Hmmm sooo I wrote this for the 4th :) aannnddd I know its getting posted a day late, but I wrote it on the fourth, and just didn't have access to a computer…so its getting posted now :)
Hmm…well it was typed on my ipod…and I tried to go through and check for mistakes and stuff, but if I missed stuff…sorry about that. :) Aannddd this is my first Castle fic, so if the characters are kinda out of character and stuff…sorry :)
Aannnddd no castle stuff or anything is minee…. (Although I really wish it were…) :)
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Richard Castle sat on the beach of his summer home, watching the large and impressive fireworks going off on the ocean waters in front of him. Gina sat next to him, curled up into his side and blabbering about nonsense stories that he, frankly, just didn't care about
"Richard...are you listening to anything I'm saying?" she asked him impatiently. Her voice broke him from his trance, and he looked down at her, plastering a fake smile on his face.
"I'm sorry, Gina...I was just too focused on the show." He told her, before dropping his smile and turning back to face the water. Little did Gina know that his attention was more so taken not by the fireworks...but by a certain female detective who was, undoubtedly, spending her Independence Day with that idiot Schle...er, Demming.
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NYPD Detective Katherine Beckett was sitting on the edge of her desk, staring at the packed murder board sitting in the abandoned precinct. She tried not to listen to the booming fireworks just outside the window... Tried not to think about all her friends and colleagues having a Fourth of July party at the Captains house. She desperately tried to keep her thoughts from drifting to him. How he was at his impressive beach house...alone...with, of all people, his ex wife.
A shrill ringing was brought to her attention, and she felt her stomach drop and her breath catch in her throat. It was silly, immature, and pathetic how she reacted every time her cell phone lit up. He had no reason to call...it's not like he would be lonely...not with her there.
The color returned to her face and she started taking normal breaths again when she saw the caller id.
"Beckett." She half sighed into the receiver.
"Girl, imma smack you if you don't get your working tush down here now." Lanie's voice spoke.
"I...I'm just really busy with this case...I don't think I'll be able to make it."
"Oh come on, Ryan and Esposito are just as busy with the case as you, and they're here having a good time."
"But I..." Beckett started,
"Uh uh," Lanie interrupted, "You get down here, right now. Keep in mind, it's your employers party. It'll make him happier with you to slack with your job right now than to work overtime."
"Ughh." Beckett whined, standing up from the desk and grabbing her jacket off from the back of the desk. "Fine. Have it your way. I'll be there in 20." She then flipped her phone shut, and headed to the elevator, pressing the down button and waiting impatiently.
20 minutes later, she pulled her car into the Montgomery's driveway. The lights shined brightly inside, although she could see through the windows to the majority of the party huddled around in the backyard. She walked around the side of the house and quietly joined the group she found Lanie Ryan and Esposito standing in.
"Wow, I must say, I kind of expected you to not show up." Lanie said, eyeing Kate suspiciously.
The group talked for a while with some others from the Twelfth. The captain joined them after a while, expressing his gratitude to Kate for getting out of the precinct.
At 10:00 the party went into the front yard, where lots if blankets and lawn chairs had appeared since Kate had arrived. Everybody took seats around the yard just as the colorful explosions started to erupt in the sky. The Captain had been right about the great view of them from his house.
Beckett, however, wasn't near as interested in the fireworks as everyone else.
She was thinking about a conversation she had had with Castle a while ago...where he had been explaining all the glories of fireworks. Her throat tightened up a little at the thought of him and Gina snuggled up all nice and cozy watching the show together. Unfortunately (although not all they surprising) Lanie recognized the change in her friends behavior.
"Come on, girl. Stop thinking about writer boy and just do something about it already!"
"How did you know I-" Beckett started, but was cut short by Lanie's knowing look. She decided to use a different approach to respond,
"Well, it's not like there's anything I can do. Not when he's got Gina up there..."
"That's it." Lanie said, grabbing Kate's handing and pulling her up with her. "You and me are going to go get your man back." She dragged them over to the Captain, apologizing for needed to leave early and
saying their goodbyes, and Lanie instructed Kate to drive back to her apartment.
Lanie followed her there, and walked straight to her bedroom as soon as she unlocked the door.
"Lanie," Kate said, "What on earth are you doing?"
"Packing your bags." Lanie told her, grabbing a duffel bag from under her bed and starting the throw things from the closet into it.
"Remember the time that one officer from the Hamptons came to the precinct to examine how we do things?" Kate's eyes widened a little as she realized what Lanie was planning, "And the little weirdo offered that you could come and see how they ran their place whenever you wanted? Well...you're about to take up that offer." Lanie grabbed a skimpy bikini out of Kate's drawer and throw it into the bag, causing Kate to turn a little red and grab it back out.
"Lanie! I...I can't just show up. And either way, I would be all wrapped up at their department and then..."
"Wrong, because after you 'call' every hotel in town, there will be absolutely no open rooms, so you will be forced to ask a friend for a temporary boarding deal."
Lanie smiled at her, and Kate couldn't help but grin a little at the plan.
"But, I still don't think I'd be able to just show up at his doorstep with my bags..."
"He did invite you, remember? It's not like he's just going to throw you out on the streets...especially when there's an open invitation hanging over you."
"What if he and Gina are all...?"
"Kate," Lanie sighed, "She's an ex for a reason. I'd be willing to bet he's already kicked her out...let alone still have her on his good side."
The two shared a long gaze, before they both turned and started going about their businesses. Lanie packing clothes and Kate searching for the number of the officer at the Hampton police station.
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Reveiws are pretty much amazing …just saying :)