The Reason

Chapter 5

AN: here you go :D Enjoy! 

She was quickly into the hospital, her eyes were open, she seemed so dead. Her face was frozen and she didn't mention her environment.

There were noises, lots of noises, he didn't know what to do anymore, the only thing he knew: The love of his life was hit by a car and was carried swiftly to a surgery. Everything around him seemed blurred. He felt restless, he didn't have a clue what to do or where to go. He was swamped with the situation. What the hell did just happen?

He only stood there spinning around, not knowing what to do, until a nurse came up to him, asking about the accident.

"Excuse me, Sir? We need to know what happened with your wife."

Your wife. It was sounding in his head. She could be his wife. They could be together, have a bun of children. Wouldn't she have left five years ago?

"I-, I don't know it happened so fast-, she was... she was running out of the coffee shop and... and I tried to warn her, tried to stop her but the car was already so close and hit her."

He didn't make the effort to correct her, he just wanted everything to be right with Kate. Of course he was angry and mad with her, she hid his daughter from him for five years, but... she hid his daughter, her daughter from him. They had a daughter, together, he can't get the mother of his daughter hurt. What would happen if Kate died? His little girl couldn't lose her mother, she was only five years old, how would she be supposed to deal with that?

"Sir? Sir, we need her name."

"Oh, pardon! It's Beckett, Katherine Beckett." He answered the nurse, try to stay in focus on the situation. He needed to call her parents, tell them what happened and tell their daughter what happened.

He took his phone out of his pocket, looking for the number of Kate's old home, hoping her parents still lived there, still use this number.

After two rings he heard someone picking up the phone. Thank God they are still living there. His heart was beating so fast, he couldn't get enough air into his lungs as Kate's mother answered the phone.

"Beckett."

"Johanna? It's Rick, Rick Rodgers, well actually it's Castle now, but you probably know me as Rodgers. I changed my name some years ago and-" he was cut off by Johanna's voice.

"Rick, I know who you are, stop rambling." Johanna let out a light chuckle.

"Uhm... yeah I'm sorry. You, uh-, something happened and I don't know how to explain it, I just, I don't know how to tell you." He was rambling again. He was overwhelmed with feelings, hurt, worries, fear.

"Rick! What happened? Is Katie fine?"

He heard the worry in her voice, she knew something was wrong, something bad happened.

"Kate... Kate she... she... she had an accident. God I am so sorry. I upset her and she ran out of the coffee shop we've had met earlier that day. There was this car and she was standing there in the middle of the street and ... oh god. You need to come here, quickly!" The tears where now streaming down his face and he sunk on the floor.

"Rick, where are you? Where is my Katie?" Johanna was crying, he knew it, mentioned it in her voice. How could he explain that he was responsible for all this?

"We-, we're in the memorial hospital. You need to come here immediately and you need to take care of Phoebe, I don't know where she is or what she is doing, but she needs to be taken care of and I can't do anything for her, she doesn't know me, you- you need to get her."