Disclaimer: Don't own Castle
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Kate sat alone in her apartment eating Chinese food out of a carton. She had been pondering the type of relationship she had with Rick. For the time she had been thinking about it, Kate had been in denial about something. She refused to say anything out loud but every though about it was getting to her now. Kate was feeling overwhelmed, like she need to tell someone, anyone.
She held her fork up to her mouth to take one more bite but stopped herself when her cell rang. She enthusiastically lunged for her table and picked up the phone.
"Beckett," she said.
"Wow, girl. You sound happy? Am I interupting something?" Lanie's voice came through the phone. Kate listened to the background noise. All she could hear was
"Are ypou busy right now?" she asked quickly.
"Well thats why I'm calling,"
"Can I come over?" Kate asked, again very quickly.
"Well, I was just about to invite you & tell you to wear something nice becau-"
"Great. I really need to talk to you," Kate walked to her bedroom and started going through her closet.
"Girl, can it wait? I'm in the middle of-" Lanie was interupted once again by Kate's speed talking.
"Lanie please, I need to get this off my chest. Why do I need to wear something nice?" she asked as she held one of her tops up to her chest to see how it looked in a mirror.
"I was trying to exlpain that-"
"It doesn't matter. Just tell me when I get there. Be there in 20. Thanks so much, bye."
And just like that, Kate hung up her phone and got dressed to go to Lanie's.
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When she arrived outside Lanie's door, Kate heard people talking and the only voice she recognised was Espo's. She thought that maybe there was still a chance for the two of them and smiled to herself.
Hope I'm not interupting anything. She thought to herself as Lanie answered the door.
"Kate, hey! Come on in," Lanie opened the door wide enough to let Kate in, but not wide enough to reveal to Kate who Espo was talking to.
"Lanie," Kate quickly walked into the apartment and dragged Lanie to her kitchen, still completely unaware of who Lanie had over for company.
"Ow," Lanie said as Kate pulled her arm, "Kate what?"
"I love him." she said abruptly, "Lanie, I love him," she repeated, this time more slowly.
"What? Who?" Lanie wasn't thinking when she spoke and as soon as she had she wished she'd said something worthwhile. She took a deep breath and spoke again, "Why are you telling me?"
"Because I need to tell somebody who isn't him,"
"You don't want him to know about this?" Lanie asked with confusion, "If so then i suggest you sto-"
"I want him to know eventually, but I need to tell someone now," she explained, slowly pacing Lanie's kitchen.
"But Kate, I don't think-"
"Lanie," Beckett said with warning. Lanie held her hands up in surrender and looked on in worry at Kate continuing what she had to say.
"Girl-" this time Kate didn't even speak, she simply gave Lanie a sharp look causing her to relax her shoulders and stop talking.
"I just don't want to sound too corny when I tell him, you know. I've been thinking about it quite a lot you know."
All Lanie could do anymore was nod.
"He's my partner and I just always feel safe with him there. I just know I can rely on him to always be there Lanie. I know I have felt this way about other people but this time is just different,"
"Girl, saying that you love Castle is like saying the sun is a star. Everyone knows it and everyone has known it for a really long time," Lanie said with an eyeroll.
"I kind of like what we have going on though. Its like a friendship that I can never really lose or shrug off. I like that, you know. I mean sure I was afraid of losing what we had before but nothing's diferent really," she paused, "Well yeah it is different. Its a whole lot more...fun," she chuckled which earned a smile from Lanie, followed by another eyeroll.
Lanie crossed her arms and waited for Kate to continue. Neither one of the women had noticed that Lanie's entire apartment had gone quiet when Kate had started talking and neither one of them knew that she had an audience listening to Kate.
"He makes me feel happy," Kate said after long silence, "Yes, a lot of things make me feel happy but with him its different. It's kind of weird actually.
"We don't need to go into detail about what happens when you get happy," Lanie turned away to hide her smile.
"Shut up," Kate said in a sing song voice, "I feel like I've been talking a lot but I haven't actually said anything,"
"Believe me, you've said enough," Lanie laughed.
"But its just words," she shrugged, "How do I tell him?"
"Chika, I do believe you just did," Kate and Lanie turned to see Espo, Ryan, Castle and Jenny all standing outside the kitchen. It was then that it dawned on Kate who Lanie's company was.
"Kate, as I was trying to tell you, I've decided to have you guys over tonight," Lanie said with a wide smile.
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A/N: This is a result of my boredom right before I go head first into my final year of school. Its a tad corny but cut me some slack, I'm trying to get happy stuff out of the way so I can write my multi-chapter fic entitled 317 lies.
Thanks for reading. Xx