Dicey
The entire Castle family was back from their Jamaica trip. But it wasn't sunshine and daisies for Castle and Jake. It was that time of the month for Beckett and for Alexis. Both were in one hell of a mood swing in their respective spouse's opinion. Castle had arranged for Johanna Martha, Kat, JJ and James Royce to spend the duration of their mother's special time with Martha. There was definitely an upside to having Martha live across the hall and this was one of those moments in Castle's opinion.
Castle was also treading lightly just as his son in law was. At one point; Castle remembered something that Beckett had said.
"Good. Because I have a gun and you don't really have a choice."
"Clearly I don't have a choice."
"No."
When Beckett returned home from the trip; she made sure that her gun was locked up and secure. She had brought it with her on the trip just in case.
Castle was being smart and not chancing anything when he was around his wife. He knew it wouldn't be that hard for her to retrieve her gun if she really wanted to shoot him. Castle also knew that Beckett wouldn't shoot him; it wasn't like it was back when he first started following her.
Castle braved the storm as he brought Beckett the pint of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Therapy ice cream just as she had ask for it.
"How are you feeling?"
"How do you think?"
Beckett had added babe to the end of some her sentences when she talked to Castle. It had been her pet name for him since Castle proposed to her. The only time she didn't use the pet name was when she was upset with him.
But now with it being Beckett's special time; Castle didn't know what to make of his wife not using the pet name.
"Do you need anything besides the pint?"
"I'll let you know."
Valuing his life; Castle exited the bedroom so Beckett had some space again. He would head across the hall to check on the kids before he pretended to write in his office.