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So I'm not a very good mean person, I can't leave cliff hangers for too long… oh well I got some very good ideas and put them into my story. Hope you enjoy!

As soon as Castle pulled out of Kate's street he regretted it, he wanted more, he wanted her to stay with him longer. He heard Alexis start to stir in the back seat and she sleepily opened her eyes

"Dad, where if Kate?"

"While you were sleeping I dropped her off at her place."

"Why? Daddy, we could have all watched a movie or something."

"Would you like to turn around and invite her?"

"No, you would like to invite her not me, but yes to the turn around part."

The next drive way Rick saw he turned his car around and headed towards Kate's apartment.

Meanwhile

The edge of the switchblade nicked Kate's shoulder and tears of pain threatened to surface, but she had to be strong, she had to not cry. Satisfied she would shut up now and not put up a fight Will used the switchblade to cut through her clothes and to expose her to him.

"You never stopped being beautiful Katie, you just are more beautiful when you shut up."

When Kate's thoughts all of a sudden cam e clear and she realized he was going to rape her she went into panic mode, she grabbed the nearest thing beside her and hit him upside the head with it. What her fingers touched way a small head lamp that was on top of her piano and it left a nice gash running from his hairline to his cheek bone.

"You bitch, I'm going to kill you."

At that very moment Rick Castle arrived at Kate's front door, he had poised his hand to know but he heard a struggle inside. With out second thought Rick swung the door open and saw Will facing Kate with a switchblade raised to kill. Castle ran up behind will and punched him as hard as he could. Will collapsed onto the floor, but was making a move to get up and finish what he had started. Castle kicked Will in the gut and went down onto the floor to punch him in the face again. Will was knocked out by the third or fourth punch to the face.

Once he was satisfied Will wouldn't touch the woman he loved anymore he stood up and saw Kate still up against the piano still exposed and bleeding from where the blade had cut through he skin. Castle ran over to Kate's curled up body and realized she was weeping, he sat down next to her and pulled her into his lap not minding the blood that was getting on his shirt. He carefully inspected the rest of the cuts, and came to the concollusion the one on her shoulder was the one to really worry about.

"Shhhh, it's okay, I've got you, sweet heart. He's not going to EVER touch you again. I promise"

While Beckett put on clothes to cover her up, Castle picked up her cell phone and called the police to come and pick up the unconscious guy that had assaulted his girlfriend. Once the police arrived they took an inventory of everything that happened and escorted Will out, who was waking up at this point.

Alexis came inside once she saw the cops arrived and rushed up to the apartment, she saw a guy being escorted out and looked at her dad questioningly, he just shook his head to tell her he'd explain another time. Alexis went back out to the car once her dad said they'd be out in a little bit.

Eventually Kate had dried her tears and gone into her bathroom closely followed by Castle. Silently she thanked that he had followed her because there was still a chance she was going to break down again. She started to try and clean up the blood that had dried onto her arm, being so shaken up, she got frustrated quickly and dropped the wash cloth in a sign of defeat.

"Here, let me." Rick picked up the washcloth and lovingly rubbed it against her shoulder to clean up the dried blood. Satisfied that he had removed most of the blood he threw the towel into the washer and brought Kate to his chest.

"Thank you." She whispered into his chest that was covered in one of her overly large sleep shirts while his shirt was in the wash too. "Thank you so much."

He leaned down to kiss her forehead and put his hand on the small of her back to usher her out of the apartment to his car.

It was a quite drive home and no one really talked. Alexis said she was too tired to do anything and went up to her room to go back to sleep. Leaving just Kate and Castle.

"I'm not very tired, Castle, and to be honest I don't think I could sleep. If you are tired you can go ahead to bed I'm just going to watch a movie or something."

"Non sense. I'm not too tired either, I'll watch a movie with you. What are you in the mood for? I'm thinking chick flick." He went over to his wide variety of DVDs and pulled out on, "Alexis just bought this one because she loved it in theatres, so I'm guessing it's pretty good." He put in the movie and laid down on the couch laying his head in Kate's lap while the beginning credits started.

"The Proposal?" Kate asked incredulously

"Yup." He nodded his head and Kate began to toy with his hair mindlessly.

Okay so I'll cut it off here. There will be more opening up time later on… I know I know… not a whole lot of romance this chapter… well it will come… very soon.