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Castle woke up, for a moment he was disoriented but then he remembered the call. Glancing around he realized somehow he had made it to the bedroom. He remembered Kate and Martha trying to console him, then his mother getting him some of her Valium from her stash.

The rest was a blur; he got up hearing a commotion from the living room. He opened his bedroom door and was shocked; his living room had been turned into the 12th precinct. There was a murder board in front of his dining room table, and standing in front of it was Esposito, Ryan, and Captain Gates herself. The FBI had joined the party; two agents were setting up what looked like a trace on his phone. He searched for Beckett not seeing her in the crowded room.

"Mr. Castle." A subdued Captain Gates called to him, " I am here to personally see too it that you get your baby home safe."

"Thank you sir." Castle said, "Is Beckett around?"

All three of them nodded over to the kitchen where he spotted his Fiancee talking to none other than FBI Agent Jordan Shaw.

He made his way over, squeezing through the two bulky agents; Kate offered him a smile when she saw him, placing her hand on his arm.

"Castle, you remember Agent Shaw." She inquired handing him a steaming cup of coffee which he took gratefully.

"I do, Id say its good to see you but.." He said shaking the hand she offered.

"Understood Mr. Castle, if I was in your situation, well I don't know how you're standing." Giving him a sympathetic smile she ushered Castle and Beckett to a quiet section of the room.

"We have learned that your daughter's boyfriend is one Nikolas Kostas, born in Detroit, Michigan to a Greek Immigrant named Anthony and his Colombian born wife Maria." Shaw read as they took a seat. "His record is clean in the States, a few citations for Pot but nothing earth shattering. However, when he moved to Greece in 2008, he meets up with his cousin Angelo Kostas. Kids bad news runs with a street gang in Athens, fancy them self's modern day Robin Hoods, when all they are, are grave robbers." She paused sipping her coffee. "There has been a rumor through Interpol that they may be working with Paulo Theapolis."

Beckett's breath hitched," I know that name; he is a internationally known and feared mobster. His name came up in one of my investigations in Washington." She took Castle's hand before continuing, "And you think maybe he is involved in this kidnapping? Why?"

Agent Shaw started to speak but was interrupted by Espo, Ryan and Gates who had information they wanted to share.

"I made some calls to a military buddy of mine that works Interpol." Espo began setting a photo in front of Castle, Beckett, and Shaw. "Sent him our sketch artists photo, he knew exactly who it was. His name is Pietro Chirico, he is from Florence Italy, has been in prison numerous times and he is one of Paulo Theapolis guys."

Castle's hand shook as he picked up the photo. "So what does this mean for Alexis? And how is PI involved?"

"Not sure bro." Espo answered "but one thing is for certain we got to move fast, Agent Shaw has some of her people and a few of ours in Long Island as we speak combing the streets asking around."

"Right now we have to just hope that they call again, and being that this most likely about collecting a ransom they will." Shaw added, she then got a phone call, she moved away to take it.

Castle sat, in shock staring at the photo of one of the men that had his baby, Beckett glanced at Espo, Ryan and Gates and motioned for them to join her by the murder board."

Once out of Castle's earshot she spoke, "I am very worried about him, you should have saw him last night. If Alexis.." she couldn't continue past the lump in her throat, her eyes welling with tears.

Captain Gates interrupted, "Don't think that way Detective, Castle is one of us, therefore Alexis is and we will stop at nothing to bring her back safely, now go be with your fiancée."

Beckett nodded, she headed back to Castle, taking the seat next to him she pulled him to her, his forehead resting on her shoulder.

"Its going to be ok." She murmured but then she wondered, would it?

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Alexis woke to cold water being dumped over her head, she flailed, coughing when some water got in her mouth. Napoleon stood over her a bucket in his hand, "Get up, I've decided what imma do with you." She resisted trying to claw at him but he was faster and landed a punch to the side of her head. "Stupid girl." He hissed pulling her by her hair out of the room, "now behave I aint going to warn you again." He took her into the room with the table and chairs, throwing her roughly into the chair, he instructed Mr. Clown to hold her still. He then, took the phone they had used the day before and dialed. Alexis watched as he drummed his fingers while he waited for the phone call to go through.

Napoleon smirked when his call was answered, "I needa speak to Richard Castle, and make it snappy or I may get bored and just kill his daughter for fun."

Alexis hoped her father was tracing the call, or Beckett or somebody, she tried to scream but a hand clamped over her mouth, "Shhh." The clown whispered.

"Mr Castle, "Napoleon bellowed, "I am sure you want your daughter back so here's whats going to happen. Your going to get us $500,000 in Us Dollars and your going to separate it in two duffel bags in equal amounts, so $250, 000. I will give you four hours to do this, then I will call you back and we will make arrangements to exchange the cash for the girl."

Her father must have agreed because then Napoleon motioned to the clown to take his hand away from her mouth, and then Napoleon stuck the phone to her ear.

"Alexis, are you there?" She heard her dad ask,

"Yeah dad I am."

"Are you ok?"

"I am, but daddy hurry."

"I am pumpkin, Daddy's coming to get you."

Napoleon took the phone, "Now see she's A Ok. So we have a deal yes?"

He laughed at her father's response, "Niko? Oh don't worry about him, he stays with us, he owes my boss big time. I'll be in touch, remember four hours." He then hung up.

He turned to Alexis, "See I told you, we both get what we want. I could have killed you, but I have a fondness for gingers."

He instructed the clown to take he back to the cell, and so once again she was pushed into the dark dank room, PI was missing. She wondered if they were going to kill him now or later, and found that she really didn't care either way.