Detective Kate Beckett stomped out of the Captain's office badge less and gun less. She had been short and ill tempered with Esposito and Ryan ever since Castle went gallivanting around with the other detective. She had finally lost it today with a suspect who was suspected of murdering a woman with a teenage daughter. Beckett was already on edge trying to push down familiar memories, when the suspect had asked her who had dumped her sorry butt. Ryan didn't have a chance to react when Beckett had turned around and punched the suspect in the face. Ryan had barely managed to prevent her from punching the suspect for a second time

She glanced back at the bullpen before getting on the elevator, but Esposito and Ryan were avoiding looking at her. There was not going to be any support from them, not this time. They knew she was in a free fall and had both gotten burned when they had tried to help her. Castle had obviously figured out she wasn't worth it. Why would her two friends care when the man who supposedly loved had left? The boys were going to distance themselves from here. They didn't want to be suspended or fired. But what the boys didn't know was that Kate Beckett hadn't been suspended or fired. No, Kate Beckett had quit.