Upside Down
While Castle and Martha tended to Beckett and the kids; things were moving along for Lanie and Espo. It also seemed like things were moving along for Ryan and Jenny too. Espo had made the offer to Lanie for her to move in with him. Lanie had agreed to move in but there was one other thing that Espo put on the table that Lanie wasn't quite sure she was ready for yet. She wasn't Beckett or Jenny after all. Then there was the minor detail was that Lanie and Espo had an on again off again relationship so the idea of marriage just didn't seem right to Lanie.
"Javi; I have to think about it." Lanie said after the proposal.
In Lanie's mind it was just easier for them to live under the same roof and co-parent once their son or daughter arrived. Maybe somewhere down the road; Lanie and Espo would get married but for now the way things were would work just fine.
When Lanie and Espo got done moving Lanie's stuff in to the apartment; Lanie took a bit of a break. She wanted to check in on her friend; but for her health as well as the health of her unborn baby, a phone call instead of a visit was the order of business.
"Tell Beckett; I said hi and I hope she's feeling better." Espo called from the kitchen as Beckett picked up the landline.
The phone rang for a while before it was answered on the other end.
"Hey Lanie; how's it going?" Castle said when he answered the phone.
"It's all good. Is Kate up?"
"Yeah she's up."
With that Castle brought the phone to Beckett.
"It's Lanie, checking in on you."
"Okay."
Beckett and Lanie were on the phone for a while. Lanie had told Beckett that she had moved in with Espo and that he had proposed. Beckett told Lanie that she was crazy for saying no to Espo, but she understood where her friend was coming from. In the back of Beckett's mind she knew that her friend would settle down eventually; Beckett did.