After a long day on a Friday, the team is exhausted from a long case that they had.
"Man, I can't take another day like that again." Kevin Ryan, running his face with his hands, groaned.
"I hear ya, man." Javier Esposito sit on the edge of his desk, arms crossed. "That was longest case we ever work on."
"Yeah, I mean, did you see how much hours we had to put in?" Kate Beckett stretched out her arms above her head. "Three made arrests, two DNA checks and a long list of suspects? This isn't homicide; it's more like a circus of torture."
Her husband Richard Castle looked on. "If only there was something that could save us."
"Well, unless you're giving out drinks at The Old Haunt, I could use one." Medical Examiner doctor Lanie Parish, Esposito's wife, comes in and places her jacket on Esposito's chair.
"Hey, baby." Esposito plant a kiss on Lanie.
"Lanie, what are you doing here?" Beckett sat at her desk.
"I just finish sewing up your body at the morgue I thought I stop by if you guys have any plans for now." Lanie wrap her arm around Esposito's neck.
Junior cop Lynn Gonzalez looks up. "Well, you guys need plans, why not hang out after work or go home and relax?"
Ryan checks his watch. "Maybe, after we get a drink. You in?" He grabbed his jacket.
"Nah, I could, but I don't drink and I'm not an alcoholic. Besides, I don't know why you guys drink. I mean, don't you have kids?" Lynn puts on her jacket and checks her phone.
"Yeah, but Alexis is watching Johanna." Beckett replied, putting her bag on her shoulder.
"Yeah, and Jesus is getting dropped off by a friend." Esposito gets up from his desk.
"And my sitter's watching Sarah Grace and Nicholas." Ryan checks his phone for messages.
Lynn grimaced and turns to him. "Really? Last time you and Jenny watched your kids before the sitter came, your daughter made your son smile by spraying you guys with the kitchen hose."
Esposito look at Ryan and laughed. "I thought that was when those two were getting busy." Castle laughs and feeds the birds to him as Lanie and Beckett gave their husbands a deadly glare.
"Oh, God!" Lynn, grossed out, rolled her eyes and grabs her bag.
Lanie turned to Beckett. "How is little Johanna?"
"This morning, she was trying to read Heat Wave and her dad gave her something else to read." Beckett grabs her jacket.
"I didn't want her to read that sex scene in there." Castle checks for messages.
"It will leave her traumatized." Beckett nodded.
"Oh boy." Lynn's eyes widen as her phone rings. "Oh, speaking of sex, you guys might wanna lock your doors."
Castle, Esposito and Ryan nodded. "We got it!"
"Okay, see ya." Lynn turns to leave, answering her phone.
"Well, you guys up for a drink?" Castle puts his phone in his pocket.
"Yeah, anything we need to end the day." Beckett heads for the elevator as Esposito, Lanie, Ryan, and Castle followed.
The team hits the Old Haunt, and Castle starts serving up drinks. While he passing out two beers, Ryan's wife, Jenny, comes in.
"Hey, guys." She walks over.
"Hey, Jenny." "Sup, Jenny?" Castle and Esposito raised their drinks.
"Hey, Kevin. I got your message."
"Hey, baby." Ryan kisses his wife and wraps his arm around her waist.
Esposito smirked at Castle. "Someone's whipped." Castle laughed and fist-bump him.
Lanie gets a call and answers it. "Yeah? Uh-huh. Yeah, okay, hold on." She hands her phone to Esposito. "It's Jesus."
Esposito takes it. "Hey, buddy. Yeah. You on your way home? Oh. Uh, yeah. Your mom and I will be home. Ok, uh-huh. See ya, buddy."
Lanie takes the phone back. "Hey. Yeah, you're almost done? Ok. Your dad and I are about to leave. Uh-huh. See you there." She hangs up.
Esposito takes a sip of his beer. "So, what he want?"
"He was wondering if we were home yet." Lanie gets up from her seat.
"Oh, I thought he was on his way by now."
"Well, we should leave before he worries more." Lanie grabs her jacket.
Esposito gets up. "Yeah, got to hit it, guys."
"Okay, see ya." "Night." "Night, bro." Ryan, Castle, Beckett and Jenny nodded as Esposito and Lanie leave.
"So, stressful case you had?" Jenny breaks the silence after a few minutes.
"No, no, it was quick." Castle gave her a drink.
Beckett places her hand Castle's. "Yeah, for 8 hours straight."
"Trust me, if I had to work another stressful case like this, my head's gonna explode." Ryan takes a sip of his beer.
"Mm." Jenny smiled flirty. "I think I can ease off that stress."
Ryan nearly chokes on his beer and jump when he felt his wife's hand sliding down his thigh to his tool. "Whoa, Jenny!" He grabs her hand as she and Beckett laughed.
"Well, I guess I'll be closing up now." Castle collects the empty glasses and the beer bottle off the bar.
"Yeah, meet you outside?" Beckett gets up and heads for the restroom.
Castle grabs Beckett's jacket off her chair. "So, guess I better see if Alexis and Johanna are home."
"Yeah, the sitter's probably putting the kids to sleep by now." Ryan fist-bump him just as Beckett came back.
"Maybe they won't disturb you guys all night."
"I can think of something while they're asleep." Jenny gets up to leave.
Ryan turns to his wife. "What do you mean?"
Jenny slips her hand in her husband's. "You'll see." She gently pulls him from the bar towards the door.
"You guys have a good night." Beckett puts on her jacket as Ryan and Jenny leave.
"Ready?" Castle comes up with his jacket on his arm.
"Yeah." Beckett links her arm around his and walks out of the bar.
While walking to their car, Ryan looks at Jenny, wondering about what she meant before.
"Hey, Jenny?"
Jenny turns to her husband. "Yeah, babe?"
"What did you mean before?"
"About what?"
"You thought of something while the kids are asleep?"
Ryan and Jenny got in the car.
"Oh, that. Well, I was thinking that when the kids are sleeping, I was thinking of getting us relax." Jenny puts on her seatbelt.
Ryan puts his seatbelt on and starts the car. "What are you saying, beautiful?"
"I'm saying that I'm thinking of heating up our marriage." Jenny looks at Ryan, flirtatiously.
Ryan looks at his wife, confused. "You mean sparking up our love life with what?"
"I mean…" Jenny whispers in Ryan's ear.
Ryan smile and chuckle as Jenny giggle. "I get it." He pulls out and drives off.
On the way home, Esposito noticed Lanie was quiet for the entire hour.
"What's wrong, chica?"
Lanie turn to him. "I was just thinking about Jesus."
"What about him?" Esposito stops at a red light.
"Well, he sounded worried about us." Lanie looked concerned.
"That we weren't coming home?" Lanie nodded as the light turn green and Esposito drove off. "Cariño, that's our jobs to worry about him, not the other way around."
"I know. Should we talk to him when we get home?"
"Yeah. Hey, maybe when he goes to bed, maybe afterwards you and I can conseguir unpoco loco." Esposito gives her a look and a smirk.
Lanie sighs and prop her elbow on the car window screen. "Ooh! I love what you're thinking."
After getting in the car, Castle glanced at Beckett, who was thinking about their daughter with Alexis.
"Kate, something wrong?"
Beckett turns to face him. "Mm? No, I'm good."
"No, you're not. I know you're not good." Castle gestures as Beckett pulls out and drives.
Beckett sighs. "I was wondering about Jo and Alexis."
"What about them?" Castle checks his phone.
"Johanna is spending time with her big sister, but I'm worried that you might be slightly overprotective with her as you are with Alexis."
"What? Slightly?" Beckett shots a look at Castle as he turn to face her. "Okay, maybe I can be, but they're my little girls and I don't want anything to happen to Jo like what happened to Alexis.
Beckett shakes her head. "Well, take it from someone who's been protective for most of her life and you must know that Johanna's gonna be safe when she gets older and she might learn a few things from Alexis."
"Like what?"
"She's gonna teach her how to drive, what's the best places to hang out, how to talk to guys…"
Castle glared at her. "Okay, can we change the subject that won't most likely to give me a headache?"
"Okay. So, if Jo gets to sleep or does something quiet, I was thinking something with strawberries and maybe a couple of ice." Beckett stops at a light.
"Mm, really? Cause I was thinking of a usual glass of Chateau de Beauregard when we get home or a take a hot bath. You know, if you're interested in doing both." Castle wiggled his eyebrows as Beckett smiles and drives off as the light changes.
When they got home, Ryan and Jenny met with their kids' sitter who was waiting for them after Sarah Grace and Nicholas went to sleep.
"I'm gonna get something from the kitchen and head to the room." Jenny looks at her husband as she went into the kitchen to get two wineglasses from the cupboard and a corkscrew. "So, are the kids asleep?" She received a nod from the sitter as she picks up the wine and the glasses and heads towards the bedroom.
Ryan turns to the sitter. "I'm sure they weren't any trouble."
"Oh, no. Little Sarah Grace couldn't stop making her brother smile with her animal noises."
"Okay, so thanks for watching them." Ryan pays the sitter and she leaves with a smile and wave. He then heads toward his room to find candles on his dresser. "Jenny? Jenny? Sweetie, where are you?" he starts removing his suit jacket and tie as he calls for his wife. "Jenny, are you in here?" He removes his shirt and pulls down his pants before heading towards the bathroom, where he was surprise to see lit candles around the tub which was fill with bubbles and rose petals. "What the hell?"
Jenny, hiding behind the bathroom door naked, surprised him by pushing the door shut. "You like it, Kev?"
"Oh God! Jenny. I didn't see you there. You made this?" Ryan sat at the corner edge of the tub.
Jenny, carefully not trying to burn her arm or foot, sits next to him. "Yeah, I thought we might need a little R&R."
Ryan kisses her forehead as he wraps his arm around her. "I could use one. But I rather have it with you." Jenny giggled as she slips into the tub and Ryan settled behind her.
At their apartment, both Lanie and Esposito went to check on Jesus, who was looking at a photo of his parents.
"Jesus, can we talk to you for a second?" Lanie taps her son the shoulder.
"Yeah, sure." Jesus gets up and sat between his parents. "Am I in trouble?"
Esposito shook his head. "No, we just wanted to talk to you. Are you worried about me and your mom?"
Jesus takes a deep breath. "I'm scared that you weren't coming home from work."
Lanie looks at Jesus, concerned. "Wow, so you wanted us to be careful and stay by each other's side?" Jesus looks from his mother to his father and nodded.
"You sounded like your mom when she's worried." Esposito gives a smile.
Lanie shook her head and laugh. "Really? Because you got that protected side from your dad." Esposito smirks at her.
Jesus starts to get up. "So I shouldn't worry about you?"
Esposito and Lanie look at each other. "No, what we're saying that it's our job to worry about you, not the other way around."
"Yeah, and we want you to stay a kid and not to worry about us."
"You get what we're saying, buddy?"
"Yeah, I do." Jesus gives his parents a hug.
Lanie smile as she looks at her son. "Ok, why don't you get ready for bed?"
Jesus runs to his bedroom as Esposito turn to Lanie.
"I think he got it now, baby." He strokes her hair from her face and lifts her chin to kiss her.
Lanie giggled as Esposito got up, took her hands and leads her towards the bathroom.
At the loft, Castle and Beckett spot their daughter watching a Disney movie with Castle's oldest daughter, Alexis.
"Hey, Dad." Alexis looks up.
Johanna lifts up her head. "Mommy! Daddy!" She runs up to hug them.
"So, did you guys have a great night?" Castle kisses both his daughters on the head.
"Lexis helped me with my reading. And then we ate Macs and now we're watching a movie." Johanna turns to her older sister. "What's it called?"
"'Beauty and the Beast'. It's about a prince who turns into a beast and a girl, whose love for reading, falls in love with him."
"Okay. Is it like Cinderella with her glass slipper?"
"No, this is very different. This one has a rose."
Castle and Beckett smile as they look on.
"Well, we'll leave you two to watch the movie." Beckett takes Castle's hand and heads towards the bedroom.
Castle removes his jacket. "I'm happy that my daughters are bonding."
"And you're worried that Jo is trying to get influenced by Alexis." Beckett smile as her husband glared at her. "I'll better run the bath while you get the food." She heads to the bathroom as Castle heads to the kitchen.
Ten minutes later, Ryan and Jenny were sipping wine and sitting in the tub together.
"Mm. This is relaxing." Jenny clink her glass with her husband's.
"I'm glad I get to spend it with you." Ryan leans in to kiss Jenny.
Jenny rests her glass next to Ryan's and entwines her fingers with his. "I'm just happy to leave work and crash at home."
Ryan kisses her shoulder as she moaned. "I can't believe after a long day like this I need a break."
"Well, I'm just glad you're here with me because I could use one." Jenny rests her head on Ryan's shoulder as he rests his head on her.
"Yeah, besides me, I need to spend time with Sarah Grace and Nicholas."
Jenny lifts her hand to caress Ryan's face. "Sarah Grace needs her father and Nicholas's growing, so I don't want to miss that many moments as you."
"Me either." Ryan kisses her softly. "Ready to get out?" Jenny turned her head and started to giggle. "What?"
"You got bubbles on the side of your face."
Ryan raises a hand to touch his face. "Huh. Well, so do you." He literally wraps his arms around her and growls in her hair as she laughs.
"Kevin, stop!" Jenny slips her hand into his arm. "Can we get out?"
Ryan rose from the tub, water dripping from his body, take a towel from the heater and wrap it around his waist. Jenny gets up after, takes Ryan's hands and climbs out.
"Hold on." Ryan wraps Jenny with a towel, carries her out of the tub and placed her on her feet.
Jenny kisses Ryan's jaw. "You're the best thing that happens to me and the kids, Kev."
"I know. Same for you." Ryan smile softly as he let the towel bound around his waist drop to his feet, causing Jenny to gasp, and blush as he grab his robe from behind the door and puts it on when he notice his wife turn away. "What?"
Jenny faces her husband. "Hmm? Nothing."
Ryan grabs Jenny's robe and hands it to her. "I'll be in the room." Jenny smiles as he left for her to drop her towel and put on her robe and left the bathroom.
Ten minutes later, Esposito and Lanie were sitting in the tub together. Lanie has her arms on Esposito's since his were around her waist.
"Mm. Javi, I can't believe you did this." Lanie rest her head on his shoulder and sighs.
Esposito trail his hand on Lanie. "Anything for you, chica."
Lanie laughs as she raises a hand to rustle his hair. "It's perfect."
"I can show you something else." Esposito starts running his bubble-filled hands through Lanie's hair.
Lanie looks at him. "What is it you want to…?" She already lost a breath when Esposito kiss her neck.
"You like that?"
"Mm. Yeah." Lanie lifts her head and kiss him passionately.
Esposito caress and stroke Lanie's face with his hand. "Wanna come out, sexy?"
"Mm-mm." Esposito gets out of the tub, and Lanie starts to get up when she almost slip until he caught her.
"I got you, chica." Esposito carefully pick Lanie up from the tub and placed her on her feet. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay." Lanie grabs a towel and dries her hair.
Esposito grabs his robe from the door and puts it on. "So, what are you thinking right now?" He hands Lanie her robe.
Lanie puts on her robe. "Nothing. Just thinking of spending time with you." She wraps the towel around his neck and kisses him.
"That's cool."
"So what about you?"
"I can show you better than I can tell you." Esposito walks out of the bathroom with Lanie.
"Mm." Lanie smiles flirtatiously before taking his hands and walking backwards towards the bedroom.
Ten minutes later, Beckett and Castle were sitting in the tub together. Beckett was sitting between Castle's legs, with her back to his chest.
Castle's arms were around Beckett's waist. "I can't believe what a day we had today…" He replied quietly.
"Give or take, I think we both deserve to relax." Beckett smile, with her hand softly touching her husband's.
"You couldn't resist me, can you?" Castle kissed her hair.
Beckett smile and laughs. "Maybe."
"Funny."
She leans her head back on his shoulder as the two kiss.
"Johanna's a good kid. She definitely got those beautiful eyes from you." Castle stroke Beckett's face softly.
"Really? Because she certainly got that nine-year-old on sugar rush side from you." She laughed.
"Point taken detective."
"It's true." She pressed a kiss on him. "Hey, can you hand me a strawberry, please?"
Castle reach for the bowl of fresh-cut strawberries, grabbed one and feed it to Beckett.
"Wow, this is delicious."
Castle tries one for himself. "Mm, this is really good."
Beckett tries to grab one, but Castle held it out of her reach. "What? Castle!"
"Hey, only your jaw gets the fruit." He lets her bite the strawberry.
In the living room, Alexis had stopped the movie to get ready for bed.
"Lexi, did you see my Snow White and the Seven Dwarves book anywhere?" Johanna, coming downstairs in her Disney princess nightgown, crouch down.
"No, maybe Dad knows." Alexis head into their dad's bedroom, when she suddenly stops to hear Kate moaning from the bathroom.
"Mm…"
"Oh God, I know." She hears her dad.
"Yeah, this is good." Kate again.
Alexis gasps as she crouches down to find Johanna's book under their dad's bed and grabs it.
"Lexi, what's going on?" She came up from behind.
"Um, how about we head upstairs for bed?" Alexis nervously picks up her sister and walks out.
"What? What is it?" Johanna confused as both girls go upstairs.
Back in the bathroom, Beckett gives a soft kiss on Castle's jaw.
"So, I was thinking."
"About what?"
"I was thinking that we should get together with the guys and go on a couple's weekend."
"Okay, but what about the kids?"
"Yeah, maybe a family weekend. The kids could have a kid's time for themselves and the couples should do something just for the grownups."
Castle kissed her neck softly. "I like that idea."
"Me too. Let's get out of the tub?"
"Yeah, need help?"
"No, I'm good."
Castle gets out first, grabs a towel, dries himself off and wraps around his waist. Beckett rose from the tub, grabs a towel for herself, wraps it around her and steps on the heated mat. Castle wraps his arms around her and rests his chin on her shoulder.
"You're really smart and beautiful."
Beckett turned her head and kisses him on the lips. "I know."
Castle let her go and goes in the room. "Are you coming?"
"Yeah." Beckett follows him to the bedroom.
When Jenny looks in the room, she sees candles lit up and a rose with a note on the bed, smiles and picks it up.
"'You make my life so amazing, beautiful.'" She sits down on the bed and place the rose on her nightstand when two strong arms wrap around her.
"Hey, honey."
Jenny laughs as she turns around to face her husband. "Kevin, you did this?"
"I wanna surprise you with it."
"I love it." Jenny presses a soft kiss on Ryan's lips.
"That's not all of it." Ryan turns his wife on her back to his chest.
"What?"
Ryan wraps his arms around Jenny, pressing kisses on her neck and shoulder, causing her to lean her head back and moan.
"Oh God!" Jenny wraps her arm around his neck.
"You like that?" Ryan unties his robe and unties Jenny's as his hand grip her hip tightly.
"Mm-mm." She gasps as he kiss her collarbone and his hand gripping her hip tighter as their robes fell to their feet, causing them to fall onto their bed.
After Lanie and Esposito walk into the room, Lanie sat by the window, looking at the moon as Esposito walks over to the radio.
"Still thinking of Jesus, baby?"
"Mm?" Lanie turn to Esposito then back to the moon. "No, I was looking at the moon."
Lanie's thoughts are snap back to reality when Esposito put on Boys II Men, 'I'll Make Love to You'.
Esposito sat next to her. "I can think of something else."
Lanie lift her head up. "What is it, baby?"
Esposito gets up, takes Lanie's hand and walk over to the bed. Lanie sat down on her side of the bed while Esposito remove his robe, rest it on the closet door and sat next to Lanie and remove her robe.
"Mm." Lanie felt her husband's hand on her and pulling her to the bed on her back.
Esposito pull Lanie close to him. "Is something wrong?"
"No." She gasps as he kisses her neck, causing the two to fall on the bed.
As Beckett and Castle walk into the room, Beckett shut the bathroom door and Castle straightening the bed.
"So, Rick, are you still thinking about Johanna and Alexis?"
"Well, a little, but you said they're gonna be fine."
Beckett lets her hair down. "So, you're gonna be okay with that?"
Castle gives her a serious look. "Really? I don't want to lose them."
"Relax. Just like I said before, they're gonna be fine." Beckett sat on the bed as Castle lets his towel drop to the floor and climbs into bed. "Trust me, babe. They're gonna be with each other."
"Are you sure?" Castle turn to see Beckett dropping her towel at her feet.
"Mm-mm." She leans forward under the covers and kisses him, crawling over him and letting Castle roll them so she's underneath him.
