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"Picture this. A gullible young actress, desperate to make a name for herself. She meets our mastermind at a club. He needs a pretty girl to help him get the voice code. He tells Violet he's a producer, promises to make her famous, if she helps him play a practical joke on a friend." Castle says.
"She doesn't even realized she's participating in a crime until afterwards. She can't call the cops, so she contacts Royce."
"But then our Mr. McCauley finds out."
"And Royce tries to change the game. He goes to New York. Home field advantage. Classic, classic Royce." Beckett said.
"I was so in awe of him, Castle, when I first met him. I just hung on his every word. And then later I realized he was just making up stories to mess with me. I can't believe that I'm never going to see him again."
"You know what I thought when I first met you?"
"Hmm?"
"That you were a mystery that I was never gonna solve. Even now, after spending all this time with you I'm…I'm still amazed at the depth of your strength, your heart…and your hotness."
"You're not so bad yourself, Castle."
"I should go. It's late. Good night."
"Kate."
"Good night, Castle."
It had been just over five weeks after they had gone to the city of angels to get justice for a fallen cop who meant quite a lot to one of them. While Kate Beckett and Richard Castle had been in Los Angeles to arrest the guy who had killed Kate's training officer, Mike Royce; things between the duo had become more than what they had been for the past two years. Kate wanted more that one night in Los Angeles after she had left Rick in the living room. On a whim, Kate acted on instincts that she had been holding back for some time and took the plunge. Since Los Angeles, Rick and Kate had told everyone in their lives about their new relationship. Kate had even become a mainstay at the loft. Her apartment was still an option but for the most part it stayed vacant.
"You two are perfect together." Martha said as she joined her son, granddaughter and Kate.
Rick had come into the kitchen that morning just moments before his mother had and wrapped his arms around Kate's waist as she made breakfast for everyone. It wasn't long after Martha's compliment that breakfast was ready. The family sat down to breakfast together.
"Everything looks great and tastes phenomenal too, Kate." Alexis said.
"Thank-you."
While Rick and Kate got ready for another day at the precinct things got a bit interesting. It had been one of the many times since Los Angeles that things had gone off schedule. Lately Kate and Rick had been good, they had even purposefully changed separately so they weren't constantly jumping down each other's pants so to speak.
This wasn't one of those times. One kiss was all it took before the foreplay began. But as quick as it had started it had ended just as quickly when Kate went absolutely pale. As she darted off to the bathroom Rick wondered what was wrong.
"Kate, is everything okay?" Castle asked as he came to the bathroom door that had been left ajar after Kate went through it.
"I don't want to you to see this."
After cleaning herself up some, Kate came back into the bedroom.
"How long has it been since the Nikki Heat book reading in Upstate New York?" Beckett asked.
Her mind was spinning faster than normal as she ran through the events from the day she had gone to the book reading with Rick. They hadn't gone to bed right away that night.
"Three weeks; why?"
"Can you run down to the corner market to get something for me?"
"Sure but tell me what is going on first."
Martha knocked on the door; she had been eavesdropping on the other side of the door when she had heard her son ask Kate what was wrong.
"Go get what she needs, Richard. I'll stay here with Katherine."
Rick did what he was told to.
"Are you sure that you are, kiddo?" Martha asked when it was just her and Kate.
"What else could it be, Martha?"
"Well we'll know soon enough for sure."