Authors Note: Sorry once again for the late update guys. After class all I seem to want to do is crash, but enough about me let's see what is going to happen next. I still own nothing, all rights to Marlowe.

"Castle we will find her…I promise you." Beckett tried to comfort her partner with these words and a quick hand squeeze. He gave her a small smile, but the look in his eyes betrayed him. Beckett knew that she would never see the sparkle come back into his eyes until they found his little girl. As soon as they figured out the car clue they immediately started piecing together clues. They both knew that time was of the essence and there were too many pieces that they were missing. As soon as they filled in the boys Beckett started giving assignments. She told Ryan to start checking her phone records and told Javi to search her financials. Hopefully the combination of the two would narrow down the time of the kidnapping. She knew that both of those jobs would take time, and there was no way in hell that she was going to stand around and wait. She grabbed Castle and the two of them headed towards Columbia.

They were just about to knock on her dorm room door when it swung open. It was Missy, or at least Castle assumed it was Missy, his daughter's roommate. Her arms were piled high with boxes which masked her face. She had been a good roommate to Alexis and they were thinking about rooming together again. By the sight of the boxes, apparently something had changed.

"Missy? Is that you?" Castle asked as he took the top box in his arms and sat it down on the floor.

"Yep, it's me Mr. Castle. Just taking home some of my winter clothes so I can bring my spring clothes back. By the way have you seen Alexis? We were supposed to go out tonight and celebrate the end of finals before I go home tomorrow." Castle looked at the girl dumbfounded. How could she have not known that her daughter was missing? They lived together for crying out loud. Beckett noticed that Castle was in deep thought and therefore took up the conversation.

"Hey Missy, my name is Detective Kate Beckett, Alexis might have mentioned me before?" She thought it was best to start this conversation out easy before she grilled the girl on what she knew.

"Oh, yeah, of course. Alexis talks about you all the time. Oh, please excuse my manners won't the both of you come in?" She stepped aside to let them in and closed the door. Beckett and Castle were both trying to navigate through the maze of boxes when Missy pointed towards a clean spot. It was clearly Alexis's side of the room, everything was neat and in its place. The bed was made, and all of her books were neatly stacked on the desk. Castle looked around and felt a tear some to his eye as he sat down in his daughter's desk chair and saw a picture of the two of them laughing together. Beckett chose to remain standing and tried to keep herself together for her partner.

"Missy, when was the last time you saw Alexis?" Beckett began.

"Umm, I think it was like Saturday?"

"You didn't think that it was weird that you hadn't seen her in four days!?" This time it was Castle who stood up beside Beckett and asked the question. Missy was clearly alarmed by his outburst and took a defensive stance.

"Well no, I didn't think it was odd because when Alexis goes into study mode I usually don't see her for days at a time. Plus I had my own finals to study for…what's wrong, why are you asking me these questions?" Castle returned to his seat and turned the reigns back over to Beckett after he saw that his sudden outburst had clearly frightened the girl.

"Alexis is missing and we were hoping that you could give us some information." Beckett never thought she would ever say the words "Alexis" and "Missing" in the same sentence. She looked over at Castle and could tell that he was thinking the same thing. She made the choice not to say kidnapped. She didn't want to alarm the girl anymore than she clearly was.

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" Missy started pacing the room and repeating the same phrase over and over again. Finally Kate grabbed her by the shoulders and sat her down on her bed.

"Listen, you freaking out is not going to help us find Alexis, ok. Now I need you to calm down and tell me what you remember about the last time you saw her ok?" The young woman took a couple of deep breaths and finally calmed herself down enough to talk.

"Ok, like I said the last time I saw her was Saturday morning. She accidently woke me up when she was zipping up her backpack. I asked her where she was going and she said the library. I told her to have fun studying and that was it. She left and I went back to sleep. Like I said, when she studies she basically lives in the library and I assumed we just kept missing each other. I didn't think anything of it, I swear!" The young woman was clearly in shambles and Beckett gave her shoulder a squeeze. She looked over at Castle and shook her head. He reciprocated; they had run into a dead end.

They left the building and started heading over to the library. Maybe someone there saw something that could be useful. They were walking through the snow, when Beckett saw a bench. She led Castle over to it and wiped off the snow. They both sat in silence for a couple of minutes when Castle finally began to speak.

"Today is Thursday. She has been missing for four days Kate. How did I not know that she was missing?" He asked solemnly.

"Castle there is no way that you could've known. I know I keep saying this, but we will find her." She spoke softly and gently taking his gloved hand in hers.

"I was supposed to pick her up today and we were going to have a date. It was just going to be the two of us. Probably end the night with a round of laser tag and ice cream. Kate if something happens to her I don't….."

"Nothing is going to happen to her Castle. I will get her back to you, you have my word." She leaned over and gave him a hug. She hated that he had to go through this and she hated it even worse that it was her fault. Peter McKnight was a boogie man from her past that had somehow made his way into her present. She was determined not to let it alter her future. They stayed that way for a couple of minutes when the phone rang. It was the precinct.

"Beckett."

"Hey boss we got the records." The boys said almost in unison. She pulled the phone away from her ear and hit the speaker button so Castle could hear.

"According to the phone records the last call she made was to you bro, at around 1030 on Saturday morning. Other than that there is nothing out of the ordinary. But Javi did get a hit on her financials." Beckett looked at Castle and he nodded in agreement to the phone call and waited to hear what Javi had to say.

"Hey boss, the last purchase on her credit card was a Peppermint Latte at Java Junky. It's a coffee cart on campus. Uniforms are bringing the coffee cart kid in now."

"Okay, we're on our way." With that she hung up the phone and stood up from the bench pulling Castle with her.

"Come on Castle; let's go see what we can get outta the coffee boy." He stood to his feet and they made their way to the car. They both knew that they had nothing to go on so far and that Alexis was probably running out of time. Castle knew that Kate would do everything in her power to bring Alexis back. This gave him at least some reassurance.

The ride back to the station was quiet and so was the ride up the elevator. When they stepped off they were ambushed by Javi and Ryan. The look on their faces radiated bad news. Castle and Beckett prepared for the worst.

"We were just about to call you. A messenger came by a couple of minutes ago and dropped off a letter addressed to you boss. We dusted it, but couldn't get any viable prints off of it." Ryan said frantically as he handed her the envelope. Beckett looked to Castle for support and he gave the same look back to her. Castle nodded his head and Beckett opened the envelope. It was another poem that read:

Detective Beckett it should fill you with glee

That little red is going to be on TV

Go to this address and click on the link

You cannot miss it because it's pink

Follow the instructions down to the last word

Or you will never again see this baby bird

The bottom of the letter had a web address. Before she even asked Ryan made his way to the conference room to pull it up on the big screen and Javi was on the phone with tech. Beckett and Castle followed Ryan and held each other's hands as the webpage popped up. It was a black backdrop with a pink button in the center of it that said "click here". Ryan clicked and they waited impatiently for the webpage to load. When the image popped up on the screen both fear and relief swept over the team. It was a video of Alexis. They were staring at it when Javi came in with news from tech.

"Guy's? Tech says that this is being transmitted live."

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