So, it's short and sweet again and I've bumped it up to and M, not sure if it needed it, but just to be safe, because this is what comes from being totally annoyed at my Physics teacher all weekend…. Anyway, rant over. Enjoy :D

Chapter 10

Oh shit. Beckett thinks. How did he get those? I put everything back in the bag before dinner. But she then looks around the room, as if taking everything in for the first time. Everything is in dark shades of, well, dark. The walls are a very dark blue colour. The rug on the floor is the colour of the sky on a moonless night, and the bedspread is the darkest shade of purple imaginable without being black. After all that she still can't believe that she missed them.

She looks at Castle and the almost strangled expression on his face. "Castle." She says, trying to snap him out of his trance. "Rick!" She yells.

Castle snaps his head up at the sound of his name. "Kate, I…Uh…" He says lamely, and holds them out for her to take.

"Go take a shower Rick. They'll be gone when you get back." Beckett takes the garments and tries soothing his frazzled state. She's never seen him this lost for words before.

"Uh…Yeah…. I'll do that…" He says and almost trips over his feet trying to get to his bag, though he seems to have recovered himself by the time he gets to the bathroom door. "But I really want to see them modelled." He says before quickly closing the door so that Beckett doesn't have time to react.

Beckett paces the room for what seems like hours to her, but could have been no more than ten minutes. She was trying to figure out what to do with the bunch of lace that was still in her hand, she hadn't been intending to wear them, and she knew if she did something would happen between them. Did she want that? Of that she wasn't sure. It had been a long and confusing day, and after the boys had finally got in, she wasn't allowed out. She felt that she could just about kill the Captain right now. Or was it Lanie she wanted to kill for packing her bag the way she did? Or better yet, the unknown man who's apartment they were in. Yeah, she could really go for killing him.

Beckett is pulled out of her thought process by the sound of the shower being turned off. She had to make a decision, and act on it fast.

Decision made, she changed into her black lacy undergarments and slid herself under the covers, turning off the light on her side of the bed, she pretends to be asleep when Castle walks back into the room.

She hears him walking around the room and peeks a look at what he's wearing. Just his boxers. She almost moans at the sight of him, she still doesn't understand how he is that well toned. It just doesn't make any sense.

Her little peek show is disturbed when Castle turns the light out. She hears him walk towards the bed, and feels the mattress depress as he climbs into the bed. She feels like her nerve endings are on fire, and he hasn't even touched her yet.

"I know you're not asleep yet." Come the voice from the dark. "Come over here, I'm lonely."

Beckett doesn't reply, she just slowly makes her way across the bed. Too slow for Castle's liking if the way he moves is any indication.

Beckett smiled to herself as she felt Castle running his hand up her bare arm, as if he were expecting it. But soon enough that simple touch just wasn't enough, she turned on her side and closed the gap between them. Her arms wrapped around his neck, her lips on his in a searing kiss.

He has one hand in her hair and the other on her arse, under her panties as she runs her tongue over his lips. His lips open with a moan that she swallows and she runs her hands down his bare back.

Stuff the consequences. Kate Beckett had known what she was getting into when she put the lacy undergarments on, and she intends on getting it.

As Castle rolled her onto her back she could feel his want for her, his need, and it matched her own need for him. Her last fleeting thought as his mouth left hers and started a trail downward was, This is what heaven would be like.