Disclaimer: Yeah, all I own is Houghton.

A/N # 1: This is set in the year 2013, but other than Beckett and Castle dating, it really doesn't go with the story line of the show, except for what we know already from past seasons. It has NOTHING to do with Season Six because I'm not a fan of spoilers.

A/N #2: Sorry about the delay! I was trying to figure out where I wanted this to go and then the new episode pissed me off to say the least. Anywhere here we go!

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Kate had awoken by the sound of her iPhone ringing at 8AM. She groaned and reached over and picked up and said in her sleepy voice, "Beckett..."

"Kate? Girl are you still in bed?"

"Lanie it's early... What are you calling for?"

"Oh right! I have something new to tell you about your icicle. So you and Writer Boy get dressed and get down here ASAP."

"Alright... See you soon." She hung up and groaned more and shook Castle, "Rick... Lanie called.. We have to go."

Castle turned away from her some, "Ten more minutes..." Kate shook her head and decided to use this time to get ready so she got up and picked out her clothes for the day and went and showered and got ready. When she came out of the bathroom she saw that Castle was still in bed so she went and pulled on his ear. Castle jumped, "I'm up! I'm up! Jeez Beckett!"

Kate smirked, "Next time you'll get up the first time I tell you to. Lanie called. We have to go so hurry up. I'll go make coffee." She got out of bed and went and made coffee. Castle quickly got ready to go so that way she wouldn't yank on his ear again. He wrote a note for Alexis telling her where they had gone and that they would be home later and he placed it on the counter as Kate was finishing with filling their travel mugs. Kate nodded at him a little and handed him his coffee and they left.

When they got to the morgue Castle looked around rather curious, "Ya know, Beckett. I don't ever remember this place being so hectic."

"Me either.." As they got out of the car they noticed the Haz -Mat team and she walked over to one of the workers, "Hey. What's going on?"

"Uh... Who are you?"

"Detective Kate Beckett. N.Y.P.D. Who are you?"

"You can call me Charlie. And I'm sorry, but no one goes in or out."

"Okay so what the hell is going on? My best friend is in there."

"There was a deadly disease found on a piece of evidence in there and we have secured the building just in case. They should bring people out soon to quarantine them."

Kate rolled her eyes, "Great." She pulled out her phone and went to call Lanie just as she was being brought out, "Lanie! What happened?"

"Kate, stay away, okay? I think I've been infected." Kate took a step towards her anyway, "I mean it. Stay back."

"What's going on Lanie?"

Lanie sighed, "That icicle. Someone had figured out how to take the poison from a sand fly bite and turn it into a liquid and laced that icicle with it and I had sliced my finger and glove. I'll be fine."

"I'm not leaving you."

"Yes you are. You need to get this sick bastard." Kate frowned, "I know you Kate. You are hardheaded, but I'll be fine. Now go."

"Fine." She rolled her eyes once more and she and Castle got in their car and went to the precinct.

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By late afternoon they weren't any closer to solving the case as they were that morning and Kate was really worried about Lanie so she called the hospital that Lanie was at, "Hi. This is Detective Kate Beckett. N.Y.P.D. I was wondering if you could update me on Dr. Lanie Parish's status please." Kate had spent the next few minutes listening and taking notes and when she hung up she looked at her team, "So... Um... Lanie has Oroya Fever, or Carrion's Disease. They said it's most common from a sand fly bite, but Lanie had said this version was modified. They said she is only in the acute phase, which they figured out by doing," She glanced down at her notes, "A peripheral blood smear with Giemsa stain, Columbia – blood agar cultures, immunoblot, IFI and PCR and I have no idea what those are so don't even ask me. The nurse also said that they have her on both Ciprofloxacin and Chloramphenicol. Which they really only need to put her on one of those but they want to be safe." The Boys nodded a little bit.

Kate rubbed her eyes some, "We still don't have anything new?"

Ryan spoke up, "No sorry. But until we can get our prints back and the chemical makeup of that disease we are dead in the water..."

Beckett looked at Castle, "No theories?"

Castle shrugged, "It doesn't seem right to go shooting them off with Lanie being sick and all."

Kate nodded, "I actually agree with you." She stretched and looked at the clock, "Well it's almost five. How about we call it a night then if we don't have any leads."

"Sounds good boss," Espo and Ryan said as the stood up and grabbed their coats and left.

Castle looked at Beckett, "Don't hate me... But... I was thinking... Do you think Houghton could be your sister?"

"I was thinking that too. I just don't know what to do about it."

"We could send off a DNA sample to a lab?"

"I just don't understand what she has to do with this case." Both of them looked at the murder board, "You don't think He is after her do you?"

"Bracken? Maybe... Maybe he's trying to provoke you?"

"But I barely know her. If it wasn't for Alexis calling me, this wouldn't even be my case."

"That's true.. I didn't think about that. Let's go home, okay? We can have dinner and relax a little and get some sleep and hopefully Lanie will be okay in the morning." Kate nodded a little and they went back to the loft to try and decompress from the day.