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When they reached the bar, Beckett pulled away and searched the crowd.

"You spot our suspect yet, Boss?" garbled Ryan's voice in their earpieces.

Beckett let out a curse, "Jesus, Ryan. Fix the reception." She snapped as she ducked her head and tugged at her ear.

"Sorry, Boss"

"And it would help if I had a second set of eyes. Castle! You can search for your future deep fried Twinkie later," Beckett barked over the music at a very distracted Castle.

"Jealous, Beckett?" Castle asked sweetly.

"That you're perusing the bimbos? Not really," she said scanning his future prospects.

"Just studying the suspects making sure none of them are our guy in disguise," Castle quipped.

"Not going to happen, Castle" she said rolling her eyes.

"You never know. In Rise of the Storm, Derek-"

"This is real life, Castle, not one of your novels." Beckett scoffed

"And dude that's just plain gross" interjected Esposito on the other side of the com.

Beckett glared at Castle as he disobeyed her orders and perused another scantily clad woman making eyes at him.

Castle smirked as his eyes flickered over her irate expression, "But still there's that little nagging piece of you that's jeal-"

Beckett scoffed, "In your dreams, Castle"

"Quite often" he growled slightly teasing but all too serious.

Beckett scanned the area, ignoring Castle's tease, and noticed that people were giving them sideways looks. She couldn't be sure if they were recognizing Castle and possibly herself, with all the hype the Nikki Heat books were getting it was possible, but it didn't matter it only served to remind her that she needed to amp it up, slid into character, and blend in. This was possibly the only time to catch this guy and she wasn't going to blow it because she hadn't put her all into becoming the sultry party girl.

Castle watched as a change came over Beckett and something flashed in her eyes mesmerizing Castle while simultaneously making his mind scream in warning.

Beckett relaxed her stance and let go of Kate Beckett NYPD and flowed into a whole new persona. The change was fluid and shocking for those who knew her.

She melted into Castle turning to press her body to his, brushing her lips to his ear, "Call me Kat like a feral feline, Rick." She purred nuzzling her ear.

Castle stiffened with shock, "Holy Damn." He muttered as she walked backwards towards the dance floor pulling him by the front of his shirt. She stared into his eyes and swayed her hips seductively to the beat of the pulsing bass.

Castle was too devoted to watching her to really do much more than, well, stare at her. He really, really, really should have been keeping an eye out for their guy but he was a man, after all, and Katherine Beckett was all woman right now. There was no cop lingering in this persona, just…woman.

The Bimbo Katie act had been impressive, Sultry Kat was…phenomenal…and delicious and oh so dangerous.

"Kat" leaned forward and whispered, "Ryan, Esposito, you got anything?"

"Not yet, Boss," answered Ryan

"Nice dancing" added Esposito, the naughty grin palpable in his voice.

"Where'd you learn how to dance like that, Beckett?" teased Ryan.

Castle stared at her wondering.

"Kat" smiled slyly and whispered seductively, "I took special classes."

The emphasis on special stunned all three men into silence as possibilities flooded their fried minds.

"Got him!" she murmured excitedly.

"Ooo! Are you bringing out your badge and cuffs now?" Castle said loudly in excitement snapping from his shock.

People turned to look at them.

"Kat" tipped her head back and let out a sexy, throaty laugh, "Oh, Rick we haven't even started yet." She wrapped her arms around his waist pulling herself to his ear and hissed, "What the hell, Castle? Are you trying to blow our cover?"

Castle mumbled his apology as he tried to wrap his brain around her easy shift from "Kat" to "Beckett".

She moved with the music moving them across the dance floor and positioned them in one of the "naughty" corners directly across from Conner Odell, their primary suspect.

"Time to kick it up a notch, Castle. You think you can keep up?" she said with a smirk as she settled her hand on his ass.

Castle gulped, she was basically inviting him to grope her…actually that's exactly what she was doing. This could go two ways and he wasn't sure he could keep himself from going too far. Asking him to touch her without offending her was going to be very difficult. He gathered a bunch of math equations he'd been attempting to help Alexis with the other night and began to work through them as a distraction.

"Camera angles are good, Boss. You're going to need to kick up your acting a notch, our guys watching." Ryan informed them.

"Castle," Beckett growled, "I know I'm not a fucking Twinkie," she hissed, "But you can at least fringe interest. Imagine one of your bimbos if it helps."

Castle sputtered, "That's not-" he began trying to protest but his voice died in his throat his she roughly grasped his wrist and placed his hand on her ass.

He broke and the carefully gathered diversions blew from his head.

He pushed her into the corner of the space and growled, "I don't like Twinkies,"grabbing one of her legs he wrapped it around his body and murmured against her lips, "I like…" he said giving a wild grin against her lips, "…feral kats."

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