Chapter Nine [Video]

[thebestseller]

Who: Richard Castle and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 21st

Windrose crew, please don't worry too much, but I have been tossed in the pokey, so I won't be coming home tonight. Jeez, it's like the other factions don't have any sense of humor at all...

[Castle shifts uncomfortably.]

Really, no appreciation for fine artwork, these people. And they take this team business way, way, way too seriously.

Vision, please take care of the bots, and remember me fondly if I rot away in prison.

Comments

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[thebestseller]

... not so much.

[video]

[passingthrough]

Then we're a little south of acceptable, but since I'm not your mom or your hall monitor I guess we can let it slide.

[video]

[thebestseller]

Well, I'll pinky swear to not do it again, too.

[video]

[passingthrough]

You can't. You're in the slammer.

[video]

[thebestseller]

Not for very much longer, if Wrath and Tenno can successfully bail me out.

[video]

[passingthrough]

Okay, but if that goes sideways and all three of you end up in jail remember to call the intangible girl and teleporting guy on the crew for break outs.

[video]

[thebestseller]

Will do. Man, I really am the almighty janitor of the crew, aren't I?

[video]

[passingthrough]

Can't argue with the augment. But I hear clean up is very important in spy and assassin work where you don't want to get caught.

[video]

[thebestseller]

True. It's important to not leave any evidence at the scene of the crime... otherwise the team will find you.

[video]

[passingthrough]

Team? [It sounds general and yet kind of felt specific.]

[video]

[thebestseller]

I help the police deparment back home, so my concept of a "team" is the people who investigate crimes.

[video]

[passingthrough]

You help the police department..........write more creative police reports? [Come again?]

[video]

[thebestseller]

I help them solve crimes, actually. See, years ago, a killer was going around that was basing their crimes on the ones in my books. I got hauled in as a suspect, and after I got cleared, well, I just couldn't keep my nose out of it and solved the case, so I work as a special consultant.

[video]

[passingthrough]

What do you do? ...Something like profiling?

[video]

[thebestseller]

A bit of everything. I look at the evidence, try and find links, look at crime scenes, interview suspects and witnesses...

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[passingthrough]

What makes you better at it than detectives? [Curious, more than challenging.]

[video]

[thebestseller]

Eh, I wouldn't say I'm better at it than them. Originally, I wanted to hang around to do research for my books, but they kept me around because I think outside the box, wheras Kate can be... hmm. She tends to color inside the lines, as it were.

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[passingthrough]

Kate is your partner?

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[thebestseller]

Now fiancee, yes.

[video]

[passingthrough]

I'm not sure if I should congratulate or console for that. [Separated and all.]

[video]

[thebestseller]

A bit of both, I think. I was really looking forward to my wedding, but I'm glad she's not stuck with me here, too.

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[passingthrough]

In that case, congratulations. She must be out of her mind. And I'm sorry. It's hard being separated from people you love. [She knows the feeling.]

[video]

[thebestseller]

I'm just gonna keep reassuring myself that time has frozen back home... because otherwise... well. I don't like thinking too hard about her, or my kid, and they state they'd be in if I were to disappear.

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[passingthrough]

Frozen time sounds good to me. [Who knows what really happens or if anyone ever gets home.]

[video]

[thebestseller]

It seems like that's the most likely explanation, because people have had others come from home, and it was like they were never gone back home... [He doesn't sound 100% convinced.]