Chapter 1

Well here you have it. The sequel to my other story, Electric Heat. Alas I cannot take full credit for this story. I am doing the actual writing but the ideas came from biglaugslaura. We decided to do a collaboration and so far its working really well. We cannot wait for your feedback and hope you enjoy the story! Also we do not own Castle the tv show or any of the characters.

Detective Beckett sat at her kitchen table eating day-old take out and looking at the four case files she had been given earlier that afternoon. Two of them wouldn't normally fall under her jurisdiction but had been turned over to her when two more seemingly related murders took place within her district.

All four victims were lawyers at different firms. All four were also dealing in some sort of secret trade. One was into drugs, one dealt guns and other weapons, one was into women and the last had been found trying to sell diamonds on the black market.

From what Kate could see, and what she had gathered from talking to families of victims in her district, none of the victims had known each other she was temporarily stumped.

Her phone went off indicating that's he had a text message. It was from Castle

Want help looking at those files?

She texted back sure then went to get changed. On the way to her room she passed the bathroom and decided to take a quick shower. After changing into sweats she cleaned up her dinner mess. She was about to pour herself a glass of wine when there was a knock on the door. She opened it and there stood Castle smiling.

Even though they had worked together for so long she still sometimes found it hard to believe that they had been dating for almost two months. She had been a fan for so long and had all of his books on a shelf in her living room. She felt a little self conscious about it but refused to take them down. Just because she was in a relationship with the author didn't mean she couldn't still be a fan.

"Are you going to let me in or just stand there and stare at me?"

"Sorry." She blushed and stepped aside. She didn't realize she had been staring. "Come on it. Glass of wine?"

"Sure, thanks." He said, sitting down at the table and opening one of the files that sat there. Kate poured the wine and handed him a glass before turning back to her chair. His hand caught her wrist before she got far. "Come over here for a second." He said, pulling her closer and wrapping his arms around her waist. "I missed you today."

She put an arm around his shoulder. He hadn't been at the precinct because of some field trip with Alexis. "I missed you too." She grabbed a handful of hair and pulled his head back so she could lean down and kiss him. Their lips met for a moment then parted and she sat down while Rick went back to looking at the file.

He paused. "Wait this case isn't in our district. How did you get it? Are you invading other precincts? Oh I can see the headlines now. Local homicide detective attacks neighboring precinct."

She rolled her eyes. "Castle if you had bothered to read further you would notice that two of the cases fall under our jurisdiction. The other two were turned over to us."

"Right. So….what? We have some sort of serial killer?" he looked at the dates on the files. "With four murders in the past month and a half it sure looks that way."

"And they were all killed using the same M/O." she said as she spread all four files out on the table. "Each victim was a lawyer with a secret that could have easily gotten them killed."

"Drugs, women and the black market. All are risky and none are something you normally see a lawyer falling into."

Beckett grabbed one of the files and started rereading it. "I'm going to go talk to the families tomorrow but I don't know if ill get anything out of them."

"What do drugs, women and the black market all have in common?"

"You mean besides being illegal?" she took a deep breath and puffed out her cheeks letting it out. "I have no idea."

Rick could see she was getting frustrated. He closed the file he was looking at. "You know what I think?"

"Do I want to know?"

"I think you have been at work all day. I think you have been looking at these files for who knows how long at home and you need to take a break. Look at them with fresh eyes in the morning."

She hesitated but closed the file she was looking at. "What do you have in mind for a break?"

He looked at the watch that used to belong to his uncle sitting on his wrist. "Jeopardy is on in five minutes. I love that show."

She gave him a look that said Are you joking? "Jeopardy?"

"Everyone has a guilty pleasure." He stood up and held out his hand for hers.

"I guess." She rolled her eyes but got up and took his hand. He led them to the couch and sat down. She grabbed the remote and sat next to him, swinging her legs up to rest in his lap. She turned the TV on and they spent the next half hour laughing and seeing who could win the most money.

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