I'm completely overwhelmed by the response to this story, I certainly didn't expect it. Thanks to everyone who favourited/followed/reviewed.
I hope you can distinguish between who's talking because it's rather difficult to write the same characters in a scene. Let me know if you get confused and I'll try write it differently in future chapters. The story is from season one Beckett and Castle's point of view so when I say "other" I'm referring to season six Castle and Beckett. Next chapter will be clearer if this one isn't.
Anyway, on with the story. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Castle or the characters.
"You have no idea what I'm thinking right now," said both Castle's at once after looking at both Beckett's which caused both Beckett's to reply with "Castle!" at the exact same.
"That was creepy," said the older Castle, and then he continued, "do you mind telling us exactly who you are and what you're doing here?" He may have dreamed about there being two Beckett's but he never thought it would actually happen.
"We could ask you the same thing," said the younger Castle, "what are you doing in my loft and how on earth did you get Beckett to dress like that?" He glanced up and down the other Beckett's body approvingly. He already knew she was beautiful but even dressed in shorts and a shirt she looked amazing.
"Hold on, we have to figure out what's going on here. How is it even possible that you two are standing there," said the other Beckett. The past Beckett had been about to say something similar which kind of freaked her out. She was having trouble processing what was currently happening. How could there be two of them?
"Do you want to hear my theory," said Castle, getting all excited all of a sudden. "Time travel".
"You took the words right out of my mouth," said the other Castle and then he continued, "what year do you think it is?"
"What do you mean what year so we think it is, it's 2009 of course," said Beckett, of course none of them had time travelled. Time travel was impossible, right? There had to be some other explanation for what was going on here.
The other Beckett and Castle exchanged shocked looks which made Beckett even more concerned.
"It's 2013. You two travelled in time." He stated, smirking at Beckett. He knew that one day one of his crazy theories would be correct. "Which means we also traveled in time. Wait, why don't we remember this happening? We'd remember visiting our future selves. What if they're from an alternate dimension, or a different time stream? They're not actually us, that's why we don't remember." Castle was getting really excited now and Beckett had to stop him before he got carried away.
"Rick, slow down," said the long haired Beckett before turning to the Castle and Beckett who were standing outside the door, "What's the last thing you remember before things got weird?"
Beckett answered this question. It was very strange to be talking to herself. It's not something she'd ever imagined doing before. "We were working a case and we ended up at a warehouse. We were talking to the victim's brother and then we chased him into the warehouse and next thing we knew we were waking up on the floor of the warehouse almost 8 hours later."
The other Beckett and Castle were staring at each other again with the same shocked faces.
"You remember that case right?" said the other Castle, directing his question at the other Beckett, "Well, that's the point actually, we don't remember that case. And now we know why. I would never have guessed that time travel was the reason though. This is so great." Castle really was loving this.
"Great for you maybe, I just want to get home, not that I believe in this whole time travel thing anyway. I'm sure this is just some elaborate prank. I bet you had something to do with this Castle," said Beckett, staring accusingly at Castle.
"I'm good Beckett but I'm not that good," replied Castle, although he looked like he was having just as much fun as the other Castle.
"Look, I don't care what happened, I just want to get home, and stop smiling like that, this is serious." Beckett's words only made Castle grin more. Annoyed Beckett was hot.
"Well, Mr Peterson must have something to do with what happened, or at least he's the best chance we have of finding out what is going on since he was the last person we saw before we blacked out," said Castle, sobering a bit after Beckett hit his arm. "If you two remembered this case, what happened?" Castle directed his question at the other Castle and Beckett. If they did remember what happened, they may find some clue to getting them back home.
"We don't know," said Beckett, glancing uneasily at Castle. This case had always bugged her since they never found out what actually happened to them, until now at least. "We chased Mr Peterson into the warehouse, and the next thing we knew we were waking up on the floor hours later. But the strange thing was, well one of the strange things, was that our watches were wrong, and we never figured out why."
"Time travel!" said the other Castle excitedly again. "We spent hours in this time before going home so our watches would be wrong. It finally all makes sense!"
"Really, Castle, all of it?" said the other Beckett, smirking at Castle, "and how exactly did we travel in time in the first place?
"Okay, so not all of it makes sense yet, but I will figure it out."
Beckett had been watching this whole exchange and while she had been listening to what they were saying, she'd also been observing them. They were obviously very close. They way they talked and acted around each other, even having a conversation like this, she could tell that their friendship was something special. Also, the fact the she felt comfortable enough the wear shorts and t-shirt around Castle said a lot as well. She glanced at the Castle beside her and couldn't figure out how they'd gone from what they have now to what apparently they'd have in the future. Beckett still didn't believe that they'd actually travelled in time but it was looking more and more likely that that was the case. She was half convinced that this was all a bad dream though and she'd wake up any minute.
"What were you doing here in the first place?" Beckett asked, surprising everyone since it had nothing to do with their current conversation. Her question was directed at the other Beckett.
The other Beckett made a snap decision. She remembered how she was feeling about Castle around the time that this case occurred. She'd wanted to get rid of Castle and was close to begging the Captain, or even the Mayor, to get Castle transferred to shadowing another detective. So Beckett decided that she wouldn't tell her young self about her engagement to Castle; she didn't want to freak her out any more than she knew she already was about the whole situation.
"Movie night," replied the other Beckett, "We'd had a long day and we just wanted to relax." So that was mostly true, she just left out that part that she wanted to cuddle up to Castle and fall asleep in his arms.
"Okay, it's getting late," continued Beckett, "I say we all get some sleep and then we can get an early start on finding Mr Peterson in the morning."
"No offence but I really just want to go home," replied Beckett, "We should start looking for him now."
"Beckett is right," said the other Castle, referring to his Beckett, "we'll all think much better once we've had some sleep and I'm exhausted as I'm sure you all are too."
"Okay fine," Beckett relented, "we should go back to your place and leave the Castle's here." It was said as a statement but came out more as a question.
The other Beckett and Castle exchanged looks which Beckett didn't understand but Castle seemed to because he answered. "Why don't we all just stay here. Castle, you can have the guest room and Beckett, you can take Alexis's room since she's away at college."
"Alexis is at college!" exclaimed Castle, she was still his little girl back in his time. He didn't even want to think about her leaving home.
"Don't worry, she visits often," reassured Castle, knowing how he must be feeling about that piece of information.
Beckett thought about Castle's suggestions for sleeping arrangements and realised one problem, where was her future self going to sleep? "What about you?"
"I..ahh.." Beckett didn't know how to say that she'd be sharing a bed with Castle.
"She can share with me, it's not like we haven't shared a bed before," he said, smirking at the look on the younger Beckett's face. The other Beckett hit Castle when she realised he was teasing the younger version of herself.
"Oh really?" asked the young Castle, he wanted stories and now.
"You've got a lot to look forward to, my friend," and now both Beckett's were thinking about how bad having two Castle's around could be.
"Okay, bed time. I'll get the other me something to sleep in and you get yours something to wear too." She could tell the young Beckett was close to panicking and knew she'd need some time alone to think.
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Half an hour later and they were all in their beds but none of them were sleeping. Both Castle's were too excited to sleep, the younger Castle thinking about how lucky his future self was getting to share a bed with Beckett. He couldn't wait until that was him. The older Beckett was cuddled up next to Castle, worried about her younger self because she knew what she was going through at that stage in her life. The younger Beckett was trying to process the events of the day. It wasn't just the apparent time travel either, it was the fact that she was still with Castle and seemed happy with him. She had no idea how that could've happened though and she wouldn't find out unless they found a way to get back home.
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