002 [Audio l Tell me something good

[setshimup]

This -- doesn't look like the City. There are trees -- buildings but they're different and they're empty. Hello

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[cuffmeonce]

Mom?

Mom...where are you? I'm looking for Alexis and I can't find her.

[setshimup]

Richard! Richard! I'm -- we were left here. Were you chained as well? I was taken from the building.

You can't find Alexis?

Are you here?

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[cuffmeonce]

[Castle picks his way through the chained people around until he can stand next to his mother]

I'm here but no, I can't find Alexis. I was taken from the street, heading home from the station.

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[setshimup]

[She spots him, hands coming to his sides. Touching him will make this real. It will make this all real.]

I want to go back. I'm not supposed to be here. You aren't. We don't belo- [Her slow break is paused with mention of Alexis' name. She is who matters. If she's the only one who gets through this...No, Castle and Beckett will as well.]

Alexis...Could she be down here? [She begins to yell, failing to hold it together.] Alexis! Alexis! [To Castle, her resolve tumbling down.] Why is this happening?

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[bladed_siberian]

Do you really want to know who's out there?

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[setshimup]

I wouldn't have asked had I not wanted to know.

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[bladed_siberian]

[There's a click, followed by static, and now Ken's demon visage appears on the screen. Long graceful black horns amid a crown of mussed dark hair shagged down over red tinted eyes and wickedly pointed teeth curled in a smile.]

Welcome to Hell.

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[setshimup]

[There's a gasp, a furrow of the brow and then...]

How cliche.