Got this idea from Jane Daisy.

Maybe Slightly rated M for talk (and thoughts)

The secret to Victoria Secret.

Kate stands outside Victoria Secret with her good friend Lanie Parish. She's eying the store with apprehension while the ME looks through at the lingerie with a leer and a mischievous glow about her. Kate crosses her arms, standing straighter and lets out a sigh.

"Meet me in there? I really need to use the little girls room." Lanie says bouncing a little on her heels.

"Come on Lanie, I don't need to go in there." Kate whines. And she doesn't. She hasn't needed to get anything sexy for a while now, and she hardly did for Josh.

Lanie places a hand on her hip and tilts her head to one side in the threatening way of hers. "Trust me Girl, you do." With that she walks off through the mall in search of the restrooms.

Kate rolls her eyes dropping her hands to her sides and walks into the store. The strong smell of perfume she swears is only 5% chemicals and 95% pheromones, assaults her senses and she rolls her eyes and looks about the busy store, she finds herself surrounded by expensive panties and bras. There is no way she can afford this on a cops salary, but she soon migrates towards a rack of bras out of pure feminine curiosity... She takes the cup of one fancy looking bra between two fingers and frowns. She inconspicuously looks down at her own chest and then back at the bra. For one thing there is too much padding, she doesn't want to look fake... and second of all, she would never spend that much money on something only she is going to look at. She makes a pathetic sound out of her mouth and flings her hands away from the bra, looking around her.

Her eyes catches on shelf full of silk panties. She heads over there and reaches her fingers out tentatively and feels the fabric. She almost melts at the feeling of it. And then she spots a sale. 4 pairs of any style of $28. She can swing that. She wanders over and starts looking through the styles and colors. She hums softly to herself when she finds a pair of various hiphuggers. She can't deny her attraction to them. One pair catches her eye in particular. She picks them up, black rose lace. Her eyes shoot upwards out of habit and she imagines herself wearing them with a black bra. She's not going to lie...they would look sexy, she keeps herself in great shape so panties like these would just compliment her figure.

If only she had good reason to wear them...more like, a good reason to have them removed. She bites her bottom lip when a certain author by the name of Richard Castle flutters into her mind. Something she has not been able to help for almost three years now. She works her lip between her teeth at the idea of him seeing her in barely anything it all. Her pulse quickens at just the thought of him removing every article of clothing until shes only wearing these panties and her black lacy bra... the expression of lust and hunger in his eyes as he looks her up and down...And then her eyes fall on him. He's standing in the entrance to the PINK part of the store. For a moment she thinks she's only imagining it, but nope. He's really there, and he's spotted her.

Shit.

She watches in a blind panic as his eyebrows raise in that way of his and he walks confidently into the store. This cocky almost too comfortable air about him. He's almost to her and she's frozen in place clutching the hiphuggers in both hands with white knuckles.

"Beckett." He says in a surprised tone, his eyes migrating over her from her hair that hangs loosely about her shoulders to the very intimate under garment bunched in her hands.

Kate swallows hard and hides the undies behind her back for some reason. "Castle." She replies with a shocking amount of levity. "What are you doing here?" She then adds in an accusatory tone, one often used in interrogations. She does not dare to look at the underwear and lingerie around her, so she's forced to look into those eyes that distract her every single day.

"In here? Or at the mall." He asks innocently.

She gives him a pointed look.

"Ah, well Alexis has been upset about her breakup with Ashley...so I thought I'd search the mall and get her something to cheer her up." He says absently fiddling with a pair of panties. "And then I saw you here." He raises an eyebrow.

Kate's eyes dart to his fingers that work the soft fabric, she can't help but feel aroused and slightly uncomfortable at the same time. She swallows again, almost audibly when her eyes briefly close and she pictures his fingers on the panties in her hands, only attached to her body. "Oh." She almost gasps. "How is she?" She says stronger now although she feels the flush rising in her cheeks.

Castle smirks at her, as if he knows the inner workings of her mind. "She's tough, she'll get through this." He sounds so sure, it warms her heart.

Someone snatches the panties from behind her back and holds them up in front of their own face. Lanie. "Oh these are sexy." She says in a sing song voice, and then she spots Castle. Her brows shoot up and she hands the panties to Kate with a leer. "Castle." She says appraising him.

"He's here getting something for Alexis...I..I mean..at the mall..not in. Victoria..secret." She almost whispers that last part and turns away from the two to pick out her other three pairs, not daring to meet Castle's eyes now.

She thinks she hears him chuckle. "So what are you lovely ladies doing on this fine day?" He asks instead, taking his hands from the underwear and looking around him.

"Oh you know, top secret girl things." Lanie says nudging Kate and eying the writer with a evil smirk.

"Oh is that so?" He asks mirroring the grin. "Getting something to entice Esposito back are we?" He asks but his eyes are on Kate as she picks up a pair of pink lace and thinks better of it. Her eyes meet his over her shoulder and he shakes his head subtly. Pretty much saying Pink is not her.

She can't help the jolt in her chest and abdomen at his suggestion, and softly places them back. "Oh you know it, baby." Lanie says. "Speaking of which." She looks between the two knowingly. "I'm going to go check out the brasseries." And with that she strolls off, leaving Kate feeling tingly all over and very aware of the look in Castle's eyes.

Complete silence. Kate's not sure if she just wants him to leave, or keep letting him undress her with his eyes as she picks out intimates. Because she knows that is exactly what he is doing. Only her secret is...she finds that Sexy. As. Hell. She can't help but want him to keep doing it. She finds herself calmer, looking at her hands while the rifle through the various shades and patterns. Her eyes slowly work their way to his face, eyes smoldering as she takes him in. He's leaning against the display, not even trying to hide his silent approval. Kate's hands lift the pair she's seemingly fallen in love with, and dangles it over her index finger at him, as if asking him if he likes them.

Holy shit what as gotten into her?

Castle's eyes grow wide and his mouth falls open. Just as he's about to say something his phone rings. His face falls considerably and he puts up a finger to tell her he'll be with her in a minute. He turns his back to her and answers his phone. Kate shakes herself and sighs. What the hell was she doing?

Jesus Kate. She curses herself. She collects her four pairs and then looks back at Castle before walking off to pay. Afterwords she runs into Lanie who also has a bag and the two walk to the entrance finding Castle who's just putting his phone into his jacket pocket. Lanie stands next to Kate, looking back and forth between Castle and Beckett, seeing the after affect of eye sex and wonders to herself what went on while she was off picking out sexy bras.

"That was Gina...apparently I am supposed to be in a meeting." He says with a groan.

"Well see you later then Castle." Lanie says smiling her ass off.

"Always a pleasure Dr. Parish." He replies with a slight bow. "Beckett." He says in a more husky perhaps, intimate tone before nodding his head at her and leaving the two alone to shop.

Kate smacks her forehead and Lanie just laughs.

Kate slips on a pair of dark blue jeans over her brand new pair of black rose lace hiphuggers. Victoria certainly has a secret, but it's nothing the women who worship that store don't already know. And it's how a pair of lace panties can make a woman feel, while also being completely alluring to whoever the wearer wants to lure. And these? Oh yes, they would do the trick nicely.

Kate runs her thumb along the waist band, letting them snap against her skin pleasantly, she marvels at the feel of them. How well they fit and how great she feels and looks in them. She bites her lip, eying what little shows over her tight pants and then throws a shirt on, covering them. She gets this sort of gleam in her eyes and shuts her locker door before heading to the bullpen.

She steps out of the elevator a few minutes later seeing Castle's jacket hanging over his chair and assumes he's in the break room. Once in there she spots him at the espresso machine already making a cup. That all to familiar jolt enters her chest followed by a warmth in her abdomen. She's just walked into a room now rapidly filling with sexual tension. Kate takes in a deep breath, rising her shoulders and letting the air out loud enough to catch his attention. She looks down and a hand unconsciously goes to her hair hanging by her ear, twirling a finger in it. She's feeling rather timid since Castle found her in Victoria Secret yesterday, and part of her hopes he doesn't bring it up. But the look in his eyes say otherwise. She shivers at the soft caress those eyes seem to be giving her entire body.

"Hey Beckett." He says turning to her while he adds the finishing touches to a cup of coffee.

"Hey." She answers, her voice low. She can't seem to help it. Her mind as been...elsewhere since yesterday.

"Comfortable?" He asks with a serious face, turning to her with the cup to his lips.

"Excuse me?" She asks, placing a hand on one hip eyebrow raised. She frowns at the fact that he seems to have forgotten about her coffee as he drinks his.

"I said." He takes a sip and lowers it. "Are you comfortable?"

One brow furrows and she looks at him in disbelief. "Yes?" She replies in a tone that clearly says she's trying to catch his double meaning.

"Good." He gives her a little nod and leans on the counter taking another sip. "I mean. I would hate for you to be uncomfortable." She follows the cup as it goes to his lips and back down again. Only her eyes stay on his lips for a moment too long.

"Thanks?" She says. And then shakes her head. "What are you talking about?"

"Well not all those garments look comfortable." He states quite at ease in this awkward conversation. "Some of them look like they creep up your ass, you know? I mean, why would anyone buy them? I certainly don't find them appealing." He raises an eyebrow as if trying to make a point.

She shifts her weight to the other foot and wraps an arm around her abdomen, her fingers playing with her panties that peek over the waistband of her jeans. An idea forms. She throws him such a look with her mouth half open. "Is that some weird come on?" She asks.

"I'm just saying." He raises one hand in mock surrender.

She gives him a playful smile, uncrossing her arm as she saunters up to him, her hand on his shoulder and her lips at his ear. She blows her hot breath from those lips and says in her dubbed "bedroom voice."

"Oh, they are very comfortable." She turns her head slowly away from him, brushing her hair across his cheek and starts to walk away, She looks over her shoulder, letting out a fake yawn and stretching her arms up over her head. This little action lifts her shirt just enough to give him quite a peek at what she's wearing under those tight jeans. She sees his eyes drift there, obviously her exposed skin catching his attention first. She brings her arms back down with a knowing smile.

"Thanks for the coffee." She says, taking the cup from him. Kate puts an extra swing in her hips as she rounds the corner. She watches for Castle's reaction and lets out a laugh when his fist goes to his mouth.

Haha! Thoughts?

Oh and If you haven't yet. PLEASE go the the previous chapter and read it, it's one of my favorites. And then! Click the blue "Review this Chapter" button for both. See it's just riiiight down there. It's so easy to press, just like Castle :P

And of course my in progress full story The Head and the Heart.