Thanks so much for your feedback! I don't know how Captain Victoria Gates is going to be, but I by reading the spoilers online I tried to create this next scene as best as I could imagine.

"A word, detectives." Gates had her arms crossed, as she walked away from the open doorway that had been closed just moments ago. Ryan and Esposito rose out of their seats and followed, closing the interrogation room door as they left. They followed Captain Gates into the observation room behind the two way glass mirror. Gates stood with authority, arms crossed, and face serious. Ryan and Esposito stood facing her.

"My first question would be what are the two of you doing, but I think it's quite obvious that the both of you cannot follow an order when given by your superior. I thought I made myself clear on this case." Gates said. Ryan and Esposito felt like kids being called into the principal's office for skipping class.

"We got a lead and we wanted to…" Ryan went.

"You wanted to go behind my back, and hope I wouldn't find out. I'm new here, but not new to the job detective. There isn't enough evidence to continue this case any further. I am sorry about Detective Beckett, it' tragic. But last time I checked you were homicide detectives and Detective Beckett is alive. This case is closed. There are plenty of other cases that need solving, starting with the paperwork stacked on both your desks. If either one of you try to do something like this again, the only paperwork you'll be filling out will be parking tickets downtown. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes ma'am." Esposito and Ryan said. Gates let her crossed arms go and she walked between the two detectives out of the room. They both sighed, frustrated. Ryan looked into the mirror. Their guy was standing up and being escorted out by an officer. Esposito folded his muscular arms and shook his head.

"Now we know why they call her the iron." Ryan said.

Beckett's Apartment…

"Hey, here help me with these." Lanie said, as she handed a brown paper bag to Kate walking into her apartment. They walked over to the kitchen and placed the bags on the counter.

"What is all this?"

"Something, the last time I checked, you didn't have." Lanie said, opening the fridge to reveal only some take-out boxes, cream, expired milk, old lunchmeat, and a few bottles of water. "Mm…that's just nasty." Lanie spoke, as she picked up the lunchmeat and tossed it into the trashcan nearby. Lanie started pulling groceries out of the brown bags.

"You didn't have to…"

"Oh yes I did. What kind of friend would I be if I let you starve or live off of expired milk and old Chinese food?" Lanie joked. Beckett smiled, and started to take food out of the last brown bag. They finished putting away the food, and Beckett began pouring out the old milk.

"Thank you Lanie." Beckett smiled. Lanie smiled back to say 'you're welcome.'

Beckett started to sort through some mail that had accumulated over the past few days, sitting on her kitchen counter. Lanie grabbed a water bottle, and sat in a stool at the counter.

"So, want to tell me about last night?" Lanie asked, Beckett almost dropped the envelope she was holding for her electric bill, and she froze. She tried to recover quickly, and she acted like nothing happened before Lanie could notice. Oh my God how does she know? Beckett screamed in her head.

"Last night?" Beckett asked, trying to keep calm. Lanie sipped her water and continued.

"Yeah, the boys told me you went to Castle's book signing. How'd it go?" Lanie asked, not aware of Beckett's sudden heart rate spike. Beckett felt a sudden relief.

"Oh…um...last night, yeah it went good." Beckett stuttered. Lanie gave her a weird look, but then shivered a little.

"Brrr! Girl it's freezing in here. And that's coming from a girl who works with dead bodies all day in a morgue." Lanie said, rubbing her arms. Beckett smiled.

"There's a sweater hanging off my bedroom closet door, I'll grab it." Beckett said, placing her mail on the counter.

"No, I'll get it. Have to use the bathroom anyways." Lanie replied, getting up from her seat.

Lanie walked out of the room and down the hall. Beckett took some junk mail out of the pile she was sorting through and walked it over to the trashcan. She opened the fridge and grabbed a bright red apple that Lanie had bought. She washed it with some water, dried it, and took a bite. The juice flowed into her mouth. She began chewing and smiled, the apple reminded her of Castle and his safeword. She began thinking about Castle and his passionate kisses, as she touched her lips with the apple, biting it again.

"Found the sweater…and also this." Lanie said, walking up to the kitchen counter and stopping. Beckett was facing the stairs in her kitchen, still tasting the sweet apple in her mouth. She creased her brow, confused, and turned to Lanie. Her heart dropped.

"I find it hard to believe you wear a men's large." Lanie grinned, holding Castle's dark gray button up shirt in her left hand. It was wrinkled, because of the dampness and also from being on the floor of her bedroom all night. Damn it! He forgot his shirt. Beckett thought. Beckett remembered the night before when they kissed their way through her apartment, down the hall, running their hands all over each other's clothed bodies, to end up in Beckett's bedroom. She remembered Castle tossing his shirt on her bed, it must've fallen off onto the floor and he forgot to change back into it, since he left in his red shirt.

Beckett snapped out of it, and looked at the shirt and back at Lanie's smiling face.

"Looks like last night went real good." Lanie smirked. There was no way Beckett could hide it now. She was hoping to clear things up with Castle first about what they were now, and she wasn't exactly ready to be out in the open just yet.

"I can explain that."

"I'm all ears."

"Castle and I…we um…talked."

"I know he's a bestselling novelist, but I didn't think his words could get clothes off." Lanie laughed, Beckett laughed too. It was time to come clean.

"Alright, fine. We kissed," Beckett admitted, Lanie tilted her head waiting for more, "kissed… a lot."

Beckett smiled, and Lanie looked relieved.

"Finally! Do you have any idea how long we've been waiting for this?" Lanie sighed.

"We?" Beckett smiled.

"Me, Esposito, Ryan, and anyone else who sees the two of you together. We stopped placing bets on you two months ago, looks like I should start again."

"Well nothing happened. So save your money. And could we keep this on the down low, I'm not exactly sure what Castle and I are just yet. We didn't exactly talk about it, and I don't think I'm ready."

"I'll keep it a secret, only because I know it's actually happening."

"Thank you." Beckett said, Lanie threw the shirt at Beckett. She caught it, smiling.

"You gonna give me details, or do I have to wait for the next book?" Lanie joked, sitting down back in her stool.

Thank you for reading everyone! Sorry it's been a few days. I hope you liked how Lanie found out about Beckett and Castle. I'll try to get more posted tomorrow! ~Ashley