I have wanted to write something like this for a while now and decided i should. I hoe you like it. idk if people will like it. So review if you like it. Review if you dont like it if you want to. If i get lots of posotive reviews then congrats, there will be a second chapter. If i get negative reviews then thanks for letting me know im doing something wrong. Review

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She sat at her desk looking at all the paper work she needed to do. She had a ton, but she most definitely did not feel like doing it. She wanted to be with him. His daughter was with him as was his mother but she felt like she should be the one taking care of him.

He had gotten out of the hospital two days ago and she still hadn't had a chance to go see him at home. First there was closing the case, then there was the paper work. The giant stack of paper work sitting on her desk that she needed to do.

Of course she had seen him well he was in the hospital and Alexis called when he got out but she still felt like it had been forever. Time goes by really slow without him working with her.

It was her fault in the first place that he wasn't here. Why did he have to be such a hero? Why wasn't she paying close enough attention?

He was shot because her back was turned. When Deamer came in with a gun and aimed it at her, he saved her life. He jumped at her knocking them both down. He took a bullet for her.

"Well I'm off." Esposito said to a day-dreaming Beckett. "Have a nice night. Thanks I will and you do the same. Bye. Bye." Esposito answered for himself for her teasing her.

"What?" She said. She wasn't paying attention at all.

"Exactly." He said chuckling.

"I'm sorry. I just… I can't focus."

Esposito came over and sat in Castle's chair. "Leave the paperwork for another day and go see him." He said in his brotherly tone.

"He'll be mad. He won't want to see me. It's my fault his shoulder is in a sling"

"It is not. And anyway you saw him in the hospital."

"That was different."

"How?"

"Where you there when he woke up?" She asked.

"Uh... yeah why?"

"He wasn't all there. They had given him so much morphine that he probably wouldn't have cared if someone was gnawing on his toes." She said and Esposito laughed.

"You've got a point there, but it wasn't your fault and Castle wants to see you."

"You don't know that." She said and as if on cue he cell lit up with Castles picture and started to ring. She pressed the end button like she had been doing all day.

"I rest my case." Esposito said and got up. "See you tomorrow."

"Bye… and thanks." She said as she started to gather her things. She would go see him.

Six Days Earlier

"Your alibi didn't check. Would you like to tell me where you really were?" Beckett asked the wife of Daniel Kint.

Castle loved this. He loved when everything started to crumble and they caught the bad guy.

Shauna just sat and looked at Beckett. She had a very embarrassing look on her face.

"No? Okay, well we'll have to go to the station for questioning then." Beckett said firmly, standing up.

"No, wait. I'll tell you." But before Beckett could sit back down on the couch that's back was to the door the junkie they had been looking for came in. He was their prime suspect. When he saw them he pulled out a gun. Beckett didn't notice him but Castle did.

"Beckett down." He yelled but he knew she didn't have time to react so he jumped. He literally jumped in front of her. He felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and he crashed to the floor. He saw Beckett pull out her gun and shoot the junkie. Then things started to get fuzzy. He was in so much pain.

The last thing he heard before he passed out was Beckett's voice. "Call 911. Castle are you okay? Castle… cast…" He couldn't hear her anymore and next thing he knew he was in the hospital and he had no idea why.

"Dad?" He heard Alexis say as his eyes fluttered open. "Are you waking up." He was so tired and everything felt weird. He was really dizzy. "Dad?"

"Shush. Just Shh." He said looking at his daughter. He tried to sit up but his arm stung.

"Are you feeling okay? Do you need me to get the doctor?" Alexis whispered.

"I can't… What happened?" he asked struggling to remember.

Then the rest of the room came into view. He saw his mother and Montgomery. Then he could see Ryan and Esposito. At the back of the room was Beckett staring at the floor. Beckett! It all came back to him. The Junkie, the gun, he fired, I jumped, he thought to himself.

"Are you dead?" he asked her then changed the question. "No, am I dead? Who died?" He asked and everyone smiled.

"Nobody died."

"Didn't you get…" Then he stopped randomly changing the subject. "…I'm thirsty. It's so dry in here. When was the last time I ate? I need some food. And a gallon of water." He said obviously not completely in his right mind yet. He closed his eyes and it looked like he was falling back asleep then he scared everyone.

"It was like BOOM BANG POP!" he said. They all figured he was talking about the bullet. "All I knew was that she" he pointed a finger at Beckett. "Could have died. I had to save her. If I didn't she would be dead and that would suck, because I…" His eyes closed again and they all stared at him with questioning looks.

"…Need her alive because without her I…" he was kind of fading in and out which was to be expected after the surgery to remove the bullet. "Can't… write without her. Me and my bestest friend Nikki Heat need her." He said and then fell asleep.

"They give good drugs here." Ryan said and everyone laughed except Beckett. She smiled but she couldn't laugh. It felt wrong. He saved her life in a big way.