I wasn't sure how to start this chapter as I have two more to come which I wrote first as I had ideas popping up everywhere on how this is all playing out.
But here it goes.
Any errors are mine. Sorry.
Castle and Beckett were halfway to the Hamptons and had only made small talk up to now, Beckett was nodding off quite a bit, she still felt really tired. Castle wondered if it was such a good idea to bundle her off and out of the city, she could have stayed in the loft and would have been safe there just sleeping all day, he wouldn't have minded in the least. She would have been with him and that's all that mattered.
She woke again and looked at him. She smiled.
"We are almost there Kate." he smiled rubbing her leg.
"Ok." she said sleepily and looked around,"was I asleep long?"
"No, so you didn't miss out on much."
She smiled again looking out the side window, thinking. Captain Montgommery on the ground in the hanger. She closed her eyes to try and get the image out of her head, she couldn't it never worked she hoped with time it would just become a faded memory but nothing would not until her mother's killer was found and all the reasons and questions answered there were still so many out there.
"Kate." his voice startled her and she turned her head to him.
"Yes?"
"Last time...when I asked you to come up here with me." he wasn't sure how to approach the subject but wanted to and he figured she couldn't walk away from the question while they were there in the car one on one.
"You brought Gina instead." she looked forward trying now to stop that image creeping into her mind...geez could she get a few good thoughts happening once in a while...she thought.
"I didn't know Kate, if i did things would have been different."
"What do you mean?" she looked at him again.
"Don't get angry with him but Ryan let it slip you were about to accept my offer but Gina came along and you couldn't...Kate if I had known you and Demming had broken up."
"There is alot of 'ifs' there Castle...it's fine ok." she re-assured him.
"I never want to hurt you Kate, ever and I realise that day I did and I feel so bad about it."
"Don't, some of it is my fault too, I should have spoken up sooner maybe...but we are coming here now and we know how we feel about eachother soooo, lets just focus on that. Agreed?"
He nodded slowly, "Agreed."
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Esposito and Ryan stood ouside the fire escape to the old apartment block they were called to, they looked up to the 5th floor where Lanie was with the body.
"There is something you don't see every day. Someone shot on a fire escape...you would almost think you could get away from whoever was chasing you." Esposito said as he climbed up with Ryan.
"No such luck for this guy." Lanie said as they arrived. "He was shot from outside, probably from that apartment block over there."
"Not from the roof?" Ryan said.
"Wouldn't say so, the angle of the bullet entry is more level than up or down."
Esposito and Ryan looked to the top of the building where a team was gathered scouting the area.
"Any ID yet?" asked Esposito
"Yeh," she handed them a wallet, "Timothy Granger...48."
"We will run a check on him back at the 12th." Esposito took the bag containing the wallet.
"Mind if we come up now?" said the officer at the bottom of the escape holding up a body bag. "We don't have all day."
"I'll let you know what I find, once I take the bullet out we can match a gun and maybe a shooter." said Lanie
"Ok, later." Esposito flashed her a smile that Ryan never saw.
Kate fell silent when she saw the house they were going to stay in. She knew it was going to be big, but, this was extravigant...to her anyway but the whole street looked like this so in simpler terms it was probalby just your average house in your average street if you lived here.
"Oh wow, you could fit my apartment in this place ten times over." she quietly said.
Castle looked at her. "Maybe only nine times." he smiled opening the door for her.
She slowly walked inside, straight into a huge living area with a big tv which almost took up one whole wall. Good for video games Kate thought.
"I will show you around, firstly your room." he took her bags to the guest room and sat them just inside the door. "You have your own bathroom also, just through there. Beach view also." he moved the curtains back. "So that's your room." he shrugged, "Next my room." he looked back at her and she raised her eyebrows.
"Don't worry, just so you know."
"Uh huh." she nodded slowly.
"In here," he pointed, "then you have two more rooms down here, a study, back up here loungeroom, dining room, kitchen...and the fridge." he opened it, "yep it's full."
"Really, keep it fully stocked do you?"
"Only when I know I'm coming up...I have someone that is an expert at filling it with what I would like...also known as a housekeeper,"he leaned on the breakfast counter, "so that's a brief tour of Richard's de Castle."
"Very funny...so now I have had the tour what do we do now?" she wasn't good at just stopping and relaxing she still felt like she had to go do something.
"Relax Kate. I have cable." he grabbed a remote and turned on the tv. "Make yourself at home, I will start dinner."
"Do you need a hand with that?"
"No, I won't here of it Kate, go and sit down." her grabbed her shoulders and marched her over to the lounge. "Sit."
"But."
"Kate, I am looking after you, get used to it." he walked back to the kitchen.
"Careful, I probably could." she sighed and looked at the tv. She looked around and the remote was presented to her over her left shoulder. "Thanks." she said taking it off him. He was beginning to know her too well sometimes.
After dinner Kate had to go to bed, it had been a long day and eventhough the sun only had gone down an hour beforehand she couldn't stay awake any longer.
"Thank you for dinner, but I think I have to go to bed, I am so tired." she tried to hide a yawn and stood up."
"Ok." he stood up too.
Kate came up to him and gave him a hug."Thank you."
Rick couldn't really give her a big squeeze because she was still so injured and any touch the wrong way sent her into a mass of pain and he didn't want to do that to her. She pulled back and looked at him. With a serious look and a bite of her lip she leaned forward and kissed him lightly on the lips. He returned the kiss moving his hand up behind her head through her hair.
She pulled back.
"I better go. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow, sleep well Kate."
"I will," she backed up she nearly tripped up feeling a little weak at the knees but covered the stumble and turned around heading to her room. She sat on her bed and got her PJs out and looked at them. She sighed. Bugger.
"Castle." she called him. She kept forgetting she needed help with these things.
"Coming." he called with a smile.
Ok done. I think it may be a little short but its leading into longer chapters. Next chapter coming soon...