A/N: So I spent most of the day while my family was fishing and looking for a CVS pharmacy at the same time, I spent the day thinking of what I wanted to do with this chapter, and finally I decided! So here goes nothing!
As much as Castle wanted to spend all day with her in his arms he did have a duty, to his publisher. He decided to go down to the prescient and help solve murders with Ryan and Esposito.
"Kate?" He whispered while leaning over her while still lying behind her. She didn't respond. "Kate, I'm going down to the station, I'll call and check on you soon." He told her before kissing her cheek.
He got out of bed, something it killed him to do, and got in the shower. As soon as he stepped in the shower, he thought he heard her get up; he hopped out of the shower in a flash and peaked his head outside of the door, nothing. He was worried about her, and he wanted to make sure she was ok, even though he was sure she was. He finished his shower uninterrupted, gave Kate another kiss, let her a note and left.
As soon as he was out of her apartment he called his apartment. His mother picked up. She told him how worried she was, which was probably a lie, and he tried to calm her false panic. By the time he had made it to the station he finally had a reason to abandon their phone call.
The thankfulness he felt for Kate living so close to the station made him think of a few other reasons he was glad she lived close to the station. For example if something happened to her while he was there, he was in walking, well in that case running, distance from the prescient.
"Well well well Castle, where's Beckett?" Ryan asked, catching his off guard.
"Huh? Oh she's… sick." Castle answered.
"Sure…" Esposito replied.
"Did the dinner not go well?" Ryan asked with a cocky smile.
"It went fine." Castle answered already sick of the questions.
"Well, I got bad news Castle, we got a dead body." Esposito added sensing how annoyed Castle was getting.
"Since when is that bad news?" Castled wondered aloud to the two other men standing near him.
"You don't get to follow Beckett around, check her out all day, you're stuck with us!" Ryan added with a hint of cockiness.
They could tell by the look on his face he wasn't happy about that.
"Yea, Castle, sucks for you!" Ryan boasted as he walked past Castle, pointed at him and made a funny face.
He watched as the two of them used the espresso machine he bought for them a few months ago with no thought at all. He knew they were joking; now he just had to take it as one. Sure they knew something was going on between Castle and Beckett, but they had known it a lot longer than the two of them had, and they were making the best of it.
"Come on Castle. Time to go." Esposito told him as he walked past.
Castle swallowed hard, put this all behind him, and joined the guys.
It was safe to say everyone at the murder scene was surprised at what they found, a teenage girl, in the driver's seat of a Lamborghini, dead – gunshot wound to the chest.
"What do you have for us Lanie?" Esposito asked.
"Teenage female, probably 16 maybe 17, cause of death single gunshot wound to the chest." Lanie answered.
"Nice car." Ryan observed.
"I had the guys look up the plate, registered to a Dan Lynnwonder."
"Let's get him down here, maybe he can identify her." Esposito told her.
"No, need, even I know who this girl is." Lanie told them. "Grace Jeffrey."
"Who?" Ryan asked, Esposito wondered the same thing.
"Only the world's biggest teenage pop star, daughter of Nancy Lynnwonder, first wife of vice president Greg Jeffrey." Castle informed them.
"Well, I hate to do this but let's get Kate in here." Ryan told him. Lanie shook her heard in agreement.
"Sure we can't do this without her?" Castle asked, Kate needed her rest, not to worry about another case.
"Let's just bring her in real fast, she what she has to say about all this." Esposito agreed with Ryan just as Ryan picked up his phone and dialed Kate's number.
"Beckett." She answered her phone sounding exhausted and over half asleep.
"We got a body, need you down here, north Broadway." Ryan told her.
"I'll be there as soon as I can." She hung up before he had a chance to reply.
"She's on her way." Ryan told them as he put his phone back in his pocket.
The four of them continued to investigate the crime, it was truly tragic. Grace was a great talent, her first movie premiere was tonight, and she had gave hundreds and hundreds of interviews exclaiming how excited she was for it.
When Kate finally got to the sense, all of them could tell she didn't feel well, and was probably in a horrible mood. She didn't talked to anyone and went straight over to the body. She took one look at the body, and walked to the group of guys.
"Why exactly did you guys bring me down here?" She asked angrily. They had dragged her out of bed, and made her come to a crime sense that didn't need her attention.
Ryan began to try and fumble an answer, but was quite unsuccessful.
"I'm done. Castle let's go." She told them, Castle followed very close behind.
They didn't speak as they made their way to her car, but they were both aggravated by the paparazzi who suddenly became attracted by the sight of Castle and the woman he was rumored to be involved with instead of the dead teen celeb.
"Castle, do you want to go back to the prescient or my apartment?" She asked him after they had been in the car for a few minutes.
"Is that even a question?" Castle asked with a raised eyebrow.
Beckett briefly closed her eyes at the next red light, she rubbed her forehead and dreamed of getting back into her warm comforting bed and going back to sleep.
"Kate, why don't you let me drive the rest of the way?" Castle asked. He didn't think it was good for her to drive.
"No." Kate responded immediately.
He wasn't going to argue with her, he was gonna make sure she got home safe, and wrap her back up in his arms, and get her back to sleep. That's when Castle realized, he didn't care if he spent his entire life getting her better, he was going to spend the rest of his life with her in his arms.