Disclamer: I don't own anything. This history is completely AU.
Meeting in the elevator
Kate was already running late when she left her apartment that morning. She wasn't normally late but somehow she'd forgotten to put her alarm last night when had stayed up late studying a case that had impressed, she still was not a lawyer was just in the second year of college, but it was a geek everything that had to do with laws and when she free time studying old cases ever mentioned his teachers as an example in their classes and awoke late that morning. She was pretty sure that no longer gave time to get to the conference which had pointed to "criminology and comparative law" that taught at his university.
She eventually hurried out the door, with the clicking of her heeled pumps and ran to the closing elevator doors.
"Hold the door!" she called. The doors sprung open again and Kate stepped in to see her hot neighbor who couldn't speak any English. She figured he must have seen her running. "Thanks" she smiled. He could probably understand that much. He nodded in return and went back to tapping on his phone.
Kate watched him out of the corner of her eye. She had only had a couple of interactions with him since he moved into the building two weeks ago. One time she went to greet him and welcome him to the building but she could hear him yelling on the phone in another language so she quickly ran back to her own apartment, and another time she had accidentally been given his mail and when she went over to give it to him he just nodded and slammed the door. She'd tried to avoid him after that.
She'd talked about him with another neighbor, an old lady who lived downstairs, and the woman had told her that the new guy's name was Rick Castle and had moved there from Croatia or something (Mrs. Johnson couldn't quite remember) and didn't speak a stitch of English, and Kate figured that explained a lot.
Despite her limited interactions with the man Kate had not failed to notice how good looking he was. Muscular arms, beautiful brown hair, piercing blue eyes and somehow she knew he had a great body since his white v-neck shirt looked tight and perfectly on him.
Kate glanced at Rick again. He couldn't speak English but maybe he could read minds. He was still engrossed in his phone, much to Kate's relief.
At that moment she felt a jolt and the elevator stopped. At first she thought they'd arrived at their destination but when the doors didn't open she began to worry.
"Shit" she swore.
She turned to Rick but he was already calling someone on his phone. He started speaking in Croatian or Russian or whatever it was he spoke. Kate couldn't tell. She sighed. He was going to be no help. She tried pressing the emergency button but nothing happened.
Decided to follow the example of him and took his phone. Call Lanie, because had agreed to meet her friend at the conference and she didn't know how long she'd be stuck in the elevator.
"Lanie, bad news," Kate said when her friend answered. "I'm stuck in an elevator. Probably until someone realizes that does not work"
"What? How did this happen?" Lanie asked, her voice faint.
"Maintenance. I don't know" Kate muttered. "Hold on, it's really hard to hear you, I'm going to put you on speaker."
"Well, look on the bright side" Lanie pointed out, her voice filling the elevator. "Now you don't will have to see the idiot Robert - his ex now he paced the face to Clara, his new girlfriend"
"True" Kate laughed. "Also, I'm stuck in the elevator with my hot neighbor" she grinned.
"Can't he hear you?" Lanie questioned.
"Relax, he can't speak English. He doesn't know what I'm saying." Kate glanced at him again. He was no longer talking on the phone but it looked like he was texting someone interesting as she could see him smirking to himself.
"Oh, that neighbor," Lanie remembered. "You told me about him."
"Yeah. God, he's so hot," Kate said. "It should be illegal to be so attractive."
"So you've told me. I really need to see this guy," Lanie mused.
"How do you think he would react if I just grabbed him and kissed him right now?" wondered.
"He'd probably be surprised, considering you've never spoken," Lanie laughed.
"Elevator sex would be hot, don't you think?" Kate continued, barely listening to Lanie.
"I don't know, I've never done it," Lanie replied, still amused with the direction of conversation.
"Huh. Well, I could do it right now. It's just the two of us in this elevator. The security cameras probably don't work, knowing the shitty management of this place" Kate said looking up giving out cameras. "I could suck his cock in this elevator and no one would ever know." She was only half joking. The other half of her (probably the half below her waist) desperately wanted to fuck his brains out in the elevator. She pressed her legs together tightly, trying to ignore the arousal she was feeling just from thinking about it.
"Kate Beckett. You're mad" Lanie chuckled. "How are you going to ask him? Just get down on your knees and point to his crotch?"
"I bet it's really big" Kate ignored Lanie.
"What is?" Lanie asked in confusion.
"His cock, duh" Kate replied.
"Oh my god" Lanie groaned.
"What? We always talk about this stuff" She said. It was true that she and Lanie always shared sex stuff, usually to the point of too much information, and Kate didn't know why her friend was being such a prude.
"Yeah, but he's standing right next to you" Lanie pointed out.
"I already told you, he doesn't speak English!" Kate said in exasperation.
"Fine, go on" Lanie sighed. "Tell me about how you want to live out all your masturbatory fantasies."
"It sounds gross when you put it like that" Kate screwed up her nose.
"You're the one who said you wanted him to speak French between your legs" Lanie reminded her. Kate remembered the last time she'd talked to Lanie about Rick. She was sure she'd said even more explicit things than that.
"Ha. I don't even know if he speaks French" Kate replied.
"Face it, you don't care what language he speaks, as long as he knows how to use that tongue while he's down there" her friend cackled.
"Or his hands, either way." Kate grinned. "He has really nice hands." She glanced at Rick again but he was looking away. "Too bad it's never going to happen. Even if he could speak English, I dare not tell him about the huge crush I have on him" she sighed.
"Aww" Lanie said sacrastically. "I wish I could help but I've gotta go. Good luck. Call me when you get out and we'll meet up." Lanie ended the call. Kate put her phone away and looked up to see Rick smirking at her. Why was he doing that? Did she have something on her face?
"For the record" he said, obviously enjoying the look of shock that appeared on her face. "I can speak French. I speak four languages."
Kate felt her face grow hot and she knew it was bright red as the realization dawned on her that he'd understood everything she said. And everything her best friend Lanie said.
"Oh my God" she stammered, completely mortified. She couldn't remember being more embarrassed in her life, and now she had to spend who knows how long in the elevator with him. And there wasn't any way out of it, she knew. He'd heard the whole conversation. She couldn't say 'we were just kidding, haha' or 'we were talking about someone else'.
"I'm so sorry" she said instead, because she couldn't think of anything else. "Mrs. Johnson said you didn't speak English."
"No need to be sorry. It was very entertaining" Rick grinned. Entertaining? Kate was almost mad at his patronizing tone. Here she was, totally humiliated after basically recounting her sexual fantasies in front of the object of her sexual fantasies, and he was laughing at her? Any decent person would have been embarrassed or angry, but no, this guy was amused.
"Well, there's no need to be so rude about it" Kate sniffed, forgetting her embarrassment for a second.
"I hardly think I'm the rude one" Rick retorted, still smirking. "By the way, I think it's cute that you have a crush on me" he snickered. Kate's face had probably never been redder and she wished she could melt into the wall she was standing against.
"Oh my God" She groaned. "Let's just stop talking."
"Good idea" Rick agreed.
Sorry for the mistakes