A/N Well here goes number two

After he had finally gotten home Castle had brought back two bags of chips. Alexis came up and grabbed the bags leaving him with an empty paper bag in his hands. She sits down on the couch with her grandmother and they open up both bags and start to eat them. "Hey welcomes home gee thanks for the chips." He mumbles under his breath. He sets down all of the stuff he had in his hands on the counter and was going to sit down on the couch. As he got over there Martha and Alexis were stretched out on the couch taking all of the space. He just smiled and sat down on the floor. "Gee, we are going to take up all the room just so you can sit on the floor." He mumbles again.

"Richard? What was that?" She looked down at him with a curious look. He looked up smiling with sarcasm in his smile.

"Just that you are just a wonderful bunch to be around and I couldn't live without you two" He turns back to the TV. Martha smiles and gently smacks the back of his head and Alexis and Martha both laugh. "Hardee har har" He gets up and tickles both of them. Each laughing hard enough to fall off the couch and he claims it for his own. He stretches out with a big sigh. They give him a look of 'we will get you back' and they eventually just settle on sitting on all of the pillows they had knocked off the couch and out them all in a pile.

"So what are we watching by the way?"

"A Christmas Carol" They say in sequence. He sighs but smiles. It was a tradition every year they would watch it since it was Alexis's favorite movie when she was little. Maybe Beckett liked this movie as well. Should I call her and find out that would be fun. He decides he might as well call her. What is the most she could be doing? Catching up on her reading yea she might want to come over. He gets up and grabs his phone. Out of the corner of his eye he sees the two dives for their spot and he smiles. He dials her number. "Hey Kate, I was just wondering, well around this time of year we all sit around and watch the Christmas Carol and since I can fairly say you don't have much to do I was wondering if you would want to come and watch it with us?"

She thinks moment thinking. He's right she had no one to spend the night with so sure and Martha and Alexis are there so I doubt he would try to do anything so. "Sure Castle, I'll be there in ten." She hung up the phone and grabbed her keys.


Booth and Brennan finally get home and Brennan had finally realized what he meant by using her vacation days. "So when are we going to fly out?"

"Well I was hoping we could leave tomorrow but the likeliness of getting a plane so late."

"Oh well we don't have to worry about that I can get the tickets." She looks at him as if it was obvious. He looks over at her from the couch.

"How?" He is genuinely confused as he normally is around her. She walks over with a tray of food. She sits down next to him with her bunny slippers thanks to Booth for being over protective.

"Simple. I have tickets already." Now he is really amazed and has some food he had taken only seconds ago halfway to his mouth. His mouth still open.

"Well since I have over flown over one hundred thousand miles I get two free tickets available anytime anywhere first class too." Remembering the case when he was stuck in coach while I stayed in first class. He managed to finish eating and put his arm around her and hugged tight.

"Sometimes I forget you are a genius." He kisses her on the top of the head. She smiles but continues to eat.


A/N so a cliff hanger ending to both *laughs maniacally* will make a new one as soon as i can