I do not own Castle although it would be a great birthday gift!

This is a collection one-shots most of them Caskett

Rating: T

She couldn't believe she had actually agreed to do this. Not that she had much of a choice, of course only Castle knew how to drag her into a fashion show. Apparently one of his friends from high school was now a fashion designer and needed some publicity. So he organized a fashion show… for charity. All of the clothes worn in the show would be auctioned off and the proceeds would go to a local children's hospital. I mean saying no to Castle was easy, hell she did that every day. Saying no to a charity… she couldn't.

The one thing even he couldn't get on such short notice were models. By coincidence he was one model short. Reluctantly she agreed and was now walking into the back entrance of the building. She had dragged Lanie backstage with her to help her get ready. So she slipped on the skimpy silver dress she was supposed to wear. The back, or what there was of it, dipped down to the small of her back and had it been any lower she would have refused to wear it. Then, Lanie pulled out the heels that were tucked away in a box under the hangers.

"Now put these on." Lanie ordered.

"Whoa…" Kate hated heels to begin with, she couldn't stand them. But these looked about six inches and there was no way she could walk in them. She was so going to kill Castle after this. As if on cue Castle peeked back into her dressing room. Did he have no sense of privacy?

"Castle! What the hell! You know I could have been changing!" She glared at him.

"Oh I know that detective." He said and waggled his eyebrows.

"You have a death wish? Cause these stilettos could actually kill you." She was now swinging the shoes around holding onto the heel.

"Just came to see if you're ready yet."

"Yeah, well get me some shoes I can walk in and I'll be fine."

"Oh come on suck it up it's just for two minutes."

"Fine, but if anything happens the next place this heel will be is in your head. Now get out before I change my mind and throw this at you. It looks like a spike so it probably could do some real damage." He exited not wanting to piss her off anymore than currently.

She slipped on the silver heels and had Lanie buckle them for her. Her dress was so short that bending over would not be a good idea, especially when Castle could walk back in at any minute. She curled her hair while Lanie started to put on her make-up; first eye shadow, then mascara, followed by blush and lipstick. By the time she was done Kate couldn't believe how she looked.

"Were you trying to make me look like a hooker Lanie because you did a really good job?"

"No I was going for a more sexy I-can-kick-you-ass-with-my-eyes-closed kind of look."

"Whatever, can I see the purse?"

Once she was ready Kate went over to stand next to the stage entrance as she was first on. She saw Castle round the corner. His eyes immediately went over her body.

"Castle." No response. "Castle!" Still nothing. She walked over and kicked him in the shin. "Eyes up."

"Sorry…" He mumbled.

"So when do I go out again?"

"Don't worry about that Ryan will wave you on when it's your turn." Of course Ryan and Esposito volunteered to help backstage… plenty of models to go around even if they weren't all professionals. "In fact I have to go out now and start so you'll be on in a minute."

As Castle walked around to the flimsy stand set up on the side of the stage to begin the show Kate stood nervously awaiting the end. She would be glad when this was all over and she could go home, curl up and read a book.

Castle frantically ran back stage trying to find Lisa, after all this was her show. He found her helping one of the models put in some earring that were clearly way too heavy for any human to wear. Not that he had ever worn earrings but they looked like they would hurt.

"Come on Lisa someone else can help." He dragged his friend to the edge of the stage. "You're going to do great."

"But what is something goes wrong, what if someone's heel breaks… what if…"

"Stop, nothing is going to go wrong. After I'm done I will stay back here and personally make sure no one screws this up. Got it." After a slight nod from his friend he made it onto the stage.

He began the show and introduced Lisa who took over and would be announcing for the rest of the show. He was still on stage when Kate walked out.

She looked… amazing… wow… incredible… hot… sexy… but as she turned back around to make her way back he saw something else in her eyes. Fear…? He had never seen Kate afraid, not even when there was a serial killer out to get her. He went back stage to see what was wrong but she had already made her way back to the dressing room and told Lanie to make sure no one came in.

He still didn't understand. Why had she broken up with him? He was nothing but nice to her. And now she was with that writer, well she denied it to everyone who asked but it was plenty obvious. So he slipped his gun into his waistband and went to see his girlfriend. He was going to ask her what happened no matter what he had to do to get to her. As she walked out on stage he could have sworn she looked at him, but then again maybe not.

It couldn't be. She had a restraining order out on the guy for crying out loud. She had to get him out of there without causing a scene or anyone getting hurt. She had just the plan. So Kate snuck out to get car and pulled two articles of clothing out of her trunk and snuck back into her dressing room only to see Lanie and Castle waiting for her.

"Where the hell have you been girl only like 5 more minutes until your back out there?"

"Um… yah about that… Castle put this on," and she tossed him his "Writer" vest he started to protest but she stopped him. "I'll explain after okay." She glanced over at the dress she was supposed to be wearing and instead took out a more sophisticated outfit and ushered Castle out of her dressing room.

"Okay girl explain please." Lanie demanded.

"Well," she slipped off her dress and put on the vest fastening the front "one of my exes is out there and he is kind of a psycho." Lanie gave her a skeptical look "I have a restraining order, and he shouldn't even be here so that tells me he is up to no good." She slipped on the black pants so and threw on the jacket, slipping her gun into the back. "I broke up with him because he was completely crazy, got controlling and hit me so I broke up with him, but in his mind we are still together. A few years back when I was with Will he was stalking me again, must be on parole now or something. Anyway I have to go back out there."

Kate knew that if she tried to have another officer arrest him someone would get shot. That guy was always armed.

Castle was dragged off by Kate down the hall and out on stage with her before he even knew what was happening.

"What are you doing?" He whispered in what he thought was her direction; not that he could tell because the lights were way too bright.

"Just play along."

As she neared the end of the stage she realized Carl had made his way to the front and was now right in front of the stage at her feet. It was now or never. She turned to Castle and grabbed the lapel of his jacket pulling him down to her lips. She saw Carl reach for something and saw what could only be the shining metal of a gun in his hand. Kate pulled Castle down to the ground in case he got out a shot before she expected. Finally grateful for the 6 inch heels Kate used the heel to kick the gun out of his hand and then drew her gun. Esposito quickly cuffed Carl and escorted him out. She walked backstage and the show continued on.

"So about that kiss…" Castle started.

"Castle shut it or it will never happen again." she said seductively and sauntered off.