It's been two days since Rick has been in the precinct, since their recent fight that broke out, how Kate had lied to him about forgetting everything from Montgomery's funeral. It ended with both of them being furious at each other. Rick stormed out of her apartment, seeming as if never to talk to her again.
That is why Kate was so surprised when she spotted him making his way towards her desk while she was doing paper work from a case they just closed.
She did a double take not believing her eyes when she saw him strutting in with a cocky smile on his face and four coffees in his hand on a brown cardboard costar.
She sat there with the most confused look on her face, she didn't know why he seemed to look so happy? Or was he just trying to make her angry. Before she could think of anything to say, he set the coffee down on her desk.
"Detective" he said with a nod of his head as his hello, and walked past her to drop the other two cups of steaming substance off to Detective Esposito and Detective Ryan.
"Hey bro" Espo said a little confused, noticing the kind jester of coffee he just gave to him and his partner. Ryan looked just as puzzled.
"Ummm.. Castle did you do something?" Ryan asked a little suspicious to why he was doing what he was doing.
Rick just shrugged and shook his head "No just thought I should do something nice for you guys, I mean I never bring you guys coffee?" He said comely.
Esposito was still a little iffy about the jester, but decided against his better judgment and just went with it.
"I guess you're right…Thanks." Espo took a sip from his coffee and satisfyingly smiled.
"You should bring us coffee more often, bro" He joked to Castle.
Ryan butted in "Yeah for real, this is delicious." he said after taking another sip of his warming drink.
"Any time fellas" ,Rick joked with them a little more, then decided it was time to go back to her, he took a deep breath before heading back to Kate's desk.
Kate felt the wind that swept past her face, the scent of his cologne breaking through the air, as he sat down in his normal seat on the side of her desk. She closed her eyes for a moment before She stopped writing, turned her head to him then sat up straight in her chair, intertwining her fingers together, as if to interrogate one of her suspects.
"Castle, what are you doing here?" Her eyes focusing on his.
He didn't seem to mind at all that she was giving him one of her deadly stare downs, no, to her surprise he didn't even seem to notice her body language.
"Eh, I figure might as well come in today, take a break from writing non stop these past few days."
Before Kate could say any more, Espo called for her.
"Yo! We got a body." He said picking up his jacket heading towards the elevator, Ryan right behind him.
Kate looked back at Rick knowing she couldn't finish her questioning any longer, she rolled her eyes in annoyance and turned to grab her leather jacket.
"I'm coming with, by the way." Castle said, a little too amused for Beckett's liking.
"Fine, what ever." She snapped back and walked to the elevator, not waiting for Rick, to see if he was behind her or not.
He was of course not surprising, even after the two day absence.
When they made it to the crime scene, a lot more commotion then normal was going on. Beckett walked up to Esposito and Ryan.
"What the hell is going on here?" She asked annoyed with all of the people walking in and out of the crime scene. Plus the fact that Castle was right by her side acting as if nothing had happened between them only two days before.
Before either of the detectives could answer, Kate saw a shadow drape over her. Knowing it wasn't Castle because he was to the side of her; she turned around and a huge man with dark brown hair was standing behind her.
"I'm guessing you're Detective Kate Beckett?" He said putting his hand out.
Kate looked at him with an eye brow of confusion raised,
"Yes, and might I ask who you are?" she said looking from his hand to his face.
"I'm Detective Slaughter, I'll be working on this case with you." He said his hand still out for her to shake.
Kate hesitated a minute before putting her hand out to reach for his for a hand shake. Why the hell was he helping with this case?
"Is there any reason in specific, as to why you're helping with this case?" she asked after finally shaking his strong, rough hand.
"The man who was murdered in that room" He pointed of to the crowded room. "is my old partner, and I would like to figure out who the son of a bitch is who done this to him." He said a tint of anger in his voice.
Kate couldn't really be mad at the guy for wanting to help out on the case after hearing that, even if he seemed like a complete cocky hard ass.
"Alright, I'll let you help on the case. After all if that was my partner in there I would want to investigate it myself as well." She wanted to look at Castle, but couldn't find it in herself to bring her eyes to meet his at that moment.
"Just on one condition, we do it my way" She said, making sure she was keeping control of the situation.
"Uh, I don't think so sweet heart. He's my partner, we're doing it my way." He said with an attitude, but a smart ass smirk creeped across his face. He walked past Beckett and Castle, before she could object to what he had just said.
Rick looked amused, knowing that Kate was pissed.
Kate saw the grin on his face.
"Wipe that look off your face, before I do it myself." She growled at him.
"Hey it's not my fault, not everything goes the way you want." He said with more meaning than just the case. He made his way into the room where the body was.
Kate was fuming. 'This is going to be a long case' She thought to herself before stepping into the room, to observe the corpse.
Okay so, This is what I'm picturing is kind of going to happen when the Detective Slaughter comes onto Castle for a little. Something like this is going to go down, btw Obviously I am not finished with this, but I hope you're enjoying it. Keep on reading! And Review please! :D thanks