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Prompt #33: Green - Jealousy did not suit either of them. And yet they continued to wear it out and about.

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She's jealous again. He's got a blonde floozy on his arm for this newest appearance in the paper.

It's hard to hide it, but she manages to keep it from Castle. She settles for the occasional cold shoulder and a sharper than usual edge to her voice when she has to speak with him.

She goes home to an empty house and a hidden murder board that keeps her from having the man of her dreams.

Her inner monster growls and wishes for some floozy to tear apart.

And seethes.

He's jealous again. She's going out with another guy.

However, he doesn't telegraph it as obviously as Beckett does. No, he settles for glares and smart remarks at the new man in her life.

He goes home to a glass of Scotch and a literary world where he could have the girl of his dreams.

His inner monster snarls and prays for the chance to rip some schmuck apart.

And glowers.

While they're trying to be inconspicuous about it, everyone else has to watch this painfully obvious dance.

Lanie has to contain herself and not flip out on Beckett whenever she mopes around the morgue. She could only tell the detective to put on her big-girl panties and fix the problem so many times.

Esposito and Ryan sigh and try to not make the situation even more awkward. Either one in a bad mood is a downer, and it gets hard to not tell the other to figure out why his partner is being a wet blanket.

Alexis and Martha would roll their eyes whenever Castle sulked around the house because of Beckett's love life. It affected them more than they let on, and sometimes it was all they could do not to tell Beckett.

But they know that they can't outright tell the two. No, that wouldn't be fair to either. So they watch, and hope, and pray that someday, somehow, they'll figure it out themselves.

It took four years and a few more people, but finally, Castle and Beckett figured out what everyone else knew.

He wakes up to rumpled sheets and the sight of their clothes tossed across the floor. A satisfied smile blooms on his face as he realizes that it wasn't a dream this time.

She walks in to see his smile and can't help her answering grin. She couldn't believe it was real at first, but seeing him still there cemented it.

And their green-eyed monsters growl no more.

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