and Esposito looks at the message on his phone.

"Hey, Ryan!" Ryan looks over as another officer escorts Marlene to another car. "Castle's awake."

Mason Wood is being escorted down the hallway of county lockup, shackled like the monster he is. The guards that escorting him to the interrogation room show no emotion as marched down the hallway with him. They know what he's been charged with, they no what he's done. Mason knows he's screwed, he made too many enemies over the years, but at least he gets to take Beckett and Castle out with him. He imagines that one of Beckett's superiors waiting on the other side of the door, there to tell him that Beckett and her husband are dead. Jkhj

Or so he thinks.

The guards open the door and he's surprised to find Holliday sitting in the room next to his attorney instead of Deputy Chief Gates. He was expecting a few things today, one of them was not a woman in her mid thirties sitting at the table with a pair of glasses, reading a file. The guards place Mason down in the chair in front and cuff him to the chair. The guards stand behind him by the door.

"Mr. Wood, glad you could join me." Holliday says as she removes her glasses. Part of her is slightly amused at his situation, someone who used to be so powerful now shackled to a chair in a jumpsuit. "My name is Lt. Holliday and -"

"I've advised my client to not say anything for the time being. Not unless there's a deal." Mason had a bit of a smug look on his face. Holliday puts the folder down and removes her glasses.

"Counselor, I'm not looking for your client to say anything; he's only here to listen." Holliday turns to look at Mason Wood. "There is no deal, Mr. Wood, we have every piece of intel that you already have and I also took the liberty of vacating everyone on your payroll. If you like i can put some of them in the surrounding cells to keep you company. At, least until you're transferred to a federal facility and charged with capital murder." Holliday waited to see if Mason would give any reaction, she didn't think he would, but there was a slight drop in his face. If you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't have found it.

"And who have I murder that would require me to be charged with a federal crime, Lt. Holliday?" Wood asks as his lawyer is putting a hand on his shoulder, as if that was going to calm him down. She can see the anger rising in him. It's subtle, but it's there. The slight shifting in the chair, the twisting of his wrist in the cuffs, she's starting to get to him.

"That would be Assistant AG Allison Hyde and CIA Supervisory Operative Joseph Wyatt." She sees Wood's nose start to flare. You do realize that the Attorney General is going to want your head for killing one of his own people and making it look like a suicide." Holliday tells him.

"You can't prove that!" He raises his voice just a little bit. He's agitated, not she just needs to get him on the ropes.

"Can't prove what, Mr. Wood? That you killed an Assistant AG and framed her? That you were CIA? Or the fact that you killed your commanding officer?" Holliday sees Wood's face getting red. If she didn't know any better, she would have thought that smoke would be coming out of his ears. That would be a sight to see. "I can and I have." Holliday takes out another folder and places it in front of Wood and his lawyer. Every file that Vikram and Ellis had put together in the last few hours was on full display in front of Wood and his lawyer. To say that he was shocked was an understatement.

"How the hell did you get these?" Wood demanded. Wood was getting ready to blow his top and there was nothing that his lawyer could do to keep him from doing so.

"With a court order and an encryption key." Holliday stated. She had him and he knew it. "I'm former Navy Intelligence, Mr. Wood. Did you actually think I wasn't going to be able to figure this out? You're finished. You, your associates, your contacts...your son." That got his attention.

"He didn't survived his murder attempt on Captain Beckett and her husband. Turns out she's a better shot than he was." Wood jumps and struggles in his seat and is pulled down by his shackles. Holliday calmly puts the files away, knowing that she's finally put this bastard in his place and pissed him off was enough. "And one more thing…" She puts the files back in her bag and stands to leave, but leans into his ear to whisper one final strike to his ego. "Jackson and Rita Hunt send their regards." It was a statement that made his blood run cold. Adn with the satisfaction of that final statement, Holliday walked out the room.