As Kate regained consciousness she quickly became aware of the large, dark room she was in, as well as the pounding headache developing at the back of her skull.

She attempted to move her arms, instantly realizing they were tied together behind the chair she was sitting in.

She heard foot steps and turned to their direction to come face to face with her kidnapper.

"What do you want from me?"

The man in front of her simply laughed as he circled the detective like she was his prey.

"Who are you?!"

The man walked up to her and cocked his head to the side.

"Does this remind you?" He said as he pointed to the bullet scar covered by her shirt.

"You...you're the one who shot me?"

"It's really a shame your little writer monkey of a partner was too late." He seemed humored by it all.

"But see, the problem is I didn't accomplish my goal." His demeanor completely changed.

"So if you honestly want to know why I'm here and why you're here...Well I'm sure that you can connect the dots."

"You're not going to get away with this. If you kill me you'll have the full force of the NYPD come raining down on you, including others."

"Oh I don't think I have much to worry about actually, I can handle myself quite well thank you." He looked down at his gun and placed it on top of a black bag on the floor.

"Now my employer was nice enough to give me a second shot, but that doesn't mean I can't have a little fun in the process."

He put his hand on her upper thigh and Kate gritted her teeth.

"Don't you dare." Kate warned.

It's alright Kate, Castle will find you soon and everything will be okay.

"You're not very scary when your tied up you know." He ran his finger down the side of her face.

"You'll never get away with this." Kate said trying to hold her composure.

"I don't know about your little boyfriend but I prefer the girl to be non-vocal."

He pulled out a roll of duck tape, ripped off a piece and placed it over Kate's mouth. He checked his watch and began to walk away from her.

"Looks like this will have to wait, I have some other business to take care of before I can deal with you. I'll be back soon-" he looked her in her eyes. "Don't go anywhere."

He walked away laughing.

"Castle calm down, are you sure she's not just out somewhere?"

After not hearing from Kate, Castle got worried and went to the precinct to talk to the boys.

"Espo, I haven't heard from her for nearly three hours, she was supposed to call me when she got to her apartment and she never did. We had-" Castle paused, remembering Kate had said not to tell the boys about them just yet.

"We had plans to go to lunch." Esposito looked at him suspicious.

"Hey Castle, I tracked Beckett's phone and it shows she's at home but just to be safe how about you go with Espo to see if she's actually there. I'll stay here in case you guys end up needing me."

"Alright let's go." Espo grabbed his jacket and walked with Castle to his car.

Castle and Esposito walked down the hall to Beckett's apartment door to find it wide open. Esposito quickly drew his gun from it's holster and carefully slipped inside with Castle close behind him. After searching all of the rooms he walked over to Castle still in main room.

"It looks like you were right Castle."

Esposito put his gun back in it's holster and took out his phone..

"We have to find her Espo." Castle was looking at Kate's phone and purse still sitting on the counter top.

"We will Castle. I'll call captain Gates, then we'll go downstairs and talk to the doorman and see if he can help us figure out who took her."

"Hey Ryan, Castle was right Beckett's missing. We just got done talking to the doorman and he said he saw someone come in that seemed a little suspicious. He just got done showing us the surveillance footage and we saw him breaking into Beckett's apartment. I'm sending you a picture of the suspect now."

"Okay I'll run it through facial recognition right when I get it. Get back to the precinct as soon as you can."

"Okay we'll be there soon." Esposito put his phone on the dashboard and looked at Castle in the passenger seat.

He was bobbing his leg up and down impatiently while fidgeting with his hands nervously.

Castle she's going to be find. Your gonna find her and you guys are gonna go home together and everything will be okay.

"We're going to find her Castle, she'll be okay."

"I hope you're right Javi."

I'm so glad I finally got to finish this chapter. We'll get down to business in the next one. Let me know what you guys though about this one xD