I OWN NOTHING!

LJ

"Kate…Kate…KATE!"

Esposito ended up shouting at his colleague to awake her from a restless sleep she seemed to be in with Alexis in her arms.

"Yes, sorry…wait Esposito?" Kate stumbled over her words as she came out of sleep.

"Yeah Kate it's me I just wanted to-" Kate cut him off in a panic, waking Alexis in the process.

"Wait! Have you found him? Is he here? Is he ok?" she rambled in a craze as she stood up to pull on her shoes and run to wherever her husband was. Then Alexis followed her mother's lead in a mimicked panic.

"You've found him? Where is he? Is he-"

Esposito cut her off "NO! no no we haven't found him... Kate I just need your help on a few things. It would be helpful if you could come down to the station with me." He explained calmly given the state she had just worked herself into.

Kate's shoulders sagged in defeat. He wasn't back. He was still missing.

Alexis curled back up into bed, pushing her head into her father's pillow inhaling his sent. She just wanted her daddy home, not just for herself but her mom was a mess without him. She was honestly worried what would happen to her mom if her dad didn't come home.

"Okay, yeah sure. Anything I can do Espo. Let's go." She got off the bed with new motivation. "Alexis, sweetie, are you going to be okay here? I will only be a few hours. Promise."

"Yeah I'll be fine mom. I might do some cleaning. That always calms me." She mummed sliding from the bed and wrapping her mother in a hug before walking out of her parent's room in search of something in the spotless house to clean.

"Let's go" Kate said with demand as she and Esposito walked out of her room and off to find her husband.

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Two hours later. Thirty two questions later. Four coffee's later. And still nothing.

She missed him. Somehow Kate had this idea in her head that she would be able to find him if only he was here to run theory with her. However Kate recognised that maybe she was the only person who could find him so she couldn't waste time fantasising. Focus. Focus. She chanted in her head compulsively. Until the phone on her desk sprang to life and shook her from her mantra.

"Beckett." she snapped in an exhausted manner.

"Well, well, detective Beckett I believe I have something that you seem to have lost" cackled an eerie familiar voice down the phone.

"Agent Kaye? Is that you? What…? DOU YOU HAVE MY HUSBAND!" She all but shouted the last half, alerting half the precinct to the situation and spurring Ryan to track the call.

"He is not your husband…at least not for much longer. That's my reason for calling actually. You see seeing as you manipulated your way into Rick's life and deliberately linked yourself to him legally so I could not marry him I am struck with a little dilemma."

"What on earth is wrong with you crazy woman!? WHERE. IS. MY. HUSBAND!?"

"He is good and well. Now that he is away from you, of course. He wanted me to talk to you and pass on the message."

"And what's the message Agent Kaye?" Kate practically growled.

"Divorce. He wants a divorce." He tone was clinical but happy at the same time.

Kate froze for a moment and quickly regained reality. Her husband would never do that. It was just a gain to the lunatic.

"Well if he wants a divorce so badly then he can tell me himself. I won't believe it until the words come from his mouth." Kate said with authority as she obviously new Serena was under some type of delusion.

"Well if you insist. But I'm afraid we have to cut this short, another twenty seconds and you will have triangulated my location. You will receive address shortly. Come alone. You don't want to know the consequences if you don't detective."

And with that the line went dead.

After a moment of disbelief, shock and anger Kate's cop instinct kicked in and she turned her gaze to Ryan. Silently begging him with her eyes to tell her that he had a location. His defeated look said it all. Nothing.

Once again. They had nothing. And Kate was suddenly hit with the realisation that it could be that way for the rest of her life. Nothing.

Okay so there it is. Another chapter.

Please let me know what you think. What would you like to see happen? I have a story line but I am open to anything.

Also I am thinking of writing a prequel? Thoughts on that? We would see how the pair managed to keep their relationship a secret.

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I OWN NOTHING.

LJ.