Home Alone
For the first time since Memorial Day weekend; Castle and Beckett were alone. The kids were across the hall spending time with Martha. Alexis was hanging out with friends in Williamsburg. They had the loft to themselves. The rain was pouring outside; Castle and Beckett could hear the rain hitting the windows no matter where they were in the loft.
"So what do you want to do?" Castle asked.
Beckett smiled; she remembered one of the times that Castle asked her that.
"So what would you like to do today?"
"Um, I don't know. We could read."
"We could watch TV."
"Yeah. We could get something to eat."
"We could do that, yeah."
"Yeah."
"We could read." Beckett said.
Castle chuckled.
"Or we could watch TV."
Eventually they put in a movie to watch. Beckett had nestled herself between her husband's arm and his body as the movie played in the DVD player. They both knew that they'd end up falling asleep on the couch midway or so through the movie.
That was exactly what happened. Beckett was the first one to fall asleep. When Castle had noticed that she had fallen asleep his mind skipped to the time they froze to near death years ago. He didn't like that memory at all; he didn't like the memories where he thought he had lost Beckett. Shortly after Beckett had fallen asleep; Castle had fallen asleep too.
When they woke up the following morning they woke up in their bed.
"We must have woken up or something to end up in here." Beckett said as they lay in bed together.
Castle had a look on his face; one of disappointment.
"What's wrong; babe?"
"We never got to do what we usually do when it's just us."
Beckett knew what Castle was getting at and she understood why Castle was upset. Part of her was upset too.
"Well we have a bit of time before the kids come back from their time with Martha. We can either wait until it's just us again and go have breakfast or we hold off on breakfast and make up for last night. It's your choice."
Beckett already knew what Castle's choice would be. So when Castle rearranged himself and Beckett on their bed; Castle only confirmed what Beckett already knew what his answer was.
After one of the kisses Castle lavished with Beckett; he saw the smile on his wife's face. It was then that he knew the decision that had been made was the right one.