So, um apparently you folks don't want me to give up on this. I was able to lure the muse back with the thirty plus reviews….seriously people? You are making my head swell to very unnecessary proportions. Just a little something here for Valentine's Day. Hope you enjoy.
Characters are not mine and never will be. :o(
She was at her desk, in a dark red turtleneck sweater and her hair pulled back into a loose knot at the nape of her neck, he was sitting in his chair. They actually did have a case, he was convinced it was the cousin and the boys were out collecting him.
"I have a proposition for you."
She looked over at him and then looked down with a shy smile and a quick eye roll. Looking back at her computer she said to him in a very quiet but stern voice, "Castle if you propose to me here, in this precinct, I will most definitely say 'no' and then take you down stairs and shoot you, and your daughter, your mother and the captain will all agree that it was justifiable homicide."
He gave her a wicked grin. "Duly noted Detective, however that is not what I was going to propose. I thought maybe we could go away this weekend. You do know what this weekend is don't you?"
"Yes, I do. Would we be bringing your daughter with us?"
"Um, no, I thought we could, um, well, your father, he um offered to ah stay at the loft with her."
She raised her eyebrows at him. "Talk much Castle?" She leaned back in her chair and stared at him. "So you've already discussed this with my dad?"
"Yes, yes I have."
"And didn't I tell you that it is always better to discuss these things with me before you discuss them with my father?"
"Well, yes you did."
"But you went ahead and talked to him about it first."
"Um, well, I didn't want to get you all excited about a weekend away and then find out that Alexis had no place to go and no one to make sure that she and Ashley weren't doing um, you know, some of the same things we would be doing."
She looked at him with wide eyes. "Seriously Castle?"
"Maybe we could just stay home this weekend."
She leaned forward getting into his face. "What exactly did you have in mind? Some place warm? Where you could get me into a skimpy bikini?"
"Oh, well I was just thinking of going to the Hamptons. You know, quiet dinners, a nice walk on the beach?"
"A walk on the beach? In February? Not to mention all the snow. Not exactly warm and cozy."
"Well, there's the fireplace, we could hang out in our birthday suits in front of the fire and drink insane amounts of expensive wine."
She rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Well, if you could go anywhere you wanted, where would you go?"
She started to smile and sat back in her seat and chewed on the inside of her bottom lip. "You'll take me anywhere?"
He smiled. "Yes." He watched her eyes light up.
She moved towards him and was about to speak when Esposito appeared in front of her desk.
"Am I interrupting anything?"
Startled, she looked at him and at the same time she and Castle both said, "Yes."
"Sorry, but I've got the cousin in the box."
She looked over at Castle. "We'll finish this conversation later."
"No, wait; just tell me where so I can make the arrangements."
She stood up and whispered into his ear, "How about we just spend the weekend in bed?"
He whispered back, "Well, that goes without saying, but where would you like that bed to be?"
"Yo, Beckett, you want this guy or should I take him?" Esposito said from across the room.
"Work, Castle."
Twenty minutes later she found Castle at her desk in her chair furiously trying to make plans for a quick weekend away. She threw the file on the desk and plopped down in his chair. "Don't bother Castle, it wasn't the cousin."
He looked up at her "What? No way, it had to be him."
"He was working an extra shift. His supervisor verified it. We're back to square one on this case. I can't go away unless we close it."
Without looking up from his phone he said, "Esposito and Ryan can take over."
"No, they both put in for this weekend off weeks ago, it's you and me kid."
He looked up and smiled at her. "Okay, then we'll stay home and we'll get all dressed up and I'll take you out to a really classy restaurant."
"So we can be all over page six the next day?"
"Um, no. I won't let that happen. But if you want we can just go to The Haunt."
"Okay. Castle?"
"Hmmmm."
She leaned in and whispered to him. "Just because you're sleeping with me doesn't mean you get to sit in my chair."
He looked up with a shocked look on his face. "Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"That is so not fair, I was sure that would be one of the perks."
She rolled her eyes and got up and went to the break room and came back with two coffees. He was still fooling around on his phone. "Castle what are you doin'?"
"Castle?"
"Hmmmmm?"
"Get. Out. Of. MY. Chair. NOW."
"Such a killjoy, Detective."
XOXOXOXOXOXOX
They had worked on the case all weekend finally cracking it late Sunday evening, by the time they were finished up with all the paper work they didn't end up back at his place until very late Sunday night, they'd slipped into bed and were asleep immediately. He heard Alexis get up and get ready for school and he tried to quietly extricate himself from Kate but she stirred and held on tight.
"Don't go." She wrapped her leg around his and scooted closer, she slid her arm across his chest and up around his neck and pulled him towards her and kissed him.
He kissed her lightly and whispered, "I'll be right back, I just want to say 'goodbye' to Alexis."
"Umhmm K."
He hugged her tight and kissed her cheek and then her forehead. "Hey, you need to let go, I'll be right back, I promise and we can spend the whole day right here, okay?"
She rolled away from him and reached out a hand, "Hurry up, it's cold in here." He squeezed her hand and slid out of bed, she giggled at his bed head hair and his conversation heart pajamas . He grabbed his robe on his way out of the room.
Alexis was sitting at the bar looking at a small frame. She looked up at her father smiling. "It's from Kate."
It was a picture of her with Kate and Martha in a group hug, in front of the Christmas tree, they were all laughing at him trying to figure out how to use Kate's camera. "I remember when you took this; we had so much fun that night." She looked up at him and he placed a kiss on her forehead. "Look, she made me cookies too." She held up a small cellophane bag with chocolate heart shaped cookies in it. "Is she awake? I made scones for breakfast. Can I go thank her?"
"Sure, I have something for you too." He handed her a small box. She smiled and opened it. It was a white gold bracelet with small blue beads. "Dad, it's so sweet, thank you." She held out her hand so he could put it on for her.
"Kate helped me pick it out."
She gave him a hug. "I'm really glad she's here, with you, with us."
"Yeah, me too Pumpkin." He placed a kiss on her head and hugged her tight.
She pulled back and smiled at him. "I'm going to bring her some breakfast."
She picked up a small plate and placed two cranberry orange, white chocolate heart shaped scones on it and made her a cup of coffee. She knocked quietly on the door and heard a slightly muffled "Yeah?"
She walked in gingerly. "Kate? Hey, I brought you some breakfast."
She sat up in bed and brushed her hair out of her face and smiled at Alexis. "You did?"
"Yeah."
She handed the mug and plate to Kate and sat on the side of the bed.
Kate took a sip from the coffee and smiled at Alexis, then placed the mug on the bedside table and picked up one of the scones. "You made these? This morning? What time did you get up? They smell wonderful and they're still warm." Kate was gushing she knew but she was slightly overwhelmed too. She took a bite and her eyes got wide. She got a little melancholy. This was exactly the kind of thing her mother would have done for her. "Alexis, these are wonderful, thank you." She reached over and wrapped her in a hug.
"Thank you for the picture, that was such a great night" She held out her wrist so she could see the bracelet. "And I love this too. Thank you."
Kate smiled. "You're welcome."
"Well, I was wondering if I could ask you something."
"Of course, what is it?"
"Winter Carnival is coming up and Ash asked me to go with him, but I need a dress and I thought maybe we could shop together for one, if you don't mind."
"I would love to. I'll check my schedule and maybe we could go one afternoon this week."
"Thanks Kate. Happy Valentine's Day."
"You too, Lex. Thank you, again." She placed a small kiss on her cheek and squeezed her hand and then Alexis got up and left. Kate took a deep breath and smiled.
She had just finished one of her scones and was sitting up in bed with her eyes closed when the door opened and Rick came in with two champagne flutes.
She raised her eyebrows and said, "What's this?"
"Raspberry Mimosas."
"Are we celebrating something?"
"Of course. Our first Valentine's Day together."
She smiled and took her glass as he slipped off his robe and climbed back into bed and snuggled up to her. He snaked one arm around her shoulders and kissed her and said, "Toast?"
She kissed him softly and nibbled on his bottom lip then cocked her head to the side. "Okay, what shall we toast?"
"Here's to spending every single Valentine's Day for the rest of our lives, drinking raspberry Mimosas, in bed together?"
She smiled and clinked her glass against his. "I think I could get very used to that."
They both took a sip from their glasses and she smiled and said "Oh, this is really good, do I get seconds?"
He chuckled and then leaned over and kissed her "Of course, although it is a little early to be drinking heavily."
She drained her glass and with a mouthful of raspberries she kissed him and said, "I plan on working it off and then sleeping for a verrrry long time." She placed her glass on the bedside table and took his away from him and plucked the raspberries out of it.
He took it back and drained his glass and placed it aside and then pulled her down into the bed with him. Kissing her and trying to get his raspberries back. He started tickling her and she giggled and turned her face away from him. She swallowed the raspberries and tried to push him off of her but his arms were wrapped around her tight.
"What's the matter, Detective? You're not putting up much of a fight here."
She managed to get one of her arms free and traced her finger along his jaw and around his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. "Maybe I don't have fighting in mind?"
"Oh, what is it that you do have in mind?"
"Oh, I think I might need another Mimosa to divulge that information."
"Hmmm top secret stuff?"He started to unbutton the infamous dress shirt of his that she had long since claimed as her own.
"Very top secret, and what do you think you are doing?"
"Just peeking."
"No opening presents until I get my second Mimosa."
He kissed her neck and nibbled on her ear lobe and then looked at her grinning. "There's a present under there for me?"
"Maybe."
"You know, if I leave to go get you another Mimosa then you'll get cold again."
"Nice try Romeo, maybe you'll just have to warm me up again."
He leaned in for another kiss, this time letting his mouth linger just a little bit longer and his tongue tracing her lips, she arched her back as his tongue found its way into her mouth, eliciting a small moan. He chuckled and continued his assault on her mouth, his hands working their way under her shirt.
She got leverage with her foot and within seconds had flipped him so she was on top. "Now Mr. Castle, what fun is it to spend the day in bed if you are not going to do as I ask?" She sat up so she was straddling him, leaning forward so her hands were on his chest; the ends of her disheveled curls were tickling his face.
His hands were on her hips and he was having a little difficulty breathing his eyes weren't quite focused. "You seriously want me to leave this bed right now and go get you more champagne?"
She let her fingers trail across his chest and then she bent down to kiss him, giving him a quick glance at what was under her shirt and cocked her head to the side. "Mmhmm. I do."
He groaned and pulled her hips onto his. "Kate, I'm not sure I can actually walk right now and was that something pink I saw under there?" He moved a hand toward the hem of the shirt and tried to pull it up.
She sat up straight and batted his hand away. "How about I give you another little peek and then you go get me some more raspberry champagne?"
"How about I get to see everything and after I get to take it off of you and have my way with you, then I go get us some more champagne?"
"Castle, when I am done with you, you most definitely will not be able to walk. Now you need to be a good little Romeo and do as you were told." She undid one more button and then bent down and kissed him once more and then rolled off of him.
"Um, Kate not only did I see pink, but I think I saw ruffles?"
She pushed him off the bed and he landed on the floor with a loud thud. She ruffled his hair and rolled back over under the covers.
He gingerly got up and made his way into the kitchen and within minutes he was back with two more raspberry Mimosas. The first thing he noticed was that the dress shirt she had been wearing was on the floor, the second thing was, that it appeared that she wasn't still in the bed, but it was hard to tell since the quilt was a mess. "Uh, Kate?"
He heard the door to the bathroom open and turned to see her poke her head out.
"Why don't you put those glasses down so you don't spill them?"
"Um, yeah." He placed them on the bedside table and when he turned around she was standing there in a very pale pink short cami that was trimmed with a delicate ruffle and very short boy short panties to match leaving about two inches of her very toned midriff bare. She walked over to him and he moved her curls to her back so he could get a better look. He traced his fingers over the thin straps and down her arms finally settling them on her waist. He placed light kisses on her neck and shoulder.
"I don't think I've ever seen you in pink before."
She moved her arms up around his neck. "You know, red and black are overdone this time of year. I thought you might like something different." She placed a feather light kiss on his lips and then reached behind him for their glasses and handed one to him.
"So same time, same place next year Mr. Castle?"
"Oh most definitely Ms. Beckett, only maybe next year you'll be Mrs. Castle." He looked at her with a smile and a raised eyebrow.
She smiled back at him and gave him a wicked grin. She touched her glass to his and said "I'll drink to that."
So, I actually have some of the date written, but it is just is a pile of nothing. So maybe the muse will come back in the next week or two and give me some suggestions.
And really, thank you all so, so very much for all your wonderful reviews and alerts and favorites. I'm sure you are not all as pathetic as I am and can find nothing better to do than read and review fanficiton…..but maybe you are? Kindred spirits…yes? I hope you all have someone wonderful to share this lovely day with. Hugs :o)