AN: Here is chapter five for all of my loyal readers who know that I am sick and can now write faster. Especially since Ma just announced throughout the house that siblings have to sleep away from me tonight, and with her. So, basically I can write for the night, since I cannot fall asleep.

"Yeah. You could say that your granddaughter, and daughter getting saved, instead of dying, had something to do with me."

"Why, good morning there Sleeping Beauty how was that nap of yours that you took?" Castle says as he walks over to the side of her bed. "Wanna play another round of Texas's Hold 'Em?" He asks as he grabbed the stack from on the night stand next o the hospital bed. "Of course minus the fact that your mom s going to kill me later for teaching you this game." Castle mumbled to himself as he set-up the game and helped the little girl sit up straighter in her bed.

"Yeah, Cassy. Wlet's pway ajain." Emily said all too happy for playing a poker game at the age of almost three. "My had fwun last timey."

"You had fun last timey?" Castle asked with fake enthusiasm while trying not to look at all of the bruises and scratches on the two year olds innocent body. Oh, god how he felt so responsible for what had happened last week.

After the brief, rough, angst meeting with Kate's father, the doctor who had taken Emily in the back to operate had come back and ask for Castle and Jim both, and to see they credentials to make sure that they were who they said they were.

Emily wasn't that bad actually once all of the smoke and dried blood was washed off of her body, and they were able to see the actual cuts and scratches on her body. Her back was the worse area of them all, she had an open wound that looked like she had been whipped in the same spot, the same way, and several times.

Her arms had scratches and bruises covered all over and around them and her legs too. Nothing broken though, thank god. Castle had sent a prayer of thanks to whatever God out there that had answer is previous prayer, and was still listen to his calls when Kate and Emily's lives were on the line.

Her chest was a different story though. Bruised ribs can make a little two year old angel scream at the top of her lungs when she first wakes up from a coma. But they can also trigger an asthma attack, when they are caused in a burning building with a lot of smoke.

"Cassy, Cassy CASSY!" Emily screamed when Castle wouldn't snap out of his very darkening thoughts the longer he was falling down in them.

"Oh, yes sweetie, let's get back to the game. Shall we?" Castle asked as he set the deck down in front of her for her to cut into two halves, which she did not fail to do, and make as equally as possibly.

The sound of a glass door sliding open behind Castle made him turn around in his seat to see the night time nurse come walk on in to check on them.

"Hi Nuwse Cindy!" Emily said in a very giggle voice. A voice that Castle had learn to become her 'I am so not peeking at the cards and cheating so I have all of the winning cards.'

Nurse Cindy just looked from Castle to Emily and back again with a very disapproving look on her face as she shook her head trying not to laugh at the two goofballs sitting right in front of her acting as if they just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

"You do know that these are all glass windows, right Mr. Castle? And we can see everything that goes on in here." Nurse Cindy asked as she checked over Emily's vitals.

"As a matter of fact yes I do. I did pay for this particular room for a reason, remember Nurse Cindy?" Castle stated matter-of-factly.

"Evewythingy?" Emily asked looking up at the nurse.

"Everything." Castle and Cindy said at the same time while smirking at each other. Both trying not to laugh when Emily put the cards back down and handed them to Castle to shuffle again.

"You cwt dek tis tiwm." Emily said looking down at her hands looking very guilty and sad all of a sudden.

"It's okay Emily; everything is going to be okay again." Castle said hopping that she caught the hidden message in his words. The look on her face said everything that she couldn't in that one moment without having a full-blown meltdown for her mother again.

Just like her mother did. However; they had to sedate her after just waking-up from the first coma. The first coma.

Nurse Cindy took this as her cue to leave, and with bidding one last good-bye to each of them and wishing them good-luck to whoever one she left with a promise of being back shortly to check one last time before lights out for the both of them.

Exactly, like what her mother did. Castle thought, a wave of depression taking over his body and ruggedly-handsome features as he looked over at the picture on Emily's night stand of her and Kate, taken the night before the bomb went off by her v-tech digital camera.

Castle found the camera in the wreckage and had all of the pictures printed out at the drug store and each in different picture frames, with different words and designs on them, for her when she eventually woke-up.

Kate had a copy on her night stand in her room also, for whenever she finally woke-up.

Hopefully someday soon, if not for Emily's sake, then at least for his, or for his sanity.

He was tearing up on the inside with having temporary full-custody of a two and three-quarter year-old, who would be going home to his loft to live in, in less than week. And he didn't know what to do.

Hopefully she'll wake-up, and soon. Castle thought as he plastered on a fake smile, for the child's sake and sanity.

His was gone.

AN: WOW…So, I have absolutely NO idea where that just came from. Especially the ending. That was pretty dark, even with the E/C scene in there. If you have any request that you would like to see in any of the upcoming chapters just drop the request in a review or PM me. Either will do.

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