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“Legacy” by JustWriter

Opening: What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your past came and snatched you from that glass house called ignorance? Who is Richard Castle really? It may surprise him and you to find out that he's from the 'verse he sees in his dreams; an as of yet undiscovered system of stars and planets that will one day be known as 34 Tauri.

Chapter 1: If I’m Not Rick Castle Then Who Am I?

He lay on a cold table with a smooth surface, his vision clearing from darkness, and yet he was still confused for he had been dreaming of that place again where he was a space cowboy. He hadn’t had any of those vivid dreams as often since he had finished the Derrek Storm novels. The unnamed person he was sure was himself in the dreams had been convinced that he was beginning a romantic relationship with the unattainable Companion Sarah. They had known one another in the most intimate way possible; only for him to fade away in a moment of Samson and Delilah betrayal. He never could understand what happened at the end so he had killed off the protagonist in his novels, those based on his dreams. He could always remember noticing the look of sorrow in her eyes and the determination.

Shaking himself from the world of his dreams, he tried to sit up and realized that he couldn’t move anything below his neck. He inhaled sharply in panic and machine monitoring what must have been his heart rate picked up in activity as a more frequent beeping graced his ears. “Doctor, the patient is awake,” someone called. He heard footsteps and excited breathing. In his view from beneath the bright light he saw a familiar-looking man with a smile on his face that he was trying to suppress in lieu of professionalism. The doctor resembled the way he had envisioned the Derek Storm character Doctor Tan to look; only he had a different hairs