ANGIE
Castle and Beckett enter the room where Angie is resting. She looks up to the pair as they enter. She initially has a calm appearance on her face. Then fear appears on in her eyes. The fear is then replaced by a look full of questions. Them a smile moves on her lips.
"Who are you? She asks in an almost childlike manor
"My name is Mrs. Castle. Mrs. Richard Castle, but you can call me Johanna" Kate has decided that asking the girl to call her Houghton sounded a bit odd.
"Hello Johanna, my name is Kat…no wait" Her look becomes blank
It appears that the drugs may not have not completely worn off. She is still showing signs of trauma
"My name is Angie". She finally answers "Its Angie…I don't remember my last name"
"That's OK Angie. It is very nice to meet you. How old are you, Angie?
"I'm…thirty…Thirty-three. UH three. That's right thirty-three"
"Do you know where you are Angie?"
"Yes I am in Boston. I live in Boston"
"Angie, you are not in Boston right now. You are in New York. We brought you to New York to get you some medical care. Do you remember where you were before? Before we brought you here?
Another questioning look appears on her face again. Then it is replaced by one of terror. Pure unadulterated terror! She starts to pull back in her bed
Then Castle speaks softly to her "Angie, its OK. You are safe here. No one is going to hurt you here. We are not going to let anyone hurt you. OK?"
Angie looks up toward Castle. He has used a deep but gentle voice that he always used to sooth Alexis when she was scared. When she saw monsters under her bed. He had become very good in convincing her there were no monsters It appears that the gentle Castle has calmed her down.
Kate touches Angie's shoulder gently. "Angie, we will let you rest for a little while. Then is it ok if we come back in and talk some more?"
"Yes Johanna, I would kike that."
Castle and Beckett return to the hallway and the doctor treating her.
Castle speaks first "Doctor, she seems truly scared. Did they harm her in some way?"
"Mr. Castle, Ms. Beckett, I think they drugged her then spent hours trying to debrief her thinking she was you "looking at Kate" But all this did was to serve to mess up her brain. And from what I see, they messed it up pretty bad."
Beckett looks into the observation window "Doctor, we have a situation that she may have the answer to caught up inside her head. It is imperative we get it from her soon. The problem is we don't know how soon. Today may be too late or we have weeks. We just don't know"
"I understand. This facility is a trauma center and we have been advised that we may be needed. I am cleared level 3 so I have been briefed on the situation"
The trio looks at the woman thru the glass for a moment.
"I will keep an eye on her so let me call you when she can be interviewed again. In the mean time, if I hear something from her, I will document it and pass it on"
"Very well doctor. Is there anything else we can do to help her in this journey of getting better?"
"Actually, Mrs. Castle, there is. If we could get some of her clothes and so she could put them on instead of the normal hospital gowns, she might begin feeling more normal. This could help in her healing process. Can someone go to her place and get clothes for her?"
"At this moment we do not have her address. We do have someone trying to find that. What if I got her some of my clothes? She appears to be my size."
"That might work. Can you arrange that?"
"Yes I will do that as soon as possible. Thank you doctor. We will talk later"
Castle and Beckett exit the ward and get on the elevator
"Rick, will you go back to my apartment. There are some clothes there that I can give her."
"I can do that. What do you want me to get?"
"Call me when you get there and I will have you look in my closet. I can tell you then what you to bring her"
"You got it"
When they exit the elevator Beckett heads over to rejoins her escort driver that has been waiting at the front door. An NYPD cruiser has pulled up to the SUV to demand he move his vehicle from the loading zone. But the SUV driver is talking to the uniformed officer showing his credentials when she approaches the pair.
"Officer"
The officer jumps when he sees her. The other precincts have been briefed that there is an incident open and who she is, but this officer never expecting to be approached by anyone from the task force, let alone the incident commander.
"Yes, Ma'am"
"Officer, I need you to take Mr. Castle here to an address, wait for him then bring him back here. You will follow his orders until he releases you."
"Yes, ma'am. Let me notify my sergeant"
"Go ahead" Beckett tells the uniform then she turn back to Castle
The officer gets into his cruiser and takes the radio and starts giving his command the information that he is being pulled from patrol and by whom
"Rick, after you bring Angie some clothes check with the doctors and make sure that she is ok before you come back to the EOC"
"Got it." Rick responds. Then he looks deep into her eyes "Kate I was hoping to spend our first few weeks as a married couple doing anything but this"
Looking back at him "I know"
They both have stopped moving and are fixed on each others eyes. They have briefly returned to their former selves.
Their Eye Sex is interrupted by the officer telling them that his command has been advised that he is on special assignment and that he is ready to go. In spite of the PDA rules, Rick gives Kate a very brief kiss before stepping into the squad car.
Castle gives the officer the address of Kate's apartment. After they pull away from the curb it becomes obvious to Castle that the officer is dying to find out about what is happening.
"Mr. Castle" the officer starts "I have read a lot of your books. The Storm series is very good. But I must say the Nikki Heat. Well that group of books is great"
"Thank you. I am glad you like them. How about after this is over, I autograph them for you?"
"That would be fantastic. Uh! Are the stories really about Detective Beckett?"
Rick know what the officer is really asking but he is not about to go there "Well, I followed her around for several months while making notes about cases. Then I based the stories on a combination of cases. No one case is told. Just a note from here, a suspect from there a crime scene from somewhere else"
"OH, so the relationship between Rook and Nikki is not…?"
"No. None of that happened"
They cruiser pulls up in front of Beckett's apartment building and Rick tells the officer he will be back out in just a few minutes
Once inside Rick opens Kate's closet. The closet where she keeps the clothes that are not in her current wardrobe. One of Kate's habits that Rick finds fun is how she rotates clothes from her active closet to the inactive closet. He decides a phone call is best. He takes out his cell and calls
"Hey Castle, Are you there?"
"I'm in front of your inactive closet"
"Perfect. Look on the right side. You will find a yellow sweater…" She then tells him about another couple of items to pack
"Got it"
"Left side there are pants" She describes the pair she wants him to pack Beckett continues to list items for Rick to pack including some underwear, socks and footwear then some cosmetics
What Kate has not told Rick is the clothes she told him to load were presents given to her by Josh while they were dating. She has no desire to wear them ever again and she has decided that this is a good way to get rid them but at the same time do someone else some good.
Castle takes a gym bag from the closet, loads all the items and heads back to the street
When Castle arrives back at the hospital, he tells the officer to wait and he will need a ride to the 12th.
Castle goes beck inside and to the floor where Angie is staying. When he arrives at her room, he sees her sitting on her bed reading a book. He knocks gently
"Hello Angie" Castle speaks up
"Mr. Castle. Hello"
"All my friends call me Rick. I brought you some clothes. Ka... UH Johanna and I thought you might like some real clothes instead of what hospital gave you"
"Thank you Rick, that is so nice."
"Listen Angie, I need to go back to work. But my wife and I will definitely be back to see you later, OK?"
"Great! Thank you"
Castle leaves Angie's room and returns to the patrol car waiting to take him back to the station.
Angie opens the bag and looks at the beautiful clothes that he just gave her. She gets out of the bed and runs into the bathroom and jumps into the shower. When she comes back out she begins to get dressed. When she finishes getting dressed, she looks at her reflection in the mirror. Just the feel of real clothes and having her hair clean and brushed and a little makeup makes her feel alive again.
A feeling she has not felt in several weeks.
But there is someone already inside the hospital who will crash all of her happy emotions