He is lying on his back with swirls of soft brown hair lying across his face tickling his nose. He does not care if his nose is being assaulted by her hair, especially since when they first met she started out by assaulting his nose in a different way. A way at the time that proved to be very painful
Her soft body against him from her chin softly nestled against his collar bone all the way to her bare toes flexing against his ankle. Everything about this creature beside him being a total turn on.
Seven years ago, if anyone had told Richard Castle that he would be able to find the woman of his dreams and she would be this complete in every possible way he would have just smirked and walked away.
He knew then that the perfect woman did not exist
A woman that was smart, attractive, and intelligent would be a lawyer and would probably have a job that he would have not found exciting. She would be a partner in a major law firm in the city. Make a pile of money defending sleaze bags or handling divorces for the rich and famous
On the other hand, a woman who was sultry and sexy would be window dressing for that law firm and would sit at the front desk and smile at the clients as they arrived.
But a more interesting person would be a tough as nails, hard core investigator and would be working on the streets digging up the dirt on the clients' spouses and taking pictures and not being very social in that task
So his perfect woman would have to be all of these rolled into one. But none of those exist or rather existed until he met HER.
And suddenly all his dreams came true and now she is his wife. She is brilliant in her crime solving skills. She is tough when she need to be with the suspects. She is so very attractive he is proud that she allows him to be seen with her
And WOW is she sultry and sexy. And she just used that part of her persona on him and he is trying to recover
And to bring everything to completeness, she is ready to have a child with him. His world is complete
Her toes are starting to glide across his foot indicating to him she is awake. He is not positive how she is even moving since she should be comatose after what she just did to him. He would swear that there was no possible way for either of them to be functional after this little bit of "Afternoon Delight"
"Hey, love" he whispers to her
She just curls a little closer and lets out a soft hum
"Are you OK?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" she answers
"I thought that doing what we just did could be dangerous"
She does not even raise her head "What do you mean?"
"I did not know it was possible to get into that position without hurting yourself"
"Oh, it's possible"
"Yes, I see that"
She gently hums again
"Hey, your sandwich is getting cold or rather since it was a cold sandwich, it is getting warm. You might want to go eat it before it turns bad"
"Uh…yeah, I should" and she rolls over to the side of the bed and sits up. She then tries to stand and collapses back on the bed "except my legs are a little wobbly at the moment"
"Not surprised" he comments as he reaches across to her and takes her hand "Are you really sure that you are alright?"
She smiles down at the linked fingers "Yeah. Why?"
"This was just intense. I mean way intense. Even for you…for us"
"I just had an urge to do that"
"Urge? Yeah I would say urge"
She pokes him on the arm "We need to get back to the case" she stands and on a pair of long legs that still seem a little weak and she stumbles into the bathroom
Castle stands up on his side of the bed and throws on a robe and moves back into the parlor area of their suite. He picks up the bag with her sandwich and his chicken salad salad and tells her to come to the kitchenette when she is ready.
After a few minutes, covered in a robe, she joins him at the table. The moment she sits down, she takes the chicken salad and opens it, takes his fork, and begins eating. Castle is sitting at the table almost ready to say something about her request for tuna and not chicken but decides to take her sandwich instead
After a few bites he finally speaks "I thought you wanted tuna and not chicken today"
She looks at him then down at her fork poised just outside her lips then he sees the realization cross her face "I did say that. Didn't I?"
He smiles at his wife
"Changed my mind" And she puts the bite in her mouth. This causes him to laugh a little
They finish their midday snack and get dressed to go back and resume their investigating.
Walking down the corridor, heading back to the main area of the hotel they are throwing theories around
Castle starts "What if Kirk tried to approach Sara and reconnect with her and Brett killed Kirk so he did not mess up the wedding"
"That is the worst idea I think my husband has ever thrown out" Kate reacts with a chuckle "Brett did not know Kirk and anyway Kirk hid when the bus arrived with Sara, Brett, and the rest of the wedding party so no one saw him"
"Well…maybe Sara tried to hook back up with Kirk and Brett found out or…"
"That is the same as your other idea"
"OH, yeah, I guess it is. Then Sara saw Kirk and knew he would mess up her wedding and she took him out"
"Sara killed her late husband so she could still marry Brett?"
"UM…" Castle stops talking for a second
"Rick, I don't think our soon to be married couple has anything to do with this. I personally think that this has something to do with Kirk's prior life as a trash man for the mob catching up with him"
"That does make more sense. What about the other passengers on the bus that afternoon"
"What about them?" Kate asks
"We need to get with the concierge and see who else was on that bus and see if maybe there is a person of interest" Castle responds
"If we find a name of someone from New York's underworld we might just solve this"
The two walk into the lobby and go directly to the registration desk
"Hello Mr. Castle, Mrs. Castle" the young desk clerk whose name tag identifiers her as 'Cindy' greets them "What can I do for you today?"
"We were wondering if we could get a list of passengers that were picked up the afternoon just before the murder?" Beckett asks
"Yes of course" Cindy turns around and goes to a shelf filled with binders. She pulls out a book marked 'Shuttle'
She flips through a few pages "Here we go"
She hands the book to Rick and Kate. They look down the page of names "This is the main list of wedding party attendees"
Then both stop at the same name. Castle comments first "Reagan Murphy. The only name on the list I do not recognize as one of the wedding party"
Beckett looks up to her husband "Me either. That might be worth looking into. Let's contact Ryan and have him search the database in the city and see what they can come up with"
Beckett turns to the clerk "Cindy, can you contact Mr. Murphy and ask him to come to the office we are working in?"
"I will be happy to Mrs. Castle"
The pair walks back to the room that they had set up as an office. They enter the room and close the door. Rick walks around the table and sits on the chair farthest from the door letting his wife have the closer chair. They had brought the van log book with them just in case there might be someone else on the sheets that they want to know about
Beckett takes out her phone and calls her partner in New York. After only one ring the voice of the Irish detective answers. "Hey Beckett, Castle how are you coming on your little murder investigation?"
Castle comments first "We might just have a suspect"
"Really?"
Beckett answers "Yeah, we got a name we need you to run for us"
They hear rustling of paper "Go ahead"
Beckett lists the information then her partner offers some more information "We found a security camera close to the apartment of our victim. The one who moved into your victim's old building"
"Can you recognize the person?"
"No, but we are checking facial recognition for matches. I will send a screen grab to you and see if this is your guy"
"Thanks Ryan" Beckett hangs up on the phone. Moments later the phone chirps when the incoming image appears
Looking at the image Castle comments "I can't really tell much about this guy"
Beckett's brow furrows as she is obviously not getting much from the picture. "Not enough of the image to tell except he is tall and has dark hair"
Castle starts to respond when there is knocking at the door
Beckett stands and opens the door to be greeted by a tall dark haired man "Hi. I am Reagan Murphy. I was told you wanted to see me?"
So...no one saw the Easter egg
