A few moments later they were standing at the bottom of the Ferris wheel. "You are not scared of heights are you Castle?"
"No." He replied.
"Good" She said.
The view from here was incredible; you could see the whole town lit up from here. This is what Kate imagined the view from Heaven must look like to the angels that looked down over the living. The silence between them was overwhelming, and there was something there, something the two of them shared that no one else in her life ever came close to. She was comfortable with him, sharing things with him that she had never told anyone else before. She wasn't afraid to let him see sides of her she had tried to keep hidden. Kate didn't know why or how, but it happened. She had fallen in love with Richard Castle.
"This was her favorite thing to do when we came to the fair." Kate said.
"Your mom?"
Kate nodded. "The last time I sat with her on one of these we were talking about my plan to go to law school when I graduated. 11 months later she was murdered. When.. when I got shot all I could think of was what I was leaving behind. An unfinished life, a life with regrets, I don't want that anymore. I don't want to take anything for granted Castle." She explained.
"What do you want?" Castle asked.
"You Castle, just you." She said. She held her breath after the words left her mouth. She waited for him to shut her down, to turn her away like everyone always did. But the words never came the rejection never happened. Castle reached over and took her hand in his. He reached out cupping her cheek gently; he leaned in and kissed her. Her lips were soft and sweet against his. She was all he had ever dreamed about and more and now all his dreams were coming true. He pulled back after only a few seconds. Her eyes were wide and filled a happiness he hasn't seen reflecting there in quite sometime now. Looking into her eyes was…well it was like coming home, it was everything. It didn't matter how he tried to explain it or what words he tried to use; the truth was there were no words to explain this. Some moments in life are ordinary and some extraordinary this one was definitely going down in the book of things he would never forget.
"You have me Kate, you always have since the day I met you." He said.
Neither one of them was sure what to say on the ride back to the cabin, but their hands never detangled. Her eyes barley left his as he drove them back home. His eyes glanced over at her every chance he got. A part of him was almost sure he was still dreaming, still laying in that bed next to her. He had to keep taking the chance and squeezing her hand or gently touching her knee to make sure she was in fact real and he was awake.
"How about I make a fire?" Castle suggested when they entered the living room.
"Sounds nice" Kate said as she shed her leather jacket.
Kate sat on the sofa why she watched Castle moving around the room preparing the fire. When Castle had the fire going to his satisfaction, he sat down on the floor with his back leaned against one of the ugly chairs he had despised since the first day he had laid eyes on them.
"Come here" He said as he reached his hand out to her. She stood and moved over to him. Carefully she settled herself down on the ground between his legs until she was nestled safely against him. Castle wrapped both his arms around her waist. He laid his chin on her shoulder.
"You ok?" Castle asked.
"Yeah" she said softly. Kate rubbed her fingers over the back of his hand that was currently holding her to him.
" Hey Castle, what happens when we go back home?" Kate questioned. He could pick up on the sadness in her voice as she asked this question.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"This with us, will it end when we leave here?" She asked sadly.
"Kate, this doesn't end for me just because our time here is ending. And as for going back home I am still going to be there for you, to help you readjust to work. To do whatever it is you need me to do. If you want space for a little while you get back into your routine I respect that. If you want to spend every other night at the loft I can arrange that. If you want to call me at two in the morning because you had a nightmare, I will be there to hold you until the tears stop. Nothing changes Kate when we leave. I am not letting you go." He explained.
Kate smiled and lay back against his shoulder, "Thank you." She said.
"For what?"
"For not giving up on me."
"I never will, you are stuck with me."
"Promise"
"Always" Castle said as he kissed the top of her head.
"I like the sound of that."