Arrivals
A few days later after their personal time; Castle and Beckett were joined by the rest of their family. They had invited Jim but he had to decline due to work. So it was just Martha, Alexis, Jake and the kids.
The kids rode up to the Hamptons with Martha. Jake drove himself and Alexis up since Alexis was unable to drive for the time being. Everyone arrived at the Hamptons house at the same time.
"Oh my; Alexis, what happened?" Martha asked quite concerned.
Martha had the sight of her eldest grandkid on crutches with a cast around one leg.
"I broke my ankle the other night."
"Doing what my dear?"
Instead of verbally saying how she broke her ankle; Alexis just gave her grandmother a look so she wouldn't embarrass herself and Jake, there was also the minor detail that Alexis' sisters and brothers were nearby.
"Oh." Martha said.
With that everyone walked into the house. It wasn't long after they had walked in that Alexis' broken ankle had been noticed again.
"Alexis; what did you do to yourself?" Castle asked just as concerned as his mother had a few minutes earlier.
"I broke it the other night…."
"Oh; that's not good." Beckett said.
Much like her mother in law; it didn't take Beckett that long to get what Alexis was getting at in the roundabout way since the kids were still around. For Castle it took a bit longer.
"Really Dad, you don't get it."
Castle got looks from his wife, daughter and his mother once the kids had run off to play. Jake also left to bring the suitcases to their respective bedrooms.
After that Castle somewhat got it.
"You broke your ankle having…." Castle trailed off.
Castle clearly couldn't bring himself to finish the thought let alone the sentence.
"So. What are we going to do?"
"About what?"
"Well we have to tell Ryan about Jenny."
"What? Why? Castle, if we were getting married would you want to know about all the guys that I've slept with?"
"All?"
"Seriously? You sign women's chests at book readings. You cannot be shocked that I'm not a virgin."
"I… it's just the word … all… suggests a lot. How many are we talking… exactly?"
"Are you really asking for my number?"
"You show me yours, I'll show you mine."
"Men. You all want to know, but you don't want to know."
"Listen, every woman has her secrets, including Jenny. And sometimes, for the sake of a relationship, it is better not to share."
"You cannot be shocked that I'm not a virgin." Alexis said mimicking what Beckett had said a number of years earlier before Ryan's wedding.