OMG! I'm SOOO SOOOO SOOO sorry I haven't updated in a while! I've just been caught up in a lot of things. I really hope you guys are still around! Thanks for everyone that reviewed last chapter! :) I want to thank Emz for helping me with this chapter. Emz, you may not be ready to see how you helped but you did! :) I also want to say before you start reading, that Jazzmin's name is so post to be spelled like that :D Allll right! Here is chapter 8!

Ryan's apartment

"Esposito called me last night after you went to bed," Kevin said to his fiancé.

"Oh anything I should know about?" Asked Jenny.

"Yeah. They found a body next to the phone."

"Oh," she said in a sad voice. She was about to say something else but Ryan talked first.

"They also found a note addressed to me." He saw Jenny's eyes widen. "It said things like; I failed again to catch him and to keep my loved one close because things may not be always as it seems.

"Oh, Kevin. I'm so sorry."

He shook his head." It's not your fault. I just- I want you to stay next to the body guard once he gets here. Jerry got away 10 times before. He can get away with it again."

"Don't worry," she said soothingly. "I'll be fine."

Knock! Knock! Knock!

The couple looked at the door then Ryan started for it and opened the door. Standing on the other side was a buff dark skinned guy. Ryan guessed he was around 35-ish years old. "My name is Demarco Goodnight." He also has a deep voice. "I'm the body guard."

"Great!" Exclaimed Kevin. "I'm Detective Kevin Ryan and this is my fiancé Jenny," he said turning to her. Turning back to Demarco, "I really appreciate this." The buff man just nodded

"I know the both of you."

Ryan nodded with a questing face but brushed it off his shoulder. He turned to look at his blond. "Jenny, remember what I told you." She just nodded. "Okay. I'm going to work."

"Wait, Kevin. I need to tell you something that happened 6 years ago," Jen said desperately.

"Can it wait? If I don't leave now, I'll be late and you know how Beckett can be," he replied sweetly.

"Yeah sure."

"You'll be fine. Just remember what I told you."

"I know I will. Have a nice day! I love you."

"Love you too." With that, they gave a quick kiss to their significant other then Ryan nodded to Demarco just before he shut the door behind him.

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Morgue

"Hey Lanie," Beckett said right on time at 9 o'clock.

Lanie spun around to look at her best friend. "Hey. Where's Castle?"

Castle was probably home ranting to his daughter about last night. Oh how she hated him sometimes. "Oh uh, I don't know. He never came in."

Lanie didn't think too much about it and turned to Renee. "Again, it was a 3 strand twisted quarter inch rope. Found green and white nylon fibers were imbedded in her skin and once more slanting to the left. No signs of struggle. Poor girl didn't even see it coming till it hit her. That's probably when you heard her scream."

"But it still doesn't make sense. We ran up there right as we heard her scream. There wasn't much time for him to do much."

Lanie chuckled slightly. "Sorry can't help you there. You're the detective."

Kate smiled. "Thanks for the report, Lanie."

"Wait, Kate. Could I ask you something?"

"Yeah, of course."

"What did you and Castle fight about? I know he always comes in unless he has something to do with Alexis, the books, or has some sort of fight with you. I didn't hear anything about Alexis, and I'm positive we would have heard something about the books from that blabber mouth, so that leaves, wait for it, that leaves you. So tell me."

"Lanie this doesn't apply to you," Kate snapped.

"Actually, it does. Kate I'm your best friend! You should tell me things like this!"

"Look, Lanie, I have to go. I have a case I have to solve." And with that, she turned around and marched out the door.

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Precinct

Esposito was coming out of the break room and Ryan was sitting at his desk on the phone when Beckett came strolling onto the homicide floor. As Beckett moved to her desk, she heard Esposito shout, "Hey anything new?"

"Nope. Just a bunch of dead ends. You?"

"Yeah we got Kaitlyn and Aaron Myers and Jamison White, who had just got in from a flight, waiting for you guys. Oh! I mean you!"

"Hey, Beckett, where's Castle?" She heard Ryan shout, although he was right next to her, phone still in hand.

Kate shrugged and turned back to Esposito. "Which room?" He pointed in the direction and she was off.

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Interview room

Beckett walked into the small interview room and looked at the woman who she guessed to be about 57-65, balling her eyes out leaning on a man to her right that was around her age zone. To the left of the woman was a younger man around 30-35. Kate was guessing he was Jamison. "I'm Detective Beckett. I'm working Renee's case. I'm so sorry for your loss."

The older man of the two spoke next. "I-I'm Aaron, Renee's father. This is my wife Kaitlyn and son-in-law, Jamison." He was obviously torn. You could tell by the look in his hazel eyes. Now Kate knew whom Renee got her eyes from. Definitely not her mother's. They were brown.

Jamison's small voice was very shaky. "I-I haven't seen my wife in-in a week because of wor-k. I knew I shouldn't have left her. It's my entire fault…" A couple of tears slid down her cheek.

"You're right! It is your fault!" Aaron hollered over his wife to his son-in-law. "If you would have been there, this wouldn't have happened!" Beckett let this verbal fight slid since she new you need to get things like this out in the open. She didn't have anyone when her mother died. Her dad was always drunk.

"Just be QUIET!" Kaitlyn screamed over her husband with tears soaking her shirt by now. "This is no one's fault. We did not see this coming so how could we have been prepared?" She turned to Aaron and spoke quieter. "It's Jazzmin all over again. I don't want to remember Renee like we do Jazz." Kaitlyan then turned to Kate who just stared at her.

After Kate came out of her little staring contest, she could finally ask, "I-I-I'm sorry, this is none of my business but, who is Jazzmin?"

Kaitlyn swallowed and took a long shaky breath before answering. "My youngest daughter. She died 12 years ago in a car accident that was planed out…" Poor woman was still crying her eyes out.

Kate just nodded. "Um. About Renee. She was strangled." She saw the girls parents take in a sharp breath. Jamison already knew already knew because Esposito told him over the phone the night before. "We know who killed her, and were trying our best to find him."

"You know who he is?"

Kate nodded solemnly. "Yes. Have you ever heard of a man named Jerry Tyson? He was connected with our other victim. I was wondering maybe he was connected with Renee as well."

Jamison shook his head but Kaitlyn and Aaron nodded. "Yeah," Aaron spoke up shyly. "He was Renee's fiancé 8 years ago."

"What?" Kate and Jamison said at the same time.

"Are you sure? Here's a picture of him.

"That's definitely him! Oh God, he killed my daughter?" Renee's mother said in a hush tone.

"This guy breaks my daughters heart and then kills her? This man is sick! I knew there was something about him that I never liked."

"Can you think of anything that would make them split up? Maybe that could be why he killed her."

"Jerry said that it wasn't what he was looking for. That he needed someone better."

"No one is better then Renee, no one," Jamison announced.

"I knew I heard his name some where recently. Jerry is the serial killer, also the man that killed my daughter."

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Mean while- bullpen

"Yo, Castle! Where were you?"

"I had to take car of something," the writer said not looking a t Esposito but his eyes roaming. "Where's Beckett by the way? I need to talk to her," he asked finally.

Ryan answered. "She's with Renee's family in the interview room over there."

"Oh," he said looking down.

"Why? What do you need to talk to her about?"

Castle was silent for a moment then replied, "Oh, just wanted to say 'Hi'."

Under all the noise of shuffling paper and talking, Castle heard Ryan say "Uh huh", and Esposito say "Sure".

"It's true though!" Castle walked over to his chair and sat down.

"We got a lead," announced Beckett as she came out of the interview room.

"What would that be?"

"Castle! You're here!"

"Yeah, I am. What's the lead?"

"Right. It looks like Renee was Jerry's old fiancé."

"That can't be a coincidence," stated Ryan. "Debby was his wife and now Renee was his fiancé? Can this get any stranger?"

Esposito shook his head. "I'm guessing that our 3rd victim would be an Ex-girlfriend."

"That's exactly what I thought," exclaimed Kate.

"But I thought Marcus Gates already tried to kill Donna Galigher for Jerry?" asked Castle.

"Doesn't mean Jerry won't try again himself. Guys put a security detail on her just in case but I also want to check if there was another blond he dated before her." The guys nodded and walked off.

A couple minutes after Beckett and Castle were in their 'assigned seats', they heard Esposito should "Donna's security's heading over to her place now. Their plain close men so she won't notice them."

Beckett nodded. "What about another girlfriend?"

"Nothing," Ryan spoke up. "This guy keeps everything on a 'down low'. There is absolutely no record of him being in any sort of relationship. Only his background, foster care, mother dying. You know…"

"Alright, keep looking. Maybe you can find something." He nodded and clicked away on this computer.

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Somewhere in NYC

"You sure you got this?" Asked a deep voice into the phone.

"Yes, yes. I'm going to get the job done unlike Marcus Gates, I wont mess this up," Jerry replied back.

"Okay. Do you think anyone suspects anything?"

"Did you lead on?"

"No," the deep voiced man replied.

"Then I don't think anyone suspects anything."

"Good. When is this going down?"

"Tonight."

Who do you think that is and whats "going down"? Wait to find out! I'm trying to write faster! I really hope you liked it! You wanna press that little button down there? :) Until the Wheels fall off!