Baaaaaaaaaahm chapter 3 is up! I still appreciate reviews and I'd be really happy, if you not only read my story but also reviewed it. It means a lot and is acutally quite encouraging! I hope I'll be able to post a fourth chapter tomorrow :)!

PS: Obviously, this is back to Beckett's POV (and it's longer than the other chapters. so far! )

PPS: Anyway, thanks for reading and have fun doing it ;)

Kate was lying at a beach, listening to the soothing sound of the tide, when a shadow fell over her face.

'Hi', a voice belonging to a man, said. She turned to look who it was, the voice seemed vaguely familiar. It made her shiver. Something about it reminded her of something rather … unpleasant.

She opened her eyes just to find herself starring at a foolishly grinning Tom Demming.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, her voice taking a strange tone that didn't really sound like her.

"I'm going to get you back" he said. Kate gulped and she felt Demming's hand gripping her arm not only a little too tight.

"Let go", she hissed but he only grabbed her harder.

"Demming, will you let go of me". Her voice came out a little louder this time but he seemed either not to hear her or to ignore her.

She tried to wind her arm out of his grip but it didn't help. Somehow her whole body had turned into something rather… wobbly and she appeared to have lost complete control over it.

Right when she was uttering a really sharp but somehow rather feeble "Let me go" another voice mixed with hers.

The voice claimed to let her go and this time, she found herself almost smiling. Despite the fact that Demming's grip on her arm was really starting to hurt.

She turned her head and saw Castle running towards them. The sight of him made her stomach tingle in a pleasant kind of way, although she couldn't really explain it to herself.

He didn't look at her. Instead he was glaring at Demming in a way that told Kate that he didn't like Demming. At all. And before she really knew what was happening, she was on the ground again and the two men were totally involved in a fight. She really wanted to know what they were shouting at each other, both of them looked pretty angry but she couldn't hear them, the sound of the waves seemed to be the only thing she could hear and it was getting louder and louder.

She shook her head in order to get rid of the noise but when she opened her eyes again, Castle and Demming were involved in a fistfight and a pretty bad one.

The sound of the waves was still getting louder and when she thought she couldn't take it anymore Demming fell to the ground. Castle was now coming towards her, picking her up from the beach and somehow, the numbness of her body was replaced by an odd feeling of… thousands of tiny butterflies on her skin.

The surroundings suddenly changed and they were back at the precinct. They were standing in the bullpen and Kate felt a rush of uncertainty overcome her. She heard herself saying that it wasn't easy to get to know her and then, Gina came in, although she didn't really look like Gina. More like some kind of a strangely deformed devil with long blond curly hair. She tried to grab Castle and drag him away from Kate but then Esposito showed up and somehow shot Gina with an arrow and then Kate is in Castle's arms and he's kissing her and she's kissing him back.

And God, it feels so good, so right, so real.

"Kate", he whispers. She smiles against his lips and is about to say something, when her mobile starts ringing. She ignores it and leans in to kiss him again but the phone just won't stop ringing.

It keeps getting louder and Kate wakes up with a jolt. Her phone has, by now, stopped ringing.

And then her dream and last night's events come crushing down on her. She drops her head on her pillow again, eyes shut, mesmerising the dream.

Her phone alerts her about an incoming text and she grabs it to check who it was and who had been trying to call her (and woke her at 6 frigging 30 am in the morning, she thinks grumpily).

Her heart seems to skip a beat when she sees the caller ID. It's Castle.

Her phone starts ringing again. She freezes. Again it's Castle. For a mere second she almost forgets what happened and picks up but then she remembers, a flash of pain raging through her body and she lets the call go to voicemail.

She just can't… bear to hear his voice right now.