Rock my World

It was her first day as captain and he had got her a gift to place on her office desk. She was going to love it. He had already given her a bracelet this morning, but this was going to be on her desk all the time for everyone to see. He was tempted to give her this gift earlier, but he figured he'd come and surprise her on her first day. Maybe take her out for lunch if she had time. He wanted to see his wife in action. That was one of the things he loved about shadowing her. He got to see her be this total bad ass and it was sexy as hell.

He walked into the precinct and knocked on her door as he entered. She lifted her head up and gave him a smile.

"Babe, what are you doing here?"

"Well, I just came to see if my wife could spare a few minutes away to go get some lunch with her husband. We could go to Remy's, grab a burger, one of those strawberry milkshakes that you like so much, extra order of fries."

"You had me sold when you said lunch." She got up from her desk and grabbed her jacket that was hanging up. She glanced back over to him as she put her jacket on. "What's in the box?" She walked over to him and placed a quick kiss to his lips, which he returned.

"If you're quoting Brad Pitt, you need a little bit more expression when you deliver that line."

She gave him a look. "Castle."

"It's another present." She opened her mouth to speak, but he stopped her. "Before you say I didn't have to do this, I know I didn't, but I couldn't pass it up." He handed her the box and she smiled. He watched her open it and the confused look on her face when she pulled out a rock.

"It's a rock?"

"It's a paperweight, for your desk. I figured it would be appropriate, since you rock my world."

She gave him a look that said that was terrible. "I can tell by the painting of the world on the rock." She took the rock and placed it on her desk. "I'll be sure to put plenty of paperwork that I think you should be doing under it."

"Nope, I don't shadow you anymore, Captain Beckett. I can no longer feel guilty for not doing paperwork nor can I be tricked into doing it." He saw that she bit her bottom lip and that caused him to speak again. "Or seduce me and trade paperwork for sexual favors...even though the latter is my favorite way of you getting me to do paperwork."

She smiled. "Oh I know it is." She took his arm. "Come on, Mr. Castle, take me to lunch."

When they got back from lunch, Ryan and Esposito were interrogating a suspect. Ryan had asked them to bring them back curly fries, so Castle was going to wait around to give them to him. That and he wanted to know about the case that they were working on. Even though he wasn't shadowing Kate anymore, he still wanted to know what was going on and to see if he could help any. Kate wasn't telling him anything either. Said something about if he did the paperwork he could know and he wasn't falling for that. They were in her office when they heard some commotion.

Kate got up from her seat on the sofa, to go see what was happening in her precinct. The suspect was running from the interrogation room. Well, if they didn't know he was guilty before, they knew it now. Kate stepped in front of him. 'Police, stop!"

With that, he stopped, but he took out a gun. Bad move, but it took Kate by surprise. He must have somehow got it off Esposito or Ryan. She highly doubt that he sneaked it into the precinct. "Take it easy. I don't want any trouble."

"Just let me go!"

She saw Ryan and Esposito coming out of the interrogation room, both of them holding their hand up to their head. She gave them the signal, with her eyes, to stay down. "I can't let you go, not until we finish asking you what we brought you in for."

"I didn't do it!"

"Then drop the gun and we'll just talk about what happened. We're not accusing you of anything, we just want to know what happened." Deep down, she had a feeling that this guy was guilty, but she wanted to calm him down.

"No, let me go! Tell them to stand down." He motioned to the cops that were behind Kate that were holding their guns up, protecting their captain. She didn't move her eyes off of him as she gave the command.

"Stand down. It's alright. He's not going to shoot me. What's your name?" She already knew his name, since Ryan had told her it when he called her while they were at Remy's, but she wanted him to calm down.

"Joe."

"Joe, I'm Kate. Can you put the gun down now? No one here is going to hurt you." She saw him thinking for a few moments, whether he was going to do it or not, and as he bent down to put the gun down, Castle came out of the office and he hit him over the head with the paperweight he had given her. Joe was knocked out and Kate ran over to Castle while other officers went to Joe, to make sure he was okay and to cuff him. After all, he did assault a police officer and pulled a gun on one.

"Castle! You could have gotten yourself killed!"

"The safety was on."

She gave him a look. "You could have mouthed that to me."

He smiled at her. "I wouldn't be the man you fell in love with if you didn't."

She didn't want to smile, but she did. Memories of their first case together came to the forefront of her mind. "Looks like your gift proved to be better than just being a paperweight for paperwork."

He smiled. "What can I say, I'm a great gift giver."

AN: I wanted to tie in the first episode somehow with this chapter and this is what I came up with. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you Tuesday for another update :)