„Tell him how to reverse the curse"

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*

They walked back to her desk in silence, thought Kate had a very hard time not to ask what Castle had been told. But of xourse she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of showing him she cared at all.

"I can't tell you, you know" Rick said out off the blue.

"Who says I want to know?" the look he shot her clearly said 'I know you want to'

"But I can show you!"

He stopped in the middle of the bullpen, Kate halting, too, watching him with a slightly raised eyebrow.

"Ryan, Esposito, I'm going to reverse the curse now but it'll only work if I have some attention"

Of course the two didn't have to be told twice and instantly left what they were doing to watch Castle. As soon as he had their attention, as well as from almost every other cop around, he closed the one step between himself and Kate and kissed her.

Withing moments she kissed him back and let out an almost soundless sight when his tongue came in contact with hers'. While they're tongues were melting together, battling for dominance his one arm slid around her waist, pulling her more against him. The other hand tangled in her hair, all the while hers' roamed over his back.

They were that lost in each other that they didn't realize the other people in the room, or the whistling coming from Ryan and Esposito.

Crap!

She pulled back only enough to look at him. Thought she didn't know what just happened she had to admit that it felt really good to be near him; to be held by him; to be kissed by him.

Stop, don't go there. Focus!

"What the hell was that?"

"That my dear detective is called a kiss" her death glare arrived him even before he'd finished his sentence. "But that's not what you wanted to know"

His eyes closed for a second and he took a deep breath before speaking. "I told you I was going to reverse the curse of the mummy"

"And how exactly should this have been done?"

"I needed to kiss the one person I love!" she stared at him for a very long moment. He wasn't breathing – he knew that was big. They never even admitted being anything but friends – and yet here he was confessing his love for her.

"The person you... you love?" she whispered finally; barely audible.

"Yeah" he nodded his head, then locked his eyes on hers' again. "But it only worls if the feeling is mutual"

He didn't just say that to get her to admit it – it was what that mayan guy had told him. He just hoped she believed that.

"Well, in that case" she began "I'll have to inform you, that you are certainly 100% curse free" The only thing that could get that big smile off her face were his lips that were on hers'again in a passionate kiss.

Little did they know that there never had been a curse after all.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*