Fix You

Chapter Five

A/N: I am a terrible person for leaving you this long. I got my laptop taken away for a week and then when I got it back it stopped working so it was another week before I could fix it... but anyways, here is another chapter.

p.s. I'll start uploading them quicker seeing how this story has been done for months.

"And the tears come streaming down your face"

Castle:

"Kate," I whispered. Her eyelids fluttered closed and open again. I squeezed her hand tighter.

"Castle," she said so lightly I could barely hear it. She gave me a small pained smile. Leaning over her, I moved a stay hair out of her face.

"Kate I lo—" I started. I couldn't let myself say those words again. I wanted to so very much, but I couldn't. Not while she was with Josh. "I'm so glad you're okay," I finally said.

"You look like crap Castle," she said, her voice still sounding strained.

"What, you don't like the crumpled clothes and facial hair look?" I asked her trying to sound like my usual self.

She closed her eyes again and took a shallow ragged breath. "Castle nothing feels real."

I absent mindedly started stroking her hair with my free hand. "I know what you mean. It doesn't feel real to me either." I really wanted to tell her how much I loved her right now but instead I settled for, "I'll be here for you. Always."

"All the memories are foggy. I can't separate fact from fiction," she sadly admitted.

"What is the last thing you remember?" Her eyes looked so lost. It was scary to see her like this; she wasn't the confident woman I was used to seeing.

"I don't know. I'm only getting them in bits and pieces. I remember something about being in a hangar and there was shots being fired in the distance. Then the next thing I remember is being at Montgomery's funeral and getting shot. What the hell happened in between and how did Montgomery die?" she asked, short of breath by the end of it.

"I don't think now is the time for all that Kate. Maybe we should wait until you're better," I told her. I was concerned; she didn't remember what had happened and I didn't want to upset her by telling her.

Anger flashed across her face and then she grimaced from the pain. "Just tell me what's going on Castle."

I didn't want to tell her but I knew she wouldn't let it go if I didn't. "What do you know about Lockwood?"

"He killed Raglan and tortured Ryan and Esposito. We caught him and I've been visiting him in jail every week since trying to get him to tell me who hired him."

"Well he bribed his way into general population and killed MacCallister. He got men dressed as cops to set off a flash bomb at the hearing allowing him to escape. Long story short, turns out Montgomery was the third cop, but he has been trying to make up for it since he accidently shot Bob Armen all those years ago. He called you and told you to go to the hangar to bait Lockwood. He also called me and told me to come and do what he said." There had been much more to the phone call then that.

"Castle. I need you to do this for me," Montgomery had told me, "I'm going to call Beckett and tell her to meet me at the hangar where we found the stolen chopper. I'm going to tell her some important information about her mother's murder and then I will call you in. When I tell you to Castle, you take her out of there."

"But—," I began.

"No Castle, do what I say. If you love her like I know that you do, you will get her out of there when I tell you to."