Disclaimer: Of course Castle isn't mine. If it was Beckett would be pregnant with a little castle baby by now.
The smell of something burning woke up Alexis. "Dad?" she called down the stairs. "Dad?" she yelled again. When she didn't get a response, she ran down the stairs and turned off the stove. She turned to go back upstairs to her room, but stopped suddenly when she saw her dad standing in the foyer. "Dad! Didn't you hear me?" she paused, "Dad!" He still didn't answer her. Alexis looked around the room then asked "Dad! Where's Kate?"
For the first time, her dad spoke. "She left," he whispered.
"You mean she went back to the precinct?" she asked.
"No…" he sighed. "She left'.
Alexis finally clued in to what her dad had said. "What?! She wouldn't do that!" Alexis didn't believe him.
"Well, she just walked out with a suitcase…" he murmured. Slowly and robotically, he turned from his daughter, walked into his office, and shut the door behind him.
"Wha… what just happened?" Alexis silently asked herself.