CHRISTMAS TIME! Ahem, sorry about that. I'm really into the Christmas spirit lately for some reason. And because of that, I'm giving the people that ask for them, Fanfiction Christmas presents! All you have to do is send me a message either on here, on tumblr, or a DM on twitter. Telling me what pairing or character you would like me to use and at least some kind of idea for a plot. Even if its just them going to the park or some other random thing. Like the person who requested this one wanted Caskett stuck in an elevator.

This one ended up being longer than I had planned so I'm breaking it into two chapters, most other requests will be oneshots. So send me a message and let me know what kind of fic you want for Christmas! (And I will try to have them all done by Christmas.)

This one is for caitlind14 from tumblr!

It was Christmas afternoon and after spending the morning with her father, Kate Beckett was at her desk in the precinct, filling out left over paperwork from one of their already closed cases.

She wasn't supposed to be at work until tomorrow but the prospect of spending the rest of Christmas alone in her apartment wasn't very appealing. Not that the precinct was much better since most everyone was out spending time with their own families.

Normally she spent all day with her father because they both had Christmas day off, but this year, someone screwed up the schedule and her father had to work.

She had been working on paperwork for a few hours now, judging by the fact that it was already getting dark outside, when a voice spoke up from behind her.

"Beckett! What are you doing here?"

Beckett slowly turned around, trying not to let the fact that he nearly gave her a heart attack show on her face.

"Castle, I work here. What are you doing here?"

He waved off her question and carefully slid the small package he was holding back into his pocket. "But its Christmas! Why are you here working?"

"Because I feel like it, okay Castle? Now, either tell me what you are doing here, or leave so I can work on my paperwork in peace."

He raised an eyebrow at her then sat down in his chair, propping his feet up on her desk which she promptly pushed off. "I was just going to leave your present here for you to find when you came into work in the morning, but now I think I will stay a while."

Beckett glanced at him for a minute before shrugging and turning back to her paperwork with him watching her. It only took a few minutes before she slammed her pen down in frustration and glared at him.

"Don't you have anything better to do, Castle? It's Christmas, shouldn't you be spending it with your family? Not watching me do paperwork?"

He just shrugged. "We had our Christmas this morning. Now Mother is off seeing some play with her friends and Alexis is off with Ashley. So no, not really."

"What about Gina?" She tried to avoid the topic of his ex-wife as much as possible, but there was no way around it this time.

"She uh...Er, I'm not exactly her favorite person right now so..."

"What did you do? Miss a deadline?" Beckett couldn't quite hide the smirk on her face as she said that.

"Funny. No, she just can't handle it if all my attention isn't on her and since I've been pretty busy with 'Naked Heat' publicity stuff, she's not very happy with me right now."

She didn't really know what to say to that so she just leaned back in her chair and looked at him for a minute.

"You aren't going to leave until I do, are you?"

"Not a chance."

Knowing that she wouldn't get any paperwork done with him just staring at her the whole time, she decided she might as well go home.

"Fine, I'm leaving, let's go." Beckett scooped up her jacket and pulled her bag from under her desk while Castle pulled on the coat he had taken off earlier.

"Drive me home?" He asked as she picked up her keys and they headed towards the elevator. "I was lucky to get a cab over here in the first place, please?"

Not wanting to argue with him, she agreed and he cheered internally. It was true that he did have a hard time getting a cab to drive him over here, but that wasn't why he wanted her to drive him home.

He hoped that the car ride over there would be enough time to convince her that she should come up and have Christmas dinner with him, since neither of them had any other plans.

Little did he know, 'fate' had other plans for them.

Just a few short minutes later, they were both standing a comfortable distance apart in the elevator heading down to the ground floor when it suddenly started shaking until it came to a stop. They had only been in the elevator mere seconds so they were no where near the ground floor, in fact if he had to guess, he'd say they were somewhere between the third and second floor.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Beckett exclaimed before walking over and pushing every button on the console, trying to get a response out of the elevator, with no luck.

Beckett moved back towards the back wall and pulled out her cell phone, happy to see that it still had a signal even though they were in an elevator, and quickly dialed a number while Castle took his turn pushing buttons.

The phone rang a few times before it was finally picked up.

"Maintenance. Gus speaking."

"Gus, I'm stuck in the elevator, come fix it now."

"Ah, Detective Beckett. How nice it is to hear from you again."

"Elevator. Now."

"Sure, sure. I'll be right on it."

She hung up the phone to see Castle staring at her strangely. "What?"

"Nothing, it's just you were kinda abrupt with him..." He moved back to her side and watched as she blew a stray hair out of her eyes before speaking.

"When I first got promoted to Detective, Gus decided it would be fun to tamper with my computer. He made it where it would do odd things when I was using it but when anyone else was around, it would act normal. For weeks he had everyone thinking I was horrible with computers. I still haven't quite forgiven him for that yet."

"Ah..."

They fell into silence for a few minutes before some clanking could be heard then Gus' voice came through the elevator emergency intercom.

"Alright, I'm here. Just give me a minute to see what's wrong and I'll have ya moving in no time."

The intercom clicked off and they could hear some rattling outside the elevator as Gus did his thing. They were silent as Gus worked, just waiting for him to finish so they could be on their way when suddenly the elevator dropped a few feet.

It certainly shocked Beckett, but she quickly shook herself out of it. It seemed Castle wasn't so lucky though. He had completely lost all his color and was as pale as a sheet.

"You okay, Castle?" She moved in front of him to get his attention on her and he slowly looked up from the floor at her and shakily answered her.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine. It just reminded me of the "Medina" case at the museum and that time I thought the elevator was going to fall..." As he talked he seemed to gain a little of his color back and by the time he was through, he was able to give her a small smile. Remembering that case and the 'curse' brought a smile to her face as well.

Then the intercom came back on and Gus said something that immediately wiped the smiles off both their faces.

"I've got some bad news... There is a special cable that's busted. The dang thing is supposed to be unbreakable, but apparently not. And since it's not supposed to break, we don't have any spare ones lying around. It's gonna take a while to get a new one, it being Christmas and all."

I've wanted an excuse to lock them in an elevator forever and now I finally get to do it! Muhahahahahaha.