It's HERE! :D :D :D cue the music! Wooooo! Dum da da dummmm! Oh goodness this is exciting :) …well I dunno…it is for me…for everyone else it might just be like…ehh whatever. :) But I'm ok with that! :D
Ok…and first of all, if you haven't read Independence day, this really will make no sense…I mean, go ahead…read yourself silly…just don't expect to understand :)
Second of all, I'm like…oober sorry this took so long to actually get posted. I mean like…I've had the ideas for it and stuff foorrreevverrr…but I've just been gone for too long…sooo…sorry. :) but now I've got like absolutely NOTHING until school starts, so we're good!
And also, a little thingy I would just like to make known to the world, I have officially been peed on by an NYPD police horse belonging to an officer who looks EXACTLY like Esposito! My shoes are now ruined, but I have an EPIC picture! :D
Castle tis'nt mine! :)
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Ryan and Esposito had been watching their boss closely for the previous few hours. They hadn't been told where she had been vacationing for the last week, but they suspected it had a significant something to do with retrieving a certain novelist. So, naturally, when she returned, alone, they had been preparing themselves to deal with a somewhat heartbroken detective. But Beckett returned with anything but a sour attitude. She was smiling much more than was in character for her, she never sat for more than 20 minutes, and, on top of it all, she never had even one cup of coffee. Then, there was Lanie. She came up to visit them on slow days every once in a while, but today, she had been up in the homicide department since the moment Beckett got back-with the exception of one or two trips down to her office. The pair tried asking her what was going on, but she just answered saying that they'd know soon enough.
They had been starting to think that they were the only ones out of the loop, when they got called into the captain's office.
"Alright you two," Montgomery said after he had closed the door, "Could one of you please tell me what's going? Dr. Parish has been loitering in the break room since the morning, and Beckett is practically buzzing out there."
"You have no idea how much we wish we had an answer, Sir." Ryan told him.
"Yah, we're just as confused as you are." Esposito added, "And when we asked Lanie, she only said that we'd know soon enough."
Montgomery had just opened his mouth to respond when there was a knock on the door. A second later, it creaked open, and the group saw Lanie's head poke in.
"Sorry to break up the party," She said, then, gesturing out the door, added, "But I believe the show is about to start."
She then moved out of the way, and Ryan Esposito and Captain Montgomery all filed out of the office to see Castle striding across the bullpen with a determined look on his face, towards the break room where Beckett was.
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He hadn't even thought to pack his bags. It had taken him a minute or two to actually start breathing normally again after her lips had left his, and before he actually had enough sense in him to remember that he had to go after her. But by the time he got out of the door, the car was just rounding the corner at the end of his street.
So he ended up not really thinking that much. He made a call to his driver, grabbed his laptop, wallet, and cell phone, and headed out the front door.
"Where to, Mr. Castle?" His driver, Ernie, asked when he got into the back of the limo.
"New York City." He stated.
"Alrighty. Why the sudden change of heart? I only dropped ya' off here less than a month ago... Ya' said then that you'd be spendin' the whole of the summer out here." Ernie asked. Then, at the lack of response, he looked in the review mirror to see Castle staring out the window, a far off look in his eyes. "Ahh," Ernie realized, "It's about a woman. I get'cha."
The rest of the ride was spent in silence. Castle was glad that Ernie didn't push the subject. He didn't want to have to explain what was going on... Especially since he didn't know himself.
Well...he did understand some of it. For instance, he understood that had been a complete idiot. Even when his own mother had practically flat out told him. God, he was stupid.
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She didn't know how long it would take. It wouldn't surprise her if he decided to stay there, in the Hamptons, just to make her squirm. However, Castle's maturity had surprised her in the past, so she was hoping he would sooner than later.
But she hadn't expected to be here this quickly. She heard the elevator ding; indicating somebody coming onto the floor, and her eyes flickered upward. Their eyes met, and she felt her heart pound as he walked across the room. Something in his eyes was captivating her, and although she could see all of the people in the room watching, it didn't register in her mind, and her feet kept rooted to the ground where she was standing.
He stopped but a mere foot in front of her. After just standing in silence for a short moment, he wrapped his arms around her back, pulling her body against his. Then, as soon as their lips touched, the atmosphere in the entire floor changed. The tension between the two broke, and they fell into a deep and passionate kiss. Outside of the break room, Ryan and Esposito shot each other knowing looks and bumped fists, Montgomery shook his head with a smile and retreated back into
his office, Lanie grinned and got hit the down button on the elevator so she could go back to the morgue. The rest of the room broke into smiles and left to go back to doing their own thing.
Castle and Beckett eventually broke their kiss, solely for the need of oxygen, but kept their faces just a mere few inches away from each others. Beckett's eyes flickered behind them, and her brain registered how public of a place they were in. She took a small step back and bit her lip.
She swept past him, motioning for him to follow her. They towards an empty interrogation room, Castle went in first, and Beckett followed him, closing the door behind her, and pausing with her hand still on the handle, facing away from him.
"Thank you." Castle said, so quietly she barely heard it. She turned around to face him, and saw him leaning against the table in the center of the room.
"For what?" She asked, eyeing him cautiously.
"For not being as much of a complete idiot as I was." He said with a shrug, "For seeing the things I didn't. For actually knocking some sense into me."
"You're not an idiot. I only figured it all out a little while before you did." She told him with a smile.
"Figure what out, exactly?" He asked her, a smile playing at his lips. She felt her stomach turn slightly at his question. She walked across the room and leaned against the table next to him. When he looked over at her, he found her staring blankly at the wall, deep in thought about how she was going to put together her words.
"When I was told to bring you in for questioning during the Tisdale case, I didn't know what to think. You were my favorite author, and had been for a long time. But then…when you decided to start shadowing me, and I had no control over it, it was just…irritating. I wasn't used to having somebody like you around. But then, although I would never had admitted it to myself at the time, I started looking forward to seeing you everyday…seeing what crazy theories you came up with about the cases and hearing all of your witty jokes. Then, on the days that you were gone, something felt…missing. I guess I didn't really know what that was until you told me that you were going to take a break for the summer. I started to realize how prominent of a part you played in my life. And then Esposito…he made me realize what I was too naive to see on my own…" She took a deep breath and broke her eyes away from the blank spot on the wall to look him directly in the eyes, "That I was falling in love with you."
The corners of his lips turned upward, and, instead of the deep and meaningful monologue that Kate suspected would be coming from the writer, he only reached over and grabbed her hand, then turned his head and looked forward in silence.
Her heart fluttered at how good his hand felt around hers. She bit her lip with a smile and mimicked him by looking straight ahead at nothing. They sat like that for a while; just enjoying being in each other's presence, before Castle finally spoke up.
"So," He asked, looking over at her with one eyebrow raised, "What do we do now?"
"Well," She said, crooking her head to the side, then looking at him again, "We don't have a case right now. I doubt Montgomery would mind me taking the rest of the day off."
"Great," He said happily, a playful look forming in his eyes, "I make a mean spaghetti and meatballs. Want to come over for dinner?"
She bit her lip and quickly thought it through. She knew full well what a dinner at Castle's empty apartment could very well entitle, but instead of scaring her silly like it should have, she only felt a strong thrill running through her at the thought. So, with a smile, she responded with a simple "Sure," and happily linked arms with him as they strode out of the small room together.
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Ok! Well…I basically hated that. It just…I dunno, didn't seem to work, in my mind. Icky icky icky. Im having problems trying to figure out where I'm gonna go with this… :/ aaannndddd, I would just like to say EW, in response to Becketts whole little love shpheel (dang that's a hard made up word to try to spell…). I REALLY don't like writing all that lovey dovey mush stuff. Its like…ew…just…ew. :)
Annddd second, I had like…already written half of chapter 2 before I even finished writing this chapter (NOT my best idea ever…) and then I was going to keep writing this chappy until it caught up to that one…but then it started getting longerrr…and I kinda just wanted to end it where it was…. :) sooo yah…I think I'm just gonna let you all use your imaginations to fill in the gaps between where this chap ends and where the next starts :)
AAnnddd lastlyy, I would reaalllyyy enjoy it if you'd all review…because, like…I dunno, I don't have a whole lot of motivation right now…and that's where you all come in! Sooo click that button! :D