Alexis opened the door to her home and stopped. A new smell covered every surface, it wasn't a bad smell, in fact, Alexis was partial to the odor herself, but why it would be all over her home, however, was another ball game all together. Her first thought was Gram, who wouldn't suspect her first? On second, thought, though, Dad was just as strange, and perhaps the smell of cherries filtered into one of his books, somehow, and he was trying to get passed a case of writers' block with the smell.
"Hello?" She called into the house. She got no reply, but this was not unusual. Undeterred, Alexis closed the door behind her, and headed for her room.
She was forced to stop in the living room though, for there she found the one who had caused the house to smell like cherries. Dad. He was lying asleep on the couch, clutching a bottle in his hands. Silently setting her bag on the floor, Alexis crept closer. Dad shifted when she was leaning over him, but he didn't do anything. She maneuvered the bottle out of his hands. It was a perfume bottle. This was where the smell had come from. Alexis put the bottle back in his hands and continued to her room.
Once there, though, she had to wonder, who wore cherry perfume? The only reason Dad would have a bottle is if it reminded him of someone he loved. Alexis had no answers.
***
Alexis jumped out of Captain Montgomery's office. Haley Blue was dead. She needed answers. She brushed Dad off while he questioned her about school. She sat down to show them the music video, a smell overwhelmed her. The smell of cherries. The same cherry perfume that had dominated her house for days now. Alexis cast a look out of the corner of her eye to see where it was coming from. And there she was, Kate Beckett. Kate Beckett wore cherry perfume.
Alexis leaned a little closer to Dad and noticed he smelled of the same perfume, probably from spraying it all over the house. Looking at the two of them, Alexis decided that cherry perfume was a very good smell.
I don't own Castle. I'm not sure if I'm completely satisfied with the end resault, but oh well, hope y'all like it enough to review.
~DI4MGZ~
