Here's Chapter 3! There's only going to be two more chapters after this! Again, thank you for the continued praise for this story! (:

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Kate relaxed on the floor, eyes closed and breathing deeply as Rick worked the knots out of her back. After a half an hour of the massage, Rick could tell that Kate felt much better. When he rubbed his hands down her back for one last time, Kate let out a long sigh of relief.

"How was that?" Rick asked.

"Perfect. Thank you," Kate replied.

Rick got off of Kate, and she sat up and pushed him down onto the pillows.

"How about I return the favor, hmm?" Kate asked seductively, leaning in to kiss him softly.

"Anything you want, babe," he replied. Again, with the pet names, Kate thought! Two could play this game.

"How about you take that shirt off of yours then, kitten?" Kate said.

Rick practically ripped his shirt off and Kate leaned in and placed kisses all over his chest.

"Kaaaaaateeee," Rick moaned.

"Yeeeeesssss?" she replied, chuckling.

"I love you."

Kate snorted from his lame reply and continued kissing his chest. Rick grabbed her waist and pulled her up to him so she was lying on top of him. His lips met hers, and Kate smiled against his mouth. She slid her tongue into his mouth, tasting him. After a few minutes of making out, they were rudely interrupted by the ringing of Kate's phone.

"Damn it! It's my day off!" Kate said angrily.

She stood up, still topless, and walked into their bedroom to get the phone.

"Beckett," she said, not even bothering to look at who the call was from.

"Hey, girl!" she heard Lanie's voice yell through the phone.

"Um, hey, Lanie, what's up?" Kate responded, a bit annoyed.

"Kate, is something wrong? You could angry," Lanie said.

"Lanie, this better be good, you know it's my day off."

"Rawr, sorry. Just a quick question. Do you know where those toxicology reports went from the case yesterday? I can't find them."

"Really, Lanie? You called me while I was clearly doing something to ask me where freakin' tox reports are? Perlmutter took them, remember?"

"Oh, yeah! And woah, girl, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to mess up you and Writer Boy's little love session!"

God, Lanie could read her like an open book when it came to what tone of voice she was using. She totally knew that she and Castle were "taking advantage of her day off," as she called it.

"Oh shut up. Talk to you later. Yeah, yeah. Bye." Kate ended the call.

She locked her phone and instantly it lit up again with a text from Lanie saying "Sorry". Kate chuckled and then froze when she saw today's date.

April 26, 2014.

Her and Castle's first wedding anniversary was today! Shit! How could she possibly forget? She's the wife! The girl is supposed to remember everything like that! She didn't have a gift or even a card for

Rick. If she ran out now to go get something, he'd know she was up to something, especially because they were supposed to stay in all day. What was she going to do?

And then, in that second, she remembered. She had something that she had wanted to tell him, and she figured that she was going to tell him when they went out to dinner on that next Sunday, but she figured that today would be the best possible time to tell him. The only person that knew besides Kate was

Captain Gates. When should she tell him, though? Did he remember that today was their anniversary? Did he get her anything?

Walking back out into the living room, Kate saw Rick sitting on the couch, still shirtless, flipping through the channels. He caught a glimpse of her and smiled. "Who was it?" he asked.

"Lanie. She couldn't find some tox reports and wondered if I knew where they were."

"Did you?"

"Yeah, Perlmutter took them."

Castle shivered at the name of the older medical examiner. "Ugh, Perlmutter," was all he could say.

Kate laughed at his distaste and walked over to sit down next to him. She grabbed her sports bra and put it back on, but left the tank top off. She grabbed a blanket and threw it over them.

"What movie do you want to watch?"

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