Sunday – morning

The morning arrived to the sounds of city birds at the window. Beckett awoke to the sound of the alarm buzzing in her ear. She swung her arms in a big semi circle motion which hit Castle square in the face. She then remembered that Castle had in fact stayed the night, and memories from last night had flooded her mind causing embarrassment to flood her face.

"Kate, you woke up so early" Castle said with his husky morning voice as he reached out to stroke her arm and pull her in. They were blessed yet again by another visit from Lanie.

"Kate, I'm coming in" announced Lanie as she pushed open the door to find her and Castle in bed together.

"Oh sweet sugar, you two slept together? Don't you think it's progressing a little too quickly?"

"No, Lanie, we've just decided to try out actual sleeping first before we lunge into anything rash" replied Castle as Beckett buried her head in her hands in embarrassment.

"So you just slept?" Lanie said eying the both of them with a furrowed brow, "You guys are a couple of weird folks."

They were the last to enter the meeting room that had already been set up by Montgomery. He, Ryan and Esposito were all enjoying a buffet breakfast when they entered.

"Lucky you, Castle, did you sleep at all last night?" Beckett followed Esposito's remark with a death glare. Everyone could tell that both Beckett and Castle were up to mischief last night, especially Castle since he was so unusually quiet.

"Shut up and eat your breakfast" Beckett said slightly flushed.

A hotel staff came in and snuck Montgomery a secret package. He tucked the package in his pockets and resumed his attention on the table, but Castle couldn't wait, he stared at his chief beady-eyed.

"Don't tell me you're not going to share that with us? I will follow you around all day if I have to"

"He means it, Sir, don't doubt how much trouble you're getting yourself into."

Montgomery took the small package out, "I was going to wait till we finished… it's our next move, Grines' suite when he stays here." Esposito looked at him wide- eyed and slapped Ryan on his shoulder in excitement.

"We're on it, Sir."

Castle pursed his lips as he directed a nervous look at Beckett signalling a I want that toy look.

"With all do respect, Sir, we have been running all around town last night, we would really like to just stay around the hotel today" Beckett said glancing at Castle who was beaming at her. Montgomery ordered Esposito and Ryan out to explore the town and left the snooping to Castle and Beckett.

Foor P – Moments later

Beckett and Castle exited the Penthouse floor reserved for the private and very powerful. As they entered the room, thick Persian carpets, marble bench tops, mahogany wooden floor boards and paintings in huge gold frames stared back at them.

"Wow" they both said in sync with their mouth wide opened.

"Wanna make out?" Castle said patting the plush cushions on the lounge

"No!" Beckett slapped him lightly on the face. They were looking through cabinets and piles of papers when the elevator light came on. Castle signalled for Beckett to go behind the curtains by the window and they fumbled over as quickly as they could. He held on to her as she smirked at his nervousness.

The door opened to two figures stumbling in. They were giggling and running for the bed that was situated next to the window where Beckett and Castle stood. The man mumbled something inaudible and the woman spoke at the top of her pitch. They landed on the bed and proceeded with their make out session which eluded into the tearing of each other's clothes. Beckett watched in amazement whilst Castle grinned from ear to ear at the entertainment before their eyes. Beckett then whispered briefly into Castle's ear. They bent down on all fours and began crawling for the door. With each screech and scream from the girl, they crawled faster, hoping they won't be founded. On the way out, Castle noticed a piece of folded paper on the ground. He scooped it up as they passed the base of the bed and exited the room. In the elevator, they both let out a sigh of relief and laughed at the look on each other's faces.

Meeting room – later

"So besides nothing, we've picked up this" Castle said handing the paper to Beckett. She squinted at the details of what appeared to be a concert ticket. It read, "Be bedazzled by Estelle Fonte, the woman of a thousand songs. She'll be awaiting you at the Rocks Concert Hall." Beckett furrowed her brow.

"We've been had" she said as she

Sunday - Night

Beckett and Castle again returned to the night club to question John but the club was unusually quiet and John was no where in sight. Castle looked around for Peter but to no avail.

"Where is everyone?" asked Castle. The night club was unusually empty, even if it was a Sunday. There were people who'd usually squeeze in a drink or two before the dampness of Monday came looming. Upon questioning Pauli, the waiter, they found out that John had left yesterday to visit his sick mother.

"I suspect John made a run for it when he realised that we were in town"

"No, that's too easy. Why would someone kill, bury their victims in such an obvious place and then make a run for it? Doesn't make any sense" Beckett said furrowing her eyebrows.

They returned to the hotel to regroup with the others. Ryan and Esposito were gleeful hearing that Castle and Beckett had come up empty handed.

"Well, here's what the dream team has to report" boasted Ryan, "we went through a week's worth of surveillance footage of the night club and guess what we found?

"Geoff with a slutty maid?" Castle asked, hopeful.

"No. No staff from this hotel and no Geoff.

"No Geoff? As in, John lied to us?" Castle said with a smirk.

"Why are you smiling?" Ryan asked confused.

"Because the agent ninety nine and I, know everything. Suck it up bro" replied Castle.

"Castle, what did you say Peter's profession was?" queried Beckett

"He's in logistics."

Beckett nodded as if she was pretending to listen, then she walked up to him and placed her face inches from his.

"You are not Smart."

Montgomery approached the team in a hurry, "alright, the sources from the airports said that John was not on any flights for the past month. Peter, however, was on a flight to New York on Wednesday. We've also got word that a shop near route 95 has reported the use of a fake card to purchase a bag of ice by someone matching the Peter's description. He was heading east along the road. We've put out calls to get the motels and hotels in that area searched."

Route 95 – Later in to the night

They drove along the highway prepping themselves with firearms and bulletproof vests. As usual, Beckett's attempts to suppress Castle's keenness to join them failed miserably. He noticed the creases of her furrowed brow were more deep than usual; she was more worried about him this time. Their relationship had stepped furtherer, and has conjured, in both of them, feelings that were unexperienced before. He comforted her concerns with a soft touch on the back of her hand whilst mouthing out I'll be fine.

"Stay close to me, Rick" she demanded.

Signals came through the radio alerting them that the suspects were in an abandoned warehouse and armed.

"Damn it" cursed Montgomery, "they must've have sensed something. Alright, alpha and beta units on foot, the rest in patrols! There's a lot of land and they'll be trying to hide in some of these houses" he said into the radio.

Beckett and Castle were on foot with the two teams. They were following fifteen to twenty feet behind the suspects with a chopper in the sky and five patrol cars on the ground. The suspects disappeared into a large factory area that produced metal parts for machinery. Beckett covered the east side with alpha whilst Ryan and Esposito went around the west.

Beckett drew her weapon and torch closer to her as she entered the underground facilities. Darkness and silence plagued the pipelined tunnels. One light illuminated the abandoned and rusty walkways every ten steps or so but the lights revealed little detail and Beckett's heart beat started to creep up. She suddenly had an odd feeling and turned around to see her team of seven trailing her and shone the torch on their faces.

"Where's Castle?"

"He went down to the left a while back" replied an officer.

"Damn it, he is not armed" she told them. Now her heart started to sink. She had to decide quickly whether to chase after Castle or push forward. She stepped forward only five more steps before deciding to turn around.

"I have to get Castle" she announced, then assigned Esposito to lead the team forward. She ran down the tunnel Castle went through sweating with heart pounding. She didn't want a repeat of last time's near death experience. Her knees were weak but she persisted.

"Castle" she whispered as her gun and torch led the search. She paced herself further into the tunnel until she could no longer hear the footsteps of the others. Footsteps nearby suddenly interrupted her thoughts, she crouched behind a bend with her gun drawn and waited. A male figure came walking towards her quickly and her heart pounded heavily. She raised her gun to take aim but realised it was Castle. She grabbed him as he turned the bend and he struggled only for a second.

"Kate it's me." She shushed him and let him go.

"Why did you leave the team?" she jabbed him square in the shoulders with the back of the gun. "I told you to stay close to me. Why would you run off like that, don't you know these people are armed? You could be killed!" she shouted in a small voice. A smile of content overcame his face.

"Don't worry, I'm fine now. I felt a slight breeze over there and decided to have a look"

He led them through a tunnel with a few ceiling lights lined across the one side eventually leading them to a rusty platform situated high up in a pungent warehouse.

"This place reeks of gun powder" she said taking a deep breath.

"I know" he pointed down towards cargos of boxes labelled "explosives".

A string of gun shots had broken their moment; it came from above. They ran as fast as they were able to the surface. The beta team were hidden behind old cargo and an old abandoned building. Beckett noticed Peter running towards a sedan armed and began chase. Castle waited ten seconds before joining her so that she wouldn't notice. Peter and his team split and ran in opposite directions, but Beckett had her eye on him. When he saw Beckett, he fired aimlessly. The gun shots deterred Beckett slightly but Castle powered forward and hid behind his car. He came out as Peter was approaching and tackled him to the ground. Beckett watched in horror as the two tumbled across the grounds fighting for the gun. She pulled out hers but couldn't establish a clear aim. Thoughts ran through her head as she watched the struggle until a gun shot went off. The two broke apart and fell on to their backs. Beckett ran over to overpower Peter she saw blood ooze from his leg. Castle raised himself up and looked at her with a smile.

"Did you see that? I'm like superman!" Beckett glared at him as he huffed and puffed, "I'm fine, I have a vest on" he said showing off his vest with the word 'writer' glued to the front.

Back at a Las Vegas precinct, Esposito briefed them on the confessions of the other suspects for smuggling fire arms but now they had to crack Peter. Beckett entered the interrogation room with Castle by her side.

"I'm tired Mr. Siegfield, so let's just get to the chase so we can all go on our way. You killed Grines."

Peter chuckled in a deep voice and looked at them empty, "you have no proof. You arrested me under illegal export of firearms, so charge me already and get it over and done with."

Beckett had no more patients, she knew he did it. "We have word from your so called allies, that Grines was in on this little export with you, but he changed his mind. He wanted to start over."

Peter said nothing.

"We have eyes who say you arrived at JFK on the morning that Peter did". A confused Castle followed her as she stood up. "We brought your pal Ben in, Mr. Siegfield, his construction company was the one who did that pavement work that night, in case you've forgotten. And we found the murder weapon at the warehouse." Beckett stared at his emotionless face one more time and walked out with Castle behind her.