Katherine Beckett (KBPOV)

I haven't seen Castle all week since our lunch on Saturday when Margaret surprised me with her lovely presence; the last contact I had with him was after I left Alexis in her house and Castle called me asking what she wanted to ask since she said was a secret and he was worried; I didn't really know how to answer the question, if Alexis didn't tell him so probably she didn't want him to know that she had a crush on a boy from school, if it was me I wouldn't want my father to know so I just told him that was a about her menstruation. I am going to give you a tip, usually when you say the word menstruation for a guy he usually drops whatever the subject he was trying to bring up or the problem he was trying to create.

By Saturday night I was extremely tired, after a slow Wednesday suddenly I started getting busy and had a lot of stuff to do on Thursday, Friday and I had to work all Saturday too. I got a new divorce, very messy where the husband and the wife had cheated on each other, so I couldn't use cheating as an argument to win the case and the wife, who was my client, wanted a lot of stuff that I wasn't sure I could get to her. In their case, I thanked God that they didn't have child, when there is a kid on the middle of the fight is always worst, sometimes they try to use the kid to get everything from the other, it usually made me sick.

When I got home Saturday, I checked my fridge and didn't find nothing to eat or nothing that I could use to cook something fast, after searching all around my kitchen I came to the conclusion that I needed to go to the supermarket because the thing was serious, but that night I didn't have the strength to go.

I decided that the best thing I could do was take a bath and after that I would decide what to order, maybe Chinese or maybe pizza since I could eat it in the morning. After a long bath and many minutes thinking what I should order I decided to go for the pizza; when I picked up the phone somebody knocked on my door, not sure who was knocking on my door at 9 pm at night I asked who was before opening:

"Who is there?"

"Kate, it's me." Said the voice behind my door.

"Castle?" I said opening the lock.

"Yeah, it's me." He said giving me a big smile when he opened it.

"Hey, I missed you." I said giving him a big hug and noticing how taller he was than me, my frame fitting perfectly his chest and my head resting on his shoulders.

"I missed you too." He whispered into my hair and kissed it.

"How have you been?" I asked taking my head of his shoulders and kissing him on his lips.

"I have been good, and what about you?" He asked back and kissed me again.

"Good, but after Wednesday I got a new case, pretty thought. Really messy, but probably will bring me a lot of money, they are both loaded."

"So is it a good thing and a bad thing?" Castle asked.

"Yes. A good thing because I am going to make a lot of money with their divorce but a bad thing is that I am going to really earn the money since it's a difficult divorce, too much money involved, the two spouses are cheaters which always makes things harder and the wife, who is my client, isn't really being realistic with the amount of money she wants from her husband. Anyway, let's not talk about work, this case is what I have been eating, drinking for the last three days. Why don't you come inside? As much as I love to kiss you here, my neighbors probably don't want to watch us making out here in the hall." I said taking his hand, bringing him inside and locking the door again.

"Okay, let's not talk about work anymore, I came here because we haven't seen each other yet and I haven't thanked you for going out with Alexis. Yesterday she went to the party, she was very excited about her new clothes, and she even said that you brought her a new pair of high heels." He said sitting on my couch.

"Yes, I bought indeed. She is becoming a woman and we all need pretty shoes." I said sitting by his side on the couch.

"Well, thank you. You didn't need to do it, but I appreciate that you did, she arrived home very happy. It's good to see her happy."

"I am sure it is." I said putting my feet on his lap and lying down to rest my head at the end of the couch.

"Do you want kids?"

"To tell you the truth Castle, I don't want a kid. Not that if I get pregnant while I was on a serious relationship I would abort it since I wouldn't be the only player on the game but I am not sure that I will try to get pregnant, if happens, it happened; I will avoid it with the contraceptive methods and everything. Why do you ask?"

"We were talking about Alexis that is my kid and I thought I should ask because like I said this, us." He said pointing to him and me. "We are not a fling, we are on a serious; and I am not saying that I am going to ask you to marry me anytime soon or anything like that, although I would like to keep that option for our future, and the kids' talk it's important since you don't have a child, and you don't want one but I already have one and… I don't know, things could get complicated and people could get hurt."

"So the bottom line is that you don't want any more kids or want it? I am confused."

"I don't want more kids, not that if you got pregnant I would let you raise it alone or something like that, I would be happy to have another one but like you said, I am not going to try to have another child, if happens, it happened." He said taking my foot and rubbing it.

"Good that we are on the same page." I said closing my eyes.

"Yes, very good indeed."

We stayed in silence for a few minutes when we heard my stomach grumble remembering me that the last thing I ate was lunch almost 8 hours before.

"Well, somebody is hungry." Castle said laughing at the sound of my stomach.

"I was going to order pizza but your visit interrupted me. Do you want pizza?"

"Yes please."

"Okay, I am going to get the phone so I can order. What pizza do you want?"

"Anything, I am not picky."

"Okay then, don't complain later when you don't like the flavor that I picked out."

"I won't complain. I promise."

"Good, I don't like my man complaining." I said kissing him.

"Your man?"

"We just had the kid talk, if you are not my man I am not sure what you are then."

"You are right, I am your man."

"I am usually right, not that I like to brag or anything."

"Between the two of us I don't know who has the biggest ego."

"I am sure it's you Castle."

Later, after we ate Castle was getting ready to leave but I wasn't ready to let him leave.

"Hey Castle, don't leave. Spend the night here."

"Spend the night?"

"Yeah, you know. I miss you and next week I will be really busy and we won't have time to see each other, so sleep here. Can Alexis be alone for the night?"

"Yeah, she can. Are you sure do you want me to spend the night?"

"Castle, I am too tired to give you some action so don't get ideas but I want to feel you next to me."

"Okay then, I will stay."

"Now, that it is settled. Let's sleep, before I pass out."

Castle got only on his boxers and I took off my robe staying only on my PJs and although we both wanted to do more than just sleep, we were too tired for anything so the minute ours heads touched the pillow, we fell asleep. Sometime between the night and the mourning we found each other in my size king bed. That was one of the rare nights that I had a peaceful sleep without my pills.

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