CHAPTER 3!
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"You should have told me" Helena stated.
Christina groaned and laid back on the hotel bed. "Mother, I've already told you I didn't have a choice, it was. a. paradox!"
"Christina just because your future self told you that you don't tell me, does not mean that you have to not tell me!"
"Again I say it was a paradox. No matter what I did, there is no possible way I could have told you!"
"You could have at least tried!" Helena argued back.
"What would be the point in that. You know as well as I that you can not change the past!"
"It wasn't the past yet!"
"For my other self it was!"
In the other room the rest of the agents sat around listening to arguing through a closed door.
"And I thought the relationship with my mother was strained" Steve cringed.
"Teenagers" Artie grunted glancing at Claudia.
"Hey!" Claudia exclaimed.
"How long is this going to take" Pete whined.
"We could go ahead and start now, as long as your the one to tell them that they were left out of a briefing" Myka reasoned, which just made everyone groan.
"I'm sure it will be over in a couple minutes" Lenna comforted.
"Caturanga never questioned my dealings with time!" said a muffled shout.
"Then by all means go back in time and be raised by your insane Uncle!" was the response.
"Uncle Charles is not insane!" Another shout defended.
"Christina, he almost burned down the house in '85, convinced the cat was a burglar!"
"And you believe I wont be safe back there, yet we're safe living in the same house as Mr. Lattimer? Excuse me for not being able to see your reasoning."
Everyone minus Pete burst out in laughter.
"Did she just say that?" Pete asked offended.
They just nodded laughed even harder.
"At least this is entertaining" Claudia managed.
Over the sound no one noticed the arguing stop. The Wells had gone silent hearing the laughter.
"Intolerable colleagues..." Helena muttered heading for the door.
"Unable to mind their own business" Christina added darkly, following her mother.
When Pete notice them walk in he was frozen. The rest of them continued laughing oblivious to their presence.
"Guys" he whispered fiercely, trying to snap his friends out of it.
But they didn't notice.
So he said it again "Guys!"
The second time caught Steve's attention still smiling he asked, "What?"
Pete jerked his head in the Wells direction and the dominos started falling. Steve tapped Claudia, who poked Myka, who then nudged Lenna, and finally the lack of noise caught Artie's attention. In seconds all of them were dead silent, just starring at the angry Brits.
"Hey H.G, Christina" Steve tried forcing a grin.
"Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to ease drop!" Christina scolded.
"Did yours?" Claudia shot back.
"Your mother probably taught you how" Pete said the the girl, grasping at straws.
"Will you never let that go!" Helena sighed furious.
"Ok Enough!" Artie announced "Lets just get back to the case and put this all behind us...agreed."
A mumble of "Fine" went around, everyone sat down and the work began.
"So what do we know?" Steve asked.
"Some guy named Michael Jones got his hands on this artifact..." Claudia began, looking at the object.
"Which we have so - score!" Pete concluded raising his hand to high five Artie.
"Pete, he still has the artifact" Christina rolled her eyes.
"Wait- What?" Myka exclaimed.
"The artifact is right here" Steve said.
"Of course but that artifact is from the future" Christina she said, having thought everyone knew this.
"The future!" Artie shouted.
"Until you take Mr. Jones' artifact and bring it to us in the past, there will be two of this?" Helena asked, hoping she understood.
"Exactly" Christina replied.
"Uhhhggg I miss the days where time travel was impossible!" Claudia groaned.
"You mean the days where you believed it to be impossible" Helena corrected.
"Children! Back to the case!" Artie demanded.
"Lets start with Jones, what do we know about him?" Myka asked the group.
"Around 5'7, balding" Steve shrugged his shoulders.
"He's 42 years 7 months 12 days 6 hours 10 min 32 seconds old" Christina stated.
"How do you do that!" Claudia exclaimed.
"I believe you would call it hacking the time line" She smirked.
"What else?" Helena asked
"That's about it..." Pete sighed. "Everything else wouldn't be useful here"
"We know he's in New York" Christina pointed out. "And there must be a reason that I had us all watch Castle"
"So...what - the guys a murder?" Steve questioned.
"His info did show signs of cook-coo" Claudia shrugged.
"It's a good place to start" Myka considered."Claudia could you get the medical report and any case info"
"With ease" she responded opening her computer.
Detective Beckett stood in front of the murder board marker in hand, completely lost in thought.
"Anything?" Castle asked walking over with two cups.
"No" She said taking the mug. "Just a bunch of dead ends..."
"Hey" Esposito called "So it looks like our Jessica Miller didn't have a boyfriend-"
"Or any enemies" Ryan added.
"And nothing was going on a work." Espo concluded.
"34 year old woman woman found in an alley, and so far we can't find anyone with motive to put her there" Beckett sighed.
"I want to know more about those agents" Castle said in wonder, no doubt there were hundreds of crazy theory's flying around in his head.
Completely ignoring Castles comment Beckett spoke again, "Lets go talk to Lanie she should be finished by now" she decided.
"Your not the least bit curious-" Castle tried again opening the door to the morgue.
"Of course I'm curious Castle but right now we need to focus on the case." Beckett responded.
"What if they have something todo with the case"
"Then we can talk about it OK - Lanie what do got for us." She asked walking up to the body.
Lanie smiled, "Well hello to you to"
"Hi" She said shortly.
Lanie nodded in approval and looked at her clip board. "The victim died of a gunshot wound to the neck"
"The neck?" Castle exclaimed.
"Yes, now let me finish... Tox reports were a negative, no prints, and get this, there was no entry or exit wound."
Beckett shook her head, "That's impossible"
"Hey girl I'm just tellin ya the facts."
"Do you know anything that could have caused this?"
"Other than a gun, I don't know of anything... I could run some more test on the skin around the area but..."
"I know what did this." Castle said seriously.
"You do?" Beckkett asked surprised.
Castle stared at the women a moment (for dramatic effect)"...It was an artifact." He stated completely positive..
Beckett rolled her eyes and sighed knowing she should shave known better.
"Think about it, Warehouse agents show up right after the murder-"
"Castle, warehouse agents and artifacts aren't real their fic-tion - off a TV show!"
"Beckett what other explanation is there!" He tried.
"Agents?" Lanie asked.
"The people who came to pick up that girl were secret service agents- well...claimed to be"
"What does that mean"
"Well their names were from some show"
"What show?" Lanie questioned.
"Warehouse 13" Castle smiled
"Never heard of it" Lanie stated and continued to write.
"Beckett an artifact killed this woman and now the Warehouse agents are here to retrieve it!" Castle tried desperately.
Beckett rolled her eyes again, and looked over at Lanie who just backed away from the situation "He's your boyfriend" she reminded the detective.
They were back in the precinct now, and Castle was still throwing out his Warehouse idea. There were still no leads so everyone was forced to listen.
"Ok just hear me out" Castle began for the 20th time "even if these guys aren't really who their claiming to be you have to admit their connected to the murder."
"You mean you think someone is trying to stage this like an 'artifact' was involved" Esposito said.
"Exactly!" Castle exclaimed.
Beckett sighed, "I will admit we should track them down - but I'm not buying into this whole artifact thing, you just see there's a logical explanation for all this"
"So where do we start?"
"Well if a bunch of look alike actors from a TV show are walking around" Ryan said.
"There's bound be somthing about it on Facebook, twitter-" Esposito finished the thought.
"Ok you guys look into that and Castle and I will-"
"Do Warehouse 13 research" Castle said.
Beckett raised an eyebrow "What?"
"If these people are acting like the characters then we need to get inside their heads, and what better way to do that then looking into the show"
"Your just trying to get me to go watch TV with you" Beckett told him crossing her arms and leaning back in her chair.
"If that's what it takes to figure these guys out" Castle said innocently.
Beckett thought for a second, "Fine" she decided standing to put on her jacket.
"Really?" He hadn't think it would be that easy.
"Ya Castle, if these guys really think that they're people from the show and have anything todo with the case, then we need to know all we can about them" Beckett said heading for the door
Castle followed with a grin, passing Ryan and Espo he whispered "Stop by when your finished."
They just nodded and got to work.
It was nearing 10 pm, when Claudia came running over to the couch, laptop in her hand. "Got it!" She shouted.
"Finally" Pete said, sitting up "Took you long enough"
"Hey this worlds Police people have a whole other security system"
"Just tell us what you found" Steve sighed.
Claudia started spouting off details and facts about the victims report. Pete and Steve sat on the couch and the rest of them were around the table minus Lenna who was cleaning or something.
"And we don't have my database!" Artie complained at the end of the explanation. "This has artifact written all over it!"
"So what now?" Pete asked.
"Well it's safe to assume Jones had something to do with this..." Steve said
"Why don't we start by asking some of the shop owners and others around the alley where Jessica Miller was killed if they've seen him" Myka suggested.
"In the morning right?" Pete asked.
"Of course in the morning" HG shook her head "Wouldn't do much to go in the middle of the night"
"Just making sure" he raised his hands in mock surrender.
"We worry about you Pete" Claudia sighed patting his back.
"Alright Christina, bed time" Helena declared standing.
Christina sighed "Yes ma'am" and headed for bed.
Pete smirked an "I get to stay up later" smile as she passed.
"Real mature Pete" Myka rolled her eyes.
"I'm just enjoying my only victory against her while it lasts" Pete defended.
"Oh poor Pete" Steve sighed sarcastically.
"Do you know what it's like to live with a teenager that's smarter than you, I mean I don't mind when it's Myka or H.G but when it's a mini-them... It's depressing ok" He defended.
"Were here for you Pete" Lenna comforted with a smile.
"Should I be worried that you have all the seasons on DVD" Beckett asked hesitantly, eyes not leaving the road.
"Well technically their Alexis'" Castle corrected.
"And she won't mind us borrowing them, right?"
"You kidding she's watching with us! Along with my mother and I told Esposito, Ryan and Lanie to join also." Castle said excitedly.
Beckett was silent for a second. "You really turned this into a party huh?"
"I guess a little"
Beckett didn't respond as she continued to drive wondering what in the world she had gotten herself into.
All the adult agents, except H.G who was with Christina ,were still up talking and joking around. Any thoughts of the case abandoned. Claudia wouldn't stop asking Pete and Myka questions about their 'real life Castle experience'. And even though Artie pretended to be working everyone knew he also was curiously listening in on the details of their encounter.
Eventually Pete started to take over the story telling and Myka decided to go see if Helena wanted to come join the others.
Walking over to the other room she quietly opened the door. The lamp was on of course, neither Christina nor Helena could sleep in the dark. Stepping in she saw Christina asleep in the bed and Helena sitting in the chair next to her. H.G wasn't sleeping, she was simply staring at Christina with wide smile on her face, completely unaware of Myka's presence.
"You know if my mom stood over and watched me while I slept, I'd be creeped out" Myka said finally.
"Wha-" HG turned her gaze from the girl towards the door. "Yes well darling, if you haven't noticed, I'm sitting not standing."
"You get what I mean" Myka laughed.
Helena smiled and hummed in agreement, gazing back over at the bed.
"I just came to see if you wanted to come out here and join us"
H.G nodded slowly and stood up "Alright, why not" she shrugged. Kissing Christina's forehead Helena followed Myka out the door.
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