*Note* - The last few weeks have been a total roller coaster for me. I dealt with some realizations about myself and come to some conclusions, life is hard and unpredictable. When you think you have things figured out something happens to make you see things unexpected. So this story might start going to a place I did not expect, but I do hope you stick with me through all of it. I do thank all of you for the reviews and that I appreciate every last one of them.
Chapter Six:
"I still don't know why she would lie to me," Castle mentioned as they exited the elevator at the 12th precinct.
"Look at it this way, you may think you know what us women are thinking or feeling, especially since it has been just Martha, Alexis, and you for so long, but you don't," Kate said before they reached her desk.
"Believe me, the woman's psyche is one mystery I will never solve or try to," Castle stated as he sat down in his chair.
"Talking to the choir, bro," Esposito replied walking over to the desk.
"I don't seem to have a problem with it," Ryan commented putting in his two cents.
"Believe me the honeymoon phase will end and then you will understand that women are strange creatures," Esposito responded as Castle and Beckett looked at him.
"As much fun as it would be to talk about the male species and the fact that you are even more peculiar creatures, I think we should get back to the case," Beckett informed her unit.
"Right, Lanie called right after Esposito called about our suspect harassing Ms. Griffin. She said that there was something strange in Monroe's system, he had enough drugs in his system to knock out a horse," Ryan explained walking over to his desk and grabbing the paper that had been sent up to him about thirty minutes earlier.
"We also got the lab results back from the wine and found out it was also drugged with the same thing. And from the looks of it both the suspect and victim drank the wine," Esposito piped in grabbing the paper with the evidence.
"Are you saying that both Gina and Monroe were drugged and likely passed out before they knew what was happening to them?" Castle questioned.
"From the looks of it – yes," Ryan confirmed his friend's suspicions.
"So maybe, Gina didn't run because she believes she is guilty, but because she doesn't remember what happened?" Castle wondered to himself.
"But if she is innocent why run?" Esposito asked the famous writer.
"You would have to know Gina. She is one determined woman that dislikes not knowing something," Castle explained trying to justify his ex-wife's motives for running. "But what doesn't make sense is her lying about Monroe and running now."
"The only option we have is to find Gina and figure out what she knows or does not know," Beckett informed his unit. "And if that means a trip to the Hamptons, I guess it means a couple of us are going to the beach."
"I could go for getting out of the city for a few hours. Let's go, Ryan," Esposito declared strolling over to his desk.
"Don't even think about it, Esposito. I think we need to confirm that she is even there before some of us go trampling through the Hamptons looking for a woman who we are not even sure is there. We need to use our resources here first," Beckett informed her subordinate.
"Resources, damn it, I didn't even think about that," Castle interrupted taking out his cell and punching a number into it.
The three detectives looked at him with amazement and confusion, something that was not uncommon with this team at the 12th precinct. They let him talk to the person on the other end of the phone call for just seconds before a uniformed officer walked over to Detective Beckett and handed her a manila envelope with her name across it.
Kate pulled the information out of the envelope and knew this case just became one hundred percent more complicated. She grabbed her cell phone out and texted some information into her phone then walked down the hallway towards the stairway. Kate knew that this plan of action could backfire on her in so many ways, but she had her reasons.
As she reached the stairway she looked back just for a second at Richard Castle, the man that held her heart in his hands and how much it would destroy him to lose the most precious beings in his life – yet she had to do it this way.
Esposito felt his cell phone beep that he had an incoming text message and read it as Castle hung up from his call. Castle looked around noticing that Kate was nowhere to be found even though he had some information that could help their case in one aspect.
"Where did Beckett run off to?" Castle asked the two detectives.
Ryan shrugged his shoulders not knowing anything however Esposito took a deep breath knowing full well that Detective Kate Beckett was a trained able-bodied detective that could handle anything.
"Beckett got called into a meeting at the last minute and told us to move on with what we have," Esposito lied hoping that Castle would not dig deeper. "What did you find out from one of your many resources?"
"I called a couple of people that look after my house in the Hamptons and know the area. They have not seen Gina anywhere near there, so maybe there is something we are missing," Castle explained walking over to the murder board with the pictures of Phillip Monroe, a two-bit writer who had not published in a couple of years, and the second ex-Mrs. Castle. "Something does not make sense about this case."
"Tell me about it, bro," Esposito chimed in sending a quick text to his partner.
As the three men began to look over the details of the case, Kate was driving towards the address on the document she had been sent. She was completely thrown with what the document had stated and she hoped that the women being held would be safe. This case had been turned upside down and this new information turned into something she was not expecting. She could handle many things and she had in her thirty-four years, but this might just be too much even for her.
*Note*I could write more to this chapter, yet I thought it was a good spot to end here because of what will happen next. So this chapter did go where I wanted it to go at the beginning, but the conversation about men and women is so true that I had to find out the hard way in many aspects. Men may be a peculiar species, and I don't think they will ever figure out what us women really want or need, I guess that goes along with the men's view on us woman. So I hope you enjoyed it and just not sure when I will have more.