AN: This chapter's a little longer but I hope you like it. Let me know what you think. So here's the continue:

Part II

"I think we should press the call button and try to find some help."

"Well, if there's no power we can't do that. No one will hear us anyway." She stated the obvious, thinking that the plan was thin.

"We have to try," he said determined, moving his hands in the air, trying to find the buttons. He was searching for the buttons in the pitch black so it was really hard for him. But as he reached out he felt he hit something so he started pressing all the buttons he could reach until he heard Beckett's exclamation.

"Castle! What the hell?!"

Kate gasped out the minute she felt his hand on her body. He was roaming his hand on her body as he was searching for something.

"What are you doing, Castle?".

"I am trying to press all the buttons," he explained.

"These are my coat buttons, Castle. You're touching me, not the buttons on the elevator," she informed him and grabbed his hand, pulling it away from her coat.

"Oh," he responded and smirked. Then he tried searching for the buttons with his other hand in the opposite direction since she was still holding him. Once he found them he tried to press them all.

"I did it," he exclaimed, pressing any button that he could find in the dark. "Help! Somebody help us! We need some help!" he started yelling, pounding at the door.

"Castle, I don't think anyone's gonna hear you," she noted, hoping he would stop banging at the door and yelling.

"Okay, I give up." He said finally, sighting with frustration.

"It was about time," she said, relieved, enjoying the silence.

"I really appreciate it, Kate." Castle said after a long pause.

"You appreciate what, Castle?" She couldn't understand what he was talking about. She hadn't done anything.

"Your efforts to calm me down. It's really soothing that you are being so nice to me because I am kind of scared for real," he informed her.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you are holding my hand and that's very kind of you." He noted, grasping her hand tighter in his with appreciation.

"Oh," was all she managed to say. She didn't realize that she was still holding his hand in hers. "Would you just grow up, Castle!?" She exclaimed, letting go of his hand like it was contagious. She didn't say anything more.

"Kate," he said, breaking the long silence. "How long do you think we've been here?"

"A decade?" she murmured under her breath. "I don't know, Castle. A few minutes, I suppose. Why?"

"Because soon we are gonna run out of fresh air. Then we are gonna suffocate to death. I already feel dizzy and I find it hard to breathe."

"Don't worry, Castle, I know mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," she informed him, smirking. She wished her joke would lighten up the mood a bit.

"Help, Kate. I am choking. Help me," he started shouting suddenly, searching for her in the dark.

"There would be choking when I start chocking you, Castle." She said, not a bit impressed by his joke. Once again he went too far with her own joke. "And I'll choke you with my bare hands if you don't stop!" She threatened him.

"Bare hands? Oooh, I like that. What else would be bare?"

"Would you just knock it off and get serious?"

"Okay, I am talking serious now. I think that there's someone in here," he stated, pretty convincingly at that.

"What?!"

"What if we are not alone, Kate? Don't you feel it, too?"

"You are being ridiculous, Castle. You saw that we were all alone when we got in the elevator."

"I mean what if there's someone we can't see? Someone who stopped the lights and the elevator as well? Someone invisible. The invisible man!"

"The invisible man?!" She repeated skeptically in a mocking demeanor.

"Shh," he shushed her. "Do you hear that? Someone's breathing."

"I don't hear anything beside your heavy breathing, Castle" she stated, listening intently but she didn't hear anything. It was just another one of Castle's crazy theories. He was just making stuff up as usual. "There is no one else here, Castle. I assure you. You are just being ridiculous and pa-aahh-" she shouted suddenly, gasping out from surprise.

"What? Did the invisible man goose you?" he asked, acting all innocent.

"Castle, I know it was you!" She answered angrily.

"I didn't do it, Kate. I bet it was the invisible man."

"Okay, Castle. If the invisible man," she made an air quotes that he couldn't see, "goose me again I'll break his fingers. How about that? Do you think that the invisible man would mind it?"

"Let's hope we won't find out..." he muttered under his breath and smirked.

"Would you just stay put and don't do anything stupid? Can't you do that just for a few minutes?" She asked him.

"We can't just sit here and wait, Kate. We should do something about it."

"Yeah, we should wait for help. Or for the power to come again. That's our best option."

You know what we should do? I got it, I got it, I got it! We should lay on the ground," he stated confidently as he knew everything.

"What?"

"When I thought that I was cursed and got stuck in the elevator is what I did. I think that's the safest thing to do. What if the elevator suddenly starts falling down?"

"I am not going to lay on the ground, Castle." She refused do to anything that he wanted her to do. She knew it was just another stupid idea of his.

"We must do it," he insisted.

"I am not doing it," she declared, crossing her arms in defense.

"You have to do it," he declared, determined to convince her. "Come on, Kate. Please, just lay on the ground."

"I will not!" she repeated, once again refusing to obey his request.

"But you should. Listen to me, Kate. I read this somewhere."

"Where?" She asked skeptically, quirking her eyebrow questionably. "In one of your books, Castle? You probably made that up."

"No, Kate. It's a fact," he reassured her.

"Fiction," she blamed, shaking her head.

"Fact. And I know it for sure," he repeated convincingly.

"If I lay on the ground, would you just shut your mouth?"

"It's for the best," he continued saying, not listening to her protests or anything she said. "It's the safest thing to do when..."

"Okay. Okay!" she agreed, interrupting his blabbering. Then she cautiously pushed herself against the wall and slowly started sliding herself down, sitting on the ground. Then she did as he said and lied down on the ground. Suddenly she felt someone's weight on her. It hit her like a thunder and she gasped out. "Castle, what the hell? What did you do?" She asked when she felt him on top of her.

"Kate, is that you?" he asked, touching her face to make sure that it was her.

"Noo! It's the invisible man!" She exclaimed, exasperated from his stupid jokes. "Castle, I know you did this on purpose."

"No, I most certainly did not."

"You planned this," she blamed.

"No, I did not!" he repeated with a more angry tone.

"Yes, you did!" she said, getting more angry with him with every passed second.

"No, I didn't!" He started nitpicking.

"Yes you did!"

"I didn't!"

"Did!"

"Didn't"

"Did!"

"Didn't"

"Would you just get off me?" She exclaimed, exasperated. She was angry that he was denying it when it was kind of obvious that he did it on purpose.

"Is that your gun or are you just excited to see me?" He asked and laughed at his own joke.

"Oh, geez, Castle! What are you doing? You're tickling me!" She said as she felt he was moving, and she squirmed under him, trying to push him away.

"I am trying to get up. Would you just stop moving and shoving me, Kate?" He asked her to stay still.

"Try harder! Just get off me!" She exclaimed, shoving him in the ribs or whatever she could reach in the dark.

"I am trying. I am trying," he explained, lingering there on top of her. She could tell that he was just stalling on purpose.

"Get off me or else, I'll kick you!" She threatened him.

"Easy choice," he stated and quickly moved away from her, lying next to her.

"Uugh! I can't believe that I am stuck with you! Just my luck! Seriously? What did I do so wrong to earn this?!" she started murmuring, complaining about the whole situation. "I could have been stuck with... uhm-"

"Ooh, that's a great idea for a game," he exclaimed, interrupting her thought. "Sounds like fun. Who would you rather be with stuck in an elevator. I'd rather be stuck with some famous author like Steven King... Oooh, no, no. I got it. I got it. I'd rather get stuck with some famous model. Some angel of Victoria Secret. That would be cool."

"Seriously? A Victoria Secret's model?"

"No, no. Forget it. I know exactly whom I'd rather be stuck with," he said and made a small pause, turning his head to look her way even though he couldn't see her. "I'd rather be with Katherine Beckett. Stuck in an elevator or anywhere else."

"Oh, Castle, that's so sweet," she said and turned her head toward him as well, smiling. "And yet it's not mutual," she joked, smirking.

"I mean it, Kate." He said and got all serious.

"Castle, what are you doing now?" She quickly asked since she felt his hand roaming over her body. She didn't know what he was aiming for.

"I am looking for your arm. I wanted to hold your hand 'cause I thought it would be nice. Well, I mean I am not looking 'cause you know, I can't see anything. I am searching for it."

"Well, that's not my arm, Castle." She informed him. "And you're not even close," she informed him, biting her lower lip.

She couldn't believe he was doing it again. He was touching her on an inappropriate place. He could always make up some reason to touch her. She wondered if he really couldn't see in the dark or was doing it on purpose under false pretext. Knowing him well enough she could bet it was the second option. She knew his inappropriate jokes but usually he was more subtle than that.

"Then I'd better stop touching and looking for it," he said under his breath, biting his lip.

"Yeah," she agreed, blushing. She didn't know whether it was because his hand was just way too warm when he touched her thigh or because his touch could set her on fire, but it was definitely getting hotter in the elevator. Maybe he felt that, too.

"Kate, did you feel that?" He asked as if had read her mind.

"What?" She asked, not sure what he was talking about. Perhaps he didn't think for the same thing at the same time. And plus, she hadn't felt anything. Not a single touch. Or he was talking about some feeling that he had. But that was not the time for talking about feelings. Though they were stuck in the elevator and were all alone, she was anxious way too much to think about such things. Or maybe he felt that it was getting hotter, too. Perhaps she wasn't the only one.

"We're moving! I think we are moving, Kate," Castle said, getting panicked once again. And Kate - she couldn't really tell. Her head was spinning the second Castle touched her so she couldn't feel anything else.

"But the lights are still out," she pointed out, trying to think clearly though it was really tough. "We can't be moving, Castle."

"Don't you worry, Kate. I'll save you!" He said, moving closer to her, holding her tightly.

"Castle, what the hell are you doing? Let me go!" Kate shouted, surprised by his actions, trying to pull herself away from him.

"No, Kate. You'll land on me and you'll survive," he said, rolling on top of her, then trying to roll them around again. "You'll be save. You're not gonna die!"

"Castle! Geez! Just let me go! No one's gonna die." She was screaming at him, pushing him off but he was holding her tightly.

"Hold still, Kate." He hugged her more tightly, not letting go.

"Ooh, Castle!" she gasped out, fighting him off. "Get off me!" she insisted and rolled them around, getting on top, trying to pull away from his tight grasp.

"I always knew you like being on top," he stated smugly, laughing.

"No, Castle! Put me down! Just let go of me!" She begged and they rolled around again but he didn't let go.

"Uuh, Kate, don't poke me like that!"

"Castle, just pick a side!" She said, exasperated from all the rolling back and forth around the elevator.

"I thought you'd never ask," he stated smugly, making her words sound dirty.

"Geez, Castle! Just stand still!" Kate closed her eyes, though she couldn't see anything since the elevator was dark anyway and tried to push him off.

"Kate!" he rolled them once again, hitting the wall.

"Uuhg! Castle!" She fought back, rolling them around in the opposite direction. While she was poking Castle, grunting, exhausted from their fight, she heard a noise and she noticed that somehow it became lighter.

"Kate! Kate, did you hear something?" Castle said, looking around.

"What?" Kate asked, wondering why he got immobile so suddenly. She thought she heard people's voices, too so she quickly opened her eyes and spotted that the door was open. She was trying to look at the door but Castle was blocking the view with his body and mostly with his head.

"Castle?!" She heard somebody exclaim his name. She knew that voice very well. It was Ryan's.

"Beckett?!" Espo exclaimed, and they both started at them.

From all of Castle's yelling and her own protests she hadn't heard a ding or a dong or any other sound that might suggest the elevator was moving or when the hell it had stopped. She froze on the spot from shock and horror. She had only one thought in her mind - she was going to kill Castle.

To be continued...