Author Note:
I wrote this scene a long time ago, after watching the YouTube clip of the 'Always' finale scene that has the music taken out and the voices clarified. One word sums it up for me; perfection. It intensifies the moment between Castle and Beckett so much so that you can almost forget that it's fiction; Nathan and Stana's acting is beyond exemplary, as always.
The writing came after I saw a prompt that asked for something along the lines of "Now that's how you shut the front door!" in there somewhere, and it got me thinking… what if Kate hadn't taken Castle's hand and led him to the bedroom? What if they'd carried on where the kiss started? Their relationship has always been so intense and passionate that it made sense to me they might not have been so gentle and sweet after that moment; it could have played out differently, if the lovely MilMar weren't quite so sweet and sentimental and wanting their first time to be gentle, and about love and expression. Sometimes there's heat and desire, and need, and spontaneity; to me, that scene was all about need. About Kate realising she needed him, and making that choice, and then having the courage to go to him and he honest, even though there was a risk he'd reject her – and about Castle taking her back, so to speak, and whether he was willing to take the risk with her. So that's where this came from.
Please be gentle, if you are kind enough to want to review; the other fic I posted with a smut scene in got bombed out spectacularly, so I was initially very hesitant to post this… Yet here I am. Throwing caution to the wind. Oh well!
The scene follows in the next chapter - thanks for reading, as always.