A/N: Soo thank you soo much for your responses! it took me a little to write this chapter but here it goes...please REVIEW and ENJOY!
"Oh my god Rick..." she said. It was bad. He had a nasty injury in his head, his face was all beaten but there was more. The wound at his side was bleeding too much, so she took her scarf off and applied as much pressure as she could. His pulse was irregular and it was barely there and he had a bandage covering up the upper part of his leg. "Rick if you can hear me please I need you to open your eyes...please" she said in tears.
Someone grabbed him. Pulled him so that he was lying on his back. Then he felt pressure at his side. It didn't hurt. But what caught him back to reality was Kate Beckett's pleading voice, begging him to open his eyes and with so much effort he did, to see the most amazing thing.
"Kate..." he whispered looking her glassy hazel eyes.
"That's right Rick." she said letting out a breath in relief. She knew he was running on fumes and that he was trying so hard for her to keep his eyes open. "Hold on Okay?...you have to stay with me...help is on the way..."
"Kate..."he said. "I knocked on your door..." He wondered why she didn't answer if she was there. "I thought...you..." he coughed. "Were working..." more coughs.
"I was..." Beckett answered. God where the hell was the ambulance. "I'm sorry Rick...I'm so so sorry."
"No Kate..." Damn why was soo hard to concentrate. "Don't apologize...I love you..." he said because he didn't know if he had more time left. "Mmm this is better than telling Gates." he laughed. Right. Of all people in the world Richard Castle was the only one who would laugh in this situation.
"No Rick...listen to me..."she said. She wasn't gonna let him say good-bye. "You can't die ok?" he had his eyes closed. "Rick!" he opened them again, but they were unfocused. "You can't just say I love you and die Richard Castle!" Oh she was desperate now, but she could hear sirens approaching. She needed him to hold on a few more minutes for the ambulance to come. "That would be the worst breakup ever!" he was slipping fast, but he was listening. "You can't just leave me like this and you know why?...Because I love you!...Don't die on me Rick...I need you and your family needs you as well...please...please just hold on..." He opened his eyes once more and there was spark in them. And just before the paramedics approach he just had to say one more word.
"Always." and with that the paramedics took over.
Beckett felt like everything happening in slow motion. The paramedics put a mask on him and loaded him on the stretcher applying pressure and bandages to the wound at his side. It took her a second to realize that one of them was talking to her.
"Are you coming with us ma'am?" asked the young man, pulling her from her trance.
"Off course." she said without hesitation and got in the back of the ambulance with Castle. When the paramedic closed the doors she took his hand. "How far is the hospital?" she asked while they plugged him to the heart machines revealing very fast and angry beeping.
"ETA 5 minutes." the driver said. Meanwhile Beckett grabbed one of Castle's hand while the other guy was working on him trying to control the bleeding.
"I can't control the bleeding!" he said to the driver. "It seems it gazed his liver...and his heart is working over time, if we don't do something now he'll get into cardiac arrest!" Ok that was very bad. But in that moment Castle's eyes opened, but were unfocused and full of fear. "Mr. Castle can you hear me?" It was pointless. Beckett knew he was panicking. She knew him too well.
"Shock him!" said the driver.
"What?!" both the paramedic and Beckett asked.
"I've seen it before Jim!" the driver answered. "His heart is beating way too fast and irregular...you gotta shock him to stabilize him...Jim do it now!"
"Ok!...ma'am I need you to let go of him for a second, please." the paramedic said with the defibrillator already in his hands. "Mr. Castle I'm sorry for this, but it's gonna hurt." Oh Castle knew what was coming alright. They were gonna electrocute him and the worst part was that he couldn't move because they strapped him to that stretcher.
"No..." Castle moaned through the oxygen mask. "Kate...please no..." She hated being so helpless and she couldn't help but crying for seeing him in so much pain.
"Rick it'll be over in a second...just hold on..." she said.
"Charge 100..." the paramedic said leaning to shock Castle. "Clear!"
"AAAAAAH!" Castle screamed when he felt 100 volts straight to his heart and making him jump on the stretcher. Unfortunately the heart monitors were still going crazy.
"No change!" the paramedic screamed.
"Do it again!" the driver answered. "We are almost there...two minutes out!"
"No please...no...hurts" Castle whimpered.
"Please isn't there any other way?" Beckett asked with tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry no" he answered. "Charging 150..." he said leaning again and putting the patels on his chest. "CLEAR!"
"OH SHIT!" Castle screamed. However, this time it seemed to work because his heartbeat stabilized. "Ah...shit man you're gonna get back at me for making me scream like a little girl in front of my girlfriend..." Both Beckett and the paramedic smiled in relief. "Jesus..." he was now feeling Kate's hands running through his hair and whispering soothing words. In less than a second Castle was unconscious again.
"You are incredibly brave Rick..." she whispered in his ear. "It's just a few more minutes and then doctors are gonna fix you up and you'll get back on your feet very soon..."
"Damn! I can't control the bleeding! Hey Chuck tell them he's gonna need blood when we get to the ER...he's bleeding out!"
"One minute...make him hold on one more minute...they have everything already prep at the ER!"
"Rick just stay with me...please if you can hear me please...just stay alive...we're almost there...please..." Kate pleaded. Then the door of the ambulance opened once again revealing four different doctors ready to receive him. They got out of the ambulance quickly, Kate never letting go of Castle's hand, while the paramedic debrief the doctors.
"40 year old male, GSW to the thigh, stab wound to lower abdomen gazed his liver, has lost a lot of blood. His heart was beating way too fast so we shocked him twice, he has a potential concussion and lost consciousness after we shocked him." the paramedic said while running through the halls of the ER.
"Alright let's get him to surgery now guys, before he bleeds out." one of the doctors said. Then, he took Beckett's hand that was holding Castle's and said. "You can't come with us ma'am, please stay in the waiting room." She did so, simply because she was too tired to argue at the moment, so watching the doors of the surgery area close, she went to the waiting room and so did the infamous waiting began, but before she had to call Martha and Alexis, as well as the precinct to let them know that Castle was now in surgery. She decided to call the precinct first.
"Captain Gates." she answered.
"Sir it's Beckett." she said, unfortunately revealing her crying before.
"Beckett it's everything alright?" she asked.
"It's Castle sir..." she said barely audible. "I found him...it's bad Captain..."
"Kate where are you?" she asked gently and concerned.
"I'm at Mount Sinai, but sir is bad..." she said with a shaky voice.
"Ok Kate just hold tight, we'll be there soon." Gates said. "Do you want me to call his family?"
"No..."she answered. She owed them that much. "I can do it sir, but thank you."
"Ok...we'll be there soon." And with that the line went dead. Now it was time to call Martha. She answered at the second ring.
"Kate darling what has happened?" she asked immediately.
"Martha...is Alexis with you?" she said.
"Yes you are on speaker." said the worried voice of Alexis. "Is it my dad? Is he dead?"
"No Alexis he's not dead." Beckett said hearing both redheads sight at the other end of the line. "I'm...I'm at the hospital...mmm...I found him..."
"Oh my god what happened?" Martha asked. "Is Richard Okay?"
"He's alive..." she managed to say. "He was taken to surgery about ten minutes ago...erh...he's critical but alive." she had to tell the truth.
"Kate we can't leave right now, because they just gave us a storm warning." Alexis said crying. "They won't allow us to leave until tomorrow." Martha said.
"Alright...Don't worry I won't leave him." she said determined. "I will keep you posted and I promise I'm gonna stay with him until you two get here."
"Oh thank you Kate!" Martha said. "Yes Kate I know that he's in good hands with you...even though we want to be there more than anything...we know that he needs you as much as we all need him right now." said Alexis' voice.
"Thank you." Kate said quietly. "Now, as hard as you may find this I need you to get some rest so that you can come here tomorrow."
"We'll try Kate." Martha said. "You too try and get some rest...you must be exhausted."
"I'll try." she answered. "Take care you two."
"And you take care Kate, bye"
It wasn't until she hanged up her phone that she let herself breakdown since probably this whole thing started.
A/N: More to come soon...