F***! A Creeper got me.
Disclaimer. If I owned minecraft, I wouldn't be sitting in a rented room. If I owned Castle, Kate would have gone to the Hamptons with Castle at the end of season 2, so there.
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It being a rather slow day, Kate had been sitting at her desk all day doing paperwork. Castle had come in with a laptop around 10 that day, sat down in his usual spot, and promptly stolen the network cable from the back of her computer.
Seeing as she generally didn't use her computer whilst doing paperwork, she didn't mind too much. She only threatened him with greivious bodily harm three times before forgetting about it and continuing on with her paperwork.
And so it continued on for several hours, Castle happily humming away to himself occasionally, until about 1 in the afternoon, when Castle suddenly leapt back from his chair, pointing and swearing at his laptop incoherently for a few moments, the surprise obvious on his face
Kate looked up at him, confused for a moment. "What the hell Castle? Some of us are trying to work!"
Calming down rapidly, Castle whined "But Kate, a Creeper got me!"
"A Creeper?" Kate said, raising an eyebrow at him. "What's a Creeper"
"A suicide shrub! It sneaks right up to you and explodes! It's Not Fair! I had diamond armour and everything and I was miles away from the spawn point!"
"What?" Kate said, looking at him with even more confusion.
"I'm playing a game, called Minecraft. Here, look!" Castle turned the monitor to show Kate the castle that he had built right next to his spawn zone. "That's where I live. The point of the game is to run around exploring and making cool things like that castle. I call it castle Castle!" Castle looked at Kate with a huge grin on his face.
"Hey Castle!" Ryan interrupted. "Can I have a go? Been watching you and it looks like fun."
"And me, when he's done" Esposito did, spinning in his chair
"I can do better!" Castle said grinning. "The game is dirt cheap." Castle logged onto the internet, and a few moments later, turned back to them, and gestured for them to come over. "Usernames, passwords, emails" he said, gesturing to the page. A few minutes later, Ryan and Esposito were sitting on their own computers, playing away, learning the game.
"Kate?" Castle said to Beckett. "You wanna play?"
"No Castle, paperwork" Kate said nodding.
Castle nodded and turned back to his laptop. A few minutes later, he handed Kate a slip of paper.
"Here you go. Login, password, email. In case you change your mind"
And once again, peace reigned in the 12th, occasionally broken by someone coming over and asking about the game, and shortly ending up with their own copy of the game, courtesy of Castle
It was 3 pm when Esposito looked up and commented "Hey Castle, I noticed a multi-player tab when I was logging on, how does that work?"
"You need to find a server to play on, and then you get to play with other people. Hey, I have an idea!"
Castle rummaged around on the internet for about half an hour, before turning back to Esposito.
"Click multiplayer, and type in twelfth dot richardcastle (all one word) dot com. I set us up a private server." He ran around the building, quickly informing everyone who had bought the game about the new development, before logging on to it himself.
"You sure you don't want to play Kate?" Castle asked again, without even looking up
"I'm sure Castle, thanks very much" Kate commented, tucking the piece of paper with her log-in details into her pocket, with every intention of binning it later.
"Your loss. Esposito! That was my iron ore!"
"You snooze you loose Castle!" Esposito said grinning
Eventually, at around 6 pm, everyone started packing up and heading home. Castle left about 8, and Kate around 9 herself.
Later that night, about 11, being extremely bored, Kate was fishing in her pocket for change to pay the pizza boy, when she came across the note with her login details. Having got the change he needed, the pizza boy wandered off, and Kate decided to kill some time playing the silly game that Castle had bought for her earlier.
So she decided to log onto the server that Castle had made earlier.
A few minutes later, at 4 in the morning, she finally decided that enough was enough, and headed to bed.
The next morning, before Castle headed into the precinct, he decided to play on the server for a little bit. After wandering around a little bit, he saw something that he didn't recognise from last night. Walking over to it, he laughed outside when he saw the sign on the front of the new skull fortress.
"Property of Detective Kate Beckett."
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