Sorry for the last chapter and certain things that happened in there but it had to happen. I'm sorry.

I do NOT own Castle.


"Oooh, Castle."

He couldn't help the involuntarily tensing of his body as he heard Beckett call his name from the bullpen in that tone of voice. He had no idea what she could possibly want, but his usually dormant survival instincts were screaming at him to run, run far away.

But he stayed where he was and greeted her with a smile when she finally reached him. After all, it couldn't be that bad, right?


"Male strippers…Why did it have to be male strippers?" Castle muttered to himself as he walked into the loft after the case was closed.

After shutting and locking the door, he walked towards his bedroom, intending to take a shower and change clothes, and nearly jumped out of his skin when two arms wrapped themselves around him from behind.

"Rick…"

"Ah! Gina! What are you doing here? And how did you get in?" Backing out of her hold he put a hand to his racing heart, watching as a confused look came over her face.

"Edwardo let me in…What is that smell?" She stepped closer to him and sniffed. "Perfume…Richard, why do you have perfume on you?"

Gina glared suspiciously at him and he raised his hands up as if to defend himself. "It's not what you think! It was for a case."

"Really? And just what did you have to do for this case? Cozy up with that detective friend of yours?"

"No, then I would smell like cherries…" Seeing her glare become colder, if that was even possible, he quickly continued. "But that's not the point. We had to go to a strip club to find our suspect."

"And what? You had to do some 'in depth' investigating?"

"No, no! It was a male strip club."

"Then how?"

"The audience! Those women are like piranhas! They were all over me."

"Oh yes, I'm sure that was so hard on you."She rolled her eyes and he couldn't help the stray thought that it was cute when Beckett did it, but only annoying when Gina did it. "I can't deal with this tonight, call me tomorrow when you don't smell like you were the entertainment."

Nose in the air, she spun on her heel and walked out of the front door, leaving Castle to stand in the middle of the room, wondering how he was going to get back in her good graces.


Unfortunately she isn't gone completely yet... But at least we will get to see some Beckett and Castle in the next chapter, right?