UTONAGAN

Chapter Two

A/N: Thank you all for your reviews and even reading the first chapter! I don't really have time to thank you all personally so that's why I'm doing it through this note, so THANK YOU! Hope you'll enjoy this second chapter as much, plus I want to let you know that chapter three is still in making so I can't promise when it'll be published. Until next time, xxxx

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They ended up with nothing. No trail. No footage of the shooter. Nothing. Nada. And Kate could sense with her whole being how suspicious Castle was, how hard he tried to understand how everything had happened. He was still scared but that didn't stop him from wondering how the hell she'd dodged the bullet. She could feel the way his eyes kept wandering her features and body and she hoped he couldn't sense the tension in her veins.

"Go home Castle," she said putting her head in her hands, elbows resting on her desk.

"Not a chance," he shook his head and she sighed with exhaustion.

"You need sleep, and I'm sure Alexis and Martha are worried about you," she tried using his family as an excuse to send him away. She had a feeling his mother and daughter were the only way to make him leave.

"I've texted them, and spoken with them on the phone, they're not worried," he shrugged off her comment and she rubbed her forehead in order to try refrain from groaning.

"Yo, Beckett," Espo came from the break room with a frustrated expression. "Rumors are saying the new captain is on the way here already due to the shooting. And from I hear he's not going to like the fact that you're pursuing the case."

"Why not?" Kate immediately felt herself go into defense systems.

"Because you're too close," Espo said and Kate growled, perhaps a little too beastly for her own good considering the look her partner gave her.

"I'm not too close," she muttered with a threatening tone laced into her voice. "I'm motivated."

"Some might call that too close," Castle whispered underneath his breath and even though she knew she shouldn't be able to hear it she couldn't help but give him a look. Her look. Which of course only turned him even more suspicious than he already was. Fucking hell.

Before he could comment though Ryan entered the break room with some news in the matter.

"The new captain's here, and she wants us in the bullpen."

"She?" Espo commented before they all followed the Irish detective out of the room.

As they came out they saw the other detectives and officers gathering around with curious eyes searching the room as they waited for everyone to get there. The only one Kate didn't recognize was the African-American in a blue work-dress and long hair. She had a serious face and looked as though she wouldn't let anyone have even the slightest chance to think she was anything but the one in charge. She must be the new captain.

"Hello everyone, I'm Victoria Gates and I'm the new captain of this precinct. I'm sorry for your loss, but we got a new case and I expect everyone to work exceptionally. Either that or go home." Yep, definitely the new captain. "I want three detectives and one... consultant inside my office now." The African-American, Gates, looked down at some paper she held in her hands. "Detectives Beckett, Ryan and Esposito along with one mr Castle."

Fuck. Kate looked towards her partners and they looked about as screwed as she felt. What if she would bench the whole team? Without showing their fear, because that's part of the job, being able to have a poker face, they followed the new captain into Montgo... her office. She couldn't deny the strangest feeling that clawed its way into her when she stepped foot inside her mentor's office when knowing it would never, ever, belong to him again. It was all so overwhelming and confusing and she would not break down the first thing she did. So, instead she tried focus on the facts. There was a killer out for her. A sniper had shot for her heart and missed because he didn't have the full story about her. No one did. Well, apart from her dad.