"You read me hah?"She said cheekily a grin plastered to her face.
"Well I read your books, not you exactly" he said awkwardly. "Although I wouldn't mind reading you" he whispered just loud enough that only she could hear.
"Okay so if it's alright with you Officer Castle, I would like to shadow you for a while? I want to get some genuine information for my next book and a little birdy told me that you are my best bet."
"Well that little birdy was right and I would be honoured Miss Beckett. It is Miss right?"
"Yes it is Miss and call me Kate, but I have no idea why you would want to know?" she said teasing him.
"Oi Castle!" Roy yelled. "Espo has something for you down in the morgue and maybe while you're there show your new friend around."
"Will do sir, let's go Beckett."
"It's Kate."
They both walked down into the morgue. Castle was walking around like he owned the place and Kate was just absorbing every smell, every noise and every overly shiny surface.
"Ah so this is the writer that's following you around now hey Castle?" Espo said.
"Yeah I guess she is. Oh where are my manners? Beckett this is our ME Javier Esposito, Espo this is Beckett."
"It's Kate and pleased to meet you Javier" Kate said distracted by the LED lights that filled the room.
"So, ah, what did you want Espo?" Rick said while staring at the dead body that lied in front of him.
"Well honestly I just wanted to meet your new lady friend." When he said that Kate turned around and showed a scrunched up face that showed disapprovement. "And I wanted to know if we were still on for tomorrow night?"
A confused look washed over Ricks face.
"You know the poker game we planned like two weeks ago?"
"Oh yes I remember. You coming at 7?" He so didn't remember the plans he supposedly made with his mates.
"Yeah, yeah I will be there so will Ryan and Demming."
"Okay well I'm officially off duty now so I'm gonna go. Coming Beckett?"
They walked back up to the precinct in a really awkward silence.
"So that's it? That's day one of the great and wonderess life of Officer Richard Castle?"
"Well yeah" he said awkwardly. "I have the next two days off so you're free to pretty much do anything. Unless…..Hey do you want to help me organise my little get together? You are welcome to attend."
"Um sure that would be cool I guess. Get to know the other side of Rick."
"Not much to know really" he laughed and look directly into her eyes. "Come on will give you a lift back to mine, but first we need to make a quick stop."
Well their quick stop turned out to be a two hour shop at a Costco. Kate was looking immensely bored and Rick was trying to choose which beer would go best with the food he was going to make for them all.
"Jeez Castle! Let's get out of here!" she picked up a case of beer put it in the trolley and started to walk off.
"Bossy. I like it" he said so softly no one other than himself could hear it.
They arrived at the loft and were in the elevator with three other guys who had to help get all their groceries up to his place. They elevator doors opened and they all stepped out right in front of Castle's door.
"It's alright guys, I've got it from here" he said while giving them both a generous tip.
He opened the door, they both waked in and straight away Kate's jaw dropped.
"Oh my gosh Castle, nice digs! How can someone with your wage afford this place? I'm a bestselling author and I wouldn't be able to get this!"
"Um" he said not sure if he should tell the truth. "Well truthfully, my mother left it for me after she died and couldn't let a place like this go to waste" he said hesitantly. His voice was filled with a 'I've never told anyone this before' vibe.
"Oh Castle, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring it up." He then interrupted her with.
"No Kate its fine. It was a long time ago, she died in a car accident when I was nineteen."
They both than carried all the bags inside and popped a bottle of white wine to celebrate their accomplishment (there were a lot of bags).
"I'm sorry Castle but I've got to go. I have to pick my daughter up from my parent's house before she drives them crazy about asking where I am."
Rick was astonished. "You have a daughter?"
"Yeah" she said and pulled a photo out of her wallet. "Her name is Rory."
Castle stared at the photo that was offered to him. She was beautiful. Gorgeous brown curly hair and beautiful browny-green eyes that were identical to her mothers. He had always wanted kids but had yet to find the right women. He couldn't help but think maybe the woman standing in front of him was her.
"She's beautiful, much like her mother."
Kate blushed. "So I will see you tomorrow night Castle? 7?"
"Yeah will see you than Kate."
When she left the loft he couldn't believe his luck.
"Oh I think I have a bit of a crush" he said to himself before getting back to unpacking the rest of the groceries.