They door swung open to show Jim Beckett, Kate's father.
"Javi, Ryan what are you doing here?" Jim said. He seemed very surprised to see the two detectives standing in the living room of his daughter.
"Jim aren't you meant to be on holidays?" Esposito said putting his gun back in his holster.
"Yes, but I got worried as Katie hadn't rung me in a while and she always rings me. So can I ask again, why are you here detectives?" Jim was not sure if he wanted to hear the answer to his question but he wanted to know where his little girl was.
"Um, we haven't heard anything from Beckett in three days and we got worried." Ryan was looking at the ground but he tried to give the father a direct look.
"Where's Castle?" Jim knew that if Beckett was some where she would be with Richard
"Ah, we haven't heard from him either" Ryan said to Jim. His face started to lose hope.
"WHAT! Where is she?"
"Look Jim. We are looking for the both of them and we will make sure that we will find her. We ring the both of them every day and we ring both Castles daughter and mother to try to find out as much information as we can" Ryan said trying to calm Jim down.
"Have you rung Josh?" Jim asked
"Oh my God how could we forget to ring him? Don't worry we will get Kate back."
"You better. She is all I've got. You hear me she is all I've got."
"Jim, why don't you go home and get some rest. We promise you that we will call you if anything comes up, and if you want you can drop be the precinct whenever you want to.
"Thanks guys. Please find her" and with that the worried father left the apartment.
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Beckett tried to look through the small key hole but it didn't help much. The two of them tried to make themselves comfortable. There was much in the room. Just the two chairs and rope they where they woke up and there was a small pillow in the corner. Beckett stopped looking through the key hole and went to the chair. She sat down and started to look at her hands. The cut from the rope started to heal but they were still very swore. The two of them had been sitting in the same place for a while and they were getting very tired.
"Hey Beckett, are you getting tired because you can have the pillow if you want."
"No thanks I should be fine." But Beckett wasn't fine. Her head was pounding and she was getting dizzy. Castle could see that she was hurting but he didn't want to make her headache worst. Beckett lent up against the opposite wall to Castle and started to fall asleep. Castle got the pillow and walked over to Beckett without waking her up. He lent down and gently lifted her head to slid the pillow under her, but before castle could get up Becketts arm rapped around castles. Her grip was strong and castle knew that if he tried to move she would wake up. Castle sat up against the wall next to her. Castle loved watching Beckett sleep. She seemed so calm and gentile like there was no stress in the world. Beckett started to move around and let go of castle arm but she then grabbed hold of his waist. Castle lent into her. The last time they were this close was when they were stuck in a freezer together.
The next morning castle woke up with Beckett still in his arms. Her hair was all messy but she still looked beautiful to castle. It wasn't long till Beckett woke up.
"Castle" she said without opening her eyes. She sounded like she was scared. Like she had just woken up from a bad dream and she was still in it.
"Kate I'm here" castle grab hold of her and made sure that she knew that he was there.
"Kate, are you ok?" castle was so worried.
"Oh thank god. It was just a dream"
The two of them were looking into each other's eyes. Castle could only see the tears forming in Kate eyes. It must have been a terrifying dream for it to make her cry. There was a silence. All Kate could think about was how happy she was to be in Ricks arms and to know that he was there. They were looking at each other deeply. Castle hand rapped around Beckett. Becketts hand around his neck when all of a sudden the door swung open.
They dropped their hands and looked straight at the door. In came Josh. He had anger in his eyes and he had a stressed look in his face. No one really knew what was happening as he was holding a gun.
"Get up" he yelled the two of them did exactly what he said without questioning him, but of course castle had something to say. Beckett turned to look at him and gave him a look which told him to keep quite. They walked over to the door slowly with josh standing behind them with the gun.
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"Hi this is Josh. Sorry I can't get to the phone. Please leave a message after the beep"
Esposito slammed the phone down.
"no answere" ryan said when he looked his way. Esposito gave him a look which told him the answer.
"some things up, but what? Where isn't a case which is how they usually get in trouble. Ryan can you go and see if you can track their phones. I will call everyone again and see if they have heard anything from them. They just wouldn't leave like this without telling someone.
….
Alexis was asleep on the couch until the buzzing of her phone on the glass table woke her. She glanced at the clock on the wall. 7 o'clock. "This better be good." She thought to herself. She pick up her phone and answered as usual.
"Hello" she said trying to wake up fully
"Hi Alexis, its Esposito." He replied
"Oh hi" she said as she was walking around the house and opening the windows to let the sun in which blinded her at first.
"Have you heard anything from your dad?" he asked in a hurry.
"No, do you want me to call gram. She is out at the moment." She was starting to get worried. Her dad had never done a disappearing act. She always knew where he was and where he was going.
"No thanks. It would be easier for us to keep track of all our info if we call her." He said trying to keep the teenager calm.
"Oh ok then." Esposito could hear the worry in her voice. She was so scared.
"Look we will find him and Beckett and I promise you he will be back in no time and you can call me or Ryan anytime you want." He replied trying to make the girl feel a bit better. She still needed her dad and her dad still needed her.
"Thanks Esposito. I know." She replied before she put her phone down. She walked over to her dads study and looked in. Looking at his laptop and sitting in his chair made her think so much about him. All of a sudden she burst out in tears. She couldn't stop. The red head grabbed a pillow from beside her and hugged it so tight.
"Please be ok dad" she said to herself as she looked out the window.
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As they walked into the car Beckett looked to her left to see the writer looking down at the ground. Tears started to run down his face. She had never seen this side of him. They had been stuck in a freezer together and almost died many times but he had never cried. They walked out to an alley way to a white van with tinted windows at the front. Josh quickly pushed them into the van and shut the door. Josh they turned around to make sure that no one was looking and rant tot the front seat. Neither wanting to make a sound they stared at the ground. Castle still had tears running down his face. Beckett staring at him tapped his foot getting him to look up; she then started to mouth some words.
"Are you ok?" she asked. He just nodded. He looked back down at his foot noticing that she had hers right next to his still. He looked at Beckett who was still staring at him. She had a small smile on her face which made he feel warm inside again. He hadn't felt like that since he last saw Alexis which seemed like months again for Castle. Just as Beckett was about to open her mouth the van slide and stoped. The force of the sudden stop caused Beckett to knock herself out. Castle quickly grabbed her and tried to wake her up.
"Beckett wake up"
"Kate" he repeated. She started to moan but before he could say anything else Josh opened the doors to the van.
