Thank you guys. The support for this little piece of mine is so overwhelming! I hope you keep enjoying it! Sorry for the delay. I'll try to get the next chapter up as fast as I can.

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"I don't think this is the right way," Ryan said and turned the map in his hand once more.

"Yo man! I told you half an hour ago we should have taken the other road," Esposito hit the breaks and snatched the map out of Ryan's hands. "Where did we leave the main road?" he asked.

"Here," Ryan pointed out. "And the cabin is here."

Esposito studied the map and then hit reverse, turning the car around he headed back where they had come from.

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She woke up in his arms, half sprawled over him, their legs intertwined. This time she had no intention of sneaking out off bed, instead she put her ear on his chest, listening to his steady heartbeat she let her fingers softly dance over his chest.

"Mmmh," he sighed and with one slight pull, she lay on top of him.

"Huh," she squealed and then laughed.

"Good morning, Katherine Beckett. I hope you rested well," he mumbled his eyes still closed.

She chuckled, "Why so formal, Mr. Castle?"

"Oh my mother told me that's how to treat a lady in the morning," he made it sound awfully naughty and opened his eyes, beaming into hers.

"Morning, Kate!"

"Morning, Rick," she grinned back and kissed him. What had started as a harmless morning kiss, quickly turned into something more heated. His hands found their way into her hair and then further down her back, in a quick movement he turned them over and came to rest on top of her. His lips immediately finding hers again before he continued his exploration of her body and kissed his way further down her neck. She let her head fall back to grant him better access and wrapped her legs around his waist, making him grunt, when his growing erection was tightly pressed against her.

His hand wandered under her shirt again, slowly starting to pull it up, "What happened to your old-fashioned resolutions from last night," she mumbled, surprised by his aggressiveness.

"Screw them!" He grunted when his lips came crushing down on hers once more. Her hands grabbing his head she pulled him even closer, mourning into his mouth when she granted his tongue access. She grinned against his lips, before she took advantage of her close-combat training and in one swift movement, brought him onto his back, straddling him. He shot her a questioning look.

"Just making sure, you won't change your mind," she smirked.

"Not a chance," he shot her challenging look and reached up to grab her, when she suddenly held up one hand to stop him, while the index finger of her other hand went to her mouth.

"Shh! Did you hear that?" she asked.

"Nice try, Detective!" he laughed and tried to tackle her again, but her hand pressed down on his chest and held him in place and that's when he heard it as well.

"Yo, Beckett! Castle! Are you in there?" Esposito shouted from somewhere outside.

"Shit!" Beckett and Castle exclaimed and looked at each other slightly panicked.

"Get up!" She hissed and was already standing next to him, grapping for her jeans.

He stumbled up and looked around, searching for his pair, "Did you ..?" That was as far as he got before they smacked him in the face. "Thanks!"

"Would you please hurry?" she hissed at him and for a second it worried him that she was so eager to hide their actions from Ryan and Esposito. He looked up to see her face and what he saw blew all of his worries away, the most affectionate smile was plastered on her face, she reached for the door knob, but before she opened it to throw them back into reality she turned around once more to wink at him.

"Esposito, we're here," she called out when she opened the door.

"Are you guys okay?" Ryan asked when they stepped into the cabin, shaking off the rain.

"Yeah, we're fine," Beckett replied and was not sure where to look. "But we're definitely ready to go back to civilisation, right Castle?"

"Yepp, totally ready!" He quickly agreed. "We should probably clean up first though," he quickly added and grabbed one of the pillows that lay on the mattress. Esposito frowned, realizing that there were actually two pillows on that mattress. He bumped into Ryan's shoulder giving him a pointed look and nodded his head into the direction of the mattress. First Ryan looked confused but then his eyes went from Beckett to Castle and back to Esposito and he smirked knowingly at his partner.

"So you guys have done anything useful, while you were here?" Ryan asked and had to work hard to hide his smirk.

"No, just waiting," Beckett said as casually as she could, but couldn't help to glance quickly over at Castle, who was busy trying to look innocent.

"Aha," Esposito grinned, "Well let's get going then."

After a two hour drive and another hour spent in Gates office Beckett walked back to her desk and was surprised to find Castle waiting for her.

"You're still here?" she asked and let herself fall into her chair.

"I thought you could use one those," he handed her a steaming cup of coffee, which she gratefully accepted. "So are you done for today?"

She sighed and shook her head, "No I need to finish the paperwork. Gates wants it until the end of the day."

"Can't Ryan and Esposito do that for you?" He asked.

"They finished up what they could, but I need to fill in the blanks," she looked at him and realized that he looked tired. "You should go home Castle. Alexis and Martha are probably already waiting for you."

"I called them, I'm sure they will survive another hour without me," Castle replied, sort of trying to make a point.

She studied him, since when was he so eager to hang around when she was doing paperwork? But she already knew the answer to that and she really appreciated it, but she also knew that she would be much faster if he was not around watching her.

"That's really sweet of you, but I think I can manage without you," and as the bullpen was no place to exchange sentiments she only added, "See you on Monday?" It was something between a statement and a question and Castle was not quite sure what to make of it.

"Yes, of course. Monday," he said and stood up but since he didn't like the idea of ending their day like this, he turned around once more, "Listen why don't you come over when you're done here and we have dinner together? After all these can-food you need something decent to eat and I'm sure mother and Alexis would love to see you."

"I don't know, Castle. Don't you want to spend the evening with your family?" she asked, not wanting to intrude.

"Yes that's the plan. So you're coming! Great. Give me a call when you're done here." And with that he was gone. Wearing the most satisfied grin on his face, he walked to the elevator and disappeared.

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"DAD!" Alexis exclaimed when he walked into the apartment and threw her arms around her father.

"Hey Pumpkin! Did you miss your old man?" he returned the hug with the same intensity.

"Of course we did, darling!" Martha joined them and gave her son a kiss on the cheek.

"Are you okay?" Alexis asked and pulled her dad over to the sitting area.

"Yeah, I'm fine. We spent the last two nights at the cabin of Beckett's father but that is as adventurous as it got." He couldn't hide a grin, when he thought of the other things they did, but he would keep that to himself for now.

"Speaking of Beckett; Why didn't you bring her?" Martha asked reproachful.

"Oh, she had to finish some things at the precinct, but I invited her to dinner later."

"That's my boy!" Martha patted him on the shoulder.

"Great, so what are we going to dish up?" Alexis asked and was already up on her way to the kitchen to see what they could come up with, Martha followed her and soon his two ladies were totally absorbed in their dinner preparations. He smiled at the sight and then smelled at his shirt, realizing that he was in a desperate need for a shower.