Hey guys, so I start exams on Tuesday so I may not be updating very much over the next few weeks but after that I'm free! Glad you guys like this story and thanks you everyone who has reviewed.

Tyler's mine, the rest belong to Marlowe.

"I never told you I was a writer Kate," He was now grinning like a child, "So tell me," he paused, "How much of a fan are you," He raised an eyebrow and she lightly whacked his arm.

She rolled her eyes at him, "Sei pazzo."

"Don't think that speakin' Italian is gonna get you outta this," Rick said with a smirk.

Kate looked across to where the kids were before looking back to Rick with an evil grin, she rested her forearms on the table and leant forward so their faces were only inches apart, her gaze quickly flicked down to his lips before returning to his eyes. She watched him gulp before speaking, "What can I say Ricky," she paused for a moment, "I'm your biggest fan," she finished in her sultry bedroom voice. She saw his adams apple bob as he swallowed again.

She leaned back in her chair with a smirk on her face, watching him try to concentrate. When he finally managed to come back to reality Tyler and Alexis had reached the table eating their gelatos. He looked to Kate who was still smirking and mouthed, "You're a tease," she simply winked back at him.

"So what flavours did you guys get?" Rick asked the kids as they took their seats.

"I got mango!" Alexis said excitedly between mouthfuls of the gelato.

Rick looked over to Tyler who looked like he had just drank out of date milk, "What's with the face Tyler?" he asked chuckling slightly with Kate at the face he made.

"Well I couldn't decide between the lemon and the chocolate, so I got both…" he paused for a moment.

Kate placed a hand over her mouth to hide the smile and laugh that threatened to escape while Rick kept up his poker face, "and?" Rick prompted.

Tyler ate another scoop and grimaced again, "It's horrible," he said with a scrunched up face.

Kate couldn't hold back the laugh and it broke free, Tyler turned to his laughing mother with a glare, "What?" she laughed, "Do you never learn?" he gave her a confused look, "You did the same thing last time we came here Ty," this new information prompted laughs from both Rick and Alexis as well, while Tyler tried to remember the last time.

"It can't be that bad," Rick said as Kate raised her eyebrows challengingly, she knew it was bad, "Here let me try," Rick grabbed one of the spare spoons they had and took a scoop from Tyler's cup. Kate, Alexis and Tyler watched on, waiting for the moment it hit him. They weren't disappointed, his face scrunched up and he spat out the mouthful of gelato into his napkin. Rick shook his head somehow thinking that would rid his mouth of the horrible taste. "That is fowl," Rick almost whined, "Why did you let me eat that?" Kate and the kids couldn't stop laughing at his face.

After they all calmed down and Rick had gotten rid of the taste, he decided it was time for a bit of revenge. "Hey Tyler, did you know I'm a writer?" he said with a smirk watching as Kate's eyes widened.

"Wait, you're the writer Richard Castle?" Rick nodded, "Mom LOVES your books, they're all she reads!" he said excitedly, "She took me to one of your book signing things once! But I was only little, I don't remember it." Kate's eyes continued to widen while Castle's smirk grew.

He turned his gaze back to Kate, "Really now?"

She bit her lip and smiled, "Well I did tell you I was your biggest fan," she said with a wink.

He returned her smile and wink. They noticed Tyler and Alexis having their own conversation happily, so they decided to have their own, "So, Italian?" Rick questioned.

Kate nodded before speaking, "Yeah I have no Italian background but I studied it all through high school. I was lucky enough to go on a study tour in my final year of school. After that I continued studying it, and then spent a semester over there." Rick nodded showing he was listening and interested, "One day I was on the phone to an old friend and we were speaking Italian, Tyler was about four at the time, and he heard me talking and asked me why he couldn't speak it. I explained to him how I'd spent time learning the language, and he wanted to learn it as well," she smiled at the memory of four year old Tyler exclaiming he wanted to learn Italian. "So I taught him some little things at the time, you know simple things; colours, numbers, animals. After a while I began teaching him some simple phrases that could be said around the house. He picked it up pretty quickly considering we're not Italian. He can put sentences together now, so we try to speak it as much as possible at home or out. That's why he loves this place. Giovanni is one of my old friends from college's dad so he's always been kind to us, teaching Ty new phrases and such." She looked over to Tyler and smiled, then cast her gaze back to Rick who had a look of adoration of his face. She blushed and bowed her head, before looking back to him, "So what about you?"

"Nah, always wanted to learn a language though, especially Italian, or French," he stated and Kate nodded her head.

"I speak French too," she said with a wink, "Tyler doesn't know that though. I don't speak it too often anymore."

"You are incredible you know that?" he told her with a genuine smile. Again she felt the heat rush to her cheeks but she didn't hide it this time. How could this man, who she has only just met, make her feel like a giddy teenager on a first date?

"Well thank you, but I'm no famous author," she said holding his gaze.

"Hey, I spend my days doing basically nothing, but you, you're young, I'm guessing 25 ish, a detective with a son who still finds the time to teach said son Italian. And I can tell there's a lot more to you, and I would love getting to know you better." He finished with a kind smile.

"I think I'd like that."

So I think I'll end it there. The lemon and chocolate gelato thing actually happened to me this year, I was in Italy on a study tour, we were in Rome at a gelato place and my friend came over with this big cup full of gelato and he told us it was lemon and chocolate, he didn't tell us how bad it was until a few of us decided to try it and omg worst thing ever. Funny thing was he had so much that he didn't want to waste it so he still ate it all.

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