Helloo Dearest readerrsss! I would just like to say I love you all! :D Your reviews are oh so very inspiring! And they basically make my day! Aannnddd this story is on 46 story alerts! Holy amazingggg! :D Once agaaiiinnnn, you all ROCK!
Ohhh okk andd sooooo there were a few of you who were asking if I'd do more with like…what's happening with Castle instead of Beckett…sooo in this chapterrr I'm just going to try to do a little of both? I don't know how that'll work…sooo I figured I'd start with this chapter when they're together almost the whole time anyway…so it won't even make that much of a difference :)
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Beckett got back to the house to find a very dazed looking Castle staring blankly at his computer screen.
"Hey," She said to him, watching as he snapped out of it and recognized her presence, "What's wrong?"
"I…nothing. It's just that…Alexis is coming over this weekend." He said.
"That's great!" Beckett said, then, at his less-than-enthusiastic expression, added, "Isn't it?"
"Well yah, it's awesome…but, we may have to keep up our act inside the house as well, for a few days." He said, looking up at her and taking in her reaction.
"Why?" She asked, confused.
"Well…Alexis sent me an email about how excited she was that we were…together. And…I…she sounded so happy…I couldn't think of any way to break it to her." Castle said.
"Ah…" Beckett stated, not knowing what else to say.
"You don't mind, do you?" Castle asked, still looking up at her, "I'll find a way to tell her in the fall…when we're back at home. But she's only going to be here for the weekend, and I don't want her to be all glum…"
"No, of course I don't mind." She said, refusing to look into his eyes. She didn't mind at all…in fact, she was crazy excited. She had enjoyed acting the part of his date so much the night before, and now she'd get to do it for a full weekend. She was just worried he'd be able to read her too well and notice how much of it was real for her.
She shoved her thoughts out of her head, let a smile form on her face and finally looked at him. He was grinning happily at her, and she felt her stomach flutter slightly. Then, she realized, as excited as she was for the coming weekend, she also had a largely growing fear of how it would go….
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"Dad!" She heard Alexis yell from the doorway. Castles face lit up at the sound of his daughter's voice and he bounded up from where he was sitting on the couch to greet her at the door. Beckett followed after him a few seconds later, watching them embrace in a hug. She liked seeing Castle in 'Dad-mode'…it was sort of sweet.
"And Detective Beckett!" Alexis said, running over to her and giving her a hug just as enthusiastically as she had with her dad.
"Alexis," Kate said, "Please, call me Kate."
"Alright, Kate," Alexis said smiling, then turned to her dad, "I'm going to go put my stuff upstairs." Then, she grabbed her stuff and ran around the corner and up the stairs.
Beckett then felt eyes boring into the side of her head. She turned, to see Castle staring at her and grinning. At the sound of Alexis' footsteps coming down the stairs, he grabbed her hand (which made her heart start doing little flips), and whispered under his breath to her, "You ready for this?" She looked back at him to see him waggling his eyebrows playfully at her. She just rolled her eyes and turned away from him, but nodded her head in acknowledgement.
"Hey, Dad?" Alexis said, giving Castle and Beckett both questioning looks, "Why is all of Kate's things in the guest bedroom?"
Castle and Beckett exchanged nervous glances, but Beckett was the one to recover quickest.
"I've been keeping my things in there, because your father brought enough stuff here with him to last a lifetime, and I didn't want to crowd the floor." She said, shrugging nonchalantly.
"So," Alexis said happily, buying Kate's excuse, "What do you say we watch a movie before bed?"
"Sure!" Castle exclaimed, "Whatcha want to watch, kiddo?"
"Welllllll," Alexis said, "A friend of mine let me borrow their copy of the first season of Glee for the weekend, sooo I was thinking we could watch that."
"Of course!" Castle said, running into the living room and jumping over the back of the loveseat. Alexis ran upstairs to get the DVDs. Beckett walked slowly into the living room, glancing at Castle nervously. He just grinned and raised an eyebrow at her.
When Alexis came downstairs, she found Kate snuggled into her dad's side, with his arm around her.
"Aww," She said when she came into their view, "You guys are so cute together!"
Castle just grinned at his daughter, and Beckett did one of her signature eye rolls, but a small blush crept up along with it.
Alexis turned on the movie, turned off the light, and situated herself on the large armchair in the room. And, although it was the kind of show that Kate was sure she would have enjoyed, she had a hard time concentrating on anything other than how good it felt to have his arms wrapped around her.
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"G'night dad," Alexis said sleepily to her dad, giving him a lazy one armed hug.
"Night kiddo," He said as she walked up the stairs. He stalled for a while downstairs, until he was sure Beckett would have been done getting ready for bed. When he finally went up to his room, he found the door cracked, and Beckett in the bathroom brushing her teeth.
"So," She said when she was done, "How're we going to do this?" She asked, gesturing to the bed.
"These," Castle said with a grin, pulling a stack of blankets out of a trunk at the foot of the bed. He then walked up to her slowly, until he was just a mere foot in front of her. She held her breath, not sure what he was planning on doing. After a minute of them standing like that, he slowly brought his hand up to his face, and put one finger on his nose. "Dibs not!" He said, suddenly playfully, then flung himself onto the bed and grinned at her. Beckett let out her breath, rolled her eyes at him, then made her way to where he had stacked the blankets on the floor and started making herself a bed.
While Castle was getting himself ready for bed in the bathroom, Kate grabbed her cell phone and sent a text to both Amanda and Lanie about her current situation. They both responded sounding clearly amused.
After about 10 minutes, Castle came out of the bathroom, turned off the lights, climbed into his bed, and said goodnight to Kate.
She could not sleep, though. Her head was jammed with different thoughts, and, as much as she hated to admit it to herself, she was enjoying just listening to the sounds of Castle's breathing.
However, after what she guessed was a half hour of just laying on her back and staring at the ceiling, she heard the sudden noise of somebody humming Defying Gravity…one of the songs in the last episode of the show they had been watching.
"Castle!" She whispered, her voice breaking the silence, "Are you humming?"
"You're still awake?" He asked, sounding somewhat embarrassed, "I thought you were asleep already…"
"Nope…the show tunes are keeping me awake." She joked, laughing quietly to herself.
"Sorry! It just won't get out of my head!" He said.
"You know the only way to get a song out of your head?" She asked.
"No…what?" He asked her.
"Listen to it, the whole way through." She told him, the corners of her lips turning up,
She heard the bed squeak a few times, then dull, thudding footsteps. Then, she saw Castle hovering over her, shirtless, and only in his…SpongeBob boxers. He held out his hand, then when she grabbed his he pulled her up next to him.
"Well, then," He said smiling, "I'm not going to re-watch the show on my own."
She followed him downstairs, where he restarted the episode they had last watched. They both sat on the loveseat again, though not close enough to be touching this time.
The episode ended, but neither of them moved. They ended up watching the show into the early morning, episode after episode. Before either of them had realized it, Kate had gravitated closer to Castle, and was resting her head on his shoulder. He put his hand over hers, and she felt herself slowly drifting into unconsciousness….
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Weellllllll that was fun! Hahaa dontcha alllll just llooovvvveee Glee? :D hehehe
Aaaannnnnddddd I felt like a creeeepo writing about Beckett just listening to Castles breathing…then I was going to delete it buuuuttt it reminded me toooo much of Edwardd from Twilighttt :) hehe…then I just couldn't do it. Not saying I like him…actually, I kinda sorta hate him…his brother is much more sexier :D :D :D
Well ok…off of that subject… :)
OH NO! I just do NOT know what I'm going to do with this story! :O I'm leaving for waterparrkkss on Sunday…so I won't be able to update for like a full week there…and then like basically right when I get back I'm leaving for two weeks in New York! And THEN im going to camp for a week…and then its SCHOOL ALREADY! NOOOO! :O I just don't KNOW what I'm going to dooooo! ACK! Ummm yahhh…so like one or two more chapterrsss…then there will be a rather large intermission…longer than the short little one the last chapter had :)
Oh gosh I'm worried…time for crazy speed writing? Haha…I wish. My mom thinks I've been spending alllll this time on Microsoft Word writing a novel though :) haha…right…. I wish :) I've gotta keep it inconspicuous!
Haha…I'm rambling realllllyyyy bad! Sorry 'bout that everybody! I'll stop now!
There'll be another chapter tomorrow (I THINK!) soo not to worry…yet :O
Toodle-oooo! :D
