Breaking the surface of the water Julia saw that everyone else was getting out of the pool and she grumbled a little before she turned at the sound of her mother coming up to her. "Do we really need to get out?" she asked.
"No, did you think we were leaving?" Beckett replied.
"Well… they're leaving," Julia said, nodding to the others.
"They're just taking a break," Beckett said. "I'm not sure why Eliza and Mari felt they needed to do the same." She then gave a gentle whistle before the two looked back at them. "Rick," she called to her husband.
Turning from where he was looking out the window Castle saw the girls and he went over to them saying, "You're done?"
"I thought we should go too… we're not leaving?" Mari asked shyly.
"No we just want them to rest a little," Skye answered, sitting on a lounge chair with Marie on her lap. "It's been a long day."
"We're heading up to our room soon," Mary said. "After we let them swim for a little longer."
"We'll do the same so we should just gather in their room," Castle said before the two women nodded to that. "Come on; let's get as much swimming done as we can before we need to go."
"We're not staying here tomorrow are we?" Mari asked with a smile.
"Good guess," Beckett said as by then they were already next to the side of the pool. "We'll tell you later; for now come and swim. Hey Alexis," she then said to the young woman who'd ducked out to talk to Louis.
"How's Louis?" Castle asked.
"Good," Alexis said with a slight smile. "He's eager to come to New York."
"You want to take him around?" Beckett said, able to tell that from the expression on her stepdaughter's face.
"If that's alright," Alexis replied, looking to her father.
"The loft is all yours," Castle replied. "Just please don't throw any parties."
Rolling her eyes Alexis said, "I wasn't going to Dad."
"Then have fun," Castle said. At that point he turned to look at the McDouglases who were coming over to them and said, "Short break."
"That was as long as we could get them to stay sitting," Skye said with a smile as the twins were first into the pool. "So I think we're staying ten more minutes."
"Us too," Beckett said as she looked over to them from where she'd been watching Alexis swimming with Eliza.
"So we should hurry and swim right?" Julia asked then. When her parents both nodded she then started to swim for the other end of the pool with Mari, not surprised when her mother told them to take it easy. Once they'd reached the end and were holding on she laughed and said, "Why do moms always say that?"
"'Cause they want you to be careful," Mari said with a simple shrug. "We should go back."
"Yeah since no one else swam over with us," Julia replied. "Ready?" she asked. She laughed when Mari immediately started to swim away and she hurried to go over her as quickly as she could before they rejoined the others.
When ten minutes had passed Castle and Beckett got the girls out while Skye and Mary were getting their daughters from the pool as well. There was some protest from the five kids but eventually they were redressed and heading upstairs to the suite they were sharing with Alexis.
"Do we need to take baths?" Eliza asked her mother after she was sitting on her lap on the couch in the room.
"No," Beckett said with a smile. "Unless you want to?"
"I want to take a bath like in the other one," the toddler replied.
"Tomorrow night you will need to take a bath," Beckett said. "Even if it's not like it was yesterday."
Sighing Eliza then smiled and said, "Will you give me a bath?"
"I will," Beckett replied, kissing her temple.
"'lexis?" Eliza asked then as her big sister was walking up to them then.
"Remember we were going to work on our waka?" Alexis reminded her.
"Oh! I have to go do that Mommy," Eliza said seriously before she started to slide off her lap.
Watching as the two joined the rest of the girls around the table Beckett looked at her husband who was walking up to her. "What?" she asked as he held his hand out to her.
"Want to step out on the balcony?" Castle asked.
"Where are our coats?" Beckett said in response as she took his hand and stood up with his help.
After they were set the two went out onto the balcony where they found Skye and Mary there, looking out at the slowly darkening sky and the city where the lights were starting to come on.
"Some fresh air?" Skye asked them as she and her wife turned to them.
"That and we don't want to put any pressure on them with their writing," Castle replied.
"Hopefully they're not stressing," Mary said, looking at them in surprise.
"I think they want you to have something good for the writing you told them about," Beckett explained.
"So are you ready for tomorrow?" Skye asked then as they all looked together to the city and the lights.
"As ready as we can be," Beckett said in amusement. "What else can we really do?"
"Be packed to go?" Mary said in response before they all laughed together. "It's not going to take that long to get over there so luckily we don't need to get up too early this time around."
"We knew already," Castle said. "I get the feeling though you two are getting the same idea we had ourselves."
"I doubt it," Skye said simply.
"Not a good feint," Beckett said with a smile at her.
"It was worth a shot," Skye replied, shrugging her shoulders. She then said, "I don't know, we've alluded to this before and we're all adults and all in love."
"Which we did right now," Castle pointed out to them. "But what time do you want us here in the morning?"
"Eight," Skye said after looking at her watch for a moment before she nodded. "The train leaves at eight thirty."
"Helps we're not too far from the subway," Castle said. "Well, a cab ride away of course."
"Hey," Alexis said, opening the door to the balcony. "They're finished."
"Let's order dinner," Castle was saying as the four of them headed back inside. "And we'll hear your poems while we're waiting for it."
After everyone had looked at the menu for room service and Skye had ordered for them the girls looked at each other while they were holding the pieces of paper their waka were on.
"Who wants to go first?" Beckett asked, smiling reassuringly at them all.
"I guess we should go in order of age," Julia said, looking at the others. She wasn't surprised when they nodded and she said, "I…"
"Don't worry Julia," Skye said then. "We're friends and family here."
"She's right," Castle said quickly, taking the investigator's cue. "We're not going to hate it because this is your first time writing a waka."
"I'd be nervous myself if it was me," Mary said.
"You would?" four of the five girls asked her in surprise.
Laughing softly at their tones Beckett said, "I think I would be too."
"Not you Daddy," Eliza said quickly.
"There's always some uncertainty when I go out to read," Castle said. "But at your age? Oh, I was nervous reading like this then."
"Really?" Julia asked. When her father nodded she took a deep breath and after seeing the encouraging looks from everyone in the room she cleared her throat to start reading. "Oh," she said quickly as she recalled. "I wrote this about the rain. Rain falls to the ground, children play in puddles all day, rain races down the window."
"Nice," Castle said, applauding with the others when she'd finished, her cheeks a bright red.
"He's right," Beckett said with a smile as the girl ran to her, hugging her.
"That'll be nice to write in kanji," Skye said. "Alright, next is Mari isn't it?"
"It is," the little girl said with a deep blush. She was about to start reading when her friend rushed over to her and stood with her, making her smile before she started. "Upside down and fly, snow and trees are high above, ride over the sky in joy."
"Was that supposed to be about Fuji-Q?" Mary said once they'd stopped applauding her.
"Yeah," Mari said with a smile. "Julia helped me," she said, hugging her friend tightly as she was doing the same to her.
"Now you Marie," Skye said with a smile.
"Yeah, I had the tigers," the little girl said with a nod. "Orange and black roar, stalks through jungles to find home, orange and black onward goes." She smiled when the others clapped her effort as well and said, "Alexis gave me the word onward."
"Good choice," Beckett said with a nod.
"She's right, it's a great touch," Skye said. "Now on to you Kath."
"Okay," the little girl said, smiling at her twin. "I decided to write about the dolls we got. Dressed in rainbow hues, patterns bright shine in the sun, spin colors and dance in light."
"I helped her with that one too," Alexis said with a smile as the adults all looked to her when they'd stopped applauding again.
"She helped all of us and Eliza," Kathleen said after hugging her in thanks.
"Last one," Castle said, looking to Eliza at that moment.
"I'll help her," Alexis told them before the toddler went over to where she was sitting. She then whispered the first line to her before she watched her think for a moment before she spoke.
"Dolls, swords, umbrellas," Eliza said proudly, needing a moment to be able to pronounce the last word. She waited for Alexis to then whisper to her and she said the second line, "We play and stay up all night." Hearing the last line from her big sister she said proudly, "Can we play and have fun now?" She smiled when her parents laughed with Skye and Mary before she went to them, hugging her mother first before saying, "I had the idea."
"I'm not surprised to hear that," Castle said in amusement.
"But you know we can't really let you stay up all night," Beckett said.
"She knew," Alexis said. "She just wanted to make you laugh."
"She takes after you then," Beckett told her husband with a smile. She hugged Eliza a little closer before there was a knock on the door and she let her go so they could eat once the food was inside.
"I wonder," Alexis commented, sitting at the desk with Julia and Mari. "Did we miss the food at home?"
"I think we wanted something different," Julia pointed out. "But I like the food we're having here it's nice."
"Why don't we have sushi?" Eliza asked.
"We're not sure you'd enjoy it," Castle said frankly. "Though you are having authentic Japanese food."
"Like the noodles today… ramen?" Marie said before looking at the adults questioningly.
"That's right, we did," Skye said, setting down her sandwich. "I don't hear any clamoring about tomorrow," she then said in an exaggerated whisper to her wife. "I guess they don't care."
Laughing at the protest they had from the girls Castle said, "You better tell them."
"Alright so we're going to be heading to Osaka next," Skye explained. "And we need to see if you six will be okay with what we had in mind since you've been so good going to the buildings and museums we have."
"We like going," Mari said, though she had to wonder what the woman meant exactly. She wasn't surprised, when she looked at the others, that their expressions looked the same as she was thinking.
"Alright we'd like to take you to the Universal Studios that's there," Skye said.
Julia looked at the twins when they suddenly squealed in surprise and joy and said, "What's so special about that?"
"Mainly the fact that they have a bigger section for Harry Potter here," Mary said.
Not surprised when hers and Castle's daughters squealed out their joy Beckett smiled and said, "We were going to take you to the park in Orlando for that but-"
"We don't care which one is first!" Eliza interrupted her mother to say in a rush. "But… we don't have our robes."
"Who says you don't?" Alexis asked.
"You knew?" all five girls said nearly in sync.
Alexis covered her mouth with her hand before she said, "I didn't, no one told me why exactly I was packing your robes."
"Are you gonna get some too?" Julia asked her sister. "You don't have any."
"You don't have a house!" Mari said since she knew that from playing at their house.
"Then she needs to be sorted…" Castle began. "After dinner," he then added when his wife, Skye and Mary all glanced at him. "We're almost done," he said placatingly to the girls.
"Oh… we get to get wands now and everything," Julia breathed as she picked up a chip. "And do you have your robes?"
"A Ravenclaw robe and Slytherin robe are in my suitcase," Mary said.
"What about you?" Eliza then asked her.
"Me?" Mary said in confusion.
"She's wondering if you'll all have robes too," Julia said.
"I think we'll pass," Beckett said. "We're a little old to go to Hogwarts."
"'lexis is too," Eliza said.
"Very true," Castle said. "But I think you'll have more fun being the students than we will."
"There's more to it than just the Harry Potter section," Skye told them. "But we don't blame you for wanting to go there the most. So do we," she then told them in a whisper.
"Do they have the candy store?" Mari then asked.
"We'll see tomorrow," Beckett told her. "Relax because for now we need to finish up with today."
As the adults were clearing away everything to take outside into the hall from dinner Kathleen piped up saying, "Can we go outside for a little bit to take pictures?"
"You can take them Alexis," Beckett said for Julia, Mari and Eliza.
"Go on," Skye said to her daughters. "Listen to Alexis."
When they were in the room alone as the door was closed after the six in their coats Castle said, "I hope it's a good one."
"You're still going to take them over to the Orlando one?" Mary asked him and his wife.
"We want to," Castle said with a slight nod. "We just have to see how that'll work out."
"He wants to go on Spring Break but I wanted to take them to Disney so we'll need to see," Beckett said.
"I imagine a week is long enough," Skye said.
"She's right, it would be," Mary said. "Hell we could do this again if you don't mind us like leeches with you."
Laughing Castle said, "I don't get the feeling you're leeches in the sense of the word."
"Up to you," Skye replied. "But our girls do get along. And so you know Marie and Kath love Alexis."
"We should go," Beckett said, smiling at her husband who soon nodded in agreement with her. "And we will but we have time to plan that all out."
"I don't know," Skye said thoughtfully. "I have a mind to get a robe myself."
"We never got Alexis sorted," Mary said to remind them. "But grá, just a wand okay?"
"Oh… alright," Skye said in a mock grudging tone of voice before she smiled at her wife. She laughed with the others before the door was opening from the balcony and she said to the girls and Alexis, "What do you think?"
"It's so pretty!" Marie was first to say, the other girls murmuring in agreement with her.
"Time for the hat!" Eliza crowed then.
"We don't have a hat but there is this," Castle said, handing over the tablet opened onto a site so she could be 'sorted' to his daughter.
Alexis quickly filled out the test and then nodded saying, "Like I thought, Ravenclaw." She laughed when her sisters hugged her then and she did the same back to them before telling them, "I'm happy we're in the same house; should I get a wand too?"
"You have to," Kathleen said. "How can you be a witch without one?"
"Okay," Alexis said, smiling at the four who were watching them. "For now though we're still Muggles, so let's play with your dolls."
"We don't have too much time," Beckett said as Julia and Mari looked to her. "I know," she said when they groaned in disappointment. "But you need your rest for the amusement park."
"How long are we staying?" Mari asked interestedly.
"Until it closes, ten," Skye answered.
"Okay calm down," Castle said laughingly as the girls were jumping up and down around him. "We know you're excited but you're losing precious time to play."
"He's right, we better start," Julia said to the other girls. "What are you going to do?" she asked their parents, knowing Alexis would play with them.
"I'll be watching you guys," Beckett replied first.
"I'll be playing with you if you'd like," Castle said.
"Me too," Mary said.
"Someone has some writing to do," Skye told them last, holding up the pieces of paper where their waka were written.
"Do you have what you need?" Castle asked in surprise.
"I'll no be making paintings," Skye said with a pseudo, exaggerated Scottish accent. She smiled when the kids all giggled at her voice and she said, "No, just pen but luckily there's paper for that…"
"Where are we gonna draw around it?" Marie asked her mother.
"There'll be space, don't worry," Skye said before she went into the room her daughters were sharing with Julia and Mari.
"So what are we playing?" Castle asked since the girls hadn't protested the idea of him and Mary playing with them.
"This is the empress," Eliza said, pointing to the doll that her sister was holding, with a deep navy blue kimono painted on it.
"Mommy play with us?" Julia said then. "Please?"
Beckett hesitated for a moment before she smiled and then got off the table chair she'd been sitting on next to Skye who'd begun to write. "Keep telling us what your game is."
The five girls explained to Castle, Beckett, Mary and Alexis what they wanted to play and after everyone had a doll they began to move them around, talking in voices together.
Castle glanced at Beckett after they'd been playing for a while and saw that she was smiling at their youngest before moving her doll. He had to admire her for the way she'd so quickly gotten over the embarrassment of playing dolls with their daughters; though it had happened once she'd adopted Julia. He couldn't stop himself and then leaned over, kissing his wife's cheek to the surprise of everyone. "Sorry…" he said when he pulled away and realized that everyone was very quiet at that. "Should I not have done that?"
"Yes," Julia said, smiling at the twins who were giggling. "But the princess was supposed to kiss the samurai after she rescued him."
"They can do that now," Beckett said. She enjoyed herself with the rest of the girls' game until finally they stopped as they could take it no further. "So time for someone to be in bed," she said, glancing at Eliza.
"N-oooo," the toddler started to say in protest before she cut herself off and then whispered the o. "Sorry," she said softly.
"It's okay, you realized your mistake," Castle said, Beckett nodding in agreement with him. "Say goodnight to everyone though."
The toddler then went to the McDouglases to say goodnight to them, doing that to the twins and Mari last before she went to her sisters. "Love you 'lexis, Jules," Eliza told them seriously. She smiled and said, "Can't wait for tomorrow."
"Neither can we," Alexis said, hugging her first. She shared a kiss with her and said, "Love you Lizzy, night."
"I love you too Lizzy, sweet dreams," Julia said, hugging her next.
Castle and Beckett let their youngest wave to the others before they took her into the bedroom and helped her prepare for bed before they were sitting on the edge of the one she was going to share with Alexis.
"I love you Mommy, Daddy," the toddler said as she looked at her parents sleepily, slightly smiling. "Thank you for tomorrow."
"You're very welcome," Beckett said, Castle saying the same after her. "We're looking forward to it too. And I love you sweetie, sleep well tonight for tomorrow okay?"
"I will," Eliza replied before sharing a kiss with her mother. Going over to her father next she hugged him as tightly as she could before she felt him then pressing a kiss to the top of her head.
"Love you Eliza, sweet dreams and tomorrow we're off to Osaka!" Castle said, smiling when she merely yawned in response to that. He shared a kiss with her but wasn't surprised to see that she was fast asleep the second she was laying down. He watched Beckett tuck her in and kiss her before he took her hand and led her outside to the living room. "She's out," he then said to the others.
"These two will be soon as well," Skye said, nodding to the twins who were yawning, making Julia and Mari as well.
"And them," Beckett said, smiling at the two girls who looked at them with wide eyes.
"I don't think you're going to be able to keep yourselves awake," Castle told them with a smile. He then heard the snap of a pen cap being placed on a pen and he glanced over to Skye who was the one doing that. "All finished?"
"I am," Skye told them. She smiled when the girls rushed to her and said, "I should have finished Eliza's first," to Castle and Beckett who'd come over with her wife and Alexis to see as well.
"It's alright," Castle said. "We should have suggested… this is really good."
"Thank you for writing it in English too," Mari said a little shyly.
"You're very welcome," Skye replied with a smile. "And it was fun to write out to be honest."
"Alright," Mary said after letting the girls look at their waka for a while. "Time for some twins to be in bed."
Castle and Beckett shared a smile at the sighs of all four of the girls; since Julia and Mari guessed correctly that they would be going to bed themselves. They let Skye and Mary take their daughters in first to let them get ready before they tucked the twins in before they were stepping outside to them, closing the door.
"Alright, we're off," Skye told them. "See you here at eight, goodnight."
Saying the same to the two while Mary told them that Julia sighed when the door closed after the two women and she said, "Now it's our turn?"
"It is," Castle said with a smile. "Let's say goodnight here though so we won't wake up the twins." He wasn't surprised when Mari came over to him and he said, "Try and sleep tonight okay?"
"I will," Mari replied as he hugged her with one arm.
"He's right," Beckett said as the little girl came over to her and then hugged her briefly. "We're staying for a while so you're going to need to rest."
"And go on a lot of rides?" Mari asked.
"I was wondering too, we never went to a Universal Studios before," Julia told them.
"Skye and Mary said there would be enough for all of us," Castle said before Julia hurried to him. "Wait," he said as he saw that Alexis had stepped forward then. "Say goodnight to your sister so she can go to bed herself."
"Night 'lexis," Julia told her, going over to hug her. She smiled at Mari as she was hugging her big sister quickly on the other side of her and then said, "Are you excited for tomorrow?"
"Yeah I told you I wanted to see the Harry Potter section," Alexis assured her. "But for now I love you Jules."
"Love you too 'lexis," Julia said, smiling at her. She went back to their father and hugged him tightly before telling him, "Love you Daddy."
"I love you too sweetheart," Castle told her. He shared a kiss with her before he said, "Sweet dreams."
"Thanks," Julia said before she went to her mother, embracing her.
Holding her oldest tightly to her Beckett said, "I love you Julia."
"I love you too Mommy, we can go on a ride together tomorrow right?" Julia asked.
"A number of them," Castle answered before his wife could.
"We'll probably do what we did at Fuji-Q," Beckett said with a smile. She then shared a kiss with Julia and said to Alexis as she and Castle stood, "Are you heading into bed?"
"Yeah I'll see you in the morning and don't worry we'll be ready to go," Alexis said.
"We'll be good," Julia and Mari said at the same time. They smiled at each other before the former said, "I'll help her if she needs it."
"Great, goodnight Alexis," Castle said, turning his attention to his daughter, hugging her.
"Night," Beckett said, smiling at her stepdaughter before she left to go into the room she and Eliza were sharing. Once they were alone she and Castle took the girls into the other bedroom and helped the two get ready for bed by brushing their hair as they could do everything else themselves. She and her husband kissed their oldest before she got on the bed with Mari and she tucked the two in before they left the room and then left the suite to go to their own room, holding hands tightly in slight desperation as they tried to not start running down the hall.
"Are you ready?" Beckett called out from where she was finishing preparing herself in the bathroom.
"I am… are you sure about this?" Castle asked.
"Clothes would just get in the way," Beckett said back to him simply.
"You know," Castle said thoughtfully as he looked around him. "I have some belts I could tie myself up with… halfway but I'd still be able to do that."
"I don't think so Castle," Beckett said wryly, knowing her use of his last name would get his attention. At that point she opened the door and stepped into the bedroom, smiling as he straightened up from where he was slumped against the headboard of their bed. "Well?" she asked.
Taking a deep breath Castle nodded and said, "Yeah… that was a great choice," as he admired her furisode style of kimono. He didn't know what had urged him to tell her but that morning before they'd left Izu he had asked if she could get another robe to wear when they were intimate. But as soon as he thought that his inner voice was chiding him, telling him that he knew exactly why he'd asked her. He had wanted to take her in a kimono that he didn't have to worry about damaging as he was with the one she'd bought in Tokyo. So she had gone off earlier that day while they were in the Higashiyama with Skye to pick out that robe though he hadn't seen it until that moment, watching her walk around to his side. "You look amazing Kate," he told her seriously.
"Come here," Beckett said, pulling him after her until he was standing. She wrapped her arms tightly around him while he was doing the same to her and then kissed him as he began to lean down to her. As they were tangling their tongues together she felt his hands on her back, knowing he was in fact enjoying her dark blue kimono that had some lighter and darker blue lotus flowers along the bottom, on the shoulder and at the bottoms of the sleeves; the reason why she'd bought it since it had screamed to her. When they'd finally parted she stepped away from him and nodded to the lounge next to them, a sheet covering it already with her pouch next to it, saying, "Get on."
Castle, shuddering at the simplicity of her tone, did as she asked before he looked on while she grabbed the sash around it, tugging it until it fell open. Instantly his mouth began to water as he saw she was naked except for her lace panties that were a light blue nearly the same color as his eyes. He swallowed hard and said, "You look amazing," glancing up to her.
"I did my best," Beckett replied though she was smiling. She glanced down at her husband's erection; since she'd instructed him to undress while she was getting ready; and felt her mouth grow a little moister before he was standing back up in front of her. Before she could comment on that she was suddenly back against the lounge, her robe spread out wide and her husband's lips all over her breasts. "Rick!" she moaned though a lot of her joy began to seep into that as well.
"God Kate… I couldn't stop thinking… about this all day," Castle confessed though he wasn't in the least bit sorry. "Can I?"
"Please," Beckett gasped out before he was moving away from her. As he grabbed her pouch she sat up enough to push her kimono off her shoulders, leaving it on as she knew her husband would want.
At that point Castle waited for his wife to lie back down before he moved to kiss her deeply. He wasn't sure how long he was doing that before he finally moved back and studied her body, what he could see of it, as she lay before him. He then leaned down and began to kiss at her breasts before he felt her holding onto the back of his head. When he took her right nipple into his mouth and proceeded to suckle on it he groaned heavily in joy as she cried out, her nails scratching at his scalp. Finally he moved away from her and then began to kiss a path down to the waist of her panties until he then pulled back again so he could position himself between her legs.
Gasping in joy at the sensation of her husband's lips through the lace directly at her clit Beckett held onto him by the head again, her fingers working through his hair. When he slowly pulled away she sighed in slight frustration but a second later she could hear the sound of the vibrator being turned on and she directed her attention to her husband holding it and bringing it down to her sex. The instant that it touched her clit she shifted, gasping out his name lovingly before he began to pass it over her repeatedly. The pleasure that shot through her body went straight to her breasts and she couldn't stop herself, reaching up with both her hands because she could, rubbing her nipples with her own fingers.
Hearing Beckett cry out Castle looked up at her and couldn't help himself as he watched her while he was still moving the toy up and down her sex. "Do you want…" he began to ask her.
"Yes!" Beckett moaned heavily in her pleasure as she knew what he was asking for permission to do. She then felt him pressing the vibrator a little harder against her clit and she sighed, trying to handle the extra pleasure there before she realized that it wasn't working. "Rick," she gasped softly as the throbbing in her body was becoming dangerously rough.
"No love, let go I want to see you come now," Castle told her gently. He wanted to go up to her to kiss her but didn't think he could manage it when she was moving for him. As he got up on the lounge with her he kissed her passionately but relatively briefly as he wanted to see her as she lost control which he could tell that she was close to. Finally, while he held her literally cradled in his arms, he felt her body tense for an instant as she broke and he kept his eyes on her to see it happen. She started to arch her back and then undulated against him before he kissed her. He had to keep that quick as she was crying out his name but didn't mind as he was enjoying just looking at her.
Once everything had calmed down for her Beckett opened her eyes slowly and then looked at her husband before she reached up to him and cupped his face in her hand. "Oh Rick that was… perfect," she said with a sigh. She then realized something as the hum of the vibrator was gone and said, "You never put that higher than medium did you?"
"There wasn't a need to," Castle said simply. He leaned down and shared a kiss with her before she was suddenly moving and he had to scramble to keep up with her. He wasn't sure how she did it but he was standing in front of her and she was on her knees on the floor, her kimono hanging off her abruptly naked body as she took his arousal almost hungrily into her mouth. "Wait-" he said before he cut himself off with a heavy hiss of pleasure as she soon began to bob her head up and down.
Beckett was tempted to stop and tell him that she had other plans for him but didn't bother since he'd find out soon enough. As soon as she pulled away she then took him with her over to the bed and lay back as he followed her. Reaching up to his shoulder where the prem was written as he got on top of her she raised herself up on her elbows and murmured against his lips as he leaned in close, "I could be your g-"
"No," Castle said, interrupting her. He didn't give her a reason why he said that, instead sliding into her body as he'd seen the way she'd been fingering herself while she'd worked on him though he hadn't seen it directly. Finally he was fully sheathed within her and he sighed saying, "You can't be anything but my wife Kate. My gorgeous, stunning, fucking amazing wife," as he kissed her with each adjective.
"We could play," Beckett said, moving her legs around him to place her feet flat on the backs of his calves. She gasped when he then thrust into her and he was deep with their position, prompting her to kiss him as hard as possible. She moaned against him as he kept moving and their pace; since she had rapidly begun to move with him; was rough in a very short amount of time. The friction from that was also rough and she loved the way he felt against her, though their skin was smooth there was enough heat generated for her to feel her body was aflame. She welcomed the sensation as her head rolled back from their kiss and she couldn't stop moaning out his name. "I… we could play… I wouldn't stay…" she tried to say before giving up and letting her focus go back to her pleasure.
"I don't want to play now," Castle breathed, watching her. "I just want us… I've wanted it all day," he reiterated. "And Kate? I-I think it's going to be one, one of those nights," he said, stammering slightly as the pleasure was suddenly more intense at that moment.
"I know… I can feel it already," Beckett sighed before she reached up with her right hand and started to stroke at his hair. She soon was running her nails along his scalp as well, loving the hissing of her name through his teeth though it wasn't that discernible. "I want it… I want you to fuck me Rick… as hard as you can," she managed to say before her husband was starting to kiss her and intently. She responded, putting her arm back down for support as they were suddenly going crazy with the rhythm they'd had before that point. The kiss was short as she needed to breathe badly with what her husband was doing to her and she then felt his lips on her neck, brushing over the skin so gently that she faltered.
Hearing the offbeat smack of their hips Castle stopped moving and he looked at his wife, seeing her collapsing down on the bed. "Okay?" he asked in a little concern.
"Yes I just… it was too much," Beckett told him honestly. "No, don't move," she told him, able to sense that he was going to do so. "I want to stay like this."
Nodding Castle leaned down then and began to kiss her, being very gentle and careful before he slowly pulled away from her and watched her eyes flutter open. "This still scares you," he said in realization as he could see in her brown pools what she was thinking.
Her cheeks heating up slightly Beckett was almost going to deny it but then stopped herself before she could speak. "I've never been like this," she told him. "Needing someone so much it consumes me… like it did now."
"I had a feeling," Castle said before he leaned down and kissed her tenderly. He slowly pulled away, just to put the barest of spaces between their lips, before he was moving in to kiss her again. That second became a third, then a fourth and so on, going on for as long as they could stand before he inadvertently thrust against her and heard her cry of delight before he began to move in earnest. He was almost going to apologize to her but when she crushed her lips to his he knew it wasn't really necessary. Her body was moving against his and his eyes were nearly rolling into the back of his head at the joy he felt moving within her. She was tight and wet and hot and he was dizzy with all of that together so shortly after he'd begun to move again. He mumbled against her lips as soon as they parted to breathe and then moved down to her breasts, nearly diving down to them unapologetically as he knew she watched him.
Though her husband couldn't take her breasts exactly in the position they were in Beckett didn't really care as he was easily able to brush his lips against the tops of them. Her skin broke out in goose bumps slightly at the feel of him against her before he moved away and they stared into each other's eyes as they moved in unison again. She was gasping for air as his gaze was intense on her and she wasn't sure how much she would be able to take as the pleasure was swift again to race through her. After a while, she wasn't sure how long it took, they were closing the space between them and kissing deeply. Hungry in the way their tongues were tangling together she wasn't surprised when her husband suddenly changed the way he was thrusting. He was moving in deeper, slightly slower strokes and she rushed to move accordingly so they were together.
Castle was absolutely delighted by the fact that she was going along with him and when he kissed her again he knew they were both inching closer to the edge. Moving back eventually he watched her again, loving the way that she reacted to her pleasure and moaned his name, speeding back up before he attempted to move deeper inside of her though that wasn't really possible. He kept his eyes on her, wanting to see the moment when she lost her self control which he knew was coming soon.
Crying out a sound Beckett then nearly screamed, "Oh Rick! Oh god Rick I'm coming don't stop! Please make me come again my love! I want to feel you!" as her back arched sharply and she rose up slightly in response to the intense jolt of her ecstasy at first. She collapsed down to the bed, unable to remain up as her body was writhing too much for her to stay up. She wasn't sure when it happened but soon after Castle was climaxing with her and she cried out again which interrupted her saying his name repeatedly. She held him by his shoulders and in doing that could feel the way that his muscles were moving, straining, to continue until finally he was giving her a few last thrusts after she'd stopped herself. Her name on his lips died down and she stroked the back of his head before sighing his name.
"I'm not going to be able to stop," Castle told his wife honestly when he felt strong enough to pull away from her.
Beckett smiled and said, "You've warned me about that already you know."
"True but now we've finished here…" Castle said, smiling back at her. He then closed the gap between them and they kissed lovingly before he turned them around so he was sitting on the edge of the bed while she straddled his lap. "Do you want to?" he asked her.
"Badly," Beckett told him seriously as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "But we have to remember tomorrow."
"All that walking…" Castle said with a mock suffering sigh. He then laughed shortly as she nudged him and said, "But it'll be fun I'm sure. Now though we should take advantage for just a little bit longer."
"Just a little bit," Beckett echoed before she kissed her husband deeply and earnestly, feeling her arousal returning as she felt his within her still.
"So glad we agree," Castle said as soon as they parted from one another. "Kate…" he then said as she proceeded to kiss around his face. "Can I move?"
"Of course," Beckett said. She wasn't surprised when her husband then picked her up and carried her over to the lounge, a short distance away. When he was sitting down on the sheet that was on top of it she said, "Ready?"
"I know you are," Castle said simply before he then thrust up against her once. As soon as he had done that he wasn't surprised when she began to thrust against him and he was joining her immediately. They were kissing hungrily after the first few thrusts and they held onto each other tighter than they were. He grunted when they parted from each other as she instantly began to roll her hips around him. When he felt her rubbing completely around his erection he sighed before he told her, "I'm already thinking of taking you again."
"Me too," Beckett breathed, her eyes soon closing in her pleasure as she began to move with just her hips and nothing else. It didn't let her move that far on him but she didn't care as she was enjoying it still and she reached up with her hands, stroking at his face gently before she suddenly stopped. Before Castle could protest she then led him down to her right breast before he was taking the nipple. After only sucking at her briefly he was pulling away to her sound of protest and she told him, "You don't need to stop."
"This first," Castle told her seriously before he then reached up and proceeded to cup the mounds in front of him before he used his thumbs at the same time to flick over her nipples. When she cried out he was grunting at the same time as she was throbbing around him, clenching around him tightly and making him wish they were moving again. But finally he gave in to his need and bowed his head, proceeding to suckle at her nipples hungrily while he used one of his hands to fondle her other breast so it was stimulated too.
Beckett's throbbing didn't stop as her husband continued back and forth between her breasts until finally she needed to move. Pushing herself up when he pulled away from her she cried out under her breath as she then lowered herself, the sensation affecting her immediately. "Rick…" she gasped in joy as he was shortly after moving with her and they were thrusting rapidly towards each other, making their hips smacking echo in the room. She leaned her head back as he was soon sucking on the side of her neck, wanting to warn him not to mark her but giving up as she couldn't really force herself to speak. Finally she stopped and got off her husband when things began to become too much and once her husband had moved out of her way she was laying back on the lounge her legs spread with her right foot on the floor. "I need you lover," she told him as he then moved to lie between her legs.
Swearing heavily Castle then crushed his lips to his wife's before their tongues mated and did so passionately. When they parted she smiled and he said to her, "You like this?"
"I… I love this…" Beckett gasped out. She was holding onto the back of the couch with one hand while the other was on his shoulder. She then slid it to his back, feeling his muscles again which made her groan in pleasure and she gasped to him, "Oh god… you're… so fast and… hard…"
"For you Kate," Castle told her seriously. He leaned down and kissed her for as long as he could until they needed to breathe and he mumbled to her, "Never was like this… before… didn't want to be. You have my soul love," he then told her as seriously as he could. He wasn't surprised when she initiated the kiss and he went along with it, finding she was frantic that time around. He matched her which wasn't tough at all as he was feeling the same too. The joy from being within her and so deeply, knowing she wanted him to take her so hard and rough, all of that was nearly blowing his mind and he parted from their kiss with a gasp that delved into a groan before she was making him stop. "I should have known," he said in a groan. He moved out of her and got on the bed as she followed him, sitting up to take her with him before they kissed deeply at the same time they coupled once more.
After they'd parted from the multiple kisses they'd shared with each other Beckett cupped her husband's cheek before he turned his head to kiss at her palm. She felt the warmth of that touch spread through her rapidly and she let out a soft moan before she then stroked his head as he went to her ear. Letting out a cry at the feel of his nibbling at the lobe she then told him, "I'm going to come too soon!"
"It doesn't matter," Castle told her, grunting at the end of that slightly. "I'll make you come again if I need to." He then flipped them around so she was below him and went back to her earlobe to bite down on it a bit before he then murmured into her ear itself, "Come for me my love, I can feel you, want to join me don't you."
"Yesss," Beckett moaned, ending on the s and repeating it as she orgasmed before she could stop herself. Soon she was swept up into the ecstasy that was racking her body in waves and forgot about her desire to try and last longer. She was literally clawing at her husband's back as he was soon joining her and she nearly hissed to him, "Make me come again Rick… I want to come again!"
Castle took her at her word and thrust as hard as he could again, angling his hips down into her so he could strike her clit as many times as he could. All concept of time flew out the window then as he was determined to hear her cry his name again. And what seemed like soon after he was getting that as he heard her crying out and felt her climaxing yet again. He was compelled to move faster and harder within her, nearly passing out when he himself soon followed her as everything was stronger that time around. He was watching Beckett closely, seeing her toe the line of unconsciousness before he was doing so himself. But somehow they managed to hold on and while she stopped moving he himself was giving her two last, hard thrusts before he stopped completely and then gasped out her name, trying his best to not collapse on her.
Beckett waited until her husband was moving away from her, lying next to her, before she lay in his arm against his side. She fingered his shoulder, the text there, gently before she said with a smile. "You still want to?" she asked.
"Yeah but let's have a rest," Castle said. He smiled when she laughed softly at his wording and he then said, "Just for a short amount of time."
"True," Beckett said, smiling lovingly at him. She then looked up at him and said, "I think tomorrow we're going to break our challenge."
"Don't be so sure," Castle said quickly, reaching up and beginning to stroke her hair. "I would absolutely love to be with you in Osaka… at Universal Studios granted but I think it'd still count."
"Maybe we can work on each other," Beckett suggested to him.
"Maybe," Castle said with a shudder. He then ran his hand down on her back and said, "This robe is amazing, you look incredible… still." He ran his hand over her back in a circle and said, "Sit up for me?"
Beckett didn't answer him; instead she did as he asked and watched him scramble to do the same before she leaned against him. She wasn't surprised when he gathered her in his arms before their mouths were crushed together once more and she then held onto him in a rough embrace. "Oh Rick…" she breathed as they parted and he began to kiss at her neck and face. "You know you were amazing," she told him as she gently pulled away from him.
"I was?" Castle asked, studying her closely. When she merely smirked at him he shuddered and said, "I try my best."
"And you succeeded," Beckett told him. She brushed her lips against his and then said, "You need to use the ink on me."
"I do don't I?" Castle asked her, knowing she'd brought that up as she was staring at the markings on his shoulder she'd made. "Well… tomorrow we might be too tired but the day after we might…"
"I think we'll be able to," Beckett said, smiling lovingly at him before they again came close to one another. Their kiss that time was very gentle and tender and she sighed when they parted. "You never were like this with another woman," she told him, watching him running his hands over her shoulders.
"I never wanted to be," Castle reminded her. "It amazes me," he then said, looking up at her seriously.
"It does the same for me," Beckett said. "But it's so intense…"
"You enjoy it," Castle told her simply as he leaned over and pressed his lips to her collarbone to her left, flicking his tongue against her skin. "You need it."
"I crave it," Beckett said seriously as he was stroking at her skin, trying to move the kimono out of the way. At that point she then moved with him so she was standing in front of him while he was on the edge of the bed and while his eyes were almost burning into her she then began to take off the robe. Once she'd tossed it over to the lounge near them she got back on the bed, feeling her husband's hand on her back. As he slid it down to her ass she turned to him and kissed him hungrily before he was responding to her and she let him lead her down onto the bed fully.
"One more time?" Castle asked in a whisper once they had parted.
"Yes," Beckett breathed before their lips were meeting once more.
After their passionate kiss Castle and Beckett began to move so they could make love which they did so desirously. They forgot everything but each other, not needing much to do so, and taking the chance to eagerly while they had it before they need to regain energy for their trip that would take their attention once more.
