A/N: Lemme know if I should stop while I'm ahead, please. Also, let me know if you want me to expand on any of these prompts. I still got the prompts from British-Prophetess of Deviantart.

11. Taking A Mini Break

Kevin sighed and shuffled off in the direction of the break room for a cup of coffee. He passed Esposito on the way, who smirked at his Irish partner.

"Tired?" Espo asked innocently.

Kevin was the one who'd volunteered them to stay behind at the precinct late and finish the extensive paperwork for their latest case. As such, he refused to admit defeat even if that meant looking like a zombie the next morning or drinking coffee like a meth addict.

"I'm just taking a mini-break. To get more coffee," he answered shortly. Still walking, he had turned around and gone backwards while he spoke, but soon realized the folly of that.

Lying sprawled on the floor, staring at the ceiling, he wondered how it had come to this. His partner's face loomed over him, and spoke.

"I suppose that was you just taking a mini-trip, too?"

Kevin flipped Esposito off, lay there for a moment longer, then got up and continued in his search for coffee. He was gonna need a lot.

12. Love Isn't Eternal

Javier tried to reassure himself that love wasn't eternal. That it could fade, or be replaced, or be ignored for so long that it was almost like it didn't exist. What he wasn't sure about, however, was if he was thinking about that in terms of Ryan loving Jenny, or of him loving Ryan.

13. Miss Me Already?

He waited. And waited… And then, just for the hell of it, he waited a little longer. This was ridiculous—Esposito was not coming back.

Kevin shouldn't have let his excitement get the best of him. He shouldn't have let the joy of knowing that the bullet-hole in Castle's shoulder was fatal, or even very serious. And he definitely should not have up and kissed his partner full on the mouth when they heard the news.

Now, Kevin had spooked his partner—whom he wasn't sure was aware that Kevin took love from wherever he got it—and there was no coming back from that. Their partnership was over; their friendship wrecked.

In one fell swoop, he'd managed to epically fuck up one of—if not the—best things that had ever happened to him. Just because he gotten caught up in the moment.

Now, he was waiting outside the hospital, hours after Esposito had said "I'll be right back" and would probably stay waiting there until the second coming. Or, until Beckett called Kevin on his cellphone and ordered him to go home!

He sighed dejectedly and started down the sidewalk toward his car. And there, leaning against it, was his wayward partner.

"Miss me already?" Espo tried to joke, but it fell flat. He waited in uncomfortable silence for his partner, his Kev, to respond, but he never did.

Esposito sighed. "Listen, bro—"

Sure, he'd been a dick. Sure, he might have very well broken his partner's heart for a few hours there. Sure, he owed Kevin a serious apology and ridiculous amounts of make-up sex when this was all over.

Still, the right hook was... unexpected.

Esposito, sprawled on the ground, sat up and looked Kevin straight in the eye, and finally gave his partner an answer.

"I love you, too, Kev."

14. I Keep What I Steal

Javier's partner was crowing victoriously in the middle of the precinct when he said the fateful words that made understanding hit Javi like a bolt of lightning.

"I keep what I steal, and nobody can take it away from me!" Ryan shouted from on top of his desk, to the amusement of his coworkers and the consternation of Beckett.

Yeah, Javier thought from ground-level. If I can't get my donut away from Kev, how the fuck am I supposed to get back my heart?

15. Blood Carnage

If Esposito kept kicking his ass in Halo: Reach, he was gonna have to take up Blood-Carnage99's offer of remedial lessons, Kevin thought ruefully, over his Hispanic partner's cheers.

16. Bent Out Of Shape

"Whoa, bro! It's just a tie—no need to get all bent out of shape," Javier tried to reason with Ryan. Of course, there was just no reasoning with a lunatic who flipped out over spilling coffee on a tie that his girlfriend had given him.

Of course, there was also no reasoning with the lovesick idiot who thought that the aforementioned flipping out was adorable.

17. Cowardly Hero

Everyone congratulated Kevin when all was said and done.

They called him incredible for taking down the bad guy. They called him amazing for there not being any civilian casualties. They called him a hero for taking a bullet for his teammate.

But, if he was a hero, then he was the most cowardly hero in the universe for never telling Espo exactly why he'd taken that bullet for him...

18. Wrong Bed, Huge Mistake

Javier had messed up majorly in his life. Still, accidently—and maybe—sleeping with Castle was definitely on his top five list.

When he woke up with a raging hangover, and looked over to see Rick Castle lying next to him, Javi high-tailed it out of the man's apartment. The note that he left read: Wrong bed, huge mistake, sorry about the hickey, owe you coffee and donuts tomorrow.

As awkward Thanks, let's not ever do it again's letters went, Castle thought it was pretty thoughtful. Who knew that all he had to do to get Javier to bring donuts in the morning was sleep with him?

He'd have to brace Ryan for the incoming shock of knowing that he and Espo had slept together by taking him out for a beer and letting him borrow the Ferrari for a few days.

Of course, the fact that Javier kept calling him Kev and querido and saying te amo, cariño might soften the blow, Castle thought idly.

19. Life Support

To Kevin, being away from his partner was like being on life support. Technically, you were still living—but you were just waiting for the day when you either died or could breathe on your own. Then again, the fact that he needed Esposito around to feel like he could breathe on his own was a tad contradictory, but Alexis Castle never mentioned that when he friend started talking about the feeling.

20. Buying Time

Javier was just buying time, and not doing a very good job of it. How the hell was he going to avoid telling his partner that he loved him?

He was living on borrowed time, really, because he'd surely die when Ryan told him in polite—but not uncertain terms—that he didn't feel the same way.

The fact that their night at the Old Haunt was quickly transitioning into the I love you, man stage of drinking was shortening his time considerably, as well.