A/N: So this is my own story about how they will reunite after the season two finale. Writing a fic for this is kind of a right of passage these days, so I decided to tackle it. Remember, reviews and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own Castle or its characters, if I did Castle wouldn't be off in the Hamptons with Gina in the first place.
He shoved his cell phone into his pocket and jumped out of the comfortable seat he had come to despise over the last month. That chair that sat behind his desk was his doorway to new worlds, ones brimming with mystery and adventure. It was an ever-present sign of his writing. Currently writing meant Nikki Heat, and Nikki Heat undeniably meant thinking about Kate. He had been doing that a lot lately, thinking about Kate and he was tired of it. Well, he was only sick of thinking about her with Demming or how she was probably glad to be rid of him for the summer. Other than that thinking about Kate brought inspiration to write and a constant smile to his face. But he had finished Naked Heat yesterday and unless he wanted to he didn't have to think about Kate for the next two months. In fact, maybe he would be too busy to think about her, or at least the part of her life he didn't like to be reminded of. He knew, of course, that that was complete bullshit. Sure he'd be busy, but no matter how busy he was he would never stop thinking about her, and when he said her he meant everything about her.
But for now he could try, so he ran out of the study at full speed radiating excitement as he descended the stairs of his summer house looking for his girls. Alexis had decided that she wanted to come back from the summer program; her exact words were that she wasn't learning enough there so it was basically a waste of time. And mother had declined the role as soon as she realized that she was playing a very old woman with dementia, which was not how she pictured her summer going. Now they had both joined him at the summerhouse, which thankfully had sent Gina packing. She had said she had no desire to be part of his little family again and off she went. Gina had been satisfied with his progress and told him as long as he got the book done by the deadline she would be satisfied. Her departure was a giant relief; since they got to the house all she had done was nag him to get writing. Once she even locked him in his study and took the key with her saying she wouldn't let him out until he finished Naked Heat. If he hadn't climbed out of the window and swiped the key from her when she wasn't looking he was pretty sure she would have let him die in there.
Finding his mother in the kitchen fixing a martini, which was no surprise even though it was only noon, he sprinted towards her to envelope her in a hug.
"Guess who can stay for the party!" he screamed in her face while jumping up and down like the child he was at heart. Upon their return Alexis and Martha had decided they were going to throw a Fourth of July cookout. Due to the fact that he thought he would be alone for July 4th he had made plans with the Heat Wave movie producers to discuss the script and casting ideas in Los Angeles. In fact, he was supposed to be leaving in about five minutes for the airport, but the producers had just called him and said that the meeting had been postponed until August due to some minor complications he needn't worry about.
"Darling don't yell in my face, that's all I need. And I thought you were on your way to good old California to meet with the producers of the Nikki Heat movie?" She was making good headway on that martini and by the looks of it would need another one relatively soon.
"Nope," he was barely containing his glee, "they cancelled. So now I get to spend the fourth with everyone. Speaking of everyone, who's coming? He knew Alexis had invited everyone from the precinct to come, so he had high hopes that meant Kate was planning to show up. He really missed her, even if she probably didn't miss him.
"Well," she replied, "your little writer buddies didn't think you were going to be here so they declined. But everyone from the precinct is coming down to spend the weekend. Minus Detective Beckett, she said she had something to do." His heart sank at that, he had hoped that he would get to see her this weekend. After all she had seemed a little off when he last left the precinct, he wanted to see if she was all right. But who was he kidding; she didn't want to spend the weekend with him. Not when she was probably going somewhere with Demming and she would prefer a nice weekend with her boyfriend than with him, she had made that clear.
He realized his mother had left the room when he came back from his thoughts; probably got tired of watching him think in silence. He opened the door to the porch to go and find Alexis who had said she was going to go for a swim but heard a noise coming from the driveway. A noise that sounded a lot like a car engine, his first guest had arrived. Bounding to the door he peeked through the window to see who it was, maybe it was the boys. He had certainly missed them, when you live in a house full of women guy talk is greatly appreciated. But as he gazed out into the driveway he recognized Lanie's figure exiting the car. Then he saw someone else exit the car with her, did she bring a new boyfriend? No, although their back was to the house the mystery person was undoubtedly female, a friend maybe? Then it hit him, he hadn't realized it before because he was so unaccustomed to seeing her with anything but work clothes on, but it was unmistakably her. Those extremely long legs, the luscious curves of her body, the slightly wavy shoulder-length brunette hair; they were all traits of Kate Beckett. He flung the door open and stood completely confused on the front porch.
"Beckett?" he called out to her, pleading for it to be her and not just his imagination. She turned towards him, eyes wide with surprise. Oh yes it was her, and she was beautiful. Completely gorgeous in everyway he decided as his eyes ran down her body taking in everything that she was, he felt like they had been apart forever. She was wearing a dark green sundress that hugged her body in all the right places. His eyes immediately returned to hers when she spoke, "Castle?"