I want to apologize again because my beta still not back from her trip, I read this chapter 4 times but probably I missed something, so I am sorry. I hope you like it and I always like to talk about the story and I always accept suggestions. Ps: don't be mean, I have a fragile ego.

CPOV (Castle)

"Katherine Beckett." She answered with a serious voice

"Hi Katherine, its Richard Castle from the coffee shop, how are you?" I said with my most welcoming voice.

"Hello Richard, I'm fine and you?" She said with a much less serious voice that I hadn't had the pleasure to listen at our little time together at the coffee shop.

"I'm good too, thank you. So I was thinking when do you want to meet?" I felt a little too bold to ask the question without making a little of small talk before but I had wanted to ask her out for a few days and I didn't know why but I felt anxious to look at her eyes again and maybe this time, hear her laugh.

"Hm… how about tonight around 7? I'm free."

"Yeah, sure. Can we meet at The Old Haunt? I will send you the location."

"Sure, bye, see you in a few hours."

And with that she was gone, I stood there looking at my cell phone like I couldn't believe that finally I would see her, already felling nervous to be at her presence again, being the object of her attention. I had 3 hours to be in my best casual clothes.

"Alexis, get down here" If I needed to be in my best I should probably ask to my teenage daughter with an excellent taste.

"Yes dad? What do you need?"

"Pumpkin I need you to help me choose some clothes for my date tonight" Okay, Kate was engaged so wasn't really a date more like a drink between future friends but the least I could do was dream.

"Dad, you need help for get ready for a date?" She asked with a questioning face like I just asked her the strangest question that she has ever heard in her entire life.

"Yes, please Alexis, is in a few hours at the The Old Haunt and I want to look very good, could you help me?"

"Okay, let's see what we have here." She said going into my closet and looking at all my shirts, after a few minutes she got out with my blue shirt, a black jacket. "Put these on and you can keep the pants that you are wearing" She said handing me the clothes "Okay, turn around let's see"

"Alexis, are you sure about the jacket?" I said looking myself at the mirror, I wasn't certain about the jacket since inside the bar could get too hot for the jacket so why use a jacket if I was going to take if off?

"Daddy, of course I'm sure, when you get in of course you take it off but if after you two go for a walk you can give her your jacket if she gets cold. And this shirt color makes your eyes bluer than ever. So, who is she?"

"A woman I met at a coffee shop."

"Do I know her?"

"Maybe, she appear in the TV a few weeks ago"

"Daddy! Please don't tell me it is another stupid actress or model, you know that they usually just want your money and their photograph on the paper!"

"She isn't an actress or model and definitely not stupid." I said remembering all the things I read on the internet about her, I even found some news about her and her fiancé, his family was very rich and sometimes appeared on the page 6, I couldn't think what somebody like her would be doing with him, he appeared to be pretty boring.

"So, how could she have appeared on the TV? Did she kill somebody or something like that?" Maybe being vague about Kate wasn't my best move since Alexis got more curious about her.

"She is a family lawyer and a few weeks ago she got a lot of money for one of her famous clients even after the case was considered lost since the guy had cheated on his wife a lot of women." Leaving the part about her fiancé since I said that was a date, maybe she would get a wrong idea about Kate thinking that she was cheating on her fiancé.

"Wow, how did she do it? The news said it? Or maybe she gave an interview and said it?"

"Not really, I watched the interview on the YouTube and she just said that the wife wasn't as innocent she played out so she used that to get a good settlement."

"Wow, she is smart! I am so excited for you, dad, finally someone real!"

"Yeah, me too."

"So, what is her name? So I can watch her interview and see if she is as pretty as the girls you usually date." I tried to come up with something since if Alexis searched her on the internet would find out that she was engaged and then would appear strange that I was going on a date with a woman who is engaged, but Alexis stood there looking at me with those big blue eyes like I was hiding her favorite candy on purpose.

"Hm… is Katherine Beckett, but before you search her I have something that I have to say pumpkin..."

"Yes?" She said still looking me with those big blue eyes.

"Okay, maybe she said that she couldn't go out on a date because she is engaged and maybe I said date wrongly since she is engaged."

"Dad, she is engaged? Oh God, this is so wrong, why is she going out with you if she is engaged? What a bitch!"

"She is not a bitch, look, we were talking and I liked talking with her so I asked her out, she showed me her ring and said we couldn't go on a date because she is engaged and got up to leave and she was the first woman in a long time that I liked talking so before she left I told her that since she was engaged I just wanted to go out to talk and we could be friends because she appear to be a really nice person and just after I said I wouldn't try anything she gave me her card, so isn't really her fault that I said date because she already stipulated that we couldn't date." I looked at Alexis' eyes after finishing my speech waiting for some change of heart.

"Okay, I got it. And if you really think about it, would be strange to go on a date on Sunday, so obviously you are just dreaming." She said coming to the conclusion that Kate wasn't a bitch after all.

"Yeah, I'm just dreaming, Sunday isn't a date night, is a night with friends out."

"Right, so she isn't a bitch, she is just a nice woman who took pity on a guy that tried everything to see her after that first moment." She said coming to the conclusion that Kate wasn't a bitch after all and I really didn't like the part where Kate took pity on me but sounded more like what happened.

"Yes! So in a few weeks she maybe will come to dinner or lunch with us if we really enjoyed each other company and I can't bring her if you are thinking that she is a bitch."

"I got it dad, I don't think she is a bitch anymore, if she really as interesting and nice as she sound, please bring her, is always good to have some female company that could be a role model."

"Of course Alexis, I'm already going to The Old Haunt to maybe sure everything at the bar is alright before she comes."

"Okay dad, good luck." She said kissing my cheek and going up to her room.

"Bye pumpkin!"

Arriving at The Old Haunt early, I stil had one hour and half before Kate show up, if she wasn't late, although she didn't appear to be the kind of woman who would be late for meeting, dates or whatever she was calling our encounter. With a lot of things to do at the office, the time flew and soon was the time of my date with Kate; 10 minutes before 7pm I found myself feeling very nervous about our encounter; I didn't know anything about her except her job and how good she was at it and she probably could have searched on Google the last 15 years of my life.

Kate arrived shortly after I went upstairs and found a table; she looked more beautiful than the day at the coffee shop, casual clothes fitted her better, her long black hair was in a ponytail and her red sweeter made her skin much more pale more fragile than before, her skinny jeans made her legs look longer and her black high heels made her as tall as me. I got up for her to find me and when our eyes locked I wished she wasn't engaged, she waved to me with the hand that had the ring almost showing me that if I tried something more that a good talk I wouldn't probably see her again.

"Hey Richard, how are you?" She said already sitting at the booth.

"Hey Katherine, I'm fine and you?"

"I'm good, can we order?"

"Of course." And with that the waitress came like she was listening the whole time and waiting for her cue, what could probably be true since I was the boss.

"What do you guys want?" The waitress asked.

"I want a martini with olive." Kate answered smiling at her.

"And I want a beer please." I answered.

"Okay, in a few minutes I will bring your drinks." And with that she left.

"So, how was your weekend?" I asked trying to make a conversation.

"Good, I spent with Peter, my fiancé, and yours?" She said looking at my eyes like she could see my soul; I didn't know where she learned to look at a person with such intensity, probably in her job, it probably could be handy.

"I spent with my daughter Alexis."

"Great, how old is she?"

"She is 14."

"Oh God, I was the devil at that age, you think you are a grown up and not a kid but you really are none of them, you are just between so you just act stupid and do stupid things." She said with a silly smile on her face, and being that first time that I saw her smile in a conversation, it burned on my mind; I would probably remember it forever.

"Yeah, I was too. But she is very responsible; sometimes I don't think she is my daughter at all!" I said laughing.

"Maybe she behaves like her mother then?"

"She don't, thank God, Meredith is hell! But she isn't really around so Alexis can't learn to behave like her."

"I'm sorry; the worst thing ever is not have your mother around!" She said with a sad smile, and at that moment I realized that probably her mother died a long time ago because she could touch the subject without crying but she still felt her heartache.

"When did you lose yours? Sorry if I'm trespassing my boundaries by asking this question"

"That's okay, she died I was 19, a long time ago." She said with the same sad smile and with that our drinks arrived and I almost thanked the waitress for breaking strange mood that descended on our table.

"Hm… I loved this martini, it is really good, usually they don't know how much of gim to put on it.." She said taking a sip of her drink.

"Well, thank you, I own the bar and always nice that my service is making the clients happy."

"This client is very happy with the service." She winked at me and gave me a playful smile and the strange mood that had fallen at the table after talking about her dead mom, disappeared.

We talked for 2 hours and for the first time in a long time I found a woman that I could talk for hours and don't get tired or don't run out of things to say, Kate was an avid reader like me, so we could talk hours about books and writers but was passed nine o'clock.

"Richard, I better get going, I have an early morning." She said getting up and taking money from her pocket and putting it on the table.

"Please Kate, I own the bar, no need to pay." I said giving her money back.

"Are sure? I don't mind paying it."

"Yes, I'm sure and besides I am a gentleman I never let the lady pays." She looked at me suspicious.

"Okay, if you are sure, goodbye Richard, call me when you want to go out again." She said giving me a peck at the cheek and started leaving

"Hey Kate!" I called after her.

"Yeah?" She said looking back at me.

"Could I walk you home or wait with you for the cab?"

"Hm… sure, Richard."

"Maybe you could start calling me Rich now since I like to think that we are friends."

"We are, but I prefer Richard, let's save Rich for a special moment, don't you think?"

"Okay." I said smiling because she thought that we could probably have a special moment and that we were friends.

At silence we waited for her cab, when it arrived she kissed goodbye again left without one last wave from the cab's window like we always see on movies when two people really don't want to go on their separate ways.