She looked at the camera nervously, this was it. She'd say what they wanted. To anyone else it would seem irrelevant but she knew Castle would figure it out. They were so in sync. She could tell what he was thinking in a single look. If she got out of this she knew she would tell him everything. Mentally she shook herself. She had to be ready.

Tentatively Castle moved the mouse towards the flashing icon and clicked. Beckett was still in her chair. And this time she had a sign. "$1 Million Dollars - Cash"
Again she spoke, but she looked more scared this time, like this was her last chance and she knew it, "They want a million in cash and another million wired to a swiss bank account. You've got to be ready for when they say, Okay?" she licked her cracked, dry lips. "Ricky, you know the red dress you bought me for the charity ball? I just wanted to say thanks. It sounds stupid but I hope we get to do that again some time." She showed a weak smile as the video was cut off.

"Hey guys" Castle said, "did you notice her hand?"He put the video back to the start. "Here, at the start, I think she was spelling something but then she stopped. Until two taps further on."

They were about to watch the video again when the phone rang. Lanie had the test results back.

"It's not Kate's, it's AB-, Kate is O."

"If it's not hers can we track it?" Ryan and Esposito wasted no more time, running back to the bullpen to search for any blood drive information they could, leaving Castle with Lanie in the morgue.

"Maybe, it depends. AB is quite rare so if the attacker gave a blood sample in the last few years it should be in one of our databases. I'm running it through the criminal database now, but so far nothing has popped."

"Thanks Lanie. Call me if you find out anything yeah?"

"I will. And Castle..." he turned to face her as she spoke, "we'll find her, okay?"

Authors Note:

Another wee chapter, sorry. Thanks to those who favourited, messaged, reviewed, alerted, whatever. Just thanks, and hopefully I'll find time to be on here more often. I still have to finish this fanfic and I've got a few unpublished ones needing editing then uploading. Plus the 120 odd unread fanfic chapters sitting in my inbox -.- SORRY! I'll get back on the bandwagon soon hopefully.

Thanks for sticking with me even though I'm a pain 3