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More Things You Should Know (not necessarily about me, but just in general)
1. This story is technically still a work in progress. I only have it labelled as complete because technically each update can stand on its own. I may change it later on... who knows.
2. I have at least 2 more situations in mind that I can keep this going with.
3. This popped into my head in the shower last night.
4. I'm not entirely happy with it, but I guess that's not really a surprise because I'm rarely happy with anything.

Might be a little OOC, and it's more cute than sexy but still possessive... whoops.

Disclaimer - Anything you recognize, I don't own. I created Carson Phillips though. Yeah... I like him.

Movie Premieres & Red Carpets

When Rick Castle received his invitation to attend the world premiere of the Heat Wave movie in New York, he had immediately jumped on the opportunity to ask Kate Beckett, his extraordinary muse, to go with him. Apparently though, Kate had already received an invitation herself. She had told him that she didn't think she was going to go, but when he offered to go with her and stay with her the entire night, she knew she didn't really have a choice. Kate was slightly skeptical about the entire thing, but she had eventually agreed to go with him.

Which is why the two of them had just walked out of the town car and stepped onto the red carpet outside of the theater. They were however, (thankfully) ignored and walked over to Paula and the people she was surrounded by to get the details of the night. While both of them would have been content to just sit and watch the movies like the other people invited, Rick didn't have that luxury.

Natalie Rhodes and Carson Phillips, the actor playing Rook in the movie, had arrived just before she and Castle had. Kate and Rick looked on as the two actors stood in front of them on the red carpet, smiling for the cameras, clearly the center of attention, absorbing everything about the night. It wasn't until Natalie Rhodes looked over and caught sight of the writer and the detective talking with the three agents in attendance that the night started going downhill.

It was decided between all of the agents that it would be wonderful publicity for all of them to pose together for the paparazzi. Kate watched as Rick walked out with Carson, and the photographers went crazy, the real life Rook and the silver screen representation proving to be photographic gold. Rick and Carson laughed in good humor, ignoring the questions the photographers were yelling at them.

She smiled at the picture in front of her. As clichéd and stupid as it may seem, she was proud of Rick. He was obviously incredibly excited about seeing his story (which, if she was being honest with herself, was their story) portrayed up on the silver screen. He had written a book that captured the attention of screenwriters in Hollywood, he had given his insight into his characters to the directors, and the reviews from the pre-screening were claiming that watching the movie was literally like watching Rick's story play out in front of them; that in the future people looking recreate books in movie format should take note of Rick's role in helping the screenwriters, because they were doing it right.

Kate was brought out of her musings when she felt someone tugging on her arm. Surprised, she looked over and saw Natalie with her hand wrapped around her bicep.

"Come on, Detective," Natalie said, pulling Kate out onto the red carpet, toward the biggest crowd of paparazzi, "we can't let the boys have all the fun, can we?"

Kate didn't even have time to be nervous. As soon as the two of them came into view, the paparazzi's attention immediately left Rick and Carson and focused entirely on Kate and Natalie. Natalie quickly struck a pose, hooking her arm through Kate's and smiling. Kate mirrored her, taking a deep breath and placing her hand on her waist before looking out into the sea of blinding camera flashes.

Only a moment passed before she heard Natalie's voice, confirming the lurking suspicion Kate had in the back of her mind that Natalie Rhodes had ulterior motives other than showing the boys up.

"So I saw you making pretty serious eyes at Castle back there," Natalie said, still smiling at the cameras.

Kate took special care in making sure she kept her expression even, even though she felt her hand clench tighter on her waist. Natalie continued.

"He does look really good tonight."

Kate's mind went back to earlier that evening, when she had watched him get dressed from her spot on his bed where she had been sitting after she had showered and did her hair. She always loved him in his suits, but Rick in a classic black tux was quite possibly one of her favorite looks on him. In fact, she told him so, and Rick had looked back to see her sitting on the bed in only one of his dress shirts that he had left in the bathroom while he was deciding what he should wear and any retort he thought he had gave way to a slack-jawed expression that had Kate smirking.

She loved that even after six months of dating, she could still render him speechless.

Dating.

It still knocked her breathless when she thought about it. She was dating Richard Castle. She was dating Richard Castle and she couldn't have possibly been any happier. They still fought, and they still had moments where they couldn't stand each other, but those 6 months had undoubtedly been the most fulfilling months of Kate's life. Despite all of her doubts, they worked. They kept their relationship professional at work (well… mostly) and had transferred their partnership to a more personal relationship. Days off were spent lounging on the couch together, she participated in Castle family game nights and family dinners, and more and more of Kate's clothes and belongings were making their home at the loft.

But Natalie Rhodes (or the press for that matter) didn't know any of that.

Because by the grace of some inexplicable miracle, the press still hadn't caught on to the change in their relationship. They had told the people who mattered most – his family, her father, the boys, Lanie, and begrudgingly Gates (who surprisingly said she would allow it until it started interfering with Kate's performance). They hadn't found a reason to inform the press. Hell, even Paula hadn't even noticed it, which was saying something because she prided herself on being able to read Richard Castle like one of his books.

And Kate liked it like that. The love they had for each other wasn't any of their business anyway. She knew they would find out eventually, but Rick was more than happy to keep it quiet for now so they intended to keep it that way.

Realizing quickly that Natalie was waiting for a response, she hummed an affirmation.

"Mhm," Kate said, still not looking away from the cameras, "he cleans up well."

Natalie hummed.

"So, did the verbal masturbation finally turn into literal masturbation?"

"Castle and I are partners," Kate said, choosing to deflect the question involving she and Castle's sex life, "what he chooses to do in his spare time and in his own company is not my concern."

Natalie hummed again and Kate felt her jaw clench, deciding that Natalie's mumbles were quickly becoming her least favorite sounds.

"So I guess that means I have permission to try again?"

Kate finally did break eye contact with the cameras to stare at Natalie.

"Try what again?" Kate said warily.

Natalie stepped away from Kate and straightened out her dress, standing a little taller as she stood face to face with the detective. Natalie smiled.

"You know, they're almost certain that they're going to make Naked Heat into a movie," Natalie said, her eyes closing slightly, warning Kate that she probably wouldn't like what Natalie was going to say. "And I still haven't completed my… research yet…"

Kate felt herself tense and immediately realized what Natalie was going to try to do again: her boyfriend. Her perverse belief that in order to play Nikki Heat accurately on the big screen she had to sleep with Rick was going to make her try again. Try to sleep with Rick again. Try to sleep with her boyfriend again.

Kate opened her mouth to respond but instead squeaked quietly when someone grabbed her arm and spun her around. An arm wrapped around her waist and held her close, and she registered more camera flashes going off. A new string of questions infiltrated her ear as she looked up and saw herself pressed against Carson.

She had only met Carson once before, but they had gotten along well. He didn't share his co-stars insane desire to sleep with her in the name of research, which was definitely an added bonus. But they seriously hit it off quite well. He thought she was hysterical and he was really down to earth so the time they spent together was thoroughly enjoyable.

It also helped that he was in a relationship. William was a lucky man.

"So my dear," he said teasingly, "how does it feel to be the Belle of the red carpet?"

Kate laughed slightly, "What do you mean?"

Carson chuckled quietly, still looking at the cameras, "Oh please, Detective, you have to know that you are actually what all the cameras are looking at. You should have felt Natalie tense up as soon as you got out of that town car. You're radiant."

Kate looked down at herself quickly. Her floor length, light lilac, gown would have had no shape at all if not for the matching satin ribbon that was wrapped tightly around her waist, making her look impossibly tiny. The chiffon almost seemed to float down to the floor around her, hiding her killer silver stilettos which she had bought just for the occasion. The dress had cap sleeves, and the neckline scooped across her chest, hiding her scar but still showing that she definitely wasn't lacking that department. She had kept her make-up light, and her long, loose curls completed the ensemble.

She remembered Rick's expression when he saw it for the first time. He couldn't even form coherent sentences as he walked over and spun her around before kissing her with earnest and telling her over and over again that she was a vision in every sense of the word.

However, Kate scoffed at Carson's sentiment, "Please Carson, everyone here is looking at you and Natalie. You're the stars."

Kate took a quick glance over at Natalie, all leg and sex appeal in her designer, red and orange, Nikki Heat-inspired, sequin couture gown. The dress was one shoulder and was covered in red ruffles. The gown was mostly covered in different shades of red sequins, with lines of orange strategically placed throughout which were supposed to resemble like flames. It was fitted until about hallway down her legs, where it flared out into more red ruffles that matched the ones on her shoulder.

Carson shook his head, "if we're the stars then you and Rick are the sun and the moon. Everyone is dying to know if something is going on between you two."

Kate looked back over again at Rick who was standing next to Natalie and posing with her just like Kate was doing with Carson. She could tell by his smile though that he wasn't comfortable with the position. A quick glance at their backs confirmed why.

They were standing in essentially the same position that she and Carson were. They each had one of their arms wrapped around the other, angled towards each other slightly.

The difference was where Kate had moved her hand so it was pressed back against Carson's upper back, Natalie's was flirting around the bottom of Rick's back, her fingers slipping underneath the hem of his suit jacket every once and a while.

Kate felt herself bristle as she watched the two of them.

She felt Carson shake silently beside her. Looking up, he saw that he was laughing slightly.

"Well, well, well," he said mischievously, "if I didn't know any better I would say that there is certainly something going on between the two of you."

She tried to force herself to relax. She wanted to deny it, she really did. She didn't want everyone to find out this way. But, that desire was nearly matched by Kate's need to walk over to Natalie Rhodes and break every single one of her fingers that was currently making its way along the waistband of Rick's slacks.

She locked eyes with Carson and then looked away, her voice lower and almost sad.

"Maybe," she said.

She and Carson looked over at the other two who were still getting their pictures taken, and Carson took sight of what Natalie was doing.

"Oh dear," he muttered, his hand gripping her waist a little tighter, a silent show of solidarity letting Kate know that he understood, "she's something else isn't she?"

She sighed and shifted her weight slightly, uncomfortably, "Indeed she is."

"Your secret's safe with me," he whispered to her.

She looked up at him and smiled slightly before they both turned back around to look at Natalie and Rick, preparing themselves to walk over towards the other two to take pictures of the four of them together.

And then she watched Natalie Rhodes kiss her boyfriend.

It seemed almost like everything passed in slow motion as she watched Natalie tilt her heads towards Rick and press her lips to his cheek. She saw Rick tense momentarily before realizing that he was still being photographed and tried to relax again, but Kate noticed that his shoulders were stiffer than they would be if he were truly relaxed.

If that was it, Kate would've been fine. She was used to the chaste kisses women gave Castle on the cheek and vice versa. As long as it didn't go any further, she could deal with it, because in the end she knew that she was the only one who would be kissing his lips.

But Natalie Rhodes let her lips linger on Rick's cheek for far too long, and her other hand had reached up and started threading her fingers intimately through the hair around his ear. Natalie Rhodes had effectively pressed her entire body against the side of him, even going so far as to hook one of her ankles around his.

And when Natalie finally moved away, she looked over and caught Kate's eye. She smiled and winked at her, before turning all of her attention back towards Rick.

Rick however, was only looking at Kate. The apology was clear in his eyes, as well as his obvious discomfort and his begging for her to save him.

Without losing eye contact, she whispered a quick, "excuse me" to Carson and extricated herself from his hold, making her way over to Rick. Seeing that she was moving towards him, he unwrapped Natalie from around his leg and shifted on his feet so he was facing her.

If she was focusing on anything other than him, she would've noticed that everyone on the red carpet was watching her. If she was thinking about anything other than the fact that she needed to prove to Natalie Rhodes that she did not have permission to kiss, let alone touch Rick Castle anymore, she wouldn't have gone through with it.

But none of that even crossed her mind. She walked towards Rick with a purpose, the only thing on her mind proving that he was hers, and no one else – no actress, no model, no other woman, would ever have him again.

She was done, and Rick Castle was it, and it was time for everyone else to know that.

When she was mere steps away from him, she watched him open his mouth to – to what? To apologize? Whatever it was, she didn't give him a chance to try.

Because as soon as she was in reaching distance of him, she grabbed his face between both of her hands and brought his face down to hers, crashing her lips onto his.

He froze for a moment, but as soon as she ran her tongue across his lips, he groaned at the sensation and opened his mouth to hers. She shivered against him. Kate moved herself as close to him as she possibly could, arching up into him as she continued to kiss him. She felt his hands move down her dress until they found her hips, anchoring her against him, giving her no chance to move away from him. She moved her hands from his cheek up into his hair, ensuring that he wouldn't be able to escape her kiss.

She felt his moan more than heard it, the deep sound reverberating through her, sending shocks straight to her core. She moaned in turn, and by the way his hands tightened on her hips, it was obvious he had the same reaction as her.

Eventually though, she had to breathe, and she tore her lips away from him with a jagged gasp. She didn't move far though, leaning her forehead against his and looking at him directly in his darkening eyes, trying to control her breathing, her hands sliding from his hair down to his neck, feeling his pulse thrumming quickly underneath her fingertips.

"You're mine," she whispered fiercely. He nodded in response, swallowing hard, still trying to even out his heart rate.

She leaned up to kiss him again, but she suddenly became painfully aware of the roar of the crowd around her, the questions and comments of the paparazzi making their way through the deafening screams and wolf whistles of the fans who were watching behind them. She felt her cheeks heat up, slightly embarrassed by being so possessed by her need to claim him from Natalie Rhodes that she forgot where they were.

She had just made out with Richard Castle. In Public. In front of cameras and photographers and celebrities.

Oops.

She turned her face away from the paparazzi and looked back behind her. She saw Natalie turning red, Carson smirking at her, and all of their publicists looking on in shock, Paula looking like she was ready to have an aneurysm. She was going to be doing a lot of damage control in the morning because of what Kate had just done.

Kate looked back up at Rick who was looking down at her with unbridled love and affection, her lipstick smeared all over his smiling lips, ignoring everyone other than her. Suddenly, her embarrassment seemed pointless. Why on Earth should she be embarrassed because she was in love with Richard Castle? The answer? She shouldn't be.

"I'm yours," Rick nodded in confirmation, "and I don't think we can hide the fact that I am anymore," he whispered. The happiness was clear in his voice, but the underlying worry that she was going to run away screaming was still present as well. He moved his hand up and cupped her cheek, his thumbs brushing along the where the warmth of her blush was quickly fading, making her skin erupt into goosebumps at the tenderness of his touch.

Kate quickly looked back towards all of the flashing lights and then returned her gaze to Rick. She let her hand trail down from its place on his neck down to the lapel of his jacket and back up towards his cheek. She ran her thumb across his lips, smudging some of her lipstick away. His hand fell away from her cheek and back onto her waist. She bit her lip to try and hide the smile breaking out, but it was all in vain. He watched in awe as her brilliant smile slid across her features, knocking him breathless at the sight of her so happy.

She tilted her face back towards his and leaned in towards him.

"Good," she whispered leaning in so he could feel her breathing against his lips, feel her lips brushing against him in a barely there kiss.

"Let them look."

This is essentially Kate's gown… just add cap sleeves, make it the color of Kate Middleton's purple gown, get rid of the sparkles around the neck and replace the belt with ribbon: google "La Femme 17473"
And this is essentially Natalie's gown… just change the colors to red & orange: google "Mac Duggal Couture Style 78511D"

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