A/N : Sorry I've made you all wait for this chapter so long and that it's so short. I just haven't had much incentive to write lately and I've been sort of blocked where this story went. But, with this chapter, I wanted to get the latest reveal out of the way and where they just say 'fuck it' and go after Castle as well.

P.S. there is a few choice words in this, only two or three, so if it offends you, just bleep it out.

Disclaimer: I do not own Castle nor pretend that I do.

Hope you all enjoy this chapter and I am once again sorry that this is so short and, possibly, terrible. I promise the next chapter will be better.

She wakes up, or becomes more aware again, sometime later. The first thing she notices is that the blindfold is still over her eyes, but the material is thin enough that she can see a faint glow of light behind it. She feels a faint hint of a breeze and smells the salty air that accompanies being near the ocean. Then, she hears the voices. It was two people arguing and once she hears them, she focuses more, choosing them as the focal point to bring her back. At first it's muddled, as if she were underwater and they were yelling at her above water, trying to get her to come back. "I want first hit. The bitch fucking broke up with me for that damn childish idiotic writer. All those months spent wasted on her and she fucking dumps me!" she hears a voice. From the words, she realizes the voice is Josh's and she feels that stab in her heart again that someone she thought she could trust so much betrayed her so quickly.

"But the bitch bloody put me in lockup! I should get first hit," another voice, one she barely remembered as a murderer she had put away in Castle's first year there.

"Gentlemen, please. Our guest is waking up," a voice, a very feminine voice, said gently but firmly. Both men quieted at her voice and Beckett stiffened at the very familiar voice. It couldn't be. They wouldn't do this to her. They wouldn't betray her that thoroughly.

"No," she found herself whispering, closing her eyes and trying to block out her surroundings. She hated this. It felt like another stab to the heart.

There was a sound of footsteps, the heels of her boots clicking on the concrete of the ground as she got closer and closer to her. Then, the blindfold was finally taken off. "Hello, Detective," Victoria Gates said with a wicked grin, "welcome back."

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Castle hadn't meant to be gone for the whole day, his mother had said something about needing help with something in her school, and Alexis said that one of her university professors wanted to have a talk with him to tell him that Alexis was going to be recommended for an award. She had made all A's that semester and had the highest GPA in her class, so they wanted to reward her for that. When he ended up finally getting back to the Hamptons house, it was dark. The living room, as well as some of the other rooms in the house, was dark and he figured that Kate had gone to bed, but when he went up to their room, she wasn't there. He thought for a moment that she had just gone to get some food, that she would be back soon, but then he saw her phone lying on the ground, the screen cracked from being dropped.

He picked it up and instantly became worried. Every thought in his mind screamed for him to call the guys, but if this was going to be a kidnapping and ransom, he couldn't involve them. They were police and as the old cliché, 'don't go to the police or we'll kill him/her'. So, he waited. And waited. And waited.

He didn't realize he had stayed up all morning until he finally got a call at five in the morning. He answered quickly and stiffened when he heard the voice on the other end, "Did you worry enough last night Mr. Castle?" Victoria Gates asked.

"Wh…what the hell?" he asked, his voice incredulous.

"Yes, yes, you're so shocked; you can't believe I've done it, blah, blah, blah. Your bitch of a girlfriend already told me all that. Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? Yes, I have Detective Beckett, yes, this has to do with her mother's death, and yes I took her because I wanted to get some information. Do you want to know what that information is, Mr. Castle?"

"What?" he hissed, his anger towards the woman he had previously come to respect clear in his voice.

"I want to know how long you've known Captain Montgomery was alive and what he told you. How deep you've gotten into all of this," Gates asked him.

Castle was about to argue with her, say that he had no idea what she was talking about, when she 'tutted' on the other end, "Please, Mr. Castle, don't insult my intelligence. I've known Captain Roy Montgomery was alive since I took this job. All I needed, though, was for you or Detective Beckett or one of those stupid other two in your little gang to sell him out and I'd finish what my collegue couldn't. Now, if you'd be so kindly as to go with my boys, I believe there's someone who wants to see you," Gates ordered.

Castle frowns for a second before hearing a gun set behind his head and turned around to see two men in black suits behind him, both with guns in their hands. They held out their hand for Beckett's phone and when he handed it over, roughly pulled him from his spot on the couch and dragged him outside to a waiting car.

He didn't know what was going on, but he knew they were basically screwed. Especially when they injected him with some sort of liquid and his vision started to blur before e was out like a light.