Thank you for the reviews, follows and favourites. Here's a holiday chapter.

I didn't want to make you wait too long so you get this today rather than tomorrow.

Crosswords are similar to scrabble.

Disclaimer: Gates would like Castle a bit more now if it were up to me.

Chapter 11: Splash

New York's best crime fighting couple were now in Corsica on holiday, no murders or publishers that would bother them here. In their villa, they were in a little world of their own. They could sit out on the patio and look out to the Mediterranean; right now Kate was sat on a lounger waiting for her husband to appear with drinks, and lotion.

"Babe, are you coming?"

"Yep, yep; I'm here. Here's your drink and could you hold mine too?" He says while passing her the glasses.

"Of course, you can hardly rub lotion in with one hand now." She gave him a seductive glance.

"That would be a challenge; maybe another time. Turn around." She leans to put the drinks down on the table in between the loungers. Adjusting herself so that she is sat directly in front of him. Rick had now lost all concentration; his stunning wife was sat there waiting for him to run sun cream into her skin. Right now that isn't the thought in his head, the strings of bikini just there begging to be untied.

"Rick, Rick." Kate was still trying to get her husband's attention, "CASTLE!"

"Huh, what?"

"I tell you what, why don't we go for a swim?" She stands up and offers her hand, he takes it and as she pulls him up she tugs him a bit harder as he's almost up so as they're walking towards the pool he is a few steps in front. As they approach the edge of the pool she's getting ready to shove him in but he's smart so he is prepared for when the hands on the back appear but he didn't expect them to go around his waist so they ended up going into the pool together. His wife is full of surprises. When they resurface she has her arms around his neck.

"Well I've finally got your attention."

"Yeh you did that. It wasn't behaviour I expected from a Captain of the NYPD."

"Well I thought you getting a badge may have made you grow up. However, you've been anything but."

"We're just big kids aren't we?"

"Yep, we both know it"

"And we wouldn't have it any other way."

"No, nope definitely not." They both had smiles from ear to ear, they both leant forward so their heads rested against each other. She brought her arms down to wrap around his waist and his arms continued to rest on her hips.

"Rick" she pulled away to look at him straight in the eye "what my Dad said on Saturday about how he'd like a grandchild, I've been thinking about it and he's right how none of us are getting any younger. I've always said that I'd get around to having children one day and those days are running out. I never wanted my child to be an only child, I know we've got Alexis but I'd like to have two that are a similar age and that gives me even less time."

"Kate, we can" before he has a chance to finish she cuts him off, she needs to get this out; they promised to tell each other everything.

"Babe, let me finish. I know if I didn't say this now that I'd wait until I had got settled into my new job and then another reason would come up to put it off so I'm agreeing with my Dad again, whatever happens I'll have enough time to get my feet under the table before I'd go on maternity leave and that's if it happened right away. I'm scared but we are in this together and I know you'll always be there for me." She looks down for a moment to gather herself together to deliver a sentence that could change her life; looking back up at him she continues, "So I, Katherine Houghton Castle am asking you Richard Edgar Alexander Rodgers Castle if you will make little Caskett babies with me?"

The way he kissed her gave her in no doubt what his answer was; they were going to be extending the Castle family. He started walking them towards the wall of the pool. When her back hits the wall she breaks away to look up at him "I take that as a yes then."

"Certainly, definitely, absolutely, undoubtedly, positively. Does this mean we can start right here, right now?"

"I wasn't thinking of conceiving our child in a pool, Rick."

"It would be a cool story to tell them."

"No, it's bad enough that I was once told that I was probably my Mother's birthday or Valentines present. I didn't need to know anymore."

"Still, we can just think of it as a holiday baby."

"Yeh I suppose. It could have been worse, a job promotion baby."

"So does that mean we can, in here?"

"Hmm." She nods and reaches up to kiss him. They stood there swaying in the pool, making out like teenagers until she broke the silence; "I really didn't think I'd be the one to take this off." She goes to untie the knot of the strings at her back but he beats her too it. He lets the strings drop and goes to lift the bikini top over her head then throws it to one side letting it float away. They go back to kissing and letting their activities take their own course.

Later on when they're making lunch, Rick was admiring his wife as she was preparing their sandwiches imagining her in a few years doing the same for not only them but their children who were running about shouting "Mummy". If someone asked him ten years ago if he could ever see himself having any more children, he would have probably laughed it off as a joke but now he couldn't wait. Captain Beckett wanted to make little Castle babies, which her best friend from high school joked about in interrogation many years ago. He had an insight into her fragile mind that day, he'd offered his opinion that Cecily should have followed her heart and gone with Wolf and she had replied "I can see the virtue in staying. I mean, guys like Wolf, they come in, they upset the apple cart; of course he makes you feel alive but eventually you know that he's just gonna let you down, so why risk it?"

His response of "Because the heart wants what the heart wants" dug deep into both of them. He knew she wanted security and couldn't bear to have her heart broken, it was why she was never had both feet in a relationship. When she came to him that stormy night she was all in; he'd changed so much from the playboy persona that she first met to someone she could rely on and trust with her heart. If anything ever happened to them it would break her heart, she had invested so much into this relationship that for it to fall apart would be devastating. They'd promised each other always and they were living it.

He was broken out of his reverie by Kate throwing a tomato at him. "Hey what was that for?"

"I've been calling you asking for you to slice the cucumber."

"Yeh sure I can do that." He rounded the counter to stand next to her bumping their hips as he got there, typically that would receive a look but instead she just bumped her hips into his. They stood there looking quite the pair, Kate in denim shorts and a white vest top with Rick in knee length shorts and a white shirt; it was if they had tried to match when they were getting dressed.

There'll be another holiday chapter. I wanted to do something else and it fit better if they were on holiday rather than in NY.

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