Somehow I was able to finish this chapter after the disaster called 8x02

The room door opens and Kate enters into the parlor area of their cabin. She drops down the note pad that she has been carrying since leaving the theatre. Looking around she does not see her husband nor does she hear anything indicating his presence

Walking into the bedroom she discovers a new world has been created in the sleeping section by her man. Since he left her in the show lounge and returned to the cabin, he has been working on setting up a murder board just like they would have done at the precinct

He did not have any access to a magnetic dry erase marker board but instead, the entire wall opposite the bed is now covered with pages from a note pad. He has taped the sheets to the bulkhead giving them a place to write. He put the victim's name over one of the pages in the center and on the sides he wrote 'suspects'

"Hey babe" she chirps out with a laugh in her voice "What in the world are you doing?"

He turns his head from looking at the wall of notes on the bedroom bulkhead to his wife "Hey beautiful"

He smiles at Kate "I have been waiting for you"

"I see you have…" she steps closer "and I also see you have been very busy" She leans down and gives him a kiss "what in the world has my guy been doing?""

He looks at the wall "Just getting ready" he points at the paper he has put up "I set us up with a murder board"

"I see"

"I was waiting for you before we can start. Do you have anything we need to put up here yet?"

She can't help but smile at her husband's antics "Actually, yes I do. I have our first suspect"

Castle's mood seems to change to giddy "Really? You have a suspect already? Who is it?"

"She pauses briefly looking at all the work he has already put up on the board "Yeah. The magician, Conrad Morton"

"Seriously? The performer? Why in the world would he kill Claude? Did they know each other?"

"As far as we can tell, they never met before the cruise"

"Then why would the magician kill Claude?"

"It seems that Conrad was hired for this cruise and was being paid to do his act on a per performance basis"

"So if he performed…"

She responds "He was paid…and if he didn't do his act…"

Rick finished her comment "he did not get paid"

"And he really wanted to do his act tonight"

"What was special about tonight?" Castle questions

Kate continues her story "There is a booking agent on board that Conrad wanted to make sure saw the act and might possibly book him for a gig in Vegas"

"Is Conrad not doing his act again?"

"Yes. He is doing it twice more, but these are scheduled on the evening after the ship leaves Puerto Rico and the booking agent was departing in San Juan and therefore he would not get to see the show"

Castle responds "I guess that would make him a little angry if the agent misses the program"

"And mess up Conrad's chance on going to Vegas"

"OK so how was our victim involved?"

"It seems that Claude was standing talking to the cruise director about the show when Conrad walked up asking about what was going on"

Beckett paused in her description of the events

"She told Conrad his show was postponed and Morton started yelling at her about messing up his Vegas chances. Claude tried to intervene and Conrad threatened to…and I quote 'to take care of things the way we did in Detroit'

"I guess that was taken as a threat?" Rick asks

"Very much a threat, Yes!"

Castle then wonders "Do we know where Morton was during the show tonight?"

Beckett picks up her notes "No. We have not yet talked to him. No one has seen him and he had not returned to his cabin as of when I left the security office. They posted a guard so when he does show up they can bring him into the brig."

"Kate, wouldn't he have been spotted entering or leaving the stage during the play? Someone should have seen him"

"Remember Castle, he is a magician and he did the magician's usual disappearing trick on stage?"

"Yeah, I remember. A giant puff of smoke and he is gone"

"And don't you remember when we were investigating the Zalman Drake case and the street magician disappearing into a box he was standing on?"

"Right!" Castle answers drawing out the word

"Conrad Morton had a trap door installed on the stage for his act so he could do that trick"

"Ok so he could have used it to get on and off the stage without being seen"

"Right, but since there is no lock or other mechanism preventing it from being used, anyone could have used it to get on the stage and off again without being seen by someone in the wings"

Rick considers other ideas "Someone else might have used the trap door"

"According to the stage manager, no one else knew about the trick door. That was one of the magician's secrets"

"I think we need to find Mr. Morton then"

"Yes we do" she states "but right now, I am very tired and I want us fresh and ready tomorrow morning to get started"

"I am too. Let's get to bed then and we can pick back up on this in the morning" Castle stands up and places his laptop on the table "Oh I transferred all the images from Sara's camera to the computer. We can go over them in the morning"

"Great" Kate responds just as a yawn leaves her mouth and she stands and begins taking her clothes off. This is when she thinks about what she will wear to bed tonight. Since they are technically on a honeymoon, she packed all her sleepwear based on this being a more romantic week rather than a normal, go to work, the next day kind of week.

Basically, she did not pack any 'normal' pajamas or sleep shirts and shorts or long pants for that matter. Only very seductive items

While Rick goes into the bath room, Kate looks through the dresser to see what she might wear to bed tonight

She finds one of his t-shirts and slips it over her head and slips under the sheets in the bed.

When Castle comes out of the bathroom he sees his wife is wearing his shirt

"Why did you borrow one of my t-shirts? Don't you have something else to sleep in?"

"Yes. But what I brought was a little more…shall; we say…more appropriate for a honeymoon. So I thought this might be a little less enticing or distracting while we are trying to work on this case"

Castle pulls back the covers and joins her in the bed. "There is only one problem with that"

"And what is that?" Kate asks with obvious glee in her voice

"Anything you wear is enticing and distracting"

"Oh is that so?"

"Absolutely. Do you remember the night gown you found in the bomb shelter?"

Beckett has a questioning look on her face "I think so. There was nothing very sexy about it. If I remember correctly it was long…in fact it went from my neck all the way to the floor…"

Castle finishes the description "and it buttoned at your neck and the sleeves went all the way to your wrists covering every inch of your sexy body"

"OK…and what about it? We had not…you know connected at that point. Were you lusting after my body?" she lets out a silly giggle at this point

"Maybe?"

He pauses a moment "I know it sounds silly but…but, Kate you were so hot in that gown. I couldn't keep my eyes off of you that morning when we woke up together"

She reaches over to his ear and gently rubs his lobe. She knows how much he like her doing that "You thought THAT thing was sexy?"

"Yes…well who was wearing it was sexy…I mean is sexy"

"I didn't' know you noticed it"

"Oh I noticed it alright" and he puts his arm around her back and gently starts pulling up his shirt from her "Just like I noticed how good my shirt looks on you"

She pulls him in for a kiss "You know it looks even better on the floor"