An: My first Castle Fanfic, sorry if its not brilliant!
Not too sure where this is set in terms of the series, just a random fic that I hope you all like (:
Summary: Castle and Beckett are together but nobody knows, not yet anyway. Ryan stumbles across a magazine with the title: More Than Just a Man and His Muse!
Katherine Beckett sat at her desk staring at her computer screen. She wasn't looking at anything as her mind was elsewhere, thinking about the night before.
Rick had had the loft all to himself and had invited her round for a romantic dinner. And yes, it was amazingly romantic. As soon as she stepped into his loft, she caught sight of the millions of candles everywhere and the dimmed lights. There was a table set out for two with red table cloth laid over it and a candle placed in the middle.
The dinner plates were out and there was a luxurious smell wafting around the room. "I made dinner" he beamed proudly, taking off her coat when she walked in and hanging it up.
Kate was lost for words.
"Wow, this is just...wow" she said looking around,he'd even hung little lights above where they were dining.
"This is the nicest thing anyone's done for me, ever!" she said finally, tearing up a little.
Rick smiled at her and brought his lips down upon hers. Her arms found their way round his neck and his rested on her waist.
"Thank you" she said after they pulled away, a little breathless, resting her forehead on his.
"You're most certainly welcome" he breathed back.
Dinner was wonderful and they talked together for hours.
Unfortunately the night had to come to an end as they both needed to be up and at work tomorrow. Rick walked Kate to her car and gave her a small goodbye kiss. The goodbye kiss lasted a lot longer and was a lot more passionate than either had expected and by the end of it, Kate was sandwiched between her car and Rick.
"Wow" she breathed after their heavy make out session.
"Now don't you wish we could do that at work" he smiled down at her and kissed her cheek.
"I'll see you tomorrow, beautiful" he said and started to walk back to his loft.
Kate let out a breath and sighed contently as she got in her car she smiled to herself and drove home happily.
Kate now sat at her desk, stuck at work and wouldn't be able to kiss Rick for a long, long time. She sat there, still staring at her screen, thinking of the kiss.
"Haha, check this out" Ryan whispered to Esposito chuckling to himself, his look focused on Beckett.
Esposito followed his gaze and smirked, then gracefully walked over to Beckett.
"Yo Beckett" he said when he realized she hadn't noticed him walk up to her desk, she snapped out of her trance and looked up at him.
"Were you just smiling to yourself?" He asked, that smirk still tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"What? No" Beckett answered, her face turning red.
"Ah ha" Esposito said amused but clearly not convinced.
He shot a look back at Ryan who just shrugged so he went back to finish some paper work.
Great. Beckett thought, just what I needed to get caught thinking about Rick. Where is he anyway?
Just when Kate had got her red face to return back to normal colour, Rick sauntered in, two coffees in hand, and her face went back to red all over again. And not unnoticed by Esposito and Ryan who shot a glance at each other.
"She was so thinking about Castle" Esposito leaned over and whispered to Ryan. "Yep, look how red she's gone!" He smirked back.
"Morning" Castle smiled, placing her coffee down on her desk.
"Morning" she replied dreamily, then coughed suddenly, needing to be professional.
She was usually good at it, but not today. The way he stood there smiling at her in all his perfection, the way his smile reached his eyes and how his scent filled the entire room.
"Right, we haven't got a case yet so we're just finishing off some paper work" she gestured to Ryan and Esposito.
"Want to help?" She asked though she knew the answer.
"I'll pass" he said smirking, then sat down in his chair next to Beckett's desk.
"Beckett?" Ryan said as he approached her desk, she looked up at him and smiled for him to continue.
"Since we haven't got a real case, could I maybe pop out for a half an hour? Wanted to meet up with Jenny" he stood there, slightly wincing at her expected 'no' response but it didn't seem to come.
"Yeah of course" she smiled brightly at him, "if I need you for anything I'll call" she returned back to her paper work.
"Ah okay, thanks" he said happily, then grabbed his jacket and strode out the room, smiling. Esposito snorted and rolled his eyes.
Ryan and Jenny had a small coffee break at one of her favorite cafes and just enjoyed each other's company. The half hour went by too quickly in Ryan's opinion but he was glad he got to see her today, he was also thankful that Beckett was in a great mood, otherwise she wouldn't have let him go.
On the walk back to the precinct, some guy shoved a magazine in Ryan chest, startling him a little and nearly making his spill his coffee.
"All the latest gossip!" he called out, shoving more magazines in other people's faces as they passed by.
Ryan rolled his eyes and looked at the magazine while continuing to walk.
Once he saw the front cover he spat out his coffee.
Unfortunately he did that on another person walking by who turned around to glare at him.
"I'm so sorry" he spluttered, starting to have a coughing fit. The man glared at him once more then carried on walking. After Ryan's not so subtle reaction to the front page, he ditched his coffee, clutched onto the magazine and started to run the little way it was to the precinct.
The elevator ride was taking far too long and Ryan, to the annoyance of everyone else in the elevator, kept fidgeting and moving around. Once the door opened he ran straight to Esposito.
Beckett was still at her desk with Castle right beside her, he'd moved his chair next to hers and had his head propped up by his hands. All three of them looked up at the out of breath Ryan who was now bent over and resting his hands on his knees.
"Need...to talk...to you...now!" He panted between breaths, looking at Esposito who was giving him a very strange look.
"You okay?" Beckett asked, also giving him a strange look.
"Yeah, yeah...fine" he said, his breath returning to him.
He regretted deeply his choice in running up here. Ryan tugged on Esposito's arm and he followed him to one of the rooms behind the one way glass and closed the door.
Rick and Kate just looked at each other, puzzled. Rick then forgot about the boys and rested his head back on his hands, gazing up at Kate.
"You know I can't concentrate when you're looking at me like that" Kate said, her gaze fixed on the computer screen ahead of her.
"But it's just so hard not to" he replied, making her blush way too much.
She smiled that adorable smile that Rick loved so much.
"So wish I could kiss you right now" she sighed.
"It's 11:00 now" Rick said reading his watch. "We could get lunch about 1:00" he smiled at her, waiting for an answer.
Kate looked around the precinct. Everyone was going about their usual business just like nothing was different.
"Love to!" she replied, returning his smile.
"Bro, what the hell was all that about?" Ryan didn't speak but simply handed his partner the magazine.
"No way!" Esposito said with an incredulous gasp. He stared at the magazine in shock.
"Is this serious?" He asked, still shocked by the front cover of the magazine.
"Dead serious. Photographs don't lie" Ryan and Esposito couldn't take their eyes away from the magazine.
Right there, smack down in the middle, was a picture of Castle and Beckett, hot and heavy kissing, with the title: More Than Just a Man and His Muse! In the corner it said in a circle 'turn to page 3' and the pair did so. On pages 3 and 4 there was a double page spread with 7 photos of Castle and Beckett kissing, each one different. Esposito read a paragraph while Ryan was too shocked to even speak.
"'The writer and his muse.'" Esposito began,
"'Katherine Beckett and Richard Castle were seen in a hot and heavy make out session after a source said they'd seen them go up to his loft apartment at around 7:00pm. The pictures were taken at around 10:30pm when Miss Beckett was seen walking to her car with Mr. Castle. Will she be the new Mrs. Castle? Only time will tell'"
Once Esposito had finished reading the paragraph he looked up at his best friend.
"Now what?" He asked, glancing again at the pages.
"Now the fun begins!" Ryan smirked.
An: I don't know whether to continue this or not. If you think I should, please give me some ideas, I honestly don't know where to go with this! Thank you so much x