The next day…
"Rookie? Hey Rookie. Rawlings!" Evans suddenly exclaimed trying to get his partner's attention.
Detective Nate Rawlings head snapped to the right to look at his partner, his green eyes still slightly glazed. He finally gave his head a small shake as if to clear his mind before blinking a time or two and answering.
"I'm sorry, Evans, what did you say?"
"You have been spacing off all morning. What is going on with you?" Evans asked in exasperation and a hint of concern.
"Sorry. I keep thinking about something that happened last night. Won't happen again." He answered, then lower his head to read the report in his hands.
"Oh, so Hanna told you then. Look, if the Captain hasn't said anything yet, then you're fine. No need to worry."
"Hmm? Worry about what?" He asked in confusion.
"Hanna."
"Hanna? What does the Captain have to do with Hanna and whether or not I ask her out?"
"Haha. She didn't tell you, did she?" The older man chuckled lightly. Seeing the continued confusion on his younger partner's face, Evans decided to inform Nate of Hanna's parentage. "She's her daughter."
"What?" Nate was suddenly even more confused. Hanna had said her last name was Knight, not Castle. Surely she wouldn't have lied.
"Hanna is the Captain's daughter. Don't you have eyes, she is the spitting image of the Captain from her days as a Detective except that her hair is a bit redder and her face is rounder." Nate was stunned, but before he could finish processing this information, his desk phone rang.
"Rawlings. Hey Peters. Yeah. Uh huh. Okay, we're on our way." He said as he hung the phone up. "Peters has something he wants to show us in the morgue." He informed his partner. The two men gathered up their coats and walked to the elevator. As the pasted the Captain's office, Detective Rawlings saw that her light was still off, meaning she was still at the Captain's meeting at 1PP. Gratitude at these fortuitous circumstances washed over him. He had gone on a date with the Captain's daughter without realizing it, and now that he knew the truth, he was terrified.
Rawlings had transferred from the 34th Precinct about 6 weeks ago. Javier Esposito was Captain at the 34th. He had worked closely with Captain Beckett-Castle and Chief of Police Kevin Ryan when they were all Detectives at the 12th. Rawlings felt a small amount of awe to have served under Captain Esposito and now Captain Beckett- Castle, and he had no desire to sour relations with his Captain by mixing his professional life with her private life. It was a good thing that Hanna had said she was busy until Friday, it gave him two days to figure out how to break it off gently. Too bad it had barely begun, he thought sadly.