Fic: Fundamental Things (Castle, thru 3.24 - Knockout)

Title: Fundamental Things

Fandom: Castle

A/N: Found on my hard drive. Not sure why I never posted it. Thru Castle 3.24 – Knockout.

Disclaimer: Castle belongs to people who are not me including Andrew W. Marlowe and Disney-ABC.

Summary: Castle stands to your right and the shot, when it comes, is a very loud crack splitting the afternoon's quiet. You look up because it is so out of place, so unexpected, but you will not remember this and you will not remember falling.

You won't remember this.

Not the noon time sun directly overhead or the over saturated blue of the sky and and how the daylight is so clear and almost too bright in that blinding way that's equal parts shock, grief, and bleached out California sunshine. Later, after, when you try to snap all the pieces of your memory together, what little you do recall won't make sense because how can the day be both so very vivid and so monochromatic all at once.

Maybe you will remember the coffin, the flag draped and tucked across the polished mahogany curve of the lid. Perhaps, you will remember the drums and the bag pipes. But then again, maybe you won't. It will feel distant and out of focus like a ghost memory that could belong to a myriad of other days. Any number of funerals that you've sweated through in your dress blues where all you really recall is the lonely, solemn sound of Taps and the pristine whiteness of your gloves.

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