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Kate was listening to the dial tone while waiting for Lanie to pick up. Then, he just drops, right there onto Kate's feet.
"How's he doing girl?" Lanie was worried, but she couldn't afford to lose Javier and Rick.
"Kevin, he just-, at my feet, and I'm alone with them now. What do I do Lanie?" Kate was starting to sob, both of her partners lay there at her feet, on the floor. Her partners, her brothers, her best friends.
"Hold on Kate, what about Kevin? What happened to him?"
"He just lost consciousness and fell to my feet. I don't know what to do, Lanie."
"Just take a deep breath. Alright Kate, does he have any cuts?" She follows her friend's instructions, and looks at him. Then she remembered the crash
"His side, when the elevator stopped, he got thrown into the railing. It's about 3 inches long, but I'm not sure how deep it is." She put Esposito's head on the floor and went to tend to Ryan's cut. She grabbed his shirt, folded it, and held it there.
"Okay, alright, I'm calling Gates now. But I'm going to use the other phone, so stay on the line. Put the phone on speaker so you can help the boys." She picked up her work phone and dialed Gates number.
"Hello?" Gates knew that this was the number from the medical examiner's office, but they didn't have a body.
"Gates, detectives Beckett, Esposito, and Ryan are stuck in the elevator. Two of them injured, I'm not sure how serious these injuries are but they are not conscious. You need to get them out now and send them to the hospital all of them. Beckett will be an emotional wreck, so let me know which hospital they're going to. Oh, but not Lenox that's where Kate was before. And if she asks about Castle you just tell her that he is alive. Um, Sir? "
Lanie has been talk, but she isn't sure if Gates was still there. She was just rambling on about her friends that she completely forgot that Kate was on the other line still.
"Yes, Ms. Parish, I am calling maintenance as we speak. Have you spoken to any of my detectives?"
"Yeah, I'm on the line with Kate right now. "
"Okay maintenance is there right now with EMT's. Tell Beckett to hold on." Gates wasn't about to show it, but she was sincerely concerned for her people right now.
"Kate, Gates said there are EMT's and repair men upstairs fixing it now. So just hold on a little bit longer, just keep it together. Kate, do it for Castle."
She knew that Castle was the first thing on her mind, but right now it was her partners.
"Oh my god, Rick. Is he okay Lanie? Is he alive?" Kate's mind was going crazy without him right here by her side.
"I haven't heard anything, but he's going to live Kate."
Kate felt the elevator jerked and started to move upwards towards the fourth floor. She held the heads of Kevin and Javier on her lap. Then, as if a miracle had happened, the doors opened. EMT's rushed in to get the boys onto stretchers. She saw Gates and Lanie off to the side. Then one came back to get Kate. She refused to go to the hospital.
"I need to see my partner!" As Kate continued to yell at the paramedic, Lanie looked on confused. Kate forgot that Castle was still a hostage in the bank.
"Kate, look at me Kate. Rick is stuck in a bank robbery. He's okay Kate, but we need to get you to the hospital with the boys."
Eventually Kate agreed to go, she sat in the ambulance with Ryan, and Lanie went with Esposito. On their way there, they passed what looked like just a street being blocked off. But then kate remember Rick calling her, saying that he was at New Amsterdam Bank and Trust, which was the bank they just passed. She started to have a panic attack, and by the time the ambulance got to the hospital she was sobbing and shaking.
Lanie came over to her once the boys got inside. "Hey it's going to be okay, we just need to get you checked out."
Meanwhile, Castle, Martha and the other hostages get out of the robbery without any scratches. After they reunite with Alexis, Rick sees Detective Karpowski.
"Hey Karpowski, where's Kate and the boys? She told me they were on their way." Rick merely thought that they were off talking to someone somewhere else.
"Oh I forgot that you've been in the bank. Uh, well they were on their way and then-." The detective got cut off by Lanie running over and giving him a hug. She starts mumbling stuff but Rick couldn't hear it.
"Lanie? Lanie! Calm down, where's Kate and the boys? And why do you look like you've been crying?" He was starting to get worried.
"They- they were coming down in the elevator and it got stuck, and the boys were knocked out cold. Then she was left in there alone with them, and on the way to the hospital I guess she had a panic attack. And the only thing that I could think of was-"
"Her PTSD."
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