My Grandmother was a Witch
Chapter 19
Kate was ready for it or she was hoping she was anyway. She had two trash cans at her desk. Her normal metal one that was meant for real trash and not the one meant to hold shredded papers. That one was where the shredder itself was. Then she had a bright blue – seriously bright blue at that – molded trash can that wouldn't leak like she was betting the metal one would.
She could only have one cup of real coffee per day which was killing her, she was sure of it. She had stopped at a real coffee shop to get the good stuff and not have to fuss with Castle's fancy coffeemaker. Besides she felt like a pastry. It might be too early to call it a craving but one of them wanted a pastry so she had one of those too.
She was sitting there typing out a search warrant request for one of the guys to go have signed. Half of her coffee was already gone and while she was trying to make sure she drank it while it was still warm, it was cooling rather quickly.
She read what she had, picked up what was left of her pastry, and brought it up to take a bite; suddenly her stomach went on full revolt. She could feel it and had just enough time to grab her blue plastic trash can and empty the contents of her stomach into it.
All that lovely coffee and pastry, GONE in mere seconds.
She barely recognized that suddenly there were four legs close to her but she was busy. One, two, and finally three into her blue trash can. Once she was calmed down enough she saw Espo and Ryan at her desk and they looked concerned.
"I'm fine." She was, after all, the Queen of fine.
"Vomiting at work is not fine, Beckett. Do I need to call Lanie up here for you?" Espo asked her.
"No, she already knows. I need to wash this out. Throw that Danish in someone else's trash for me, please." Kate took her blue trash can to the ladies room and did her best to rinse it out, used paper towels to dry it out, and flushed it all down the toilet.
For some reason she actually felt better now. She did, however, find that both of them hadn't moved much. They were still at her desk. "I'm fine, I feel better now."
Except neither of them moved. "It's just morning sickness." They were all likely to see a lot of these over the next few weeks.
"Oh." Espo felt better and actually took a step toward his desk. Then his head whipped around. "Morning what!" Espo stared at her.
"You're pregnant?" Ryan was in shock. Sure he knew what being pregnant was and how you got to be that way, but this was Beckett they were talking about here. Everyone knew she had dumped Demming months ago, about the same time Castle left them. So that just left who as the father?
"Obviously. Do I need to explain the birds and the bees to you two?" Kate did her best to glare at both of them. "Don't you two have work to do? Because if you don't I can find something. In fact..." Kate printed out her warrant request.
"Go get that signed and then issue it. Go, go!" Kate shooed them away from her. They still had a murder to solve. Even better, the second they solved this case and she filled out this paperwork she was free to go to the Hamptons again. She really needed to see Castle. For a lot of reasons.
One was she literally wanted to see him and spend time with him. She missed having him around. Second she wanted to read what he'd written. Having access to one of his books that wasn't yet in print was a real bonus. And she got to put Post-it Notes on everything he typed and then reread to see if he had used any of them. Followed by questioning him as to why not?
Third and maybe the most important, she needed sex. Lots and lots of sex. If being this pregnant did this to her she was wondering if Castle was going to be able to keep up with her when she really needed sex?
_/\_
Kate had moved her chair over to the murder board and was looking it over when the guys finally came back. They'd been gone for hours. Kate pushed off and rolled back to her desk. She held out her hand and got a memory stick filled with pictures. It promptly got plugged into her computer so she could see this place in pictures. Not like seeing it with her own eyes but it was all she had.
"Here, one pineapple smoothie as requested." Roz put the drink Kate had requested on her desk.
"Thanks, Roz." It felt good to have friends that were willing to help her. And Roz was a woman and could relate.
"No problem." Then she leaned down to whisper, "You know you really should marry him. He loves you." Roz left her smiling all the way.
There were still only three people that knew who the father was so while Kate sucked on her straw she watched Roz go back to work. She couldn't possibly know it was Castle who was the father, could she? Damn but if a pineapple smoothie didn't taste incredibly good!
Castle had given her a pamphlet about what to eat and drink during morning sickness. He had even given her some things to take back with her for her to snack on from the last time she was out there. So she now had a drawer full of snacks compliments of Lanie.
She wasn't really supposed to eat big meals while having morning sickness. She was supposed to snack all day long. She had gingersnaps, graham crackers, these little Jell-o cups in the breakroom refrigerator; she had frozen Popsicles in the breakroom freezer, she also had lemons in the refrigerator. She was supposed to suck on them or just smell them. And she also had a lot of pretzels.
She planned to pick up Chinese on the way home tonight since she was supposed to eat a balanced meal per her doctor and Castle. Thankfully no one was hovering over her so maybe having Castle stuck writing in the Hamptons, which was what he had better be doing, might be a good thing after all.
It also reminded her that she needed to stop at a sex shop and buy a whip. If he didn't write enough she was going to use it on his nice white ass. Maybe even an eat me, beat me whip made out of licorice.
_/\_
Kate was sucking on a Popsicle as she watched the guys bring in their suspect for questioning. Per her instructions they were to put him in the interrogation room and let him stew in his own juices for a bit. It also had her up, taking her blue trash can with her, and her unfinished Popsicle into the observation room.
Her Popsicle was melting so she was biting off pieces of it when suddenly Captain Montgomery joined her just as Espo and Ryan entered the interrogation room.
"How's the morning sickness?" He saw her blue trash can and her Popsicle.
"I don't know why they call it morning sickness. It hits me literally any time of the day. I even throw up on the ferry home." Kate didn't understand that part.
"It'll pass. Just be thankful it's not bad enough to put you in the hospital," Roy told her as compensation for her pain.
"I hate hospitals." Kate bit off another piece.
"Exactly." Roy focused on what was on the other side of the mirror as did Kate while she finished off her Popsicle.
They were both listening to what their guy had to say. "You don't suppose..." Kate looked at Roy.
"Find her! Get her back in here!" He was angry. She had talked her way out of the precinct and now she was coming back. "Beckett." Roy stopped her. "Trash can." Roy looked down at it and saw her make a face of disgust. She grabbed it and hustled to her desk to have officers go pick her up and get her back in here.
_/\_
Kate had been cleaning out her trash can in the restroom when she was brought back in. Kate got a Jell-o cup out of the refrigerator, snagged a plastic spoon and her blue trash can, and was back in observation listening to what she had to say this time.
Kate was satisfied that she was in cuffs and being taken away by a female officer to be searched and put in holding. Kate put her trash in the metal trash can and set her blue trash can at her desk. She sat down to start on her paperwork so she could get out of there for two days and go see Castle.
Since Kate was done she walked over to the guys who were busy with their paperwork. Because they'd done all the legwork they had more to write up than she did.
"Nice work, you two." Kate was proud of them. They were friends.
"I can't believe I believed her. She lied and I bought it." Ryan was angry.
"Happens to the best of us, bro." Espo felt just as bad but he felt he had a tougher skin so it didn't get to him.
"Well as compensation you two can each have one of my Popsicles. I've got like 40 of them in the freezer." She had bought a really big bag of them.
"Thanks, Beckett." Ryan jumped up and got his now.
"And where's mine?" Espo was put out he hadn't brought one back for him. He wanted one too.
"Same place I got this one," Ryan told him and licked it like Kate did.
"That's cold, bro." Espo kept complaining.
"Yep, it is. Frozen even." Ryan kept licking his Popsicle and Kate burst out laughing.
"I'm going home. I'm off the next two days, so you two behave yourselves. And don't eat all my Popsicles. I need those things." Kate left them to pick up her stuff from her desk.
"Say hello to Castle for us." Espo tried to keep a straight face. However, Kate turned to look at them in shock. It was still just three people that knew anything. Well, four technically. She had told her dad, of course. He sounded happy.
"We're detectives," Ryan told her and put his Popsicle in his mouth.
Kate glared at them as she gathered up her stuff and went home, picking up some Chinese with lots of vegetables in it along the way.
_/\_
Kate heard a knock followed by a key in the lock. Only Lanie and her dad had a key. Even Castle didn't have a key. He didn't need one. He was stuck in the Hamptons writing.
"Girlfriend!" Lanie closed and locked the door behind her and joined Kate at her little table. Her apartment was really small and she had a tiny table and two chairs again. They didn't take up much space.
Kate watched as she ate and Lanie opened up her little pizza box after putting her bottle of beer down. "Stuffed pizza." She wasn't eating New York Style Pizza this time.
"That stuff is bad for you, you know," Kate teased her.
"I'm not the one pregnant with Castle's baby. Which I'm still happy for you about, just so you know." Lanie took a bite and instantly made a mess.
"Thanks." She was beginning to feel really happy herself. If it wasn't for the damn morning sickness she might be really happy.
"So when are you going back out to see Castle?" Lanie was stuck in the morgue. The city had seemingly gone nuts lately. She was busy and not just with the ones Kate and her team got. No, Perlmutter just had to go on vacation for a week leaving her to do her work along with his.
"Tomorrow, two whole days. Mostly." Leave early in the morning and then as late as she dared the next day.
"Two whole days of sex. I think I'm jealous. AND you don't have to worry about getting pregnant." Lanie pointed out the silver lining.
"No, I just have to worry about suddenly throwing up on him. How long is this supposed to last anyway?" Kate asked. She kept eating what was good for her and hoped she got to keep it down.
"Till the end of your first trimester. Just a few more weeks and it'll be all over. Then comes the insatiable need for sex followed by cravings for you don't know what." Lanie took another bite of her pizza.
"I already need Castle. I might break him if it gets worse." Kate was a little worried about that. She watched Lanie put her hand over her full mouth and laughed when she could without choking.
"At least you finally admit that you love that man. I was really starting to worry about you, and then his ex-wife showed up and oh, was she mad." Lanie recounted the event that had happened a number of weeks ago.
"I was being stupid. I know. It's what I do, Lanie. I can't seem to stop it. It sounds like a good idea and then it all blows up in my face and I hate myself. Castle's going to dump me one of these times and it'll break me for good." Kate stopped eating and not because she needed to throw up.
"Castle, dump you? Not unless you get really stupid and cheat on him with another man, he won't. You're stuck with him," Lanie told her.
"That's never going to happen. I may be stupid but I'm not that stupid," Kate pointed out and picked up her chopsticks again to go back to eating.
"Better not be. If Castle doesn't kill you for that, I will," Lanie informed her.
"Thanks." Kate didn't mean thanks as in thank you for killing me, either.
"What are friends for?" Lanie grinned at her and took a bite of her pizza.
It did have her wondering about Gina. Not that she was worried about her specifically. She was dead and made of dust back at her grandmother's house. She was worried about getting caught or getting Castle caught.
DAMN THE DARK WITCH ANYWAY!
_/\_
Kate had a different driver this time and he didn't talk much. She kind of missed the other one.
"Castle!" Kate was out of the car with her little bag before the driver could even open his door to get out and open her door for her. She dropped her bag, reached up, and raised up on her toes. She kissed him. Damn but she had missed him! His kisses, his taste, the feel of his arms around her, even his very presence.
Once inside she dropped her bag in their bedroom and took out a nightshirt. She thought better of it so she walked into his closet, took down one of his shirts and put it on, and buttoned just one of buttons. She wanted to tease him this time.
"Just shorts this time, Castle. I'm done with us being naked all the time," Kate explained.
_/\_
Rick was actually ready to say something about he liked her being naked till he saw just how many buttons she had used. She had chosen one of his older shirts by the look of it. It had shrunk on him and he hadn't bothered to get rid of it. That meant on her it was seriously short and with just the one button closed she was almost showing off her core and definitely her breasts when she moved properly.
"You must really be happy to see me, Castle." Kate smiled wide, walked up to him, and reached down to wrap her fingers around his erection. "Did I do this?" Kate asked him sweetly and promptly got down on her knees so she could take him in her mouth.
_/\_
Once she had tasted him she was happy and went back downstairs after picking up a bottle of sunscreen. She saw that their two chairs and small table were right where they had left them.
Kate took her sweet time putting sunscreen on while still indoors. She ran her hands up and down her shaved legs, over her partially exposed ass, and along the folds of her core. Then she did her breasts, neck, and her face.
"You coming, Castle?" Kate smiled adoringly at him and couldn't help but notice he had another erection and walked outside. Yeah, this weekend was going to be just what she needed so very badly.
Sadly the little table was between them so she couldn't reach him and rub her hand up and down his leg to see just how far she could push him before he took over and took her out on the grass.
"So any problem with Gina being gone?" Kate asked him. "No one has asked me a thing yet."
"A little. Black Pawn called to apologize for her absence and that effective immediately they would be assigning me someone else till they could ascertain her location and when or if she came back to work.
"That was followed by a Detective Oscar Hammerstein the second from the 64th coming out here to ask me questions. I told him our story. She rode out using a driving service, I drove her back to the city that same day and dropped her off where she asked, close to her apartment. Then I drove to the loft to get something before driving back to the Hamptons and that I'd been here ever since. I have no idea where she is.
"That was followed by a phone call asking me yet again if I knew where she was since she wasn't at Black Pawn. I have no doubt that he called the service to verify that she used it to get here and when that was.
"As far as I know there are no cameras between here and the city. Not even speeding or red light cameras so he should have nothing. Now as for the cameras in the city I thought we accounted for all those. She may not look like you but they'll see a female in the car next to me and you were hiding the entire time so we should be good."
"Good. That was my very first Dark Witch encounter and hopefully my last. You're sure Meredith didn't serve you any tea?" She didn't have another one after Castle somewhere, did she?
"Meredith didn't serve me anything but divorce papers. She can't even cook. I did all the cooking. If it wasn't for me needing to feed both of us I still might not know how to cook," Rick pointed out.
"And I can't take this any longer," Rick announced. He got up and reached out to Kate who reached up to take his hands. She found herself being pulled out of her chair and then forced onto the grass on all fours. Suddenly his cock was inside her.
.
"GOD, YES, CASTLE! Fuck me! I need you so badly." Kate pushed to make sure he was as deep inside her as he could get on each stroke.
That they were outside doing it on the grass in broad daylight didn't enter her mind. She was only wondering why it had taken him so long to take her and make her his.
Besides in almost no time at all she wasn't thinking at all, just reacting along with moaning and whimpering till finally she screamed out her orgasm as he climaxed inside her.