Hey, next chapter, again is a bit shorter but hey it's here. Thank you for all reviews favorites etc. :)

Disclaimer: Mucha as I want it..it's not mine

Beckett's head was throbbing as she woke up, and as she reached to rub it she realised that she was handcuffed to some object, invisible to her in the dakness.

'Hello?' she called softly, her voice shaking slightly

'Kate, darling. You've woken up,' she heard movement in the dark and she felt him move close to her then run his hand through her hair. She shook her head violantly to try to get him off, but he simply wound his fingers in tightly and tugged.

'I'm so pleased you accepted my gift,' he almost purred 'Blondes have more fun you see,'

Disgusted, Beckett jerked her head away, bracing herself for the pain that would come from his resistence. Shit, this is bad, she thought, this guy really is a complete psychopath. That was going to make talking herself out if this completely impossible, and he'd already made physical resistence impossible. In fact, the odds of getting out of this were incredibly slim, but she almost surprised herself by how calm she felt. Death was part of the job for her, and it was almost made easier knowing that no one would miss her that much.

'Can we just get this over with please?' she asked through her teeth

'Get on with what?' he asked casually

'Killing me,'

He laughed

'Oh no, not yet. In fact right now I'm afraid I need to leave you. I do, after all, have a reputation to uphold. The end of the week is getting ever closer, and I've only killed one girl so far,' and with that he stroked her hair one more time and then disappeared into the blackness

…

The minute Castle woke up he reached for his cell phone and hit the speed dial. It rang for what seemed like an eternity until someone eventually picked up

'Beckett? Beckett? Are you okay? Beckett?'

'Oh she's fine,' Jerry answered 'A little…preoccupied, but fine all the same,'

'Where is she?' he asked, trying to regulate his breathing, trying to stay calm.

'Safe,' came his enfuriating reply 'Now if you'll excuse me, I have a little matter of business to attend to,'

'Don't you dare hurt her!' he shouted

'Oh calm down, not her, not this time, but it's time to kill my second,'

'Let her go, Jerry, she's not even your type, just let her go…please,'

'I'm afraid I can't do that, Castle, and besides, she is my type now,'

Castle was confused by that, and before he could ask him to elaborate, the phone went dead again. As he replaced the phone in his pocket, he finally took note of his surroundings. He wasn't, as he had assumed, in his apartment but in what looked like a small basement room. He looked around and saw a door which he promptly crossed over to and opened. The room he entered was much like the one he had just exited, only where the door had been there was a small hatch in the floor with a ladder descending from it. Castle descended the ladder and walked deeper into the room. The room was big, so big that after he'd been walking a few minutes he could no longer see the light from where he'd entered. He couldn't see anything.

He carried on walking blindly until he tripped over something on the floor and came crashing down on top of it. Something soft, and warm…almost like a-

'Get off of me!' it said, in a wonderfully familiar voice

'Beckett?' he asked, scrambling off of her

'Castle?' she replied 'Is that you?'

'Oh my god Beckett! You have no idea how worried I was about you!' clumsily he put his arms around her and hugged her tightly. Thank god she was okay, he didn't know what he would have done if she hadn't been

'You don't have to lie,' she said, almost coldly 'Just get me outta here, if that's what you're even here for,'

'Well, yeah, of course,' suddenly Castle realised he had no recollection of getting here, of anything between the explosion and now.

The sound of footfalls not to far away alerted them to the fact that they were no longer alone

'Oh, would you look at that,' the voice laughed 'My special guest is here and I've already done my second-today could just not get better,'

'Wait, what?' Castle asked 'Why do you need me here?'

'All in good time,' he replied so quietly it was almost a whisper 'Now blondie, it's time for us all to have some fun-before I kill you and your little lover boy here,'

Hope you like it, sorry if I'm offending anyone with the blonde thing, but his victims are sposed to be blondes...and i'm blonde too. Reviews appreciated :)

Emz xx