Prompt by MoonlightGardenias
Disclaimer: So not my characters.
Shadow
"Almost there," he whispers. "Just a little more."
"It's been a long time for me. Too long." She shivers in the night air and pulls the blanket up around her shoulders.
"My first time was in Belize," he says wistfully. "Sugar-sand beach, warm tropical breezes, and the feeling that the moment was going to last forever."
"It never does, though does it?"
"No, but that doesn't make it any less magical."
"Thanks for bringing me up here, Castle." She takes his hand just as the lunar eclipse reaches totality. "You were right about seeing things more clearly in the Hamptons."