This chapter soooo did not want to cooperate! I wrote it about halfway through a couple weeks ago but it just seemed bleh so I rewrote it but it didn't seem any better so finally I went through and rewrote it yet again after getting inspired by Doe82 who had some nice ideas for this story. I'm not overly happy about this chapter but it's better than it was haha!

Special thanks goes to ChristyLoisGilmore17 for helping with this story.

Also I'd like to give a little shout out to bettine for being the 100th person to add this story to their story alert XD

I do NOT own Castle!

Kate Beckett sat at her desk, staring at the same file that she had been looking at for the last hour as if it held all the answers she needed. Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a red haired blur but didn't need to look more carefully to know that it was Alexis rushing around, taking care of various errands.

It had been about a week since Alexis started working at the precinct and after a few rough days, they all fell into a comfortable routine. At first Alexis tried to help out all over the precinct but other divisions didn't trust her enough with their errands so after the first day she stuck to doing things for the homicide division, who were very happy to have extra help. Yesterday the older lady who sorted and delivered the precinct mail fell and hurt her back so, Alexis quickly offered to fill in for her and was currently rushing through the place delivering mail.

Kate continued to look over the same file, which was the file containing all the info on their latest case, for a while longer, hoping to find something that she overlooked until Alexis plopped down in Castle's chair and spoke up.

"I just got back from the morgue and Lanie wants to know if you want to go to Remy's with us for lunch?" Kate looked from Alexis to the clock, realizing that she could take her lunch break anytime now and decided she might as well go with them.

"Sure, let me grab my bag and we can go."

Alexis nodded then they both stood up, said their goodbyes to the guys and headed to Remy's.

When Alexis first started volunteering at the precinct they all agreed that she would go home at four pm everyday so that she didn't end up staying there all day. Usually Kate stayed much later so Alexis left by herself but today Kate surprised her by joining her.

"Thanks to you, we finished the case earlier than expected so I was thinking maybe we could go do something together?" It was true, during lunch Alexis had questioned something about the case Kate was working on that ended up giving her a new lead to work on.

"Sure, what did you have in mind?"

"I don't know… How about a movie? Didn't that 'Killers' movie come out a few days ago? The previews looked pretty good."

"Oh yeah, that movie is supposed to be pretty good."

With that decided, they went back to Kate's apartment so they could change into some more casual clothes and they were just about to head out when Alexis's cell phone rang, the caller id showing that it was Martha calling.

Martha had been unreachable, just like Castle, when Alexis wanted to talk about the summer program and she didn't get into contact with her until a few days into her stay with Kate. She had managed to land a decent sized part in an indie film and had been busy with that but she offered to come back and stay with Alexis for the summer. After multiple reassurances from both Kate and Alexis, she decided to go ahead and keep her part in the film but promised to stay in touch more than she had before.

Alexis talked with Martha for a few minutes, telling her about things she had done to help out around the precinct, until Martha had to go then Alexis and Kate made their way to the nearest movie theater to enjoy overly expensive snacks and drinks while watching 'Killers'.

Richard Castle was once again sitting in his study, in his place in the Hamptons, laptop situated on his lap as he worked on his book. Distantly, he heard his phone ring but before he could even think about finding it, it was answered by Gina.

The sooner I get this done the sooner I can talk to Alexis.

Despite being held hostage, or maybe because of it, he had made quite a bit of progress on 'Naked Heat' though not quite enough to get Gina to give him his phone back yet.

After the first few days he had made several attempts to get his phone back but apparently she knew him better than he thought and managed to keep him from getting it each time until finally he resigned himself to making a deal with her. If he worked hard enough and had at least a fourth of the book completely ready for publishing then he could have his phone back. Normally he should already have at least that much done but after getting frustrated with the way the book was going, he decided to go back through and revamp it from the beginning.

It wasn't like he completely started from scratch though so he was hoping to be able to get his phone back by Father's day. It would be the first Father's day he had spent away from Alexis so he was going to at least call her even if he had to literally fight Gina for it. He was pretty sure he could honor their deal and get that much of the book done by then though.

If only his thoughts would stop straying to a certain homicide detective, he could get it done a lot faster.

The movie ended up being pretty good, maybe not the best but definitely enjoyable and now the girls were relaxing at the apartment while their dinner cooked in the oven. Alexis was in charge of dinner tonight so she was watching tv in between checking on the food while Kate was working on paper work. Though she was busy with her paper work, Kate was half way listening to the tv as well when a commercial advertising Father's day came on. She looked up at the tv confused for a minute before realizing that yes, it was only two weeks until Father's day.

Pushing her paper work aside she grabbed her phone and went into the bedroom to call her dad.

Ideally she would go see her father every year on Father's day but with both of them working sometimes it was a day or two before or after the actual day so she needed to call him now to find out when he wanted to meet.

They talked for a good twenty minutes about various things before figuring out that they could actually meet on Father's day itself as Kate had that day off and he only had to work a short shift in the morning. She didn't tell him all the details but mentioned that someone was staying with her but Jim didn't have any problems with Alexis coming along, if she wanted, so they made plans to meet at his house in the afternoon for dinner on Father's day.

Once she hung up the phone, she walked into the kitchen to find that Alexis was just about done so she set out some plates and helped Alexis serve everything before they settled down to eat.

While they were eating, Kate told her that she was going to meet her dad on Father's day and asked if she wanted to come and Alexis agreed. Seeing that Alexis looked a little disheartened at the thought of Father's day, Kate turned towards her with a reassuring smile.

"I'm sure that he will definitely call you or pick up the phone by then. No matter how caught up in his writing he is, I'm sure that he doesn't like being away from you during Father's day just as much as you do, so he will at least call."

"You're right…Oh! I totally forgot!" Alexis pushed away her plate of food and rushed over to her purse that was by the door, rummaging through it and pulling out a small note pad before sitting back down where she was before.

"I went over to Taylor's house yesterday but while I was there she got distracted and ended up talking to her boyfriend on the phone for an hour so while I was bored I found out she had a book about dreams so I went through it to see what I could find out about that dream you keep having."

Since the night she had the dream where she was trying to build that brick wall, she would have that same dream almost every night and eventually ended up telling Alexis what it was about, though she left out just who was the star of her dreams.

"Really? Did you find out anything interesting?"

Alexis flipped to a certain page in the notebook before speaking. "Well, you said that at the end waves of water always come crashing out from behind the wall, right? In the book it said that waves symbolize the power of the unconscious or emotions. Enormous breaking waves represent powerful emotions while gentle ones mean a calm state of mind. So since you are afraid of what is behind the wall in the beginning and it turns out to be waves at the end maybe it means that you are afraid of some emotion or something taking over? It seems like the wall represents you trying to keep whatever the waves represent out but its not working? Anyway, that probably didn't help at all but I thought I'd share it anyway."

Alexis went back to eating her dinner while Kate chewed thoughtfully, thinking about what she had said. It made sense to her even though she didn't want it to. She knew exactly what the dream meant now but didn't want to admit it, even to herself.

She had done a wonderful job of seeming like his leaving hadn't effected her on the outside but apparently her subconscious was another matter. She had carefully built a wall around her but Castle had weakened it brick by brick until it was on the verge of collapsing. When he left she had frantically tried to put all the pieces back into place but it was no match for the growing feelings she had for him that were threatening to break through and rise to the surface. It hurt her deep when he left but maybe they could start anew when he came back.

With that thought, she pushed all other thoughts of Castle away and concentrated on enjoying the wonderful home cooked meal that his daughter had made for her.

Okay let's see, there were a few things I wanted to point out now... If I can just remember what they all were.

I haven't seen the movie "Killers" But I heard it was pretty good and I looked at new movies that came out around the time that this story takes place and that was the only one I could see Kate and Alexis going to see.

Lots of thanks to Christy for helping me with the dream meanings. For those of you that thought Kate seemed kind of unemotional about Castle leaving, she was like that because she pushed her feelings off to the side and won't deal with them. But while she can push them away when she is awake, she can't do that in her sleep so her feelings about Castle leaving and Castle in general are causing her to have dreams like that.

I think there was one more thing I was going to explain but its almost one in the morning here and I am too tired to remember what it was.