Disclaimer : Castle is not mine.

They made their way downstairs to the living room where there was a room full of Beckett's all in their pajamas. There was no room on any of the sofas as all the elder people were on them including Beckett's dad. Castle followed Beckett but kept his head down to keep his eyes away from anyone to notice as they were still read and puffy so he walked with his head down and the sleeves of his jumper pulled over his hands.

Beckett sat down next to her dads feet as he was sat on one of the end cushions and she patted the seat next to her which meant he would have to lean on the arm of the sofa or just sit straight the whole time. Castle slowly sat down next to Beckett and she smirked at how long it took him.

"Come on grandpa sit down already." Beckett joked biting her tongue between her teeth and Castle mock glared at her and she smiled.

"I'm no grandpa Beckett you and I both know that." Castle said and as her eyes widened he quickly thought over what he had just said and quickly back peddled correcting himself "I didn't mean it like that and you know it I meant that I'm not old and you know it, no wait that sounds worse what I mean is- ahh" Castle rambled as he tried to correct himself but failed as he grew more and more flustered.

They both heard a chuckle from behind them and soon the head of Jim Beckett was between the both of them as he said "Katie you know what the poor man means but could I just mention a grandpa is what I am still waiting to be." When he said this he sat back up and left Beckett and Castle blushing a deep red. Beckett and Castle couldn't look at each other as they both kept their eyes forward and on the TV. This continued until the movie was put on the TV and the silently watch Mulan.

Beckett's hand was on the floor, palm down and Castle decided to take a risk as he put his palm the same way and slowly inched his fingers towards hers. When he was only a few millimeters away from her smallest finger he felt her fingers slowly touch his and he froze and sat up straighter and his eyes widened slightly. He looked at her at out of the corner of his eye and saw her looking straight ahead as if she wasn't doing anything and he let himself smile just a bit and he fully engulfed her small hand in his massive one and interlaced their fingers. This time when he looked at her he saw the smile she tried to suppress and the glint in her eyes and he slowly leaned towards her ear and quietly whispered "You shouldn't try to hide such beauty." She snapped her head to him and raised a confused eyebrow and he whispered "Your smile."

This time she couldn't help it as she smiled and she didn't try to hide it. She turned back to the TV and felt his eyes on her.

Castle frowned thinking why she was confused when he said that to her. This beautiful women he thought could in no way not understand how beautiful she is and the effect of her beauty had. Her smile could do thousands of things when she hid it imagine of what it could do when she fully embraced her beauty and smiled freely. He must have been staring to long because he felt the hand of Jim Beckett slowly turn his head back to face the TV and Castle once again blushed and he saw Kate smile out of the corner of his eye.

Castle couldn't help but think of how much Kate was like Mulan. A strong warrior, brave enough to stand of for what she believes in and Kate was so beautiful to. He thought for a fe seconds of whether she could sing or not but he quickly dismissed that thought, his Beckett could do anything she wanted and he had no doubts that when she sung she sounded like an angel. He realized he had called her his Beckett and hoped that one day they could be each others.

Castle was brought of his thoughts when the light was turned back on and everyone sat up and sighed and stretched. It was about 10pm and he was exhausted.

Beckett asked Castle what he thought of the movie but before he could reply he was interrupted by Jim Beckett "Katie I think he might of been watching you more than the movie." When Beckett looked back to Castle he wasn't looking at her and he was blushing.

"Okay dad I think you've tortured him enough we're going to bed so good night love you." Beckett stood up and kissed her dad on the cheek as she held out her hands to help Castle off of the floor which he gladly excepted and he pretended to be heavy as Castle huffed at him "Castle I'm going to leave you hear in a minute." He quickly got up after that and he followed closely behind her up the stairs. When they reached her door they both stepped inside behind each other Castle closing it quietly behind him.

Kate walked over to the mirror in the corner of the room and delicately put her hair into a ponytail and went over to the bed and took her bra off and laid down. Castle was stood in silence in the corner somehow not believing that she felt this comfortable with him. Beckett looked at him from her side of the bed and frowned at him, "You not getting in Castle." He nodded quickly and got under the covers when he went to lay down Beckett frowned at him "What do you think you're doing Castle you're not sleeping in that jumper take it off." When Castle went to protest she said "now." Castle hesitated and looked down and Kate realized she had been saying all the wrong things. "Castle why don't you want to take the jumper off ?"

"Because the scars are ugly." Castle stared at the blankets with an unwavering stare "There are so many scars and they are ugly. I don't want you to see them because you'll never see me the same again."

Beckett's heart broke for him and she laid a gentle hand on his arm and he sniffed. "You don;t have to tell me what happened Castle but just so you know I could never look at you any different and I don't think they're ugly. No part of you could be ugly." Castle looked up and into her eyes and seeing how open she was being and he lifted the corners of his mouth in a small smile.

Castle slowly lifted his jumper off and laid down and faced Kate and she was facing him and for the longest time they just stared at each other their stares never waving both lost in the endless depths of each others eyes.

"Night Rick." Beckett whispered as she felt her eyes growing heavy but not wanting to end their intense stare.

"Night Kate."

And then they were both asleep not knowing that everything was going to change but both of the deep in blissfully happy dreams. Dreaming of each other.