A/N: I'm so sorry about the time between my updates :( I had prom, a spanish grade to get up, and cheer tryouts all in the same two weeks. Go me! So here is the next installment of 'It Started With A Drink' hahaha! I feel like Jonathan Cambridge. (Inside joke ")) This chapter is more of the crime part of the story, which I have planned to have a big impact on everything so there isn't alot of Castle/Beckett fluff or even mention of the pregnancy.
18th and Madison. She hadn't been there since she and Castle had their first "date" if you could call it that. That same little bar, someone was dead outside of it. Ironic? Maybe so.
The minute smell of the hot wings that were spilled near the crime scene hit her naustrals, the feeling of the vomit in her throat crept closer and closer to her mouth. Anyone could've noticed the look on her face and what was about to happen, luckily, Lanie was the only one who did. Kate had so much to be thankful for when it came to Lanie.
"Hey girl. You ok?" Lanie asked Kate seeing the slight green color to Kate's skin.
"Yea. Fine." Kate replied a few seconds later.
"You sure? Is it morn..." Lanie began before getting cut off by Kate.
"Lanie! Don't say anything about it."
"Sorry Kate, it's just, you are... you know, and if you're gonna be sick then you might want to tell someone before they all figure it out." The caring ME tried to remind her friend.
"I know, but I'm just not ready to." Kate told her turning her attention back to the case, she did just in time. Ryan was walking towards her.
"What do you got?" She asked him.
"Looks like a bar fight gone wrong." He answered.
"It's never that simple." Kate replied.
"Looks like it is." He began. "Guy confessed right here to hitting him, said he saw him struggling out the door after their fight, guy said he collapsed right here."
"Where's the guy?" Kate asked.
"With Darmony and Jay on his way down to the station." Ryan answered.
"Alright, um, anything else?" She asked just before her phone rang.
"Nope." He answered quickly and then walked away wondering why they call her to the scene of things when they already have it figured out.
"Hello?" She asked flipping open her phone. The call came from on unknown number, but it could have been anyone.
"I see you." The monotone voice on the other end replied.
Her eyes grew in fear. "Who is this?" She asked worried and trying to sound angry so the person wouldn't be able to hear the fear in her voice.
"Where's the fun in that Katie?"
She didn't know how to reply, but luckily her phone was up so loud that Lanie could hear it on the other line and motitioned for Esposito to come their way. Thank God for Lanie.
"What is it?" Esposito asked Lanie so quietly that he probably would have mouthed the words louder.
"Really weird call." She mouthed in reply.
He had a worried look on his face as did Kate as she listened to the monotone voice that told her couldn't wait to see her again and it didn't matter how many times Kate asked, he wasn't telling her who he was, but she knew it was no one she knew.
Then, mid sentence, the phone line went dead. He had just hung up on her, mid sentence, in his own sentence.
When she slammed her phone shut he asked her "what was that all about?"
"I don't know, someone creppy guy." She answered. She didn't want to talk about it, with her raging hormones she feared she would admit she was afraid without thinking it through.
That's when she saw Castle walking towards her with two Starbucks cups and two bearclaws. Just before another wave of morning, well actually afternoon sickness hit her she wondered if one was for him, but who was she kidding? It was for her, even if it wasn't, when she wasn't throwing up she was pretty hungry. As Castle came closer, she turned around just long enough to see a trash can, and run full speed towards it.
It would be hard to keep her secret now.