Kate awoke in a dark spaces that she didn't recognize and soon began to panic, any sense of calm that Castle had managed to give her quickly vanished. Forgetting where she was she attempted to sit up smacking her head off the trunk door, the sound startling Castle awake. Kate flopped back down holding her head, finally coming to and clearing the haze of sleep from his head Castle realize what had just happened.
"Hey Kate shit, are you ok can you move, where does it hurt!?" Castle frantically asked becoming agitated
"Ughhh" moaned Kate, dropping her hands from her face looking up at Castle who was hovering over her slightly as much as the small space would allow.
"Right, trunk" sighed Kate remembering where she was, looking up at Castle she gave him a small smile hoping to ease his worry.
" Yea we're still in the trunk, here let me see your head."
Castle pulled out his cell phone to use as a light, after clicking the button to illuminate the screen he used it to check over her head. Noticing some slight bruising near her hair line he decided that once they got out he was taking her to get that checked no matter how much she fought.
"Castle?" whispered Kate
"Hm?" replied Castle as he put his phone in his pocket.
"Do you think we will actually get out of here?"
"Of course, take out your phone so we can use it for some light maybe theres a way out of here."
Both of them pulled there phones out again and started to check out the interior of the trunk, Castle noticed the backing to one of the break lights was missing. This detail gave him the information that they were in an older model car that was designed so anyone trapped in the trunk of it could kick the light out.
"Hey Kate look we can kick that light out, maybe flag someone down"
"Well it's worth a try, I would rather not sit here forever."
"Ok well we're gonna have to shift around so we can kick it out" Castle grunted as he began wiggling to put his back against the seat. Kate followed closely behind so that she to was pressed against the seat, once again snuggling up to Castle so that she could allow him room kick out the light. After a few hard kicks the tail light popped out which resulted in delighted sounds of happiness from the pair.
"Alright we have to shift again but this time just enough so we can yell for help" said Castle once again trying to manoeuvre around the small compartment.
"Jesus this is difficult" Grunted Castle while Kate silently giggled behind him, amused at how exasperated he currently looked.
"I know you're laughing at me, you can stop anytime" teased Castle in hopes of drawing a smile from the stressed detective. Once he had situated himself up by the small hole, with Kate's feet beside his head, squinting one eye and looking through the opening to take in their surroundings he realized that they were in a parking garage which wasn't the best place to be but also wasn't the worst. Looking over his shoulder at Kate giving her a confident smile he then turned back to begin what he called "The quest for freedom"
"Help, is anyone there!" yelled Castle stopping for a moment to listen for a response, upon hearing the echoing of footsteps he continued to yell. Kate sat there silently listening to Castles yells while her mind raced a mile a minute If we don't get out of here what will we do, I need to tell him...wait no I can't,why am even thinking about this, ugh! Castle looked back to see Kate sitting there brows furrowed and biting her lip.
"Hey I think I hear someone" said Castle breaking Kate from her frantic thoughts.
"Hello, hey over here!" yelled Castle gaining the attention of the unknown person.
"Wait Castle what if its the people who put us in here coming back to finish the job?"
The person outside the car was now standing in front of the trunk, Castle and Beckett could hear movement and then the sound of something being wedged into the door. With wide eyes Castle scrambled around managing to hit his head, shoulder and elbow off the roof and walls of the compartment so that he could lay next to Beckett. Misjudging the space he ungracefully landed half on top of her, their eyes met in the dark light and locked on each other at the same time that the unknown person managed to open the trunk.
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