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Detective Kate Beckett was furious. If it were possible for a person to turn red with anger and green with jealousy Kate Beckett would be purple because both of those things were coursing through her blood in that moment.
Chloe Carver, the new office clerk was again swooning all over Richard Castle. It's been going on for a week now and she simply can't take it any more. Getting up from her desk a little more noisily than necessary she heads straight for her locker in the precinct gym. Donning her workout gear she has a date planned with a certain punching bag. Twenty minutes into her assault on the aforementioned punching bag, a voice breaks her out of her reverie, "What did that bag ever do to you detective? Let me guess, you're pretending that's Chloe face right now aren't you? Go on, you can say it, you're jealous."
With sweat dripping into her eyes and down her back she swivels to see him with a smirk on his face and yet, understanding in his eyes.
Without thought she takes three long strides, bringing them close enough for their breaths to mingle, then resolutely leaps into him forcing him to throw his arms out instinctually to catch her. She looks into his eyes for only a millisecond before their lips are pressing together. Breaking away far too soon she's laughing and says, "I guess that could have been a little more elegant huh?"
"Oh, I don't know detective. I don't see having a sweaty Kate Beckett in my arms as a bad thing." Both with huge grins on their faces they simultaneously lean in, allowing their lips to meet once more. As their tongues touch for the first time in a year the kiss rapidly becomes heated. Hearing the sound of a throat being cleared quickly brings them out of their realm of lust and passion."
"Looking like a little more than partners there aren't you Beckett, Castle?" Espo sneers as Ryan has to cover his mouth with his hand to block the huge grin spreading across his face.
Quickly dropping back down from her tiptoes, "What can I say? When the moment strikes you have to seize it." Smiling, she saunters past them towards the showers leaving three guys standing slack-jawed in her wake.