"Rick, how long have you known about my mom?" she asked quickly as he shut his eyes, her head shaking as she waited desperately for an answer. She needed to know the truth, she needed to know what was going on and he hated that he was going to hurt her even more by telling her the truth! "When did you find out?" Kate questioned, her voice getting angrier as she was forced to wait for a response. "Tell me truth, I'm fed up with everyone lying to me and treating me like I'm a child. You could at least be honest with me now," Kate shouted as he slowly reached across and found her hand, unable to stop himself from holding onto it as she bit into her lip nervously, waiting to learn the truth. He was the only friend she had and part of her didn't want the answer! Part of her wanted to pretend that he'd never known and that they could go back to the way they'd been before she'd remembered everything and worked it all out. "Rick."
"From the start," he stated as she shut her eyes and snatched her hand back from him before shaking her head. He couldn't have! He wouldn't have lied to her that much! He was her friend, they were close. He'd visited her every day, they'd shared coffees and dinners and he let her believe that she could rely on him! "Kate," he said quietly. "I wanted to tell you, I wanted to tell you the day we walked in to visit you but I couldn't. Your doctor said we couldn't tell you because it might disrupt your progress," he explained as she remained silent. "I couldn't just leave you here Kate. You were just a bit older than my daughter when you were attacked and I was worried about you. Esposito told me about your dad and you were so scared, I couldn't just leave you on your own and I convinced myself that the doctor was right about keeping things secret."
"Leave me alone," Kate begged as he stood up and moved towards the door, knowing that she was right about sending him away. He deserved it! He'd betrayed her! "You were the only person I had Rick. I trusted you and you were lying to me this whole time," she mumbled, her eyes slowly shutting as she fell back against the cushions and pretended he wasn't there. "I don't want to see you again, please leave Mr Castle," she whispered, her voice barely louder than a whisper as he nodded and slowly walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him before he breathed out loudly, hating himself.
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"Dad, how's Kate?" Alexis asked as her father entered the loft and slouched onto the couch, his eyes shutting for a moment as his daughter stared at him. She knew something that happened. She'd heard Kate screaming and had woken her father up to try and make the brunette happy again, she'd invited the detective's into their home so they could talk, she'd watched from the stairs as her father had slowly led the brunette out of the apartment with his arms tightly wrapped around her shaking figure. "Dad is Kate okay?" she questioned again as he shook his head slowly, not knowing what else to say to his daughter. "Dad, what's going on?"
"Kate remembers about her mom," Rick said quietly as Alexis nodded slowly, watching as his eyes slowly opened. "And she worked out that I'd known about her mom's murder the whole time," he added, sighing when his daughter curled up into his side and tightly wrapped her arms around his chest. "She doesn't want to see me again and I don't know what to do because I can't just leave her in hospital on her own and her father isn't exactly around at the moment. I haven't seen him since that first day in the hospital," he declared as Alexis shut her eyes slowly. "I should have been honest with her Alexis; I shouldn't have listened to her doctor and told her the truth."
"The doctor has the medical degree dad, he knows what he's talking about," Alexis said, desperate to calm her frustrated father. "I'm sure she'll forgive you dad, she's just upset," she said quietly as he shrugged, knowing that it was unlikely that the younger woman would forgive him for what he'd done. He'd lied about her mother, he'd lied and gave her the hope that she might get her mother back one day. "Why don't you get some rest dad?" Alexis suggested.
"I'm fine," Rick stated.
"You didn't sleep last night and you've been looking after Kate for weeks dad," Alexis declared as her father groaned, knowing that his daughter was right. "Go and get some sleep, you look exhausted."
"Wake me up in a couple of hours, I'll cook dinner pumpkin," he sighed, moving off the couch as Alexis nodded and watched him disappear in the direction of her bedroom. She knew he probably wouldn't sleep, he'd just sit in his bedroom and think about everything he'd done, making himself feel even more guilty.
This is a stupidly small chapter and I don't expect many reviews because of it. I basically decided to finish what had happened in the last chapter within this one as I found it too difficult to think of anything major to write and then in the next chapter we can start to deal with the consequences of what has happened.
Anyway please review, I love hearing from you and I want to know whether you're still interested in the story. Any ideas you may have are welcome as well.