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Prompt #2: Chair - Two of his favorite places in the world could be viewed from two very different thrones.
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Richard Castle liked chairs. From them, he could properly think and plot a story without needing to worry about anything more than arm's distance from himself. Any place where he could rest his butt for a time was technically a good place for him to write. The booth in the Old Haunt had been his first experience, and following that he had found many chairs, many booths, many corners where Derrick Storm and his other characters had related their adventures to him.
But within the last few years, he'd grown fond of the view he had from two different chairs. Both were pleasant to experience, both were familiar to him, and both had something fresh to offer him.
His first chair was the one in his study. An obvious choice, since he practically lived in it when he was making a deadline. It was comfy, it reclined and swiveled, and he could amuse himself by racing around the room on the wheels when he should've been working. It was the throne of his house; the perch could see everything in the loft when he was seated just right. He could see Alexis studying, or his mother scurrying around the loft as she got ready for whatever role or lesson she had to give at her acting studio. If he so chose, he could shut the door, put his feet up on his desk, rest his laptop on his legs, and type his hours away.
His other chair was not comfy, reclining, swivel, or mounted on wheels. No, it was just a simple chair next to a desk in the middle of the 12th Precinct. But the view was just as enjoyable. He could watch Beckett pore over her paperwork, or look at the murder board, or even wax theory and motive with her. If he so chose, he could sit there for hours and help her narrow down suspects and motives for the case.
Both chairs were markedly different in many ways, location- and comfort-wise. In one, he was at ease and creating scenarios to kill people and have them be caught by a sexy NYPD detective. In the other, he was at attention and solving actual crimes alongside a sexy NYPD detective.
Okay, so the sexy NYPD detective was a key feature in both scenes. But there was still a difference - in one, she was a real person. In the other, she was a fictional character based off a real person.
Nikki Heat, while fictional, was the sassy, sexy NYPD detective who lightened up his study while telling her stories to him.
Kate Beckett was the sassy, sexy NYPD detective who brightened up the precinct while solving cases with him.
But both made Castle feel invincible no matter where he was.
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