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Chapter 4

"What do you think you're doing?" her eyes were wide, with anger. Looking between him, heat wave, and the little toy in the drawer.

She sat up and asked him again, "what are you doing looking through my stuff castle?" He stood up now,

"Kate... I... I wasn't... I didn't..."

He was stammering and stuttering, still in shock with the kinky little secret he just got to know about Kate, and now completely scared of what she'd say, now that she found him looking through her drawer.

"Get out!"

"what?"

"I said get out Castle"

"Kate... Your completely misunderstanding this entire situation"

She yelled now, "I don't want to hear another word Castle; I wake up to find you looking through my stuff. You have no right! How else am I supposed to understand this situation?"

Castle felt his own anger rise now.
"Kate, will you just let me explain. you're making a big deal out of nothing..."

"you're damn right I'm making a big deal, now get out!"

"you know what, fine! By the way, you might want to give Ryan a call"
he threw the book and her phone on her bed and stormed out of her bedroom. Slamming her bedroom door behind him.

Kate was completely confused by his last comment about Ryan. Why did he tell here to give Ryan a call? She sighed heavily, her headache coming back right now. She buried her head in her hands.

Castle had no right to go through her stuff and especially through her bedside drawers. She didn't even want to think about the fact that he found her vibrator with her copy of Heat Wave... she normally doesn't keep them there, but since Josh was

she felt her phone vibrating and picked it up to find Ryan calling
"Beckett"

"hey Beckett, you up? Castle woke you?"

"something like that, what's up?"

Ryan asked her about the case file and she told him everything he needed to know, not needing to refer to the file because she had studied the entire thing the earlier night.

"Ryan... What did you tell Castle?"

"Uhhh... Well... I asked for you, but he said you were asleep and he didn't want to go wake you. So I told him to just look around to see if you kept the file anywhere around."

"Oh okay"

"you take care of yourself Kate"

"yea thanks Ryan."

Kate kept her phone down on the table, and dropped down on her pillow again. She felt like such a bitch. She had just yelled at Castle and threw him out of her apartment. And what had he done wrong?
Searching for a file that the guys needed back at the precinct.

The caring man that he was, he took the trouble to search for it just so that she would have an undisturbed sleep. Kate felt horrible.

Castle had been with her right from the morning. All he'd been offering her was pure care and she had chased him out accusing him of snooping through her stuff. She closed her eyes and a tear rolled down the side of her face. She was always giving him a hard time. Why couldn't she just get things right for once?
if she was being honest with herself, she probably got upset with him only cause he found her vibrator.

She texted him quickly
"Castle I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped at you that way."

"It's alright, why don't you try and go back to sleep, I'm sure you're still drowsy and I think you still have a headache too." came his reply text.

"Please come over"

She knew it sounded needy, but she couldn't care less. She felt good when Castle was around. And now that he was gone, she had a sick feeling in her stomach.

She didn't get a reply back from him. She waited. She tossed and turned in bed, trying to get sleep again, but her attempts went in vain.

It was an hour now, since Castle left... and she missed him. 'Wow, sick Kate can be real needy huh?' she thought.

She was shivering from feeling cold now and it caused goose bumps all over her skin. The covers on her bed we're not helping one bit and she felt like her entire body was heating up again. What a little fight with Castle could do to her was pretty obvious now.

She got up from her bed and sat for a while, staring at her phone. She could call him. But what if he didn't want to come back. What if he got tired of taking care of her?

She tied her robe tighter around her body, an attempt to keep warm and walked into her living room.

And she wasn't sure what to feel when she saw Castle sitting at the couch, witching through some channels on her TV.

He never left. He'd been here the entire time. And suddenly she just wanted to go and kiss the man and show him how much she appreciates him staying. "You stayed..." she whispered.

He turned his head around towards the sound of her voice, "hey, you're up..." he smiled. But Kate knew it was not the real Rick Castle smile. He probably was still angry with her. She walked a little forward and stood beside the couch.

"I couldn't sleep after you left. I mean… I thought you left..."

"no" he looked down at the ground and then back at her
"no... I couldn't"

"I'm sorry I yelled at you. my headache was killing me and I just took my anger out on you."

"No, No.. I shouldn't have been looking through your bedside drawers. They're usually used to keep personal belongings..." he said the last two words slowly, looking at her with an evil , naughty smirk on his face.

She rolled her eyes and tried to change the subject.

"Tell me Castle, isn't the soup or Castle Cure''as you call it, supposed to cure me of this flu? Then why isn't it working yet? Looks like your secret ingredient is failing" she teased.

He sat up straight now "nonsense, the Castle Cure never fails. However, it'll take time to work on you"

"and why is that?"

"because, you've only received half of the Castle Cure package. Alexis would get well sooner cause she'd get the whole deal"

"don't be selfish Castle, what's the other half of this Castle Cure"

"You won't like it"

"I'd take anything right now to get rid of this ill feeling" she said with disgust in her voice.

He looked at her with a smirk on his face. "I'd cuddle with Alexis until she was asleep. Most of the time I'd fall asleep with her too. But ever since she turned into a teen. She prefers just the soup and grizzly bear hug" he said sadly.

But Castle hadn't expected what came next.

Kate paused and after 5 seconds of silent thought she chuckled and said "Come on... Cuddle with me and put me to sleep" Castle looked at her, surprised at what he just heard Beckett say.

"I'm not going to say it again Castle." she began walking back to her bedroom.
"You coming or what?"

Castle swallowed hard. Was he dreaming, or had the woman of his dreams just said she wanted to cuddle with him, in her bed?

He pinched himself. Nope. It wasn't a dream.

"Castle?" she called from her bedroom.
He stood up. Smiled to himself and walked quickly in behind her.


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