Kate had a great day during the leadership challenge yesterday and fell in love with Bondi Beach. As today was a rest day, Kate decided that she would head back to Bondi Beach to soak up some of that beautiful Sydney sun. The rest of the group split up to do their own thing but not before they made plans to meet up at the Ivy later that night.
Before Kate headed out for the day she decided to catch up with one of the leaders, Joe Dawson, to see if he had any information on what was going on with Demming. All that Joe was able to confirm was that Demming had to fly back to New York early yesterday morning at short notice for personal reasons. This explained why Demming didn't show up yesterday morning to see Kate but it didn't explain why Demming wasn't answering her calls or texts. She really wanted to talk to him and felt it couldn't wait much longer.
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Castle woke up in a strange bed with a strange thumping in his head. Once he realised that he was in his hotel room in Sydney he then tried to remember why his head hurt so much. He looked over to the table and saw the almost drained bottle of scotch. Ahh that explains the head. He was slower to recoginse the dull ache in his heart. Gradually all the fragments of yesterday started clinking in to place.
How did things become so unravelled, how did he end up here. He was missing his partner, every text, every interaction no matter how small, until it became too painful to watch her with Demming. Why couldn't Kate have seen him for who he had become instead of only seeing the person he used to pretend to be. He has not yet acknowedged to himself that any relationship from now on with Kate could only be plutonic, even after the heart wrenching text he recived from Javi.
He dragged himself out of bed and into the shower, knowing that they were going to Tamarama Beach to scout the location in about an hours time and he didn't want to give a bad impression by being late.
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When Kate arrived at Bondi she decided that after some sunbaking, she might walk to the next beach, Tamarama, for a swim. After stretching out her towel on the crunchy hot white sand, Kate took her book out of her backpack, a well worn copy of Storm rising. Kate's heart couldn't cope with reading a Niki Heat novel right now, so Derrick Storm wold have to do. As Kate began to read her mind wandered to the author, allowing herself to think about where he was right at that moment and if he was with Gina. She pondered how different things might have been if Gina hadnt shown up at the precinct that day. Tears rolled down her face as she realised how much she missed Castle, his touch, his smile. She needed to make contact soon - this radio silence was killing her and even though he was with someone else, she still needed her partner.
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That afternoon