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Chapter Six [Text]

Who: Richard Castle and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose if you really want?
When: RIGHT NOW

It was my birthday on the first of the month, and normally I'd have celebrated it, but having my first birthday here and this planet having deadly air have made me want to come clean about something.

I think I might be dead back home.

I don't know for certain, and I never will know unless someone from back home shows up AND they're from further down my timeline. Which is looking less and less likely the longer I'm here.

I'm not asking anyone else to share if they're in the same boat if they don't want to, but I'm still figuring out how to process it, and like I said, it's been hitting me hard lately. So I had to get it out somewhere.

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Oh, please, almost everyone I know here is from an alternate universe of mine. [Okay, not really, but only because she knows a lot of people.

But she nods, sympathetic.]

I heard you have a daughter. [She imagines that's his main concern.]

Jeez. Atroma must really have it out for you- there are people you know, except noooooot quite, and also you're dead, surprise! Drama! RATINGS! [Castle made jazz hands before turning serious again.]

I do, yeah. Alexis. She's an adult now, so she could take care of herself if she needed to, and she's still got my mom and Kate to look out for her. But... she's my little girl, damnit.

[No one has ever jazz hands'd her death before, Castle. You are special. She does look amused by it rather than offended. No actual death for you today! Okay, that wasn't on the table even if she'd been offended.]

Hopefully it'll all be one long, needless scare and you'll get back there alive.

[Castle was indeed special, Kitty.]

Yeah... me, too. Now that I know for sure I'm not alone, I'm gonna try not to dwell on it too much. It's like... I've got it out in the open now, I've had people reassure me it's not a ridiculous idea, so it's like the air has deflated, so to speak.

Then it sounds like you made the right call in...making a call about it. Nothing looming over you. [Yeah, she should tell some people, shouldn't she?]

Yeah. I got it off my chest, and now I've gotten people to share the load with, so to speak.

But some new loads to carry too. I'm the cloud that comes with every silver lining. [Smiling.]

I dunno... this is the kind of load I don't mind carrying.

Then I'm glad it worked out for you. I'll let you get back to talking to our other death buddies.

Sure... and thanks for talking to me about it, too. I know it can be hard to be open.

It can be harder to be closed sometimes. [She gives him a little smile, nods her head and heads out of the room.]

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