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Chapter 10

Rick was up before Kate the following morning, excited about their appointment with the doctor that day. When Kate woke groggily it was to the smell of Rick bringing her breakfast in bed, almost bouncing while he was doing it.

"Nine-year-old on a sugar rush." Kate mumbled. "I swear I live with a nine-year-old on a sugar rush."

"Good morning to you too, Kate" Rick said cheerfully while handing her the tray with her breakfast.

"Good morning Rick." Kate replied, angling her head up for a kiss. "Thanks for breakfast."

"Anytime." Rick told her, sitting on the side of the bed.

"I'll hold you to that." Kate joked, then dug into her breakfast.

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The shady figure watched from a vintage point across the road as the couple got into their car and then hurriedly made to the dark coloured car to follow them discreetly. When at last the stop-start of Manhattan traffic had subsided at the car in front had let its passengers out, the shady figure was looking up at a building full of medical offices. This could be more difficult than I thought…

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Kate was once again waiting for the nine o'clock appointment with Dr Witherby and Rick was next to her bouncing in his chair with excitement. Kate placed her hand on his thigh and rubbed it slowly.

"Calm down Rick," She said gently. "Everything's going to be fine."

"I know, I'm just excited, that's all." Rick replied.

"So am I." Kate told him, kissing him gently.

"Ms Beckett, Mr Castle." The nurse called for them. "The doctor will see you now."

Kate took Rick's hand and stood, leading him to follow the nurse to the doctor's room.

"Ms Beckett, good to see you again." Dr Witherby said as she entered the room. "And Mr Castle, how nice to finally meet you. Lanie has told me much about you. Now Ms Beckett, if you'll step behind the curtain and get ready, we'll begin your ultrasound shortly."

Kate squeezed Rick's hand, then got up to change.

"It's fine, Mr Castle," Dr Witherby said. "This is just a routine ultrasound, make sure the babies are growing properly, that everything's going as it should, and you would like to find out the sex of the babies?" she asked.

"Yes," Rick replied. "We would."

"Certainly, I'll see what I can do." Dr Witherby said. "Ms Beckett, are you ready?"

"Yes." Kate called, to which Dr Witherby opened to curtain and walked over to the ultrasound machine. Rick found his place on the other side of the table that Kate was laying on and took her hand.

Kate flinched slightly at the feel of the gel on her expanding stomach as Dr Witherby put the wand to one side of her stomach and started taking measurements of the first baby they could see on the screen.

"Everything looks good for this one." Dr Witherby told them, then moved her wand around to find the other and started taking the same kind of measurements. "Everything looks fine with this one as well. Both are growing at the proper rate. Now if you're sure, I can tell you the sex of your babies."

Suddenly Kate found that she really didn't want to know. "Actually.." She said uncertainly. "I don't think I do want to know"

"Kate?" Rick questioned.

"I just realised that I really don't want to know." Kate replied.

"Ok then." Rick said, and then turned to the doctor. "OK, so we don't want to know, just tell me they're healthy."

"You have two very healthy babies growing there, they will be fine." She told them, then proceeded to clean up Kate and the equipment, and then left the couple to themselves.

Kate sat up on the table and drew Rick in for a hug and a light kiss. Kate drew back, leaning her forehead on his, both grinning like fools but neither able to find any words.

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As Kate and Rick were walking back through the waiting area, neither of them noticed the person sitting in the corner, supposedly reading a magazine. They didn't notice the pair of eyes that peeked over the top of said magazine as they walked past, or that the person in question put down the magazine and followed them out. They didn't notice when they got off the elevator at the ground floor that the same person was in the lobby and followed them out and waited until their car arrived, subsequently following them all the way to the precinct.

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As they walked out of the elevator on the homicide floor at the 12th, Kate noticed that neither of the boys were at their desks. She also noticed that the door to interrogation room one was closed. She motioned for Rick to follow her into the observation room to watch the interview.

What she wasn't expecting was to see Josh on the other side of the glass, apparently refusing to talk to the boys about what happened yesterday. But at the same time being very vocal about it, and getting violent, which wasn't helping his case.

"We just want to know why you decked Castle yesterday." Esposito said to him, standing with his back to them, leaning over the table at Josh.

"And, as I've already told you, I want to talk to Kate." He replied, anger filling his voice.

"And I'll tell you again," Esposito started. "She's not here, so if you're not going to cooperate we'll have to take you back down to lock up." He proceeded to round the table and yanked Josh up by the cuffs that were on his wrists.

Kate and Rick watched as Esposito lead him out of interrogation room one, and stayed put for a couple of minutes to give it time for Josh to be off of their floor.

When they walked out of the observation room Ryan and Esposito were sitting at their desks; Esposito running financials on Josh and his sister, whose murder they still had to solve, and Ryan looking into the ex-boyfriend that Josh had mentioned yesterday.

"Hey boys." Kate said as she walked up behind them.

"Hey boss." Ryan replied. "You just get here?"

"In time to see Esposito rip into Josh in there." She replied.

"Yeah, all he's saying is that he wants to speak to you." Esposito told her.

"Well," Montgomery said, coming up behind the group. "That's not going to happen. You go give him one more chance, Esposito, and if he wont talk to you, he's going to have to talk to me."

"Yes, sir." Esposito said.

"Off you go then." Montgomery told him. "I want this crinkle ironed out." At his words Esposito and Ryan jumped to their feet and made their way down to lock up.

After the boys and the captain had left, Kate collapsed into the nearest chair, which just so happened to be Ryan's. She looked at his computer and saw what he had found on one Jimmy Barlow, ex-boyfriend of Hannah Davidson. It seemed that in the two years that they had been together he had been charged with assault five times, by five different women, but that all charges had been dropped before they went to court. But that in the two months since they had broken up, he had been charged with assault twice more and that he was due in court in three days time. Also that Hannah was supposed to be a witness, for the prosecution.

Kate was just starting to tell Rick all of this when the boys stepped out of the elevator again and headed straight for Montgomery's office. She waited for them to come back out, and watched Montgomery storm past them and into the elevator before she said anything.

"So I guess he wouldn't talk." Kate said to them, they both shook their heads before she continued. "You guys need to hunt down the ex, Jimmy Barlow, he's got a rap sheet a mile long, is due in court in three days and Hannah was to be a witness against him. I also want you to look at the other witnesses for the prosecution, make sure they're ok."

"Yes Boss." Ryan and Esposito said in unison and grabbed their guns before heading out.

After they had left Rick helped Kate out of Ryan's chair and they made their way over to her desk. Rick sat in his chair with his laptop while Kate moved Barlow's photo from "person of interest" to "suspect" then sat at her own computer to continue looking into him.

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Meanwhile…

Down in lockup Josh was sitting on his bench, leaning against the wall with one foot propped in front of him when Montgomery stormed down the row of cells towards him. He stopped outside Josh's cell and started talking.

"Doctor Davidson." Montgomery stated sternly. "I would like to know why you punched Mr Castle in face in the face yesterday."

"Hey," Josh responded. "Don't I have the right to an attorney?"

"You waived those rights, remember?" Montgomery asked.

"Oh yeah." Josh said dejectedly thinking about how he figured they would find out and come to his rescue, and then the fact that he waived his rights wouldn't matter. But they hadn't come to his rescue and he had to face the music by himself.

"Now, why did you punch Mr Castle yesterday?" Montgomery asked him again.

"Because Kate's pregnant." He mumbled.

"And..?" Montgomery said, encouraging him.

"She's so obviously with Castle." Josh was still mumbling.

"And…?"

"Well, either the baby is mine," Josh exploded. "Or she was screwing around with him behind my back."

"So what you're telling me," Montgomery stated calmly. "Is that somewhere in that deluded little mind of yours you think that baby is yours, or it is Castle's and Kate was cheating on you, yes?"

"Yes." Josh was mumbling again.

"So why punch Castle, not Beckett?"

"Because I could never hit a woman," Josh stated. "Especially a pregnant one."

"Nice to know you're a gentleman," Montgomery told him. "Women on the jury might like that." He finished before he started walking off.

"But how do you know that the baby isn't mine?" Josh yelled after him, earning him some stares from the other prisoners.

"Because it's her word over yours," Montgomery told him, glancing back. "And quite frankly, I'd believe her over you any day."

AN: One more thing, I only have one more chapter of this written and as I have the end of my school year coming up I might not have time to write much, so after the next chapter I don't know when the next one will be up. Another contributing factor could be the fact that my muse ran off while I was reading Pride and Prejudice and started writing a different story, all of it's own free will, but I don't know where that one's going so it wont be posted for a while.

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