Lost and Found (A Castle Fanfiction)

Katherine Beckett's life completely shattered before her when her mother was brutally slain in an alley way when Kate was nineteen. Two months later, her father has been taken over by the bottle. She is, in essence, alone. Then one night her father goes out to drink and stumbles into the Old Haunt. There, he finds a young man to drink with whose wife and daughter await him at home.

After a while, when the writer was just about to leave, Jim tries to prove he is sober and takes a nasty spill. The bartender and the writer call his daughter to come get him. When Kate arrives, her heart immediately begins to race. Her father has found the one man whom she and her mother had talked on end about. She is in awe of him. As Richard Castle helps her with her father, being the gentle soul no one knew he could be, he begins to find himself as intrigued by this nineteen year-old as she is by him.

Could this night turn into more or will this be just a fleeting moment? Read on to find out.