Just got back from spring break so haven't been able to update. This is just the beginning to introduce the next case for our boys. I am still writing and will hopefully post more soon (who needs to pay attention in class any way?)

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Chapter 5:

A loud ringing sounded in his ear waking Ryan up. He jerked his hand around on the bedside table trying to find the phone. "Hello? Who the hell is this?" He answered when he finally found his phone.

"Calm down Ryan, it's Beckett." The voice on the other line answered.

"Sorry Beckett." Ryan sat up on bed and rubbed his eyes. "I'm assuming we have a fresh one?"

"Yeah, Broadway and Franklin. Do you mind calling Espo and letting him know?"

Yeah, I'll tell him. See you in 20." Ryan hung up the phone and turned to his partner, who was still fast asleep. Ryan leaned over and kissed his shoulder. "Espo, wake up. We've got a fresh one." Esposito's response was an unrecognizable, jumbled mess. Ryan laughed and pulled the sheet completely off, revealing the smooth tan ass of his partner. Ryan slapped the perfectly shaped gluts and got up.

"Let's go, time to save the city from another bad guy."

Ryan and Esposito were pulling up to the crime scene with no time to spare. They flashed their badges to the uniform that let them pass. The boys walked up to Beckett and Castle to see what they had. When they got to the body, both men gasped in horror. The scene before them was unlike anything they had seen before. You could see through all the blood that she wasn't old enough to be out in the streets. Her ripped leather mini skirt and broken four inch heel still on her foot told a story of what she might have been up too.

"Oh God! What happened to her?" Ryan asked with horror in his voice.

"I can't give official cause of death till I get her on my table." Lanie responded, standing up to face them. "The small cuts all over her body were superficial. Probably hurt like really bad paper cuts."

Beckett was squatting next to the body, looking it over. "Hey Lanie, what's that in the cuts?" She pointed out.

"I noticed that too but I'm not sure yet. I'll have trace run it when I get back to the lab." Lanie nodded to the men waiting to move the body. Beckett turned around to address her team.

"Ok guys, I know this one will be hard. She was a young girl, too young. But we work it like any other case. Ryan, Espo, I want you to canvas. See if anyone saw or heard anything last night." The boys looked at each other, the weight of what they had to do evident on their faces. They didn't have a photo to canvas with so they had to go around asking if anyone had seen a young blond girl wearing a short skirt and very high heels. They set off to start their canvas. Beckett and Castle watched them head off before walking to her car.

"What are we going to do?" Castle questioned before getting in, his hand on the door handle. The victim could be Alexis' age, and it had Castle thinking things he never wanted to.

"We find out who she is!" Beckett stated and got into her car. And that's just what they did. Lanie ran the girls fingerprints and got a hit. Abigail Preston was 17 years old now but had only been 14 when she went missing. Her parents had reported her missing when she didn't come home from school one day. Beckett was reading the report when Lanie called her saying she was ready. Knowing this was a big case, Beckett called Ryan and Esposito to go to the morgue and she and Castle would meet them there.

Everyone gathered around the body and waited for Lanie to tell them what she learned. Ryan stood as close to his partner as he could without actually touching him. He needed to feel the other, to know that he was there. The fact that the girl was young, probably working as a prostitute, and was heavily tortured before her death just made everything so much harder. Ryan knew what they would hear because he had heard it all before.