A/N: so here I was worrying chapter 9 would be the one you all hated and it turns out it was chapter 10! Can I just point out that Kate hasn't actually gone to see Castle yet and I haven't decided whether or not she will whilst drunk. All I know is that an apology is coming soon.
I've been crazy busy at work this week and haven't had a chance to write anything. I have about half an hour now so no promises it'll be any good, but I have a four day weekend this weekend so I'll try to get a few chapters up then!
Anyway, thought we'd switch it up a bit and have the past week from Castle's point of view. I know it's short, but I was going to not write until the weekend but thought I'd give you a little filler until then!
Richard Castle was sat at his desk, laptop open in front of him with a blank page showing on the screen. He was supposed to be writing another chapter, it had been due four days ago and Gina was getting antsy. Well, Gina was always antsy, but this time she was threatening to come over personally and sit there until he'd written her a decent chapter and one thing Castle didn't want was a visit from his publisher.
The thing was, he didn't know what to write. Rook and Nikki were at a crossroads currently, and he didn't know which way to take them - because he didn't know which way he and his muse were going. It was Friday evening and he hadn't seen Beckett since the previous Sunday, hadn't spoken to her since their argument over Charlie. He had spoken to Alexis, Charlie was fine - she'd gone to her dads apparently to get away from Kate a bit, but he didn't know what had gone down between them. As much as he was angry with her, he still hoped she was okay. He had ignored her call on Monday morning and sent a text about half an hour or so later to say he was writing but he'd pop in if he could - he hadn't and she hadn't called since.
It was a hard one because he missed her desperately but at the same time he was pissed off. He knew bringing up their moms case with a Charlie was a mistake but he hadn't really told her anything he shouldn't have and the fact that Beckett hadn't told her what they'd achieved in the past two years was ridiculous, he didn't care how much they'd argued and disagreed over it before, the girl still deserved to know who had killed her mom, period.
So this time, it was up to her. He wasn't going to go running back and apologise, he was going to take a leaf out of her book and be as stubborn as a mule. She wanted him back? She could come and apologise. He would say he didn't know if he would go back even if she did come and apologise, but no matter what had happened he was still hopelessly in love with her and waiting for her to admit she was wrong was killing him.
It was one of the things he loved about her though, the fact that she was so stubborn. Obviously right now it wasn't really working in his favour but he admired the fact that she stood by her decisions and didn't back down. He just had to hope she was planning on backing down soon because he was miserable.
Besides the fact that he was in love with her, she was his best friend. She put up with his crazy theories and outlandish comments and she respected the fact that sometimes he couldn't be there because being a dad came first. She had a good relationship with his daughter and he knew Alexis looked up to Kate.
All he wanted was Kate Beckett to wake up in his bed every morning and come home to him every night..maybe with a child or two in there at some point. Oh god, he thought, as he remembered what she'd accidentally overhead at their breakfast last weekend. She hadn't called him up on on it yet though, perhaps she had forgotten..ha, probably not, she was just too busy with other things to bring it back up again. What kept him going though was the fact that she hadn't completely freaked out, that would have been the reaction he would have expected from her..maybe she had thought about it too..
He couldn't push her though, no matter how much he wanted her. She was closed off and private, which he respected - the harder he pushed the further away he'd push her. He thought he'd managed okay so far, she'd always taken him back when he'd screwed up and he just had to keep the balance right so as not to upset the applecart.
Glancing back up at his laptop, he was astonished to realise he'd written over four thousand words. How did that happen? Glancing back over his work, he read through it and realised that while he'd been lost in his thoughts, his fingers had worked of their own accord and had produced some quality writing. Well, that would keep Gina happy, he just had to add a few more paragraphs here and there and he'd have the latest chapter in Nikki and Rooks story. Now he just had to figure out how the story between him and a Beckett was going to play out.
One thing was for sure though, Katherine Beckett was his and he'd spend the rest of his life proving that to her if that's what it took.
A/N: I'm sure this chapter won't be a popular one, and I think it's the shortest chapter I've ever written but I'm out of time - I'll be back Friday!
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