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"Kate" I look over and her eyes are closed and her chest is rising and falling rhythmically, she asleep and god she looks so at peace and relaxed. I can't help but brush my hand over her cheek and push back her hair. I get out of the car and walk around to her side and open the door catching her as the door is replaced with my body. I untangle her from her seatbelt and pick her up in my arms and carry her into the building. The doorman was busy so I pushed the door open and walked to the elevator.
When I finally got to our door I knocked on the door and Alexis opened it and let me in. I walked to our room and got her out of her work cloths and put one of my shirts on her and covered her with the blanket before I walked out to Alexis.
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"Dad is she okay?" I ask concerned for Kate.
"Yeah honey she's okay she's just really tired this case has just been bothering her. She'll be okay."
"she's lucky she has you, dad. Someone who knows when she should stop and someone shell listen to when she needs to stop."
"yeah and I have her to, just to pull me back to reality, even when my life feels like a fantasy.
"she's there for all of us even when we don't know it. She's what we've been missing our whole lives." I smile at him and he smiles and looks over his shoulder to his room where Kate is sleeping.
"yeah she's been there for us, sometimes even when we don't want her to be." He laughs remembering the time he was sick and she was hell bent on helping him through his terrible stomach flu.
"what?" I ask him.
"When you were visiting your mother for new years last year I got the stomach flu and I told her I didn't want her around to see me like that or her maybe catching it, but she was so persistent and she showed up and was there to hold my hair." He smiles at me.
I roll my eyes at him. "she's been there for me too. I love her too dad."
"I know you do." He hugs me and then kisses my head. "Night baby bird."
"Night dad."
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I woke to the sun in my eyes. I can feel Castle beside me and I turn and curl into him. It feels good to be close to him, his sent so consuming. Being with him like this is like nothing I've ever felt in situations like this one. I've never been so affected by someone so much before, every touch evokes more feelings then more intimate things have brought up with others before him. Just laying here with him has me wanting him, its never been as intense as it has been with Rick. He's been such a huge part of my life and the one person outside of family that has stuck around even at the lowest of lows. I couldn't help myself as I wind my leg with his which causes him to wake. He nussles my neck before he kisses me.
"What time is it?"
"4:30" you tell him as you run your hand through his hair.
"What he says lifting his head to check for himself. Oh my god women, why are you awake?" he asks me.
"I want you." You tell him bluntly. He lifts an eyebrow at you and you smile at him. "I love you." You declare.
"I love you too, Katie."
He leans over you and you settle under him and pull him to you. The kiss is all you need to get him started and he's there with you making you more and more ready for anything he has to give you and you don't even care anymore about getting the upper hand all you want is him to claim you so he knows and you know that there is no doubt in any of your minds that you are his and that he is yours because there will never be anyone else fro either of you. You have everything you have ever wanted right there making you his and taking and giving equally, someone who doesn't mind your power and authority in your job, someone who respects all aspects of your life. He's the one, my one and done and I'm never going to put that into jeopardy.