"It's funny you guys were so excited," Virginia said. "It's just a subway."

"And you're from New York too," Shannon added. "Haven't you been on subways before?"

"It isn't the same," Julia explained.

"We're not from New York," Marie said firmly.

"At least we got to go on it," Kathleen commented.

"Yeah, it wasn't that far," Clare said with a smile.

"Still, two stops were fun," Reiley told them. "And here's the trolley."

"But first is…" Julia began to say before she glanced back at her father.

"We're not going to Chinatown until after dinner," Castle said in amusement.

"Don't go too far ahead," Stella told her kids.

"I think that goes for all of you," Paul added.

"We know," Miller called back.

Walking up to Union Square, Marie said, "Too bad we couldn't race across this."

"All the way across?" Mari asked.

"No, you're not," Eve told them.

"We're-" Marie started to say in surprise.

"Don't worry, I know you're joking," the young woman said with a smile. "Though that would be interesting."

"Yeah," Jacob said. "Can you imagine if we did and then we fell?"

"I don't want to think about what our parents would do," Julia commented.

"Me neither," Mari replied before they were reaching the opposite corner of the square. She then thought of something and tugged her friend's hand whispering, "Do you know if we're going to stop at that store?"

"I don't," Julia said. "Let me go ask my dad," she told her before she was going as fast as she could back to him without running.

"What did you forget?" Castle asked her.

Making a face at him Julia smiled shortly after and said firmly, "Nothing. Are we going to the Scottish store?"

"If the others want to," Castle said, glancing at his wife.

Julia nodded and then went back to her friends before she murmured to Mari, "It depends on the others." She wasn't surprised when her friend nodded in return before she said, "Did your parents tell you about what's here?"

"You mean Chinatown?" Bailey asked. When the teen shook her head, she did the same and then told her, "Besides the fact the Chinatown here is nice, no."

"Do you know about what's here?" Mari asked the French triplets.

"Stop being so vague," Jacob said in mock annoyance.

"Now we don't need to be," Mari said suddenly, smiling at everyone when they were looking at her in surprise.

"A Scottish store?" Bobby said, reading the sign.

"They have some British candies in there," Kathleen told him.

"Mum would never let us," Miller told his siblings.

"Yeah, not when we're having some sweets after dinner," Bobby said in agreement.

"Do you want to go in?" Skye asked Stella.

Peering through the doorway, the designer said, "I think I'm alright continuing."

"Have you seen this place before?" Beckett was saying to May.

Shaking her head the producer said, "It's okay, George would probably be bored after a while."

"He won't be going to Chinatown?" Castle couldn't help asking when they continued to the end of the street and went around the corner.

"No, luckily there's enough to keep him interested," Luke said with a slight smile.

"Good, since we're going to be here for a while," Castle replied.

"What time are we having dinner?" David asked.

Checking the time swiftly, Beckett told her husband, "We have about an hour."

"I saw," Castle said. "Though what if we made that forty-five minutes?"

"For the youngest?" Lily asked, holding Sophie at that moment.

"Mama look," the toddler said.

Smiling, Lily kissed the side of her daughter's head and said, "That's a gate sweetie."

"Yeah, we should go slightly sooner since dessert is in another place," Castle commented.

"If anyone doesn't want to do that raise your hand," Darnley said.

Seeing that no one had, Beckett said wryly, "Either you don't want to eat a little earlier or you're too shy to disagree."

"I think it's they don't mind," Darnley told his friend.

"Most likely," Beckett said with a brief laugh before they crossed the street and walked past the gate. Their usual store was shortly after that and thinking of something made her go over to May.

"Mama wait," Josie said, trying to get down from her father's arms.

"Hold on sweetheart," Castle assured her. "She'll come back."

"Is there a store you guys like to go to here?" Beckett was saying to her friend.

"Yes," May said.

"Where is it?" Beckett said in a little surprise, having thought her friend was going to say. When the producer was smiling at her she was about to ask if it was the one they were walking into at that moment when May was speaking first.

"It's this one," the producer said. "Though mainly because of the variety of stuff here. Now excuse me, I need to go find my son before he finds something he can't get."

Beckett nodded and watched her leave before she saw her husband was standing with Josie at a set of shelves. When she realized he was talking to her seriously she made her way to the pair asking, "What did she find?"

"She made a beeline for these," Castle said, nodding to the brocade jackets they were at. "I tried to tell her that these were for women, but she doesn't seem to be listening to me."

"Josie," Beckett said, getting her daughter's attention. "Do you want one like this?"

"No," the toddler said firmly. "You Mama."

"I don't think so," Castle said, trying not to smile at his wife's startled expression. "Your mom likes regular fabrics."

"And kimonos," Beckett told her husband, raising her eyebrow slightly.

"That too," Castle said before they turned to look down at Josie when she reached for her mother.

"Mama, I go," Josie said.

"Go where sweetie?" Beckett asked her with a smile.

"Jules!" Josie squealed instead of answering her mother since her big sister was walking by them.

"Hey Josa," Julia told her with a smile. "What're you getting?"

"She wanted your mom to get something brocade," Castle said.

"A jacket," Beckett said, looking at him.

"Yes," Castle replied.

Laughing, Julia said, "Not that Josa. Find some incense for Mom and Dad, they burn it when they write sometimes."

"We have enough," Beckett said.

"She's right," Castle said with a quick nod. "But we're letting her get one thing."

"Why don't you get her a cinnabar box?" Mari suggested since she and Reiley were with Julia.

"Oh yeah," the teen said, smiling at her baby sister. "You can put your special things in it when you grow up."

"Mama, I get… boxes," Josie said.

"How did she learn the plural?" Castle asked.

"I think she just picked it up," Beckett replied in amusement when the three girls were laughing.

"Okay, you three keep looking for whatever you're going to get," Castle said.

"I'll show you what I find," Julia replied.

"Everything you find," Beckett said, not surprised when the teen nodded and left them rapidly with her two friends. She felt her husband take her hand gently and she smiled at him saying, "Okay?"

"Very, we should go find the boxes," Castle said.

Beckett let him go first, though she picked Josie up before they left the jackets and made their way to the cinnabar items. She saw the boxes they had, and she told the toddler, "You can pick what you want sweetie," not surprised she was turning to her and Castle with wide eyes before he was talking to her laughingly.

"I know it's a shock, but we don't want you to get something you don't like," he said. "So pick something."

"Eh," Josie said before she looked at the boxes. "This," she said, touching one with a pattern of the animals of the zodiac.

"Nice," Castle said, picking her up. "That's perfect for you."

"Per?" Josie asked.

"Perfect," Castle pronounced slowly. He smiled when she laughed and he turned to his wife, not surprised she was watching them both with a smile of her own. "Is there anything you want love?" he asked her.

"Not really, but we can walk around until the girls are ready," Beckett replied, not surprised when her husband stepped up close and took her hand while they were making their way around the different shelves.

Watching her mother watching Castle, Julia shared a glance with Eliza, and they did their best not to laugh at how exactly Beckett was staring at their father. She then looked at her grandparents and said, "Are you hungry?"

"Very," Jim said, watching his daughter and son in law while they were talking quietly to each other.

Clearing her throat gently, Martha said to the couple when they were looking at the rest of the table, "Are you two going to have a night alone together?"

"I don't think we can the rest of the trip-" Castle began to say before his mother was interrupting.

"No, no, while we're here still in Mill Valley," Martha said firmly.

"Tomorrow could work," Alexis said. "We should have a kids and grandparents dinner."

"The others-" Beckett started to say.

"We can talk to them, you should all have your own nights out," Alexis interrupted. She then said to her grandparents and husband, "Maybe have the other grandparents and kids join us somewhere here in the city."

"We could, Paul and Nancy are taking their family out on their own," Julia said quickly.

"Yeah, and no having dinner at home," Eliza said firmly. "You have to go out."

Unable to help laughing with his wife, Castle said when he'd been able to calm down, "Why don't you tell us where to go to?"

"No, you and Mommy need to decide," Eliza said in the same tone of voice again. She then smiled and said, "Somewhere smoochy."

"Paul," Castle said in mock annoyance, looking at the singer at the table next to them.

"You'll thank me for it later," Paul said, saluting him.

Seeing another woman with a cart walking by, Castle hailed her and asked about vegetarian dishes before he was asking the McCartneys and Willises if they wanted any Chinese broccoli. After getting a plate for them, he grabbed some shu mai, veggie for the other table and pork for his family. Sitting back down he found himself waving when there was yet another cart behind the one that had just gone by.

"Dad's going to get the sesame seed balls right?" Julia asked her mother.

"If they come in the cart," Beckett replied swiftly.

"They're there," Castle told his wife with a smile as he took two containers from the woman. He then set down some bao and spoke to the worker again before she was calling another cart to them. "She said there's a lot of veggie options on that cart," he said.

"You know it's impressive you speak that well," Alasdhair commented while they were waiting for the cart to reach them.

"You never said how you learned," Nancy said, surprised when the writer's wife laughed briefly.

"A Chinese show on TV," Castle said. "Not conventional but it works."

"Do you know how to speak it?" Stella asked Beckett.

Nodding her head she explained, "Rick taught me though he's stronger in the language than I am."

"Skye did that with me, Italian," Mary said. She smiled and said, "Skye tried to teach me it and Russian, but I didn't quite get the second one."

"Kate tried to teach me that and I couldn't get it either," Castle said. "But you do know Japanese too."

"And French, Spanish and Welsh though that last one I'm not as steady with compared to the other two," Mary said.

"How can you learn so many languages?" Eliza asked her mother when they were starting to eat.

"It takes practice," Beckett said.

"And an aptitude for it too," Alexis said. "It's why I stopped with German."

"And French," Louis reminded his wife, taking her hand.

"Paris is a really smoochy place," Eliza told Josie.

"Smoos," the toddler giggled.

"Okay, no more teasing," Beckett said, stilling Josie's waving hand. She wasn't surprised when the toddler reached out to her and leaned down, gently kissing her cheek before she was helping her pick up her piece of bao with her kids' chopsticks.

"Daddy," Eliza said after they'd been eating for a while. "When are you gonna say about tomorrow?"

"You could say now," Brad said.

"I don't need to yell?" Castle asked everyone. He wasn't surprised when he got numerous shakes of people's heads, even some of the kids, and he said, "Okay, though this one was requested by Paul and Nancy and hopefully those of you who've been before will be okay with it."

"Oh no, now you're being vague," Bobby said with a joking groan.

"Mari and I were about the Scottish store," Julia told her father when he looked perplexed.

"Sorry about that, I wanted to build everything up," Castle said with a smile. "But they requested we head to the Academy of Sciences," he told them, not surprised Eliza was cheering though not very loudly.

"It's the best place," the little girl said with a beaming smile as she looked at the Willises.

"I look forward to it now," Bobby said.

"With that reaction? It's going to be wicked," Reiley added.

After the others had laughed Castle said, "That will take most of the day and then there's that night," before Paul was speaking to Julia with a slight smile on his face.

"We are going to take the family out once we finish there, we're traveling out of the city," the singer explained.

"That's okay," Julia said seriously. "We want our parents to have dinner alone."

"I think they want all the parents to have that," Beckett said before her oldest and Louis were explaining what they'd discussed already to the other families.

"Great idea," Brad said.

"Yeah, I think it's perfect," Darnley said.

"Where would you go?" Joseph asked.

"No clue," Darnley said. He then turned his attention to Keo next to him before his husband was touching his arm.

"We could," Nkosi said quietly since the others were talking together while they went back to eating.

"Do you want to?" Darnley asked.

"Skye and Mary said it was a great restaurant," Nkosi said, the two women having told them about a Thai place in the Castro district.

"Then we will," Nkosi said, reaching over and squeezing his hand.

"We should discuss where we'll go Rick," Beckett told her husband when they turned to each other.

"Now?" Castle said in obvious surprise.

Nodding Beckett told him, "You realize we need to for lunch tomorrow."

Frowning playfully Castle said, "Stop stealing my lines," since he would say that to their daughters before Josie was responding to his expression in obvious worry.

"No fight Dada," the toddler said.

"We're not fighting," Beckett said before her husband could speak. "Just talking."

"I did have something in mind when they mentioned us going on our own," Castle said.

Beckett couldn't help smiling as she asked, "The Buckeye?"

"If it's alright with you," Castle responded. He was pleased when she nodded and then reached over to her, squeezing her hand before they were turning to Josie in between them while she patted their joined hands.

"Good Dada," the toddler told him.

Doing the best he could to control his laughter, Castle said, "I'm glad you approve."

"But we need to finish before the food gets cold," Beckett told their youngest. She helped Josie again with her chopsticks before they were eating again, nearly finished when Eliza was getting Castle's attention.

"Are we just gonna go back to the house after the Science place?" the little girl asked once her father was looking at her.

"We were thinking of maybe stopping at the beach," Beckett said, smiling when her husband immediately glanced to her to answer.

"Really? To swim?" Julia asked when her little sister gasped in joy.

"More to let you guys play," Castle said. "But you know you don't need to stay with us," he told the others who were looking at him.

"Actually, it would be nice to let the kids run around," Darnley said.

"Yeah, lose some of their energy so they'll go straight to sleep," Brad added, smiling when the older kids were immediately protesting his comment.

"I'm all for going," Skye said. "Who doesn't love the beach?"

"Just playing though?" Mary asked her wife. She couldn't help laughing when the investigator winked at her, and she squeezed her hand before they were making sure their youngest finished what they had on their plates.

"Now what?" Reiley asked Julia and Mari once they were at the top of the stairs waiting for the others to join them after they'd finished eating. When the pair looked at her, she asked softly, "Did you want to talk on your own?"

"No," Julia replied quickly, smiling so the girl wouldn't be dismayed. "We were just looking at the pictures. And I'm pretty sure we're going over to the mall now, probably walk around."

"Have you been in many malls here in America?" Mari asked.

"A few," Reiley said before she hesitated. "Well, it's more one of them, it was in Florida while we were by Miami with Grandude."

"A tour?" Julia asked slowly.

"Yeah, this one," Reiley replied.

"Wait… you've been to your first American mall just now?" Eve said.

"Just yes," Reiley replied before she started laughing with the others.

"What're you talking about?" Bobby asked his sister.

"Malls, since we're going to that one Grandude and Nancy went to," Reiley explained.

"Oh yeah, that was interesting," Miller said. "Though we're going to have some dessert now?"

"No," Stella said, approaching them first. "They're insisting on a walking tour and us looking at the map to see if there's anywhere we want to shop in."

"Is that alright?" Bailey asked her mother with a slight smile on her face.

"It depends on the store and how long, we need to make our way back to the hotel," Stella said.

"Sure," Miller said.

When the others came over to them and they headed down the stairs Julia told the oldest Willis kid, "You might see a store you like… of some kind."

"I guess that's what the malls are for," Miller replied.

"Go to the Mall of America," Kathleen said. "You'll find even more stores there."

"I'm going to go to the one in Dubai at some point," Bobby said. "Not for the stores, but for the aquarium."

"Oh yeah, I've seen that one," Marie said eagerly. "I would so go there."

When they were outside and back on the street, Julia looked back at the adults, but no one said anything about them leading and she was relieved, enjoying walking back to Union Square and by the cable car tracks. Once they'd crossed Market and were inside, she said to the Willis kids, "This is nine stories by the way," not surprised when Reiley was the first of the four to respond in surprise.

"That tall?" she said.

"Yeah, not all of it is," Julia said.

"And there's a movie theater," Ivy suddenly said.

"A full cinema?" Alasdhair asked.

"They've told us," Nancy said.

"We did see it," Paul added with a smile.

"Here's the directory," May was saying.

After they'd looked at all the types of stores, Julia couldn't help clearing her throat slightly to get everyone's attention and she said, "There is a store I'd like to go to."

"Which one?" Reiley asked.

Mari was about to speak when she hesitated and looked at Julia asking her friend, "Are you making it a surprise?"

"No, I have to see if they even want to go too," the teen replied easily. Turning back to the others Julia said, "It's a Japanese stationery store."

"You go there for your letters?" Bailey asked her.

Beckett smiled when Julia nodded, able to tell that she was withholding begging the others to go, and she felt her husband squeeze her hand before they where walking to the nearest escalator

"Should I tell you I'm not surprised?" Castle told his wife while he looked at Josie in her stroller ahead of them.

"Neither am I," Beckett replied with a smile.

Castle took her hand again and kissed at the back of it before they were continuing to make their way up to the stationery store with everyone else.

"Are you having trouble with that song?" Beckett asked her friend, sitting with her in the living room.

"Slightly," Skye said. "But it's not for me it's your husband."

"Hey," Castle said while he closed the door to the stairs and dining room so they wouldn't wake the kids or his father-in-law. "I said it was a request, that doesn't mean you're compelled to do it you know."

"I'm kidding," Skye replied, laughing with the others when Castle groaned. "I'll start now since I think we all need to go to bed," she added before she turned to the acoustic guitar she had with her and proceeded to play.

While the investigator was singing for them before they went to their rooms for the night, Castle took his wife's hand and squeezed it gently, smiling at her briefly when she was doing the same back at him.

The kiss of Venus has got me on the go
She scored a bullseye in the early morning glow

Then I asked her, have you read the paper? Okay
People talking about which side they're taking
And if you know, then, baby, what's your take on it?
Does it make you wanna leave?
'Cause I could look the other way for you

The kiss of Venus has got me on the go
Scored a bullseye in the early morning glow, yeah
Reflected mountains in a lake
Is this too much to take?
Asleep or wide awake?
And if the world begins to shake
Will something have to break?
Or would we stay awake?

Have you (Oh I asked you) read it paper? (Oh, I asked you)
People talking without no education yeah
Look, go to college (College), go find your major (Major)
Realize you're minor in the scheme of everything

The kiss of Venus (Well, the kiss of Venus) has got me on the go (The kiss of Venus)
Scored a bullseye in the early morning glow, yeah

Well, the kiss of Venus has got me on the go
She scored a bullseye in the early morning glow

Opening her eyes, Beckett found her breath was a little harsh, but she wasn't surprised after the nightmare she'd just had. Trying not to think of what she'd seen, she realized the bed was moving and turned to find her husband was nearly off his side of the bed, groaning and twisting a little. Pushing herself up and reaching for him she said, "Rick, love wake up."

"Kate," Castle groaned, still sleeping.

"Rick, wake-" Beckett started to say sternly before she had to throw herself out of the way when her husband's eyes shot open, and he was sitting up. "It was a nightmare," she told him, wrapping her arms around him tightly. "Just a nightmare love."

Shuddering in remembrance of his dream, Castle reached up to her and said, "A nightmare."

"Yes," Beckett said, kissing the side of his head. She then pulled away and turned to her nightstand, switching the light on before she moved over him to get off the bed. Once his light was on, she handed him his glasses and said, "Better?"

"Yeah," Castle said. He was about to reach for her and pull her back on the bed before his wife was surprising him when she headed to the door for their room. "What-" he started to say when he heard the lock clicking.

"You're not going to be able to go to sleep," Beckett said simply as she walked over to him. When he responded to her once she was next to the bed, she pulled her pajama shirt off her, watching him once she could see him again.

"Are you sure," Castle said.

"I told you yesterday…" Beckett said, trailing off and looking at the time swiftly. "That you could comfort me, you never did."

Breathing out hard, Castle removed his glasses and took off his shirt before he saw his wife was naked. He would have commented on how fast she was, but he was still feeling a little lingering anxiety about his nightmare, and he simply stood to take off the rest of his clothes. Once he'd done so he looked at his wife and saw her holding his glasses out to him again. "Thanks," he said, taking them and slipping them on. He followed her without a word after she'd drawn him after her onto the mattress and he was going to move to lay down when she stopped him.

"Tell me love," Beckett said.

Nodding, since he'd been expecting it, Castle took a deep breath and said, "You were pushed off the boat and shot. There was… a lot of red in the water and I knew I'd lost you."

Cupping his face with her hands, Beckett brought her husband down to her and brushed her lips against him before she told him, "I'm fine my love."

"I know," Castle said, taking her hands and gently kissing at them. "But it was too real."

"So was mine," Beckett said. She wasn't surprised when her husband's eyes widened and she said before he could speak, "I dreamt we were going down under the water, and it was getting blacker and blacker around you before I started to float back to the surface… without you."

Embracing her the best he could with how they were positioned towards one another, Castle said, "You seem to be alright."

"I am," Beckett replied. "I'm more concerned about you," she added.

Nodding, Castle turned and kissed her lightly before he said, "It's late."

"A little after midnight," Beckett admitted with a nod. She then moved around until she was laying back and took her husband's hand telling him, "But we're not leaving that early."

"No," Castle said, moving to lay between her spread legs before he paused. "I don't-" he started to say.

"Yes, you do," Beckett replied. "And so do I." She wrapped her arms and legs around him and asked, "You don't want me?"

Castle's response was to lean down to her and kiss her tenderly, feeling her caressing at his hair. He shuddered, relieved at her touch while they were dueling with each other's tongues in his mouth. He wasn't sure how they'd gotten to that point but didn't bother to try to figure it out. Moving from her lips, reluctantly, after a little longer, he kissed around her collarbone until he was kissing down her sternum.

Feeling her husband pressing his lips gently to her scar, Beckett couldn't help shifting slightly before she was moaning out loud at his tongue flicking to it. "Love," she sighed while he was nuzzling at her breasts tenderly with his lips. Her eyes, having closed at the pleasure in the touch of his tongue, flew open when he was blowing on the skin he'd tongued. "Wait, you-" she started to say before he was lightly kissing her, pulling away shortly after to speak with a slight smile.

"If you're letting me take care of this, I'll make it worth your while," Castle said.

"I know," Beckett replied. "But I wanted to do a little for you," she added to better explain why she'd tried to stop him.

"You are," Castle assured her. He moved to kiss her but wasn't doing that for very long before he went back to her breasts. As he began to suckle at her nipples, he felt her shifting underneath him and he groaned against her mound at the sensation. He wasn't sure when exactly he'd become fully erect, but he was at that moment, and he pulled back slightly. Watching while his wife's eyes were slowly blinking open, he murmured her name and then moved down her body.

Gasping a little in her surprise at her husband's movement, Beckett was half surprised when he went straight to her entrance. Grabbing the pillow under her head, she was doing her best not to cry out though she couldn't stop herself from moaning in pleasure again. He was gently lapping at her, and she pressed her body down on the bed as hard as she could before her husband was pulling away.

"How?" Castle asked her, laying above her again.

"I don't need that much," Beckett replied, biting a little at her slightly swollen lower lip.

"No," Castle replied before he kissed her. He made that one fervent before they were parting, and he asked her to help him before he raised himself above her a little. With her gently grasping at his member he was soon sliding inside of her, both of them gasping at first before she moaned, and he breathed her name in pleasure.

When their hips were flush together, Beckett held onto her husband's back at the same time her legs were wrapped around his waist. She wasn't surprised when he was moving slowly against her and she welcomed it, moving to whisper into his ear, encouraging him to move deep inside of her before he was stopping her with a kiss.

After he'd pulled away, Castle wasn't moving that far and murmuring her name against her lips before he moved to her jaw. Kissing at it he told her, "Do you want to move at all?"

"No," Beckett told him. "Keep moving love," she said, her voice raising a little in pleasure at the sensation of him pressing harder against her and managing to do the same to her clit.

"I don't want to stop," Castle confessed after he'd been focusing on moving within her for a little longer.

"We'll…" Beckett started to say before her husband was bowing his head and beginning to brush his lips over her breasts again. She let him do that a little longer, letting the sensations from his lips and his length still getting deep inside of her thrill her significantly. She was able to move slightly in time with him, but with the way she was holding onto him with her legs she was relying on him. Luckily, he was able to do that easily and she was caressing at his back the best she could before she realized she was inching closer to her climax. "Rick I'm-" she started to say before she was cutting herself off by arching her back and crying out his name heavily in her ecstasy.

"Kate!" Castle called to his wife roughly when he found himself orgasming very shortly after she was. He was a little lost in his pleasure, feeling his wife writhing underneath him for a while before he was giving her a final thrust and feeling her hugging him tightly.

"Better?" Beckett eventually asked, waiting to allow them both to recover.

"Yes," Castle told her roughly. He raised his head from where he'd buried it against her neck and said, "Are you?"

"I am," Beckett replied, caressing the back of his neck and moving up to stroke at the back of his head. When he bowed his head to her, she was meeting him, their kiss passionate for some time before they were slowly parting. She sighed when he slowly pulled away from her and she said, "I love you, Rick."

"I love you too," Castle said, their lips meeting again. He then said, "I really don't want to sleep."

"But you're tired," Beckett said, smiling a little when he was grumbling in obvious annoyance. She watched him taking off his glasses then, and she was turning around to close the light on her nightstand before she noticed he was doing the same. "Rick," she told him, unable to help smiling since his hand was on her back.

"I can't even do that?" Castle asked her.

"Not really, not if we're going to have any rest for tomorrow remember," Beckett said, laughing briefly when her husband pulled his hand away and pretended to grumble again in annoyance.

Laying on his back once his wife was facing him, Castle wrapped his arm around her as soon as she was laying against his side and he pulled her close before he said, "We'll be alright."

"Are you saying that for me or yourself?" Beckett replied.

"Both," Castle told her. He wasn't surprised when she was laughing briefly before he shared a short kiss with her.

"You know something I just realized?" Beckett asked her husband once they'd parted.

"What?" Castle asked.

"That song you requested, there was a verse that was very… prophetic," Beckett replied, watching her husband while he was moving to grab the sheet at the end of the bed.

"I forgot about those lyrics to be honest," Castle replied. "You didn't like it?"

"Oh no, I loved it," Beckett said firmly before he was brushing his lips to hers.

"Great there's a reason I call you my goddess," Castle said seriously though he was smiling shortly after.

"Hmm, Sheik," Beckett responded as she cuddled a little closer against his side.

Since he knew his wife wanted to sleep, Castle was about to say goodnight to her but held back saying, "Kate?"

"Yes?" Beckett asked, looking up at him.

"Are you going to try to sleep?" Castle said.

"Are you worried about having another nightmare?" Beckett replied with another question.

"A little," Castle confessed.

Brushing her lips against his jaw Beckett replied, "Don't be. Think of something else my love."

Sucking in a breath of air for a moment, Castle said, "What're you going to think of?"

"Tahiti," Beckett replied simply.

"Not Adare?" Castle asked, a little surprised.

"No, I want to imagine us in the lagoon together, swimming, making love," Beckett replied. "We'll get to Adare soon remember."

"True," Castle said, thinking that over. "Mind if I borrow that idea?"

"I don't think you'll be able to not think of it," Beckett teased him. She took his loving kiss before they were slowly parting after a while sharing a few more that were at the same pace and she told him, "Sleep love."

"Believe me," Castle replied. "I'll do my best. Goodnight love."

"Night Rick," Beckett replied before they were kissing again. Once they'd parted, they laid back down and when his arms were around her, she was pressing her cheek to his shoulder, closing her eyes tightly, imagining the clear waters of their lagoon and the two of them with no inhibitions or restrictions while she was falling into a more peaceful repose in her husband's arms.