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Together Forever?

Chapter 1!!

His body fit hers perfectly. Hers fit his like a glove.

Beckett and Castle's last case had very emotional for Kate. The crime had been an almost exact match to her mothers. The only difference was that they had caught the killer. After the final interrogation, Beckett had gone to Lady's Locker Room and cried for an hour. After about ten minutes Castle found her. Beckett had tried half heartedly to get him to leave but nothing would work. Truth be told, she didn't want him to leave. His presence was very soothing.

He kissed her on the mouth then worked his way down to her belly button. She moaned with longing, not wanting him to stop.

"Beckett--" Richard Castle said into her stomach.

"Castle, we're having sex. I'm pretty sure we can call each other by our first names," Detective Kate Beckett interrupted him.

"Ok," Castle lifted his head off of her stomach and looked into her eyes. "Kate, I love you."

Beckett could feel her jaw drop but she recovered quickly.

"Rick, I love you so much more than you could know," Kate responded with passion. After that they were a little too busy to talk.

***

That was the greatest night of my life, Beckett thought as she woke up the next morning. I have never had sex as amazing as that. Not even with Will. Detective Beckett was in complete bliss. She could not remember a happier time in her life. The next moment Castle woke up.

"Good morning, Kitten," Kate greeted him with warmly.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that, muse?" Castle replied jokingly.

"About as many times as I've told you not to call me your muse."

Without a doubt, Castle was as happy as Beckett. The sex he had with Kate had been even better then sex with the deep fried Twinkie. Without a doubt, last night was the best night of Castle's life.

"I should probably go back home so I can get ready for work," Beckett said breaking the blissful silence. "Good thing Alexis and Martha are out of town on that shopping spree or we would have some explaining to do."

"Good call on the changing thing. You want me to come with you, and 'help'?" Castle asked jokingly.

"If you did that I would never get anything done," Kate responded as she stood up to leave. "I'll see you in a few at work."

***

A second after Detective Kate Beckett sat down at her desk, Ryan and Esposito pounced.

"Slutty," said Ryan.

"Sexy," put in Esposito.

"Flexible."

"Skilled."

"Ok, I'll bite. What are you too doing?"

"We're describing the couple on the cover of 'What's What'. You know the world famous tabloid," Ryan said answering her question.

"I don't really care for tabloids. Now get off of my desk," Kate snapped back.

"Oh, but you'll want to look at this," Esposito said, slapping down his copy of What's What!

Kate gasped in shock. On the cover of the tabloid was a picture of her and Rick. Having sex! Underneath it was the headline "Richard Castle and His New Muse!"

Beckett jumped up form her desk, with the tabloid in hand, and ran to the elevator that Rick had just stepped through. She grabbed his shirt and pushed him back through.

"What are you doing?" Castle asked after Kate had pressed the button for the lobby of the precinct.

"Showing you this," She said after trusting What's What! under Castle's nose.Rick's eyes scanned the cover and as they did they slowly got bigger.

"What the hell!" he screamed about two seconds later. "Reporters just don't respect your private life anymore," he said incredulously.

"I know. What are we going to do?" Kate asked.

"Well, the way I see it we have two options. Option one, I could stop shadowing and seeing you while you try to rebuild your professional image. Or option two, we could start dating and I would die a happier man," he said matter-of-factly.

"I like option two," Kate said.

They sealed the deal with a kiss.

***

The next day Beckett woke up starring at the ceiling of her room. But she wasn't really seeing it. She was too preoccupied with her thoughts. They were all about her favorite author, Richard Castle.

They had went to dinner at a restaurant so expensive a slice of bread cost about a month's worth of Beckett's salary. She was thinking about "dessert" when she opened the door of her apartment to leave for work. Only when she opened the door she wasn't seeing the boring colors of her apartment hallway.

She was seeing the barrel of a gun.

Suddenly there was a loud bang and Detective Beckett fell to the ground.

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