A buzzing wakes her from her peaceful slumber, keeping her eyes closed she tries to regain consciousness. She rolls over trying to locate the noise without opening her eyes and mumbles something even she doesn't understand. She shifts the sheet up to cover her a little, and reaches for the phone that she knows is on the bedside table.

"Hello?" She half whispers, the remnants of sleep still in her voice.

"Beckett?" Esposito asked at the other end of the phone.

"Yeah?"

"Am I interrupting something, should I call back later?" He asks with a sound of mirth in his voice.

"No… Nope, I'm up. Did a body drop?" She shifts to sit up, trying to sound more awake.

"Well not exactly. We are holding someone here that's only going to speak to you, says it's a family matter. She asked to give you a message."

She waits for it and when he doesn't answer, she prompts. "Esposito."

"Oh yeah right, she said 'tell here Bambi is in the woods, the fire is getting closer and the damn deer needs your help.' Just running us in circles if you ask me but I figured I would call to check to see if it means anything to you." He sounds feed up and tired, like he knows this is going to be a dead end.

She pauses as she takes the word in and absorbs them. "I will be right in." She says in a solum tone.

"Right boss." She hears Esposito say as she hangs up, but she is already on autopilot. She shifts to get out of bed but stops when she feels a hand grab her thigh.

"Where do you thin your going?" He hasn't opened his eyes but from the sound of his voice and his movements he has been awake as long as she has, if not longer.

"Got a call, I have to go in." She snuggles down again and allows herself time to give him a quick kiss on the lips before she has to leave their sanctuary, one minute won't matter in the long run right?

"But it's your day off." He pouts after he kisses her back, moving his other hand to cup her breast. He tries to deepen the kiss but she won't let him.

"Not now Rick, I have to go." She moves out of the bed taking the sheet to wrap around her naked body. Going over to her chest of draws and grabbing some fresh clothes.

He leans up on one elbow, looking at her from the bed. "Can't someone else fight the bad guys today?"

"Sorry Castle but this is a personal errand." She puts on some dark jeans and her grey shirt, throwing on her signature black leather jacket over the top.

"Can I come with you?" He asks moving behind her, kissing her neck.

She turns to stare at him, looking into his eyes thinking for a moment. "Only if you're quick, you have five minutes. I will be waiting downstairs."

"Your no fun!" He smirks as he moves towards his chest of drawers to grab some clothes out.

As she waits for him in the kitchen of the loft she thinks about the past few months. They have been seeing each other for a while now and although they seem to be moving quickly, they have really been in a relationship for three years. Three years of verbal foreplay could not have prepared her for the feelings she had when she dived into this with him head on. Everything just seemed to fall into place, next thing she knew she had clothes at his place and there was less and less point of having her own apartment, not that she would ever tell Castle that. She still needed her own space, an escape route if she needed it.

"Ready?" He yelled as he bounded down the stairs towards her breaking her from her thoughts.

She looked at him and smiled leaning up to give him a chaste kiss on the lips.

"Lets go." As they walked out the door together.