Sorry it's so short, around a 1,000 words. But normally, they will be longer in the future.
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Ryan turned back towards Gates and ran straight past her to the stairs. He image of Kate reaching out while he saw her falling fresh in his memory. He needed to know if she still has a chance of living. Her leg had hit a dumpster, and he heard of it happening before, a leg breaking a 20-stories-building fall. Maybe… just maybe there was still hope for his beloved partner and friend.
Right before he ran downstairs he yelled, “call an ambulance.”
Gates stood there, she was ready to give Beckett a disapproving look, but instead, she met Ryan’s face that had panic written all over it. It was then that she realized Kate fell. She actually fell 20 stories. She told one of the uniforms to call an ambulance and took a step closer to the edge of the roof. She looked over as if she had to see to believe.
There was Kate, her body laying face down. Her leg in an awkward angle and arms both on a side of her body. She saw Ryan running towards her a few seconds later as she swallowed away the lump in her throat. She figured Kate’s leg must have hit the dumpster and turned her over so she was laying there like she was now.
Gates took a step back and turned on her heel, taking the stairs down.
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Rick stretched himself out as he looked at the clock. It was just an hour later than when he came back from the graduation ceremony where his daughter had presented a beautiful speech.
He turned his phone back on as he went for a refill of his drink. He saw he had 2 missed calls and a text from Lanie. He figured the text wouldn’t be as bad as a call and as long as it wasn’t from Kate, he would still watch what it was about.
Where the hell are you? You promised her always! If I see you even near the hospital, I’ll kill you!
“Hospital? What?” he mumbled to himself, ignoring the first part of her text and decided to listen what the calls were about. His mind told him no, but his heart needed to know. It needed to know she was alright.
He dialed the number for the voicemail and listened to the first one.
“Damn you Rick! If you wouldn’t have left like this, she wouldn’t have done this! Either you fix it, of disappear forever. If there is something to fix that is…” Rick could hear Ryan’s voice growing more sad towards the ending of his sentence. What the hell was he talking about?!
“I don’t even know why I called. Maybe because the last two words I could hear where Castle and No! Now either you get your ass to the hospital, or you drop dead. I don’t care. Now I’m going to save her life, I’m going to do what you couldn’t.” Rick stood there for a second, taking in all the words.
What the hell happened to make Ryan call him and leave that message? Kate was in the hospital, that was what he got from both messages. And that something huge had gone down. Something that could have, or had already killed her.
His mind was racing and he knew he shouldn’t be getting back to this… it was everything he was trying to pry himself away from, but his heart couldn’t handle it. He just needed to know what happened.
He dialed the number for Kate’s voicemail from the call he knew she made when he hadn’t turned his phone off.
“Castle?!” He feels his heart clench at her voice. “Oh God. Castle! I’m so sorry for everything. But I need you to forgive me! I can’t die with knowing that you aren’t going to forgive me.” Die? She was really in trouble… Damn! He should have been there! For her! To stop her! Whatever it was she was doing…
“Castle! I- I love you! Rick… I love you.” He froze. Did she really just say that? Did he hear that correctly? “Castle!” He hears again and then some shuffling, and he can hear cars in the background. Then, “No!” as he heard Ryan calling out for Kate.
Then the voicemail ends and he just stand there… Did he just hear her confess her love for him? But even worse, did he just hear her die?
He grabbed his car keys and left everything but his phone behind. He drove straight to the hospital and he didn’t even look for a parking spot and just got out of the car and into the hospital as soon as he drove up the parking lot.
He sprinted into the hospital and asked for Kate Beckett, but soon he heard his voice being called out. “Rick?!”
Castle turned his head only to be met with a furious looking Ryan and Esposito and Lanie sitting on one of the chairs. He met with her eyes, and the look he got…
It broke his heart. He could see the pain and worry in her eyes. “Is she okay? Is she going to live?” he asked.
Lanie sighed with tears in her eyes. “We don’t know…”
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Falling To Pieces
Fanfiction"She fights him, she does. But she's just not strong enough. After that fight with him, her former partner, she's just hunting the dragon, with no reason to live. Without Castle she can't win. Now she hangs there by her two hands and feels her life...
