Chapter 2:

Arriving at their destination, Beckett sees that the building is huge and looks very rich. She is now wondering what a 25 year old could be doing working in a place like this? He is way to young to have that kind of experience.

Before getting out of the car, Castle takes Kate's hand and says to her with a smile, "I love you Kate. You are the most extraordinary person I have ever met. I want you to remember that and, " He paused debating whether or not he should say this. "I want to see you smile."

He shouldn't have debated because as she heard those words, she smiled. He was so nice to her and always knew how to make her happy.

"I love you too babe. You're the best! Thanks for being there with me everywhere I go. "

"Always."

She smiled at his signature line and they got out of the car. They entered the building and met the manager of the company to find out more about what Mario was doing for them and if it was anything to kill for.

They walked into the building and found a woman who looked like she was giving commands for everyone. Beckett thought this girl would be an important person to ask questions about Mario so she went up to her and asked, "Hi. I'm detective Kate Beckett and this is Richard Castle. Could we ask you a few questions in private?"

"Hello! I'm Gina Mester and I am the boss here at Byron Enterprise. Nice to meet you detective. We can speak in my office. Right this way."

They walked into Gina's office and Beckett started her questioning.

"Alright Mrs. Mester, we are here because or Mario Pacheca. What did he do exactly for this company?"

"He still works here detective but he didn't show up today. I'm not quite sure why though. He is an IT man. He works with our computers and helps with any problems we are having. He also works on different programs to help with the efficiency of our company."

"Mrs. Mester I'm sorry to inform you of this but Mario is dead. He was murdered last night."

"Murdered? What? Who did it?"

Beckett answered quickly, "That's what we are trying to figure out! What exactly does your company do?"

The boss replied. "Well we take care of different computer designs and try to find better technologies for the modern life."

Castle stepped into the conversation, "Interesting! So are you building robots that can make me breakfast and type my book for me?"

Gina answered with a giggle: "Funny, but that is not quite what we do. Unfortunately for the interest of our inventions, we do not speak of what we do with anyone other than the employees."

Right then, Beckett stepped in, "I was wondering if I could speak to any of the other employees about Mario. Anyone in particular he had fights with?"

"No not really, but I can give you the names of people that would know more about him. Their names are Lola Lee, Sam Tasera and Buck Quarter. Mario didn't talk to many people so I wouldn't be surprised if they don't know much about him.

"Thank you very much Mrs. Mester. We will keep you in the loop if we find anything major." Said Kate.

Castle and Beckett were walking around this enormous office trying to find someone who could tell them stuff about the employees Mr. Pacheca talked to. They decided that the best person to ask would be the lady at the front desk.

Beckett went up to her and showed her the badge she held in her hand while saying: "Detective Kate Beckett NYPD we would like to ask you a few questions about 3 employees. Their names are Lola Lee, Sam Tasera and Buck Quarter. Where are they at the moment?"

The lady at the counter replied, "Well they are in a meeting right now according to the calendar. It will finish in about 5 minutes if you want to meet them there. What's this about?"

Castle answered her question by saying: "It's about Mario Pacheca, he worked here. He was murdered last night and we are trying to find out who did it."

"Oh that's not good. Well, the meeting is on the 15 th floor. Once you get up there, they will be in the room with the big metal door."

The writer and detective thanked the women and left.

On their way up to the 15 floor, both Rick and Kate were thinking about the front desk lady's reaction. They couldn't help but notice that she didn't seem too affected by Mario's death. Finally, Castle spoke up.

"Do you find it weird how she had almost no emotions about Mr. Pacheca's death?"

"Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking!" Replied Beckett.

"It's like we could be twins! No wonder we are so attracted to each other!"

"Do you think we are siblings?" She gave Castle a confused and grossed out look and he replied saying,

"Oh.. No… That's not what I meant. Us being brother and sister, after having done the things we have done would be disgusting. Ew."

With Castle's reply, Kate let out a small smile. She didn't want her writer to see it so she tried to bite her lip instead. They got up to the 15 th floor leaving the woman's reaction behind them. They would talk about that later.

They caught their employees leaving and noted mentally where each of their offices were before heading to the first persons office. It was Lola Lee's office. The detective knocked on the door before entering. The lady working in front of them was short, she had long black hair and she was Asian. Lola was wearing an Asian suit.

Beckett spoke first: "Hello Mrs. Lee. My name is Detective Kate Beckett and this is my partner Richard Castle. We are here to ask you a couple of questions about Mario Pacheca a former employee."

Lola then replied: "Oh yes Mario! Where is he? I haven't seen him all day. He usually never misses a day of work."

Castle answered her question, "He was stabbed to death last night in the park."

After hearing this, the employee looked stunned she did not speak for at least a minute.

After and long pause, Beckett spoke up. "Mrs. Lee, would you know of anyone who would want to do any harm to Mr. Pacheca? Anyone he was seeing? Girlfriend?"

"No he didn't have a girlfriend. I'm the assistant here so when there is any gossip to hear about, I am the first one to know about it. The only person he saw out of the office was his roommate Tim. Apparently they were really good friends but something happened recently. I don't know what but there was a situation."

Beckett was noting the name Tim Landly when she got a call from Ryan. She picked up while she and Castle excused themselves. Just before leaving, Rick told Lola she had a nice outfit and bowed to her with his hands together, which made Beckett roll her eyes.

On the phone Kate said, "Hey Ryan! Before you tell me about the phone records, I want you to go check out a Tim Landly. He was Mario's assistant and apparently there was a situation that occurred with the victim and him. We'll talk about the phone records later ok?"

With that the detective hung up and looked at the writer seriously. She said:

"How come you compliment her on her clothes but you never talk to me about my fashion choices?"

Rick was not sure how to answer that question seeing as it was so not like Beckett. He thought maybe she was feeling a little insecure about herself so he decides not to interject. He simply said:

"There are no words to describe how beautiful I think you are. But for the interest of human communication, your clothes are fantastic and I always look forward to the different outfit I will get the honour to see every day."

Those words meant a lot to Beckett. Being a cop was not very feminine so knowing she has something a little girly about her was nice. She blushed a little, forgot about the precinct relationship rule for 5 seconds as she gave a quick peck on Castles lips. They both smiled and walked towards the next employee's office. Mr. Sam Tasera. Castle started to conversation this time.

"Hello Mr. Tasera. My name is Richard Castle and this is the lovely detective Beckett." With his introduction, he earned a lovely eye roll mixed with death stare. She had told him many times to refer to her only as Beckett or detective when they were with anyone related to work. Adding the (lovely) was nice for her to hear but was not a good idea for the person they were asking the questions to.

"Hi! How may I help you two love birds?" Said Sam.

"I'm here about Mario Pacheca he was murdered last night. What do you do here for the company?" Asked Kate.

"I am another the IT guy. I manipulate data and help to create different inventions."

The interview continued on and you could tell that Richard was getting kind of bored. They were talking about the situation Mario had with his roommate when the writer decided it was a good idea to take a sombrero off Mr. Tasera's shelf and had put it on his head. This was not unusual for Richard who always found something entertaining. Unfortunately, the employee did not find it funny. He informed the overly imaginative man that it was a hat passed on from generation to generation and it was very fragile. The writer proceeded by put it back up on the shelf. The questioning finished and they left the office.

While leaving Beckett asked Castle a few questions.

"Why do you always have to touch stuff?"

"I don't know Beckett, I just wanted to see what it felt like to wear a real sombrero. It looks so cool in the movies!"

"Well babe, you need to learn to just stay put and occupy yourself differently when we ask people questions ok? If you really can't figure out something to do, just play on your phone and pretend to be concentrating ok? You can even try and beat my high score on candy crush. I'm not saying you'll succeed though."

Candy crush was one of the many things the couple competed against each other in.

"Ok, I got it. I'll just stare at you. I can always get distracted by looking at your gorgeousness and super hot body." He gave her a little wink hoping that she would take it as a joke but she simply gave him 'the look' and rolled her eyes.

They arrived at the final employees office. They started off by introducing themselves to Buck and then started off quickly with the questions.

The detective started with the most important question: "Do you know anything about what situation happened with Mario and his roommate Tim?"

"Oh yes, I heard that there had been some sort of argument between them. I'm not sure what it was about though. Maybe you should ask him?"

Castle was confused so he asked Buck a question himself. "Ask who?"

He answered, "You should ask Mario. It was him Tim was fighting with."

"Unfortunately we can't. Mario was killed last night." Said Kate.

"Pas vrai! Pas possible!" Said Buck as he stood up from his chair.

"So you don't know anyone who would want to do something like this or hurt him?" Questioned the detective.

"No I do not."

The interviewing continued for a long time as Beckett asked what he did for the company. Buck was the security man, which explained why he was so well built. Sadly, the writer became bored and wanted something to do. He decides to do what he enjoyed very much. Drive his wife, the beautiful detective, crazy. He started off by doing a little bit of discreet staring. She did not notice so he texted her.

Hey pretty lady! You are so beautiful! Don't mind my staring, I am just trapped in the sighting of a galaxy of beauty! Can't wait till we get this questioning over with and put the pieces of the puzzle together at the precinct. This case seems like a real head scratcher. Do you think we can wrap this interview up soon? I'm getting a little bored over here but on the bright side, I haven't touched anything.

Love ya.

Rick, xox

The writer waited for the text to send. We he heard the familiar buzzing of Beckett's phone, he watched for her reaction as she read the text. He watched as she smiled at the compliment he had just given her and the enthusiasm he had to solve the case. After reading the entire message, she looked up from her phone and stared at her husband. She smiled at him and continued the questioning.

After finishing the last question, she turned to Richard and they started walking out of the office. As they were about to leave, Buck said one final thing:

"You guys are so cute together. It's so cool how you guys get to be in a relationship even though you work together. I wish this office had the same policy. See you later detective, and mister Castle."

They left the building and headed off to their car. Entering the car, they let loose the affection they had for each other. Castle grabbed his wife's hand and they started kissing. Full on make out session.

10 minutes later, they came out of their caskett time by a phone call from Ryan. They smoothed themselves out and answered.

"Beckett."

"Hey Beckett it's Ryan. I just finished talking to the roommate and he says the argument was just about Mario not bringing food home one night. He said they got everything straightened out and that everything was fine. Also, he has a rock solid alibi. He was working in a café. The manager and many customers remember seeing him."

"Really? The employees were acting like it was such a big deal. Whatever. Ok thanks Ryan. See you at the precinct."