AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello everyone! Belated Happy Thanksgiving to all! Here is the last part of this story. Hope you all like it. This is not beta-ed, so hope you will forgive my mistakes.

And by the way, I really miss Castle… They have been away for a week and I'm already missing it. Sigh, it surely is addictive… Anyways, as I always keep saying...Happy reading everybody! :D

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Castle nor the lyrics quoted below. Castle belongs to ABC productions and Andrew Marlowe and the lyrics are quoted from the song, "You know its true" by Jules Larson.

They sat there happily chatting and splurging on their favorite food. They surely were a perfect couple. Unconventional? Yes. But a perfect couple never the less...

"Is it alright, is it alright…
If I tell you how I feel?
If it's alright, if it's alright…
I just wanted you to know
how I do adore you so."

CHAPTER -3

FLASH BACK:

Oddly enough, that night he had slept well. He was a happy man, strangely content, content about knowing what he really wanted. His brain finally had understood that ignorance was not actually so blissful. Truth was. And the unavoidable truth was in front of him all the time staring blatantly at his face and yet he chose to ignore that. How much of a fool he was. But…not anymore, now he had his epiphany on her stairwell yesterday. An odd place for epiphany, though when has it ever come in proper places? Another epiphany about Epiphany? Hell! He seriously needed to sort it out immediately before he went completely mad!

He was sitting in her waiting lounge, when she joined him after few minutes. She was at a client meeting. She was dressed in her usual formal skirt and top. She looked immaculately professional and that is what he liked about her. Professional… that was exactly how he wanted their relation to be from now on. Gina was very good at being his publisher; he would never want to loose that. She always kept him on his toes, nudging him to write and finish the book on time.

He knew she was good, and he hated to break her heart. Especially when she had this bright cheerful smile on her face which hinted towards a more successful client meeting than she was happy to meet him. She was always that way; more involved in her work than she was ever with him. He could only shrug at that thought, because it did not matter now anyways. Because the truth was... he never bothered about it either. But still a break up was an awkward happening to witness and more so when you are the part of it and worst when you are the one initiating it.

So, he slowly began, not knowing how to word it exactly; he just said the first words which came to his mind…" Gina, I don't think I would pull a prison break for you." He paused, a very pregnant pause at that.
Her face was a mixture of multiple reactions thrown together. But the most prevalent expression was which said,'what the hell?'

He continued, "Gina…umm… what I mean is… well, I think you deserve a guy who would risk it all and pull a prison break for you if you were in some trouble. And I just think… I'm sorry… I'm not that one."

She wanted to interrupt him before when he said about her being in prison, thinking it was some sort of his stupid joke, but as he completed the sentence she understood what he was really trying to say. And when the truth of the sentence struck her, for a moment she was left pondering as to whether she would risk it herself, for him. But anger took the better part of her mind and she yelled at him…"Rick? What the hell? Are you breaking up with me? And what is this stupid analogy of me being in prison? I would never be imprisoned and you would never need to pull a prison break for me. I'm wise enough not to land in there in the first place!" she snapped at him.

He just stood there. He knew he deserved it. No seriously, what did he think? He would break up and she would take it gracefully? Uff... whom was he kidding? She was his ex-wife for some reason, right? All he could manage was, "I'm sorry… but I just don't think I'm the one for you. But just so that you know, I really respect you as my publisher and hope we will work together in the same professional way as we always do. But that's just it will always be from now on... just PROFESSIONAL."

She was seething in anger at being dumped. But some where in the back of her head, she did agree to each and every word he just said. He wasn't the one for her, and she just knew it as well as he did. And of course she certainly wasn't the one for him. He was too blind to notice it till then. She had seen through him a long time ago but was reluctant to acknowledge it... That he was in love with his inspiration. She wanted to be jealous, because it was appropriate thing to feel at that situation, but somehow she just didn't feel it.

She muttered an angry," Fine! But for now, get out of this place Rick! I don't want to see you here until we meet next time in a strictly professional environment…" even in anger she had her head firmly on her shoulders. She was too professional, that she knew not to jeopardize her career by fighting with a best selling crime novelist for something so trivial. Yes, everything except her work was trivial for her. She was too wise even for anger.

He knew now for whom he would risk it all. For whom he would break all the rules and steal her way from prison that will keep her away from him. And that meant prison of any sense, even people who keep her away from him. He would win her back. He now knew she was his TRUE LOVE. The true love he had said he wanted to celebrate yesterday... He really had in some level wanted to celebrate them. But guess yesterday it didn't turn out the way he wanted to. But that doesn't mean it would never happen in future. And one day not in the very far future, he would be the one toasting with her at night to their love. One day, some day she will find her true love in him too... until then he was ready to wait.

"One day, I will see you walking and
One day we will get to talking and
I will say, ever since I set eyes on you…
You know it's true."

I hope it wasn't so bad… so I guess I still can hope for a decent comment? * making a puppy dog eyes* ;)