I really shouldn't be writing anything this late but I got inspired by the new promo for the season 3 premier I just saw. Wait! Don't freak out yet! It's not a new, new one... Apparently everyone else has seen it BUT me... Christy said that it aired after one of the reruns that come on Wednesday nights but seeing as I don't normally watch the reruns (Because it just seems weird to me to be watching Castle on Wednesdays instead of Mondays) I didn't see it until a little while ago.

I do NOT own Castle!

"Why would Detective Beckett pull you out into the hallway and start off by saying she isn't the easiest to get to know if she was just going to tell you to have a great summer? Doesn't really make sense to me, but then again, you know her better than I do so you should know why she did that."

Alexis' words kept running through his head all night and even into the next day. He had given it a little thought as he headed to the beach house that day but, he figured he was just reading too much into things. Now that Alexis had mentioned it, he couldn't stop thinking about it. It was times like these that he hated his curious nature.

Was it something about the case? Nah, it couldn't be since everything about the case was all tied up. But if it wasn't about the case, what could it be? She pulled me into the hallway so apparently she didn't want everyone else to hear it… Could it have been something about the guys? It's possible but… No, if it was about them she wouldn't have said that about her not being the easiest to get to know… So then was it something about her? Maybe one of the guys would know?

With that thought he pulled out his newly rescued phone and set off a quick text to Esposito and Ryan. Technically he only sent it to Esposito but he knew Ryan would read it too.

Five minutes passed and no reply.

Five turned to ten and ten turned to twenty. Maybe they are busy with a case?

When twenty turned into thirty he finally decided he should stop staring at the phone and might as well get some writing done before Gina decided to take it back, then he would never get to read their reply.

"I don't know, man. I want to talk to him too but what about Beckett? Knowing her she probably wouldn't be angry that we were still talking to him but, I don't think she would be overly happy about it either." Ryan and Esposito were crowding around Esposito's phone, trying to decide if they should reply or not.

"I hear ya. Damn this is just like when my parents would fight when I was little, I never knew whose side I should be on." Ryan nodded his agreement to Esposito's statement before leaning back in his chair.

"I say we just wait a while, see what happens you know?"

"You really think that somethin's going to change anytime soon?"

"Well, he is going to find out about Little Castle helping out around here eventually. Wait until then?"

"Sounds good to me."

To the littler Castle, time seemed to slow to a crawl as she waited until four o'clock came around. Usually she enjoyed working at the precinct but she had plans for the afternoon.

Countless errands later, it was finally four o'clock and she bid her goodbyes to the members of the homicide division before getting on the elevator and heading down. Normally she would ride the subway back to Kate's apartment or go over to a friend's house but today, she headed down to the morgue to have a little chat with a certain medical examiner.

When it was a slow day around the precinct, and there weren't many things for her to do, Alexis would head down to the morgue to help out Lanie since there was almost always something she could help with so it wasn't much of a surprise to Lanie when she walked in.

"Hey, girl. Not enough work for you upstairs today?" Lanie had been very hesitant about Alexis staying with Kate, but after a while the younger girl grew on her and they had become pretty close.

"Actually, it's already four so I'm supposed to be heading home but, I was hoping you would have a few minutes to talk?"

Lanie threw a shocked glance at the clock to see that it was in fact after four. "Wow, I didn't know it was already that late and seeing as I haven't had a break since lunch, I think I can spare a few minutes. What's up?"

"Well…" Alexis trailed off, suddenly unsure about going behind Kate's back to get information that she obviously didn't want her to know.

"I want to know what happened when my dad left for the summer."

That was definitely not what Lanie was expecting. "That's… I don't think… Why aren't you asking Kate this?"

"I tried, but she wouldn't tell me."

"Then she probably doesn't want you to know. I'm sorry but I don't really think I should tell you. Things between your dad and Kate are… Complicated."

Complicated, oh how she was starting to hate that word. Alexis didn't want to risk the friendship she had with the ME by pushing her for answers but she couldn't help asking one more thing.

"Did you know she has been having nightmares? She's only told me about a few of them but when she has them she always calls out 'Castle' in her sleep."

"Really?" Now that was something Lanie hadn't heard anything about. Maybe she was wrong to think that this wasn't affecting Kate much.

"Yes, and I'm pretty sure she was saying 'don't go' one time but I'm not completely sure about that. I just want to know what happened but no one will tell me anything."

"Surely Writer Boy already told you what happened? Or is that harpy still answering his phone?"

"I finally got to talk to him yesterday since Gina finally gave him his phone back and I got his version of the story, but I have a feeling there is something missing from his version."

"You got that right. That boy didn't know that she'd broken up with Demming before his 'going away' party so he walked right out the door with that harpy hanging off his arm… Oh man." Her eyes got comically wide as she realized that she had just spilled the beans thanks to her big mouth.

"But why did she break up with him? From what I've heard, things were going pretty well between her and that guy."

Lanie eyed the younger girl who looked honestly interested and confused by the whole thing and decided she'd already told her the biggest part so there wasn't really any reason not to answer her.

"Things were going good between them. I didn't actually get to see them together much but I have eyes and ears all over this place, I know what goes on. As for why she broke up with him, Javier said that it was his fault. He pointed out to my girl that she had a choice to make and that whoever she didn't pick would leave. Apparently she picked Writer Boy since she almost immediately went to break up with Demming after that."

Alexis raised an eyebrow at the fact that Lanie called the detective by his first name but didn't say anything in favor of getting to the bottom of this mystery.

"So…She broke up with Demming before the party so does that mean she was going to tell my dad that when she asked to talk to him out in the hallway?"

Lanie looked thoughtful for a minute before replying. "That's a good question… Knowing Kate she probably wouldn't have come right out and said that she had broken up with him, it's more likely that she was going to ask if the offer to go to the Hamptons with him was still open."

"Ugh, do these two have the worst timing ever or what? The one time that my dad actually backs down from something, because he thinks it's the right thing to do, is the one time that he shouldn't."

"Wait, he backed down because he thought it was the right thing to do? I just assumed that he had had enough of seeing them together."

"Well, there is that too. But yeah, he thought it would be for the best if he backed off and let Kate do what she wanted since she seemed so happy with him."

Lanie made a sound of acknowledgement then they both went silent for a minute, each lost in their own thoughts.

"Well…"

"So…" They both started speaking at the same time, and shared a smile when they realized what they had done.

"Seeing as these two do have the worst timing ever, I think we should give them a little hand don't you think?" Alexis asked when Lanie motioned that she should speak first and apparently, Lanie was thinking along the same lines.

"I knew there was a reason you and I got along so well."

I tried my best to keep all the dialog from being boring... Don't know if I succeeded in that or not...

It's two thirty in the morning right now and I did go back and look over the chapter but I didn't find too many mistakes to correct so either A) I'm too sleepy to see the mistakes or B) A miracle happened and there weren't that many mistakes to start with but I'm pretty sure its A so I'm sorry for the mistakes you may see in this chapter.

On a different note: I finished a Castle video I have literally been working on all summer! (It took FOREVER!) Please take a look at it? It's called "Celebrating The Awesomeness Of ABC's Castle! www .youtube watch?v=l23QNho7jsE (Take out the spaces)

In other news... I have been introduced to the wonderful world of twitter! You can find me as hallow888 on there.