"Hey girl. What's up?" Lanie asked when she opened her door.

"Can I come in? I need to talk to someone."

"Um… Well now's not the best time. We could talk in the hall though."

Kate thought about it for a moment. She knew what Lanie was doing.

"Lanie, do you have a man in there?"

"Who is it?" She heard a familiar voice ask from inside.

Kate just raised an eyebrow at Lanie.

Lanie blushed. Esposito came out in just boxers. "Oh, Beckett. Um, I think I'm just going to..."

"Go get some pants on maybe." She said smiling at him.

"Yeah." He said and hurried back inside.

"So… uh… what did you need?"

"You know what, never mind, I'll let you get back to…" She paused thinking about the right word. "Okay, well bye." She would give Esposito shit about this tomorrow.

"Bye." Lanie said still pretty embarrassed.

Three days earlier

Castle's POV

"Yay, you get to come home today." Alexis said gathering Rick's stuff from the hospital dresser.

"I'm can't wait to show Paterson my battle scar at our next poker game." He said. His arm still hurt pretty badly but he wasn't so loopy today.

"The guys will be so jealous." Roy said coming into the room. "So you're discharged then?"

"Yep, the paper was signed this morning. I should be able to be back at the precinct pretty soon."

"Not until the paper work is finished."

"Well then get to the paper work. I think I'm ready to be back. I'll probably be staying in the precinct for a while before I go back out."

"I'm not the one filing the paper work, Beckett is. You'll have to talk to her about when you come back."

"Where is she this fine afternoon?"

"As far as I know she's sitting at her desk staring at the paper work."

"Hmm, I'll have to call her about it then."

"Yeah. Well I'm glad to see you get to go home so soon. I'll see you when you get back."

"Thanks for coming by." Castle said as Montgomery walked off.

"You're all packed. Ready to go?"

"Definitely." He said grabbing his pillow. He felt bad that Alexis had to carry it all.

"Pick up. Pick up. Pick up." Castle said into his phone. He had tried Beckett a whole bunch of times since he had gotten home and she never answered. He even called Ryan's phone and when he handed the phone to Beckett she ended the call. Was she mad at him?

"Still no answer?" Martha asked.

"What did I do? Did I say something while I was in the hospital?"

He was informed earlier that he had been very entertaining on morphine. He couldn't remember any of it though. He remembered people visiting him, he remembered talking to them, but he didn't remember what he said.

"I don't think so kiddo. She was really worried about you."

"If she's worried about me she should come see me, of file the paper work."

"You aren't supposed to go back for another week. That's what the doctor said when we left. So it doesn't matter if she files it now or later. Plus you can't do any strenuous activities so you should stay home anyway." Alexis said coming into the room with a bowl of popcorn.

They were going to have a Rush Hour marathon.

"I don't like just sitting around."

"Tough." Martha and Alexis said at the same time, and then they started the movie. Castle still couldn't help but think that he did something wrong.

Kate figured she should just go see him. She knew he wouldn't be mad at her. His five thousand messages that he left her proved that. But she felt so bad. She was also a little embarrassed about him calling her drop dead gorgeous. Sure he probably doesn't remember, but she did. She didn't want him to like her just for her looks. Even though she kind of liked to hear him compliment her.

The car behind her laid on the horn and she realized the light was green.

She pulled into his buildings parking garage. It's now or never.


Please review. I love to hear your thoughts. And just because i'm having such a great day here's a sneak peek.

"Oh, Kate darling how are you?" Martha asked after answering the door.

"I'm good, i was wondering if i could talk to Castle."

"Richard just took his medicine and went to bed. Should i tell him to call you?"

She finally go the currage to come talk to Castle about how bad she feels and about what he said at the hospital and he's asleep.

"Um.. sure why not." She said and then there was a crash from upstairs.