Kidnapped Ch.12
'What do you think you are doing?' Castle called out angrily, and Antonio's hands froze. The next thing he knew, he was knocked right to the ground. He winced slightly when Castle's fist came in contact with his face, but he tried to bluff his way out of the situation.
'Sir, what are you doing?' Antonio asked.
'I know the vitamin the doctors give her. It begins with 'G'. Your bottle starts with 'D', and her medical charts didn't specify a change. What are you trying to do to my wife? Who are you?' Castle yelled, gripping his shoulders tightly.
'Sir, I told you who I am. I'm just a nurse, and I'm giving vitamins to your wife and child on the doctor's orders, ' Antonio croaked out, and Castle shook him roughly.
'You're lying,' Castle snarled, and just at that moment, Esposito and Ryan walked into the room, surprised at the fact that Castle was on the floor, half-strangling a nurse to death.
'Yo, Castle. What are you doing?' Esposito asked. Castle replied to them without taking his steely glare off Antonio.
'He tried to kill Kate,' Castle said curtly, not trusting his voice to speak anymore than that before he exploded with rage.
'What?' Ryan asked, as his usually warm blue eyes turned cold and hard as he stared at the man lying on the ground in front of him.
'Look at that syringe. CSU will find his prints on the plunger, and what's in it? Definitely not the vitamin. I'd bet it's poison or something,' Castle told them, his voice wobbling slightly.
Hauling the guy up, Ryan cuffed him and Esposito read him his rights, promising Castle that they would be backed after they dealt with the guy.
Sitting back next to Kate, he took her hand and stroked it softly. The truth of how close he came to losing Kate when she was right in his sight finally sunk in, and with that, guilt sunk in too. When he had married Kate, he had promised her that he would keep her safe, but just like that, he had almost broken his promise.
'I'm so sorry, Kate, I'm so sorry,' Castle murmured, burying his face in her arm, inhaling her scent, and trying to convince himself that she was not just going to slip away.
'What are you sorry for?' A weak voice asked, and Castle's head shot up, unable to believe his ears. The voice that he had yearned to hear for the past few weeks was ringing in his ears, and he simply could not believe it.
'Kate?' Castle croaked out, his throat dry, not allowing him to say more.
'Castle,' Kate breathed, as she attempted to move over slightly so she could lean over into his embrace. However, a small shriek of fear from Kate quickly wiped the smiles off both of their faces as she looked down at the foot of the bed in horror and fear.
'Kate, Kate, honey, what's wrong?' Castle asked anxiously.
'I can't feel or move them, Castle. I can't feel or move my legs,' Kate whispered.
'Alright, this is your last chance to cop a deal. We got you on attempted murder. What we want is why,' Ryan told him, folding his arms in front of his chest.
'And why would I tell you that?' Antonio asked, looking at him smugly.
Just then, an officer came into the interrogation room with a thick file in his hands, and handed it to Esposito. After a brief read through the file, Esposito whistled.
'Boy, oh boy. You really are a bad boy, are you, Tony? Assault, assault with a deadly weapon, theft… Is there anything that you haven't done yet?' Esposito asked him.
'So?' Antonio asked, shrugging.
'So, what do you think will happen if we happened to, I don't know, throw you into general population in prison? Think you'll survive that?' Esposito asked.
'We only want one thing, and that is the person who sent you after Kate Beckett,' Ryan told him, his face inches away from Antonio's. 'You tell us, and we'll make sure you're not in general population.'
'Guess what? I don't care. I get killed, you will never know who's behind this,' Antonio told them.
'So there's someone behind this,' Esposito hissed at him, and Antonio silently cursed under his breath, but he carefully maintained his façade, hoping to annoy these two detectives as much as he could.
'Oh, detective, this goes so much deeper than you think it does,' Antonio laughed, enjoying having a hold over the two, and leaned back.
'Take him down to holding, and we'll take him down to Central booking later,' Esposito called to the uniform in the room, who nodded.
'What do you mean you can't feel or move your legs?' Castle asked, beginning to worry as he saw the fear in her eyes.
'I can't move them at all,' Kate cried, a small tear rushing down her face, as her fears began to overflow and she began panicking. Her breaths began to quicken and she began to hyperventilate. The machines that she was hooked up to began to beep wildly at once, and immediately, a stream of doctors and nurses ran into the room.
'What just happened?' The doctor asked Castle as he continued to clutch at her hands, completely unable to let go.
'She said she could not feel or move her legs, and then she began to panic, and…' Castle trailed off as the doctor nodded in understanding.
'Should we give her a sedative, doctor?' a nurse asked, and the doctor shook his head.
'The side effects are pretty bad if she's pregnant,' the doctor answered, before addressing Castle. 'Sir, can you place a hand on her back and try to calm her down?'
Gently, Castle began to run his hands up and down her back the way he knew she liked and began to make up a scene for Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook and told it to her softly.
Everyone watched on as he continued doing so, hoping that they could calm her down without her having to suffer the serious side effects of the sedatives.
'Alright, let's go rattle the guy once more before Central booking takes him,' Esposito told Ryan, who nodded, and the two of them grabbed their jackets from the back of their chairs and began to head down to the holding cells.
'Who will you be seeing?' The guard on duty asked.
'Antonio Bolstalk,' Ryan answered, as the guard on duty signed the paper and led them to the cell.
When they reached the cell, they stopped short. Esposito looked around, and looked back at Ryan.
'What?' Ryan asked, slightly irritated.
'Where is the guy?' Esposito asked, gesturing to the cell with no one inside, and its door wide opened.
A/N: I'm super tired. My school had a bonding activity in which all the students go on a 3-days 2-nights tenting camp experience, and I am exhausted. However, I made a promise, so here's your chapter, right on time. I really hope that you all like it.
Seriously, though, guys, a massive thank you to all those of you that have reviewed. I was so tired, but all the reviews from the last chapter really made me determined to get the next chapter out on time.
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This chapter is dedicated to Bianca tabbycat for being an awesome, brilliant, committed, fantastic beta.
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