It were moments like this when he thought he could just turn Castle into a saving-the-city-superhero to be able sleep soundly beside his wife.
Detective Kevin Ryan looked at his phone. It showed a message. An adress. Just that.
His partner finally succumbed to Ryan being in a relationship were he couldn't answer the phone at any time, may it be day or night.
Inwardly, he groaned.
Carefully sitting up, not to rouse Jenny more from sleep than she already is, he moved out of the bed he shared with her.
Dragging his tired legs out of the room to the go-in-closet they had, he thought back about the times when he was single, and could answer a call from death, as Castle had called it the other day, without thinking about anyone else.
Of course he loved his wife more than anything in the world, and he loved his job too, but at nights like this, when these two worlds collided, he wished nothing more than to ask the criminal why he had to murder someone in the dark of the night when the good people were sleeping. Of course the answer was in the question.
Sometimes he wished he had just a nine-to-five-job. Something easy, something that didn't pull him out of a bed, warmed by the woman he loves so much.
Yet he wouldn't give either one up.
Jenny understood his job, and still she'd married him and never asked once to do something else. Not even in the worst of times, when the plea stood in her eyes, had she voiced that thoughts.
He did the job for her.
Before he met her he did it because he couldn't stand the thought of people being actually this cruel to each other.
Now, adding to this, he wanted to keep the streets empty -at least as much as possible- from this scum to protect what he loved.
He knew he could go out there and come home with a bullet or worse- not coming home at the end of the day at all.
Coming out of the bathroom to the bedroom, he looked at his wife. He admired Jenny. He loved her.
If you love someone,you leave them... came to his mind.
That part described exactly what he had to do: leave Jenny sleeping in their bed and go do his job to keep her save. Save and sound sleeping.
He opened a draw in his nightstand.
Taking out the little item, he sighed.
He walked over to her side of the bed and looked at her, smiling in her dreams.
Kissing Jenny on the cheek not to wake her, he placed the item on her nightstand.
The first thing she'll see when she wakes up will be his promise to her to come back.
A silk rose she'd given him the day he proposed.
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Just a little tiny thing that came to my mind in the middle of a sleepless night.
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