She woke up gasping. Short breaths coming in and out.
Within moments he was hovering over her.
"Kate! What's wrong? Are you okay?"
She huffed out a laugh, "Castle, relax. It wasn't that sort of dream".
She stretched languidly and waited for her words to catch up with his thoughts.
"Wasn't-? Oh you were," he trailed off and she was surprised to see that he was blushing.
Who would have thought? Richard Castle was blushing because his girlfriend had a sex dream.
"Was I, I mean, were we," he looked at her quickly before averting his eyes.
"Richard Castle!" She waved an arm in his direction and attempted to smack him without getting up. "Of course you were in it, you were featured very…prominently".
He grinned at that, a slow all encompassing grin.
"Though I have to be honest with you," she continued.
At her serious tone the grin faded, but he sat there patiently and waited for her to continue.
"When I woke up I wasn't quite…finished. And I'm very, very," her voice dropped into a sultry whisper, and she grabbed his hand shoving it under the sheets and between her legs,
"Turned on right now".
The rest of the grin disappeared and he swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing as he tried to regain some composure.
She arched into his hand and almost against his will he began stroking her.
How had they gotten here so quickly? Only seconds ago he'd been concerned that she was in the middle of a night terror and now they were…what?
"Kate," his voice was husky, "What are we doing?"
"Castle," she moaned as she wiggled out of her underwear and bucked against his bare hand that was finally, finally touching her, "Get with the program".
He grinned at her again, this time a little mischievously. She forced her eyes to stay open as he continued his ministrations and wasn't surprised to see his eyes darken as he met her gaze.
"Just checking," he whispered before sliding closer to her and yanking the sheet away.
He left his hand where it was and began to draw circles on her slowing increasing the pressure before shoving his thumb inside her.
She gasped and bit down on her bottom lip, hard.
Her hips were bucking off the bed uncontrollably and he used his own head to steady her. Dropping the weight of it onto her stomach and planting wet open mouth kisses all over.
She's been close to climax before waking up from the dream. A tight coil had been not so patiently waiting even as she'd berated him.
The feel of his mouth on her skin coupled with his hand was too much and she came instantly, shaking and swearing and rejoicing in the fact that when she'd woken up he'd actually been in her bed.
AN: Meant as an accompaniment to the multi-chapter fic 'Down the Road'. Belongs somewhere between chapters 25 and 29.
Disclaimer: 'Castle' doesn't belong to me (unfortunately).