Wow! I haven't updated in 3 days! Sorry about that! Thank you for everyone who reviewed :) I just want to say that this chapter is a little short and that Esposito maybe a little OOC. This is not one of my favorite chapters. Sorry if it's not one of your favorite one's either! Anyway, here's chapter 7! :D

Previously:

Detective Ryan,

How do you like to know you came so close to getting me? But you FAILED. AGAIN. Could you do something for me? Once you get this, since I know you're not with the others, to keep you're loved one close. Things may not be always as they seem.

-You're Friend, Jerry

Esposito's face gnarled up. "What the heck did he mean by 'Things may not be always as they seem'? And how did he know Ryan wasn't with us?"

Now:

Apartment B room 23

Richard Castle looked shocked. It was all over this face. "I don't know," he started. "But the only people I could think about that he may be talking about are Jenny and Ryan's sister."

"Not his sister, she's a brunette," Beckett stated.

"How do you know?"

"Because," Javier started. "She came to the 12th, I'd say about 3 months before you started to shadow Beckett. I think she said her name was Isabella Ryan. Married with a kid. Younger th-"

"Can we stay focused please?" Both guys nodded their heads in agreement. "Good because we need to find the identity of our second victim." The SWAT team- now mixed in with uniformed cops and the forensic crew- swarmed around the tiny yet dolled up apartment to make sure Jerry wasn't in any of the other rooms. He could have just taken the screen down to throw off the detectives and the writer.

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Apartment B room 233

Esposito was just coming up from talking to the Lobby Attendant. He found out the woman's name was Renee White and she was married to Jamison White. No kids. He also found out the Lobby Attendant seen Jerry running ups stairs reaching into his coat pocket.

"He was probably getting the rope out to get ready to strangle Renee," Stated Castle after Esposito translated everything he found out.

"Or maybe," Beckett butted in. "He was getting the letter out because he knew we were close so he couldn't write it after he killed Renee."

"What if he's just a really fast writer?" Asked Castle

"He would have a lot to do in the process," announced Esposito. "He would kill her, put her in position as in a coffin, find paper and a pen, write it, place it with the phone on top, then leave out the window? I don't know about you, Castle, but to me that sounds like a lot to do in less than 5 minutes."

"All I'm saying!" agreed Beckett as Esposito smirked.

"Ok, so he wrote the letter somewhere else. What I want to know is where Jamison White her husband is? It's 11 o clock at night."

"Esposito, try to find her phone and get his number. I'm going to call Captain Gates to see if I can get any info on Renee." Esposito nodded and walked off with Beckett in toe.

"Um. W-what can I do? Beckett?" Castle wined like a 5 year old who couldn't find his mommy.

After Beckett got off the phone she re united with Castle and Esposito. "Did you find her phone?"

"Yeah! I just got off the phone with Jamison. He was in a meeting in L.A. when I called him. He sounded so shaken. I don't know what I would do if I were in his position." Esposito shook his self out of his nightmare- or should I say day mare if you want to call it that. "Anyway he's going to get the first flight here in the morning."

Kate nodded. "Captain Gates found out that Renee is 32 years of age. She is a fashion expert at a small place. Parents names are Kaitlyn and Aaron Myers, both living near by."

As Kate was finishing up the last sentence, Lanie came strolling in the room. "I heard another body dropped." Javier, Kate, and Rick turned to look at the ME. The all nodded there Heads. "Well take me to her!" She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. The three took her to the room where Renee was.

Lanie crouched down next to the dead figure. "Well I can definitely tell you that it's rope that killed her and slanting to the left just like the other 9. Based on temperature and avidity, she died around 45 minutes ago.

"That's when we heard her scream," Castle announced.

"You heard her?" The ME asked somewhat concerned. The three nodded once more. "And Jerry was no where in sight?"

"No," the two cops answered in unison.

"Speaking of Jerry," Rick began. "Should we tell Ryan about the note?"

"What note? And where is Ryan? I thought he and Jenny were in some sort of trouble."

"Ryan is hopefully home with Jenny now. And Jerry left a note." Beckett handed Lanie the whole piece of paper with the English writing.

After Lanie finished reading it in her head, she asked "What the heck did he mean by that?"

"We don't know," replied her boyfriend. "Jenny has security starting in the morning before Ryan comes into work."

Lanie nodded. "Well that's good." Lanie turned to Renee who was being put into a body bag getting ready to be transported to the morgue. "Although she doesn't need it, autopsy is tomorrow at 9AM."

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Beckett's car

"Hey can we-" Castle started as he and Beckett got into her car since she picked him up on her was to Remy's.

"No!" she cut him off harshly.

"But you don't even know what I was going to ask!" He wined.

"You were going to ask 'Hey can we go to Remy's?' and my reply still would have been 'No!'. So I was saving you the time," she declared smartly as if she could read his mind.

"Okay," he said sadly. A couple of minutes passed in a comfortable silence then Castle began and wondered, "Can I ask you something?"

"You just did," She joked.

"Something, serious?" He asked very monotone.

Kate suddenly changed modes from joking to what the writer was asking. She also felt her stomach drop because the only times he's serious is when it has to do with Alexis, her mother's cold case- which has just been open thanks to him, and her. "Uh. Ye-yeah. Always."

Beckett unaware of what she just said and saw Castle smile lightly through her preferable vision. "Tell me why you haven't been so open with anyone. With me."

She swallowed. "Open?"

"Yeah, Ever since you got shot," Rick started as Kate sighed. "You haven't been so open about things or Lanie for that matter! And I'm worried. It's just. I-I just don't want to see you go down that dreadful rabbit whole, Kate. It's not just Lanie and I who see it, the guy's do too. And with that dream- night mare what ever you want to call it- you didn't tell me what was going on, and I was there for you when you needed me and I could have helped you but you didn't let me in and I just-"

"Castle STOP!" she shouted. "Just- just STOP so help me God I will dump you're butt on the side of the road so fast you wouldn't know what just hit you and you can walk home."

He just stared at her dumbfounded like he just saw a ghost; eye brows raised, mouth slightly open, and back pin strait. After a minute of very uncomfortable silence he said, "Fine! You don't want to talk about it."

Thankfully after a few more stop lights and a couple of turns they arrived in the front of Castle's building. For the both of them it felt like it was an hour or more. After a harsh "goodbye" from the both of them, Castle stomped out of the car- which really was worse then Ryan and Esposito's car- he said a quick "hello" and "goodbye" to the door man, Todd. The writer never felt so happy to get away from that woman, who was now probably speeding down the street.

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Loft

As Castle marched out of the elevator and up to his door, he was replaying in his mind what had just gone in Beckett's car. He opened the door to the loft-once he found the correct key- and found his mother and daughter cuddled up on the couch under Alexis' favorite blanket from when she was little, which she named blankie- classic name. They were watching Xanado. Kira, the main character played by Olivia Newton John, was skating around the abandoned building singing "Magic", when the writer walked in. "Dad!" Alexis shouted excitedly getting a jolt from him and Martha.

He forced a smile to his face and lost the angry eyes out in his pockets. "Hey pumpkin," he said as Alexis jumped in his arms. "What are you still doing up? It's a little passed midnight!"

"Well when I came back from the mall with Jessica, Gram's said you had to leave with Detective Beckett for the case and I couldn't get a hold of you, so I just thought I would stay up and wait for you to say 'goodnight'.

"Oh okay." He smiled at his daughter's devoted words to him. "Speaking of Jessica, how was she? She wasn't to wild was she?"

Alexis smirked. "No. She wasn't wiled. She was very well behaved."

Martha desisted to take in the scene carefully as her son spoke up once more. "Well I'm glad she didn't do anything because I wouldn't want to call Esposito and Ryan to the scene." He earned a laugh from his daughter and a smile from his mother which he didn't see. "But right now, I think you should go to sleep. It's late," he said stealing a look from this watch.

"Alright. I love you dad. Night." As she started to move away from him and to the stairs, she quickly added, "Night Gram!"

She got a "Night" and a "Goodnight, Darling" from her father and grandmother.

After Alexis was securely in her room with the door closed, Martha questioned her son "Richard, are you going to tell me what happened tonight I can tell from you're expression when you walked in something was not right."

"It's not worth knowing," he snapped angrily as those angry eyes appeared on him out from his pocket and copied his daughter but went up to his room instead.

Ohhhh, a little brawl in the car huh? :) I hope you liked it! :D I also hope that you review! :D That would just make my night! Love you all until the wheels fall off ;)