**Disclaimers:
I don't own Castle, that would be the amazing, Andrew W. Marlowe.
Set in season 5, relationship established.
*I don't usually write much because I don't have time but this popped into my head while I was studying one day, so I figured I'd write about it.
Please be nice, this is the first thing that I've ever posted so here it goes... :)
"Goodnight guys. See you tomorrow" Kate says as she slides off the bar stool, Castle helping her with her coat. Leaving Ryan, Esposito, Lanie, Jenny and (unbeknownst to her) Castle at the table. Kate starts making her way towards the door, smiling to the hostess as she reaches the door.
"It's not that cold, Castle, do you wanna wa-?"... Kate turns, stops, and realizes she's talking to thin air "-lk." Castle's still back at the table, too busy talking to Ryan about something.
"Castle, you ready?" Kate asks, getting a little annoyed by the fact that he's fully invested in his conversation and she was ready to go home hours ago.
When Castle finally looks over to Kate, she's throwing him the "I'm extremely annoyed" look, that he's secretly grown to love, so he says goodbye to his friends and head her way. Kate turns, braces herself for the cold and opens the door into the night- waiting outside for Castle seemed like a better idea than waiting around in the extremely loud bar.
He sees her leave, completely missing the man right behind her, and he disappears into the shadows, hoping to beat her back to her apartment.
"Hmmm, yeah. Let's go." Castle wraps his arm around her waist, leading her down the block.
They continue their walk down the dark, emptied streets. Kate's arm latched around Castle's elbow, leaning into him, in the cool, New York, fall air. They're silent, taking in this romantic, uninterrupted, moment to just soak in each others presence.
He sneaks through the shadows, making sure no hint of light, from the run down street lamps and bar windows catch a glimpse of him. Eyes shifting back with each move making sure he isn't followed, life his life is at stake. He makes his way up the fire escape of the building where she lives, dodging windows of those who are still awake, burning the midnight oil.
He stays over at her apartment a lot more these days, avoiding Martha. All of their friends know now, but their still keeping their relationship hidden from the public, but they have their suspicions. He loves her and she feels the same way about him- even if she's never said the words allowed- he knows it. He leans in and kisses her forehead as they wait for the elevator door.
He just barely makes in through the window into her apartment before he gets caught on the fire escape by a men climbing out to smoke. He's been here before, but under extremely different circumstances. He makes his way to the couch, still thinking about how the next few moments are going to do down, when he hears her in the hallway… and she's with someone. Crap. He contemplates making a quick bolt for the window and coming back another time, but that's when he realizes he knows that voice, it's muffled by the walls but he's still able to make out the fact that he knows that voice...
"You know we should go out with just Ryan and Jenny sometime. It wouldn't be THAT bad, would it?" Castle says, as he reaches to press the button for her floor.
"You mean like a double date?... uh, no. As much as I love Ryan and Jenny, I would prefer to put pressure on what we have. You know how bad it went when Lanie and Espo went out with them" Kate replies.
Castle puts out his arm to let her lead the way out of the elevator, "Oh come on. Lanie's just being stubborn and isn't ready to commit."
"Yeah, so says Espo, Lanie told me quite a different story," Kate throws him a smirk, turning to the door as she proceeds to dig around the bottom of her purse to find her keys. Castle creeps up behind her, reaching to her shoulder, he slowly tucks her hair behind her ear and he dips down to plant kisses along her collarbone, dropping kisses all the way up to her jaw line.
"Castle. Stop. Let me at least unlock the door first"… she sucks in a breath…."we aren't going to get anywhere if I can't find my keys." She nudges him with her elbow.
"CASTLE?! About damn time…. " he whispers, smiling to himself.
Castle backs off, but the minute she finds her keys and turns the lock, he grabs her. Wraps one arm around her waist, the other reaching to her neck to pull her in for a long slow kiss. Kate grabs the back of his head, pulling him towards the door, as she reaches for the door knob with her other hand. They spin through the door, Kate drops her purse by the door, kicking the door closed with her foot. She reaches, fumbling, for the light switch of her eerily dark apartment, not like they really need the lights on for where this is heading… the light flickers on, leaving a very familiar looking man sitting on the couch starting back at them.
"ahem"...