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Chapter 12: Kick

"Hey Rick, are you ready yet?"

"Yes I'm coming."

"I thought it was meant to be women who took the longest to get dressed."

"Yeh well you once said that I was so metro sexual" it was then when he came out of their room that
he saw Kate in the dress she had bought when they were out shopping earlier. "Wow, you look..."

"You're not so bad yourself. C'mon I need to wear these shoes in." Ah yes, there's the Kate Beckett he knew, she just had to buy some shoes while they were here. He remembered their honeymoon and how she had jokingly said "I want to buy them all." It was just a little independent shop that they had visited however, when Kate entered she seemed to be in a whole world of her own looking at what felt like to him every shoe in there. She got to know the owner while she browsed and promised to come back whenever they returned; a friendship founded on the love of shoes. They walked out of the store with seven pairs of shoes for her and three for him; she was disappointed some of the shoeboxes had to be left behind due to lack of room in the suitcases because they were nice boxes.

"Have you got the keys Miss 'I've been ready for the last ten minutes'?"

"Duh. Now seriously c'mon or we'll be late Mister 'I need to sort my hair'." She took his hand as they walked out to the car, passing him the keys as they separated.

"Are you ready to be wined and dined my fair lady?"

"Just drive."

They were seated quickly at the restaurant and as they were in the middle of their meal they hear gunshots and the roaring of bikes in the distance. The whole restaurant looked around to see if they could see anything but then continued with their conversations as if nothing had happened.

"I wonder what that was."

"Oh I don't know, it could have been the Unione Corse."

"Seriously? They were disbanded years ago."

"They may have returned."

"No, this is a peaceful island not some island with an infamous mob."

"You never know, how many times have mobs been seemingly shut down only to reappear?"

"Castle! Please no, can we talk about something else?"

"Where do you think their hideout is?"

"Castle!" She hissed. "You shut up about the Unione Corse or I'm going back to the house; alone."

"Fine, how is your meal?"

"It's lovely. There's just that taste you know? The one that makes it just so..."

"Can I try some?"

"We're not going to be one of those couples who sit feeding each other across the table so if you want some, point which bit and I'll put some on your plate."

"One of those couples? Really? Do you want some of mine?"

"No thanks. So what do you want?"

"That would be nice please." He pointed to one of the sections on her plate. She passes some of it over to him and he tries some before it even had time to settle on his plate. "You're right it is good and I know what you mean there's that taste that gives it that extra little something."

"Good, now can you hurry up with your meal; I want some dessert."

"I know what I want for dessert." He said with a wiggle of his eyebrows which earned him a swift kick to the shin. "Oww, was that really necessary woman?"

"Yes." She kicked his shin again. "That's for calling me woman."

"But you are..." She dug her heel into the top of his foot. "Shutting up." He said which was choked out in agony.

"Good boy. Now hurry up, and no more snide comments if you want to see what's under this dress." That comment left him slack jawed, as she went to kick him again his mouth closed and he started eating again.

On the way back to the car Rick had realised she had been calling him by his surname, "I thought you only called me Castle when you were mad at me?"

"I was mad at you a bit. It was totally a Castle time."

"Are you still mad at me?"

"Depends."

"On what?"

"If you're going to open the damn car."

"Oh yeh, sure." Once they were both seated and belted up he said "Now you're no longer mad at me, does that mean I'm getting lucky?" Instead of a kick, he received a thump on the arm and a classic Beckett eye roll.

"Drive or I'm going to drive up to those mountains, find a cave and say that the Unione Corse is back and leave you there in just your clothes."

"Yes Ma'am." On the realisation of what he had just said it suddenly occurred to him what alternative to Captain she would use. "Kate, you know how Gates always insisted we called her 'Sir' are you going to be Sir or will Ma'am be ok?"

"I have no preference, I thought it a bit weird that we called a woman 'Sir' and I think she chose it to blend in, for me feminism is a thing of the past, yes I'm am woman in a what is still largely a male dominated world but I'm not having to act like a man to be in it so I don't see that I need to."

"You know if you used Castle as your surname at work you wouldn't need a new desk name plate because I've still got the Captain Castle one from that case we worked when the guy thought it was still the seventies."

"Well maybe if my Captain Beckett one isn't there yet..." She looks at him with a seductive glance and a hint of raciness in her voice, "I could be Captain Castle for a few days."

"That'd be pretty cool. It'd be my precinct."

"No. It would NOT be your precinct."

"What's mine is yours and yours is mine."

"Not professionally."

"You own Nikki Heat. In fact you are the real Nikki Heat."

"You seriously need to shut up and drive." This time he did as he was told, he could afford many more bruises and he wanted to see what under that dress.

So yep, ucsbdad is convinced they were going to run into Unione Corse.

Since this wasn't planned there is another holiday chapter, sorry if you want them to be back in NYC already. It Is Only Just Beginning will be updated again soon.

Do you want a chapter of when they get home? It wouldn't be M but maybe what's under the dress? Let me know otherwise the next one will have something to do with a beach.

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