After the CDC teams have entered the housing compounds to set up containment, the EOC group in New York is being updates on information in the possible bio terror threat to the city and beyond.

As incident commander, Kate Beckett has called all department heads into the main conference room and starts a detail planning.

Kate steps to the front of the room and takes the floor

"Hello everyone! Thanks for coming Based upon information retrieved form the raids earlier, we know this much. They had a doctor or someone claiming to be a doctor that was a member of the group doing all the medical side for this attack. He some how gained access to a tiny viable sample of the smallpox virus. He grew this into a sufficient amount to be deployed in some form of widespread attack. The CDC is still trying to find out where they got the sample. As far as anyone knows the only samples are currently under the control of the CDC Their plan was to protect the members of the group by vaccinating the entire bunch. He inoculated them in a mass campaign a few weeks ago. This was their attempt to be immune to the bug when they deployed their plan"

Ryan asks "Boss, what happened? Instead of immune it appears they all died from the virus?"

"This doctor made one serious mistake. Instead of giving them dead virus, he apparently gave them virus that was still alive. They spread the bug to themselves like they had planned to do to the rest of us, except, he gave it to them directly. They actually gave themselves shots containing the fully loaded virus and they began exhibiting symptoms very quickly"

"Beckett, how would this happen. Wouldn't a doctor know how to do something like this properly?" Esposito questions

"First off they normally would not be given an inoculation. A small amount of dead virus would be placed on the skin and a tiny scratch barely breaking the skin would occur. This is not what he did and because of this, we are now thinking this man did not even finish medical school if he went to one at all."

Ryan is looking at a file "Beckett, his name is on the list from the compound but we have found no record of him completing medical school anywhere in the US or Canada"

"OK! That makes sense, so he did not know the right way to do immunizations. So if it had been done properly after several days the body would react and create a pox nodule. This was the indication the body recognized the virus and attacked the site. The body now is immune to future infection"

Gates asks "Wouldn't there be some who did not take the shots?"

"Yes, but after the initial outbreak, additional members would be infected by the pox nodules from the infected patient and without protection they would get sick. Then this spread like wildfire throughout the compound eventually infecting everyone. And they all died"

Castle looks up from his note taking "Beckett, what about the team here in the city? The ones who picked up the truck from the container on the docks? Wouldn't they also be infected?"

"That is a possibility. We don't know if they are infected and spreading the virus, or they are not infected and are now isolated from their headquarters. They may possibly be determined to spread the bug all by themselves. We just don't know anything about them at this point. We need to find that truck and those individuals"

A uniformed officer steps into the room and hands Beckett a memo. She reads it quickly then looks toward Castle, Ryan and Esposito "They have found Angie's car in the impound lot. It was towed. The container is in tact and CDC possession and has taken it over to Lanie at the isolation lab"

"Fantastic. So that is accounted for" Castle responds

Turning back to the group in the room "All right, we must find that truck and its occupants before they can do whatever they are planning. So let's have someone constantly watching traffic cams and any other cameras we have access to. Patrol cars are to have finding this vehicle their primary focus especially around the building. The General Assembly meets day after tomorrow. That is who we believe is the main target. So, any questions?"

Beckett waits a moment while looking around the room "OK. Everyone lets go find the terrorists"

The crowd exits the conference room leaving Castle, Beckett, Ryan and Esposito sitting at the table

"Guys! I would rather face Maddox again on that rooftop than have to do this" Beckett comments as she runs her fingers thru her hair and leans her head back.

"Kate" Rick says looking at his wife as he gets up from his chair "You are exhausted. Let me take you home. We're not getting anywhere tonight"

She looks up to where her husband has stepped beside her. She knows he is exactly right. Her body needs sleep and emotionally she needs him. She reaches up with her hand to take his.

As he starts pulling her to her feet he says "Lets' go Baby Girl".

This brings a glare from an otherwise exhausted Beckett "Baby Girl? I don't think so!"

Castle looks hurt "Don't like that one either?"

"NO!"

Castle pulls Beckett out to the hallway and over the elevator

Esposito looks at Ryan "Baby Girl? What was that about?"

"Castle is trying out pet names for his wife. That's all"

"It appears that he has not found a suitable name that she likes"

"He will" is Ryan's response with a smile

The Castle couple are home. Back to the peace and quiet of their private space. Kate has gone directly to their bedroom, taken off her clothes and placed them into the laundry and dry cleaning baskets and has stepped into the bathroom. She would prefer a long hot soaking bath, but a shower is faster and takes much less time. She turns the water on to the hottest she can tolerate then steps into the stream of water

Rick has changed into a pair of lounging pajamas and is in the kitchen setting up the coffee machine to automatically brew a fresh pot in the morning so it will be ready when they get up.

She lets the water flow thru her hair, across her face, covering her shoulders, down her arms and across her chest. She feels the stream of cleansing liquid roll down her back. She turns around and around making sure every inch of her body has been scrubbed of the grime that she has been in contact with today. She lets the clean water start from her head as it flows down her body past her legs and off from her feet as it passes down the drain to be carried away from her. After she has felt that the evil of today has been taken from her, she leans her body against the shower wall and closes her eyes to relish in the clean feeling of the moment

He has realized she has been in the shower a very long time so to make sure that she is all right he steps into the bathroom to check on her. He can see thru the semi-opaque curtain that she is just standing in the shower leaning against the wall opposite the shower head. Letting the water run over her skin. Even though they are now married and he has already seen every inch of her body. He believes that she still deserves her privacy on occasion and he has no right to intrude on those moments.

With a tone of concern in his voice "Hey beautiful are you OK?"

After a brief pause he can see the shadow of her movement and a hand reaches out and takes the edge of the curtain and pulls it back slightly. She looks around the edge of the plastic curtain and he sees something that just takes his breath away.

He sees again a picture of her that is forever burned into his memory.

With her hair wet from the shower, her eye makeup streaking down her cheek and the water from the shower rolling down her face like tears, he sees the exact image of Katherine Beckett that first appeared at his door that stormy night so many months ago.

"Kate. What to you need?"

She reaches out to Rick's face placing one hand on each cheek and pulling him into her.

"YOU"