"Why don't I go get her and bring her to the station where can do a proper interrogation?" Drake asks while he is looking at Castle and Beckett. They are both trying to hide the emotions building up inside both of them

The local officer turns and heads out of the hotel meeting room out to the police cruiser waiting in front

Kate is finally able to respond. "That will be great" then softly to herself "Castle and I have something to take care of fist" and louder once more "and we will meet you there"

"Great Drake says over his shoulder. I will let the desk sergeant know you are coming" and the local detective walks out the door

When he sits down in his police car he looks toward the hotel and talks to himself "I wonder if those two know how much they have with each other?"

Without another word, Rick takes Kate's hand squeezes her fingers then she begins pulling his arm and the two walk to the elevator. They ride in silence to their floor and continue to their room.

After the door closes behind them, Kate turns to face her husband. She pulls her arms around him then she lays her head down on his chest

He drops his arms around her back he pulls her tighter than he ever has and then speaks softly "I don't know what I would do if I lost you like that"

She can only nod her head in agreement. After just a moment she pulls her head back up "If he loved her only a tiny bit as much as I love you, I would have just wanted for us to die together"

She turns toward the bedroom, and pulls him with her. There is no wild raging, screaming. No clothes flying around the room. The next thirty minutes are spent in the most gentle, soft, unhurried round of lovemaking these two have ever had.

She has her head on his shoulder with her hair brushing his nose exactly like she knows he enjoys when she finally speaks "We rarely fight but if some terrible horrible event separated us permanently, then this is how I want to remember our life together"

"Me too"

/\/\/\/\/\/\

They arrive at the police station as agreed, to find Detective Drake waiting for them. But Nancy Hopkins is nowhere in sight "Where is our suspect?" Beckett asks

"She was not at the hotel. They said she had not checked out but her bag and her clothes were not in the room"

"So do we know if she is planning to return?"

"Evidently not" Drake responds "But I put an officer on the hotel to let us know if she does. I just hope she is not another victim and has not been murdered also"

"Great" Beckett responds just like she would if she were standing with Ryan and Esposito "That would make this even worse"

At that moment Beckett's phone rings. She pulls it out of her pocket "Its Ryan" sliding the screen "Hey Ryan. I'm putting you on speaker. We are here with Detective Drake. What do you have?"

"Well, boss it just got worse"

"How could it get much worse?" Beckett looks at her husband then at Drake

"The servers that were compromised and the hard drives pulled out from the vault"

Castle comments first "Right. Espo told us. No one knows how that happened"

"We got the security footage and you will never guess who the only people were to enter and leave the vault during the time window"

"Who Ryan?" Beckett asks with her usual tone when he is trying to get her to guess

"Oh come on Beckett. Who can get into a bank vault without being questioned?"

A knowing look appears on both Beckett and Castle's faces and they speak at the same moment "Armored Car guards"

"Give those two a prize" Kevin has a smile in his voice "What is really odd is the security footage shows a regular Armored Car vehicle pull into the dock. but two men exit the rear and go inside the corridor and head to the security desk. They signed in just as they normally would. Spoke to the guard at the desk and just walked in like they belonged there"

"Does he remember what the two men looked like?"

"No. Too many people pass through the security center every hour and he does not pay attention when it is a routine activity but what is more strange is the bank confirmed there was no money bag delivery or pick up scheduled at that time or even that day, but since Armored cars are so prevalent around banks and other business in the building…"

Again, in sync "No one noticed"

"We need to talk to the armored car company and find out who was driving that vehicle"

"That is another problem"

"What Ryan?"

The camera could not pick up the name on the truck. It looked like it was just a blur and no one remembers seeing the vehicle

Both Kate and Rick remark again in sync "Too normal

There is a phone ringing in the background and they hear the voice of their Hispanic partner "Esposito…" after a pause "That is great news. Thanks" the voice comes closer to Ryan "Hey they found a traffic camera near the entrance that shows the armored car entering and leaving"

"Who was the Armored Car company?" Castel finally questions

"Gordon's Armored Car Service"

"That is the same company that we found the fake truck" Beckett remarks "Contact them and make sure it was one of theirs?"

"And if it is?"

"They have GPS tracking on all the trucks so they can tell who was driving it" Esposito answers just as his phone rings once more

"Esposito…" he listens for a moment "…she did? Great! Bring her in" he hangs up on the call on his phone and returns the conversation Ryan has connected with Beckett and Castle "Nancy Hopkins just arrived back at her apartment. We have the uniforms bringing her in"

"OK guys. Question her on the murder and get back to me on the armored truck. We will continue to work the murder of Charles Ivy from this end. We will probably connect her to his killing and we will have her in custody when that happens"

Kate disconnects her phone and looks first at her husband with a smile on her face then over to the local detective.

Detective Drake has watched a fine-tuned machine at work with Castle, Beckett, and her two partners in New York. He can't help but be impressed

"So, Captain" looking at Kate "do we wrap up and go home? It sounds like you have our primary suspect in custody"

"We never stop until we have ALL the evidence and a confession" she looks at Rick "someone once told me that the evidence isn't everything and he has proven that point many times when it comes to suspects. We have actually entered a murder scene and found the one holding the gun to be innocent" Rick feels Kate smiling at him. She is thinking about the time Ryan, Espo, and her entered a murder scene and found Castle holding a gun over the victim

"That sounds good Captain. We still have not received all the DNA and trace from the crime scene. So, until we get that, what do you want to do?"

Castle looks at his watch "It's lunch time. How about you pick out a great eating place and I buy lunch?"

"Sounds good to me" Drake turns to the chair and takes his jacket and the three leave the station

/\/\/\/\

Settling into a comfortable booth at a local diner the three are chatting about nothing in particular. Rick and Kate make sure to avoid any conversation that might bring memories back to their dinner companion

"I guess you two probably heard about how my nickname came about?"

Castle and Beckett look at one another not sure how to answer that when, finally, Rick responds "I assumed it was a combination of your first and last names 'Stanley Drake…Stake"

The man seems to go solemn before responding then thinks before answering "That is not how it happened."

Then as if fate has intervened Kate's phone rings "Beckett" once more Esposito and Ryan are on the line. Kate puts it on speaker phone

"Beckett. The armored car service is not missing any vehicles. They were all accounted for during the event. None of them were even near the bank"

"Are they sure?"

"Positive"

"What about a rogue employee stealing one of the trucks and disable the GPS?"

"It is well protected and operates on its own battery. The moment the main power is interrupted it sends out an alert."

"So, if it is not the real thing…" Beckett remarks "we looking for another fake truck then?"

"Exactly?" Ryan responds "We are looking for another fake truck"