Chapter 4:

The next morning, Beckett woke up at a decent time. They had gotten to bed at around 1:00 AM and she had woken up at 7:00. She wanted to get to the precinct as soon as possible to start investigating Byron Enterprise and the drug suspects. Both the motives were very probable. First, she needed to get ready and to do so, she needed her coffee. She dragged herself out of bed and went to make some for her and Rick. Kate wasn't as experienced with the designing of the cream therefore she simply pored some coffee in the mug and brought it to their room.

Her writer was fast asleep. He was so cute but she had to wake him up and start their day.

"Rick… Wake up. We need to go find Mario's killer." Rick let out a small sound as he started to open his eyes. As soon as he spotted the coffee, he put out his hand to grab the mug. She passed it to him and he took a big gulp.

They got ready slowly and ate a big breakfast. Their meal consisted of an omelet, toast, bacon and potatoes. To drink they had a smoothie and coffee, of course. When they were done eating they were so full that they had to sit down for a little while.

"Hey Castle," Beckett said, "what do you say we take a taxi into work this morning since both our cars are at the precinct?"

"No Beckett," Rick replied, "we are inside all day so this will give us some fresh air. We need it to stay healthy."

"Fine but I'm not really in the mood to walk right now so I'll call Ryan to see if he found anything suspicious about the credit cards and phone records."

"Good idea Kate. Working from home. I like it. Meanwhile, I can write a little. Haven't been doing a lot of working lately. I think I'm like 3 chapters behind. Oops!"

"Castle, really? Three chapters? How are you so behind?" Beckett asked giving him a confused look.

"Well there's kind of this beautiful woman in my life and I rather spend time with her than in front of my computer screen. You know what I mean?" Said Richard smiley and giving her an adorable wink.

She blushed and dialed Ryan's number. As she called, Castle went into his office to do a little writing. The detective picked up on the second ring.

"Hey Ryan! How are things going at the precinct?"

Ryan replied, "Hey! Yeah things are going well over here. Just missing you. Where are you anyway?"

"Well we decided to walk back last night so we don't have a car. Since we are going to walk back this morning, we filled up on breakfast and can hardly move. I decided maybe I should call you and hear what you have to say about the phone records and credit card. Any news?"

"Actually, there isn't much about his credit card. It says he would often take the subway. The weird thing is, one day he took a taxi. Why would a subway taker all of a sudden decide to go for a taxi run? Especially when it is the day he died."

"That's unusual. Get ahold of the taxi driver. I want to know where Mario was dropped off. Is that it with the credit card?"

"Yep! Other than the taxi ride, everything is normal about his card. For the phone records, he got many phone calls from a number that is registered to a burner phone."

"Did you check what company sold the phone?"

"Yeah a little shop in the city sold it. I'm pulling the security footage from the store right now. Looking at the time the phone was bought and the security cam footage, the person who bought it is some man who looks just like Mario accept like 30 years older. That's so weird."

Ryan seemed very confused on the phone so Beckett clarified everything out. She told Ryan that their victim's dad was alive and that he was asking Mario to spy on his company for him. She also told him that the father was a big drug dealer. Beckett told Ryan to check her desk for the information about Juan.

"So Beckett, when will you get to the precinct?" Ryan asked. A little teasing was in his voice.

"We'll be there in about 30 minutes. I'm feeling much better so I'll be leaving with Castle in the next 10 minutes." Kate replied.

"Mmm hmm…" Ryan said sarcastically.

"It's true. I'll be there in 30 minutes I promise! Maybe even less."

They both said bye to each other and hung up with a grin on their face.

Beckett entered Castle's office, went around his shoulders, massaged them a bit and pecked his lips softly. She then said:

"We have to go writer man. Duty at the precinct calls. I promised Ryan I would be there in 30 minutes and maybe less. I want to show him that I can keep this promise." She said with a little begging in her voice.

When he heard it was really important for her to get there in time, he got up wrapped his arms around her waist, pulled her in for a long slow kiss. Once they let go of their kiss Richard said.

"Let's go detective. Don't want to be late for a promise." He said this with a little smile, took her hand and they walked out of the loft together.

They were about 10 minutes from the loft, hand in hand talking about random stuff when a white van pulled up beside them. Three masked people got out of the van and started walking towards the couple. Beckett didn't have time to pull out her gun before one of the attackers grabbed both her arms and placed her in an inescapable position.

While Beckett was being attacked, Castle was trying to fight them off. He was punching at anything and everything he could, trying to get to Beckett who was trapped by one of the people.

Soon, the writer was in the same position as the detective.

During the entire attack, Kate and Rick were screaming but there was no one beside them to hear. The attackers handcuffed the couple, put them in the van and drove away.