Two-shot, set season 4 but Beckett wasn't shot so Castle didn't confess his feelings for her.

Disclaimer: I don't own Castle or the characters.

"Castle, what're you doing?" Beckett asked, not looking up from her paperwork but watching Castle out of the corner of her eye.

That was something she'd begun to do a lot recently, watch him. Here at the precinct it was easy, every now and then she'd let her eyes drift just to see what he was doing. Just to see if she could figure out what he was thinking or what he was feeling. Paperwork days were the best for that because she had no distraction from an ongoing case to pull her thoughts away from him. And every now and then they'd look up together and catch the others eyes before they'd smile and go back to whatever they'd been previously doing.

"Nothing," he said as he fiddled with the pens on her desk yet again. He'd been sitting next to her all morning alternating between playing on his phone and playing with the items on her desk and it was really starting to irritate her.

"That doesn't look like nothing," she answered as he moved back to doodling on the piece of paper he had in front of him. She could've dealt with it if he'd actually been doing work but he was just sitting there mucking around and it made her jealous that she couldn't join him. Or better yet, she wished she could ditch the paperwork altogether and Castle and her could actually go out and do something fun together.

"Yes it is," Castle answered, mostly just bored and having fun winding up Beckett.

"Castle," Beckett said, voice firm as she finally lifted her head to look at him properly. Her eyes moved over his face, taking in how his fringe fell over his eyes and the gentle look in them as he looked at her.

"Kate," Castle replied with a smirk on his face, having fun and hoping he could get a smile out of her.

"What're you doing?" she asked again, eyes still on him as she tried not to think about how cute he looked right now.

"I'm bored," Castle simply answered, picking up the pen he'd been drawing with to twirl between his fingers as he watched her.

"Don't you have a book to write or something?" Beckett asked, knowing he was under pressure to get the next few chapters written.

"Yeah. " But if I'm writing then I'm not here with you, he thought, knowing that he should be able to spend a day or two away from her so he could write but he found he really didn't want to. Even if it meant that he was getting behind on his writing because he was spending so much time at the precinct and with her.

"Then shouldn't you be doing that now instead of annoying me?"

"Probably," Castle replied, taking no offense to the fact that Beckett had just called him annoying.

"Castle," she said exasperatedly, "I have paperwork to do."

"I know." He really was being infuriating today.

"If you're going to stick around, could you at least get me some coffee?" Maybe that would get him out of her hair for a few minutes so she could actually get some work done, she thought. But it would also bring him back to her.

"As you wish," Castle replied as he stood and all Beckett could do was stare after him in shock, had he really just said that?

But she knew immediately that he meant the words, knew the way she'd interpret them (they had watched the movie together a few weeks ago) and now she truly knew how he felt about her.

For a while she'd thought there was the possibility that he was in love with her but his words just now confirmed it. And paired with all the lingering looks, his soft eyes, his light touches, she now knew without a doubt that he was in love with her.

And with that thought in mind she knew exactly what she had to do, she had to tell him that she felt the same way.

The quote, "As you wish" is from the movie The Princess Bride for those of you who haven't seen it (it's a fantastic movie) and it means "I love you."

Thoughts?