I OWN NOTHING!

LJ

'Alright, what have we got,' Beckett said as she walked into the apartment 3C and into the living room with Esposito by her side.

'It's pretty clean, bullet straight to the forehead, killed instantly.' Esposito informed her as they made their way over to Lanie who was kneeling beside the dead body.

'Female, late 20's early 30's - no ID. She doesn't have a phone either and no purse was found.' Lanie said as she worked on examining the body. 'It looks like a standard issue 44' calibre,'

Wait! She was shot with a cop gun?' Ryan questioned as he came up behind them.

'Yeah and by the looks of this it wasn't a close range shot, the shooter was standing at quite a distance when they fired. Also I don't think this is where she was shot there is no blood pool like I would expect and the body looks to have been placed here, it's too neat.' Lanie informed the detectives as the body was been lifted into a body bag. She then turned to Kate noticing her 'shadow' was not present, 'Hey, where's Castle? This is his apartment building right? You would think he would be the first one here.'

'Oh, um, he had some stuff to do and I didn't want to bother him, he has had a rough time with the last case anyway,' Kate said hoping her friend would drop it without suspicion, 'Anyway, if the body was not shot here then why leave the body here, it's a bit strange. Ryan, who found the body?'

'Oh, it was the landlord, he came to open the apartment up for inspections today and found the body then. Apparently no one has a key apart from the main office and the lobby, also he is getting security tapes for us.'

'Right so there is obviously some significance as to why the body was left here; it's personal.' Kate said almost to herself.

'Okay boss we have started door to doors, we haven't gotten to the last floor yet but when we do were going to have to talk to Castle so do you want to do it or will we?' Ryan asked hesitantly, his boss was acting a bit off this morning and he had a feeling it was due to this case being too close to Castle; literally.

'Um, No, I will do it. You guys question the Bobby maybe he saw something or someone hanging around the last couple of days and get staff lists off him too.' Kate said without realising she had just referred to the doorman by his first name; unfortunately this did not go unnoticed by the other detectives,

'Bobby?' Ryan questioned, with a confused brow and raised eyebrow.

'Oh, ah, the doorman…Bobby the doorman.' Kate said as she turned to Esposito,

'Call me if you get anything, I will go up to the top floor,' she said dismissively and walked out of the apartment and into the elevator. This case was giving her a weird feeling inside and she couldn't understand why. The elevator dinged, signalling the top floor and she stepped out and made her way over her apartment. She walked straight in and found her husband sitting at the kitchen counter, sipping coffee and staring blankly into space. She stared at him for a minute; he had yet to notice her arrival, which was unusual. So she made her way over to him and stood behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist. He jumped slightly in surprise and then relaxed back into her arms.

'What are you doing back? Miss me already, did you?' he asked with humour lacing his voice. She smiled and placed a kiss on his temple and said,

'As much as I missed you, that's not why I am here. I didn't realise but the boys would have come to our door when they did their door to door and I didn't want them to disturb you... Baby, have you seen anyone hanging around the building that stood out at all in the past week? I keep trying to think but I honestly haven't seen anyone suspicious hanging around at all.' She said the last part in a slightly frustrated voice, as if she was mad at herself for letting this murder occur so close to home and her not notice anything.

Rick furrowed his brow in concentration, going over his memory of the last few days and nothing came up, he really hadn't been paying that much attention though. 'No I haven't, everything has kind of been normal in that sense…How were they killed?'

'She was killed with a bullet to the head; it was the same make as the standard issue cops use. So whoever killed her will have a licence for it and it will be in the system, but we need a suspect first and she had no ID on her.' Kate said in an exasperated tone, she hated it when there was no ID, there was something horrible about not being able to out a name to the face even if they were dead.

'I am going to get dressed and come with you,' her husband said as he pulled out of her arms and got up.

'You don't have to do that, we can manage. You should just go back to bed.' She said in a soft tone.

'No, it's okay I want to come in. I need to do something and besides you know you really can't manage without me.' He said with a smile on his face as he made his way up the stairs. Kate smiled and called after him,

'I will wait for you, be quick,' she sighed and started to clean up the left over breakfast stuff from this morning. After less than a minute there was a knock at the door. Kate made her way over to the door, without really thinking. She opened the door to find Ryan standing there with a stack of CCTV tapes and his notebook.

'Hey, what have you got?' She asked letting him into the apartment and through to the kitchen.

'Well to put in bluntly absolutely nothing. No one heard or saw anything at all so we are really relying on this CCTV to turn something up. Lanie has taken the body back to the morgue hopefully she will be able to pull an ID. Also she gave us this, a picture of the Vic. We have been showing it to everyone in the building and no one recognizes her I thought you might want to show it to Castle,' He said handing over the polaroid picture of the woman.

'Thanks, Ryan. I'll show him.' Kate took the picture from Ryan and expected him to just be on his way but he was staring at something in the distance. Kate looked up from the picture she had previously been looking at and followed his gaze.

Oh crap. There sitting on the mantel piece were several pictures; all of them were of Beckett and Castle. One was of them kissing at a theme park, with their arms wrapped around each other. The next was a picture of them at a book launch party again with their arms around each other and the final one was really the one that gave away the secret they had been hiding for the last four years. It was them on their wedding day, staring deep into one another's eyes and looking like the happiest people in the world.

Kate was speechless and so was Ryan. He couldn't really believe what he was seeing. It was impossible. Kate could not believe she had been so stupid, forgetting to hide the evidence. Maybe Ryan would think Castle had photo shopped the pictures and they were just a joke. But that hope quickly disappeared as Rick came down the stairs wrapped in a towel, completely oblivious to Ryan's presence.

'Hey baby? Have you seen my green shirt; weren't you wearing it last nig-' but he quickly stopped dead in the entrance of the living room where he could see his wife looking stunned and none other than Ryan looking as white as a ghost.

After a minute Ryan spoke up, a slight smirk starting to appear on his face, 'So… why wasn't I invited to the wedding?'

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