A/N: Never written anything for anything but NCIS before, but I was watching Cuffed and this idea just came to me (with the help of my best friend:D)

I hope it's decent Please tell me what you think!

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She stared at him, her eyes bright with recognition. She did not seem at all happy to see him.

Castle shivered.

"What's the matter? Not happy to see me?" he questioned sarcastically. She just glared at him.

Nothing had ever scared him more than she did. Well, maybe Beckett... Or Mother.

She let out a primal growl, and Castle jumped.

"She doesn't like you," came a voice from beside him. It was a little boy with an ice-cream cone in his hand.

"I don't like her either," Castle replied.

"But you don't even know her!" the boy cried indignantly. Castle looked down at the little boy, frowning.

"Oh, on the contrary, I do."

"You know Fluffy?" the little boy asked.

"Fluffy?"

"Fluffy," the boy confirmed, pointing to the plaque with the name that the Zoo had given the tiger.

"Trust me, kid. That's not a fluffy tiger. That is an EVIL tiger," Castle replied.

"How would you know?" the little boy challenged, his voice raising. Everybody in that portion of the zoo turned to look at him and the little boy.

"Well, my friend and I were handcuffed together on this bed, and then... Well a lot of things happened but on the end we ended up locked in there with her and she tried to eat me," Castle said matter-of-factly. Only after he said it did he realize EXACTLY how loud he had been talking. He had a bunch of soccer-mom's giving him indignant and disgusted looks. The little boy began to cry, and his mother ran up behind him and pulled him away from Castle, glaring at him judgmentally and distastefully.

"What? She did!" Castle called after her loudly. He let out a sigh as he realized that the entire area, which was previously full of families and strollers and tourists, had been evacuated.

"Guess it's just you and I," Castle said forlornly, glancing at the tiger behind the glass.

She roared loudly, before turning her back and retreating to the other end of the habitat, leaving Castle standing alone.