Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Castle I just borrow them to play with once in a while.

After Dreams Are Revealed

Light streamed into her bedroom hitting Kate's face causing her to stir. She smiled to herself feeling warm and cosy as she snuggled back against Rick. Glancing over at her clock she noted the time was 5:30am and that her alarm would be going off soon. Kate went to get up when the arms around her tighten slightly not allowing her to move. She tried to pull them off as gently as she could so not to wake him but each time she attempted to move she was pulled closer. Kate smile, if she didn't really need to use the bathroom it would be endearing but her bladder was shouting at her.

"Rick let me go I need to use the bathroom" she whispered but all this brought was a grunt from the sleeping writer as he snuggled closer.

Kate smiled to herself, who would have thought Richard Castle was a snuggler, his playboy image was really just that an image and yes she had known that for a long time but this just confirmed it. Again she tried to move and when Rick wouldn't relinquish his hold on her she knew that she would have to wake him even though he looked so peaceful. But her bladder was REALLY screaming now so Kate wriggled round enough so she could put her lips near his ear and shouted "CASTLE"

This outburst jerked him awake loosening his grip enough for Kate to break free and slip off the bed heading for the bathroom.

"Hey where you going?" he asked rubbing his eyes as he watched her retreating figure.

"Bathroom" she shouted back at him "I'll be back in a minute"

Kate returned a few minutes later and slipped back into bed cuddling up to Rick once more. He placed a kiss on the top of her head as he hugged her to him.

"So" he said tilting her face up to look at him "What happens now?"

" I don't know you tell me" she replied moving up to gently kiss his lips before resting her head on his chest once more.

"Well we've declared our love and consummated it hum, a few times, so I now believe that we are a couple. Do you agree detective?"

" Yes I believe I do, though I think we should keep it to ourselves for a while. Though technically Lanie knows which was your fault by the way but any how I think we are going to need to come up with some ground rules. First when we are at work we need to be discreet, try to keep the PDA's to a minimum and when we are at a crime scene hands off ok?"

"Ok I think I can handle that. No walking up to you and ravishing you in the bull pen and no touching at a crime scene got it." he said rolling them over so she was pinned under him. "So it's ok to ravish you when we are alone then" and before she could answer he kissed her taking her breath away.

As they broke apart she smiled and replied "Yes I think ravishing in private is definitely ok" before curling her leg around his and flipping them so she was now on top. She bent down brushing her lips against his before saying " But that will have to wait we need to get up, we have a murder to solve" and with that she got off him and walked back toward the bathroom leaving Castle laying there.

Once they were both dressed Beckett dropped Rick off at his loft so he could change and so they didn't arrive together then she headed for the precinct. Once she arrived she boarded the elevator hitting the button for homicide. Kate smiled to herself as the doors closed remembering the events of last night and this morning, it was going to take all her self control to follow her own rules but she knew it was necessary. She entered the bullpen to see Esposito and Ryan already there so she walked over to them to get an update on the investigation.

"Morning boss, feeling better?" Esposito asked as she stopped in front of them.

"Yeah much better thank you I think it was just a 24 hour thing. What new info do we have?"

"Not much" Ryan said "we're taking another look at the victim's past business dealings looking a little further back to see if anything pop's. But so far nothing"
Just as he finished a uniformed officer approached and handed him a file which he opened and quickly read the contense "hum this is strange it seems that Preston Rhedin only came into existence about ten years ago it seems our Vic used to be someone else."

"Okay so let's look into who he was and more importantly why he changed his identity." Beckett said taking the file from Ryan and walking over to the murder board and adding the new information.

It was while she was standing at the murder board writing up the new info that Castle stepped off the elevator and approached her carrying her morning coffee and usual bear claw. He handed over the cup his fingers slightly brushing hers making her skin tingle. She looked over at him noting that he was taking the rules very seriously and must have inherited some of his mother acting skills, either that or his poker face had gotten a lot better. She thought to herself if it's killing me not to touch him and she had a lot of self restraint then it must be ten times as worse for him. She could see that he was tense and trying not to do anything that would give them away so when she walked away from the murder board toward her desk she leant over and whispered "Relax just act normal."

Rick shivered as her breath hit his neck, remembering what her lips were doing not 2 hours ago and he turned slowly to watch her sit down at her desk and check her computer. He had been tense since he had stepped off the elevator worried that he was going to do or say something that would give them away and let Esposito and Ryan know they were together. But Kate was right if he didn't relax then his current behaviour would tip them off even more, so he breathed in deeply, turned smiling at Kate before heading to sit down in his usual chair. For the next two hours they poured over the new information trying to figure out who Preston Rhedin had been. The break came when they got a call from Preston's wife. She had been going through some old papers when she had found a lease dating back twenty years for a building in Brooklyn and she was sure that Preston had never owned property there. Seeing this as a possible lead Kate asked Mrs Rhedin to fax a copy over so they could follow it up and that they would keep her informed of what they found.
The fax came through about ten minutes later and the first thing Castle noticed was that there were three names on the document. Nicolas Gardino, Sonny Heras and Preston Rhedin.
Knowing that Preston Rhedin was an alias, they looked at the over two names, it turned out that Nicolas Gardino was none other than the victim and Sonny Heras had been his business partner. It seemed that they had used the third name to make their company seem more prosperous than it was. It also seemed that Nicolas had dissolved the partnership suddenly and vanished taking a big chunk of money with him then faked his death before being born again 5 years later in another town with another name. After some digging Ryan had found out that Sonny Heras had not been happy as you can imagine about the missing money, also believing that Nicolas leaving caused a streak of bad luck that had followed him around for the next few years. In the end Sonny had given up ever finding the missing money and gotten on with his life until about two years ago when he had spotted Nicolas or rather Preston at a party he been at purely by accident and knowing that his ex-business partner was alive and well, with a successful business had sent him over the edge and he had swore revenge. It turned out that Sonny now owned a few sporting goods stores and had used one of the crossbows to commit the murder that was why the wound looked different. It seemed that Sonny had stalked Preston for months before the murder so had known his routine inside out and had waited behind one of the clumps of trees in the park for Preston to run by then had fired hitting him in the back and after watching him drop had slowly walked up to the body lent down pulling the crossbow bolt out, then had casually walking off.
All his had come to light after they had picked Sonny up purely to ask a few questions about his past dealings with Preston or rather Nicolas but when they had gotten him into the integration room a few of his answers to the standard questions had prompted Beckett to ask about the murder and then it had all come to light what had transpired on that fateful day. Once they had Sonny's confession and he had been processed all there was left to do was finish up the paperwork.
Beckett sighed to herself as she stretched trying to ease her aching muscles. She glanced over at Castle and saw that he was fiddling with his phone. Smiling to herself she moved closer before leaning over him and asked "What you doing?"

Startled he looked up at her before replying so as no one else could hear him " not much just waiting for my partner to finish her paper work so we can go eat"

"Well you'll be pleased to know then that I've almost finished, so get going then I can follow and I'll meet you at my place" she replied looking straight at him with a smile on her face a very wicked smile.

Rick gulped as he saw the look she was giving him hoping that no one else could see it as they would definitely know something was going on with them. Quickly he put his phone away and got to his feet grabbed his coat off the chair before walking over to where Ryan and Esposito were sitting. "Well I think I'm going to head home I'll see you guys tomorrow." and with that he headed for the elevator.

Ryan and Esposito glanced over at Beckett to see what she was doing and found her looking intently at her computer screen.
"Hey bro something is def off with those two. I don't know what it is but I'm going to find out" Esposito said as he turned back to the file on his desk.

About ten minutes later Beckett stopped what she was doing and got to her feet before grabbing her coat and bag. She slowly walked over the two detectives' "I'm going to call it a night, see you in the morning" and with that she headed for the elevator.

When Kate got to her apartment she found Castle there waiting for her leaning against her door. She smiled at him as she approached and gave him a peck on the check when she got level with him. As she went to put her key in the door Rick grabbed hold of her spinning her round to face him before bringing his lips to hers. "God I've wanted to do that to you all day" he sighed as they broke apart.

"I know what you mean. When you handed me my coffee this morning and your hand brushed against mine it sent tingles up my arm and I knew it was going to be hard to follow my own rules. But we did it and I think it will be easier from now on don't you think?" she replied opening her door before walking forward into her apartment.

They got about as far as the couch before Rick pulled her into his arms once again and attacked her neck causing her a moan at the sensation. "Bedroom now" she gasped as his hands moved over her body.