The last new Castle free Monday before season 6. Rejoice :)
The door to her office snicks shut behind them and she turns on him pushing him into the corner where they won't be seen. Her hips collide with his and she's coaching his mouth open with her tongue before he realizes what's happening. Then his hands are on her, sliding under her shirt, warm palms bunching the pressed fabric, straining the buttons at the front.
They let themselves get lost in it, in each other, for a while. Eventually he's the one that pulls back, pressing a kiss to her forehead and just holding her.
"Thank you," she murmurs.
"For what?"
"Everything... For all your words... You have all these beautiful words." She whispers into his jaw. Pulling back just enough to look him in the eye, pressing her hips more firmly into his. "I fell in love with your words long before I ever met you. Then you were there, if they had just been words I would have been able to walk away from you. But they're not just words and they never have been for you. Every promise you make you follow with action just like in that room. You just told the most powerful attorney in the country that you were on case until the wheels fell off, that's why I fell in love with you because you were always more than just words. I can't walk away from someone that does that. I want to close this case… I want to go home and build a life with you in our city."
He looks a little dumbstruck for just a moment before capturing her lips again in a reverent kiss. "Ok, Kate. Ok"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
She loops her arms around his shoulders and buries her head in the crook of his neck."Can I have my ring back now?"
"Kate you don't have to prove to me that you want this. I know you do." He breathes into her hair.
"Are you sure because that feels like it's been the problem since I told you to get the ring sized. It's every fight we've had."
His palm comes up to hold her head, as he cradles her against his body. "Oh Kate, I've been fighting to just stay in your thoughts since I can't be here that's all. I promise that's all I'm not going anywhere. If you want to stay in DC when this is over then we can stay. You just have to make time for us as well."
"I hate this job," she swears against his skin.
"Ok, you don't have to stay, but you still have to make time for us if you're a detective or decide to do anything else that you set your mind too. One day I'm not going to be able to follow you around. One day I'm going to have to stay home with the babies and then shuffle them to preschool and dance class and t-ball games. Besides someone will have to be the breadwinner in the family." She can feel his grin, permeating the air around them.
She pulls her head back so she can grin at him from his shoulder, this is the banter that familiar and the very definition of their relationship at the best of times, "Oh so you're just giving up writing?"
He shrugs, "Why not? Women can be the breadwinner these days."
"Well I have news for you we're going to have to move out of the loft. There's no way I can cover it."
"Oh well in that case I better keep writing even when we have kids. But seriously we have to make time for this, for us, outside of the office too."
She leans away from him, amusement coursing through her, they've never talked about it before, but he's just so very sure of this picture in his mind. "Just how many babies are we having?"
His thumb sweeps back and forth for a minute as he smiles at her, "I was thinking at least two, a boy and a girl."
"A boy and girl." She looks amused, soft, and happy for the first time in months and he really likes her like his. "Well we're going to have to break the news gently to Espo, apparently he had a rather revolted reaction to the idea of it."
"Punk." He breathes leaning in and capturing her lips, in just a brush of love and affection for her and her boys.
"We should get to the information before they set the briefing." She groans coming to the happy realization that this will be the last time, after this they're going to be her cases again from the ground up. She won't be jumping in on a case that's half built by people she doesn't know. "I should call Gates and let her know what's going on."
"Want me to call the boys?" he asks pulling out his own phone.
"You just wanna brag that stood up the Attorney General and got your way." She smirks because she kind of wants to brag too.
He gasps in mock horror, "You wound me Agent Beckett, I would never be so petty."
She doesn't dignify that with an answer she simply rolls her eyes and sits down at her desk. "Go call them, I have to talk to Captain Gates."
"You're telling me that they've been building a case against Senator Bracken for the last three years and they never thought to get in on the investigation related to your shooting or Montgomery's death?" Castle looks up from the file, disbelief evident on his face.
She is right there with him, everything in the files sent down to her office indicates that they have been looking into Bracken for years. Long before she knew that he was behind her own personal black hole. "The evidence we have here doesn't even link to our case, this is stuff is about everything else he's done." Collapsing back against the chair, she scrubs a hand over her face. "I should have let him die. At least it would be done."
"Kate..." he tries to scold.
You wouldn't have saved him and you know it." She looks at him across the folders, disappointed with herself, disappointed with the federal government.
"That's why I'm not a cop. Saving him from an explosion would have let us all sleep better at night but it wouldn't have brought closure to anyone tangled in his vast web of lies deceit and murder bought with campaign funds from invisible soldiers." Reaching across the table, he grabs her hand, "That's what you do Kate, that's what you're good at. Knowing that sometimes the right thing isn't always the easy thing but doing the right thing is what got you here and is what will bring him down."
She looks at him for a long minute. "See you always have the right words."
"Yeah. But now it's time for some action Agent Beckett." He says stacking up the files.
Glancing at her father's watch, "Shoot that briefing is in 5 minute on the other side of the building."
"We've got time." He stands slowly.
"Yeah, I've gotten lost enough in this circular building to know that it takes at least 10 minutes to get anywhere you can't see from your desk. Let's go."
So all the government building in DC (for the most part anyway) are built in these huge circles around a courtyard, that has nothing in it. Making it impossible to go from one place to the other in any reasonable span of time. They also have their own way of numbering things as a result.
Have a good day!
Babyrose