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Just to clarify because I haven't mentioned it yet, both season 1 Castle and Beckett and season 6 Castle and Beckett are from between episodes 4 and 5 of their respective seasons. Also, Alexis isn't living at home and Pi either doesn't exist/if he does, I'm not going to mention him.
I also posted another Caskett fic yesterday called Married Life if anyone is interested.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Castle or the characters.
Beckett and Castle turned up at the precinct, hat firmly on Beckett's head to hide her hair. When they stepped off the elevator they were both relieved to see the bullpen mostly empty or people busy working so they wouldn't be disturbed. Beckett sat down at her desk and quickly logged onto the computer, wanting to work as fast as possible to avoid any interaction with anyone if that was possible. She'd just started a search for Mr Peterson when they heard the voice of a lady calling to them.
"Beckett, Castle, my office, now," the voice said.
They both stood up, giving each other confused looks as Beckett whispered, "Where's Captain Montgomery?" to which Castle just shrugged.
"Why aren't you two at the crime scene?" the lady asked, obviously their new Captain. Beckett couldn't help but wonder why Captain Montgomery had left.
"We were just about to leave Ma'am, I just needed to grab something from my desk first," answered Beckett, rather intimidated by this woman.
"Excuse me?" replied the woman. Captain Gates, the plaque on her desk said.
"I..umm.." Beckett didn't know what to say or what she'd said wrong.
"You're to call me Sir or Captain, you know that Detective," said the Captain, looking slightly confused, Beckett never called her Ma'am.
"Right, of course, sorry Sir." This lady, their captain, was turning out to be rather interesting but Beckett didn't know whether she liked her or not. She was also trying to think of a way to get out of there as quickly as possible in case the Captain noticed something was different about her. She'd already seen the Captain eyeing her hat with confusion.
"Anyway, I called you both in here to ask you a question. Do you know how to conduct yourselves in a professional manner while in the walls of my precinct?" asked the Captain. Well that certainly wasn't what either Castle or Beckett were expecting.
"Yes," answered Beckett, but it came out sounding more like a question than a statement.
"And you, Mr Castle?" Captain Gates asked.
"Yes sir," replied Castle, standing up a bit straighter. He was definitely intimated by this woman and he could tell Beckett was too.
"That's good to hear so I expect you to act more professionally while you're at work," said Captain Gates. She had seen them making out last week in one of the back corridors. There were times in the bullpen she had seen them kiss but she'd let those other times slide since it was usually a special occasion like Beckett getting her job back. But seeing the two of them kissing like that at her precinct, she had to draw the line somewhere.
"Okay, you both better head to the crime scene, but remember, no more funny business in my precinct," said the Captain, pointing between them both, so Beckett and Castle left quickly before she could tell them off again for something else they had yet to do.
They couldn't hang around the precinct now since the Captain expected them to go to the crime scene so they had to leave. For lack of a better option, they decided to go back to Castle's loft since Kate hadn't told them her address so they couldn't go there. They'd stopped and bought a prepaid phone on their way to the precinct so they could keep in contact with their other selves. Beckett called Kate in order to inform her of their run in with Captain Gates in case the Captain brought it up later.
"The Captain saw us so we had to leave the precinct but I've started a search for Mr Peterson so hopefully you'll have some results by the time you return from the crime scene. Also, where's Montgomery?" asked Beckett once Kate had answered her phone. Kate and Rick were already at the crime scene so Kate had to excuse herself to talk in private so no one would hear her conversation with herself.
"The Captain saw you?" Kate asked in a worried tone, ignoring the part about Montgomery. Hopefully Beckett wouldn't ask too many questions about him.
"Yeah but it's fine, she thought we were you," answered Beckett and she thought about not mentioning what the Captain had told them but she couldn't risk it if the Captain brought it up again later and Kate and Rick would have no idea what she was talking about. That would look suspicious although no one would ever guess that time travel and the fact that there was two of them was the reason they couldn't remember the talk. "She said something about behaving appropriately at work and acting professionally while in the walls of her precinct."
"I…okay..thanks. I got to go but we'll be in touch soon." Kate didn't know how to respond to that, her younger self must have some suspicions now about her and Rick by now but she hadn't freaked out about it yet so that was a good sign.
"Talk to you later, we'll be at Castle's loft if you need us," was Beckett's way of saying good bye. Just after she'd hung up she received a text saying Watch out for my mother from Rick. That would be interesting if they ran into her and Beckett almost hoped they did because then maybe she'd get some answers about what was going on between her and Castle.
They were in a cab on the way to Castle's loft by the time she'd ended the call with Kate. Beckett had a fair idea of what Kate and Rick may have been up to that warranted a telling off like that from their Captain. She wasn't blind and she certainly wasn't dumb. Just the looks that Kate and Rick shared were enough to tell her something was going on between them. Coupled with the fact that Kate looked like she was practically living with Castle and what she guessed the Captain was alluding to at the precinct, she knew something was up.
She decided not to freak out just yet, she trusted herself enough to know that she wouldn't start any sort of romantic relationship with Castle if she didn't trust him completely. What she did wonder though, was how her and Castle could go from what they have now to what they seem to have in the future. It certainly did look serious between the two of them so something must've happened to change her opinion of him. Sure, she couldn't deny that Castle was hot, but for Kate, her future self, to be looking at Castle with such love and trust in her eyes meant there was definitely something special between them. Beckett knew she would panic about this later, she was still trying to get over the fact that they had travelled in time. She'd speak to Kate about this first though, maybe Kate could help her see what she saw in Castle.
I'm going to try update this at least once a week but it could be more frequent than that if I get chapters written faster.
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