A/N: Great episode of Castle last night! Favorite line: Wheres the super hot detective? "Oh your lookin' at him." xD Way to go espo!
anyway, here is the next chapter of The Impression That I Get.
Disclaimer: Still not mine, but i can still dream.
She quickly grabbed her phone and hit speed dial five and waited for Lanie to answer. On the second ring, she picked up and started to give hell.
"So how was it?" She asked right away.
"Huh?" Came the slightly confused reply.
"You're calling me before 8 o'clock, we both have the day off, and if you hadn't done anything I really wanted to hear about, then you would have called me when you got home. So spill, how was it?" Lanie asked once more.
With a grunt, she relented, knowing she couldn't fight talking about it for very long. "It was... uhm..."
"Wow, that good?" Lanie exclaimed.
"You have no idea, Lanie."
"I hate to say I told you so, girl, but I told you so." She said, sass evident in her tone.
"Yeah, yeah. God, Lanie, he was just so... so..."
"Man, he really did a number on you, didn't he?" She asked, not really looking for a direct answer. When she was met with silence, she began again. "So, let's do some comparison. When you called me after Josh, you went 'eh', saying it was nothing special, that it was weird afterwards, but after Castle, you're speechless. So are you two..." Lanie let her words falter.
"I'm not entirely sure. He asked me to breakfast. I'm suppose to meet him in about two hours." She said, glancing at her clock that lay just a few feet away.
"You're together then." Lanie replied, with no hesitation.
"What? How do you know?"
"Kate, if it was just a one time thing, then he would have just said that he has some where to be and that he would call you. But, he invited you to breakfast to talk about things. And besides, you should expect more out of writer-boy by now."
"Yeah, I do. But there's something... different."
"Of course there's something different, girl, you two just slept with each other." She said, pointing out the obvious.
"No, I mean, there's something, else." She said, not knowing how to put it.
"You're in love, girl."
The words made Kate's heart race, and her muscles tingle. 'Love' was a word she didn't use lightly. Sure, she's known him for almost three years, but still, they had one night together. Sure, that night had been amazing, but it was still just one night.
"I don't know." Kate said flatly.
"You will, just give it time, don't rush into things."
"Lanie, we went on one date and ended up sleeping together." She quirked.
"As far as I'm concerned, you two have been seeing each other for quite a while now. It's just last night was the first time you actually considered going out to eat with him as a date."
"I guess you're right. Well, listen Lanie, I have to take a shower and get dressed. I'll talk to you later. See you later, Lanie. Bye Espo!" She called out to the phone and heard Lanie shush him rather loudly right before she hung up.
She went about getting herself ready on auto pilot until she was headed out the door with about a half an hour to spare.
Getting home at around eight o'clock, he threw his keys down on the kitchen island, looked around for his mother, or evidence of her being here. He went upstairs after sweeping the entire down stairs with out finding anyone. He came up to Alexis' room to find her asleep in her bed, and he then let his heart rate decrease a little bit , knowing she was safe and sound.
The door creaked rather loudly when he began to close it and this caused her to stir, and eventually sit up with squinted vision.
"Dad? What time is it?" She asked in a raspy voice.
"Hey sweetie, how you feeling?" He came to sit beside her.
"A little better than yesterday. My neck feels bendable again, and my head feels two sizes smaller."
"That's good, what about the rest?" He asked, taking a quick once over glance of her body.
"My leg hurts a lot less, and my shoulder just feels weird, numb I guess." She said, trying to move her left shoulder in circles.
"Do you need anything?" He said, getting up to do her quick bidding.
"Nothing I can't do myself, Dad." She said with raised eye brows, suggesting he should get out.
"Oh, okay. Well where is grams? I agreed to meet Beckett for breakfast."
"She's still asleep, she was up pretty late." She said, moving the blankets on her bed around and readjusting her position.
"Alright, well I'm going to take care of a few things here then I'll head back out in about an hour, okay?"
"Okay, Dad."
He returned downstairs and went into his office to check his schedule on his laptop and cursed himself, he then checked his mothers schedule that lay next to him on his desk, and he cursed himself once more. He returned up stairs to find Alexis playing on her own laptop.
"So we may have a problem." He said, coming to lean against her door jam.
"And what is that?" She asked, not bothering to look up.
"Well, I have a publishing meeting this evening, and your grandmother has an acting class. And I still don't feel comfortable leaving you alone. So, If I can get Beckett to come over, will you be okay with that?" He inquired in a small voice. He didn't want to force her into anything she didn't feel up to.
"Yeah, I guess." She responded, a little unsure of herself.
"Great, I'll ask her when I go to meet her." He glanced at his watch. "Speaking of which, I'm running late. I'll see you this afternoon, pumpkin." He came up to kiss her forehead.
"I'll be here, love you, Dad." She said as he made his way out of her room.
"Love you too, pumpkin"
She was already sitting in their regular booth when he came stumbling into Remys at 9:40. He ungracefully slid himself into the opposite side of her and greeted her, rather chipper.
"Hey!" He greeted, a bright smile on his face.
"Hey there." She responded, a sultry grin on her face.
Ernie came over and placed two mugs in front of them. They thanked him in unison and let a rather awkward silence envelop them. Running a finger along the handle of her coffee cup, she nervously spoke.
"So, uh, are we..." She asked, not knowing how to put it onto words.
Picking up on what she was asking, he responded with another question. "Do you want to be? I don't want to pressure you into anything, Kate."
"No, I want to. I just wasn't sure if we were on the same page or not." She reassured him, and took a long swig of her rather dull coffee. There was something about Castle's coffee that made it taste better.
"Well, I'm glad we are on the same page then." He said, with a smirk on his face.
They ordered their food, and joked about how they wished they had more time off. When they were placed with the check, they now had time to kill.
"So, I have a publishing meeting tonight at five, and mother has an acting class at 4:45, and I don't feel comfortable leaving Alexis alone. Do you think you could come over and just... well, not babysit her, but you know, just... be there, in case..." He let the words fall, not knowing how to put it.
"Uh, yeah. I guess I could. How long will you be gone?"
"It's always hard to say. It could be just an hour, or it could run as late at nine or ten, and mother always stays after and mingles with her students. I'd really appreciate it."
"No, it's no trouble at all. I had nothing better to do anyway." She said, picking up her mug again.
"There's always me." He said behind his lifted mug.
She smiled behind her mug. They were still them.
A/N:Pretty short, I know. But once I get to writing some case work and such, they will get longer, because then I will have Ryan and Espo to play around with. And I do have something planned for Beckett coming over to watch Alexis. Hope you guys like it!