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Kate drives to the precinct as always as he plays with the buttons on the radio. The journey is short and they don't feel the need to talk as her thoughts begin to wonder. When they arrive and walk through the car park he takes her hand letting go before they reach the door. As they get out of the elevator she calls toward Esposito.
"What room is she in?" She walks past him as he calls out. "Interrogation room 2."
"Call her foster family, they will need to know she's here." She calls as she walks off.
As they reach the room she turns to Castle.
"Wait behind the glass this time, ok?" Kate reaches up and brushes her hand on his cheek.
"Sure" He half smiles at her and moves to the viewing room.
Kate walks up to the door and takes a deep breath before opening it, when she does she sees a small girl sitting on the opposite side of the table. Her hair is dark black and long with straight bangs framing her face, there are small plaits through her hair with the occasional strand of a deep blue and purple. Her eyes are dark and surrounded by thick heavy eyeliner that has smudged at the edges. Her frame is tiny with bones seeming to pop out of her pale skin, the dark loose top and short skirt barely covering it. The only splash of color is her tights that have a galaxy pattern on them. The girl is flicking a pack of smokes against the table and only pauses when she hears Kate walk in. They look at each other for a moment before she sits down in front of her.
She sits there for a moment staring at the girl before she begins "Procession? You promised me you had finished with all that stuff."
"Nice to see you too Katherine. How's life treating you? Still fucking around with that doctor?" The girl practically spat the words out.
"Don't deflect Cassie, what were you doing with that amount of drugs on you?" She snapped back not giving the girl an inch.
"Oh you know what they say, the quickest way to get out of a foster home is land yourself in jail." Cassie smirked back at her.
"This is not a joke Cassie. You promised me you would not go back to that, you said you would try this time." Kate pleaded with her, trying to get more than deflection from the girl.
"Leopard doesn't change its spots." The girl shifts in her chair, leans back and puts her shoes on the table. Cassie slowly takes a smoke from the pack and places it to her lips.
"You can't smoke that in here." Cassie ignores Kate and lights the cigarette anyway, blowing the smoke into the air.
"Tell me what happened Cassie, why did you go back? I thought you liked your new family." Kate moved to the other side of the table sitting against it, making it though she was taller than Cassie, trying to intimidate her into talking.
"Nobody said I liked them." Cassie snarled at her.
"Cassie you were the one that asked for me. You pulled me out here on my day off, knowing I would come when you asked for help. So what do you want me to do? Unless you start talking Cassie I am walking out that door and I am not coming back." She yelled at the girl gaining momentum.
"You already left Katherine." Cassie stood practically spitting at her, smoke blowing into her face.
Kate stood and stormed over to the door. "Wait here." She said sternly before slamming the door behind her.
Castle stood still behind the glass, watching the girl slump back down into the chair and take another long drag of her smoke before stubbing it out on the table. He startled when Beckett rushed through the door of the viewing room. He watched as she walked over to a stack of folders and throws them into the air letting out an exasperated gasp. He stayed silent as she took a few deep breaths and then as she turned towards him he waited for her to come to him. As she got closer he bent down and placed a kiss on the top of her head. As Kate continued to take calming breaths she rested her forehead on his almost as if she was trying to suck her strength from Castle.
"You ok?" He asked after a moment.
"Yeah, I think." She replies in a small voice.
"I have never seen you lose it like that." He replies moving his hand to grasp hers down by their sides.
"I wasn't supposed to see her in this situation again, she promised me that she was done. I should have looked out for her more, made sure that this wouldn't happen." She mumbled into his chest.
"Who is she?" He whispered.
"I first met Cassie about a year before you decided to stick yourself to me like glue." She half smiled up at him.
"Hey, it's not like you don't like it." He replied to her.
"I know, I know. We met on a case and she was so scared, she was involved with some pretty bad people and she needed protection. I promised her no one would hurt her, so for a while she came and stayed with me so no one could find her. It wasn't normal protocol but she trusted me and I felt… she needed someone and I was there. She stayed with me throughout the trial as well and we would stay up late watching movies her favorite being…"
"Bambi." Castle interrupted.
"When the trial finished she needed to be put into a foster home. She begged to stay with me but she had issues, I couldn't look after her and keep my job, it would have been too much. So as a compromise I helped her look for a new foster family to make sure she would be settled." By the end of it Kate sounded sad and deflated.
"Hey you did the best you could love." Castle reached up to stroke her cheek.
"The thing is she made a deal so she would testify against the suspect. Because she has been found with contraband on her person she had broken the agreement that was made and faces real jail time." Kate sighed out.
"And you care about her so you don't want that to happen." Castle tried to give some form of comfort in his words.
"I just don't understand how this could happen, I mean why didn't her foster family notice something was up? How could they not have realized she was spinning out of control again?" Kate growled out.
Just then there was a knock at the door and Esposito popped his head in. "Yo Kate we tried to get in contact with the foster family."
"Yeah so?" Kate turned towards him.
"So here's the thing, the foster family hasn't seen her in weeks. They have been trying to find her through child welfare but nothing popped until now. They had already taken on a new kid in the time she has been gone and they can't afford to take her back. Since the paperwork has already gone through they no longer have legal responsibility to her." Esposito finished.
"What is going on here? Surely they didn't process all this that quickly. It doesn't make any sense." Castle stated as Kate turned back towards the glass.
"I don't know but I am going to find out." Kate said striding out of the room.