Life has been crazy.
I will try to return to a normal schedule and finish this
She did not even realize that she had stepped into his embrace and was currently encircled by his arms with her cheek laying on his chest. There was something comforting about her current position. Her arms have slid around him to his back without her permission.
She can only feel the warmth of what he just said to her. How he had just opened his arms…. and his heart to her. She is feeling something from him that she never had felt before and was so sure that it could never could even be possible.
That thing called Love
His love is pouring into her through every pore on every inch of her body
And she likes it.
Pulling back and looking up to him only confirms what is happening. She is seeing the same face he gave her earlier at the station only amplified.
A year ago, she would have not accepted this. Especially from him, but here it is flowing over her world.
"Castle…" her voice contains a tone of worry and she pulls back a little from his embrace "Can we talk about this…I mean what is happening?"
"He is showing a gentle side "What do we need to say? Do you not feel the same way I do?"
"That's not it"
"What is it then?"
She takes a deep breath then lets it out slowly "Did you really mean what you said?"
"About what, specifically?"
"You are in love with me?"
"Yes Completely"
"The other women? The one's you go out with all the time?"
"I …Kate. Every woman I have gone with since we officially met mean nothing. I have wished each every one was you"
"Buy! They are all so beautiful" fear is racing through her like a wildfire when he extinguishes the flames.
"None of them are you"
Every word he says causes her defenses to fall more and more until she knows there is no wall left and he is totally sincere about what he wants. She looks into his eyes and hopes her next words will not destroy him "I need to take this slow"
"I know. Just like I said…I will do whatever you need, or I can pull away if that is what you want me to do"
He feels her fingers tighten around his arm "You have made me realize that I need this…I need you…I want you in my life"
"That is exactly what I want, Kate. Just tell me what you want"
"I want you"
"Same here"
They can both feel the room temperature rising
Looking deeply into him "And you are willing to help me with my quest for justice?"
"I am in this all the way"
She knows fighting this has become futile. As she leans in to try and kiss him her cell phone rings.
"Don't answer it"
"I have to answer it"
"Kate, my agent has called five times and I have ignored her"
She has pulled her cell from her pocket and looks at the screen "I am still on duty and it's Lanie" she puts the phone to her ear "Hey Lanie….what's up?"
/\/\/\/\/\/\
The ride to the morgue is different this time. They are both happy and just a little giddy. "What did Lanie say about this new case?"
"She said that she will tell me when we get there, only that it is a male, early 40's, well built. That he has taken care of himself" She turns her cruiser into the parking space reserved for on duty police. As the two begin walking toward the doors, Kate looks across to Rick and takes his arm to slow him down.
"Can we not talk about what is happening between us, you and me, with anyone else?"
Trying to add a tiny bit of humor Castle stops and responds "Why Detective Beckett…are you ashamed to be seen with me?"
His plan works as she lets him have a soft laugh "Not hardly. I just want to keep this to ourselves for a little while…"
He places his arm around her "Whatever you want, Kate…" he smiles "I have waited for four years for you. A little while longer will be fine"
/\/\/\/\/\
Just as Castle and Beckett enter the morgue's main entrance, his phone rings once more. This time he takes it out of his pocket "Let me take this and get her off my back and I will join you two in just a minute"
Kate acknowledges his comment and continues t the lab entrance where she comes face to face with Lanie Parish where she gets a suspicious eye from the Medical Examiner.
"What have you two been up to?"
"Nothing, Lanie. Why?"
"There is something different. I can't put my finger on it, but, girlfriend, you look different"
"We can talk about my new makeup later." She looks back at Castle, who is deeply in a conversation with Paula and gets a half grin from him. Then returning her attention to the body currently on the examination table "What do you have to tell me about the latest John Doe?"
Lanie glares her best friend for a few moments "This is another victim with no history"
"History?" Kate asks "What do you mean? History?"
"His clothes have no labels, he has no wallet or any form of ID, for that matter…and his prints are not in the system"
Kate walks around the table "Just like our last John Doe. Interesting"
"Yes. But I do have something that is even more interesting than that" Lanie hands Beckett her clipboard with several pages under the clamp.
After Kate reads several lines of the reports, she looks up at the ME "What am I looking at?"
Lanie points the notes "The DNA"
Again, Kate reads the notes "You know DNA is not my strong point, Right?"
Lanie takes the paper from Kate playfully "Your first John Doe's DNA is under the thumbnail and on the shirt of this John Doe"
Kate looks at Lanie with surprise all over her face as Dr. Parish continues "It would appear that this man was in contact with the other victim, and from the location, I would estimate…"
"He is the one who killed my other vic."
Another voice appears in the doorway. Sophia Turner has entered the morgue "And probably has been involved in a multitude of other murders in the last few years.
Kate and Lanie are obviously shocked to see this woman appear from what seems to be no where
After I finish this one, I think I have a ne Murder in Story
We will just have to wait and see