My overly tired mind was at it again. Let me know if my mind at 2:00 in the morning is a good thing.

Disclaimer: My bank account looks to sad to be one of the owner of Castle.

Also with the ring, I copied the description from Tiff&Co's website. If you want to see what I'm talking about, leave me a comment or message or something and I'll send you the link.

This also might not be my last chapter if something else comes to mind, it will be up here.


Rick walked into the bullpen at 10:30 a.m. on the dot, with two cups of coffee in hand. With the hopes that said coffee would soften the wrath that was sure to be bestowed on him, considering that Beckett had called an hour and a half ago. He continued towards her desk, sure enough, he was wrong.

"Castle!" She called as she stepped off the elevator. He could hear the vexation in her voice, and knew that he had better start explaining and fast.

"Coffee?" He questioned as he took his usual chair.

"Don't try to beguile me, what, did you find something better to do?" She catechized as she leaned forward with her hands on the desk.

"It's like you don't know me at all, do you really think if I had something better to do, I would be here all the time?"

"Good point, so where were you?" She conceded as she sat down accepting the coffee.

"I just had some errands to run."

"Ahh, errands huh?" She challenged. "Would these be the same kind of errands that caused you to miss dinner last night?"

"How did you…"

"Where's the ring?" She cut him off.

"Excuse me?" He scoffed.

Kate just flipped over the paper and recited from memory, "Rick Castle spotted jewelry shopping on Fifth Avenue last night…" Rick reached over and snatched the paper sporting a picture of him in front of Tiffany's from her hands, she continued. "… could there be a third marriage in this playboy's future? We will just have to wait and see." She finished as she leaned back with a smug grin on her face crossing her arms over her chest.

"How the heck did they get that?"

"You of all people should know the consequences for someone with a celebrity status shopping somewhere as populated as Fifth Avenue."

"I wish they would stop referring to me as a playboy, it really diminishes your perspective of my trustworthiness." He retorted as he threw the paper back on the desk.

"Where is it?"

"How do you know it's a ring?"

"Because you're nervous, which means you're either too scared to show me or it's for someone else."

"I'm sorry you had to find out this way."

"Oh shut up!" She exclaimed as she picked the paper up and threw it at him.

He caught it and took a second look at the picture. "You know this actually isn't a bad picture of me, I gotta give the paparazzi credit; they know my good side, though honestly I really don't have a bad side."

"Well you're starting to get on mine."

"Okay, okay." He reprimanded. "Geez, I was going to make this special and here you are ruining it." He admonished as he pulled the velvet box out of his coat pocket and held it up for her inspection.

"I told you it was a ring."

"Nothing gets past you does it?"

"It's in my job description."

"You could at least let me have my moment."

"Fine, you have my undivided attention."

Rick opened the box to reveal a pear shaped diamond embraced by tapered baguette side stones. Kate tried to stay calm, but her passive exterior was slipping. She held her left hand out to him, and held her breath as he slid the ring on her finger. She brought her hand to her face to admire the ring as he continued.

"Kate?"

"Mmhmm."

"I owe you so much, so I figured I'd start with my life, it's yours if you want it. If you want to stick by my side until we're old and grey. I know you must have to be out of your mind to want to be tied to me forever, but I figured we made it this far, so I must be doing something right. So what do you say Kate?"

"Well I guess someone's gotta stick around to keep you in line."

"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" He questioned with a knowing smile as he stood and pulled her up with him.

"Call me insane." And with that she wrapped her arms around his neck and closed the distance between them.


Thanks for reading kids.

Much Love, Anna Lee