Disclaimer: They're not mine. I'm only borrowing them for the summer. Andrew Marlowe is doing a spectacular job. Way better than I could ever do.

And All The Mornings Ever After

Chapter 38 – Don't Ever Stop

Warning: We're M from the start here, kids, with language to match in places too. You'll miss none of the story is you skip this one. Apologies if you're of a sensitive disposition. The rest of you – enjoy! I'm just going to hide in a darkened room.

"How long do you want to be loved, Kate? Is forever enough? 'Cause I'm never, never giving you up?" Castle whispered against her collarbone, before flicking his tongue out to tease her smooth, damp skin.

Kate stilled, paused what she was doing, flexing her fingers against his side to get his attention.

"Castle, did you just quote the Dixie Chicks?" she asked, a smirk blossoming on her lips as she resumed trailing them over his warm neck.

"Alexis…" he started to lie, clearing his throat.

"Does not listen to the Dixie Chicks," laughed Kate, tweaking one of his nipples.

"Shut up. You're ruining the mood," he groused, sliding his large hand between her thighs to distract her.

"Oh god!" Kate exclaimed, shifting her hips up and over the curve of his hand so that the raised pattern of lines and ridges slid across her slick heat, setting up a delicious friction that had her body vibrating and aching within seconds.

"You were saying?" asked Castle smugly, allowing her to coast back and forth over the side of his hand, her breath coming in short gasping pants, while he took one of her breasts into his mouth, bracing his free hand against her spine, just below the jut of her shoulder blades.

They were lying on their sides, facing one another after a stop start discussion about her job that was really more stop than start at this point, since they were both naked and too turned on to focus on much of anything beyond the soft, cool silk of her skin under his fingers and the hard play of his muscles against her body. All despite Castle's lingering fever, and only just having got rid of the boys.

"Shhh," she hissed, swallowing hard. "Working here," she pushed out between breaths. "Oh sweet Jesus, Castle," she moaned, biting her lip hard enough to mark.

Her eyes opened and closed on a blank stare as she sped up her movements.

"God you're beautiful," Castle told her, his warm breath feathering her damp skin as he gave up sucking on her swollen nipple just to watch her use him to tease her body higher and higher.

He could feel her getting more and more aroused, her movements faster and jerkier as she got closer.

"Mmmm," she hummed, shifting her thigh around his waist, trying to expose as much of herself as she could to him.

"You're so wet," he whispered against her chest, his voice full of wonder as he trailed his lips across her flushed skin.

Her body was singing, her arms thrown around his neck, cradling him to her breast as she rode his hand.

"Oh yeah, right there," she gasped, as Castle's thumb grazed the tight bundle of nerves near her opening, and she arched up towards him, their stomachs meeting as she slid her thigh higher up over his ribcage and around his back.

It was Castle's turn to gasp when she used the space between them on a back slide to encircle him with her hand, her grip firm as she skimmed her thumb across his moist tip, cradling him between them.

"You sure you're up for this?" she asked, her eyes focused on his, a teasing smile on her lips, and just so much love.

"What do you think?" he replied, staring her out, eyebrow raised, daring her to challenge him, with the evidence of just how up for it he was barely contained in the shelter of her fist.

"Oh, I think you might just have a thing or two to show me, writer boy, sick or not," she said, giving him a sizzling look from beneath her lashes.

Kate curled her right arm around Castle's head, her fingers sliding through his hair as she braced her left hand on his shoulder, using her grip and a tightening of her abs to raise herself higher, calves tightening around his back until she could feel his swollen tip at her entrance, teasing. She waited until her partner's eyes were locked on hers, and then she inched closer until she could lower onto his hardness. A couple more pushes and her body parted for him, breaking open around him, both of them sucking in a breath and then smiling crazily at each other as her tightness eased to accommodate him.

Castle grasped her left hip, his other hand on the perfect curve of her ass to guide her over him, sliding them together – a perfect fit every time.

"God, I love you Kate. More everyday. You're…" he paused, as Kate caught his mouth with her teeth, tugging on his lower lip while she circled him with her hips, teasing with her muscles until he almost lost his train of thought. "You're everything I ever wanted. And it's better than even I could have dreamed up."

"Pretty special then?" she teased, lavishing his ear with her tongue.

"Oh…" he panted. "Oh god. Tell me you can feel that?"

"This?" asked Kate, slowly sliding against him, her body enclosing him tightly. "Or this?" she asked, pressing her lips to the corner of his mouth and then slipping her hot tongue inside to tease him. "Or this?" she asked quietly, more seriously, placing his hand over her heart and tilting his chin until he could see her eyes, could see everything she felt for him shimmering right there.

"All of it. Just…all of it. I don't want it to ever stop," he confessed, resuming the lazy, rhythmic movement of their hips, until Kate gripped both of his shoulders, her fingers pressing into the bony surface and firm, bunched muscles, suddenly needing to speed up.

"So you're gonna love me forever?" she teased breathlessly, rocking against him again and again, her pace quickening.

"Forever and then some," he growled, grabbing a fistful of her hair as his teeth met the taut tendon at the side of her neck and nipped to a hissed reply. "You?"

"Same. Yes. Forever." She spoke in staccato bursts between thrusts. "I could do this forever. Love you forever, Castle."

A sob escaped her throat, and he swallowed it with his mouth. Splaying his hands wide on her back, he pushed into her, sharply this time, surprising them both with the power of his thrust.

"Again," Kate begged, and he obliged, plunging into her with an intensity that spoke of a ferocious love and fierce desire, the frantic kind, the kind that people killed for. The kind of desperate love that takes you to the edge of madness and leaves you hanging there, scrambling to find something close to sanity with your fingertips.

"Please. Don't stop. Again?" she implored, winding her legs tightly around his back, hooked together at the ankles, trapping him against her body. "Oh…oh, Castle," she cried.

His muscles rippled as he fed himself into her again and again, each thrust deeper than before as he felt her words and her desperate need for him making him harder, straining him to the point of delicious pain.

"Oh babe. S'time," Kate gasped, nearly incoherent, her wet mouth open against his shoulder as her strokes became longer and slower, her tongue darting out to taste his salty skin.

Castle could sense that she was on the edge, the tightening, the slowing as she quieted her movements to listen to her body, to the feel the orgasm break over her. And then he felt it. She stopped moving all together as the feathering contractions surrounded him and he pressed his fingers into her back, riding out that incredible sensation with her in complete silence, their ragged breathing the only soundtrack.

"Oh…oh my god, Castle," she choked out, her throat dry.

Her hips rocked forward again, sliding over him easily as she fought to prolong her ecstasy, chasing the feeling even as it faded and her heart pounded hard in her chest.

"Sweetheart," he whispered, his face breaking into a broad smile as her consciousness returned, bringing her back to the room, the haze clearing. He kissed her hard, brushing damp curls back from her cheek. "You were amazing."

"Mmm-hmm," she choked weakly, seeking out his mouth again, their tongues coming out to slide over one another lazily while they lay there breathing together.

"You still okay?" asked Kate, trailing her fingers down across the side of his face, more tender than he needed right now.

"Never better," he said, rocking his hips forward experimentally.

"Oh, I see. It's like that, is it?" beamed Kate, encircling his large biceps with her fingers to hold onto him. "Somebody's a little impatient to get going," she teased, feeling him twitch inside her.

"Never that. We can take as long as you need," he said, reaching down to flick her stiffened nipple with his tongue.

Kate cradled his head, watching him as he nipped and suckled the sensitive skin of her left breast, and then pressed his lips to the round, flat outline of her scar. She ran her thumb up and down the hollowed dip at the nape of his neck until she felt his hips resume their rocking motion with her body still bowed over his.

Castle grasped Kate's hips this time, using the purchase he gained to thrust more forcefully into her as his eyes drifted closed and his mind floated away on a sea of overwhelming sensation.

Kate arched back away from him towards the far edge of the bed, her ribcage stretched and open, her belly taut, breasts thrust high as she reached for the edge of the mattress and held on, her arms raised above her head as she braced herself for him.

"Dear god, you're trying to kill me," moaned Castle, when he chanced to open his eyes as he felt her move and caught the spectacular sight of her spread out before him.

His hips jerked in response, and he gripped her again, trying to control his movements.

Kate hooked her legs around his waist and pushed back against him, matching every thrust.

"I'm not gonna last much longer," he warned, beads of sweat studding his brow and dampening his hair.

"Then come for me, Castle," said Kate, concerned that physical exertion might not be the best thing for him in his fevered state.

But hell, looking at him now, and feeling, oh yes, that, 'what weakened state' was the only question that sprang to mind.

She felt her own body responding again to his movements, her core winding tighter with every thrust of him inside of her, soothing and then reigniting the delicious ache that was quickly turning into a desperate need as he stroked her.

Castle shifted slightly, reestablishing his grip on her sweat slicked skin, and Kate screwed her eyes tightly closed as a strangled moan erupted from her throat and she curled upwards to grasp his forearms, jerking him into her forcefully.

"Shit, Kate," said Castle, watching her abs contact with something like awe.

"Sorry. Need you," she begged, biting down on her lip again. "Fuck, Castle," she hissed, her cheeks so sexily flushed and her eyes so dark that he couldn't take it anymore.

He turned them smoothly, so that Kate was lying on her back, her calves still crossed at his waist. He towered over her now, and she looked up in surprise to see his dark, fevered eyes watching her.

"Tell me you need me again, Kate," he asked, resting against his powerful forearms, their faces just inches apart as his hips danced up and down, keeping up a fast, devastating pace.

"I need you. God, do I ever need you, Rick," Kate whimpered, and that was all it took – her desperation, and the wet heat of her body surrounding him.

He felt the tightening in his groin, a tingling sensation, and then he bucked into her, getting harder, if that was possible. Kate gripped the sheets and he vaguely registered the whip of her head to the side on a moan as she came apart for a second time beneath him. His sensitive tip brushed deep inside her as her muscles trembled around him, and then he felt the surge beginning, and his mind left his body for what felt like whole minutes, taking him away to a place of beautiful clarity.

He let a hiss of air out through his teeth, and rose up as he came, pushing against the mattress until his arms were at full stretch and his back was arched.

The interlude was all too brief, and soon, oh too soon, his mind came crashing back to earth, the wormhole to lucidity closing to him once more, delivering him back to reality.

When he opened his eyes again, Kate was staring up at him with a fresh kind of wonder on her face, and a smile so wide it nearly broke his heart.

"Where'd you go?" she asked, reaching up to touch the damp hair at his temple, skimming the curve of his ear.

"Same place as you," he replied. "Nirvana."

"Glad you could join me," teased Kate, slipping her hand around his neck to tug him down against her shoulder.

"Careful. I'm gonna crush you," warned Castle.

"I want you to crush me," she moaned, tugging again so that she got her own way this time, and he sank down against her, their warm bodies pressed together.

"Mmm, these are the days," he laughed, blowing a raspberry against the curve of her left breast. "Not what you'd have been saying a few years ago."

"Shut up. Don't remind me. Who was that dumb Beckett chick anyway?" she asked, to a peel of startled, breathless laughter from her partner.

He squeezed her sides until she joined him in a long breathy giggle, eventually tweaking his nose to get him to stop.

They lay quietly for a few minutes, heart rates returning to normal, just breathing together, until the air cooled their sweat coated skin, and Castle shook them both with a particularly violent shiver.

Kate reached beyond him to pull the sheet up to cover them, snuggling closer for just a few more precious minutes.

"Right, time for a hot shower. It's after four and we're still in bed," she said eventually, kissing his bare shoulder tenderly. "And then I think we should put some clothes on. Trying to have a serious discussion with you while you're naked is a non-starter, Richard Castle."

"As a reward for that very pleasing remark, I will grudgingly share my shower with you, Ms. Beckett," he said, kissing her hard and then sitting back on his heels and tugging her upright with him.

Needless to say, it was some time before either of them found their way into clothing of any description.

A/N: Okay, so this chapter definitely took a little detour – these characters, what can I say? Hope I didn't offend anyone. Normal service should resume with the next chapter. Have a great weekend everyone. Liv.