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Chapter 2 – Crime Novelists Gala – Celebrity & Glamour
Rick Castle watched at a discrete distance, he casually leaned against the bar observing his newest friend heading out onto the balcony.
He noticed Tempe was been led by a handsome man, who Castle could only guess was her partner Special Agent Seeley Booth, whom she dedicated her last two books too.
Though Temperance would deny it till her dying breath, Booth is clearly Andy; she been writing Andy since she met Booth six years earlier, Rick was nothing if not thorough in his research.
From what he gathered from his sources and in speaking to Temperance, her muse was Booth and her coworkers at the Jeffersonian as Kate was his muse for Nikki Heat. He could help notice how Booth's hand was practically super glued to the small of her back. He can't believe those two aren't in a relationship, if they aren't they need to be the sexual tension was nearly causing a black out.
He glanced away from the couple and notices Alexis sitting with his mother at one of the ice cream shop tables. He picked up picking up his champagne flute and wandered towards them.
"And how are the most beautiful women in my life doing tonight?" Castle leaned forward kissing both his mother and daughter on the cheek.
Martha tilted her cheek towards Castle accepting his kiss, but her performer fears never too far from the surface, spouts "I heard this setting is straight from Dr. Brennan's latest novel, you must be slipping sonny boy, they picked her opening scene over yours?" not realizing how hurtful she could be.
Alexis and Rick silently communicate and roll their eyes in agreement.
Rick responds "Mother, my opening scene is a body being thrown off a building roof onto Nikki Heats' car hood with a note written in blood attached."
He grinned, "My vote is definitely with Tempe's opening scene, not only would my opening scene be a logistical nightmare to orchestrate but what would the music be Grunge, Death Core, Death Metal?"
On a roll he adds "Whom to choose to cast in that part, Freddy Kruger? He'd be a better fit than Brad and Angie, who incidentally have signed on to star in "Bred to the Bone".
"Took a while for Tempe's first book to start filming, but she was adamant on approving the script and the actors. She took less money to keep the control, it was a risk, but she elected to forgo the flat fee and went with a percentage deal".
"I think that deal is going to make her very rich, she's only got the most talked about couple signed on to star as her characters, she has script approval to boot. Smart girl, she stuck to her guns if I didn't know she was a genius then I'd have declared her one" Rick was practically glowing over Tempe's success.
Alexis looked up at her father to see the sincerity in his eyes; it was just one of the things she loved about him.
Leaning towards him Alexis asked "Dad do you think you could introduce me to Dr. Brennan, her books are so fascinating, I mean I love Kathy and Andy but the science in her books is mesmerizing. She doesn't dumb down the science like so many other novelists; she respects her work and expects others to as well," her eyes shining she added. "You can tell she's a professor I've learned more from her crime novels then from almost anyone else's", Alexis practically gushed in her praise of Dr. Brennan.
Castle squirmed a little over the assessment and tweaks Alexis' nose, "Hey what about my books, I teach you how to pick handcuffs and to use common household items to escape, that has to mean something…," Castle whines as he makes his plea, using those baby blues to their most charming advantage.
Alexis knew her father's tricks and having both her father and grandmother in the celebrity business was a bit of challenge for the grounded daughter, but she met the challenge daily.
She rolled her eyes and acknowledged, "Dad, your characters are cops and instincts; Nikki has both and uses her wits to get out of things."
"Your book has more of a MacGyver/Hill Street Blues feel to things, while Dr. Brennan's books are using facts to build a case. Andy Lister adds the instincts of a cop and he's a romantic interest to the story, but the building blocks of her cases are the forensics."
Alexis paused slightly, "You both get your man you just go about it differently, I like the science in Dr. Brennan's books but I have to say I like the instinctual feel and detective work in your books, happy now," Alexis' groused.
Castle leaned in "Yes, Alexis you made your old man happy and as a reward I will happily introduce you to Dr. Brennan."
"But, first I have to find Kate, have you seen Detective Beckett, this evening Mother?" Rick addressed Martha while scanning the room.
"Kate, now that's a woman I'd love to have played on screen, sexy, smart and knowing, I loved that combination and I only got to play that a few times. I somehow always played the good girls" winking at Alexis she adds. "And we all know I'm not that good of a girl", with that she takes a drink from her champagne glass.
Martha sighed thinking back to the missed opportunities then straightens her shoulders and glanced over to the doors of the ball room, she smiled then announced.
"Detective Beckett is here as is her paparazzi escort; I always forget to ask her about how she feels about it. She such a sexy thing, they can't get enough of her, if she ever wanted to do the talk show circuit, she'd knock them dead."
Rick seeing her entrance responded absently, "Yes, Mother that's exactly what I'd be afraid of her doing, leaving them all for dead, Beckett does not deal with fools well", Rick left the table and headed towards Beckett.
Like a moth to a flame, Rick moved forward to circle his personal fantasy, his Kate. He smirked giving himself a firm reminder to never, ever say that out loud, he wouldn't be walking for a week.
Silently he took in her beautiful flesh colored gown, that color alone leaves little to the imagination, but thousands of jeweled crystals are sewn into the dress. It appeared every jewel on her bodice accentuated her breasts. Even though she was modestly covered to her throat and what a magnificent throat it was it left little to his fertile imagination.
He watched her turn to a patron exposing the back of the gown to his gaze, he thought, "what is it with plunging dress backs, anyway? Quicker to get the dress off," his mind skidded to a halt, "oh don't go there Castle". As she approached, he looked directly into her beautiful brown eyes, thickly lashed and openly laughing at him, nothing ever fazes his Kate.
"Well Castle, are you going to put me up for auction or keep me for yourself," Kate smirked knowing full well what Castle was doing.