Chapter Twenty-Two
A/N: I must be feeling extremely generous today, a third chapter! (You can blame LittleMissRainbow for my generousity). Sorry this chapter is short but it needed to stand on its own.
~Rose
"And I"
Beckett:
Luckily the damage on my apartment wasn't extensive. It had been under repair for the past week, and today I was going to be able to go home.
The precinct was beginning to feel like my own personal hell. I still wasn't allowed to do anything except paperwork, so while the boys were out chasing murderers I was stuck at my desk with McBitchy breathing down my neck. I knew nothing would be the same at the precinct after Montgomery died and I got shot, but I didn't realize it would be this bad. Ryan acted like he had a huge weight on his chest, Esposito was sneaking around doing something (he thought no one noticed he was being all secretive), and McBitchy was… well McBitchy. Then there was Castle. The precinct wasn't the same without him. Castle. I missed him more than I thought was possible. I pretended to hate him so much in the beginning. He made me smile, which was something I didn't feel I deserved to be able to do; maybe that's why it was so easy to pretend to hate him. Richard Castle was just some immature play-boy author that got on my nerves; and then I got to know the real Rick. He was my best friend, my plucky sidekick, my partner, my one and done. That was all over now though.
Castle:
Maybe Ryan was right. I was putting myself in danger. Everyone who knows as much about this case as I do has been killed and I know who the dragon is. I couldn't even tell anyone who could possibly help me because not only would it put them in danger too, but it would also increase the chances of Kate finding out, which would put her in danger.
I remember my shock when I found out who the dragon was. He was a powerful man. He blackmailed Raglan and McCallister to kidnap those mobsters and in return they got Montgomery involved. When Johanna Beckett started to investigate the incident he knew she had to die. Then when Raglan was going to explain the whole thing to Kate, he had to die too. So many people had been killed because of this man. Not just the three cops and Johanna and her associates, but also the ME that covered up the fact that Johanna's and the other three murders were connected. He was going to come clean too before the dragon hired Melling to kill him. This had been going on far too long and I had to find a way to stop it before anyone else died.