A/N: Ok, so who's excited about Linchpin. I know I am. But anyway, here's the last chapter of this story. So many tanks to every one who has read and reviewed, you really don't know how much it means to me. So thank, thank you.

As always, I do not own Castle or anything related to it.

Wow, this feels so good. Hmm.

She opened her eyes and his face swam into her vision.

He looks so peaceful and innocent.

She smiled thinking about earlier. What they had done was so not innocent. She looked at her watch, it was 7 pm.

Shit! I need to get him home otherwise Alexis will start to worry. Time to wake him up. How do it though?.

She decided to seduce him. She started by placing gentle kisses along his stubbly jaw and up to his ear.

"Rick," she breathed into his ear, "Rick, wake up.". And then she took his lobe gently into her mouth.

He hummed in delight and wrapped his arms tighter around her.

Crap! Ok I'll kiss him awake.

So she did. She hovered over his lips, debating whether to kiss him

softly or to attack him.

I'll build it up.

She placed her lips to his and moved them slowly. She increased the intensity when he wasn't responding. It got his lips working but she didn't know if he was awake or still dreaming. She moaned into his mouth as he got more aggressive, clearly waking up.

Job done. I need to stop, but ohhh!

He'd captured her bottom lip between his teeth and was sucking on it. She gave up and fell into the kiss.

He pulled away breathless. She touched her lips and found that they were slightly swollen. She looked at him and found him grinning,

obviously pleased with his handiwork.

"Best way to wake up, ever!"

"Hmm...yeah," she agreed.

There was a reason you attacked him you fool.

"We need to go," she said, getting up from his hold.

"Why?" his jaw dropped at the sight of her naked.

"Yummy," he said, his gaze constantly on her.

"Like what you see Rick?" she teased.

"Oh yeah," he growled. He went to stand, but sue pushed him back to the couch.

"I promised Alexis that I'd have you back before tomorrow." she said, answering the pout on his face.

He got up and searched for their clothes. They were mainly around the immediate couch area except for Kate's shirt. That was next to a fallen lamp. She went to get it.

"Kate," he whined, "Leave it off, you look so much better without it on, in fact it looks so much better on the floor."

He's such a child. He's a man child, he's my man child.

"Stop whining Rick, otherwise you'll never get to rip it off me again."

That shut him up. He stepped closer towards her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Thank you, for bringing me here and telling me everything." he kissed her lightly.
They broke apart an stared at each other for a while.

"So before, about the pill..." he started

"After we talked on the swings, I didn't know how we were going to happen, so I took it as a precaution."

"Let's go home."

On the way back to the city he kept on feeling her up because he was allowed to. It started as innocent touches and the closer they got to the city, he'd escalated and by the time they were outside his building his hands were on her breasts, squeezing them lightly.

"Rick, we're here, stop groping me."

"Ok, sorry."

She walked him up to his door.

"Goodnight Kate."

"Goodnight Rick."

Just do it, tell him NOW!

She leaned up and placed her lips gently to his.

"I love you," she whispered against them, and before he knew it, she was gone, sauntering off to the elevator, leaving him gaping like an idiot.

FIN

A/N: So that's all folks, I really hope you liked it. I have some one-shots to post up soon.