A/N: For some unknown reason, I managed to delete my story off here... so I posted again. Sorry to everyone who read it and then it was gone; it was one of my blonde moments yet again.

So here's the next chapter, hope you all like it!

Disclaimer: Do I really have to? I'm pretty sure none of us own it, as much as we would love to!

Saturday, February 11th 2012

'Hello?'

'Alexis, it's Kate Beckett.'

'Detective.' The teen said curtly. Kate knew Alexis was trying to be polite. Since Kate came back, Alexis had been fairly cold to her, with good reason. Within a second, her tone changed completely. 'What's wrong? Did something happen to my dad?'

'No, he's fine.' Kate looked out from the break room and watched her partner and the boys share a joke, laughing loudly they got a warning look from Gates. The Captain could still hear them even through the closed door. 'It's nothing like that. I need your help.'

'Oh?' Alexis asked with intrigue coating her voice. It sounded genuine to Kate's ears. God, she was like her father sometimes.

Kate took a breath before speaking again. She was basically asking his daughter – who held no kind of love for her at the moment – if she could date her father, on Valentine's Day. This was the worst call so far; the one that would make or break her plan, and it was the most important one.

'I need you to occupy your father for a few hours on Tuesday. Away from the loft.'

There was silence, and it sounded like footfalls as she walked away from wherever she was.

'That's Valentine's Day.'

'Yes.' Beckett watched the boys disperse after the disapproving look from the Captain; Castle simply took out his phone, put his tongue between his teeth and started playing Angry Birds. Yes, it was pathetic. She knew the face he pulled when playing a game on his phone. Pathetic! But, damn, he's cute sometimes!

'What's going on, Kate?' There was a hint of concern, confusion and – quite possibly – excitement.

'I'm planning a surprise for your dad.'

'On Valentine's Day?' she asked suspiciously.

'Yes.' Kate blew out another breath, heart pounding in her chest.

'Why are you doing this Kate? If this is some kind of sick game you're playing you need to stop it, because my dad's heart won't be able to take it!' Alexis spoke forcefully down the line; she was obviously somewhere that she couldn't make a scene by screaming into her phone. Kate almost wanted her to yell, she deserved it after jerking Rick around for years. 'You date guys and flaunt them around in front of him, you leave for three months without calling; how do you think that makes him feel? And I know you know how he feels about you, Kate. So why should I do this for you?'

Was she really going to tell the girl that she was in love with her father? It was the truth, but there was also more to it than that. Beckett looked out across the bullpen as she spoke into the phone, looking at the man she was talking about.

'Because, he makes me want to live. He makes me happy, makes me forget that my mother was taken from me; he makes everything easy. And I want that. I want it so much, Alexis. You have every right to be angry at me; I'm angry with me, because I've been a rotten human being with him. I think it's about time I told him how I felt, don't you?'

Silence again. This was it, the make or break. Kate's heart was pounding in her chest and her ears; stomach flipping and churning, making it difficult for her to breathe.

'Who are you and what have you done with Kate Beckett?'

'Huh?' Kate replied undignified.

'The Kate Beckett I know, doesn't just open up like that.'

Kate laughed a little at how well Alexis seemed to know her. 'It's me, Alexis. My priorities have just... changed.' She said with softness. Castle chose that moment to stick his head up from his phone and look at her through the window of the break room. Beckett had no time to hide the smile on her face and the small amount of blush creeping up before he focused on her. He cocked his head to the side and returned her smile. It was a question; "Who're you talking to?"

'How long did you need me to occupy him for?' Alexis asked with a little sigh.

'Two hours?' Kate replied turning her head away from the window. Knowing Rick, he could probably read lips. After everything she had just said, there was no way that he was finding out about her plan now. 'I don't want to interrupt any of your plans for the night, though.'

'It's ok; I'm going to Paige's for a horror movie slumber party. We have the morning off from school so Tuesday is more a 'Singles Awareness Day' for us. No boys have asked us out.'

Again, too much like her father. Putting herself out there, and giving too much information when things got a little awkward.

'Are you sure, Alexis? You can say no, I don't mind.'

'Yes, you would mind. You make him happy, Kate. What time am I taking him out?'

'About four o'clock.'

'Done. And Kate?

'Yes?

'Tell him you love him.'

'I do. And I will. Thanks Alexis.'

Beckett ended the call just as Castle walked through the door.

'Everything ok?' he asked with concern.

'Everything is perfect.' Kate replied with a smile. 'Come on, we have work to do.'

A/N: Not sure if I liked this one, but I wanted to add Alexis in anyways, and it was a good way to know she wasn't going to be in the loft for the night :P I still need your help, with perspectives, I just felt like this one needed to be a Kate POV. So let me know :)

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