Hey guys! sorry I took a while to continue this. I have to confess I was stuck, and you'll probably notice this in the chapter :/
Disclaimer - Castle doesn't belong to me, and you'll probably notice that Sam Tyler doesn't belong to me either, and if you know to whom he belongs to, I love you!
When they went to pick up Sam Tyler, He wasn't there. The apartment was messy and his coffee was still hot in the mug. He had just fled what means someone tipped him off. Kate ordered an APB on him, and went straight to Julie Baker.
Now Julie was in an interrogation room, tapping her fingers nervously on the table, chewing her lower lip and wiping the sweat from her eyebrows. She knew something, and Kate would take it out of her.
She entered the room quietly, Castle right behind her, and both sat in front of Julie, her face going from nervous to frightened and then back to nervous. Kate cleaned her throat and started talking.
"So, Julie, why didn't you tell us about your brother Sam?"
"What does Sam have to do with this?" she said, sitting straight.
"Could you tell us about the relationship between your brother and your husband?" said Castle, and Kate handed her the messages Sam had sent Adam.
"I… They… What is this?" she skimmed the paper, and immediately covered her mouth with her spare hand, starting to cry. "My brother didn't do anything, I swear!"
"So Sam and Adam weren't exactly friends, were they?"
"Sam never liked Adam. He was the bully that treated Adam like trash when we were kids, and never liked us being friends. Later, when Sam turned 19 he left the house. He didn't have a good relationship with my mother either. I've hardly seen him lately. I know he didn't do anything because he's in Las Vegas, working there as a bellboy. I didn't even know about these messages. I mean, I told him we got married, but he said he was happy for me."
"Sam has been living here in the city. We went to his apartment and the coffee was still in the mug. Do you really expect us to believe that you didn't know that, since he has been contacting you?"
"I didn't! He always said he was in Vegas!"
"If he thought it was so important to keep in touch with you, why wouldn't he want to see you personally? What aren't you telling me, Julie?" said Kate, serious.
"I swear! He lied to me, then! I don't know, maybe he didn't want to meet Adam!"
"It doesn't make sense" pondered Castle. "He was here, and he called you telling you he was in Vegas. He never tried to convince you to give up on this marriage, and then comes out of nowhere to kill Adam."
"It wasn't him!" she screamed, her eyes swollen with tears.
"Did your brother know about Adam's Marvel deal?" Asked Beckett, a little more calm, and Julie lowered her eyes.
"I might have told him" she admitted, and then started to cry, realizing she was now more than ever putting the blame on her brother. "He wasn't happy about my marriage, of course, and then I told him Adam would be famous with his new game. And I guess it slipped that it had to do with Marvel. But he wouldn't kill Adam! Sam knew that he was my life!"
"How far would your brother go with his bullying?" asked Beckett, and Julie was confused. They remained in silence for a while, and then she tapped the file on the table and stood up. Castle followed her while she left the room, leaving Julie crying.
"I don't think she knew about this" he said when the door closed. Kate was still too serious.
"I'm sure she does. What makes me so angry, Castle, because she came with that cute story, but I think she and her brother were just two bullies who made Adam's life a living hell and he fell in love with the wrong person".
"Why do you think that?" Castle was surprised by Kate's reaction.
"I just feel it" she said, and moved towards Esposito's desk. He was talking on the phone, and after hanging up he turned to Beckett.
"They found Sam! He was on his way out of town, at the bus station. Uniforms are bringing him in now"
"Great! Put him on the other room. Don't let Julie know we've got him".
She stood in front of the murder board looking at Adam's picture. A shy smile was on his face, and he was a cute boy. Kate had a feeling in her guts that wouldn't go away that this had to do with Sam and Julie together, bullying Adam all his life. They didn't have anywhere else to go to know exactly how their relationship was when they were kids. Adam's mother died 7 years ago and Julie and Sam's was out of the country. She felt sorry for Adam, and most of all she hated herself for believing in Julie's love story when they first met, and relating it to her story with Castle. She couldn't look at Julie anymore without seeing a liar. A woman who married a poor boy who loved her truly because he was about to be rich. Kate was a woman in love, and she hated that people would do this to such an amazing thing.
She felt his breath behind her ear as he came close and sat beside her on the table. Without saying a thing, she tilted her head to lie on his shoulder as he put an arm behind her. She held his other hand with hers, and they both stood there while they waited for Sam to arrive.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah. I am. I just hate that everywhere I look in this case, I see this as a result of bullying. Sam and Julie going after their favorite victim."
"Why do you think Julie is behind this? Maybe she really loves Adam."
"I don't know, Castle. Imagine you love someone, and your brother keeps bullying him. Wouldn't you break any ties with have with your brother? It's impossible to keep both."
Castle opened his mouth, but realized he couldn't say anything else about this. Somehow, Kate was right. It was a difficult situation, and Julie seemed to have handled it very well, which was weird.
Sam Tyler came into the precinct carried by two cops, who gave him to Ryan and Esposito and went away while the two detectives dragged the man to the second interrogation room. He was reluctant to go, and fought a lot. Kate noticed something that was definitely going to solve this case. Sam Tyler was wearing army boots.