Hello everyone.
This is just a little season five fluff, set to the theme of Castle and Beckett's first date.

Disclaimer: Everything and everyone belongs to their rightful owners, I am only borrowing them.

Sun Kissed
Part One

In the weeks that they had been together, their lives had transformed into a beautiful mess of pancakes for two and lust stained kisses; a secret love affair that filled their days and nights with magic.
And on that sultry September night, it felt to Castle as if the entire world was alight with that love, a night existing for him and Beckett alone. Because there he was, after four years of shattered hearts and broken dreams, finally able to experience the wonders of taking the women he so desperately loved on their first date.

They were staying at Castle's beach house for the weekend. The masses who escaped to The Hamptons for the summer had piled into their people carriers and open topped cars and returned to the city weeks before, leaving the blissful reverie of roaring waves and sun-licked sand free for Castle and Beckett to enjoy without the threat of having their relationship discovered. A chance to get away from the prying eyes of journalists and camera phones, to escape the strain of keeping their relationship a secret from friends and family; to simply exist together, hopelessly in love and tingled with the thrills of romance.
And this, their first night of unveiled love and free-spirited abandon, promised to be all that they had ever dared to dream.

He had been so engrossed in his latest update of Angry Birds that he hadn't heard Beckett walk through from the bedroom, bare feet padding so gently across the wooden floors that it wasn't until her words fluttered through the cool air that he turned to find her leaning against the open frame of the kitchen door.

"What do you think?"

Watching as she walked her way towards him, Castle tried to find the words to answer her question, but none seemed quite enough. The bashful smile with which she met him had stolen his thoughts and brought a shiver to his spine, a breathtaking flash of timidness that he had never expected to see from his very own detective; cheeks awash with pink and eyes searching his own.
In that moment, the heart beat between her words and his hands reaching out to soothe away the doubts that lingered there, he fell in love with her all over again; head-over-heels for a tiny glimmer of the Kate he had yet to meet, shy and little unsure of herself, somehow still blind to the beauty that she held.

Lips trailing the warm blush of her cheeks, Castle whispered his reply between softly peppered kisses; each syllable reverberating between them as hands roamed and lips searched for the truths that words alone couldn't convey.

"You – Kate Beckett – are – lovely – beautiful – wonderful – exquisite – ravishing – enchanting – thrilling – sexy – and – loved."

He hadn't wanted to stop; never wanted to, could have lived an entire lifetime through kisses and compliments that made her blush a little more with each one that met her skin with quivering lips, would have invented words just for the two of them; for their love and her beauty. Longed to run his hands through the curls of hair that were swept elegantly across her shoulders, to peel away the silken material of her dress, to touch, to caress, to love every delicate inch of her body; to show her just how beautiful she was to him.
But he had to stop, no matter how impossible it had seemed; they still had an entire night awaiting them, a night that they had both waited too long for to miss out on. So, with one last ghosting kiss to see them through the night, Castle took her hand in his own and led them into a world unlike any they had ever experienced before.

To be continued..

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Katie

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