castleland BBA Fic 1
Title: What I Did This Summer - Part 1: Ryan
Fandom: Castle
Characters: Detective Kevin Ryan
Word Count: 549
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: This is the first in a series that I hope will be done by... tomorrow. It's for the castleland Big Bang Alt and I used 008. Dread. Now I just need 19 more. *sobs*
Kevin had never expected that Jenny would say no to his proposal. Their relationship had been going smoothly and suddenly he’d gone out to get a ring, the perfect ring, and she’d taken one look at it before throwing it back to him and leaving the room. When he’d been able to think straight enough to put the ring in his pocket, away from any prying eyes that might witness his greatest defeat, he hadn’t been able to find her anywhere.
One of a group of the best detectives in the city and he’d been unable to track his girlfriend, if she could be called that, in a city that was filled with places that did nothing but remind him of what he’d had. They’d had their first date at that Chinese restaurant, although it had been a Thai restaurant then. There was the park where they’d taken a walk every morning during their second month together. He’d had to do some fast talking to get the time off but he hadn’t minded. She was important to him.
His eyes hurt from the tears that had threatened to fall. What was he going to do without her? Why did he think that they were ready for the next step? She was just getting her business off the ground and he was working a job where he could get shot at any moment. Their lives were the least stable of anyone else he knew.
Just as he was getting back to his apartment, his pager went off. Now is not the time for work to interfere in my personal life, he growled silently. At first he ignored it, prowling the stairway in case she was hiding on a landing he hadn’t bothered checking the first time. Perhaps, he reasoned, she was so happy about the potential of spending her life with him that she’d been flustered and thrown the ring at him so she could come down into this catacomb and wait for him to find her. Those were the sort of things he had to tell himself to keep the fear at bay. His life was over. Well and truly over.
The pager went off five more times before he bothered looking at it. All from the same number. He flicked his cell phone on with his thumb and dialed Javier. “What?” he asked, not bothering to cover over the hurt and exasperation he was feeling at the moment.
“We’ve got a second strangling. It’s time for you to come in. Sorry, man. You know I wouldn’t call if it wasn’t an emergency.”
“Sure. I’ll be right in.”
The only person who knew about the ring besides Jenny and the woman who had sold it to him was his partner. There would be questions. Hopefully this case would be so consuming that he wouldn’t think to ask why Kevin wasn’t smiling or gleefully planning a honeymoon. Each step toward the station house filled him with more dread. The last thing he wanted to do right now was be around people but maybe he could lose himself so deep in this case that he forgot about what a mess his private life was in. All he could do was hope for a miracle.
Fandom: Castle
Characters: Detective Kevin Ryan
Word Count: 549
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: This is the first in a series that I hope will be done by... tomorrow. It's for the castleland Big Bang Alt and I used 008. Dread. Now I just need 19 more. *sobs*
Kevin had never expected that Jenny would say no to his proposal. Their relationship had been going smoothly and suddenly he’d gone out to get a ring, the perfect ring, and she’d taken one look at it before throwing it back to him and leaving the room. When he’d been able to think straight enough to put the ring in his pocket, away from any prying eyes that might witness his greatest defeat, he hadn’t been able to find her anywhere.
One of a group of the best detectives in the city and he’d been unable to track his girlfriend, if she could be called that, in a city that was filled with places that did nothing but remind him of what he’d had. They’d had their first date at that Chinese restaurant, although it had been a Thai restaurant then. There was the park where they’d taken a walk every morning during their second month together. He’d had to do some fast talking to get the time off but he hadn’t minded. She was important to him.
His eyes hurt from the tears that had threatened to fall. What was he going to do without her? Why did he think that they were ready for the next step? She was just getting her business off the ground and he was working a job where he could get shot at any moment. Their lives were the least stable of anyone else he knew.
Just as he was getting back to his apartment, his pager went off. Now is not the time for work to interfere in my personal life, he growled silently. At first he ignored it, prowling the stairway in case she was hiding on a landing he hadn’t bothered checking the first time. Perhaps, he reasoned, she was so happy about the potential of spending her life with him that she’d been flustered and thrown the ring at him so she could come down into this catacomb and wait for him to find her. Those were the sort of things he had to tell himself to keep the fear at bay. His life was over. Well and truly over.
The pager went off five more times before he bothered looking at it. All from the same number. He flicked his cell phone on with his thumb and dialed Javier. “What?” he asked, not bothering to cover over the hurt and exasperation he was feeling at the moment.
“We’ve got a second strangling. It’s time for you to come in. Sorry, man. You know I wouldn’t call if it wasn’t an emergency.”
“Sure. I’ll be right in.”
The only person who knew about the ring besides Jenny and the woman who had sold it to him was his partner. There would be questions. Hopefully this case would be so consuming that he wouldn’t think to ask why Kevin wasn’t smiling or gleefully planning a honeymoon. Each step toward the station house filled him with more dread. The last thing he wanted to do right now was be around people but maybe he could lose himself so deep in this case that he forgot about what a mess his private life was in. All he could do was hope for a miracle.