After I made sure that my hair and clothes were as reasonable as possible, I decided to brave the bullpen. I asked Castle to wait a little bit and to pick up the scattered files because I suspected that if the guys didn't know what had just happened, they would by seeing us together. And if they did know, I would never live it down.
"Yo, Boss. Captain wants to see you," called out Esposito. I nodded and headed in the direction of his office, slightly worried about what I might hear.
"Beckett, we got lucky today."
"Yes, sir," I agreed hoping that I didn't blush at all.
"Esposito is working on any paperwork that might need to be done. I want you to go home and relax. Captain's orders. I don't want to see you in here again for the rest of the weekend. Is that understood?" he said gruffly.
"Yes, sir," I said, knowing that he thought he was going to have a fight on his hands to keep me from here. Little did he know that I had some important plans that just might take up the weekend.
"Oh and tell Castle, I said the same to him," he called out to me when he saw Castle walk over to my desk and flop into what he calls 'his' chair.
"Captain said he doesn't want to see either of us for the weekend. Said to go home and relax." I wasn't able to meet his eyes.
"Okay. I'll walk you out if you're ready to go?"
"I just need to finish up a few things real quick," I said. I hopped on my email and sent a quick message to Lanie, to thank her for her extra research and to break our Saturday night plans to go out for a drink. Before I could do much more than straighten up some files, my phone rang.
"Beckett,"
"You don't need to thank me, girl," Lanie said over the headset.
"Well, I appreciate it and I know I'm not the only one," I said with a glance over to Castle.
"You just tell writer boy he can thank you instead. Preferably by a wild passionate weekend in bed," Lanie said as I blushed furiously.
"Lanie!" I said shocked. "I need to go, have a good weekend."
I could feel Castle's eyes on me and I avoided them as I went to Esposito's desk to thank him also.
"Thanks for all you did today. I appreciate it," I said.
"No problem, boss. You have a good weekend," he said.
"You, too." I walked by my desk on the way out and Castle fell in step behind me.
"So what did Lanie say to make you blush like that?" Castle asked as soon as the elevator closed.
"I thanked her for her help and said that I was sure that you appreciated it as well. She said I didn't need to thank her and that you could thank me instead of her and preferably by a wild passionate weekend in bed."
"I always knew I liked her," he said with a bit of a smug smile as I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
I drove my car over to Rick's loft and we walked up to his door. In the time it took us to leave the precinct, we both cooled down from the heat of the moment and I wondered how we should proceed. Did he just want to go and hop right back into bed? I didn't think I would really mind but…
"So is it just a little weird right now?" he asked almost reading my mind.
"Yes. I don't normally sleep with a guy on the first date and never before the dates," I said.
"Well, then let's go out on a date," he smiled his adorably charming smile as he lightly took me into his arms.
"And you'll be okay if I don't want to have sex tonight?" I asked mostly hypothetically.
"I am not going to be shouting from the rooftops that we AREN'T having sex but I will be more than glad to wait for you Kate Beckett," he admitted.
"The sex was that good?" I asked with a smile.
"Yes, it was. It was amazingly good," he said as he pulled me a little tighter in his arms. "But I didn't say that. I said I would wait for Kate Beckett, not the incredibly hot and steamy sex that I really should try to stop thinking about."
"Why should you stop thinking about it?" I asked him smiling. He didn't say anything; he just splayed his hand on my lower back and pressed me against him. His erection was obvious.
"I guess that is why," I smiled as I reached up and kissed him lightly.
"Why don't we just let things happen as they happen, Kate?"
"That sounds good to me," I relaxed into his arms and gave him another kiss.
"Do you want to go out to eat somewhere or stay in?"
"Let's order in and watch a movie. How about Chinese? What's the best place?"
Suddenly he got a shocked look on his face. "I need to call Alexis," he said as he let go of me and walked to the kitchen. He pulled open a drawer found a menu and handed it to me before he dialed Alexis. "This is her favorite place."
"I want the orange chicken and the spicy shrimp fried rice. Hey, pumpkin. Where are you? And more importantly, have you let Gram max out my credit card already?"
I smiled and tried not to listen in to his conversation but I knew that once he joked about his credit card, Alexis would know that he was safe. I ordered dinner and then went to the living room to give him some privacy. A little while later he stepped up behind me. He didn't wrap his arms around me as I expected, he just stood very close and in my personal space.
"So where are they?" I leaned back a bit, wanting to feel him there.
"They are in Dallas." He put his hands on my shoulders and began to rub my arms, every now and then his fingers would brush along the sides of my breasts. "More precisely, in Neiman Marcus. Spending all my money. I probably need to go work on the next Nikki Heat book just to pay for this trip of theirs."
"You think Martha is going to be that bad?" I said as I leaned my head to one side to give him better access to kiss there.
"I sent her and Alexis to catch the first flight out and I didn't give them any time to even pack a carry on, so yes, I am sure that Mother is going to make me pay. Especially since Jerry ended everything so very quickly by jaywalking."
Before I was able to say anything the doorbell rang. He went to pay for the food and then brought it back over to the couch where I had sat down. He sat next to me and started opening up the food.
We sat there and enjoyed each other's company for a while and talked about anything other than the precinct.
"So what do you want to do now, Kate? Did you want to watch a movie?"
"Do you need to do some writing?"
"Yes, but that can wait."
"No, that's okay. You watch me do my job, would you mind if I watch you do yours?"
"Of course you can," he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and we walked into his study. I kicked off my shoes, grabbed a book and curled up into the nice leather chair that I loved across from his desk. He leaned down and gave me a quick kiss.
"I think I know what part I might be writing today."
We fell quiet for a while, I was reading and watching him and he was busy writing what I assume was they sex scene from the interrogation room today. I am not sure if I wanted everyone to know about what happened between us today. Granted the hand margaritas weren't something that happened to us either but still. The day passed quietly, which was rather a surprise to me. I had never seen Rick Castle be that focused for that long. He would stop every now and then to look up at me, smile, and then continue writing. We did stop to get something to eat for dinner but then after I grabbed the next book in the series, we settled back in our chairs and soon the only sounds was the tapping of his keyboard.
"Kate!" he suddenly called out.
"What?"
"Come here, read this." I padded over to him and leaned over him, this time I was breaching his personal space. I read what he had written and it was indeed a steamy sex scene but I no longer worried about people thinking that we had done exactly that. It was interesting to see what happened from his point of view. At least until Rook got to the part where he pulled out a condom. I looked over to Rick in shock.
"I'm so sorry, Kate. I didn't even think about it. That's never happened to me before. I've always used a condom," he insisted.
"But you have a child." That wasn't what I meant to say.
"Condoms don't always work," he lowered his chin and raised his eyebrows in one of his signature Castle looks.
"I know. I..." I really didn't know what to say, I was trying to do some math.
"Kate, I am clean but if you want to get tested or anything..."
"No Rick. I trust you," I could resist running my palm gently down his cheek. He pulled me to his lap. "You really are a touchy feeling kind of guy aren't you?" I said with a smile. "I was just trying to do some math. Everything should be fine."
"But if your math is wrong?" he asked.
"Then we will just have to deal with things."
"You would want to have kids with me?" he asked sounding surprised.
"Okay we started dating a few hours ago and now we are talking about having children?" I smiled at him, "You do move fast."
"Kate, I…"
"Rick, it's fine. I'm sure that my math is okay. Don't worry."
"I'm just worried that you are going to kick my ass. And with good reason."
She smiled gently ran her fingers lightly down his cheek. "How about we go do something crazy?"
"Like jump out of a plane crazy or sex in a bed crazy?" he asked.
"I was thinking about the bed thing."
"Oh, thank God," he said as he suddenly swept me into his arms and carried me from the room.
"Rick put me down!" he silenced me with a kiss, a very steamy kiss.
Once we got to his bedroom, he gently set me down. "Kate, I know that you were thinking about the bed but it's long been a fantasy of mine to see you in my shower."
I looked at him for a moment then unable to resist the joke I asked, "Need help hanging the shower curtain?" I asked loving the look of total confusion on his face before I ran off the bathroom.
"Katherine Beckett, you minx," he said as he quickly followed me.
I didn't bother to respond, I just smiled and started to unbutton his shirt before pushing it down his arms. His hands unbuttoned my blouse and it was soon on the floor, I reached for his belt and soon he was stepping out of his dress pants wearing only his boxers.
We continued to strip each other then hopped in the shower. We used his body wash that I had long been intrigued by. "So the love bite wasn't enough now you are putting your scent on me?" I asked not upset.
"As long as you don't mind," he grinned.
"Not at all, I rather enjoy your scent. I can't wait for you to shower at my place. Then you'll smell like cherries," I said as I leaned down to give him a love bite on his neck. I noticed that something that I just said or did caused a definite reaction with a certain part of his anatomy.
"Taking a shower at your place is definitely on the agenda then. Having you mark me with your scent sounds like fun. And when you do that, I'll give you another love bite like you just gave me. Didn't think I noticed that did you?" I smiled at him, sweetly as he stalked me across the shower. Things were obviously heating up and I wanted to be able to make it to the bed this time so I let him think that he trapped me, not that that would be a bad idea, before I reached out and suddenly shut off the hot water. He bellowed, I laughed and slipped out before he could stop me.
I managed to grab a towel on my race through the bathroom and quickly wrapped it around myself, before he came out without a towel, totally at ease. I waited for him to get just close enough before I dropped the towel. He stopped in his tracks.
"You are ... sublime," he said reverently as he leaned me back onto the bed. He leaned over me and bracing himself on his elbows he kissed my forehead then he started to kiss his way gently down my face to my jaw then neck, then lower. Finally, he leaned over to one side and ran one hand over my skin, his lips never leaving my neck. I just knew he was thinking about marking me again but I didn't care. I normally don't like it when men try to treat me as a possession but it just seemed right for Rick to do that. And I intended on getting him back again too. My thoughts were interrupted when his fingers found one nipple and his lips the other. I sighed his name, his first name this time. His flexible fingers soon began traveling south across my belly then lower. I knew that he was able to tell how excited I was. My breathing hitched as he stroked some more.
"Please, Rick," I said softly. "I want you inside me."
"Oh, I plan on doing so many other things to you and with you, though."
"Later Rick, you have all weekend to thank me. Just make love to me now." He moved his hand, stopping before I climaxed. Then he did something that I thought was so erotic. He looked me in the eyes then held up his hand and licked his fingers. He rolled over on top of me and as he reached for something he whispered in my ear.
"You taste so good."
I parted my legs slightly for him so one thigh slipped between mine. My hips thrust against him of their own accord. I smiled slightly when he groaned.
He pulled out a condom and I raised one eyebrow at him. "Isn't that like closing the barn door after the horse is out?"
"If it happens it happens but you know what," he ran his fingers lightly across my belly. "When we have a child together, I would like it to be planned and know when it was that we made that child." I wonder if he knew that he said 'when we have a child' instead of 'if we have a child?'
I decided that it was my turn to be in charge now so I gently pushed him back a bit. "My turn." He rolled over, stacked his hands behind his head and gave me his smug look. I leaned down and let my breasts lightly tease across his chest. I nipped his ear then let my lips trail to his collarbone. My hands were busy learning his body as much as I could reach, except for one part. Finally, hoping to wipe the smug look off his face, my hand found his straining erection. It worked. I thought I would give him a taste of his own medicine as I ran my thumb over the tip of his cock. I spread the wetness around a bit then looking in his eyes, I licked my thumb. "Mmm, you taste good too."
I ripped into the condom package and made sure that that barn door was closed this time. I straddled his body then lifted myself up and guided him inside me. I didn't lower myself though, just holding the tip inside me. He tried to thrust his hips but I raised myself higher. Finally, his hands came out and gripped my waist.
"Oh God, Kate, please." I took pity on him and lowered myself completely, both of us moaning. We were both happy to be still for a moment until the need to move became too much. His hands stayed lightly on my hips and I soon learned that what he liked when he gripped me tighter. He seemed to really like when I squeezed my muscles around him. I reached down and held on to his forearms for balance.
He slipped his hands down my legs before one hand slipped between us. Soon we both were climaxing and calling out each other's names. I collapsed on top of him but when I was going to move, he held me in place.
"Don't leave," he said quietly.
"I'm not going anywhere," I promised him. "I do need to stretch out my legs though."
"How do you have the energy to do something like that?" I smiled then moved, stretching just a bit.
"You move like a cat," he said once he disposed of the condom.
"You know, Rick. I kinda like the crazy sex in a bed."
"Me, too, Kate. I especially like it when you called out my first name." His smug smile was back.
"Well, you called out Beckett at the precinct," I said as I tweaked one of his nipples.
"Woman, keep your hand still. You screamed out Castle before. I was sure that everyone knew what was going on."
"No, the guys are used to me yelling your name, not like that mind you but if they heard, they probably thought I was just pissed at you again."
"Kate, you can be pissed at me like that any time you want to."
"Oh, I certainly wasn't pissed at you this time." I fell quiet for a moment. I wanted to say something else but I didn't want him to take it the wrong way. "I never knew sex could be so fun."
"Why shouldn't it be fun?" he asked me with a kiss. "I always knew we would be great together, I just didn't realize how great."
I just nodded my head against him and tried to hide the yawn. He reached down to the foot of the bed and pulled some covers over us before he gathered me into his arms.
"Good night, sweet Kate."
"Good night, Rick," I said just before I fell asleep, smiling.
I thought I heard one more thing but I didn't know if it was a dream or not.
"I think I'm in love with you Kate Beckett and I really wouldn't be upset I you can't do math."