Ch 10 Tennis Anyone?
Kate put her hand up to his cheek and said, "Rick, you just said, we both have made mistakes and we are not looking back. But if it helps you to know that even back then no man could compare to you…" Kate couldn't finish because Castle had pulled her into a loving kiss.
Kate began to laugh and Castle looked at her funny. She joked, "Come on, at this rate we won't make it to the morgue until after next Thursday and Lanie won't be able to win the pool."
Rick just watched her saunter down the steps and he shook his headed knowing that she would never cease to amaze him.
Once the pair finally reached the morgue, they found Lanie fining the autopsy on Van Gelder. She determined that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, she had found bits of a ceramic material embedded in the wound in the back of his head. She said if they brought her a coffee mug from the café she could see if the materials were a match. This confirmed Kate's previous theory that Van Gelder never made it far from the café before he was killed. But what Lanie told her next, did not match her current theory.
"Time of death can be narrowed down to between 5 and 6 p.m." reported Lanie.
Kate gave her a surprised look and then turned to face Castle, "We need to talk to the waiter from the café again. According to him he last took out the garbage at 6:45 p.m. and claims there was no body then." And Castle picked up where she left off without pause, "And since he was buried under the trash, it stands to reason that Gelder had been there first and covered by the trash later." And again back to Kate, "So there is no way that he didn't see the body out there." Lanie felt like she was watching a tennis match with the way they went back and forth.
They were so caught up in their story, they didn't even notice the huge grin spread across Lanie's face. Once they finished, Kate grabbed Castle's hand again and pulled him towards the exit. They were almost out the door when they heard Lanie shout, "You two better knock-off all those googly eyed looks and finishing each other's sentences or I'll never be able to keep you a secret until next Thursday!"
Kate stopped and turned around to look at Lanie and said, "We will be on our best behavior," and Rick interrupted with a whine, "Ugh… we will?" and Kate just laughed and added, "in public!" Kate reached over and smacked Rick's ass and walked out with Castle running after her.
Lanie thought to herself, even if those two can't hold off until Thursday, it's okay because she had never seen her best friend so happy.