A/N: Channel 5 here in England has started to show Castle at last! Starting from Season 1, so I have decided that for each episode I am going to write a short drabble, if you like. Some of them may be linked to another one but other than that they will be separate stories and therefore set at various places in time. I have however, watched all 3 Seasons of Castle so I already know what's coming! However, I will post one a week after the episode has aired. (Not straight after….give or take a couple of days) I hope you enjoy. This is not my first foray into the Castle world…I have a one shot called Innocent Statements, if you'd like to read it :-)
Disclaimer: Andrew Marlowe doesn't know how lucky he is! (This disclaimer covers ALL chapters)
This week, I met the most incredible person I've ever had the pleasure of being arrested by! Her name? Detective Katherine Beckett. Wow, what a woman she is. She can cuff me any time she wants and while I was in interrogation I did tell her that I'd be happy to let her spank me, but all I got in response, was an eye roll and a very sexy one at that.
Okay, so why am I writing about a Detective that collected me from my own book launch party, due to some murderer? Well I just had to. I have never, in all my life, been so enthralled by one woman (and I have had many!) and I think she has had some kind of effect on me; actually, I know she has because both Mother and Alexis have commented on the way my eyes seem to be shining.
Several things I found out about Kate Beckett while I was with her this week is that she is a very strong minded, strong willed and determined woman with the most astounding green eyes. I only spent a couple of days with her but in those couple of days she captured my heart and my mind and by the time the case was wrapped up, I was a goner. I'd fallen hook, line and sinker for this savvy detective. I wanted more and as I watched her walk away from me after our brief exchange of words, I was determined to never let her walk away from me again.
I was yours, the moment I laid my eyes on you at my book launch party, and this might be jumping the gun a bit, but I do hope that one day I am yours. You are extraordinary Detective Beckett! X
Ten year old Oliver Castle re-read the last part one more time before refolding the piece of paper and sliding it back into the envelope it had been stored in, sighing when he noticed that the voices in the lounge had increased in volume slightly. From inside his Father's study Oliver could hear the argument that his parents were engaged in. He wasn't sure what it was about but he wasn't about to go and make his presence known because they weren't even aware that he was in the study and therefore, could hear everything that was being said. The one thing that Oliver had noted during this argument was that at some point, when his Mother had said she hated Rick, he hadn't responded but instead diverted the argument and that to Oliver spoke volumes. A little while later as he was staring at a picture of his Mum and Dad on the desk that he was suddenly aware of the fact that it had all gone silent.
Back in the lounge Rick and Kate were still stood facing each other unsure of what to do or say, when a gentle click snapped their attention to the right. There stood Oliver by the door of the study clutching an envelope which Rick recognised straight away. The battered edges gave away its age and as he recalled a particular memory, he couldn't keep the smile from flicking across he features, regardless of how he had been feeling just moments before.
Oliver twirled the envelope in his small hands for a moment before his eyes connected with those of his Mother. Crossing the space in between them he came to a stop in front of her and stretched his arm out, offering her the object in his hand. Kate took it and looked from the envelope, to Oliver and then to Rick who still had a small smile on his face.
"What is this going to prove?" she asked as she began to slide the paper from its home.
"That Dad thought you were extraordinary, even from the first moment he laid eyes on you and that it doesn't matter what happens, he'll stand with you. Always."
Shooting them both a loving smile he slipped past them and headed towards the stairs with the faith that they would make up and sort things out. That was the way Richard and Katherine Castle worked.
Finite!
A/N: Okay, so what do we think?