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Two Years Later
Slipping into a small Paris hotel which had caught her eye, she sighed as she found herself walking towards the reception desk, her bag flung over her shoulder as she brushed her hair back. The hotel was small but she couldn't help but hope they'd have one room left. She hadn't booked. She hadn't planned anything of her break, she just got her dad to book the ticket for her and there she was. Paris! Sighing as she heard the man in reception ask her if she wanted anything she walked over and slowly booked herself a room on the top floor of the hotel which he commented had a beautiful view of Paris which made her quickly smile and nod. If she was going to be staying, she should at least make the effort to have a nice enough room.
"Monsieur Castle" someone else called from behind her causing her to slowly turn her head to see him standing there dressed in a white shirt and jeans, her teeth sinking into her bottom lip slowly as she saw the man who'd practically become a stranger to her once again stood in the same room as her once more.
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Entering the small hotel he'd stumbled across the day before, he sighed as he slipped his sunglasses off and buried them deep into his pocket, thinking about what to do next. He'd already called Alexis to see how her day had been but had upset her by waking her up. Pulling his jacket off, he smiled at some people who had passed him, glad that his fame had gone down over the past few years and that he could wonder around with more people not knowing him than knowing him.
"Monsieur Castle" he heard someone declare causing him to turn and smile at the member of hotel staff he'd discovered was a fan yesterday. Walking over, he stared at the young man who must have been in his early twenties; he smiled as the man looked at him. "I thought I should tell you, the room next to yours has now been taken" he whispered causing Rick to nod quickly, glad that the boy had found time to tell him that he was no longer alone on his floor.
"Any idea who it is?" he asked, desperately hoping it wouldn't be a family or a younger person with the sex drive of a maniac.
"Oui, she's over there sir" the man announced causing Rick to turn to see the woman already staring at him. The familiar brunette from his past. The married familiar brunette. Looking around quickly for Motorcycle Boy, he smiled as he realised he couldn't see him and quickly he approached her, noticing the closer he got that her teeth were sunk into her bottom lip.
"Hello Kate" he whispered causing her to smile at him and nod. "So you're on the same floor as me apparently" he declared causing her eyes to open a bit wider at the fact that after two years completely apart fate had brought them smashing into each other once again. Walking towards the lift, he smiled as she hit the button in the familiar force she did at the precinct, glad that by what it seemed that her marriage hadn't changed her. Entering the small lift, he noticed her minimal amount of luggage as he pressed the button for the floor their rooms were on. "Where's your stuff?" he asked as she quickly showed him the bag on her back, still not able to think of anything to say. This man had left her. He'd just wondered out of her life as quickly as he'd walked into it and it had hurt to see him leave.
"I didn't really know where I was going" she admitted before they entered an uncomfortable silence, neither of them looking at each other. "I sort of just packed a bag and got on a flight".
"Spur of the moment holidays, I love them, normally end up being the best ones" he declared causing her to smile as she looked at him and noticed that he looked older and there were lines of exhaustion under his familiar blue eyes. "So where's Josh?" he announced causing her to look away. "Kate?"
"New York" she mumbled, his eyebrows raising as she sighed, watching as he produced a bottle of water out of the bag on his shoulder and took a drink from it. "Probably having sex with a nurse from the hospital" she added causing him to choke on the water he had just consumed.
"What?" he asked once he stopped choking and resumed his normal breathing, the area slowly being consumed once again in silence. Hearing the lift doors opened, she crept out of the metal box and wondered down the corridor, her room key pressed firmly in her hand as she finally reached her door, knowing Rick was still watching her. "Kate what's going on?" he asked causing her to shake her head.
"It doesn't matter Rick" she whispered, pushing the door open quickly to see a small hotel room that was nice enough. "It was nice seeing you again Castle, we should have done it earlier" she mumbled, entering the room and turning to look at him as he rested against the opposite wall watching her, the cheeky smile from their past still painted across his face.
"Let me take you out to dinner tonight, we have two years of life to catch up on and by the sounds of it you have a lot to talk you need to talk about" he declared as she smiled and nodded. She needed a night out with a friend after so long of staying away from them all at home where she had been closing herself off from everyone who had once been close to her. Lanie, Esposito, Ryan she'd closed herself off from all of them. "So I'll meet you right here at eight so don't be late" he declared causing her to nod before he smiled and allowed himself into the room opposite her.
"How can you even be late when we're opposite each other?" she asked causing him to laugh as he entered the hotel room at the same time as she did, the two of them closing their doors at the same time and letting out a laugh when they were finally alone.
