Season 9 - Ep 1 - Sneak Peek 1
(Episode Co-written by encantadaa and bunysliper )
The only thing she could think about was pain. It washed over her body in waves, so strong that she gasped with each forced breath.
She had to keep breathing. She couldn’t let it end this way. Her mother’s life didn’t end just for her daughter’s to come to this.
She heard a cough at her side. Castle. No, not him, too…
Kate reached out her hand, and he took it, his grasp frighteningly weak. “Kate,” he croaked, his voice little more than a whisper.
It was so poetic she almost wanted to laugh. They’d been through everything together– they almost died in a freezer, almost died side-by-side inches away from a bomb, almost died who knows how many other times– and now, it had come to this. Both of them laying on the floor of the loft, the one place they were supposed to be safe, with their lives bleeding out of them.
The idea came to her so suddenly, she couldn’t believe she didn’t think of it before. Lucy. She called out the name, her voice straining with the effort of speaking as she attempted to get the system’s attention. She felt like she was screaming, but little more than a whisper was coming out. Lucy couldn’t hear her.
“Kate,” Castle rasped from beside her. “Don’t.”
He could feel it, too. They were going to die.
“Alexis,” Kate started. “Martha… my dad…”
“Love us,” he finished. “Be okay.”
She was fading fast, but he was fading faster. She could feel his grasp weakening, his fingers growing cold.
“Rick,” she whispered, desperation in her voice. “I love you.”
Tears had been pricking at her eyes since she collapsed to the ground, but she let them flow freely now. She could not live without Rick. It was time for her to let go.
Kate squeezed his hand one last time, her fingers hardly even tightening around his. She wished she could call her dad, tell him one last time that she loved him. He knows, a voice in her head reminded her. He knows how much you love him. You can let go.
With a shaky breath, she allowed her eyes to slip shut, and as they did, she could see her mom standing in front of her, clear as day, with Rick by her side. Johanna had her arm draped over Castle’s shoulder, and both were smiling, beckoning to her. Come, they said. Join us. It’s okay.
Before Kate could take a step toward them, she heard someone shouting her name.
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