Merry Christmas!

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Oh..Katherine Horton Beckett..who and what are you doing." Kate mutters to herself as she sighs and puts her head on the desk.

"You are not this girl!" Kate sighs once again, lifting her head and slamming her fist.

"Leave it to fate...How stupid was I? Was he really that charming that I fell for it? I wonder how times that line has been thrown around? But...something seemed different about him, he wasn't at all how the media portrayed him.

Maybe that's what drew him to her, He was having to portray a different persona to get by.

Collecting herself and putting her pride aside, Kate knew what she had to do.

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'I don't want a lot for Christmas

There's just one thing I need

I don't care about presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas is you'

Rick happily sings from the top of his lungs, As he whisks, the waffle mixture together.

"Well if it isn't, The cat that got the cream." Martha grins, coming down the stairs, adjusting her scarf.

"Just a wonderful time of the year, Mother." He replies back with a grin and flips the pancakes.

"Good party, darling." Martha comes over and kisses his cheek.

"One of the best." He smiles softly to himself, as he daydreams about last night with Kate, It was amazing really how much of a big impact was made in such a small time frame.

"So it was positive reviews, all around?" Martha bites her lip, waiting for answers.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that." Richard Castle stares out the window in the kitchen of his new loft, wondering where and if his path would ever cross once again, with that extraordinary woman.

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"Ahh...Katherine, Good timing I was just about to call you, such a smart girl." Matilda said ever so coldly, as she exhales from her cigarette.

"I'm just not. Used to being in the spotlight, and I swear if you give me another job, another chance, Matilda." Kate pauses.

"Can't you hear yourself right now, who are you these days." Her inner thoughts scream.

"I promise to break out of my normal privacy shell, at events."

"Oh, my dear girl". Matilda chuckles. "You've fallen for him, haven't you?" She shakes her head and puts out her cigarette. "You've fallen for New York's most Eligible bachelor, as well as this city's resident bad and playboy."

Matilda keeps chuckling. "I hope you can swim ?, Because you've just thrown yourself into the deep end."

Kate sighed, as a big piece of her wanted and needed to believe it wasn't true.

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"Hello black pawn, Gina speaking?"

"Gina." Matilda sighs and rubs her temples. "We have a problem."

"I'd say we do," Gina growls, not being able to take her piercing her eyes off the latest photograph taken off Richard Castle and Katherine Beckett, deep not only in conversation but into one others eyes.

At this current moment, If looks could kill.

Kate Beckett would be in serious trouble.