A/N: Yay I'm updating without spending a week distracting myself! After last chapter, I had to do the scene where Beckett finally reads the sex scene. I absolutely love this scene because you can just see the horror on her face. Hope you enjoy it, please review!
Kate sat at her desk filling out paperwork as quickly as possible. She'd known bringing her copy of Heat Wave to work with her had been dangerous, but now it was just sitting in her purse, begging her to crack it open again.
She hadn't stopped thinking about it since Agent Gray mentioned the sex scene. Admittedly, she'd been expecting it ever since Nikki's little "perfume ad moment" with Rook on that balcony. For the hundredth time, she mentally kicked herself for forcing herself to put it down the night before after chapter seven. She wondered how close she'd been; when she'd gone to bed, Nikki was gaining traction in her case, but was nowhere near sleeping with Rook. But anything could, and generally did, happen in Castle's books.
"No hot date tonight?" Castle asked as he walked up to her desk, clearly getting ready to head home.
"No, just the paperwork." And then yours. She thought before she could stop herself. She'd never regretted being a fan of his, but sometimes she hated it.
"One of the many reasons I'm glad I'm not actually a cop." He said, smiling.
"Uh huh." Yeah, there were many reasons she was glad he wasn't a cop. She had enough paperwork to deal with as it was.
"Have a good one."
"Yeah, you too." She turned back to her paperwork, desperately trying to concentrate. But only seconds later she glanced around, then at her purse. No, not a the precinct. Kate chided herself. But he's gone. And it's late; no one will see if I just slip away for a minute. She grabbed her purse and half ran from the bullpen.
As she walked through the bathroom and into a stall her heart raced, something to do with the illicit nature of doing this at work. She hated herself for it, but she had to know. She bit her lip as she sat and pulled her legs up. Digging the book out of her purse, she started searching.
"Aha!" She heard a voice, no, his voice, from the next stall and jumped. Shit, absolute worst-case scenario.
"Huh! Castle what're you doing here?" It was the women's bathroom after all.
"I knew you were reading it." His smug face made her want to smack him, but her embarrassment was forcing her to shrink away.
"Ah- I was-" Coherent thought evaded her.
"It's on page 105, by the way."
"What?" No, no, this could not get any more mortifying.
"That sex scene you're looking for." Her mouth fell open. No, this wasn't happening. It was just a terrible, horrifying nightmare. "And Agent Gray was right. It's steamy."
"I wasn't-" She tried to recover, but they both knew it was a lie.
"See you tomorrow." And with that he was gone, leaving her to her embarrassment and whistling as he went.
Ugh, she would never live this down. He was such an ass. A smug jackass that just loved to push her buttons and watch her squirm. But, he was gone now, right? She listened intently and, hearing nothing, smiled. Quickly finding page 105, she began to read.
Her mouth fell open again, but this time she was smiling too. The further down the page she read, the more her cheeks burned, but she couldn't get enough. She'd known Castle was adept at writing a good sex scene, but this was different. This was about her. If she hadn't been so wrapped up in it, she would've been sufficiently annoyed that he ever thought about her in this way, but as it was, she frankly just didn't care.
It was twenty minutes before she was able to close the book and begrudgingly go back to her paperwork.
A/N 2: Thank you to everyone who has reviewed. And for the guest who commented about the angst after 2x21, yes I'm very much looking forward to all of that.