Matt Houston and Castle Crossover-This is my first attempt at a Crossover. I hope it goes well.
"Good Morning, Detective, and how was your weekend?" Castle asked as he made his way over to Kate's desk early that morning. Bringing her a cup of coffee as he usually did.
"Fine Castle. How was yours?" Kate asked as if she didn't care either way how it had been.
"Rather boring up until about an hour ago. Paula called, she wants "us", to attend a charity event at the Radisson on Saturday night." Castle told her knowing full well this would get under her skin, but of course loving every minute of it.
"Paula said "us",? Why would Paula want "us" to attend the charity event you're the writer not me. Kate asked getting irritated at the thought of having to get dressed up yet again for another one of his P.R. gigs.
"Paula said because you are the inspiration for "Nikki Heat", that you should be there as well, look it will be fun. It's for the children's hospital in Brooklyn. Castle told her with the puppy dog look on his face.
"Okay, stop with the puppy dog face before I have to shoot it." she said with a slight grin letting Castle know she was kidding.
"Oh and before you start stressing, the attire for the event is cocktail wear. And if that isn't answer enough, ask yourself…"What would Nikki Heat wear??? Castle told her this with a look of wonder in his eye as to what she might wear, thinking she would look yummy in whatever she wore.
"So charity event?? I take it there will be many different writers there? Kate asked, hoping that the answer would be yes, so he would be occupied and not gawking at her all night.
"Yea, we even have to share a table with another writer because of space limitations. My partner for the evening is a woman by the name of C.J. Parsons. I was reading her bio online earlier after Paula had said who I would be paired with and turns out Paula is her agent too." Castle told Kate all this, which she kind of looked at him out of the corner of her eye, not wanting to give him the idea she cared in the least that he had been paired with a woman.
"So, what all did you find out about her? Kate asked trying to sound as dry as possible. As if she were just trying to make polite conversation.
"Well if she still looks the same as her bio picture she is absolutely stunning." Castle said shoving a picture of C.J. under Kate's nose, hoping to make her jealous. Kate reluctantly looked at the picture.
"She's very pretty, in a "Southern Belle" sort of way, if she still looks like that, could be a very old picture you know." Kate said trying not to let on just how drop dead gorgeous she really thought C.J. was.
"No, my dear, I seriously doubt the picture is that old. That's one thing about Paula, she is very P.R. motivated and she moves heaven and earth to keep everything about her writers updated. So I figure this picture might be a year old, if that, but that's probably about all. Castle said with a big smirk on his face knowing full well Kate was getting even more and more irritated by the minute with jealousy that a-she didn't want to feel, and b-didn't like being.
" I actually can't wait to meet her. Her bio says she was VP to a big conglomerate in Texas, then helped move the business to L.A. and took the bar exam in the process. After that, says she was V.P. to a "Houston Investigations". Which made her..drum roll.. A private investigator. Which why would I care you ask?"" I didn't." Kate said.
"So that I may have yet another source for "Derek Storm" or "Nikki Heat" to solve their murder mysteries. "Yes I know I am brilliant, see a source and pick right up on it." I love myself." Kate just rolled her eyes, she had no words at that point.
"I am curious though, wonder why she chose romance as her genre and not mystery." "She sure would be an expert writer for it, having lived it." He asked with a curious look on his face.
"Don't know, haven't met her yet." Which the thought of that was becoming less appealing every second, based on how Castle was reacting on getting to meet her. Like a kid in a candy store ,was her thought on it.
"Maybe she got tired of that lifestyle and wanted to do something different. Dealing with death and dying on a daily basis, if that's the way her life was, takes it's toll on a body. But whatever you do Castle, don't act like a 9yr old on a sugar rush. She won't take you seriously and if that happens you won't be able use her as a source and the rest of us will be stuck with you pouting the rest of the night." Kate said grinning from ear to ear, quite proud of herself for that observation she gleefully through Castle's way.
"You think you know me so well, don't you Detective?" "That's ok I'll show you, I'll show all of you. I'll be as good as a choir boy, during Sunday services. This he said as he got up to leave, saying his good byes because it was time to go get Alexis from school, she was having an early release day that day.
"I'll believe it when I see it, choir boy." Kate yelled out as he was leaving.
