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Kate Beckett (katebex) wrote in toboldlyrpg,

"When I was working for the Attorney General's office, I used my security clearance to run a search on Bracken," Kate started at the beginning, using her free hand to brush at the tears staining her face for the second time since she walked into the room. She didn't bother to explain anything other than that because Castle knew her history with U.S. Senator William Bracken just as well as she did. The man that had bribed his way into power, who had cheated and lied, had murdered at least eight people that she knew of, including her mother. "You know why I did it, but I came up empty. I never got a hit and when I left the AG's office I forgot about it."

"In September, I got a phone call; a protocol seven distress code from an analyst inside the Attorney General's office. His name was Vikram and he started after I left, but he got the notification that the search I ran on Bracken had pulled out a hit - a declassified memo detailing a meeting between Bracken and another federal official. It was mostly redacted, nothing useful in it, but in the margin there was a little bit of writing. The name Loksat and what turned out to be the tail number on an airplane."

"Vikram passed that memo to Rachel McCord, and he forgot about it just like I forgot about my search, but that day Rachel and the rest of my old team from the office were killed in a car accident. The man that replaced me on the team was killed that night in a bar and then someone tried to kill Vikram but didn't get the job done. He came to me for help, and to warn me, but it was too late. They had already tracked my location through my cell phone and I had to shoot some guys so we could escape." Kate left out the part where one of them grazed her with a bullet, already knowing that at some point Castle would see the faint scar on the right side of her body, a sharp line across her ribs that she just chalked up to another war wound. It fit right in with her surgery scar running down her left side and the raised scar tissue between her breasts from the bullet that had nearly killed her.

"He and I went on the run, unable to contact anyone because we thought the men after us would be expecting that and might be sitting on the loft or the precinct and waiting for just that. You, Ryan and Esposito ended up working the scene of the guys I killed, you figured out that I was involved and in danger, and of course you started nosing around," Kate said that part with a sigh, the smile she gave him strained but still incredibly fond of the man standing in front of her. "We all found out, through our seperate investigative work, that Bracken had a silent partner in his drug ring and money laundering scheme, someone high up in the CIA with the connections to smuggle the heroin into the country unnoticed. This guy had been at this for so long that he didn't want anyone finding out, and killing people that he suspected had information wasn't a big deal. He killed my friends from the AG's office, he sent someone to kill Bracken in his cell because he talked to me and later to you. They were going to kill you because they thought you knew where I was hiding or because you might have information about Loksat."