Hampton's heat wave: Chapter 2
by fibbermegee
dec 20 2013


Bullpen area at the precinct:

Beckett steps back from Demming. "No, it's not like that at all." Beckett goes on to explain to Demming why she has to cancel on him.

"Then what," Demming, who was sitting on the edge of Beckett's desk, shook his head. "What did I do that was so wrong to make you turn this down. I mean..." he looks up at her. "Wait it's not just about this weekend either is it? You..."

"Look Tom, I...I really, really like you... I just," she looks over at the picture of a grinning Castle on her desk. She slides her hand down her face. "I don't think this is what I'm looking for right now," she continues.

"You mean me..." he scoffs, "I'm not good enough, is that it? or is it cause I'm not rich enough," She didn't look at him. She didn't want him to see that she was starting to cry, "That it isn't it." He scoots off her desk and walks away without another word to her. "Tom wait." But he doesn't stop. "It's not about...it's me...I..."

She hears footsteps thinking that it might be Castle, she turns towards the elevator seeing him get on and the hurt look in his eyes. "Castle," She calls but Castle doesn't hear her, cause the elevator doors are closing. She places her hand over her eyes, then a moment later she rubs her eyes with her thumb and forefinger. She let's out a long exhale.

"What have I done, I mean was it the right thing to do. Now I'm... " She whispers shutting her eyes. "All..." she shook her head not wanting to finish the thought.


Inside elevator:

The elevator ride down, to Castle, seemed to take forever. He just wanted to get out of there.

Seeing Beckett with another guy hurt, but that was her business. If he wanted to still work with her he had to respect that. Sure he had gotton close to her over the past year and wanted more but, he also wanted to keep her as a friend too. He sighs, What am I going to do? She chose to go with...Demming, he makes a squinted his face when he said the guys name.

Deep in his heart he had to believe that it wouldn't last. What was it going to be all the summer without...seeing her, the one constant person, other than his family, that was always there when he needed her. The one person that could cheer him up with her smile, and make his life worth living for.

you can't even make it past one night without thinking about her and now the entire summer...his mind told him.
I have to...have to focus on my book...he counters.
like that will ever happen... He blinks as he got off the elevator. Then, he cringes after seeing that he mother was standing there waiting.

"Richard, dear." Martha waves. She notices that he is alone. "Where's..." He lowers his face and shakes his head. "You should have known,"

"Thank-you mother." Castle walks passed his mother.

"Well, what did you accept. She's dating another man." He faces her.

"Thanks for pointing that out." He ties to walk away from her.

"Did you tell her how you felt?" When he didn't answer her, "Well,"

"Well, what?"

"Richard dear," She starts. He shook his head again.

"Mother, don't..." he looks up at her.

Nothing in the world could hold back the flood of memories that swept over him as soon as he'd settled into the car seat. He even had his mother drive, which he hardly ever did, giving her driving record. He felt his stomach clinch with an over powering need to stay with her, be in her presence. She'd taught him to be human, to find real love, a love between man and woman not just an animal instincts of meaningless sex, again, after all those years of determined isolation from that love. He was being to believe that there was true love and he was being to feel it with her.

He closed the door and put his hand up to stop his mother from talking. "Just don't."

He glance out the window, watching the building door as they drive away. His mother was about to give him more of her advice but when she saw the look in his eyes, and his shoulders drop she thought better of it. He lets out a deep long sighs and faces her again.

"What good would it have done, like you said she's with another man and..." Castle shook the rest of his thoughts from his head. He still couldn't wrap his mind around what just happened upstairs. Did he just lose her forever?


Later on at the Hampton house

Castle turned his shower on boiling hot and stood under it for a long time, but the tension inside him didn't drain away. Naked and wet, he padded out of the bathroom, into his dark bedroom, hoping to just fall into oblivion of sleep.

"Hey," It was the sweetest, softest 'hey' he'd ever heard, and it had come from the vicinity of his bed.

"Um," he said, as he peers into the moonlit dark and saw the shadow of a woman sitting crossed-legged on his bed.
Say hey back you fool his mind rang out.

"Hey there," his whispers as his eyes focuses on his bed. The shadowy figure sharpens, he could now see dark silky strands of hair caress the woman's face. To dark to be Gina's hair.

"I thought you never get out of that shower." her voice held a touching mix of affection and nerves. And that voice, oh...

He'd never been so happy to see anyone in his life, even though he couldn't exactly see all of her. He came closer to make sure that he wasn't dreaming. Her face sharpened and the scent of cherries rose to his nostrils.
Beckett? he thought. Why would?

"I thought...I uh..."

"Castle, lost for words," Beckett says slowly, "That would be a first for you." reaching out, she touches his arm when he reaches for bedside table to turn on the lamp. He froze as an electric impulses ran up his arm, sending it on fire. His pulse quickens and his heart jumps.
He wanted to tell her what her touch, even though just on his arm, was doing to him. But he was lost for the exact words that would describe how his heart was feeling right now. She had come back for him and was now in his bed.
This is got to be a dream. And why would she stop me from turning on the light, which I need to do. He started to stretch his fingertips farther out.

"No, don't. Not yet."

What? why is she? He thought, what is going on that she wants to stay in the dark, a pause oh.

"shh..." she pats her hand on the bed beside her. Swallowing, he just stares, not believing what was going on. A beautiful woman calling him to his bed. Wanting...
This is what I always wanted. His mind screams to him. Her in my bed but... Castle hesitates, something to him seemed off .

"Why don't you join me?" came that sweet voice again. His heart skips a few beats.

"I um….I uh…" he stumbles over his words again, unable to find the right ones to use with her.

"It's better in the dark." she drew in a ragged breath. For who he thought, not me, I want to see her, all of her.

He had to see her, only if it was to see her smile, that warmed his heart everyday. To look into her gorgeous eyes.
He overrode her hand on his arm and flipped on the light. His startled gasp filled the room as Beckett's eyes fastened on him, feeding the heat and hunger that were already nearly out of control.

"You're." he coughs, "Do you always sleep in that?"

"And do you always sleep in the nude?"
only when I'm with a...He shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts, but they kept coming. and that you are, so...tell her that...tell her what you are thinking...is it getting hotter by the second.

"Uh...um.." ,The way that she looked propped up against his pillows at the top of his bed, dressed only in a black teddy made him forget everything.

"Would you still like to join me in your bed?" She curls her fingers at him, urging him to come and join her.
just say yes to her...she said yes to joining you out here, alone where magic can happen.

"So... beautiful." he blurts out.

"What?"

"You're so beautiful...I..." you're lucky... now go to her. She's calling you.

"Yes, I..." he nods making his way to the bed and hits his knee and toe on the bed post. Reaching out his grabs his his knee with his hand, cursing out loud, then falls back looses his balance. Grabbing for anything that he can reach out for with his other hand, knocks over the lamp. Both him and the lamp hit the floor with a crash.

The door opens with a whoosh.

to be continued...

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Sorry short chapter, that's just the way that it fell by chapter, anyway. More coming... I hope someone is enjoying this one. Wanted to post it before the new year. Chapter 3 coming soon. Have a Happy New Year!