When Kate saw him sitting at the bar, looking at her with a big smile on his face, she blushed furiously. Why was he here? Now he would know that she absolutely loved the dress he had bought her. Well, given the look on his face as she walked to him, he loved it too. On her way over to him, she was stopped by two or three guys that wanted to dance with her but she just pushed them away. Arriving at Rick's side, Kate slid the piece of paper back to him.

"Don't know how to go and talk to a girl directly Mr. Castle?" she asked, smiling at him.

"Well, I figured I would let you decide if you wanted to come and see me. The dress looks absolutely perfect on you Kate."He said, looking at her from head to toe. "Your legs go on forever." he whispered to himself.

"What?" Kate asked, not having heard what he had said because of the music.

"Uh ... nothing." he answered quickly, blushing a bit. "Can I buy you a drink? Maybe we could go in a calmer area and talk for a while." he suggested.

"Sure." she said, smiling sweetly at him.

Once they had ordered their drinks, they moved to the end of the room where there were more secluded booths. As they had to cross the dance floor to get there, Rick took her hand in his, "just so I don't lose you" he told her. Strangely enough, he didn't let go of it when they were in the clear, and led her to an empty booth.

"So, what brought you here Rick?" Kate asked once they were settled.

"Oh well, Paula had been harassing me for a few weeks now to be been at a nightclub. 'Someone' told her that this one was good so … And Alexis is sleeping at her friend Paige's tonight so I figured if I indulged her this one time, Paula would be off my back for a while." He explained, smiling.

"Did you have to bring a date?" Kate asked, slightly uncomfortable.

"Yeah." Rick grumbled. "But I left her to dance like five minutes after we arrived. She is just so boring and … well … kind of rude too."

"Oh, what did she do to make you have such a high esteem of her?" Kate asked, laughing to try and mask her satisfaction.

"Well, first of all, in the cab on the way over here, all she could talk about was make up and hair do, it was horrible!" Rick said, still shocked if his face was any indication.

"Well, she's a girl." Kate simply said.

"You're a girl too and you can talk about other things. We talked about police stuff, books … hell we even talked about gardening the other night. All she was able to tell me was that she had spent three hours getting ready for our so called date, just to put her make up on! And then, we arrived and enter the club and suddenly she grabs me drags me in the middle of the crowd."

"Well, this is a night club. You're suppose to dance." Kate remarked.

"Yes, I know that, thank you." Rick answered. "But she didn't want to dance she wanted … I don't even know how to call it. First she groped my ass as if it was the most natural thing in the world and then she used me as a stripper pole!"

At that, Kate almost spit out the drink she had just taken.

"Right? That's not normal human behavior!"

"I think she just wanted to go back home with you, Rick." Kate said, trying to hide her harsh tone.

"Yes, I know, but there is no way in hell I'm letting someone like her in my home. I mean, she could kill me in my sleep after she used me, steal my daughter and bring her up to be just like her..."

"I think you're getting ahead of yourself here Ricky, your writer imagination is overflowing." Kate laughed, taking his hand on the table.

"Yeah, that happens sometimes … often in fact." he said, laughing as well.

Silence fell over them , Rick caressing Kate's hand unconsciously.

"Can I ask you a question?" he asked again suddenly.

"Sure." Kate said, smiling.

" What … uh … why did you kiss me the other day?" he asked quietly, silently praying for her not to take her hand back and leave.

"I'm sorry about that, really. I don't know what happened and ..."

"Don't be sorry Kate. It was nice … even if it was mostly surprising." he said, smiling at her.

Kate still felt embarrassed and was looking at the table, at the dance floor, at the bar … pretty much everywhere but at Rick.

"I'm serious Kate. I'm not mad at all. The only reason why I didn't react was because I was surprised. To be honest, I might have wanted to kiss you once or twice when we were having the picnic in the park."

"Stop making fun of me." Kate said, still not looking at him.

"I'm not, I swear Kate. In fact, I kind of want to kiss you now." Rick said seriously.

That made Kate look up, eyes wide open. "What?"

"I'm going to kiss you. Now." Rick repeated.

Time seemed to slow down for Kate. He was going to kiss her. And she was most definitely not be doing anything to prevent that. She could feel him getting closer rather than see him. One of his hands was still caressing hers on the table, the other was on the sofa of the booth, next to her thigh. She could feel his breath on her face. Oh God, he was really going to kiss her!

"Hey Becks we're goin … oh sorry, I didn't know you were with … uh, I'm sorry. Kylie and I are leaving. Robin and Chelsea already left. Enjoy your night. Again, sorry for interrupting." Madison said, walking away as fast as possible.

If a glare could kill, she would have been dead at least a dozen times. Kate turned back to Rick only to find him still there, really close to her.

"I'm sorry about that, I uh ..."

Her excuse was cut short by Rick's lips on hers.

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