He got dressed and went to knock on her door but of course got no answer. His phone rang, it was Castle.
"Hey Pete, any news yet?"
"No but Mickey and Jake are on their way here, they're Rose's two best friends and Jake is head of Torchwood security, they couldn't get here fast enough. I've not told her mother yet, I was hoping for some news."
"Kate's got a murder to investigate, she just got a call, sorry but it's not Rose, trust me. Someone stepped under a bus but witnesses say some guy in a purple suit talked to him right before he stepped out so she's launched a full-scale search of the area. It happened just after eight this morning so it was busy."
"Where was that then?"
"Nowhere near your hotel, Kate's not linked it to Rose's disappearance. Have you called your wife yet?"
"No, I was about to, I was just trying Rose's room, see if she came back during the night, I don't want to believe this Rick."
"I know you don't Pete but when Kate gets back to the precinct, she'll talk to Captain Gates about it. As soon as the mayor is in his office, I'll call him myself, get him to call Myer's department and get it made a priority. As soon as Kate's free, she'll join in."
"Thanks Rick. I know Kate has her own job to do as well. Right, I'd best face up to Jackie and if you think the other one was bad enough, she had nothing on this one, she and Rose are very close."
"Well good luck with that Pete. I have to go now, Ryan's calling me, Kate's going nuts, other witnesses are saying this guy in the purple suit was arguing with someone else, a news vendor and the man poured coffee onto his leg. We get all the strange ones."
Pete tried to smile but his heart wasn't in it. Now to face Jackie.
He waited to get a word in when he said Rose hadn't returned to the hotel after the conference. He'd already called the airline and cancelled their flights and spoken to the day manager, who had been told an important guest had not returned last night and their rooms were being held.
"Tell me this isn't happening Pete."
"I'm sorry love but it's true. Castle is getting onto the mayor himself to get her treated as a missing person sooner than they normally start investigating. It's usually 24 hours but Rose is lost and alone in a big city and though she can take care of herself, she could be anywhere. We don't even know what cab company she used to come back to the hotel in so when Jake and Mickey get here, I'll have them speak to the doorman there and see if he happened to notice anything, like if anyone was with her or what cab company it was."
"So you told Jake and Mickey but not me?"
"Jackie, it was gone midnight where you are love and I thought she'd come back during the night. I'll call you back as soon as I hear something but don't tell Tony. Just tell him we're staying a bit longer on business and I'll bring him something extra back."
"Ok but I'm not happy, I should come over."
"There's nothing you can do but look after Tony."
"I should be used to her disappearing like that, all the times she used to go off after the Doctor."
"I know but if anything had happened to her, we'd know by now and there's been nothing reported, she had ID on her."
Kilgrave hadn't been able to sleep. He was out of the apartment before eight, gone to a news stand where the vendor had been rude and wanted him to put the paper down before he'd paid for it so he'd made him spill his coffee then when he'd gone to cross the road to the coffee shop to collect some breakfast items for Rose, a man had stepped on his foot and he'd got annoyed and told him to go step under a bus, which conveniently, there was one passing.
He was back before Rose was even up and the two men he'd used were standing outside the door waiting for him.
"You, go down to a staff agency and get me a housekeeper who can cook a decent meal and tell them I'll take one on a month's trial."
"Yes Sir, right away."
"And you, inside and make yourself useful, carry these for me and take a table onto the balcony and have it all ready for when my guest joins me."
"Yes Sir."
Rose had woken just after eight, having figured out the night before how to set the alarm on the clock radio. She'd stepped under the shower and chosen a top and trousers and a flat pair of shoes in case she could make a run for it but they were quite a few floors up, she'd probably not even make it down to the lobby even if she took the lift. She walked out of the bedroom just before nine to see Kilgrave in his purple trousers and purple waistcoat and a table set up with assorted croissants and other breakfast pastries and a carton of coffee, he'd obviously been out or got one of the men to bring them in but one of them was missing.
"Ah, good morning my sweet Rose, I trust you slept well?"
"Yeah, thanks. Are you going to tell me why I'm here?"
"All in good time, like I said, there's no rush. Would you like to go out?"
"Yeah, later maybe, I'd like to go to the top of the Empire State Building and see the Statue of Liberty, you know, all the tourist spots."
"We'll see shall we? It's not going to be all sightseeing Rose, we also have work to do."
"What kind of work?"
"No more questions, eat your breakfast."
Rose knew that wasn't a suggestion, judging by the look on his face.
Castle and Beckett had just got back to the precinct, Kate was getting Ryan and Esposito to look up the description of the man in the purple suit after talking to the news vendor who fortunately wasn't serious scolded and Lanie was trying to ID the man who had walked under the 8.10 bus to Times Square.
"Hey, Beckett, you'll never believe who the witnesses say the guy in the purple suit looks like," Ryan joked.
"Go on, surprise me."
"That actor, you know, that Scottish one, he was in that cop show last year, awful American accent."
Castle looked up. "Yeah, I know the one but I thought his accent was quite good, considering. It must have been difficult for him, give the man a break. How's your Scottish accent?"
"Whatever Castle. Not much else to go on really, they all say the same thing, they argued and the deceased stepped in front of the bus, the driver's a bit shaken up, so are half the passengers who got slammed into the seats in front of them. Luckily there was no-one standing, most people had just got off."
"Keep me posted. Castle, have you spoken to Pete this morning?"
"Yeah, he had to tell her mother, I don't envy him on that point. I'm going to call the mayor, he should have had his morning coffee by now. Have you spoken to Myer's yet?"
"No, not yet, I will do. I was waiting for a photo of Rose."
"Who's Rose?" Espo asked as he put a report on her desk.
"Rose Tyler. She went missing last night, her stepfather is a friend of Castle's."
"So who is she then?"
"Ever heard of Vitex?" Castle answered him.
"Oh, she's one of those Tylers? She went missing? Sure she's not just sightseeing?"
"We're sure Espo, now can you get back to work?" Kate asked him, looking at her husband.
"I'll send Pete a message, get him to send me a recent photo of Rose," Castle offered.
Mickey and Jake were just getting off the plane, they'd been lucky as still not many people liked to fly long distance via that method of transportation and it was quite expensive but where Rose was concerned, Jake put it on his unlimited Torchwood expense account's credit card. They got a taxi to Pete's hotel, he'd managed to get them a twin room as with him staying on, there was only a free twin and a double and he didn't think they'd want to share that way.
Jake knocked on Pete's door.
"Jake, Mickey, come in. Did you get your room key?"
"Yeah, we just threw our baggage in. Any news?" Jake asked him.
Pete rang for room service to bring a pot of coffee and told them what he'd already said last night and gave them the name of the hotel the conference had taken place in. Jake said they'd head over and see if anyone remembered anything, even the slightest detail. He'd had a message from Castle and forwarded a photo of Rose and been told not to bother with the flyers just yet, when Myer's department took over, which they would he'd been assured, they would issue a missing person's report and notices would be sent to every officer in the district and beyond.
It didn't put his mind at ease though, she could be anywhere in the city but this report he'd heard of a man stepping in front of a bus after an argument, that was strange indeed but since the bus would have been moved and the passengers already interviewed, there wasn't much Torchwood could do and he didn't know exactly where it had taken place. He'd have to ask Castle for more details once the search for Rose started and there had already been over twelve hours of doing nothing.
All that would change now Jake and Mickey were here, they wouldn't give up until she was found safe and well. They went out to the hotel the conference had taken place in, the doorman vaguely remembered her leaving and thought the cab she got in was called East Side Cabs so all they had to do was locate the base and ask if a driver dropped her off outside her hotel. They were in luck.
"Yeah, I remember her, English dame, blonde hair, she gave me a large tip when she got out. I saw in the mirror that two guys were walking towards her, one took her arm, then they were out of view."
"Did you see any cars pull up behind you?" Mickey asked as the cab driver seemed to be having trouble understanding Jake's accent.
"Yeah, come to think of it, a black SUV pulled up as she was paying me."
"Thanks mate," Mickey told him.
"Something wrong?" the driver asked him as they turned to leave.
"We don't know yet."
"I don't want no trouble."
"No trouble, she never got into the hotel, that's all."
At least that was something, Mickey thought as they got a cab back to the hotel to tell Pete.
Meanwhile, Kate had been to see her captain.
"Detective Beckett, the missing woman's stepfather may be very important where they come from but this is the homicide division, not kidnapping. Go see Myers."
"I called him last night, he said to call him back after midday if she didn't turn up but she's been missing over twelve hours, in our city and we have a responsibility to find her."
"Have you got any evidence she's missing? Anything that ties her to what happened this morning?"
Kate remained quiet.
"No, I didn't think so detective. Call Myers again if it makes you feel better but this isn't your case so maybe you can find out why that man stepped in front of that bus earlier?"
"Yes Sir."
"Detective, I understand your concern and you're right, she is in our city but Myer's team are the specialists, leave it to them."
Castle had got the photo of Rose and had downloaded it to Kate's computer, ready to send to missing persons. He was waiting for the mayor to call him back, he'd had an early meeting. His phone rang.
"Mr Mayor, thanks for calling me back."
He always called him that except at their weekly poker games. He quickly explained how Pete Tyler was a very important person back in England and how Rose had been missing for over twelve hours.
"So Rick, what do you want me to do about it?"
"Get Myers and his team, here at the 12th to start looking for her before the 24hr deadline. Pete Tyler is expanding his operation here in New York, have you heard of Torchwood?"
"You mentioned it before, some English secret organisation."
"Not so secret now, they used to be. Well, he's been trying to get backers interested in setting up over here, to help other government agencies in strategic operations, undercover work and suchlike, he's got a lot of interest so far. I was going to speak to you later but since it's come up he wants your permission to get the city's police chiefs interested in working with them."
"I see. Well, I'd need to know more but for now, the missing woman is more important and we would expect the English police to go all out if a U.S citizen was lost in their country. I'll call Myer's chief and tell him to get started looking for her, we want to give Mr Tyler a good impression as we are responsible for their safety while they are guests in our country."
"Thanks, I'll let him know. See you at the poker game on Friday?"
"You bet Castle, I'm gonna bust your ass."
Castle decided to give his friend that piece of good news. Pete was slightly relieved and told him what Mickey and Jake had learned.
Rose had decided to delay going out until after lunch since Kilgrave informed her a housekeeper would be arriving shortly, one of the other men had returned from his mission. She got first-hand experience of how he treated his staff as the poor woman appeared totally under his control as he gave her instructions to go get groceries and then prepare dinner for two, telling one of the men she never heard the name of to give her some cash.
Rose had no idea what Kilgrave did for a living, probably nothing much by the looks of it. He told the woman to hurry back and sent one of his men to the nearby deli to fetch a late lunch, asking Rose what she wanted. What she wanted was to get out as fast as she could but instead, went onto the balcony without him telling her as the woman prepared to go back out.
Kilgrave smiled, she was getting the idea and didn't think she would pose much of a problem, she obviously wouldn't want to see anyone come to any harm. Shame she hadn't been with him earlier then. He went to join her out on the balcony and going up behind her, put his arms around her waist, kissing her hair.
"Still enjoying the view?"
"Yeah, it's amazing, I can see why you chose the place."
"Yes but you don't want to know how I got the place, do you?"
"No."
She just hoped it wasn't anything bad. He saw her concern.
"Don't worry, the previous occupier went on a round the world cruise. I'm not that bad Rose, really."
Rose seriously doubted that.
"It's not my fault people tend to do as I suggest, they just do but you, you're very reluctant. I hope you're not putting on an act, are you Rose?"
"No, you know I have training, to resist things like that if you really know about me but I'm not that good, I feel compelled to do as you say. I can't help but try and fight it though."
"I wouldn't expect anything less, that's why I put certain safeguards in place with people who don't have any resistance. Now why don't you turn around and give me a kiss?"
Rose thought he was rather trying his luck. Still, it was one thing threatening that someone would jump off the roof if she tried to escape and another doing a simple thing like get romantic with him, he must think he was irresistible to women or something and he might not be so nice to her if she failed to comply on that point. She'd had to kiss worse on her undercover missions, this was no different. She turned to face him as he moved his arms around her neck and kissed her cheek, then put his finger on her lips.
Back at the 12th precinct, Kate had a call from Myers about Rose.
"Really Beckett, have you got the mayor on speed-dial?"
"No but Castle has. I did try to tell you Rose Tyler was someone very important in her country. I'll send you her photo shall I?"
Myers huffed down the phone at her as Rose's picture came up in an email link she'd just sent him.
"You keep out of this for now Beckett, I'm warning you, let me do my job."
"Fine but if you don't turn up anything by the weekend, Mr Tyler will bring his own people in."
"Is that a threat?"
"Oh, you don't need me threatening you Myers, trust me, when Torchwood come to town, you'll know about it."
Castle was watching his wife, then had a brilliant idea.
"Kate, why didn't I think of it before?"
"Think of what?"
"What I became recently, a PI. I get Pete to hire me, it's what I do."
"Great idea, why don't you call him?"
"Yeah and what do I usually do when I get stuck on something?"
Kate shook her head. "Forget it Castle, the captain says we can't get involved. We don't know anything, she could be perfectly OK and shacked up with a good looking guy."
"That's not her style according to Pete and his two men learned something this morning."
"What?"
"That two men approached her when she'd paid the taxi driver, he saw one of them take her by the arm and they'd just pulled up in a car behind the cab."
She stopped what she was doing.
"Seriously Castle? Why didn't you say something?"
"Because you said this wasn't your case and to let Myers and his team get on with it, so I did."
She picked her desk phone up to call Myers, then decided against it, they'd work that out for themselves, wouldn't they? Still, the sooner Rose was found the better so she reluctantly passed the information on to one of his team. Pete had been contacted by a detective called Kirsch and he'd given a description of Rose and what she'd been wearing and was told her picture would go out to patrol officers shortly. He was also asked if it was likely she would be with anyone, to which Pete had repeated what he'd already said, she didn't know anyone.
Castle was quite pleased with himself on his idea, it had been a while since he'd been to his office so he made his way there, a short distance from the precinct and thought he'd gone through the wrong door. He heard a noise coming from what he thought was his private office, to see his daughter, Alexis in a business dress just about to come out.
"Dad? What are you doing here? I thought you were helping Beckett again?"
"Never mind what I'm doing here, why are you here, dressed like that and what have you done to the place?"
"I had nothing to do and I was bored so I got your keys and made a few alterations."
"Alexis, you can't operate without a PI licence."
"I don't need to Dad, I don't actually do any investigating, I just take petty cases like missing cats. Joking. I've not actually had any paying clients, I was just wanting something to do. Can I be your secretary? If I'd got a case, I would have called you but I wanted to surprise you."
"Ok, you can help for now but no missing cats, OK? We have a real case anyway, well not yet, I have a call to make."
"Oh good, what kind of case?"
"A missing person."
"Really? I get a missing person on my first proper day? Who is it?"
"Pete Tyler's stepdaughter, Rose."