A/N- I have to say that I don't usually write cases and am not even going to try. So, this is mostly Kate's search for Castle...

Castle woke with a splitting headache and he was seeing double. He shook his head and realized immediately that it was a mistake. It cause the room to start spinning and he had to close his eyes to keep the world from tilting off of it's axis.

The room finally stopped spinning and he was able to open his eyes. The room was dark except for the light from a camera. It practically blinded him and he needed to close his eyes to keep from getting sick. He heard a voice in the distance say, "I see that you've decided to wake up. Good. I was hoping that I didn't kill you."

Castle recognized the voice immediately. His eyes widened and he asked, "Josh? Where am I? What are you doing?"

Josh kept himself hidden within the shadows. He said nothing else for a few moments. Then he told Castle, "You were always there. You wouldn't leave her alone. I thought that once we got married you would take the hint and back the hell off."

"I couldn't back off. She's my friend and..."

Josh laughed harshly and said, "She never gave our marriage a chance because of you. We could have been happy, but you couldn't back off. Then, she betrayed me and decided to keep that baby. And you made it so easy for her. Always there to help her. Offer a shoulder to cry on."

"You divorced her. I saw the papers."

"I divorced her because she gave me no other choice."

"No other choice? She's carrying your child!"

"A child that I never wanted. A child that she should have gotten rid of months ago."

Castle couldn't say anything to that. This man didn't deserve Kate or the baby that she carried. He looked at Josh and asked, "So what are you going to do with me?"

Josh smiled and told Castle, "Simple. I'm going to torture you. And see that camera over there? That is going to broadcast everything directly to Kate's computer. Then, when I get tired of playing with you, I will kill you. In her grief, she will turn to me. Where she belonged all along. Then, when she is feeling safe, I will administer a combination of drugs that will cause a late term abortion. I should have done it earlier. Then she never would have gotten involved with you."

The only thing that Castle could think of was that this man was insane. The next thing he thought of was that he needed to get out of here. To save the baby.

Before Castle could say anything else, he watched as Josh turned on the camera and walked towards him with a board in his hand. He closed his eyes and waited for the blows to come.

Meanwhile, Kate was pacing the floor in the loft. Castle had gone downstairs to pull the car around. When he hadn't returned after almost thirty minutes, she had gone down to check on him. The car was gone and there was nothing to indicate where Castle had gone.

So, Kate had gone upstairs to call Martha. Martha hadn't heard from him either. She was starting to get pissed off when she heard her phone alert her to a new email message. When she opened it, there was only a link. Which she clicked on. What she saw nearly killed her. Castle was slumped over in a chair. His face was bloodied and bruised. It barely even looked like him. She whispered softly, "Oh Castle..."

Then she got another email. This one was of a live feed. She saw a figure dressed in black approaching Castle from behind. Then man held a knife to Castle throat. Before she could tell what was going to happen, the camera went black.

Kate stumbled to the couch and stared at the picture of Castle. Then, she did the only thing she could think of. She headed down to the station.

When she got there, Ryan and Esposito were doing paperwork. When Ryan saw her, he asked, "What are you doing here Beckett? I thought you an Castle had big plans tonight."

Kate couldn't speak. All she could do was hand Ryan her phone. She had pulled up the email and handed it to him, "Click that link."

After seeing the picture of Castle, he gasped and that's when they went into action. Ryan contacted the tech department and asked them to put a trace on the emails. It was disappointing however. Because the emails were being routed through several different servers. All of them in various countries. The same for the live feed.

Ryan knew that they had to find some clue to find Castle. He knew that Beckett wouldn't have been able to survive losing Castle.

After being beaten and stabbed, Castle knew that he needed to escape. He wasn't sure that he could survive another one. Josh was hell bent on killing him. He felt that it was sooner rather than later. The man was seriously deranged and he knew that he was running out of time.

Castle was thinking about how to escape when he was once again knocked unconscious. All the while hoping that Kate wouldn't fall for Josh's charms once again.

Kate opened up her email on her computer. She replayed the video over and over again. Looking for some kind of clue as the where he was. There was nothing. The room was completely nondescript. There was no light. Except for the light from the camera.

She ran her hand through her hair. She felt the baby move and she cried softly. She placed her hand on her stomach and whispered, "I'll find him peanut. I'll find your daddy. I promise you that."

Castle woke and he could tell immediately that Josh was no longer in the room. After working for nearly an hour, Castle freed his hands. He managed to also free his legs. Thankfully, most of the damage was to his upper extremities. So, he was able to walk over to the computer. He clicked on the email program and sent a one word email to Kate. It read, Josh...

Then he collapsed onto the floor.

When Kate heard another email come in, she was afraid to check it. Afraid of seeing another email with a video of a battered and bruised Castle. So, she called Ryan over to check for her. What he saw stopped his heart. He cleared his throat and told her, "You need to see this."

Thinking that it was another picture of the man she loved being tortured, Kate shook her head, "I can't Ryan. I'm not strong enough..."

Shaking his head, Ryan told her, "It's not bad. It's only a text email. It says Josh."

At hearing her ex's name, her head popped up. Was it possible? Could Josh be behind this? The thought alone was crazy. He had divorced her, but did that mean that he was truly over her? Did he blame Castle for the breakup somehow? A thousand thoughts went through her head. She didn't want to think that Josh could be responsible for kidnapping the man that she loved, but she had to think that if Castle found a way to send a message then it was worth following up.

Kate took a deep breath and asked Ryan, "Can you bring him in please? I don't want to see him if it's at all possible."

Ryan nodded and hurried to bring Josh in for questioning. It was at that point the Kate got the idea to check the GPS on Castle's phone.

Little did she know, but that would be the clue that would break the case wide open.

So, while Ryan and Esposito questioned Josh, Kate contacted the cell phone company to start the trace on his cell phone.

She could only hope that they found Castle before it was too late.

Ryan and Esposito brought Josh in for questioning. He was very cooperative and answered all of their questions. Even though they thought he was guilty, there was no way to prove it. So, Ryan decided to follow him.

Meanwhile, Kate got the GPS coordinates on Castle's phone. It showed that he was being held in a warehouse in the Bronx. So, Kate signaled for Esposito to come with her. She knew that she should have let him go by himself, but if he was there, she wanted to make sure he was okay. Wanted to see for herself that he was alive and relatively okay.

When they pulled up to the location, Esposito told her, "I think you should stay in the car. If anything happened to you or that baby..."

"Listen Javi, I need to be there."

He knew that there was no way to discourage her, so he nodded and told her, "Stay behind me."

Kate nodded and followed him inside the storage unit. At first, they didn't see anything, but when Espo shone the light in the middle of the room, they saw Castle laying on the floor. He was deathly still and didn't appear to be breathing. Esposito knelt down and felt for a pulse. It was very faint, but it was there. He got on his phone and called for an ambulance.

Kate nearly collapsed when she saw the man that she loved on the floor of that warehouse. It was hard to breath and she heard someone coming. She turned and saw Josh heading that way. Without thinking, she walked towards him. He didn't bother trying to get away. She walked over to him and slapped him hard on the face and asked, "What the hell did you do to him?"

"I just gave him what he had coming to him Katie... Now we can be together."

Kate just looked at him and asked, "Are you crazy? There is no way that I'm getting back together with you. Not now. Not ever."

Before she knew what was happening, she saw a needle in his hand. Then, she felt a prick in her upper abdomen. Then the pain started and it was enough to make her black out. She didn't know what was happening, but hoped that the ambulance got there in time to save her and the baby..

When Kate woke, she was in a hospital bed. She felt her stomach and was relieved to find that she was still pregnant. She saw Martha sitting next to her and could see that she had been crying. She thought the worst and asked, "Castle?"

Martha stood up and gasped, "You're awake! Let me call the nurses."

Kate felt an excruciating pain in her head. She finally asked, "What happened? Castle!"

Kate tried to get up, but Martha put her hand on her arm and said, "You need to lay down Kate."

She could see the worry in the woman's eyes. She asked, "What's wrong?"

Martha could only shake her head and whisper, "The nurses will tell you."

It was then that Kate became extremely worried. She asked, "Castle? How is he?"

She smiled softly, "He's out of surgery. He lost a lot of blood. He's very lucky to be alive. What that man did to him. To you..."

Kate was really starting to worry. She put her hand on her stomach, pressed softly and then waited for the baby to move. She grew more worried when the baby didn't respond like normal. Usually there was an immediate response. This time however, it took a bit of coaxing to get the baby to move. Kate looked at Martha, "What happened?"

Martha could only shake her head, "Wait for the doctors..."

Kate closed her eyes and felt a tear fall down her cheek. If she lost her baby because of Josh, she would kill him. She didn't care about the law or anything else.

Kate's doctor soon appeared in the room and he smiled softly at her. The minute he appeared, she pounced on him, asking, "What happened to me? Is the baby okay? I..."

Her doctor smiled again and told her, "You're very lucky that the ambulance arrived when it did. You were injected with a powerful drug. It's used for late term abortions. However, we think that we administered enough drugs to counteract the effect. It's a potent combination of Misoprostol, Oxytocin, Laminaria, and Digoxin. We will want to do an ultrasound to check on the baby's condition and the condition of the placenta. But the good news is that your cervix is in tact and if you were aborting the baby there would be signs there."

Kate closed her eyes and whispered, "Do it now. I need to know."

Doctor Taylor nodded and they laid her bed down flat and wheeled her into the ultrasound room. It was there that she found out the sex of the baby. She smiled and whispered, "I knew it."

After nearly an hour later, Kate was told that the baby was, for now at least, fine. The delayed movement was due to the recovery from the drugs. They would need to monitor her for the next few days, but her prognosis was better than before. When she was back in her room she asked, "How's Castle doing?"

Her nurse smiled, "He's awake and asking for you."

"Can I go to him?"

"Not a good idea. I..."

"Please. Wheel me to his bedside. Or him to mine. I need to tell him about the baby. He needs to know that I'm okay." She put her hand on her stomach and whispered, "That we're okay."

Something in Kate's eyes told the nurse that she needed to do ask Kate asked. So, she held up a finger and went to get a wheelchair. Then, she helped Kate into it. She whispered, "I could get into so much trouble for this, but I understand what it's like to be expecting a baby and scared for it's life."

Kate felt the nurses hand on her shoulder and she reached up the squeeze it, "thank you."

"Anytime."

When they reached Castle's room, Kate wasn't prepared for the sight that awaited her. She put her hand to her mouth and tried to contain the gasp that escaped. Castle looked terrible. His eyes were nearly swollen shut and there were bruises everywhere that she could see. She finally whispered, "Oh Castle, what did he do to you?"

He must have heard her, because his head turned in her direction. She reached for his hand and squeezed it softly. Then she put it to her mouth and let the kiss linger there. She nearly wept when he asked, "Are you okay? They wouldn't tell me anything except that you were admitted and that they were monitoring you. I..."

Kate said that one thing she knew would shut him up, "The baby's a girl..."

She could see the smile that popped onto his face. Even through all the swollen tissue and bruises. She knew that it hurt him to smile, but he couldn't seem to stop. She stood up and took his hand and placed it on his stomach. When she pushed this time, it was as if the baby knew that it was Castle. Because she responded immediately. Kate looked at Castle and whispered, "She's going to be just as stubborn as her daddy is. I tried to get her to move and she wouldn't do it right away. You try once and she responds. She loves her daddy."

Castle didn't want to take his hand off of her, but he was extremely tired and soon fell into a deep sleep. Kate watched him for a few more moments and then she smiled. She knew that everything was going to be just fine. Josh hadn't broken them. If anything, he made their relationship even stronger...

A/N- And the Josh drama is over. I'm not a case fic writer, but this needed to be written about. So, here it is. As always, reviews are love...