You took something somewhat silly and transmuted it into gold. You are a master alchemist. No other way for it to end up becoming something this shiny and beautiful. Loved it.

Good stuff!

Great conversation about the torture scene.

Oh. Wow. That was actually... perfect. Makes total sense.

Great take on the conversation about the torture scene. Thanks for addressing that!

And, as always, I love your work.

This is awesome! I would love to believe that Kate didn't like the new storm novels! :)

Interesting! Loved this extra part to the Caskett interaction!

She hums into his mouth and he feels her smile widen, break their kiss. When he lifts his head to look at her, she's chasing after him, her body rising from the couch to find him again, an arm hooked around his neck. He gives her what she wants and soon she's sitting up, legs tossed over his lap, a hand at his chest and one finger smoothing the skin at the hollow of his throat in that way that drives him crazy. - Yessss gimme this pls.

"That I'd be swayed by some thirty year old crime-"

"Hey now. More like twenty," he sputters, but at her raised eyebrow, he does the math. "Okay, twenty-five. And yes. Because my first writing success is a fraud. You have said, on more than one occasion, how much my books-" - LOL gramps. I love that though. It seems so him to me.

"Castle, I let you torture a man for information. Right in front of me. I turned my back and I walked away, and I let you-" - I love that you brought this up. Because exactly. After everything they've been through would he actually believe she'd think less of him for that? It's so interesting to me so I love that you're broaching all these subjects from the past.

OHHHH but you made it him thinking less of HER. I like that a lot.

green and gold like the woods in summer. - Beautiful.

Why now? Why the dreams and talking in your sleep and the. . .shame?" - Yesssss I love you for this because as we discussed I felt like it came out of nowhere and you are fixing itttt

Seriously? Is this what I sound like when I ask you question after question? Because this is annoying." - Love love love.

And then Kate Beckett trails off, and her eyes narrow, and damn, she really is the best detective in New York. In the whole wide world. - I love how that's written. It's so cute and almost childlike.

"Jordan Shaw?" He gapes at her. "She's like the Federal you." - Hahaa yes cutie. We know.

"Castle, they're awful. I hate Derrick Storm in those books, and I used to love him. I couldn't even finish the second short they had out this summer, I just - we were having fun and it was so damn boring, and poorly written, and then he was a jerk, he really was-" - Hahaha yeah they were pretty terrible and I love love love this reasoning, I love that you made the Jordan story make sense. YAYAYAYAYAY!

"Too happy to write. To be successful. Her back-up plan in case I couldn't keep Nikki going when I had. . .you." - Clenchy clenchy FEELINGSSSS

She's open to him in a way that makes him dizzy. - Love this line.

She always has him stupid and stunned with her when she drops all the walls, all the personas - the bad-ass and the detective and the strong woman - and just becomes Kate, lovely and needy and wanting and courageous despite everything - I love this. I want more of this. I love that Beckett and I love how you've described her.

and lifts his eyes from the view down her shirt - lmao

She slides her hand in his shirt again, making him clutch her harder. "Storm should've stayed dead. Rook is a better man than he'll ever be." - cryingggg

"No but," she shakes her head. "The resurrected Storm is a pale imitation, Castle. No one can do it like you."

And with that - the only applause he'll ever truly need - he gives her exactly what they both want.

He loves how she gasps his name. - KEYSMASH TO THE MAX!

(Also I love the title of this.)

"And with that - the only applause he'll ever truly need.."
Awww

Beautiful fic as always :)
and I don't disagree about the storm short novels - didn't make it through one.

AHHHH this is great! My goodness thanks to mynameisjeff
and this is like the second time I reviewed on my PC ( I usually do it mobile version) and I am seriously loving the font on the reviews haha

Love it!

I have high hopes that the new full Derrick Storm Novel coming out soon will be much better than the short stories that came out last summer. If Andrew co-writes them with a good ghost writer they could be good.

Wow, this was a completely different take on the reason why his nightmares were triggered at this particular moment in time. Very interesting and very believable. Great job!

I don't follow the Derrick Storm novels, have never ever read one, so I have no idea about that. But to let the Derrick Storm revival novels be written by a Ghost Writer (you made that up write or is this canon?) and make Castle feel guilty about it to the point that it haunts him in his sleep is simply brilliant. The combination of both the Ghost Writer and his childhood story about the paper in boarding school makes this all very believable.

Amazing! Loved it! :)

What interested me was why he was thinking about Jordan. (I also thought it was going to be the FBI Jordan) I didn't over think it because I still occasionally have my college nightmares - you know it's the end of the semester and I realize I forgot to go to one of my classes for the whole semester. I just figured it was that kind of random dream that flared up. Your take on it was much better. I didn't read those books but that is exactly how I felt when I tried to read one of the Nikki Heat books. It's was terrible and I couldn't finish it.

Great conclusion to that episode.

Enlighting...,is a very good word... ...putting things out there to be seen... .Thank You!