CH6

It is now 3 days later: (Still in St. Lucia)

There is a minimum amount of material that might be considered "M" rated in this chapter. It is more of a recollection of events that have taken place then the actual event itself. Still reader discretion is advised.

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(KB POV)

There was just one more open ocean dive left till she had her diving certificate. It turned out to not be as hard as she had thought it would be. It hadn't taken long for Kate to figure out that Castle could have taught her what she needed to know, just that he couldn't give her that little piece of paper she needed.

It was still early in the morning and the sun wasn't even up yet however Kate was wide awake, tossing and turning. Three days in this paradise with Castle walking around in nothing but his swim trunks and a pair of flip flops was driving her bonkers. GOD that man had a body!

Kate knew she had countered with wearing one of the three bikinis that she had brought for this trip and like Castle had taken to wearing them everywhere except for those times when it would be beneficial to wear a cover, like when they went to dinner.

Kate knew she had Castle's undivided attention, especially when he turned suddenly and slammed into a metal pole causing him to stagger just a bit. This had resulted in Kate suddenly being concerned that Castle had actually hurt himself. "Castle, are you alright?" Kate had walked right up and placed her hands on him, just like she had been dreaming about doing for days, if not weeks now.

Next thing Kate knew she was in his arms holding her close while Castle moaned a little about the headache he knew he was sure to have after that hit. It had Kate burying her head into his chest and breathing in the smell that was sun baked Castle-a mix of cologne, sunscreen and sweat. Kate was right where her dreams had always placed her being.

Watching Castle last night started playing in her head yet again. Like it had countless times already. It was something she was never, ever going to forget.

Then suddenly Castle's body was gone. "So what do we do with the rest of our day?" Castle had asked, since their third dive was over with even before lunch.

"Hit the beach, work on our tan?" Kate offered, since she wanted Castle to remain topless, plus see what he looked like with a tan. Even if they were going to need more than 4 days to get that much tan.

"What is it with women baking in a hot sun that they find so appealing?" Castle obviously didn't get it.

"Because they want a tan and they want their man to be just as tan, now go change Castle and grab a towel and the sunscreen." Kate did her best to push him away and watched as Castle started for his room, only to stop and turn around. "When did I become your man Beckett?"

Kate knew she had a look of a deer being caught in the headlights, since it was only now that it dawned on her what she had said. "Just go change Castle." And Kate made a hasty retreat to her room.

After closing the door, Kate leaned up against it, feeling her heart pounding in her chest. "My man?" So what if he was her man? Did that make her his woman?

Kate moved to the drawer where most of her clothes were and pulled out a new bikini to wear. This one was kinda an off green color and strapless. It forced Kate to adjust her breasts a little while she maneuvered the top into place. Satisfied she grabbed a soft see through wrap that she had bought their first day here and tied it around her waist. Then she slipped on her own pair of flip flops that Castle had bought for her when he had gotten his.

Kate stared at herself in the mirror. What stared back was a young woman who looked happy, even after what her life had turned into recently, she looked happy. Save for a bikini and a nothing wrap all she saw was skin, and lots of it. "Who are you and what have you done with Kate Beckett?" Kate watched her lips move as the sound reached her ears.

The answer she got back was silent and only she heard it. "I was just hiding until Castle came along." It had this Kate Beckett smiling. "Time to go drive Castle mad." And maybe, just maybe get to watch another show tonight if she was lucky. Actually getting lucky didn't occur to her. Kate picked up her towel, room key and sunscreen, and with a little extra sway in her hips headed for the front door where she found Castle waiting for her. She slipped out the open door and headed for the golf cart, keeping that little extra sway in her hips.

They had baked in the sun and Kate got to feel Castle's hands rubbing sunscreen all over her back which was starting to have another reaction out of her. And then it was her turn to rub sunscreen all over Castle's back which only intensified that same reaction. God but he had muscles!

Castle didn't look like a body builder, but what he did have felt like soft pliable hard as steel muscles, as contradictory as that sounded. It also had Kate wanting to do a whole lot more.

They had gone swimming in the ocean, then back to the hotel to eat dinner, while Kate watched Castle's eyes roam all over her exposed top.

Now she was tossing and turning in her bed that night thinking about how Castle had looked all day and where her hands had been. Kate knew they needed to get back home and cover up with clothes before she was the one that went mad. Only problem was Kate decided not to get up and spy on Castle for two reasons. Castle deserved his privacy and Kate knew that if she watched Castle do that again, she was going to pop.

Castle had rented them a Jeep 4x4 after their last dive and they had both switched to tennis shoes instead of flip flops, other than that one change nothing else did. "Where are we going?" Kate was happy to let Castle drive. Kate had packed away her diving certificate, she could now go diving with him anywhere they went.

Kate never even considered NOT diving without Castle.

"The front desk said that Pigeon Island National Park is the place to go for spectacular views. It just happens to be at the very northern tip of the island." Castle told Kate about their destination.

The front desk had told Rick that it was at least 1-1/2 hour drive from their hotel. However they ended up stopping three times when Kate suddenly called out because she saw something. So it actually took them 3 hours to reach the parking lot for the short hike.

Across from Rodney Bay, Pigeon Island National Park, is one of St. Lucia's most important historic attractions. Strategic lookouts on the island allowed the British to monitor the movements of French troops in Martinique during their struggle for control of St. Lucia. Today a causeway connects the island to the mainland and visitors can hike up to the lookout point and enjoy panoramic views of St. Lucia's northwest coast. Also on the island are the ruins of the military buildings used during battles between the French and English, an interpretation center describing the island's fascinating history, a small restaurant, and two white-sand beaches.

The walk to the top was easy enough; there was a dirt trail with grass on either side. The ruins turned out to be mostly holes in the ground where the buildings once stood that all had grass growing in them. It told both of them just how long ago this was. It was the final 100 yards or so that was the rough part since there were no steps and the grass was a little slippery.

Castle had Kate's hand firmly in his all the way up. "WOW!" Kate looked around. There was water on three sides and the hill that they had walked up behind them. The breeze had her wrap flapping in the wind.

Kate felt Castle take his hand out of hers and wrap it around her shoulder pulling her in closer. It allowed Kate to twist a little and place one of her hands on his chest with an arm wrapped around his waist while burying her head into his chest while she looked out into the ocean.

"It's gorgeous Castle and so peaceful." Kate could only hear the wind and the waves and they were the only people that had decided to climb to the top. Though the only other couple had taken a detour down to one of the beaches that they had passed leaving them all alone.

"Yes it is." Castle responded sounding sure of himself. It got Kate to look up at Castle and saw that he was looking down, not out to the ocean like she was.

'He means, … He means me!' Kate was wrapped up in his arms up against his bare chest while looking up into his blue eyes looking down into hers. Kate couldn't help it, she lifted up on tippy toes and kissed Castle. Soon finding both of his arms wrapped around her as he kissed her back.

The kiss started out soft at first and was soon working its way up to more forceful, filled with bottled up passion. Kate finally broke from the kiss, one of the longest she had ever had and placed the blame on her scuba diving lessons. Kate buried her face into his chest and breathed him in. "WOW!" Kate whispered out.

Kate soon found Castle's hand under her chin lifting her head back up allowing Castle to lean down and kiss her again, starting out a lot more heated this time.

Kate could feel Castle's hands roaming across her back, over her shoulders and then both hands were on the clasp that held her bikini top in place. For a moment she thought he was going to remove it and she was going to let him if he did, however his hands moved on. It caused Kate to moan at the loss of what he could have done.

This time it was Castle that broke from the kiss he had started only Kate didn't want to stop so she kissed him back. Kate found she really did want him to take her top off so she could feel her bare skin up against his. 'Maybe if I?'

Kate let her hand fall down his chest till it was over his all too obvious bulge in his swim trunks. Kate could feel his muscles tense, all of them in fact, including the one she had her hand over.

Castle broke from the kiss. "Kate you need to stop." Kate could tell his voice was shaky.

"And if I don't want to?" Kate was willing to escalate things, right here, right now. And she slipped her hand between his waist band and his body and reached down until she held him in her hand. He was hard as a rock and soft as silk all at the same time.

"Kate please." Kate could hear Castle suddenly intake a gulp of air and Kate started slowing sliding her hand up and down, and run a finger over the tip. It reminded her of what she had heard Castle say just last night. "Kate not here, not now. … Please!" Kate knew she had him right where she wanted him. All she had to do she was sure was slide her hand down and give him a little squeeze.

"You've been driving me mad for days now. You and that thing you call a swimsuit. And yes I want you, so very badly, just not here and not now. I want to make love to you, not fuck you on a mountain top in a moment of passion. … We can come back some day if that is really what you want. … Please love?" Kate felt every word on the top of her head as he breathed each word into her hair and his voice was breaking, begging even.

Kate stopped her hand. He had called her LOVE! Did he love her already? Kate knew she was ready to have sex with him, but was it love? He was her best friend now. Almost the only friend she had in New York, and she wanted him. Right now she wanted to be fucked on a mountain top, but Castle said he wanted to make love to her, not just fuck her.

Kate looked up into Castle's eyes which were squeezed closed. Kate was pretty sure she had him on the edge. She could back off and let him take her back to the hotel or she could push him a little and let him take her, right here, right now.

"So long as you promise." Kate made her choice and slowly removed her hand, but not before she gave his likely purple head a little scratch with her nails that had Castle growling in his throat and it had Kate grinning at what she could do to him.

Kate now knew that she could make him do anything; get him to take her when she pleased. Make him beg if it came to that. Just a little more work and she would have him wrapped around her finger. Castle was hers and no one else's.

Kate felt Castle calming down while she let him hold her close and let her give light kisses to his chest, then suddenly biting one of his nipples. This got Castle to move into action as he took Kate's hand and pulled her down the mountain, down the hill, past the little restaurant and the path that lead to one of the two white sandy beaches.

Maybe she could talk Castle into coming back up here before they left and have sex on that beach?

The drive back to the hotel was done in silence as Kate noticed Castle was driving a whole lot faster on the way down than he had on the way up. It had Kate smirking while taking quick peaks at Castle's face which had determination with a goal in mind written all over it.

Kate was still wet by the time Castle had dragged her though the front door of their hotel room, when he pushed her up against the door and started kissing her with furious passion.

Kate felt her hands pinned forcefully above her head while Castle attacked her mouth. "Bed Castle, … NOW!" Kate managed to get out between Castle's kisses and then squealed when she found herself in his arms being carried to his bedroom.

Kate woke up in the middle of the night and felt a little cool on one side and warm on the other. Blinking her eyes open and adjusting to where she was, Kate found herself with her head on Castle's shoulder with one of her hands resting on his stomach while both of his arms were holding her to him tightly. It was almost like he thought she was going to run away. Something she had no intention of doing now. Maybe a few weeks ago when they first met, but not now.

Kate knew she didn't want to run, but she did need to get up and use the bathroom.

It took some doing to extract herself from Castle's arms and found herself standing next to the bed and watched as his arm seemed to be searching for something. God even in his sleep he wanted her next to him. It actually had her missing being held by him.

Kate stepped into the bathroom with the intent of making it to the toilet, however she came up short when she saw herself in the mirror. "SHIT!"

Kate proceeded to look herself over in the mirror. Tilting her head she found a huge hickey on her neck, two on her left breast and one on the right.

The walk in here had shown her that she was extremely sore between her legs which had her looking there next. "My GOD what has he done to me?" Kate found two more hickeys on each of her inner thighs. "He's marked me!"

Kate sat on the toilet and it allowed her mind to go back to just hours ago. Kate had had sex before, but what Castle had done last night wasn't like anything she had experienced before. He said he was going to make love to her, not just fuck her, which was what she had wanted up on that hill.

What Castle had done with his hands, lips and tongue had nothing to do with fucking her. Though in the end he had done that too. Fast and furious in fact.

Kate flushed the toilet and went back over to the mirror. Kate was awake now and starting to understand how she got all these marks on her body. If she looked like this, what did Castle look like? Kate knew it hadn't been all one sided last night. Though given the amount of time Castle spent with his head buried between her legs, she could be forgiven for thinking that.

Kate knew she had ridden him and ridden his face. She had been pushed deep into the bed with Castle's weight pushing her into the bed with her legs wrapped around him and was pretty sure she had ripped his back open with her nails just as they had both climaxed yet again.

Feeling the weight of Castle on her driving in and out of her had been one of the things she had liked the most. He was taking her, just like she had wanted him to do up on that mountain. In the end Kate had gotten just what she had wanted.

Kate was also pretty sure his chest was going to be filled with hickey marks too, provided he even got to keep his nipples since she had spent so much time biting on them.

Kate saw a marked up smiling woman in the mirror. Kate had never done anything like she had done with Castle last night. Nothing ever that wild, a couple of kinky things yes, just nothing filled with that much passion. It had Kate wondering just how kinky Castle was. Was he a match for her imagination, or would he surpass hers?

Kate went back to the bed and was working on sliding back into Castle's arms when she wondered why the police hadn't come bashing their door down. Kate knew neither of them had been even remotely quiet last night.

Kate didn't remember ever being that vocal with any of the other men she had been with before. However Kate had to admit she hadn't really wanted them as badly as she wanted Castle either. "Is Castle the right one mom?" It had her missing her mother all over again while she snuggled in close to Castle.

(RC POV)

Rick was proud of Kate. She had passed her final dive and gotten her certificate and now they could go diving somewhere together, just the two of them. It had Rick thinking up what places they could go and get her into another of her damn bikinis while still diving.

Ok maybe it wasn't the bikini itself, it was how Kate looked in the blasted thing. No that wasn't right either, it was more what she was doing to him watching her wear them. The woman was a tease. Question is was she always like that or had she only just started for his benefit?

Watching Kate walk around in her bikini while they searched the site on their walk up to the top of the mountain or hill since no real climbing was involved. Something else Rick knew how to do thanks to his Ranger training.

Reaching the top he was amazed at the view, it was like one of those picture post cards and he took a picture in his mind and filed it away for later when he needed it. Like when he woke up in the middle of the night with the face of one of the people he had killed close up.

Next thing he knew he had an arm around Kate who willingly snuggled in close with her head buried in his chest, for a moment he thought she was going to kiss his chest through the mostly open button down shirt that he had on. Instead she reached up and kissed him. It was a soft kiss that she appeared to mean to give him.

It lit a fire in him and he kissed her back, hard. Trying to tell her everything he felt about her. Then Kate's hand went somewhere else. "You need to stop Kate." Rick knew if she pushed very far he couldn't stop and that's not how he wanted her. Not just some short meaningless fuck on a hilltop.

"And if I don't want to?" Kate responded back.

The drive back to their hotel was taking way too long, and then there was the damn drive up to their room using their golf cart. Kate's hand on his leg for the golf cart trip was driving him insane.

The front door closed and he couldn't wait any longer and had her pinned up against the door while he attacked her mouth with his. "Bed Castle, …NOW!"

It was all he needed as he scooped her up and into his arms and took her to his room where he finally removed that damn bikini exposing a truly beautiful woman.

Rick spent the night worshiping who Kate Beckett was and didn't even try to count the number of times her brought her to climax. It wasn't the number that he cared about, it was the pleasure he was bringing to her. Kate deserved every scream she made.

Finally they were resting and headed for sleep with Kate resting on him, secure in his arms. Maybe she really was the perfect choice. He just had to hope that she didn't run when he told her.

Rick knew he had one really big secret that had the capacity to break who they were becoming and losing Kate now just might break him for good.