Disclaimer: Castle isn't mine, neither is any of the characters. If I did own it, they wouldn't be separated and I wouldn't be $15,000 in debt to student loans right now.
"Beckett" Kate groggily spoke into the phone. She looked at her clock, it said 3 o'clock.
"Captain? Sorry to wake you, but there's been a kidnapping, and the victim's family is asking for you personally. They refuse to talk to anybody else".
"Alright. What's their address?" she asked as she sat up, grabbed her pen and pad of paper that was beside the bed, and prepared to take down the information. Once the information was relayed, her blood froze. The loft. Castle. She hung up the phone without acknowledging the officer on the other end of the line. She quickly grabbed the nearest set of clothes close by, grabbed her gun and her badge from the bedside table, and flew out the door. She didn't hesitate to turn on her sirens as she speedily drove her car out of the parking lot and through town towards her husband's loft.
"Castle?!" Kate called out as she darted through the loft's front door.
"Kate?" Alexis called from somewhere in the loft.
"Alexis," Beckett breathed. At least she was safe. The captain quickly darted up the stairs towards the girl's bedroom, stunned and slightly disappointed when she saw Martha holding onto her granddaughter. "Alexis, where's your dad?" Kate asked as she sat down on the bed and combed her fingers through the red-head's hair.
"Kate… there's so much blood," Alexis murmured, blankly staring at the stairs that led to the main-floor.
Blood… oh, no. "Alexis… where's your dad?" she asked again, trying not to imagine the possibilities.
"I don't know, Kate. But… no human body can lose that much blood and survive without medical attention. I know that much," she said, finally turning her attention from the staircase to the captain. "Kate, I know that you've…" she paused. "Kate," she tried again, "I can't lost him".
"I know, Sweetie. We'll find him," Kate said as she drew in the young girl for a hug. Once the hug finished, Beckett stood up and said, "Now, I'm gonna go look around downstairs, okay? I'll be back up in a few minutes". With that, she left the room, making sure to close the door behind her, and headed downstairs towards the kitchen.
Several CSU officers were in the kitchen when she entered. One was taking pictures of the large pool of crimson on the floor in the middle of the room. Blood… too much blood. Alexis was right. Nobody could survive losing this much blood without medical attention. Castle… Another was taking samples of said pool of blood and depositing them in small beakers, then putting them in an evidence bag. Yet another one was carefully picking up a small figurine with tweezers from the ground. It was a dragon. Oh, no.
Without saying another word, Kate turned on her heel and ran towards the master bedroom and Castle's office. She locked the office door behind her, and then the bedroom's door after that. She looked around, noticing the perfectly made side of the bed in which she used to sleep on. What happened? He was supposed to be safe. "He was supposed to be safe," she whispered before she broke down in an emotional heap of sobs.