Fic: The Left Turn at Albuquerque Caper (Castle/Carmen Sandiego)

Herewith my intoabar fic.  Yes, this one is definitely cracktastic...

Title: The Left Turn at Albuquerque Caper
Characters: Captain Victoria Gates* (Castle); Zack (Carmen Sandiego), the Chief (Carmen Sandiego)
Fandoms: Castle, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Word count: ~2200
Rating/Contents: Rated G.  AU for Castle as of Season 7; mentions events from the Season 6 finale.

Written for A Ficathon Goes Into A Bar....

Two weeks had passed since Richard Castle’s dramatic wedding-day disappearance, and Captain Victoria Gates – in unofficial but carefully arranged rotation with Esposito and Lanie Parish – had taken to “dropping into” the Old Haunt at regular intervals, to make certain Kate Beckett wasn’t sliding entirely off the rails into depression or worse.

And then a pink vortex dropped a demin-jacketed teenager into the bar....