“Rent Control”
A drabble of 100 words
By December21st
Fandom: Castle
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Warnings: Vague spoiler for “Boom!”
Summary: Apartment rents are influenced by a variety of factors. Response to
castle100 challenge ghost.
Beckett finally finds a new apartment because she can’t solve a case. Marissa DeWent had complained that her apartment was haunted before she was bludgeoned to death there. Unfortunately, the ghost is Beckett’s only suspect.
When he overhears that Beckett’s looking, the manager leaps at the chance to rent the unsolved murder scene (read: rental challenge) to her. The new apartment creaks occasionally, but Beckett doesn’t see any ghosts. But an odd scrabbling sound in the closet leads Beckett to the hidden evidence that convicts Marissa’s boss of her murder, and Beckett wonders if her apartment is haunted after all.