You know when that plot bunny comes along and just won't leave you alone; yeah, that's what just happened to me.
We will call it a light hearted fluff fic because really that's all I know how to write:p Story is complete and is 8 chapters long...unless I miscounted again.
I own nothing; it's ok because I like where they have the story going right now:p
End April 2012
"Coming" Kate Beckett said in frustration, more to herself than the person that was knocking on her door, as she walked from her bedroom toward her front door. All the while she was trying to get the zipper in the back of her dress to go all the way up.
Arriving at the front door she opened it to find Castle, "Castle."
"Well hello to you too Detective Beckett." Castle said as he walked past her into her apartment. Turning after he was in her kitchen he finally noticed Beckett standing there at her front door. "Beckett, what are you wearing?"
"You don't like it Castle?" Beckett answered while rolling her eyes finally following him to her kitchen.
"Well, it's just very, "He paused as he looked for the right words." Un-Beckett."
"Un-Beckett? Really Castle, that's the best you can do. What is so 'un-Beckett' about it?" She rebutted as she turned towards her coffee maker and started to pull out the stale pot from earlier. At that moment Castle noticed her zipper dilemma, now halfway up, and quickly he pinched below the zipper with one hand and put his another hand on the zipper and slowly pulled it the rest of the way up.
"Well, its pink," He said as he ran his hand across the back of the dress causing Beckett sucked in a breath. "and if I am not mistaken, it's a Lilly." Beckett quickly spun around and come face to face with Castle.
"Since when are you an expert on what is me," she glared, "and how do you know it's a Lilly, Castle?"
"Well, it's a strapless girly seersucker pink with ruffles at the top and a full skirted dress is as far from Beckett as I can imagine. 2, I have a teenage daughter, who has teenage friends that all go to them Hamptons and practically live in Lilly over the summer, so the 'look book' does show up at the loft. 3. That pink just screams Lilly." Beckett rolled her eyes and moved back to the coffee maker and Castle took the queue and moved back a step. "So, why do you have this dress?"
"If you must know Castle, my cousin decided it would be a great bridesmaid dress. You know something we could 'wear again later'." At this Beckett rolled her eyes. "I have been putting off trying it on for a few weeks now but since the wedding is next weekend." She shrugged her shoulders before she continued to refill her coffee machine with fresh coffee grounds and water.
"I guess that could work as a bridesmaid dress for an early May wedding." Castle paused and looked it over again. "Wait, you have a cousin?" Castle added with a note of shock.
"It may surprise you but I have a lot of cousins, Castle." With a flick of the switch Beckett turned back around and leaned against the counter top arms crossed.
"You must not see her often." Seeing Beckett throw evil eyes at him he added "To pick that dress, she can't know you well, there is no way you will ever wear that again."
"I could wear this again." Beckett threw back at him. She could, not that she planning on it but she could.
Castle raised an eyebrow at her and decided to call her on it "If you wore that dress all day, where people you knew saw it, you would constantly be asked about the dress."
"No one ever questions what I wear."
"They would question that dress."
"I bet they wouldn't." Beckett replied.
"Alright let's make it a bet. You have to wear that dress, before the end of the summer, all day where people like Esposito and Ryan see it. If ten people comment on the dress, you have to come with me to the Hamptons over Labor Day weekend."
"I can't wear it to the work castle. It's not made for chasing bad guys."
"Like your 4 inch heels are?" He questioned, then added "I didn't say you had to wear it to work. Just that you had to wear it, all day, where people could see it."
"Fine, what do I get if I win?"
"What do you want?"
This gave Beckett pause…what she wanted she couldn't ask for, him; her second want she really couldn't ask for; Frozen Heat before it went to the printers. So, she had to settle with something she figured he would think she would ask for "lunch, every day, for a month."
"Don't I do that already?" Beckett rolled her eyes "Alright, alright, lunch for a month." Castle put his hand forward and Beckett grabbed. "Deal."
A/N: If you want to see the dress I picked, google/yahoo/bing/other "Lilly Pulitzer Ferra Dress in Hotty Pink Lucky Seersucker". The story hit me becuase I was looking at that dress and for some reason it hit me that as cute as it is (well I like it:p) there are women that I think it would look odd on, not bad, odd...Kate popped to mind.
My husband has informed me after beta'ing this that he doesn't want to hear the word Lilly for a few months.