AN:This is my second to last prewritten chapter. I have three more chapters in progress, and a lot more I just have to sort out and write. Also, depending on school I may start posting once a week, probably Friday's or Saturday's. Thank you again to everyone for following, favouring, and reviewing this story. Here's the next chapter everybody, enjoy. Don't forget to Review. :)
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Mini Detective Beckett (Part 1)
It was Friday and a teachers planning day, so we had the day off. My usual babysitters were busy today; Grandpa was out of town, Alexis was doing some kind of study thing, Castle's mom had a theater thing to do, and Castle was tagging along with us.
I got dressed in a black pant suit with a black dress shirt underneath. I matched it with my black boots I got for Christmas a few months ago. I walked out and my Aunt gave me a weird look.
"What?" I asked.
"What are you wearing?" Aunt Kate asked.
"A pant suit," I said.
"I know that, why?" she asked.
"I wanted to be like you today. I'm your shadow," I said.
My aunt was wearing a similar outfit, but had a white dress shirt on instead.
"No you're not. You are staying at the precinct and behaving," she said.
"Oh, come on Aunt Kate. Let me tag along. Don't people say if you start early, you have more knowledge," I said.
"If you want to start early, start hitting the books," Aunt Kate said.
"Okay, but I need some time on the field too," I said.
"Emily, we are not arguing about this. Come on we're already late," she said.
We headed to the precinct and arrived pretty quickly. As we walked off the elevator, Castle came up and greeted us.
"Hey, it's like a mini Beckett and a bigger Beckett," Castle said looking between us.
"Don't encourage her Castle," my aunt said.
"Aww, but it's adorable," he said.
My aunt gave him a pointed look and he backed off. We got to her desk and she moved some files over into a pile, and tried to organize her things a bit. The Captain walked up to us and said, "Detective Beckett. There was a homicide over in Manhattan. Meet Detective Ryan and Esposito down there."
"Yes, Captain. I'll get right on it," she said.
"Good and it's cute to see a mini Beckett. She almost looks like you detective," he said.
"Thanks, Captain," she said.
"No problem," The captain said.
Captain Montgomery left and we were ready to head off to the crime scene. I started following them towards the elevator when my aunt stopped me.
"Where do you think you're going?" my aunt asked me.
"To the crime scene with your," I said.
"No, you're not. I told you earlier you'd stay here," she said.
"Please, Aunt Kate. I'll behave, I promise," I said.
"Okay fine, but you stay in the car," she said.
"Aww, man," I said.
"It's either that or you stay here," she said.
"Fine," I said.
We arrived at the crime scene and I was stuck in the car with the windows rolled down a bit. I watched from the car the hustle and bustle of the NYPD. I so badly wanted to know what was going on.
Then it hit me, I wasn't locked in here and my aunt was all the way over at the crime scene, so I could leave the car. I unlocked my door and got out of the car. I shut the door behind me and walked over towards the scene.
Aunt Kate was talking to Lanie and Castle was watching the interaction with the two. No one was paying attention so I went under the crime scene tape and over to the victim where everyone was gathered around.
"Where's all the blood?" I asked.
"Emily! I told you to stay in the car," my aunt said.
"When have I ever listened?" I said.
"She has a point," Castle said.
"Castle, not helping," she said.
"Just saying," he shrugged.
"How'd he die?" I asked.
"He was injected with something. I'll know what when I get back to the morgue," Lanie said.
"How long has he been dead?" I asked.
"Um… From what I can tell, about three hours," she said.
"So the murder weapon was more than likely a syringe of some sort," I stated.
"Yeah, Esposito took it back to the precinct, making the lab get trace off of it," Lanie said.
"Cool," I said.
"Since when did you take over the case?" my aunt said.
"When I put on this suit and bought this badge," I said as I pulled out a fake plastic police badge.
"Where did you get that?" my aunt asked.
"At the dollar store for five bucks," I said with a shrug.
"Cool," Castle said.
"Hand it over," my aunt said reaching for it.
"Fine," I said, giving her the badge.
"I'm going to head back to the precinct. Let me know when you have anything," Aunt Kate said to Lanie.
"Will do, Kate," Lanie said.
We headed back to the precinct and when we got there, Ryan came up to us with some info.
"Okay, we identified our victim as 35 year old Harold Malone. He has a wife, Georgie Malone, who lives in Queens. He also owned a business a few blocks away from his home and his brother, Dirk Malone, is a Co-owner. Here's the addresses maybe you can check them out," Ryan said.
"Okay, Ryan get Esposito and find out if any cameras picked up something around the area where Mr. Malone was murdered," my aunt said.
"I'm on it," Ryan said.
I was about to head towards the elevator when I was grabbed by the arm. I looked up at my aunt and she had an irritated look on her face.
"Oh no, you are not coming. You disobeyed my orders earlier, so you're staying here. Sit and don't touch anything. We'll be back later," my aunt said.
I went to protest, but she was already heading off with Castle to the elevator. I sat in the seat next to my aunt's desk and huffed. It wasn't fair, I wanted to help and figure out the case.
After about thirty minutes of sitting there feeling sorry for myself, I did what any good detective would, I looked through my aunt's desk and tried to hack into her computer. All I found that was useful in my aunts desk was a magnifying glass, yes Sherlock Holmes is an awesome mentor. I sat at her desk chair and tried some different passwords in her computer system.
I tried about fifteen different passwords into her computer and each one was a bust. I almost gave up but then I thought of one more: JohannaB. I was hoping I was on the right track. The computer came up and displayed her home screen.
Yes, maybe one day I'll be an awesome detective. I flipped through some documents and police databases in the computer. I looked up the victim, his wife, and his brother in the police database but they were all pretty clean. Just petty theft and drunk and disorderly was some of their worst crimes.
I felt someone looking over me and I turned my head to see a very unhappy Aunt Kate.
"Hey, how's it going," I said with a cheeky smile.
"Emily Marie Beckett Roswell! How did you get onto my computer?" she asked.
"I cracked the code. Took me plenty of times, but I did it," I said.
"Off, now," my aunt said.
I got up and my aunt quickly logged off of her computer.
"Man, that kids smart. She really is a mini you, Beckett," Castle said.
"Yes, she's too smart for her own good. She just needs to learn to stay out of things," she said.
"I'm sorry. I just wanted to help," I said.
"Don't help, Emily. Cases like these we can't afford a mishap. So I need you to behave and stay out of the way," he said.
"Fine," I said sadly.
My aunt's phone rang and she picked it up.
"Hey Lanie. You have something… Great I'll be down in a few… Bye," my aunt said.
She hung up and said to Castle, "Lanie found what was in MR. Malone's system."
"Great," Castle said.
"Can I come," I said.
"No," she said.
"It's just the morgue. What trouble could she get into down there?" Castle said.
"I'm sure she could figure out something," she said.
"I promise I'll stay out the way and behave," I said.
"Fine, come on," she said.
We were in the morgue looking over Harold Malone's dead body. It wasn't my first time in the morgue, but the smell still made my stomach turn.
"Okay I found out what was in his system. It was poison from a Taipan snake," Lanie said.
"Snake venom. Who carries snake venom with them?" my aunt said.
"Who knows? Anyway, it's not just any snake venom, it's one of the most deadliest. The venom consists of taipoxin, a complex mix of neurotoxins, procoagulants, and myotoxins that paralyze muscles, inhibit breathing, cause hemorrhaging in blood vessels and tissues, and damage muscles. If he was injected with a high dosage of the venom it could have taken about 45 minutes for him to succumb to it," she said.
"Is there an anti-venom for the snake?" Castle asked.
"There is, but since it's most relevant in Australia, we don't have a large supply on hand in America. Even if he got to a hospital, the amount I found in his blood was extremely high. Who knows if the effects would have been reversed," Lanie said.
"Wow, that's a horrible way to go," Castle said.
"Yeah," Lanie said.
Aunt Kate's phone rang once again and she quickly answered it.
"What's up Esposito? You've got to be kidding me, we just talked to him almost two hours ago. He's at the hospital… Okay, I'll go see what I can find…Bye," she said.
She promptly hung up her phone and everyone awaited the news she just received.
"Dirk Malone was just brought to the emergency room. He was showing symptoms of snake venom in his system," she said.
It was silent for a while, I think this case got a whole lot crazier.