As Beckett said she "believes in the everyday magic of life in … the way that I feel when I hear Coltrane", this is from his album "Ballads". While there is not a vocalist on this album, there are lyrics to the ballads.
These vignettes come to mind when I hear the songs as played by John Coltrane.
This song is "To Young to Go Steady". You can hear the song as played by the Coltrane quartet on YouTube.
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Too young to go steady
Too young, I hear her say
She says we're not ready
But then why am I feeling this way?
A/N: During 6x15 Smells Like Teen Spirit
Beckett and Castle were relieved. Finally, they caught the killer at Castle's alma mater right during the prom. They were standing in the hallway near the exit that the uniformed officers had taken the conspirators.
A few of the students were milling in the halls. Principal Duncan and the chaperones were herding them back into the gym to prevent any trouble.
Kate chuckled. "They look like they're having fun," Kate said.
"Yeah," Castle responded looking at all the happy prom goers.
"Listen, I know you're a rebel and hate convention and blah, blah, blah. But, Kate, would you, uh, will you go to the dance with me?" Castle said as he held out his hand.
Kate smiled at him and took his hand.
They walked out onto the gym floor. It had been transformed from the stark and barren gym to the magical "Starry Knight" prom theme. The song "In My Veins" by Andrew Belle was playing. There were many couples in each other's embrace slow dancing to the haunting love song. Rick and Kate joined the other couples on the dance floor.
Kate's head rested on Rick's shoulder. She then thought of something and looked up at Rick. "Do you regret it? That prank, missing your prom, not being here with Audra Dobson?" She asked.
"Not even a little bit," Rick answered. "Everything I've ever done, every choice I've ever made, every terrible and wonderful thing that's ever happened to me, it's all lead me to right here, this moment with you."
Kate tenderly smiles at Rick, then returns her head to Rick's shoulder.
"I've always loved this song," Rick and Kate said simultaneously.
Kate picked up her head again and looked into Rick's eyes questioning.
"Could it be we just found a song?" Rick asked.
Kate smiled at Rick back saying "yes" with her eyes.
Then, over on the edge of the dance floor there appeared Jordan Gibbs in a black and white tuxedo dress.
"Castle," Kate said looking at the arrival.
Castle turned and saw Jordan searching the dance floor. She walked a few steps and then saw Lucas Troy, her hero, her knight in shining armor. Jordan walked up to Lucas as he turned to her. She lovingly wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close to her in a hug as if to thank him for what he had done for her and expressing hope for a deepening relationship.
"Talk about magnetism," Rick commented on the joy before him.
"Oh, that reminds me," Kate followed. "I had uni's sweep Lucas's house. Do ya know what they didn't find? Wires, magnets, anything that would explain that stuff we saw flying around."
Rick and Kate continued to watch Jordan and Lucas dancing.
Rick turned to Kate and asked, "You don't think?"
"No," Kate answered. "Now shut up and kiss me."
Too young, so she tells me
She says we'll have to wait
Why wait till it may be too late?
A/N After 6x15 Smells Like Teen Spirit
As they prepared for bed at the loft, Rick asked Kate, "Do you regret it, not going to your prom? Going to that poetry reading?"
Kate didn't pause, "No, not at all. Every kid has to go through their phases. Try on different personas, different ways of living. That is part of being young. And maybe just a little reckless."
"Yeah, knowing what I did as a kid, I worried about Alexis. Both ways, doing something reckless but also maybe not doing anything that she could remember fondly later in life. But now, with her living with Pi, I feel like she is breaking through into her reckless phase. And I can't be there to catch her when she falls."
"Castle, Alexis is a good kid. You've raised her well, although sometimes I wonder how," Kate teased.
"But being a parent means you have to let go sometimes. My parents had to let me go through my wild child phase, rebel Becks. And my dad said he worries every day since I got my badge. But he knew he had to let go. Let me leave the nest. Or whatever other cliché is appropriate, Mr. Writer," Kate smiled.
"I know Alexis is a good kid. But I still worry about her. About her choices. I guess I have been on high alert since that Paris experience." Rick said as he climbed into bed.
Kate got in her side of the bed.
Rick continued, "Hell, I had a bad feeling about her going to Costa Rica. In one sense I was right, she brought back Pi, and I haven't been feeling good about it since."
"She'll be fine, Castle. While I may agree with you about Pi, she needs to figure it out on her own."
"I guess you're right," Rick answered sadly.
"She's grown up and no longer your little girl that needs you for everything." Kate added.
"There is one person that needs you, maybe not for everything, but for a lot of things," Kate continued while she put her arm around Rick and kissed him.
"And some people never grow up," Rick chuckled. "But there isn't anyone here who fits that description, is there?"
"Oh, no," Kate responded rolling her eyes.
Rick turned off the bedside light then rolled over to Kate and gave her a kiss.
Rick said, "Good night, Kate. I love you."
"Night. I love you, too."
Can she realize she drives me wild?
Is she made of stone?
Must she always act just like a child?
Won't she ever own up, we're grown up?
A/N After 3x24 Knockout
After Kate was shot at Captain Montgomery's funeral, Rick quickly finished the next Nikki Heat book so he could spend as much time as possible investigating Kate's shooter. He spent most of his waking hours (and many he should have been sleeping) finding leads and chasing them down. He was a man obsessed. Rick had never worked this hard in his life.
He needed to do this because every time he took a breath, his mind went back to those fateful seconds. Those terrible seconds when he saw the glint of the gun sight and couldn't get to Kate before she was shot.
He followed Ryan and Esposito around to the various scenes that their investigation took. They explored the records room, did internet searches and kept on coming to dead ends.
Meanwhile, murderers didn't take a hiatus while Beckett was gone. Rick watched the boys as they worked some of the other cases but it wasn't the same, all of them missed Beckett's presence.
The interim captain didn't object to Castle following Ryan and Esposito around. The captain knew about the Nikki Heat books and the commissioner had instructed him to leave things as Montgomery had left them. Any changes would wait until the new captain was named.
The "Three Amigos", as they started calling themselves, had little time for the Old Haunt or much of anything else. Solving current cases while investigating Beckett's attempted slayer took all of the three's time. Ryan's wife, Jenny, worried about Kevin but understood the need to find Beckett's shooter before there was a chance of a deadly repeat.
Lanie understood, too. She wanted to do as much as she could for her best friend. She knew that Javi would do everything he can.
Castle was alone.
While they may have suspected Rick's intense feelings for Kate, Martha more so than Alexis, Martha and Alexis didn't totally understand his obsession with finding the shooter. Both worried that it could have been him shot rather than Beckett. "You shouldn't be playing cop," they told him. "You need to leave it to the professionals."
"22 days, 15 hours, 27 seconds since I last saw Kate," he thought early one morning. "I sound like Mr. Spock."
"I hope she is ok," he thought. "I wonder if Doctor Motorcycle Boy is tending to her. DMB better be treating her like the precious gift she is. No, he is probably healing Africa when he should be healing her."
The sound of her voice was fading in Rick's mind, her expressions, and even her eye rolling. Everything was fading from his mind except for two things, his love for her. How she made him feel. It burned within him, forced him to continue the investigation as if he had no will of his own.
Every time he stopped to think about it, he honestly couldn't' remember feeling like this before. Both the euphoria of being in love and the despondency at the unrequitedness of it. Mostly, he thought about it before going to sleep or just waking up.
He tried not to think about the other thing about Kate, the shooting. How she couldn't remember what he said. "Kate, I love you. I love you, Kate." Her blood all over her uniform, his hands. His tackle that was too late to prevent that bullet from grazing her heart.
Someday she'll be sorry
Someday just wait and see
She'll wish she'd gone steady with me
A/N Sometime After 4x24 Always
"Penny for your thoughts," Kate said as she smiled at Rick.
Rick had a faraway look in his eyes tinged with sadness. His mouth was turned down and his head was tilted up as if he saw something on the ceiling that was revolting.
Rick broke his sad reverie and answered, "For some reason, I was thinking about the summer of regret and healing and how we've both changed from back then. I know I shouldn't but sometimes I think of the ways I screwed up. Because of that, I … I try to be better about letting you know how I feel. And how I should help our communication."
"I think we're getting better, Rick. We've both changed," Kate agreed.
"And I also think about what we have right now, where we are. And even though we went through difficult times, it's made us both stronger. Maybe wiser, at least you're wiser. I am probably hopeless," Rick smiled.
Rick strode over to Kate and took her in his arms.
Rick continued, "And how our love is a good love … a strong love … a love that has lived through the trials. And, I'd like to think that we are now reaping our happy ending."
Rick leaned down and kissed Kate. They broke their kiss and touched their foreheads together.
Added Kate, "And they lived happily ever after."
A/N: This one was a different one to write to because Rick and Kate aren't "Too Young to Go Steady". :)
