"They have taken her, I know it!" We have to find Kate will search in every video tape that has ten blocks around". Castle said full of fury, ordering to Ryan and Espo from that same alley.

The two detectives looked at each other, Javi hated taking orders from civilians but he understood he had his wife kidnapped. And he, his best friend. Ryan nodding approached the building across the street to look for how much information could get.

"I will call my contact in traffic to see if they can track who has taken her." Espo said calm tone.

Castle stood there remembering the conversation they had in the car when they were on the way to the case made the 3XK come back to their life's.

*Flashback*

"Rick, you've considered having a baby?" Wouldn't it be a great responsibility?" Beckett said while looking the road to avoid making eye contact with him to ask the question, she was nervous about what he could say.

"Kate, yes it would be a big responsibility, but when you look around most days you just see tragedies, occasionally beautiful things, like me," the writer said trying to make her laugh and make her look at him, which she did. "But when you get home and there is a little ball of love laughing throughout the loft... Oh you imagine that?"

Both gawked in thought that this would be like.

"I think it would be great, I like the idea of raising a child with you. Boy or girl?"

"Any would make me very happy".

In their minds floated images of a not-too-distant future where there was a child taking laps around the house and they were together and happy.

*End of the Flashback*

He was in the conference room of the precinct watching videos of traffic looking impassive for Kate when Martha and Alexis arrived. They hugged and offered their help in any way they could do, anything to help.

Alexis went to get Chinese food package that had arrived at the door of the police station, she had ordered it to continue helping his father with the long search. Ryan approached him with a cup of coffee for Castle and one for Martha.

"Here you are, so they can go a bit further". The detective said handing one each.

"Thank you dear, you're very kind". Martha said taking the Cup in her hands.

The two detectives sat down with them, their faces were serious.

"What, what they found?" Castle said with a tone of concern, for a moment it flashed through his head that say they found the body of Beckett. He quickly forced himself to dismiss that idea.

With his hands on the table and fingers interlaced Ryan leaned toward him. Castle and Martha soon realized that there would not be good news.

"Castle... there is no camera covering the alley or the entrance to it". He paused and then continued "but we found something, Jerry Tyson and Kelly Nieman, were captured by multiple cameras enjoying his freedom in a Starbucks and there are several witnesses."

"It can't be, I don't know how they did it but they have been. I know it was them, they swore they would hurt us." He said getting up from the seat with cup in hand.

His mobile was on the table and began to sound; unknown number appeared on the screen. It could be her kidnapper, as he had been indicated before he waited for the bell to ring three times and then served on speaker as they tracked the call.

"Richard Castle to speech".

A distorted voice answered. "Hello Castle, it's been a long time. Do you remember me?"

"You have the distorted voice and I can't see you, so no, I don't know who you are." He said this trying to keep his composure.

"Oh you're right; let me give you a clue".

The phone screen now showed a live video, it seemed like the old apartment of Beckett, and man was a bully when he went to college, a freak psychopath who bothered him quite often at that time. His name, Chandler Banton.

"Yes I remember you, you're Chandler Banton. Where is Kate?"

"Kate, Kate, Kate you just worry about her don't you? Richard Castle the guy who always gets the girls and everything you ever wanted. But not this time Ricky! Look who I have here. "

When seeing this the cup that was in his hands began to fall breaking into the ground. The camera showed Alexis gagged with Beckett; it seemed like they were in the room from Beckett's apartment, recognized but with no furniture. The two looked very frightened, but Kate was trying to comfort Alexis. "I have the two women in your life, Rick, and I'm going to kill them, I'm going to bury them alive. Has no one taught you that the things that can be easily broken should not be thrown to the ground? Ah right you didn't have a father who taught you anything, he left you." Banton answered mocking.

Espo in wrote note than was handed to Castle saying that he should do what the kidnapper said and not make him angry or challenge him in any way.

"Listen to me damn son of a bitch, you don't know with who you've got, if you touch them even one hair at any of them I will find you and make you beg me to kill you. You've got the wrong man". No one of the present at either sides of the call had ever heard him talk that way, but everyone knew that he meant very seriously.

"Good luck in the search Rick". The man said and cut off the call.

"I have it, it's in Beckett's old the apartment, and the video was live".

They were without waiting for reinforcements or special units and went straight to the apartment. There was no one. His phone began ringing once he was on the street after verifying that there was no one there. They were already gone. It was a video call. He opened it and there was Alexis.

"Dad help! Get me out of here please!" Get me out of here please! Help, help." Castle could see it, panic in her eyes, his daughter was at a terrified enclosed in a wooden box.

"Love I'm here, dad is here, keep calm". Castle said trying to calm her down. "You know where you are?"

"Yes, I'm on Beckett's apartment, on the ground, I just woke up I've been drugged. Get me out of here dad please, I'm scared".

Castle ran accompanied by Espo and Ryan upstairs. They could hear from where the shouting in a corner of the main room seemed to have a loose boards they raised them and there was a wooden box, similar to a casket but with a window so the inside so you could see. They quickly managed to open it and pulled Alexis out of that hell.

"Quiet sweetheart everything is fine now you're with me no one will hurt you, I promise." The writer said taking her in his arms.

"I just went to get Chinese food ... and ... and ..".

"Shh everything's fine it wasn't your fault, its fine".

It had been three days since that, Castle had not slept not even one night and on his intend to find Kate. He had not stopped looking, even more than when she was shot in the chest and he was looking to the shooter. He hadn't made any progress in anything.

Suddenly he received an incoming video without even hesitating for a second he answered and told the guys, they were already tracking it.

"Castle help please! If you hear this, help me please, I don't want to die here. It is not time yet , don't leave me".

They managed to locate her, she was exactly four meters from the entrance of the castle of Central Park, had snowed a lot lately, one meter at least. But they were on the way, there wasn't much time, she didn't have much of time. She was dying drowned and cold at the same time.

"Ca...Castle, Rick you are the best thing that has happened to me in life, you've saved me many times, and I know you'll do a lot more ..."

They were already digging in the snow, he was digging with his hands while they hurt because of the cold, meanwhile he was trying to calm her down. Missing about two or three centimetres she said the last words as a whisper lost in the wind.

"Richard Castle I love you, thank you for making my life extraordinary and for being next to me always." And with that last sigh her eyes closed forever.

He continued digging until he came to the box, this was transparent.

"Kate you can't die, don't do it! Don't leave me Kate please!" The writer said crying while he was able to remove the body from the box in the snow. He had her in his arms. "No please Kate you can't do this to me. Remember we talked about having a baby together and all we would do. "

He said with a sad smile and with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Memories of their last day together floating in the frigid air full of silence given by their friends; the last breakfast with the family, the conversation of having a baby, all the plans that they had. All of a future that never got to be lived, days that should have been but now would never happen.

Thanks for taking the time to read this to the end :) Hope you like it. Happy Castle Monday and get ready. If have time please leave a review and tell your friend about this little fic.

PS: How many times can you fall in the same trick?

-K.