858. Chapter 858

After Death Gone Crazy

Episode 5.12

By

UCSBdad

Disclaimer: I'd clean up my act if I owned Castle. Rating: K Time: See above.

"Mr. Castle, we just might be able to use you on this." Gates said, giving Rick and Kate a wicked look as they came into the precinct.

"Always happy to help." Rick said with as much conviction as he could manage. Actually, he'd like to help Gates out of the fourth story window of the precinct.

"What do you need us for?" Kate asked.

"Not you, just Mr. Castle. Get Detectives Ryan and Esposito and come into my office."

Once everyone was in Gates' office, she closed the door. "You remember the Beau Randolph murder case from a year or so ago, don't you?"

All four nodded.

"And you know that Seth Parrino bought College Girls Gone Wild to add to College Guys Gone Nuts?" Again, everyone nodded. "We know that Parrino is associated with a crime family in New Jersey. As far as anyone knows, they're not involved with his business except to head off any trouble with unions and do….Well, other favors that crime families can do. But, last night Parrino's chief financial officer, Joseph Donetti, was found shot to death in a parking garage. There were security cameras in the garage, but they only cover the driver's side of the car, and Donetti was shot through the passenger's side window. We can see Donetti slumping to one side, presumably when he was shot, and then two minutes and twenty eight seconds later, a young woman walks towards the car, stops when she gets to the car, see's Donetti and starts to run. Her back is to the security camera. Then she runs to the stairs, where there are no security cameras. She wasn't picked up by cameras again until she ran out of the garage and headed to the College Girls Gone Wild party across the street. At no time do we see her face. But," Gates took out a plastic evidence bag, "She caught a charm from a bracelet on Donetti's car and ripped a solid gold tennis racket charm off."

"I'm sorry, but how does this involve Castle?" Kate asked.

"I was just getting to that. Parrino is having a "Hot Dads and Grads" party for his next DVD. It will feature handsome, upscale men and their daughters. Mr. Castle will look for a girl like this. "She pointed to the video capture. "Tech estimates she's five feet, ten inches all, and one hundred and twenty pounds with long dark hair. Mr. Castle is to find a girl with a missing charm, if he can."

"Sir," Beckett began, "Castle's daughter Alexis is not…"

"Going to be involved." Gates looked through the window in her door and waved to someone outside. A young girl came in, no more than five feet tall, with long black hair, a short tight skirt and showing way too much cleavage.

"This is Officer Milly Conrad, from the Eight One. Although she regularly passes for a high school or college student, she is twenty five and very good at her job."

Milly took Castle's hand and stared up at him. In looking down at her, he found himself staring at her boobs. Very large, firm boobs. Castle quickly looked at a spot about six inches over her head. "Glad to meet you, Conrad."

"I am so happy to meet you, Mr. Castle. I'm a huge fan of your books. I can't believe I'm really working with you. I just love your books."

Kate noticed that Conrad was shoving one boob against Castle's arm, forcing him to step backwards until he was trapped against Gates' desk. Kate was afraid that Conrad would push Rick over onto the desk and have her way with him, then and there.

Once Castle managed to escape from Conrad and get back to Kate's desk, he leaned over to whisper to her. "Look, this bothers me, so I know it's gotta bother you. I can tell Gates that I'm not going to do this. Okay?"

Kate thought for a moment and then shook her head. "No, we have a murder to solve and I trust you. I know you're not going to do anything with Conrad."

"It's what she's trying to do to me that I'm worried about."

Kate smiled. "Poor Rickey. Are you being treated like a piece of meat?"

"Laugh, Kate. But the woman is not going to leave me alone."

That night, Conrad came to the loft to pick up Castle. Kate made sure she answered the door, wearing a short robe with nothing on under it. "Oh, hello, Officer Conrad. I was just saying good bye to my fiancé. I hope he isn't too tired out for you."

She did notice that Conrad's dress was ankle length, but very sheer. It was obvious that she had no bra on and probably no panties. Kate hated her.

"Oh, I'm sure he'll be lively enough." She looked over Kate's shoulder at Rick coming out of the bedroom with his tuxedo on. "Wow! You look spectacular, Dad." She giggled at calling him dad.

"Thank you, um, Milly. Shall we go?" Castle said as formally as he could.

Kate spent the next five hours telling herself over and over that she could trust Rick, even if she couldn't trust Conrad as far as she could throw her. And throwing Conrad seemed like a better idea all of the time. "

Finally, a little after two, Rick came home.

"How was it, babe?"

"I tried to tell her that since we were supposed to be father and daughter, she shouldn't be trying to climb all over me. She just laughed and said that most of the daughters there were actually the girlfriends of the men they were with. And she did point out a lot of very un-daughter-like behavior going on. I bet if CSU dusted me right now, I'd have her finger prints all over me from head to toe."

"Do you just want to go to bed?"

"I just want to go to bed with you."

"Anything else?" Kate asked with a smile.

"Everything else."

Castle came to work later than usual. When the elevator doors opened, he carefully looked around before heading to Beckett's desk.

"Where's Milly? I thought she'd be nude sunbathing on your desk by now."

"Detective Conrad's services are no longer required. The case has been cracked." She said with a smile.

"By anyone I might know?" He smiled back.

"It occurred to me that whoever the girl was knew Donetti since she was headed for his car. So, I checked his known associates and guess who I found?"

"A tall, dark haired girl?" Guessed happily.

Beckett showed him a DMV photo of a young woman. "Angela Costello, who is Seth Parrino's niece. I went and talked to her this morning while you were sleeping in and showed her the charm we got. She broke down. The shooter was her boyfriend, an Irish hood from New Jersey named Joe Lynch. It seems the Irish mob are trying to move in on Parrino and Lynch was getting close to Angela to get some inside information on Parrino. She was afraid her family would blame her for Donetti's death, so she didn't say anything. We have a warrant out for Lynch and I talked to Seth Parrino, who is just happy Angela didn't get hurt. But he will ask about her boyfriends in the future."

"I can give him some good advice."

"You think you can give a wise guy some advice about intimidating boyfriends?"

He shrugged. "Okay, maybe not, but I still have a problem. I need someone to grope me tonight. And put their fingerprints all over me. Can you be any help?"

"Castle, I happen to know a woman."

Author's note: Yesterday I did go to see Rendezvous and I saw Stana Katic there. She is gorgeous. I won't give any spoilers out, since some of you may see it, but it's like a cross between Castle and an Indiana Jones movie, but without all the CGI. Very, very good. And if you want proof positive that you can't take a bad picture of Stana Katic, look up Bob Hutchinson on Facebook and look at my photos.