Yay, new chapter before the new ep!
As per advice from all the advanced reviews, i will be watching with plenty boxes of tissues
Anyway, here is chapter 4 of You Make Me, and as usual I don't own anything or anyone.
Getting back from the crime scene, gathering as much evidence as she could, she got to work on the case. A young woman, no I.D. mid 20's had been murdered in alleyway, no weapon, or blood was found. Might be a poisoning. Lanie was back at the lab running tests on how she was killed, and for an I.D. Ryan and Esposito were knocking on doors to see if anyone saw anything unusual. They'd get back to her. It was her jib to set up a timeline of events, so that the case would make sense. Other from her, the bullpen was pretty much empty, everyone else had other active cases, and only one or two people were flitting in and out. She glanced towards the Captains office briefly, and saw the mayor in there. Must be important, for him to travel all the way down here in person. She turned to her blank white board and drew a long black horizontal line near the bottom of the board. She started putting all of the basic information on the board, like the victims gender, age, how she was killed (unknown) where she was found.
"Beckett, good, you're back." The Captain said, sneaking up behind her.
She jumped back, genuinely surprised, "Sir, you scared me."
He smiled, "In my office please, it's important."
"Of course sir," she capped the dry wipe pen and went into the office.
"Beckett, you know our good mayor." The Captain gestured towards him.
"Of course, Mayor Wheldon, such a pleasure to meet you." She said extending her hand.
"The pleasure's all mine Detective; Roy says you're his best." He replied taking her hand and shaking it.
"I don't know about 'the best'…" She started
"She's just being modest Mayor." The Captain interrupted. "She is the best I've trained bar none."
"If she's as good as you say Roy, she'll be perfect for the job, but do you think she's up for it?"
"That's up to her sir."
"What's up to me?"
"Beckett, I want you to drop this case, and any others you have because the mayor needs an important favour from you."
"Anything to help the city I love sir."
"Excellent," Wheldon exclaimed. "So you're in?"
"Just tell me what I need to do sir." Beckett stated. What on Earth is so important that they want me to drop all of my active cases?
"Well Detective Beckett, I need you to be a bodyguard for a close friend of mine."
"I'm sorry sir, a bodyguard. I don't understand, if you needed a bodyguard, why didn't you just hire one?"
"That is a good question Detective, I could have just hired one, but you see, this friend of mine is being harassed by someone, and I do not know who that person is, and my friend came to me directly with this information and he personally requested someone from law enforcement to protect him. So I came to Roy here, because I know that the Homicide at the 12th has the best closing rate of all the precincts, and because Roy here owes me a favour, so that is why I am asking you to be my friend's bodyguard. Just for a short while, until we find this person harassing him. Then once we find the harasser, then you can get back to your regular job."
I can't just say no to the freaking mayor. I have to babysit his friend, hopefully for a few days, they'll catch this 'harasser' and then everything can go back to being normal. If I do this, it will be great for the Captain and for the 12th. They'll be in the mayor's good books for ages, and we could get new equipment. Take one for the team Kate, just say yes.
"Okay Mayor Wheldon, I will be the bodyguard for your friend. If you don't mind me asking, who is it that I will be protecting?"
"Richard Castle, the mystery novelist."
WHAT! The guy she flirted with the night before is the guy she needs to babysit. He will find out who she is. He wasn't supposed to know. It was supposed to be that they would never ever meet again, and that would be fine because they could go their separate ways and be happy. Not this. She couldn't, but she'd already said yes to the mayor and she couldn't take that back now, otherwise it would look bad on her, The Captain and the rest of the 12th.
"You've heard about him right, Detective?" Wheldon asked.
"Yes sir, I have." She replied, letting no emotion show on her face.
"Okay then, I'll tell him to come here in about an hour, how does that sound?"
"Excellent sir." The Captain replied.
"Good, then when he gets here, we can sort out all of the details and hopefully have everything sorted by the end of the day, in the meantime, I'm going to make a few calls, see you two in a little bit." The mayor left.
Beckett rounded on the Captain. "Sir, I would do anything for this city, but babysitting some arrogant novelist is not in my job description. I could be more useful to you, by solving murders, you know, actually doing my job!" She finished.
The Captain looked highly amused.
"Sir, why are you smirking?"
"It's nothing Beckett; it just seems that you really don't want to do this…"
"Of course I don't. What I want to do is do my job and solve murders and bring justice to the people that deserve it."
"Calm down Beckett, I only said yes to Bob, because we need all the good press we can get, so if you do this, then we will be recognized more, as being good at what we do, and not a let down to the city. And I can't say no to him."
"I understand sir, but why couldn't you have put Ryan or Esposito or anyone else on this."
"Because he asked for my best, and that's you."
"Did you know he was going to ask me to babysit his friend? Sir, did you know who his friend was?"
"No, I didn't know what he wanted; he just came to me in the morning and asked me if I could call upon my best to do something important for him. Listen Beckett, if you do this, then you will be in the mayor's good books, and that is a plus."
"I know, but, sir…"
"But what Beckett?"
"This guy, Richard Castle, haven't you read the papers?"
"Yes I have, but the media doesn't always portray people in the way they want to be seen by the world. You should know that they twist everything."
"I know sir, it just the guy seems like a jackass."
"He may seem so, but you're gonna have to find a way to deal with it." He chuckled. "Now go finish off your last timeline for now."
"Okay sir, but just one request, please, please, don't tell my team about this, I'll get teased relentlessly, and I might just kill one of them."
"Will do Beckett." He chuckled again.
"Sir, I'm serious!"
"So am I, listen, this will stay between me, you, the mayor and your new charge." He couldn't stop smiling.
"Sir, could you please stop, I'm uncomfortable with this already, you're making it worse."
"Sorry Beckett, just stay busy until I call you back in here."
"Okay." She left and shut the office door behind her. She took a deep breath. She could do this. She could act as if she had never met the man, she could do this.
"Hey boss, why isn't the timeline finished?" Esposito's voice broke her worry.
"I was in a meeting with Montgomery, sorry, I'll get it finished up now."
Ryan sat down on her desk watching her write the last details.
"You okay Beckett; you look like you've seen a ghost." He asked genuine concern for her shining through.
"Something like that," she muttered too quiet for them to hear. "No, I'm fine, just I'm not gonna be working with you for a few days."
"What, why not?" Esposito said in confusion.
"Montgomery has me on a special assignment from the mayor; I can't say anything about it. Sorry boys. If I could I would."
"That's…" Esposito started.
"…What, Espo, what is it?" Beckett asked.
"Unacceptable," Ryan finished for him.
"Yeah, well, the thing that I'm doing isn't fancy and trust me, I'd rather be here with you guys than do what he's asked me to do."
"Then why didn't you just say no?" Ryan asked.
"Because, the mayor asked me in person to do him a personal favour. I couldn't just say no. It would give everyone here a bad name, and I don't wanna do that, so I'm taking one for the team, so man up and do the same. Plus this will give you guys more experience not having me." She explained.
"Yeah okay Beckett." Esposito mocked.
"Just wait and see okay, because the mayor will be back in a short while."
As soon as the words left her mouth, she saw him, Richard Castle, best-selling mystery novelist, man with whim she flirted with the night before, walking towards her. She retreated back into Montgomery's office and stood next to the Captain.
"Beckett what are you doing?"
"He's here sir"
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